Jump to content
  • Welcome!

    Register and log in easily with Twitter or Google accounts!

    Or simply create a new Huddle account. 

    Members receive fewer ads , access our dark theme, and the ability to join the discussion!

     

Canes @ Sabres


Liminy

Recommended Posts

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!

Link to comment
Share on other sites

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.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

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.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Archived

This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.


  • PMH4OWPW7JD2TDGWZKTOYL2T3E.jpg

  • Topics

  • Posts

    • Yeah and I am doubtful he can offer that consistently. I don’t have many years left at my age and in my view we have wasted two and this whole exercise with him was always a three year minimum.  I am out on that with a guy I don’t believe in, and never believed in, it has sucked. To me it is a costly detour off the right track. Years.    But I am not so rigid that I can’t see excellence. He needs to display it though, consistently before I change my outlook.  
    • No, when I said rage, I meant rage, which only applies to certain fans on this board. Your timeline of trying to assess whether he is the future or not is really tied to the discussions surrounding his second contract. If this team is going to commit to some monster contract while he has shown nothing but glimpses of brilliance would be deservedly worrisome, so the clock is genuinely ticking for him to settle into something resembling his final form. Perhaps a best case scenario is that he plays well, the team succeeds, but he does so with a more limited role that makes the rest of the league view him as a game manager, and his second contract value reflects that. Then he continues to improve and becomes a bargain comparatively while not handicapping the team around him, and we enter an era of consistent championship competitiveness that the fanbase has craved for decades and has never really experienced before. But that requires many, many things to go right and for Bryce himself to facilitate that if he ends up being the quarterback of the future.
    • Exactly. And the flame throwers as well, get location benefits from not going all out. But they have it in reserve.  Not sure how much Greg had but he was an artist.  There was a YouTube I came across last year or maybe even 2023 and I don’t how to even find now but it had two NFL QBs I want say one was Carr from the Raiders but I don’t really remember  The point of it is they stood side by side throwing identical distances to identical targets. Radar gun was used.  They threw the normal effort (not all out) and it was measured etc. Then they were asked to throw their ‘fastball’. They were missing and most often they were missing high. It demonstrated the same principle.    edit: and applying that to arm strength, give me the guy that doesn’t need max effort to have good velocity. The margins are so narrow with less velocity in tne NFL the defenders can Close on it and this is a league where they value down to the 100th of a second level. It is that tight 
×
×
  • Create New...