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He signed a 3 year ELC just last month. Look him up. He is a better prospect than Kooch was.

The future is Ruslan.

Yeah I’m still hungover lol and not thinking clearly. I meant Ruslan Khazheyev.

Peters is the future, not PK for the record. Hopefully we’ve seen Freddie’s last game as a Cane. He had a great performance in the playoffs last season and for what he went through this year, it is hard for me to blame him. You have to blame Rod for putting Freddie in this situation. Do I think Rod should be fired? lol, no. It’s hard as fug to win a Cup. Boston has been in the playoffs for virtually 30’yeara straight and has one Cup to show for it. The core is young, we have great prospects, and play a system that gets us to the playoffs annually. And you cannot discount Rod’s value as a developer of talent. Rod isn’t going anywhere, nor should he.

Let’s be real, Rod isn’t going anywhere and shouldn’t. It’s hard to win a Cup. Everything has to go right for it to happen. We had two destabilizing injuries that significantly impacted the way we play defense and the PK. If Rod will detach himself from his assistants and stop being so loyal to veterans, we have a HOF coach.

Rod is going to go with the vets. He is loyal to a fault. Although, I don’t think we can find a better coach than him at the present. The core of this team would not react well to that. It’s not happening.

Lol

Hope everyone enjoyed the season. Team will likely take a major step back next season with all of the turnover.

I’m back bitches

Keeping my word and not watching. I’ll wake up early and skip through the replay. Rod went with…Freddie. So, we will see what happens. Rags will be bring some intensity tonight to try and close this out in front of all the hedge fund managers and C-list entertainers.

Also, what is this sense of hope I feel festering deep inside me. Learning there have only been four reverse sweeps in NHL history does give me pause. But if anyone can do it, it is the Canes.

I think we will see Rod alternate goalies moving forward, whether that’s 1 more game or several. PK gets the net tomorrow. He was coy in his presser about the net. Still not watching until G6.

They are grooming Jarvis for 2C imo

All three games we have had sub .900 goaltending from Andersen and PK. Goaltending is reason number 3 we aren’t winning this series. 1. Special Teams 2. Finishing 3. Goaltending This is all my opinion though. I don’t find joy in arguing about why we are losing so I’ll leave it at this.

Our defense is doing their job, without Pesce. Rags are struggling to even enter the zone 5v5. We have scored zero PP goals out of 15 tries in 3 games decided by 3 goals. How you can even begin to blame the defense before that is wild speculation at best. The defense has played well enough to win the series.

We are doing fine on defense. That’s not the issue, clearly. Special teams and finishing are what is plaguing the team.

Munich is a 3 hour drive for me. There are Americans who live in Europe.

How many times has a team come back down 3-0? I have little faith and do not plan on watching. Not going to risk watching the most obnoxious franchise (who has won jack poo in the modern NHL) sweep us on home ice. If they win tonight and in NY, I’ll be back for Game 6 but if Rod is insistent on not changing anything of relevance, why bother. See y’all in the off-season thread.

Next year this team will take a step back. Probably several steps back. It’ll be a bridge year as we develop our ELC players for a year or two. Let Rod develop them and then reevaluate. I think switching up who he has on the bench with him would do wonders.

I’m at peace with it. Knew that double OT loss was likely the writing on the wall. I’m fine with Rod disappearing into the ether. I’m fine with Staal retiring. I’m fine with Necas, KK, Tuevo, Kuzy, Deangelo all being shipped off. Dear god, relegate Burns to 3rd pair or just force him to retire. He is cooked. Fire the assistants, fire DW, make Rod bring in an actual tactician as an assistant or Rod can kick rocks. Get a 2C. Get our young guys onto the 3rd and 4th line and develop them.

lol, we aren’t good enough. It’s really that simple.

Sweep. Not coming back from that. Stadium will be full of Rags fans on Saturday. Will be a home game for them to cheer on their sweep.

Kooch

Might as well get it started. Aho/Svech/Jarvis/Orlov/Slavin/Chatty are about all I care to keep. Guentzel at the right price. Rod needs to answer some tough questions and probably surround himself with some different assistants.

I won’t be watching Saturday. See y’all in the off-season or October.