Canes @ Wild 8PM

[Panthers Fan 69]

1 minute ago, USDepartmentOfSavagery said:

b/c I’m pissed and don’t want to see your positivity right now. Let me steam in anguish

I’m actually a little pissed for a change…. And that says a lot. PP is bad. Really bad. 

[DamnItJake!]

Well Carolina sports doing great today of ruining a potential great weekend!! UNC chokes on the cod and the Canes Lose!! Guess the Panthers will win since their expected to lose!

[Panthers Fan 69]

Bright spot. Koochie is our guy. Need to get this guy more game reps. 

[Panthers Fan 69]

4 minutes ago, DamnItJake! said:

Well Carolina sports doing great today of ruining a potential great weekend!! UNC chokes on the cod and the Canes Lose!! Guess the Panthers will win since their expected to lose!

App at least won! 

[Panthers Fan 69]

Also, Max and Turbo come back soon. That’s going to help us.  

[USDepartmentOfSavagery]

Meanwhile NJD keep on winning with their 13th game in a row and continuing to put distance between themselves and the rest of the division. That’s a hungry team. 

[Stumpy]

49 minutes ago, Panthers Fan 69 said:

Bright spot. Koochie is our guy. Need to get this guy more game reps. 

King Kucci

[Panthers Fan 69]

8 hours ago, USDepartmentOfSavagery said:

Meanwhile NJD keep on winning with their 13th game in a row and continuing to put distance between themselves and the rest of the division. That’s a hungry team. 

I bet you anything they come back to earth and we catch them. 

[MillionDollarCam]

There’s just been a lot of regression this year.

For starters, Noesen isn’t a first line player but he’s being forced to play there because of injuries, hopefully that changes when Patches or Teravainen comes back. However, even Teravainen has looked invisible this year.

Moving on, Kotkaniemi and Jarvis are slumping, eventually you have to drop the ‘advanced stats’ rhetoric, if you don’t put up points then you are only so valuable.

The third line is coming on as of late so I’ll leave them alone for right now.

The fourth line isn’t providing anything, Stastny and Stepan are just out there to be out there right now. In hindsight, this team should have signed the younger Evan Rodrigues over Stastny.

Burns has been okay but it’s clear that he’s not great defensively. Skjei and Pesce have been fantastic but they aren’t putting up the offensive numbers they did last year (at least Pesce isn’t). Then you have the third paring unit which is a black hole offensively.

Then, all the goalies have regressed outside of Kochetkov.

Now we move on to the system… the PP is still ass and the PK has gotten much worse.

Then we get to the fact that we simply can’t score, out of all the teams currently in a playoff position, we average the least amount of goals per game (2.83).

The system needs to be revamped, teams know that all we do is dump and chase and then fling pucks at the net. At this point all teams have to do is just park all five players in between the dots, more than likely the shot from the point will be blocked. And for fugs sake, bring in an outside pair of eyes for the power play, whatever the internal group is doing doesn’t work and has never worked. It’s obviously not the players.

It’s time the coaching staff be held accountable along with the players.

[Anybodyhome]

I missed the game last nite- almost glad I did.

To add to Million's observation, I saw this in the 40+ shot Colorado game- no net front. Trocheck and Nino could get position in front of the net- and this facet of the Canes game was not addressed when they left.

Consequently, way too many shots are easy saves because they're coming from the perimeter.

Opposing teams are just packing the middle and letting the Canes shoot from outside - percentages are in the goalie's favor.

[Snake]

This is not the year I was expecting. Zero chemistry and lots of players going through the motions. That's on Rob and the GM. 

[USDepartmentOfSavagery]

3 hours ago, MillionDollarCam said:

There’s just been a lot of regression this year.

For starters, Noesen isn’t a first line player but he’s being forced to play there because of injuries, hopefully that changes when Patches or Teravainen comes back. However, even Teravainen has looked invisible this year.

Moving on, Kotkaniemi and Jarvis are slumping, eventually you have to drop the ‘advanced stats’ rhetoric, if you don’t put up points then you are only so valuable.

The third line is coming on as of late so I’ll leave them alone for right now.

The fourth line isn’t providing anything, Stastny and Stepan are just out there to be out there right now. In hindsight, this team should have signed the younger Evan Rodrigues over Stastny.

Burns has been okay but it’s clear that he’s not great defensively. Skjei and Pesce have been fantastic but they aren’t putting up the offensive numbers they did last year (at least Pesce isn’t). Then you have the third paring unit which is a black hole offensively.

Then, all the goalies have regressed outside of Kochetkov.

Now we move on to the system… the PP is still ass and the PK has gotten much worse.

Then we get to the fact that we simply can’t score, out of all the teams currently in a playoff position, we average the least amount of goals per game (2.83).

The system needs to be revamped, teams know that all we do is dump and chase and then fling pucks at the net. At this point all teams have to do is just park all five players in between the dots, more than likely the shot from the point will be blocked. And for fugs sake, bring in an outside pair of eyes for the power play, whatever the internal group is doing doesn’t work and has never worked. It’s obviously not the players.

It’s time the coaching staff be held accountable along with the players.

We also have the worst shot% in the league. When you only muster 20 shots in a game combined with one of the worst PPs in the league, you’re going to lose games. Maybe should have resigned Nino and TDA instead of trading for patches and signing consistent unavailable players like Kase. We look terrible in any scenario that’s not 5v5. 

[MillionDollarCam]

12 minutes ago, USDepartmentOfSavagery said:

We also have the worst shot% in the league. When you only muster 20 shots in a game combined with one of the worst PPs in the league, you’re going to lose games. Maybe should have resigned Nino and TDA instead of trading for patches and signing consistent unavailable players like Kase. We look terrible in any scenario that’s not 5v5. 

Trying to replace guys with others, which seems to be the motto of this team over the past five years, has finally caught up to them.

[USDepartmentOfSavagery]

But honestly we just need to get in the playoffs because anything can happen there