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30 minutes ago, lightsout said:

 

I don't mean this rudely, and I'm sincere in saying that but text often comes off more blunt than I intend.

 

Your criticism of the goal not being a "skill goal", which leads me to believe you use this subjective eye test of goals to differentiate dirty goals from skill goals as a barometer of actual skill or talent, shows that you have a very odd view of hockey.

 

Hockey is a basic fuging sport. Put puck in net without interfering with goalie's body and without raising stick higher than crossbar. How it gets done absolutely does not matter.

People see prime Sid and Ovie and McJesus and think "that's what a great player is". No, that's what absurd talent is. That is generational talent we may not see again for years after they're gone. 

The Canes have been very inconsistent of late since January (10-5 that month). A really bad February (2-5) and so far, a good March (4-1).

We don't know what team we're taking into April. The Tampa game will tell us a bit more where we are right now.

 

Rod's system falls apart when teams do a good job of FORCING us into crashing the net. We don't do well with creating shooting lanes and when we do get them, we miss more than any of us would like. I think it's a mentality thing at the end of the day where we have an issue with shrinking when we fail at the good chances too many times. Crashing the net is, was and forever will be a viable scoring method. It's arguably the way most goals are scored. Getting rebounds and firing at open nets is far easier than sniping goalies glove or five hole. But true enough that open shot lanes are needed to be had and capitalized on so we're not hoping for bounces to go our way.

I agree with literally all of that, the canes strategy for scoring under rod has always been spray and pray.... 

It's just not viable late in the playoffs IMO

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