Harbingers

It’s a gamble for sure.

Looks like Stepan is getting the night off too.

Raanta leads out.

Isn’t drury a natural C?

Makes sense, definitely spell Stepan it at all possible.

This makes me think we are going back to Freddie. Raanta going in cold would be a curious decision.

What the verdict? Should we be skating too?

Oh man I wish. I’m targeting 9:30 but it’s gonna be a toss up tonight.

Oh, I’m all for them putting Bob back in. The dude is gassed and if we can use the the side to side we’ll have him dead to rights. Especially if we decide to go with a fresh Raanta.

He’s going to be weak if they run him tomorrow.

He’s gonna ball out. Gonna have to make a reminder to watch some bears games this season.

The punch in the face is referring to limiting his mintutes. Florida sounds like they’ll go back to Bob.

TT needs to be on the Aho line where he’s comfortable.

I disagree on the canes not playing good. We dominated them for a majority of regulation in terms of shut down. We got fuged by the linesmen for shitty icing calls. Same thing happened to Toronto too. And that line is a big part of our game. Unfortunately, I did not make it past 2OT so that part I can’t speak to. But we clogged their lanes and had possession most of the early game. Which does play into what a lot of commentators thought Florida was going to do, let us possess and beat us down. But I think we did outbox them over all. All the above is not to make excuses, it’s just what I saw. I disagree on rod too. Then again it’s hard to beat someone doing bumps behind the bench. Only thing I would have done different is put TT with Aho. Aho needs TT to elevate his game. So we can agree he might have leaned a little to hard into shutdown by putting TT on 3. I’d like us to come out with a(fug it) line of TT - Aho - Necas(god damn I wish I could say svech) tomorrow. Good luck trying to stop that Florida. Even if we have to sacrifice one good defensive pair to allow them success. Overall, I think the canes will get back up and stomp the panthers tomorrow. I think we need to run Raants in net and give Freddie the rest he needs. 7 periods of hockey is going to weigh heavily on both teams, so the ice is going to be open. And we need Aho to show why he’s the second best player on our team. (everything else I agree with outside of no expectations, come hell or high water I think the canes win the cup this year or next, and if next it wasn’t for a lack of trying. They are going to be rock solid and pissed off next year)

We got a lot of chances last night. I will say for the part I watched we were the better team 5v5. We had them clogged up and nowhere to go. A few mistakes cost us winning the game in regulation. We have to dial in our shot so we don’t just keep finding the post.

Do we go Raants? Do they go Lyon for game 2? Both of the goalies just spent 2 hours and nearly 20 minutes on the ice, with heavy heavy forechecks. No matter how good they have played you know they are running on E. I personally would go raants, we are going to need Freddie ready for the road.

Also said ESPN is probably also shitting themselves for starting it at 8PM.

THG made a very good point. Unlike most games that goes to 5+ periods, both teams held an incredible energy level.

Ice is going to be wide open tomorrow. Gotta use it to our advantage and not get caught sleeping.

Another one?! They already played 2.3333…

We hit a lot of posts last night 5 on 5. We have to adjust to bobs size.

A lot of the icing calls, At least in regulation were bogus. Obviously not all. But a chunk of them were past the redline, tipped by us and still called icing, definitely within reach of a Florida player, etc.

alright power play boys fix this poo.

Watch the first goal they were do at offsides it’s a joke.

NHL already gave one to the panthers. Our boys ain’t going to give this up.