Preseason

[celling]

Game 1 last night at Tampa Bay:

Tampa played with a majority of veterans and we played with a majority of AHLers and rookies.

Canes looked fast and played hard in a 4-1 victory.

Svechnikov was as advertised and had 2 points (1 goal, 1 assist)

Mrazek looked good in net and stopped all 9 shots that he faced.

 

Game 2 tonight in Raleigh against Tampa Bay.

Canes with a completely different starting lineup and Darling in net.

[MillionDollarCam]

The 4-1 win was followed up by a nice 6-1 win.

So far all the goalies (Mrazek, Darling, Nedeljkovic, and Booth) looked good.

It was also nice to see Ferland and Hamilton score in their debuts. It’ll be interesting to see who makes the final roster.

Aho, Teravainen, Williams, Staal, Svechnikov, Necas, Ferland, McGinn, Zykov, Martinook, Di Giuseppe (one way contract - 13th forward) are all guaranteed a sport more than likely and with Rask surely headed to IR that leaves two spots open on the forward group.

As for the forwards left, Greg McKegg, Lucas Wallmark, Janne Kuokkanen, and Warren Foegele seem to have stood out the most.

The defense is as strong as ever with Slavin, Hamilton, Faulk, de Haan, Pesce, Van Riemsdyk, and Fleury.

Training camp invitee Michal Cajkovsky has looked good and might earn a spot with Pesce out.

[celling]

Game 3

Canes 5- Caps 1

Team looking good so far.  PP and PK look good for once.  Svech looks as good as advertised.  Zygov, Ferland, and Martinook are adding the physicality that we missed.  Foegle is giving the effort that we need.  The D is playing great.  Mrazek looks good in goal although not seeing a lot of shots.  However, there still is the problem at C.  Seems that Aho just isn't cut out for C and needs to be placed at wing.  That leaves: Necas, Stall, Martinook.  Wallmark probably makes the team just based on the fact that he plays C.   Still might see a trade for Duschene with Ottawa since Rask is out for a while.

Projected Roster:

TT-Stall-Aho

Ferland-Necas-Svech

Williams-Walmark-Zygov

Foegle-Martinook-McGinn

PDG

 

Slavin-Hamilton

DeHann-Faulk

JVR-Pesce

Cajovsky

 

Mrazek

Darling

 

[The_Light_Brigade]

Was able to watch last nights game.  Cautiously optimistic.  They were doing all of the stuff I've been bitching about since Peters and Muller were coaches.  

[cookinbrak]

We might get to enjoy the playoffs this year.

[The_Light_Brigade]

20 minutes ago, cookinbrak said:

We might get to enjoy the playoffs this year.

[MillionDollarCam]

Game 5 tonight:

Foegele - Aho - Teravainen

Zykov - Necas - Di Giuseppe 

Kuokkanen - Wallmark - Svechnikov

Maenalanen - McKegg - Brown

Slavin - Hamilton

de Haan - Faulk

Van Riemsdyk - Pesce

Mrazek

Darling

OUT: Staal, Williams, Ferland, McGinn, Martinook, Roy, Fleury, Cajkovsky, McKeown, Nedeljkovic

Injured: Rask

[MillionDollarCam]

5 and Ohhhhhhhhh in the preseason.

This winning thing is fun.

[cidwell]

Cant wait for this games, hope to see interesting pairs

[cidwell]

Guys, i want to visit the game Carolina - Toronto, need two tickets nearby of course. Maybe somebody has season tickets or just advise place where i could look for
Thanks

[berg]

Google good place to start ))

you could try through Seatleafs. they don`t sell tickets themselves but show a comparison of prices from different market places.

try to go through this site to ticketnetwork through them, and then close the tab, sometimes they offer a discount to keep visitors