Harbingers

Ahhhh... Necas should have shot that a hair earlier, the goalie took the perfect line to allow his guy to make up the distance.

I think throwing him down to the AHL for a hot minute made him hungry. Was the right move. But ya Lorentz and him are on the outside looking in when Tro and TT are back.

Svech got away with a punch there.

It is good to have this depth. Holy poo.

PP2 need some work but nice pin-ball there by Geekie. Showing he deserves to be up here.

Svech is hungry. That man needs a goal.

So far so good. He's looking sharp on the reaction. Rod better keep them engaged during the break, don't want them letting up in the second.

I guess with that much firepower on the first line but a less steady third line save Slavin and Dougie for that.

Interesting that Fleury & Bean are lining up with Aho's line tonight.

Well that was certainly an onslaught.

Holy poo, deflect deflect!

Forwards Niederreiter-Aho-Necas Svechnikov-Staal-Fast McGinn-Martinook-Foegele Paquette-Geekie-Lorentz Defensemen Slavin-Hamilton Skjei-Pesce Fleury-Bean Goalies Reimer Nedeljkovic Injuries: Gardiner (upper body), Mrazek (right thumb), Teravainen (concussion symptoms), Trocheck (upper body) https://www.nhl.com/hurricanes/news/projected-lineup-nashville-predators-carolina-hurricanes/c-322373440 I was hoping they'd give Paquette a shot at the second line and keep everything mostly the same. That First Line is gonna be serious though, holy poo. The martinook line should be interesting though. Hopefully Martinook remembers it's a hockey goal tonight.

True that and I expect probably geekie to rise to the occasion on the fourth line. It’ll be interesting to see how rod puts the lines together though. But I will say Trocheck has been playing lights out across the boards. It’s going to be harder to replace his presence on the second line & Power Play.

Oof, Tro is out and no TT.

If they want to keep Robby around they should try and extend him too. That's another 5.5M in cap space freed up. That would leave only Moton and Bridgewater +10M.

Why just be pissed at their contracts in specific? The whole roster is completely fugged from just 4 years of Hurney and frankly Rhule didn't help much last year either when you go through the numbers. We are lucky we got out not being right next to the saints in cap hell.

The difference between 2 games and 7+ games.

Makes their deals more trade friendly now though I would assume.

Which is pretty crazy because I’m pretty sure that means they only have 1 NHL starter on their defensive line.

Full explanation in the video.

There was a fair amount of luck with the Predator wiffing on the puck and him being in the purpose place to take it from behind him unopposed. Once he started skating away I thought maybe he could do something. Glad he just took the shot even with Necas waiting in the wings. Last night was not our best passing or puck handling night.

Glad they are dealing with it today so if he does take a suspension it will hopefully apply tomorrow.

Dammit lightning.

Come on Detroit, you know you want to beat the reigning champs.