PleaseCutStewart

I'm not sure an offseason can help him. He looked just as clueless in Edmonton also. Sometimes you just whiff on trades - luckily it didn't cost much. But yeah, with how big he is, it's crazy he has no physicality to his play.

Hmmm... If Arians was that confident in Baker, wouldn't they give him like a 5 year deal?

Good. Hopefully that is the last we see of Pul in a Canes uniform

I didn't expect us to win game 3 with it pretty much being win or go home for the Devils. That being said, we cannot look this bad on defense any more in the playoffs. We don't have the scorers to get away with it.

I agree. Give me Mac over him or Stepan in all honesty.

Less that - more way too many odd man rushes allowed. We did a great job limiting them game 1 and Freddie bailed us out a bit in game 2 with them. I don't know if our defense was drunk or what but they played a terrible positioning game today. They were aggressive when they shouldn't have been and passive when they should have. Very uncharacteristic of them and hopefully we don't see another game like this on D the rest of the playoffs. I think it also is in part because we can't linematch on the road. I think a big part of why we are so much better at home vs. the road is because line matching is probably most important to us than any other team in the NHL.

If there is anything encouraging about this game, our offense definitely created a lot of scoring chances. Defense needs to stop playing like dumbasses and our Goalies need to learn how to make a save. I'll give Freddie a pass for how amazing he was the previous 3 games. Pytor... Just go back to the AHL asap

Get Raanta up to Jersey pronto and do not let Pyotr dress again for the playoffs. I don't care if we have an emergency goalie suit up in place of him

They've been a lot better this year than last year on the road in the playoffs. A couple of ill-timed pinches by dmen played a big part on goals 2 and 3. We should know our scouting - the Devils offense consists of counters and odd-man breaks. You don't let them get that, they struggle to score (see games 1 and 2)

Jesus christ... Now that one you can blame on Freddie. Also god awful defense

Well, if they are going to cheap shot us, time to get our 4th line out there and put a bounty on Hughes. I will gladly start a gofundme for this

People that are blaming Freddie must not be watching the same game I am... That was just an absolute snipe by Hughes on the 2nd goal. Let's blame Noesen for practically whiffing on a pass that most players easily steal or at least deflect away from play

I think overall we have outplayed them so far. Unlucky Necas hit the post, got a bit unlucky on their first goal, and then an absolute brain fart on defense on the 2nd goal

Well, we knew they would come out throwing the kitchen sink at us. Try and get it together. If not, it's only one game and go steal game 4.

Those are the odd man breaks we cannot allow... Just piss poor defense there

There are just some high sticks that are my mind-boggling missed. That one is about as obvious as it gets with about as clear of a view as possible and somehow none of the refs saw it...

Not sure you can blame Freddie there. Hughes had it on the other post and we let him pass it to Timo wide open on his forehand from behind the net. Almost an impossible post to post move in that little amount of time. I'm surprised Freddie got over there as quick as he did. Unfortunately for him, Timo's wrap was so inaccurate that it managed to go through Freddie's 5 hole

After a series and 2 games, what I have learned from the playoffs is that if I don't watch the Canes, they have the game of their lives. Apparently I will have to watch replays the rest of the playoffs when we win the Cup

I think it's more of a credit to the system we have in place that we can plug and play people so well

Good, hopefully they sweep Toronto. Toronto is the only team left that I can't stand.

And you could hear a pin drop in the Leaf's arena. Their fans have been completely taken out of it by the Panthers.

I've always thought that if their team was more committed to defense and blocking shots, that they could be very good. They have a ton of scoring depth among their forwards

That's a compliment to us. I don't think ESPN has literally ever been right on anything

It's interesting going on the Devils boards and almost all of their fans aren't worried and still have no doubt they will beat the Canes. I know this was a letdown spot for them, but man they look overmatched against our forecheck. They were lucky the posts saved them from having a TD scored on them. Also funny that all of their fans are saying that the Rags are a way better team than us - While the Rangers top 6 is made up of better scorers, our forwards don't get nearly enough credit for their backcheck and covering for our dmen when they pinch. Their forwards also had zilcho chemistry and it became even more obvious during their playoff series. We just have to be smart with our positioning, because it seems like the Devils rely on counters for scoring. We can't be overly aggressive in our forecheck and give them odd man rushes. Keep running our 2 to 3 man forecheck, keep a couple back deep for breakouts, and keep forcing the Devils into turnovers in their zone.

Also, who started this trend of pulling your goalie down 3? Has it literally ever worked?