TLGPanthersFan

This feels like the two Florida ECF series. Habs feel like they can score any second and we can only score if we get lucky.

You can't win with these dump puck, chase crap and hope you get a lucky goal and we have gotten a ton of lucky goals this post season.

fug this team. We can't win scoring 2 goals a game. It is like we are just taking random shots at the goalie hoping we will get lucky instead of setting up the shot like every other team in the NHL.

fug these fuging BS shitlord refs that was a 5 minute major. NHL is a fuging joke.

I don't know what Rod said to the guys but they are playing like the team we know and not the team from two days ago.

Ehlers is quickly becoming one of my favorite players. Such an easy guy to root for.

BS goal by the Habs but the Canes keeps missing easy chances that if it was Montreal they would have scored. Really tired of missed shots and wiffs.

My heart says Canes in 6. My head says Montreal is doing what most teams that beat us do. Be opportunistic and tonight will be more of the same. Montreal in 4. Montreal, like Florida, doesn’t need a billion SOG they just wait for the mistake and score. I hope I am wrong. But the more I think about it the more this feels like last years ECF. Heck the score was almost identical in the first game. Canes also scored first then could do nothing. That said, as always, go Canes.

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.