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Keller is a beast. I like his game.

I went back thru the trade tracker and just listed the deals that Carolina could have been involved in and also improved their move towards the playoffs. Jan 30: Islanders get Bo Horvat and send Anthony Beauviller to Vancouver. Both forwards in this deal would have been good for Carolina. Feb 9: Rangers land Tarasenko and Mikkola; again, both of these guys would have fit in Carolina. Feb 17: St. Louis sends Ryan O'Reilly to Toronto. Another guy Carolina fans were looking at. Feb 19: Rangers get F Tyler Motte... (crickets chirping in Raleigh......) Feb 23: Boston lands D Orlov, F Hathaway from Washington Feb 25: Winnipeg gets Nino Niederreiter (crickets still chirping in Raleigh....) Feb 26: Among a lot of deals that day, Vegas gets F Barbashev; NJ Devils get Timo Meier among a stack of other players Feb 28: Islanders add F Engvall from Toronto; Rangers get Patrick Kane; Wild add Marcus Johansson. And in the blockbuster deal of the day, Carolina lands F Jesse Puljujarvi! Mar 1: Colorado lands Lars Eller; Chychrun ends up in Arizona; Ghost is now a Hurricane...... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "We're going to be aggressive...." What's next, someone gonna run with scissors? Food fight in the PNC staff cafeteria? Stay out after the street lights come on? Every team in the Metro who wants the Cup has made moves to improve their chances, except Carolina.

And kick his ass.....

Just watched the replay of the game before heading to the airport... Anderson was pedestrian, at best, and RBA has not figured out that his D is pinching too deep and opposing teams are just sending someone up the ice getting the open break.

The Canes will not win the Metro, and will likely drop out of 1st place by Monday. I don't know if the Rangers can get to second place even if Carolina plays slightly better than .500. Regardless, both NJ & NY are now much improved, on paper at least, while the Canes arrogant leadership thinks no improvement is needed. "We're going to be aggressive" is looking more like a flat out lie that will not go unnoticed by fans.

I still say Raanta might attract some interest, but too close to the deadline now. And I mentioned Ghost several weeks ago as a blue liner Carolina might look at. Still need a scorer.

Coghlan will likely be headed back to Cleveland, and I think he's waiver eligible? Guessing.

Where does he fit on the PP? Him and Burns together?

What's happening with the Yotes?

In other news, Larkin got 8 years at $69.6 (bargain). What is that, about $8.6 AAV?

Aruba is nice right now.

Thought there a lot more than just one....

He stands the entire game. I can't imagine having to sit in any of the seats 2-3 rows behind him and you can't see a thing.

At this point, you might want to keep imagining. I'm extremely disappointed right now. Waddell could pull something out of his a$$, but I don't see the Canes improving where they need it. Translated: first round squeaker, second round exit.

I'm glad the Canes didn't make that move. Jarvis will be here for a while; Meier, not so much.

I'm a couple thousand miles away enjoying my vacation and this is what I get? I see Waddell at almost every home game. If this is all he's got, I may have to voice my very strong opinion next time I see him.

Isn't there a pretty good blue liner in AZ we could also use?

The one and only detail being reported is there is no extension as part of the deal.

Who's left that will translate to immediate results in the last 8 weeks of the season and carry over to the playoffs? Unless there is some team out there who hasn't shown their hand yet, I'd be very surprised if there's a trade out there that makes an overnight difference in the manner of Boston, NY and our other division rivals.

There's not much gray area here. Either the Canes get themselves better for a playoff run or they fug this up and everyone else in contention gets better and the Canes don't.

Where is former San Jose Shark Brent Burns in all of this? Are we gonna here that he never made a call to Meier?

When you cannot win games you're supposed to, you do not deserve Cup attention. First round okay, followed by a second round loss. Seen it too many times now.

Nice win based on the stats I read. Another game giving up an inordinate number of shots is not good. I'd like to see how that's happening, because the D has been fairly consistent except in that regard. Too many clean entries? Too many SOGs on the PP? How are these teams putting so many shots on net?

Posting from Aruba, guys.... before heading over to the beach, looks like Freddie is in net again tonite. Anyone but me think Raanta might be the silver bullet for a trade deal to get done? He's a UFA and Kochetkov is waiting in the wings... Having to sign both Raanta and Freddie after the season is not a good place to be in from a GM perspective. Both are going to demand big money for the seasons they've had.

After the 2nd, St. Louis had 23 shot attempts and 20 of those were SOG. Conversely, the Canes had 46 shot attempts and 30 on goal thru the second.