Harbingers

Bally sports channel on TV(but I have no idea where and if with all the TV provider shenanigans) Bally Sports App for 19.95 a month or And a bottle of rum.

Holy jeeze the senators can’t even dress a full roster with cap issues + injury.

Why not name the thread “Fire Reich as play caller!”

Rod being coy.

No brainer here.

Bunting - Aho - Jarvy TT - KK - Necas Martinook - Staal - Fasty Lemieux - Drury - Noesen Slavin - Burns Skjei - Pesce TDA - Orlov Chatty Andersen Raanta. We will either play with the above 4 forward lines or Drudy - Noesen + 7 D with chatty.

This roster feels good man. Orlov bringing our top two D lines down to 17-18 minutes a game is going to go a long way over the course of the season. Bunting I think is going to elevate both Aho and Jarvy. Which will open up Svech even more when he’s back. Top that with both Necas and TT playing for contracts… oh boy.

It’s because for some dumb reason no coach has used him properly in the slot he should play. It’s mind boggling why they don’t. id rather picks at this point(if Fitts is gone after the season).

Slavin - Burns Skeji - Pesce TDA - Orlov Chatty He’s the odd man out currently on D and if we play Lemieux chatty will be sitting.

Was planning on writing up a longer post in the other thread later but here is the generalization. Back when JR was forced to sell the panthers, Tom Dundon bought the canes. We were bad for years and going through the same thing the panthers are right now. He cleaned house and promoted Rod Brind’Amour, who happened to be a player on the 2006 Stanley cup team to coach. We had some real good picks though that carried over, ala Cam, Luke style. Rod(RBA) turned this team around essentially over night. It’s a really tight knit team. Family is the culture as most of these guys have multiple kids and are all very active in family and community. Our younger guys are all chill introvert types that I’ve heard. On the ice we play a heavy forecheck offense, aka get the puck deep and keep it along the boards for board battles. Heavy pressure, kind of like an offensive blitz but all the time. We are a defense heavy - two way team. Two way being forwards that are good at focusing on defense and getting back too. Because we are one of the few if not the only current NHL team that plays man defense. Each player stick to their assignment. Most NHL teams play a zone defense called House where they each have a spot in kind of a triangle in front of the goalie. Which is kind of like a soft prevent secondary in the NFL. Cover your zone and bend but don’t break. We play straight up push your man and keep them on the boards and to the outside. The biggest issue with Man is if the play collapses around the goal close it’s a whole mess of bodies. But I really don’t know why more teams haven’t shifted back to it. Back to the team, we really are a team effort team. We don’t have anybody that’s truly in the top 10 on goals or points. No devas… RBA and them team move on from them quick. Everyone has to work as a unit all the time. Jordan Staal is our captain - one of the Staal brothers, won the cup with Pittsburg when he was young and followed in his brothers footsteps and came down here. He is a grinder in his older age. Hard methodical play. Sebastian Aho “fishy or sea bass” is our top star and alternate captain. Finnish prodigy. With a competitiveness to rival Luke. Jaccob Slavin is the best defensive blue liner in the league bar none. By defensive defenseman, I mean a he is just a brick wall on defense. In the NHL blue liners(defensemen) are ranked by their offensive production not by their defensive acuity. Andrei Svechnikov - currently coming off a partial ALC tear so we won’t see him for anywhere from now until Christmas. Is becoming our true power forward. Lays the wood and is a mean shot. Gotta do some stuff but I’ll continue the roster list later. The canes have made the playoffs every year since Covid straight. We also just find a situation where we just cant quite get over the hump with a goodly helping of ref assistance against us(calling back clear goals, etc). We picked up a good al beit chippy forward to pair on our top two lines this season and brought in Dmitry Orlov, a veteran offensive blue liner. To help just hopefully get over the hump. Honestly if Svech didn’t tear his ACL literally like two days after the trade deadline last year we would have won the cup. He would have been the perfect counter against Florida and we just didn’t have that grit he brings.

That’s good. That way our banter thread can sit top and center for the season.

Somewhat canes related as we are sitting in the 21/22 mark. So happy the cap should actually go up next year or we’d be fuged.

Cotchery caught it. That was the turning point of that game. If they ruled that a catch we would haven’t lost so much momentum and eventually all of it.

So yesterday Lemieux was in the practice lineup doing line rushes with the 4th line. Dunno if that was just to keep him in game shape or if chatty is sitting out today.

Finally. Let’s go get that W.

I’ll tag you on to watch games if you are feeling it. Hockey is a long season.

Totally man! If you wouldn’t mind changing this thread to “2023-2024 General Canes Thread”. I know a certain member of our crew down here gets uppity if we don’t have clean day of game thread. We can keep PF69’s other thread for non-canes. If not I’m sure we won’t die inside completely.

Interesting… we picked up an AHL forward from Colorado in exchange for Caleb’s rights…. Pono and Suzuki might be more of an extended time table than though.

THG has us losing to the devils in the second round. Dunno what all this devils hype is about they are good… but

For you Duke fans. Gotta think everyone of these kids but FUS knows who coach K is.

The FCC really needs to step in and stamp this dick measuring thing out.

To Sweden. We are rolling with 21 it sounds like.

Also @Panthers Fan 69 we are definitely going to need game day thread on Wednesday. If the mods are feeling generous I’d ask them to change this to a Canes 23-24 General Discussion. @rayzor @Ricky Spanish

Holy god. 8.5 AAV for them? I know I’m in a rare camp here but they aren’t even worth 8.5 together in my opinion. Scheifele is a 50 point player, his lines give up on average a -17 in the past two years. hellebuyck is good but over hyped. You are going to pay a 32 year old goal tender 8.5 a year for 7 years? Wow.

25~ minutes until roster deadline and no homes announced for our extras…