DavidEng

Well that ones on Freddie it was right in front of him.

Leaving Numchuk alone to get that pass wasn’t on Freddie

I just want home advantage for what it’s worth, ignoring past history. I don’t care who we play 1sr round.

I like your optimism. Let’s fug’n go!

Teams been motivated. Need strategy on offense now. Hoping for a win tonight.

Dear Rod, Please inform the team that it could be helpful to actually look right in front of them before shooting the puck to make sure there isn’t a blocker standing directly in front of them a mere 6 foot away. That should significantly decrease the chances of the Canes having forty blocked shots against them. Thanks, A fan

All bets are off. Canes make their bad decisions during the trade deadline.

I look at SV% more than GAA as far as comparing other goalies against the canes goalies. Canes limit teams SOG and grade As more than most teams, so any goalie who plays for us looks pretty good stat wise. Case in point Anderson and Raanta won the William Jennings trophy for goals against, best in nhl in 2022. Are they the best really? Nope. An even better case in point is look at the excellent stats of Nedejkovic and Mrazek when they played for the Canes vs the poor play they’ve done lately on other teams. So I look at SV% for the season and also for career, in addition I look at GAA just for this season as a secondary consideration. Based on that criteria I would take a hard look at Hill and Korpisalo in your list of UFA’s, and keep Raanta. But really we would have been fine with our current goalies if we had scorers and that is just not going to change until we get one or two more. Do we really want to count on goalies to save each game with us struggling to get more than 2-3 goals for most games?

We just lost 2 of the last 3 games. Somethings got to change to win 2 of the next 3 games. Pick the best lineups and stick with it. And scratch Puljujarvi, nows not the time for a work in progress. He’s fought hard but no results to speak of.

The way the Canes are playing the Devils loss may just be delaying a 2nd place finish for the Canes. Up to the Canes to actually start scoring to prove that wrong. Tough games ahead.

My memory wasn’t that good, I went back and checked we were 4 points ahead of the Devils on March 11 before Sveches injury and only 2 points ahead after that loss to Vegas when Svech was injured. In the interest of the facts lol. I do agree getting a scorer at the TDL would have increased the chances of winning it all. That’s how the braves won the 2021 World Series (I’m also a Braves fan).

If memory serves me right on March 11 when Svech had his injury vs Vegas, we were well ahead of the Devils and solidly in second place in they league behind the Bruins. Could we match up with the Bruins? We did in the regular season, so again imho we were strong cup contenders then with Svech on board. Fact remains we should have picked up a scorer at TDL for insurance against an injury of our top scorers as I stated earlier.

Let’s agree to disagree. Svech was enough imho, our average Goals per game was significantly higher with Svech and his big body defensive play, especially his hits, was excellent.

Svech would have been enough. But you have to expect possible injuries to key players, so getting a scorer at the TDL was a necessity if you want to win the Cup.

We’re done.

Finally a call our way.

Canes should have 6 goals by now with all the scoring opportunities. Scorers matter.

1 PP to the Sabres 4 PP doesn’t give us much of a chance…officiating sucks.

3rd period Canes have to tighten up and keep the puck in the Sabres zone and put it in their net, facing both the Sabres AND the pathetic one way officiating.

I watched the replay, 53s skates tripped Raanta as he tried to get across to block the puck.

Rod should have challenged that goal

That was goalie interference

What a play!

bench penalty?

Two posts I made never showed up, some glitch or my interwebwifi We’re playing lights out now!