PleaseCutStewart

I literally have no idea who you are, but when we stop hitting shots in Goalie's chests then I will. And actually having an open lane and a net front presence will help with the deflections. We have rarely had both happen at the same time on shot attempts

Fast being hurt definitely hurts the strength of our top D forward line. Jarvis-Aho-Guentzel Necas-Drury-Svech Marty-Staal-Fast TT-Kuzy-Noesen The only problem is figuring the odd man out between Necas, Svech, and TT for the 2nd line (unless we wanted to go Necas at C and move Drury to the 4th line). I like the way Necas has looked in the series more than TT so I will go Necas on line 2.

Hopefully we can stop hitting shots into Igor's chest tonight...

I feel like we are caught between a rock and a hard place. I think rod is a good coach and awesome motivator, but definitely is not a good in-game coach and gets exposed by other good coaches that know how to counter our system. But ... Do we really think any other talented coach wants to coach in Carolina? I highly doubt it. If we fire rod and try to get a new coach, I feel pretty confident in saying we will find ourselves back into being an irrelevant team

Amen... This loss is a crusher also. We saw how the long OT loss killed us last year and sadly I expect the same thing to happen again

Very accurate comparison. We just aren't clutch

I will say - I love rod and his system and we would be dumb to let him go. That being said, he just doesn't make good adjustments in gane

Just look at the Florida series last year to see how this goes

Nah, we're lucky if we push it to 5

I hope Rod tears an asshole into these refs post game

That's the series

I'm trying

He's trying to jinx us

Is it bad I don't remember when Kotkaniemi got a playoff OT goal...

Is it though? We really need this win

This also feels like the Florida game 1 last year. Win and I think we take the series. Lose and we can very easily get swept

Gotta give Freddie credit - I hated on him up to his 3rd goal and he has bailed us out on some terrible defensive lapses since then The real question is can we beat Igor....

These refs deserve death threats

I dunno, the only one I would really question was the last one. Rest were pretty textbook imo Now... The crap nyr is getting away with is another story

If somehow we win, I'll say staal

Fair enough - won't deny that. Still doesn't excuse our undisciplined, unnecessary penalties in the 3rd against a team that we can beat 5v5

We can complain about the refs, but we really took some stupid penalties in the 3rd... Just completely unnecessary penalties

Hopefully. I've just seen this too many times in my life from us and we usually crack soon when we are getting outplayed this bad for a long stretch

Rangers got all of the momentum... Don't see us winning this game

We are going to need probably 2 more to win. Freddie can't stop a beachball