PleaseCutStewart

I think you have literally said this about everyone tonight. Maybe if you stop watching and commenting our team will actually do well, since you are the only idiot that thinks we are actually playing well this series

Again, not surprised in the least bit. I don't care if we have 60 shots in a game when 50 of them are turd shots from the blue line... Literally any team can do that

Have to imagine guentzel leaves after this poo performance round 2... That hurts badly

Literally like 100 of them are the easiest saves a goalie will see...

I'm curious what we do this off-season. I think we need to look 2 years down the road and build around the future. This group just isn't clutch enough to win

Like I said, losing 2ot game 2 was an auto sweep for the rags

Agreed - we are a high volume shooting team, but a lot of these shots are just low percentage. Rags D + Igor do a good job of making sure there are no juicy rebounds.

We just can't score... Just depressing

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....