Bama Panther

Wow. What a game. What a win!

Absent his opening goal, Ghost has been pretty bad. Misplaying tons of pucks tonight.

What an awful 3-on-1 decision by Svech.

The Canes’ defense surely sucks sometimes.

Nice response.

That looked like Game 1 defense.

Nice goal, Ghost.

I get the first goal counts, but … but for the puck deflecting off Nikishin’s skate, Freddie makes that save.

They acted like they wanted to be for a significant portion of the third period, especially on the Habs second goal

Ehlers is becoming my favorite player on this team. He seems to always be around the action and makes things happen.

LFG!!!

The miss of the high stick and only giving two minutes for the nut poke are absolutely ridiculous!

The two minutes is for a power play, Canes, not a passing performance.

Do you people really give no credence to the fact that Carolina’s went almost two weeks between games while Montreal played an intense seven game series that just ended Monday? That break was too much to be ready to go, and it showed. The Canes pressed in the first, likely from overzealousness to prove the layoff wasn’t too much. once the Canes settled into their game without pressing, the game was much tighter. Every year, posts in the Panthers forum question how little the starters play in the preseason? Why is that? Because we all know not going at game speed against an opponent can lead to a slow start when the games turn real. Even with prior ECF disappointments, I’m going to hope last night was more akin to starters not playing in the preseason.

It’s a pissy way to start the series, but the Canes were never going 16-0 to win the Cup. A loss was going to happen some time. They just need to respond in Saturday’s game.

I get it, but to say the series is over 15 minutes into it, after an 11-day layoff for the Canes, is insane.

You fuggers are insufferable. Give it time. Montreal has blown huge leads this playoffs.

WTF, Keandre????

While we all want the Canes to thrash the Habs, you all are acting like this wasn’t expected after Carolina’s way too long break. It has been the talk in leading up to this series. This first period shows what a terrible job the league did in forecasting rounds and scheduling.

Atrocious.

Ugh. That’s some terrible goalie play by Freddie there.

Let’s go, Jarvy!!!

I’m a little worried about the Canes time off. Game 1 will be 12 days since they last played. Completely idiotic for the NHL to have CAR-PHI play two games before BUF-MTL even played one. I get CAR blazed through the first round, but the League has got to do a better job of forecasting the schedule so teams don’t have almost two weeks off between games.

Blake

LFG!!!