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12/9 Game Thread: Hurricanes @ Calgary Puck Drop: 9PM

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Another late night with the Canes facing the other top defensive squad in the league. Canes have allowed just 54 goals in 24 games while Calgary has given up 56 in 26 games. Should be a good one.

Special Teams Emphasis: Penalties landed the Hurricanes in some hot water during Tuesday's win in Winnipeg, as the Jets were able to spoil their visitors initial two-goal lead with goals coming at four-on-four and then on the power play. Carolina was then also forced to kill off a five-minute major in the third. Calgary's power play is a top ten one, entering the evening with a capitalization rate of 23.9%. While that's impressive, their penalty kill has been even better, currently ranking fifth with 84.8% of penalties killed. One of the only four teams better when down a man? Carolina (87.0%).

Putting Up Points In Pairs: Since American Thanksgiving (November 25) Nino Niederreiter has been putting a force for his club, totaling seven points in his last six games. Recently he's been skating on Sebastian Aho's wing and the two have been getting it done, each publishing back-to-back performances with multiple points. For Aho, his streak actually extends back to three games with multi-point efforts, registering seven points during that span.

Forwards:

Niederreiter - Aho - Teravainen

Jarvis - Trocheck - Necas

Svechnikov - Staal - Fast

Lorentz - Kotkaniemi - Stepan

Defensemen:

Slavin - Cole

Skjei - Chatfield

Smith - Bear/Lajoie

Starting Goalie:

TBD

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I'll be okay with the Canes going .500 in Canada. Get one of the next three (Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver) and I'm good. Anything more then 4 points and I'll consider it a big success.

Then the crossing the border game in Minnesota will be a tough match-up as well before coming home to face Detroit.

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1 hour ago, Anybodyhome said:

I'll be okay with the Canes going .500 in Canada. Get one of the next three (Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver) and I'm good. Anything more then 4 points and I'll consider it a big success.

Then the crossing the border game in Minnesota will be a tough match-up as well before coming home to face Detroit.

For sure. I’m doing the one game at a time thing right now. If that little what was hopefully a “hiccup” for us these past few weeks starts to mend itself I’ll be real happy.

Tonight if we can show their defense up I’ll be real happy. Edmonton worries me because we are missing both TDA and Pesce. McDavid is guaranteed 2 goals so we have to really put an offensive clinic on. 
 

Vancouver we’ll see. Minnesota, we better have fugging Pesce back, they are as legit as they were last season and a serious cup contender. Just took them a minute to get their engine started. Probably our toughest game on paper since Florida. 
 

If we can win tonight I’ll hold out hope we can power through and get 7-8~ points out of this trip and get some ground back on the Rangers. 
 

Also we still need Cole/Smith on the roster for “Broad Street” games, but if Chatfield can keep improving his game, his speed is gonna be necessary vs. some teams. We’ll see. 

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Calgary is really good, very good goaltending should be a fun one. 

Shhhh. Don’t say that. We just never seem to find the net vs. top goalies…. Unless we get one early. Then we just kill whoever’s in net.  
 

That said I’m feeling a big night for Jarvis. He’s been slack since we took him off the Aho line forecheck-wise but it’s only a matter of time. 

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Shhhh. Don’t say that. We just never seem to find the net vs. top goalies…. Unless we get one early. Then we just kill whoever’s in net.  
 

That said I’m feeling a big night for Jarvis. He’s been slack since we took him off the Aho line forecheck-wise but it’s only a matter of time. 

Also on the Jarvis thing I’d really love to see him barrel on the net when he gets the puck close to their blue line more. He was drawing penalties when he was on the Aho line and before. His speed will guarantee a penalty every time. He was really too methodical the last few breakaways he’s had instead of just flying to the net. He’s young. He can take the hits. 
 

((Sorry for the self quote, edit timer ran out))

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