Harbingers

Oh man. Real playoff hockey here we come.

This one deserves its own thread. Full Arena?!?!

"Wasn't feeling that good" was the exact quote on pesce. Full Arena o_O?

Well alrighty than.

I like.

Friday practice update:

Missed this one yesterday

Canes practice again today at 11. I’m thinking they probably practice today and get the weekend off before a morning skate on Monday. Hopefully Fast was just a stinger and will be back out there today but nobody asked Rod about it during the coaches interview portion yesterday.

On the Tampa front: https://www.nhl.com/news/nikita-kucherov-steven-stamkos-status-updates/c-324669528?tid=277548856 "Nikita Kucherov and Steven Stamkos practiced with the Tampa Bay Lightning on Thursday and are expected to play in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup First Round at the Florida Panthers on Sunday (7:30 p.m. ET; NBCSN, SN, TVAS, NHL.TV)."

On the preds front

Balls.

Finally. Not big on the 8PM home game starts though.

Looks like no Slavin or Paquette. Slavin is concerning but hopefully we are just being extra cautious.

High road is a good thing but not acknowledging practices could be better is concerning. When you think about it, it was not just teddy who sucked at the two minute drill. In fact it started quite nicely and dropped off as the season went on, that tells me teddy is most likely right in this instance.

Zing. Seriously though there has to be something going on behind the scenes with NBC and the NHL thats holding the whole thing up.

General updates from Rod.

Twitter is all over not having the schedule released despite most tickets going on sale today. They are really fugging the fans over NBC on this one.

No worries, it’s still more information on the subject than we have gotten recently.

Here we are. A Carolina team in the playoffs(Come on Hornets you can do it too!) There is a lot to be told this year with big contracts on the line, Shitty performances the past three games and injury question marks. What we know so far is the East will hold the first playoff game on Saturday so I would not be surprised if it’s a Sunday start for us. Hopefully Rod gets the boys in shape for a playoff push. I feel like this year is going to get stupid physical through most of the rounds. On our front as is tradition I’ll probably start game threads in the main forum but use this or subsequent game threads here for the hockey homers. Go Canes!