A Tale of Two Hurricanes

[Anybodyhome]

At the risk of being a Grinch, I thought I'd wait until after the holiday to give you the gift of statistics.

In 21 wins, the Canes have outscored their opponents 92-38, scoring 4.38 goals per game while allowing just 1.8. In these 21 wins, the Canes have scored 4 or more goals in all but 3 wins.

In 13 losses, the Canes have been outscored 58-26; giving up 4.46 goals per game while scoring 2. With the exception of the shootout loss, only 2 other losses have been by 1 goal.

PP goals: 28 (33% above than the league average)

PP percentage: 26.17 (5.3% higher than the league average of 20.84)

SV percentage: .889 (below the league average of .893)

5-on-5 SV percentage: .906 (below the league average of .918)

+/- leaders and losers:

Orlov (+17)/Chatfield (+14) a combined +31 for a defensive pairing is almost unheard of.

Martinook (+11)/Staal (+8) for a combined +19 for the heavy line.

Svech (-8), Gostisbehere, Walker, Aho (-6).

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What does all this mean? When the Canes win, they win convincingly and usually soundly. When they lose, the lose like they win- convincingly. The Canes have won a game or 2 thanks to the blue line scoring, but more often than not, losses have come when the top 2 lines are non-factors, which has occurred far more than previous years. To be clear, the Canes have lost more games because the top end of the payroll not producing than they've won when the top line shows up.

And, I'll just add this from another thread I posted in just 11 days ago. The point is still valid:

The Canes lost Bunting (13), TDA (3), Noesen (14), Pesce (3), Skjei (13), Teravainen (25), Guentzel (8), Kuznetsov (2), who accounted for 81 of Carolina's 277 goals (29.2%) last season.

They were replaced with Blake (0), Carrier (6), Gostisbehere (7), Robinson (3), Roslovic (9), Walker (10), who scored a combined 35 goals last season.  

 

[KillerKat]

Its like they are both regular season mode and playoff mode at the same time. Instead of looking great in the regular season and then looking like a different team and getting swept in the playoffs, they are bringing us both versions this season. Im afraid last season was the best season to win a Cup under Rod.

[MillionDollarCam]

Been MIA for a bit but just a few things.

- The stars need to be better defensively. Svechnikov, Aho, and Jarvis need to really hone in on the defensive side. It almost feels like they’ve given up on Rod’s system from a defensive stand point. If those three aren’t better defensively then this team won’t go anywhere.

- Ghost and Walker need to be split up. I’d rather see Orlov and Chatfield be average than Ghost and Walker be putrid. In fact, rearrange the defense.

Slavin - Walker

Orlov - Burns

Ghost - Chatfield

Let Walker be a little more offensive and let Slavin shelter him. Orlov will shelter Burns and Chatfield will shelter Ghost. Everyone gets a shelter buddy.

Edited 18 hours ago by MillionDollarCam

[Chief_Chokeaho]

2 hours ago, MillionDollarCam said:

Been MIA for a bit but just a few things.

- The stars need to be better defensively. Svechnikov, Aho, and Jarvis need to really hone in on the defensive side. It almost feels like they’ve given up on Rod’s system from a defensive stand point. If those three aren’t better defensively then this team won’t go anywhere.

- Ghost and Walker need to be split up. I’d rather see Orlov and Chatfield be average than Ghost and Walker be putrid. In fact, rearrange the defense.

Slavin - Walker

Orlov - Burns

Ghost - Chatfield

Let Walker be a little more offensive and let Slavin shelter him. Orlov will shelter Burns and Chatfield will shelter Ghost. Everyone gets a shelter buddy.

Rod reshuffling the defense? I agree but this will never happen. KK getting demoted is the obvious move. 

[MillionDollarCam]

26 minutes ago, Chief_Chokeaho said:

Rod reshuffling the defense? I agree but this will never happen. KK getting demoted is the obvious move. 

Oh for sure. With Rod it’s never the defenses fault.

I think someone posted this in Reddit a while back.

Rod with the forwards.

Rod with the defense.

 

[Stumpy]

5 hours ago, Anybodyhome said:

The Canes lost Bunting (13), TDA (3), Noesen (14), Pesce (3), Skjei (13), Teravainen (25), Guentzel (8), Kuznetsov (2), who accounted for 81 of Carolina's 277 goals (29.2%) last season.

They were replaced with Blake (0), Carrier (6), Gostisbehere (7), Robinson (3), Roslovic (9), Walker (10), who scored a combined 35 goals last season. 

TBF... what the new additions did last doesn't really matter.

This season, those guys have...

Blake (7), Carrier (4), Gostisbehere (6), Robinson (8), Roslovic (14), Walker (2), which adds up to 41 goals less than halfway through this season.

The issue ain't the departures or the new guys. It's our stars disappearing for weeks at a time and the injuries and inconsistency in net. Take care of those 2 things and we'll be back to the world beaters that we looked like the first 2 months of the season.

[KillerKat]

I wonder if Rod asking all our top goal scorers to be able to be great on defense as well is wearing on them. Just let them be our goal scorers! This is why you have defensemen and bottom line forwards!

[Panthers Fan 69]

The team really started struggling when rod nuked the lines then kept doing it. He killed all chemistry we built.  That leads to our stars not playing like stars.  Mix in average goalie play, well we aren’t that good. That’s the issue. Luckily, are stars can play well and we can buy a goalie.  
 

Ask me after the back to back with NJ. I think we can all agree that winning one of the two games would be a win.