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Saw someone state that it’s a major red flag that he can’t take draws, indicates a bad shoulder injury because he can’t power the puck back.

As bad as it’s been, this ain’t got nothing on some of the Bill Peters struggles that we endured.

This looks like a typical Canes game, close but not cigar.

I saw recently that we’ve drawn the most penalties but also committed the most penalties (this stat may no longer be true as it was of a few days ago). Problem is that we have the fourth worst PK in the league.

Personal opinion but I think the group read the news paper clippings. We were off-season champs, preseason champs, and paper champs. Once the team realizes that they still have to play the games and then starts to gel, they should be alright. I liken it to the Lakers last year. They knew they were good but half-assed the regular season.

Kochetkov is still only 24 and effort doesn’t lead to goals, skill does. And the effort was horrible on the second goal against. Watch the replay, Barre-Boulet was wide open in front of Kochetkov but PK forced him wide and Barre-Boulet threw a puck back up to the blue line. Instead of one of the defensemen picking up Barre-Boulet, he was left all alone in front of PK and had an easy tap in on the pass from Raddysh.

If we are going to go back and nit pick every game then we might as well just say our entire team is garbage. Everyone is entitled to a bad game, it doesn’t necessarily mean that they need corrective eye surgery though lol. Neither Andersen or Raanta are saving the goals that were scored tonight. So saying we need so and so in net is pointless.

Both goals tonight were deflections is what I’m saying. He had no shot on either.

Well to be fair both of them were deflections.

Let’s go back to losing games 7-4. I want to see some goals.

One more goal against and I’ll be trashed.

I don’t even know how you right this ship. On paper the team got better. In reality we look worse than we ever have under Rod.

Kochetkov looks good, the rest of the team doesn’t look like they are buying in though. I’m hoping it’s just an early season hiccup rather than the team not buying into the way Rod wants to play anymore. I get it to a point because come playoff time we always come up short but during the regular season the system is pretty much flawless.

Teravainen staying at center, Aho will be on his wing. The last time Aho played wing was in 2020 when… Erik Haula was the center.

Yeah agreed. Don’t think you can split Noesen and KK up right now, they’ve been dynamite.

Great, the team is dead, they’ve all been killed.

Bunting was brought in to be the physical presence on the Aho line though. We wanted that to be Marchment and then went after Bunting a year later. Bunting might do fine next to Drury but come playoff time it would be beneficial to have the extra grit next to Aho. Also, Noesen hasn’t been playing with Teravainen, that’s been Bunting. Noesen has been doing really well next to KK though which is why I think he’s going to stay there for right now. But with Aho back that means Teravainen is back to the wing which pushes one of Bunting or Teravainen down. For right now it appears Bunting will be on the fourth line. However, if the ‘fourth line’ becomes Bunting - Aho - Svechnikov then you’ll see the ice time spread out equally with out a true numbering system in my opinion.

Bunting on the 4th line is interesting but with the way Teravainen and Noesen have been playing, I can see the reasoning. Maybe when healthy we can spread the wealth: Teravainen - Aho - Necas Noesen - Kotkaniemi - Jarvis Bunting - Drury - Svechnikov Martinook - Staal - Fast Lemieux

Raanta always has something wrong with him. He got ran over in the game against the Kraken and I swear he came up with some sort of injury, he just didn’t look right.

Think it has more to do with Burke being reassigned. Svech and Pesce aren’t playing and if Aho can’t go then we’d be going 11-6 (that’s only 17 players); calling up Coghlan allows us to go 11-7 (a full 18 players). I’m more than fine going 11-7 tonight with Coghlan in and then getting Aho, Svechnikov, Pesce, and Andersen back on Thursday.

This is the only correct answer and you can tell what stage people are at in their life by their response to the thread. A ton of Panthers, Hornets, and Hurricanes players never leave North Carolina after they retire because they realize that it’s a great state to raise a family in. As you said, a 22 year old single athlete who wants to go out all the time probably isn’t going to love Charlotte or Raleigh but the 35+ year old retired athletes probably won’t ever leave.

6-5 win incoming because we learned how to score but forgot how to defend.

Julio Jones is the ultimate groupie. Show up, do the bare minimum, get paid, reap all the benefits. Good for him.

McCollum looked like he was throwing the game last night, that’s how bad it was. J.J. Jones had some drops as well. And then the one catch I believe McCollum did make for a TD (it might have been Jones, my brain is foggy), Morales was in the backfield tackling his assignment negating the play. Meanwhile Andre Greene and Gavin Blackwell are cozied up on the sideline waiting for an opportunity. Not sure what the point of having 100 kids on a college team is if you don’t use them when you need them.

To be fair, Purdy is not old and he didn’t have to transfer to another school to find success. He’s currently 23 years old in his second season in the NFL and turns 24 in December. Both Penix and Nix will be 24 when they are drafted. I guess you could argue that he is older in the sense that he spent four years in college but all four years were spent at Iowa State. Purdy was 22, the age that you said was too young for QB’s on the biggest stage, when he was leading the 49ers to the postseason last year. There’s also a debate as to whether Purdy is just an average QB surrounded by elite coaching (Shanahan) and talent (McCaffrey, Kittle, Samuel, and Aiyuk) or if he’s an above average QB. Unfortunately we’ll never know the answer to that unless Purdy leaves San Francisco. But back to the main premise, Penix’s and Nix’s career paths are more similar to Kenny Pickett’s than Purdy’s, and we are seeing how well the Pickett experience is going right now (sarcasm). This isn’t to say that Penix and Nix couldn’t be nice players at the NFL level but I don’t think the success of Brock Purdy really proves that they could be, their career paths aren’t really similar at all.