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Canes vs Panthers ECF game 2 Saturday 8pm

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7 minutes ago, Harbingers said:

Oh, I’m all for them putting Bob back in. The dude is gassed and if we can use the the side to side we’ll have him dead to rights. Especially if we decide to go with a fresh Raanta. 

Fingers crossed! 
 

Talking of gassed, I’ll be in bed by 8.30. These late starting games suck even without the OT

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1 hour ago, Harbingers said:

Oh, I’m all for them putting Bob back in. The dude is gassed and if we can use the the side to side we’ll have him dead to rights. Especially if we decide to go with a fresh Raanta. 

Pucks up high, Bob flops down on almost every shot, and we light him up.

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1 hour ago, DavidEng said:

Pucks up high, Bob flops down on almost every shot, and we light him up.

Easy to say, hard to do. He has great control over his glove and blocker and displayed that a ton last night.

You beat Bob with cross crease passing, deflections and rebound opportunities when he's scrambling. Make the extra pass and get to the dirty areas. Only way you're gonna consistently score.

Tomorrow night is essentially for the series btw. If we can't get by them at home, we MIGHT steal one on the road but then winning the rest of the way is certainly a prayer.

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16 minutes ago, lightsout said:

Easy to say, hard to do. He has great control over his glove and blocker and displayed that a ton last night.

You beat Bob with cross crease passing, deflections and rebound opportunities when he's scrambling. Make the extra pass and get to the dirty areas. Only way you're gonna consistently score.

Tomorrow night is essentially for the series btw. If we can't get by them at home, we MIGHT steal one on the road but then winning the rest of the way is certainly a prayer.

Bob does have a good glove but he goes low too often. We kept trying to shove pucks under him when we should have gone high, the analysts noted the same thing. We barely missed several pucks hitting the bar when Bobs glove was a foot away- keep that up and we win. Of course cross crease passes are a way to beat any goalie, that’s a no brainer. Be ready for rebounds but don’t count on them to win that’s what bob was best at, preventing rebounds.  Bobs not the superstar every game and we can open him up.

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Against the Bruins Bob was lit up for 6 goals in game 4 and 5 goals in game 6, so he’s not unbreakable. He played his best against the Leafs limiting to 2 goals a game and the Panthers defense played a part in that.

 

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8 hours ago, DavidEng said:

Against the Bruins Bob was lit up for 6 goals in game 4 and 5 goals in game 6, so he’s not unbreakable. He played his best against the Leafs limiting to 2 goals a game and the Panthers defense played a part in that.

 

It is this more than anything. We could not maintain a net front presence in game 1, it’s why we didn’t have many high danger shots. This makes Bob look unbeatable, he is not. I expect Rod to make some adjustments.

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30 minutes ago, Harbingers said:

This makes me think we are going back to Freddie. Raanta going in cold would be a curious decision. 

 

I think Brindy makes that call by dinner. If Freddie is good to go and says he feels great, no issues, he's the hot hand. If there's any doubt, you go to Raanta and give him until Monday.

 

Absolutely not skating is the call though. Save the legs. I'm sure they probably met up and went over poo dry which is fine given how game 1 went.

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I am going to put it to people this way regarding Bobrovsky. I'm a goalie guy. I love good goalies. I am decently well-informed guy who came into the game as a teen and didn't touch ice with a stick until my mid twenties.

 

Bobrovsky is nothing less than elite. By the third period tonight, I'll expect for some "ok his blocker is really goddamn good" posts in here because the disrespect of Bob is just blowing my mind.

Butterfly goalies drop. By design, this opens the shelf. It's a style of play to force you to go high, where they can then focus as their pads eliminate the lower portion of the net. Much in the way a defensemen takes away the pass on odd man rushes so the goalie can focus on the shot.

It's way harder to get precise lift than to keep it low and hard. Hence why so many shots sail over the net or hit the crossbar.

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