4/5 Game Nite in Buffalo

[MillionDollarCam]

Call up the kid, it’s almost playoff time so Freddie will MIA.

[MillionDollarCam]

Just now, Stumpy said:

Oh it's happenin cappenin!

Happening Kapanen

[Harbingers]

56 minutes ago, Stumpy said:

wtf fug is Freddie's deal man?

best goalie in the league for a good portion of the season to straight ass for the last few weeks? and no real injuries that we know of to explain it...

maybe he's just coming back down to earth from career best numbers to the same player he always was.

#PYOTR2022

I think he’s just tired and treating this as practice. 

[Anybodyhome]

I'm out guys. Rangers are 2 points out and will win the division.

[USDepartmentOfSavagery]

BUf trolling w/ sweet Caroline right now Lmao 

[USDepartmentOfSavagery]

Weak first round exit incoming 

[Stumpy]

love seeing Aho get in on so many scrums this year! That is spreading...

[Snake]

We really need to clean this mess up.

[cookinbrak]

Don't understand what up with Freddie. It's not like he was boxed out on deflections, he's getting beat badly on straight weak shots.

Also, why do teams keep putting the flavor of the minute goalies up and we can't score?

[bigskypanthersguy]

Freddie needs to find this game and fast.

[Anybodyhome]

The Canes picked the worst time of the season to get streaky. Going into the final month of the season with 14 games on the schedule, 7 home and 7 away, they could and should have every expectation of getting 18-20 points out of a possible 28.

Good teams win the games they're supposed to win, and losing to Buffalo following a very mundane effort against Minnesota is not how a good team operates.

Where were the two top lines last night? All we saw or heard from was the Staal line and some of the Martinook line. Anderson was playing his position like he was wearing concrete skates. None of the first 3 goals were screened, deflected or otherwise, it was him and a shooter with nothing in between. 

I hope RBA starts Raanta tomorrow against Buffalo, again Sunday against the Ducks and then the Red Wings. Let Freddie have the Islanders and Rangers. Then I'd probably start whichever looked better in those against Colorado next Saturday.

There's little doubt they need the next 3 straight before facing the Rangers, which I hope they can at least split as they face them again in NY on the 26th.

[Snake]

3 hours ago, Anybodyhome said:

The Canes picked the worst time of the season to get streaky. Going into the final month of the season with 14 games on the schedule, 7 home and 7 away, they could and should have every expectation of getting 18-20 points out of a possible 28.

Good teams win the games they're supposed to win, and losing to Buffalo following a very mundane effort against Minnesota is not how a good team operates.

Where were the two top lines last night? All we saw or heard from was the Staal line and some of the Martinook line. Anderson was playing his position like he was wearing concrete skates. None of the first 3 goals were screened, deflected or otherwise, it was him and a shooter with nothing in between. 

I hope RBA starts Raanta tomorrow against Buffalo, again Sunday against the Ducks and then the Red Wings. Let Freddie have the Islanders and Rangers. Then I'd probably start whichever looked better in those against Colorado next Saturday.

There's little doubt they need the next 3 straight before facing the Rangers, which I hope they can at least split as they face them again in NY on the 26th.

That sounds like a tall order at the moment. For whatever reason it seems this team always fades in the final month and in the playoffs. We were lucky last year to get to the second round. This year very well may be the same if we don't change.