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Canes heavily favored tonite- saw a -275 earlier today. Speaking of odds, what's the over/under on just plain bad calls by the refs?

Know what? Because the blue line has had the only hot hands of late, I'm going with Brent Burns.

Will the Canes make yet another former teammate goalie look like an all-star?

Cap's Ethan Bear has entered the NHL Player Assistance Program. https://www.thescore.com/nhl/news/2878416/capitals-bear-enters-player-assistance-program Let's hope all is well with Ethan and wish him the best going forward- whichever direction that may be, with or without hockey. If you have the opportunity, watch his story: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26447461/

Canes have given up 14 goals in their last 4 games while the top line scoring has dried up. Blue line scoring is not going to win games.

Most marine steering and rudder systems are hydraulic. The helm (steering wheel) on newer ships is wired, but hydraulics actually move the rudder, which are typically powered by the propulsion plant. I believe the engine is an electric diesel, so I'm fairly certain the propulsion plant powered the steering rather than the generator. And there is a thing called "steerage way," the minimum speed through the water necessary to put enough pressure on the rudder to turn the ship. The Iowa, eh? I spent some time at the War College with the CMC and I was involved in the JAG investigation of the turret explosion for a short period of time. Wiki says her gross and net tonnage are 91k and 52k, with a deadweight of about 120k tons.

No power, no electricity, no hydraulics, no steam, no propulsion, nothing. They couldn't have warned anyone if they wanted. Their marine band radio should have battery backup and they may have called MAYDAY, but I haven't heard anything of that nature yet. Also, the pilot carries a handheld marine band radio.

Having spent 17 of my 20 years in the Navy at sea, let me tell you that losing power is one of those things that will send your blood cold. You lose power, you've lost everything and you're at the mercy of the water around you at that point. While watching the webcam feed replay on YouTube, the ship lost power once, got it back and attempted to maneuver, but that ship has a single engine and starting a ship's engine is not like starting a car- it takes time. It loses power a second time- you can see the lights go out again- just before impact with the concrete piling. And don't underestimate the size of that ship, it is enormous at nearly 980' and over 90,000 tons loaded.

We've had a pure bred black lab, Frankie, who we had from 6 weeks to 14 years. No kids involved, but she got wilderness trail time every day to the tune of 3-4 miles. She also had free use of our in-ground pool during the season and she was nowhere close to being hyper. I think it was because she got all the exercise she wanted and also had the calmness of 2 adults as her family. We have 2 now who are mixed, but have lab in them and neither of them were that destructive at a young age. But, again, no kids around and they both get the same trail exercise Mon-Fri and the local dog park on Sat & Sun where they have a usual crew of 8-10 regulars they run and play with for 3-4 hours. Bottom line- make sure they get the exercise they need and their demeanor is a direct reflection of their owner(s) and family.

Well, there are 25 guys on an active MLB roster....

Keep in mind it was the #3 D pair, who are a #2 pair anywhere else in the league, who scored that goal and it was pretty much Orlov himself who scored it, without a lot of help from the forwards. Your point is taken, though. Time for the playoff teams to start gearing up and it looks like Carolina is encountering those who want to challenge them to even gain entry to the zone- that's not even a given anymore.

RBA needs to find 2 new line combinations because 2 & 4 are useless at this point. Re: Svech. The go ahead goal came off him being tripped with no call. Tripp said it best last night that Svech will not get a call or benefit of doubt as long as he let's his emotions get in the way of playing smart hockey.

The mark of a top tier team is winning the games you're supposed to win. Beat the teams who are not as good as you.

Gotta take a blue-liner.... nobody else is scoring right now.

Canes not playing poorly, but this doesn't look good. This is what playing every other day with 3 b-2-b's in a month will do to even the best conditioned teams.

Another scoring drought from the forwards. Pittsburgh is old and slow, yet here we are.

Orlov with the bullet. No winners tonite.

BREAKING: Refs are bad yet again.

Standings remain as they were. Going with Necas tonight, although I suspect the top line will be working to get Guentzel involved against his former team.

Martin is the permanent backup. Whomever starts gets a healthy scratch the next game and Martin is on the bench. RBA has already stated that's how the rotation is going to work.

You could put Svech in a limo with half a dozen ladies and a gold card and he probably couldn't get laid right now.

That's not a trip. Nylander was losing the edge. 2 bad calls putting Burns in the box tonite.

Gonna take an ENG to put this away.

Canes have played a lot of hockey this month and, this late in the season, it's beginning to show.

Kuz was out on the last PP. Is he on the 2nd unit now?