TheCandyMan

I blame @Panthers Fan 69

3 minutes ago, Stumpy said:

This has been going on for a while, unfortunately...

That used to be our calling card with Rod as HC.

Yes it has on both counts. We seemed to start slow and finish strong, but we’ve flipped that this year for some reason. 

Welp. We lost the 3rd again….

Gotta put this PP to good use. 

We’ll crap…

Just now, Stumpy said:

PESCE IS AN ABSOLUTE BEAST!!!

That was impressive for sure

Staal line strikes again!  That line is so much fun. 

Excellent news!

I had a feeling we’d see Koochie in the big apple tonight. I’m pumped! LFG!!

Maybe I’m spoiled, but I’ve never been so disappointed after a win. Glad we had a big enough lead to pull out the win. Y’all have a Merry Christmas and we’ll see ya on the 27th. 

2 hours ago, MillionDollarCam said:

No chance that either Rannta or Freddie gets traded in my opinion. We saw how important it was to have three goalies in the playoffs last year.

With that said, I’d look at signing Jarry or Varlamov in the offseason and moving on from both Raanta and Andersen. Jarry is younger and could make a great tandem with Kochetkov for many years and while Varlamov is older, he’s another Russian goalie which could help Pyotr and he’d be less expensive than Jarry.

I agree with this. 
 

What happens when everyone is healthy is the big question mark for me. I don’t see us filling a roster spot with a 3rd goalie, but the only other alternative I see is sending Koochie back to Chicago so he continues to get reps, but the way he’s playing I’d hate to see that happen too. I’m glad I’m not Don. 

19 minutes ago, USDepartmentOfSavagery said:

All that talk all off-season about focus and cup or bust, not being satisfied with just making the playoffs seems to be just that…talk. Last years team was significantly better. 

I don’t disagree, but last year’s team also peaked too early and didn’t show up for the playoffs. Not sure what team that was. 

My homerism is hoping this means we can get it together and look better in April than we do now. My eyes tell me if it wasn’t for the Staal line and Svech we’d have a losing record right now. 
 

#bipolarcanes

Maybe this means Kase is going to be out longer than expected?  I'm glad to see this.

2 minutes ago, Harbingers said:

Wait what, I miss the one time we bring out Aho on the shootout. Doh. 

He shot 7th or 8th deep. Faked to the right so hard Vas committed and Aho brought the puck back to the left and shot it in. Thing a beauty. 

I started the game late, but man what a game.  It just seems sweeter when we beat Tampa with Vasilevskiy in the net.  Dude is something else.  Hats off to Freddie too.  I really thought we were going to beat ourselves with the stupid penalties in the 2nd, but nice to see us overcome that and pull out a win.  We got to fix these penalties though.

Cardiac Canes is becoming real.  Brady's shorthander to force overtime, and then all the stops in the shootout.  That fake Aho put on Vas to seal it made my jaw drop.

Things to improve as always, but good win on the road tonight Canes!

4 hours ago, USDepartmentOfSavagery said:

Figured we might as well create a thread to discuss the rest of the league. I watched Pitt and Boston last night. Went to OT, Pens should have won in OT. But Swayman might be out for a while. Boston unfortunately looks pretty damn good. 

I checked the score at 2nd intermission and thought the Pens were going to put them to bed.  Does suck that Boston is much better this year, but sounds like the end of the game would have been a good one to watch.

We got a lot of room for improvement, but dang what a win. Let’s Go Canes!

3 minutes ago, TheCandyMan said:

Now let’s get one more so I can go to bed. 

3-1!

Now let’s get one more so I can go to bed. 

Just now, Mother Grabber said:

we have both 2s. if their 2 is ahead of ours, we win.

Ah, I gotcha now. 

4 minutes ago, Mother Grabber said:

i’ll lol my face off if we end up picking after the 9ers

They’ll have to trade for it. They don’t have a 1st next year. 

"What's that Parrot doin?"

Good Luck Robbie.

1 minute ago, hepcat said:

He put the logo at midfield and painted the end zones black? That's about all I got. 

Well HEY!  That's true.  Too bad the offense doesn't get much use out of the endzones, haha.

Tepper's the one that's made me stop caring about this team.  Has he made a good decision since buying the team?  He's the reason Matt is here.