PantherChris

He was playing out of his mind he was bound to regress, some of it is teams figuring out his tendencies and some of it is JUST HOW BAD OUR DEFENSE HAS BEEN.

Its a good thing we arent playing our likely round one opponent.... oh wait nevermind

Lol expected atart

These are averages. Lol florida doesnt bully us the way they do without the Bennetts, Gudas, thachuk ect

Lets see if he can parley it into a Cup because we have reached the point regular season wins arent enough!

touche. LETS see how your little buddy does in the playoffs at Center....

Oh don't get me wrong all of our smurfs will drive the net, its just in the playoffs were physicality ramps up you can't make up for being outweighed by 40+ pounds and give up 5+ inches in height with "grit" and "gumption" for the playoffs I'd honestly be tempted to have Stanky back on the wing, have Janakowski man the 2c and KK the fourth line.... (Janakowski has been productive for his very limited TOI) and tbh Stankoven has 30 points in 63 games played averaging 16.5 minutes of ice time, Janakowski has 16 in 53 games averaging just a shade over 9 minutes of ice time, Stanky has spent almost 3x as much time on the ice for less than double the production, and he doesn't provide the same size

Stanky isn't a bad player but come playoff time he won't be able to be even a minor inconvenience net front. Outside of Svechnikov our top six is severely undersized

Eeehhh it was a top team who also happens to be 3-7 last 10

The canes deff play to the level of their opponents

MR SVECHNIKOV

Better pass blocker, worse run blocker.

I mean its probably the third round but yea

I mean they have been playing down to crap teams lately, got a feeling this one sees a lot of goals

He wasn't great but he wasnt bad, and ive said before our goalies facing 16 shots is actually to their detriment because there are LONG stretches were they arent involved in the game at all. Bottom line is you don't score 1 goal and blame the goalie for giving uo 2 this is like the year before last when everyone blamed freddie for 2-1 losses.... you dont win jack in the ecf scoring two goals. After thinking about last night's loss its kind of painfuly obvious the top half of the team are giving minimal effort right now, (with a 10 point metro lead and games in hand they would need to go like 2-14 in order to NOT finish first in the metro)