Canes vs Tampa Friday 7pm(Season kickoff)

[BIGH2001]

Staying with rod and the same core of players who haven’t gotten the job for years was kinda dumb.

[WelshPanther]

1 minute ago, BIGH2001 said:

It’s like they never missed a beat from last May. 

I think it’s the Canes mission statement 

[PantherChris]

Well that sucked 

[WelshPanther]

1 minute ago, PantherChris said:

Well that sucked 

Never know whether to be concerned or not after one game…..but it just all feels stale. 

[cookinbrak]

Our PP and PK were useless tonight.

[DavidEng]

28 minutes ago, MillionDollarCam said:

Well they didn’t until tonight. Rod flipped Rosy and Svech before the game and the fourth line hasn’t skated together at all.

It makes sense that the third line is the best, it’s been the only constant throughout the preseason.

Chemistry didn’t appear to be there, maybe the Svech - Roslogic swap was  a factor in that. Fourth line Robinson Drury and Blake did play together in a preseason game.

[Panthers Fan 69]

Just a got home from the game. My thoughts. 
 

freddie is net didn’t play bad minus a bad goal….it  just came off flat to the crowd that wanted Koochie from the start.  Rod has a fascination with vets and it showed tonight.   Should have been Koochie. That arena was a thud when he was announced him the crease. 
 

Svech is who he is.  Hell of hockey player that Needs a miracle to score.  
 

Necas…dude didn’t care to be out there.   Looked very un necas like.  He wanted to be somewhere else. He is here. Half assed it. 
 

The team is who they are   Great defense  zero offense  average goalie play     
 

The huge concern is zero offense  Tampa was not good  they were below average     Our guys just can’t score   
 

rods system is what it is    This year is going to take a Miracle in net to win and our “stars” to show up     Tonight was not good     Tonight showed me what canes Hockey 2010-2018 looks like        
 

rod has his work cut out   This team isn’t good   No chemistry   No fire    

 

[DavidEng]

5 minutes ago, Panthers Fan 69 said:

Just a got home from the game. My thoughts. 
 

freddie is net didn’t play bad minus a bad goal….it  just came off flat to the crowd that wanted Koochie from the start.  Rod has a fascination with vets and it showed tonight.   Should have been Koochie. That arena was a thud when he was announced him the crease. 
 

Svech is who he is.  Hell of hockey player that Needs a miracle to score.  
 

Necas…dude didn’t care to be out there.   Looked very un necas like.  He wanted to be somewhere else. He is here. Half assed it. 
 

The team is who they are   Great defense  zero offense  average goalie play     
 

The huge concern is zero offense  Tampa was not good  they were below average     Our guys just can’t score   
 

rods system is what it is    This year is going to take a Miracle in net to win and our “stars” to show up     Tonight was not good     Tonight showed me what canes Hockey 2010-2018 looks like        
 

rod has his work cut out   This team isn’t good   No chemistry   No fire    

 

They had plenty of fire second period, just can’t seem to put it together to score. Special teams was the losing difference.

[Panthers Fan 69]

7 minutes ago, DavidEng said:

They had plenty of fire second period, just can’t seem to put it together to score. Special teams was the losing difference.

Typical Rod team.  All fire. Zero goals.  Pucks on net from everywhere has got old.  I’m sure we will score here and there but I watched a ton of hockey over the years.  This team looked mid to lower mid tonight.  Guys just can’t score.  Should have been koochie in the net. The crowd from the jump groaned when Freddie was announced. 

[Chief_Chokeaho]

First game of the season, replacing many key pieces and building chemistry in a unique system. I’ll reserve judgment until later in the year but I think we all knew this was going to be bridge year. It’s going to be frustrating but I have faith Rod will have em’ in the mix by spring. 

Edited October 12 by Chief_Chokeaho

[KillerKat]

Ok, so after reading it looks like only 10 games that are nationally televised wont be on Bally sports and Bally will are the other 72, so I might be alright. Just weird people in NC cant see the home team on a basic cable subscription for the 1st game.

Edited October 12 by KillerKat

[Rocky Davis]

Did they let Necas play center at all?  Really, TBF I don't think it would really matter that Necas is playing C with KK on the wing.  Let's let Necas see what he can do and hope he will be more engaged.

I think this is Andersen's last season and that's why he got the start.  I think King Koochie sees more games than Andersen.

It was always going to be a different Canes team, not surprised that we looked out of sync.  There's hope with this group though, the game was really 2-1.

[PantherChris]

I mean it's one game and the guys need to build chemistry, I'm not taking too much from it.

The Aves and Oilers are both 0-2 heck the Oilers have been outscored 2 to 11.

The Predators are also 0-2 (need chemistry)

 

I know we won't be as good as the last few seasons but I highly doubt we miss the playoffs.