Carolina Hurricanes vs.Vegas Golden Knights (Stanley Cup Final Game 1) | ESPN on ABC Tuesday, June 2 | 8:00 PM

[Panthers Fan 69]

33 minutes ago, TLGPanthersFan said:

I haven’t given up but the way we lost is not encouraging. 
Seen that too often often these last 8 years and Vegas is big and physical like the Panthers are. 

Went back to watching the highlights. With a sober mind haha. Here is what I saw. 
 

freddie needs to make 1 of those but the rest aren’t on him. 
 

Slavin was BBBBAAAD again last night. Not sure what is going on with these game one Slavin gafs. 
 

miller was ok but had his worst game in the playoffs so far. 
 

nikishin was no good. His his awful turnover led to the first goal at the end of the first period that just can’t happen.

ghost was beat like a drum multiple times last night, including the go-ahead goal at the end

jarivs wont shoot. He is either hurt or he is struggling mentally and I think it could be a combination of both. He passed up a wide open net on the power-play only to pass it to no one and cleared it himself.  
 

Svech played well. He is getting zero help on that line. 
 

aho. Worst game as a pro. I mean that. He won’t shoot it, passes go to no one and turns it over repeatedly.  He did exactly what they did against Montreal game one when Miller had a turnover. Aho left his man to go help and left the golden Knight player wide open in front of Freddie.  If I was Rod, you Tell Aho when that thing hits your stick you fire it  someone needs to sit him down just him in a room and ask what’s going on. He seems soft, timid and has zero fire.

 

canes could have won that game   There isn’t a gap between these two teams  they are dead even  

Carter Hart’s gonna get lit up in this series. We can beat that guy. the consensus last night was our defense played horrible and our stars won’t score.  clean the defense up. Tell the top line to shoot it everything and we’ll win tomorrow night.   Possibly convincingly. 
 

[PleaseCutStewart]

Only thing that worries me is that I thought the game 1 loss to Montreal was fluky because we gave up so many breakaways and looked much better after the 1st period.

I don't think our game 1 loss to Vegas was fluky - they also like to forecheck and we struggled to get it out of our D zone much of the 2nd and 3rd period. Probably the 1st time all playoffs the Stank line looked terrible - hopefully that is just a one time thing this series or we are in trouble with how much of a no show the Aho line has been.