PantherChris

@Stumpy anther thing to keep in mind for the playoffs is rod is pretty open about the fact that he DOEST line match in the regular season at all, but he does religiously in the playoffs and as of right now until we play colorado we will have home ice advantage. One plus to scoring more is our HOME/road splits are much better this year than the past 3.

I tend to agree but at the same time i suspect the d tightens up some in the playoffs.... IE like last year were they went from hemorrhaging goals the month before to lock down in the playoffs (I dont expect it to be as dramatic this year) the biggest thing is the offense can't dry up completely.

It's because they are third in GFG at 3.48....only tampa and Colorado are higher and they aren't by mucb.

Most of the twitter and Facebook crowd are causals who don't even know what "icing" is they are the same people who were pissed we didnt give doggie Hamilton a that albatross contract the devils tried to unload. The same assclowns who tell you to "shut up and support our team! When you point out the spots that NEED upgrades. I'm as die hard as you are but I'm not gonna stress it because as soon as they did nothing I resigned myself to another ECF beat down at best.

Not concerned also not a homer, I just made peace with all of this already when they did nothing at the TDL,Didn't love the Miller trade when it happened hate it now.... hes a huge liability. Nikishin is a rookie so I cut him some slack (plus at least he offers offense to compensate) Miller outside of two games hasnt even done that 4 goals on the season Nikishin has more production in 5 less minutes of ice time per game. I'm telling you rod doesnt know what the f*ck to do when he doenst have even numbers of LHD AND RHD D.

Lol even if rod gets the axe they aren't close to a full tear down dude... like not at all. Keep in mind they refused to deal assets because of "yada yada future success"

Lay off the sauce bro

He was playing out of his mind he was bound to regress, some of it is teams figuring out his tendencies and some of it is JUST HOW BAD OUR DEFENSE HAS BEEN.

Its a good thing we arent playing our likely round one opponent.... oh wait nevermind

Lol expected atart

These are averages. Lol florida doesnt bully us the way they do without the Bennetts, Gudas, thachuk ect

Lets see if he can parley it into a Cup because we have reached the point regular season wins arent enough!

touche. LETS see how your little buddy does in the playoffs at Center....

Oh don't get me wrong all of our smurfs will drive the net, its just in the playoffs were physicality ramps up you can't make up for being outweighed by 40+ pounds and give up 5+ inches in height with "grit" and "gumption" for the playoffs I'd honestly be tempted to have Stanky back on the wing, have Janakowski man the 2c and KK the fourth line.... (Janakowski has been productive for his very limited TOI) and tbh Stankoven has 30 points in 63 games played averaging 16.5 minutes of ice time, Janakowski has 16 in 53 games averaging just a shade over 9 minutes of ice time, Stanky has spent almost 3x as much time on the ice for less than double the production, and he doesn't provide the same size

Stanky isn't a bad player but come playoff time he won't be able to be even a minor inconvenience net front. Outside of Svechnikov our top six is severely undersized

Eeehhh it was a top team who also happens to be 3-7 last 10

The canes deff play to the level of their opponents

MR SVECHNIKOV

Better pass blocker, worse run blocker.

I mean its probably the third round but yea

I mean they have been playing down to crap teams lately, got a feeling this one sees a lot of goals

He wasn't great but he wasnt bad, and ive said before our goalies facing 16 shots is actually to their detriment because there are LONG stretches were they arent involved in the game at all. Bottom line is you don't score 1 goal and blame the goalie for giving uo 2 this is like the year before last when everyone blamed freddie for 2-1 losses.... you dont win jack in the ecf scoring two goals. After thinking about last night's loss its kind of painfuly obvious the top half of the team are giving minimal effort right now, (with a 10 point metro lead and games in hand they would need to go like 2-14 in order to NOT finish first in the metro)

Ooof glad I didn't see that, although at this point its just him talking out his ass. The problem I have is so what if prices for trades were expensive? This team has been hoarding assents for a decade with a title window open most of are best players are now at their peak, we don't care about being a playoff team for anther eight years in a row, hell I'd take a cup and be cool with anther drout (wont happen) the only trade we made that we legitimately didn't get ROI was Guentzel, Yes you can argue we didnt get enough from the Necas/Raantanen debacle but Necas was never going to be a 90 point guy in rods system and neither was Raantanen. Guys top out at PPG because Rod divided the minutes up in such a way that our top line plays minutes that for anyone else are second line.... and our other 3 lines all play what would be #2 line minutes elsewhere.

Meant 5 but as bad as the canes have been in the finals they should have let us take the mercy rule.

Someone forgot how bad raanta actually is.... lmfoa