MillionDollarCam

Simmer down, this isn’t the same Canes team from years past. A contending team wouldn’t have Roslovic or Kotkaniemi on their second line and our fans need to realize that. Enjoy this season with no expectations and you’ll be much happier. We’re a wild card team at best.

Martinook for me.

Does Rod’s system even allow players to dominate? It seems like guys are forced to play in a set structure. And this isn’t a knock on Rod, I’d just say outside of Guentzel I haven’t seen any Canes player have an impact nearly every game. Guys seem to put up points once they leave the Canes though. Turbo has 7 in 5 and Noesen has 6 in 7. I’d just say our structure forces everyone to contribute and because of that you won’t see a 100 point player on the Canes while Rod is coaching, in my opinion.

Figured they deserve their own thread since the whole team is our prospects. They got a big win in OT over the back-to-back defending AHL champion, Hershey Bears. Goal 1 - Bradly Nadeau (1) from Ryan Suzuki (1) and Spencer Martin (1) Goal 2 - Brendan Lemieux (1) from Charles-Alexis Legault (1) Goal 3 (OT Winner) - Scott Morrow (1) from Ryan Suzuki (2) and Felix Unger-Sorum (1) This is the Wolves first win of the season after they dropped their first game 4-1 to Milwaukee. Ryan Suzuki had the lone goal in that game and it was assisted by Aleksi Heimosalmi and Ty Smith. Suzuki currently leads the Wolves with one goal and two assists.

One bad period of hockey did us in. The good news is that we still look like at the very least a wild card team.

Pepe Lemieux with a goal for the Wolves

Only bad period of hockey we’ve had all year, hopefully we can rebound. In other news, Nadeau just scored his first goal for the Wolves.

Looks like we’ll be the 5th seed and take on Orlando in a best of 3.

Atta boy Svech! Give me another one!

Svech, time to get on the board against the Blues.

Another good team win with everyone contributing. Defense looks really good this year. Even the Tampa score doesn’t reflect how good the defense played that game.

I felt like our fourth line had a good chance to be really good this year. They are already living up to expectations and then some.

If we get a healthy season out of Mark we’ll be in good shape. I feel like the starters will be Ball, Green (3&D), Miller, Bridges, and Mark with a combination of Mann, Martin, Salaun, Grant, and Richards off the bench. Curry, Gibson, and Smith will probably just be depth players. Simpson, Johnson, and Diabate will probably be in the G-League. I’m not sure what Micic’s role will be because he really seems to want to be in Denver. Giles, Jeffries, and Brown probably don’t have a place on the roster.

Let’s see Svech!!! get us going first tonight!

Agree, I don’t quite understand it. I wonder if it’s just one of those Jay Wright/Roy Williams situations where he just doesn’t like where college basketball is headed and can’t fully invest in it anymore.

College basketball losses a good one today. Enjoy retirement Tony B.

Technically we have 3 spots open. Stillman is listed on the Canes website but he’s technically on the injured non roster list. Both Lemieux and Ryan are now in Chicago which leaves the Canes with 20 players (no extras). Our projected deadline cap space is now $6.6M which is more than enough to get a top six guy with some term if we want. I doubt we’ll go for a rental but with a bunch of cap space being freed up next year the Canes can acquire someone with term at the deadline and fit him into next years team as well.

Ryan re-assigned to Chicago, Lemieux on waivers with the purpose of getting him to Chicago. Once healthy the Hurricanes will look like this: Svechnikov - Aho - Jarvis Roslovic - Kotkaniemi - Necas Martinook - Staal - Carrier Blake - Drury - Robinson Slavin - Burns Orlov - Chatfield Gostisbehere - Walker Stillman Kochetkov Andersen LTIR - Fast

You are gonna make @Anybodyhomeupset! He got Staal during the first game.

We’ll need to have everyone going in order to win this year, but I do feel like so far the team defense is stronger. The forwards are doing a great job back-checking. I also wouldn’t be totally shocked to see Blake work his way up the lineup. I’m not sure if he can play on the left but maybe something like this: Svechnikov - Aho - Jarvis Blake - Roslovic - Necas Martinook - Staal - Carrier Robinson - Kotkaniemi - Drury

Trimble looks really good, EC had his moments, everyone else has a long way to go.

This is where you need R.J. to keep everyone from going brain dead.

Vets look great, all the new guys not so much.

If Carolina gets this Seth Trimble this year then they are gonna be a dangerous team. Up 14 with no R.J. and next to nothing from the freshmen. Been impressed with Elliott, Trimble, and J-Wash but the freshmen, Tyson and Lubin have a ways to go.