TLGPanthersFan

We’ll see. But this first game was eerily similar to last year and we were thinking the same thing. That the team was just adjusting and the next game will be different and it wasn’t.

It is the same thing every year. “It just game one they got this next game.” Then the next game happens and it is more of the same. I am genuinely worried. If we lose game two it is over.

Or Ron Rivera/John Fox.

1-12 in the ECF. In any other sport that coach would be on the hot seat. But even if Rod is swept again nothing will change. No assistant changes. No scheme changes. Nothing. Then next year we will win 45-50 games. Then make the playoffs and then hit a wall with a hot team and goalie. This entire playoffs has been about the offense and I don’t think we can win games against better opportunities scoring 2-3 goals. We definitely aren’t beating Vegas or Colorado scoring 2-3 goals a game.

If we lose game 2 on Saturday I think that will be that. I don’t see this team coming back down 0-2.

If we lose another ECF I am pretty much done having any expectations for this team. Other teams around us are getting better and while the window is open it is very, very, very slowly closing. At this point I don’t know what else we can do. Canes are the very definition of insanity. Rod won’t grow or adjust his system. Which at this point is definitely more geared toward regular season domination. He is stubbornly loyal to his assistants. We seem to be allergic to getting a good, consistent goalie. Next season will be more of the same. Good regular season and then playoffs until we hit that wall. Over and over and over again. This was the best chance to make the Stanley Cup. But honestly I doubt we can beat Vegas or Colorado.

Maybe it is rust. Maybe we suck in the ECF.

Whelp so much for that. Looks like I will be right and it will be the exact same score for game one from last season. This team is pathetic. fug this team.

Feels like the refs were told to limit penalties.

You know Rod is thinking, "Not again". You could hear it in his voice from that interview.

We have been playing better defensively but the Habs are still getting to the front of the net too easily.

Good lord. Loved the goal but another break away almost goal by the Habs.

It would be funny, depressingly so, if the score is 5-2. Same score from the first game last year against the Panthers.

People say how Rod's system prevents stuff like that. Apparently not.

Not when what is happening is almost exactly what happened last year. We came out hot against the Panthers and scored first. Then lost 5-2. We then never had a chance in any of the games. Even the one we won didn't feel like a victory it felt like a team playing scared and just delaying the inevitable.

YEah I don't understand why we are just letting the front of the net be wide open when we were so good at contain it during rounds one and two.

We did seem to play better near the end of the period.

One good thing about being a Panthers I fan can start feeling numb to disappointment eventually.

I'd like to think there could be a perfect storm like what happened with the Capitals but this playoffs seemed like the perfect storm until we had to face the Habs. I don't think the perfect storm will ever happen under Rod.

Same to you. Oh no we are angry because the same damn thing is happening again.

Miller sucks.

I am certain you are a person who said that last year and then again two years prior to that. Sweep, 4-1. Montreal is just like the Panthers and are destroying Rods system.

4-1 in period one is almost insurmountable. As it has been said before. Rods system can only get you so far and the ECF is a far as it can get us. I don't know or want to think about who could replace him but as long as Rod is the coach we will never make the Stanley Cup.

Something has to change but nothing will. Same team every year. Same failures every year. Gonna have to come to the realization that we will never get to the Stanley Cup with Rod as the HC.

Whelp that is that. This team is boned.