Svechhammer
THIS is hockey?
- Jun 8, 2017
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- 88,041
Welp, a year that started with a few question marks finished with a lot of answers.
Won the Metropolitan Division and finished with the highest win total and points total in franchise history, surpassing the marks set by the 2005-06 campaign. Freddie Andersen and Antti Raanta combined for the fewest goals against in the league, earning the franchise their first Jennings Trophy. And, interestingly enough, they become the first goaltending pair to win the Jennings in their first year with a team.
As for the players, Svechnikov appears to have broken out this year. Finished with 69 points, but became a physical offensive playmaking force over the second half of the year, capable of single handedly taking a game over. Jarvis, after forcing the team to keep him in the NHL after a solid preseason finished with 40 points over 68 games in his rookie year. Massive numbers for the kid, and he's quickly establishing himself as one of the best pure scorers within the organization. And despite having a little bit of a slump toward the end, Sebastian Aho still managed to finish the year with an impressive 81 points. And to highlight just how deep this roster goes, we had 5 players (Aho, Svechnikov, Teravainen, Trocheck, and DeAngelo) score 50 points and another 4 (Neiderriter, Slavin, Jarvis, and Necas) score 40, with Skjei just missing out with 39.
In net, what can you say that the Jennings Trophy doesn't already tell you. Lowest Goals Against in the league over 82 games, and just missed out on being the first franchise to allow fewer than 200 goals over the course of a season. (and lets be honest, without a desperate stretch where covid forced us to move Lafontaine straight from the NCAA to NHL, giving up 9 goals in 2 starts, we would have done so.) With this said, even with the stellar play of Freddie and Raanta, its fitting that a team as young as the Canes solidified the Metro title on the back of a goalie phenom, Pyotr Kochetkov, the goalie of what appears to be the very near future playing like he wants to be the goalie of the here and now.
As for some off the ice issues, lets first start with Tripper. Unfortunate ending to an otherwise great season, I know I speak for everyone when I say we just wish him the best and for him to do whatever it takes to get past what he's dealing with now and we can't wait to see him back next year. Dig In and get well, bud. Moving on, we finally got confirmation, and the Stadium Series is set for February 18th, 2023 against the Washington Capitals. Should be an excellent event for the Raleigh market and I cannot wait to see what the team has in store. Possibly related to that, the team also experimented with the uniform set by wearing black pants and gloves both home and away about a month ago, to mixed reactions. Personally, I liked it, I thought it tied the uniform set up well, especially on the home reds, which actually made the trim pattern flow very well into the pants. I actually just found this video which sums up my thoughts well. Only thing I'll say is that if we do the black with the aways, change the numbers back to black as well. Either way, apparently they were doing this for a potential Stadium Series look next year, but I have my doubts there, I wouldn't be surprised if we're changing up our look permanently in the future.
Anyway, what a great season. And not to mention, this is the first full season completion we've had since the 2018-19 playoff run. Thanks for nothing, COVID.
Won the Metropolitan Division and finished with the highest win total and points total in franchise history, surpassing the marks set by the 2005-06 campaign. Freddie Andersen and Antti Raanta combined for the fewest goals against in the league, earning the franchise their first Jennings Trophy. And, interestingly enough, they become the first goaltending pair to win the Jennings in their first year with a team.
As for the players, Svechnikov appears to have broken out this year. Finished with 69 points, but became a physical offensive playmaking force over the second half of the year, capable of single handedly taking a game over. Jarvis, after forcing the team to keep him in the NHL after a solid preseason finished with 40 points over 68 games in his rookie year. Massive numbers for the kid, and he's quickly establishing himself as one of the best pure scorers within the organization. And despite having a little bit of a slump toward the end, Sebastian Aho still managed to finish the year with an impressive 81 points. And to highlight just how deep this roster goes, we had 5 players (Aho, Svechnikov, Teravainen, Trocheck, and DeAngelo) score 50 points and another 4 (Neiderriter, Slavin, Jarvis, and Necas) score 40, with Skjei just missing out with 39.
In net, what can you say that the Jennings Trophy doesn't already tell you. Lowest Goals Against in the league over 82 games, and just missed out on being the first franchise to allow fewer than 200 goals over the course of a season. (and lets be honest, without a desperate stretch where covid forced us to move Lafontaine straight from the NCAA to NHL, giving up 9 goals in 2 starts, we would have done so.) With this said, even with the stellar play of Freddie and Raanta, its fitting that a team as young as the Canes solidified the Metro title on the back of a goalie phenom, Pyotr Kochetkov, the goalie of what appears to be the very near future playing like he wants to be the goalie of the here and now.
As for some off the ice issues, lets first start with Tripper. Unfortunate ending to an otherwise great season, I know I speak for everyone when I say we just wish him the best and for him to do whatever it takes to get past what he's dealing with now and we can't wait to see him back next year. Dig In and get well, bud. Moving on, we finally got confirmation, and the Stadium Series is set for February 18th, 2023 against the Washington Capitals. Should be an excellent event for the Raleigh market and I cannot wait to see what the team has in store. Possibly related to that, the team also experimented with the uniform set by wearing black pants and gloves both home and away about a month ago, to mixed reactions. Personally, I liked it, I thought it tied the uniform set up well, especially on the home reds, which actually made the trim pattern flow very well into the pants. I actually just found this video which sums up my thoughts well. Only thing I'll say is that if we do the black with the aways, change the numbers back to black as well. Either way, apparently they were doing this for a potential Stadium Series look next year, but I have my doubts there, I wouldn't be surprised if we're changing up our look permanently in the future.
Anyway, what a great season. And not to mention, this is the first full season completion we've had since the 2018-19 playoff run. Thanks for nothing, COVID.
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