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I'd venture to say a Carolina loss today could mean a 1st round exit. They are not playing their style game on the road.

Ned is suddenly looking very ordinary.

Thought for sure Svech would get 4 for the Nashville guy hitting his own player

Shock and amazement! A delay of game not called on Nashville. The phantom deflection!

Point being, the players don't care if the officiating is good, bad or whatever. They just need to know that it'll be consistent and they'll play the game accordingly.

The NHL puts a fine on that play and completely ignores the interference on Staal later, which could have been a penalty shot. The icing call when Ben Harpur was playing the puck in front of him, looked up for a second to see where he was going with the pass, the puck slides by and gets the whistle. WTF?

Stevie Wonder wouldn't have missed that many calls. Watching last night's game is precisely the reason I don't do social media. I would have spent half the night calling out the refs on the league's Twitter feed or whatever. It was bad enough during regulation, but to go through almost 2 OTs and get progressively worse? How is that possible?

So, the series stands at 2-0-1 with the refs taking game 3.

The refs aren't even trying to be subtle. Blatant bullshit calls.

Who's on the PP?

Finally put something together.

Canes offense is very disjointed.

What's the over/under on Canes penalties tonite?

Jordo!!!!!

Ned stood a much better chance going out to challenge Foreskin. He gave up half the blue paint to Filip.

If the Canes can win one of the next 2, Slavin can take the rest of the series off and hopefully be ready for the next round. LaJoie a -25 in one season? Sheesh.... but I, for one, am not a big fan of this stat as it really doesn't take into account a lot of "what if's."

There are 2 teams I do not want to see in the playoffs, and they're playing each other right now- Washington and Boston. Both teams are stacked with players I would label as dirty and, because they're veterans, won't catch a penalty against anyone else. Marchand takes cheap shots when he thinks the refs aren't looking and Wilson will hurt anyone he can.

I watched the Tampa Bay-Florida game last night. 10 of the 11 goals scored in that game were at the same end of the ice. TB scored all 5 in the 2nd, Florida changed goalies and stormed back in OT, with the OT game-winner scored by the only guy on the Panthers roster who didn't take a shot during regulation. Also watched Montreal-Toronto. That inadvertent hit on Tavares was brutal- off on a stretcher. Then Foligno decided he was going to fight Corey Perry, even though Perry had given Tavares the tap as he was going off the ice and apologized. It wasn't a malicious hit, just 2 guys colliding. Here's to Carolina stealing one in Nashville. Look, if Nashville were to just go out and play hockey, they get trounced because they simply cannot generate the offense to beat the Canes. They have no alternative but to try to create power plays and draw Carolina into a street fight.

Anybody else notice the obvious when the 3rd period started and it actually looked like Nashville wanted to play hockey instead of basic thuggery? Most of the hits were gone and the Preds looked like they wanted to win, for a few minutes anyway.

Yep. Preds will try to get behind them with some stretch passes and breakouts, hope for some tired legs. Time for some stiff D and not allow easy entry.

Preds are content to play offense 5 minutes per period and try to intimidate the other 15.

He did and was lucky he wasn't whistled.

Wow, throwing punches at a player down on the ice. No respect for the game.

That may be the most egregious charity penalty ever. Horrible call.

If he wasn't so much of a dick before this series, he's certainly embraced the title in the first 2 games.