Canes @ Sabres

[Liminy]

With 4 points separating us, Buffalo, and the Rangers, this is a crucial win tonight. The Rangers face the Islanders tonight and if somehow they could lose, and we win our game tonight in Buffalo we could be in a good position to get back in the real thick of it all and get ourselves a seed. Go Canes, and for tonight, Go Islanders!

[Liminy]

Let's see how we can do on this PP.

[Liminy]

Sutter!!!!!!!

[CarolinaPanthers8789]

Here goes your convos by yourself again haha.

[lightsout]

I'm content with that first period. Not overly excited, but it was a pretty good one. Our PP problems, at least in the first 2 we had so far, is that we don't seem to HAVE any plays. Its just free-wheeling, which is fine even strength. But with a man-advantage, you have to have some passing plays that are designed to get guys open. On the one where Buffalo blocked like, 3 straight shots because we had NO separation, that was because we're just free-wheeling. 3 or 4 designed passes and shoot. Get guys open!

Sutter's goal was exactly what we needed morale-wise. We have been getting to the net most of the night. For something to finally come from it is huge. Miller is hot tonight, so we have to keep getting shots on him.

22 shots on Cam in 1 period...not good. 3 of those shots came on bad line changes. That is coaching. Mo needs to know better. I'd rather us turn it over on a dump into the offensive zone than let them skate it in easily on a line change from the neutral zone. The rest is a combination of our backside defenders just STANDING there and Buffalo being really aggressive in the zone.

We need to ratchet it down a bit defensively and keep being aggressive offensively. Staal, Skinner, and Sutter are all looking like gold right now. Ruutu is hustling his ass off as well.

[lightsout]

Buffalo still really aggressive. Defense is tighter. I like it.

And Dwyer almost sneaked that one in off the defender. Would have been amazing. And DAMMIT we cannot win offensive zone faceoffs.

[lightsout]

Hahahahaha. Gerbe is a little punk ass. Diving and really instigating if you think about it. Don't fug with Joni.

[Goosfraba21]

Hell yeah !! Shutout for Wardo!

[boney]

:hurray: :hurray:

[lightsout]

Good win. A lesser goalie and we end up with 3 goals I think. Miller was on tonight, we just kept plugging away. Ward stood on his head a couple times and made some good saves (and a lot of saves). We need to do exactly what we did tonight...except being shitty on the PP. God we are awful.

[TarPanther9180]

I only got to see the last 10 minutes of the game, but I'm glad we won there. It was a much NEEDED win. Great job by Cam with the shutout and 40 saves! Defense seemed to play well too.