Around the League | No lead is safe in Round 2!

[arttk]

The common denominators amongst Cup winners tend to be that they have either elite superstar players putting the team on their back or they have absolutely elite goaltending, or both.

Carolina doesn't really have any stars and they have consistently average/mediocre goaltending.

St. Louis are probably the closest thing but they had Binnington go nuclear out of nowhere.

Canes messed up hard when they decided to be cheap and not go for Miller when he was available. I am guessing they would've been much stronger if they have both Miller and Guentzel.

 

[VanillaCoke]

Carolina is winning the series if it's anyone but sheshterkin in the other goal

 

[arttk]

Carolina is winning the series if it's anyone but sheshterkin in the other goal

that's why if you want to contend, you need to add more elite players. Canes decided to f*** around and focus on penny pinching and building depth but not elite depth.

 

[MS]

Carolina is winning the series if it's anyone but sheshterkin in the other goal

But that's the thing.

You're never going to win a Cup unless you can beat an elite goalie and as soon as they run into Shesterkin/Vasilevskiy/hot Bobrovsky/Rask they score 1.5 goals/game and lose the series.

We're 4-2 against them over the last 3 years because the can't seem to solve Demko, either.

As soon as they run into a quality team with a great goalie they can't score and they're playing with a big goaltending disadvantage. And it's predictable they keep losing.

If *they* had a Shesterkin or a Demko they could probably go on a deep run playing like this. But they don't.

 

[Bleach Clean]

Carolina is winning the series if it's anyone but sheshterkin in the other goal

Funny thing is, Kotchetkov was only .002% behind Shesterkin in regular season SV% (.913 to .911) and Anderson was at .932 (though with 16 games played).

They've lost three 1 goal games. Despite the apparent shot differential, HDCs for either side are roughly the same across those three games. You could isolate that difference to Shesterkin making one more save than Kochetkov/Andersen on those HDCs, or you could say all of Trocheck + Zibanejad + Panarin + Lafreniere have been better than CAR's best forwards in Aho + Guentzel, or a combination of both. To me, it's still about a talent deficit at the top, which will be very difficult to fix.

Regardless, I expect the Computer Boys to figure it out and still be a factor in the east. That's one franchise that has gotten a lot out what they have had.

 

[Snatcher Demko]

Carolina doesn't have any game-breakers either. Or enough size/combo guys to do damage and get inside a goalie's head.

 

[stampedingviking]

Marner has a professional immaturity issue.

The fact that he compared himself to a god is really massive warning sign to anyone looking to add him to their roster.

Thats the sign of an ego that is outta control and adding him to your locker room is not gonna result in anything good to happen that's for sure.

If he had actually said that it would be true, but he didn't.

 

[Mr. Canucklehead]

Funny thing is, Kotchetkov was only .002% behind Shesterkin in regular season SV% (.913 to .911) and Anderson was at .932 (though with 16 games played).

They've lost three 1 goal games. Despite the apparent shot differential, HDCs for either side are roughly the same across those three games. You could isolate that difference to Shesterkin making one more save than Kochetkov/Andersen on those HDCs, or you could all of Trocheck + Zibanejad + Panarin + Lafreniere have been better than CAR's best forwards in Aho + Guentzel, or a combination of both. To me, it's still about a talent deficit at the top, which will be very difficult to fix.

Regardless, I expect the Computer Boys to figure it out and still be a factor in the east. That's one franchise that has gotten a lot out what they have had.

Reminds me of that painful 1995 second round loss to Chicago. Three games lost in OT, and one was a 2-0 shutout. Each game close.

 

[crazychimp]

Bennett making his presence felt right away, running over Marchand.

 

[LemonSauceD]

Carolina don’t have finishers on their team which is kind of ironic considering their system of shooting from all over the ice.

 

[calnuck]

Boston’s so lucky they played Toronto in the first round. Floridas going to cruise to the conference finals

 

[crazychimp]

Boston’s so lucky they played Toronto in the first round. Floridas going to cruise to the conference finals

Playbyplay guy just said Florida isn’t Toronto they are better defensively which is true sure but Boston can score they did win 5-1 in game 1 in this series.

 

[calnuck]

Playbyplay guy just said Florida isn’t Toronto they are better defensively which is true sure but Boston can score they did win 5-1 in game 1 in this series.

Fair but to be honest Florida was uncharacteristically awful in that first game. They’ve been taking it to them since.
Only way I see Boston winning is if away man keeps making saves like he just did, holy shit what a glove

 

[crazychimp]

Fair but to be honest Florida was uncharacteristically awful in that first game. They’ve been taking it to them since.
Only way I see Boston winning is if away man keeps making saves like he just did, holy shit what a glove

Boston had the same happen to them last game too they are better than that defensively. I can see the rest of the series being very tight the rest of the way doesn’t look like much space in this game.

Edit: Maybe spoke to soon penalty trouble for them now double minor. Shots are 23-8 Florida at this point wow.

 

[M2Beezy]

Gotta be a typo, tsn says the Boston player got 8 minutes for high sticking lol, did he cause two players to bleed??

 

[Just A Bit Outside]

Boston with 8 shots after 2 at home.

Damn.

 

[arttk]

Bennett making his presence felt right away, running over Marchand.

More please

 

[crazychimp]

Gotta be a typo, tsn says the Boston player got 8 minutes for high sticking lol, did he cause two players to bleed??

4 minutes for each nostril.

 

[calnuck]

Boston had the same happen to them last game too they are better than that defensively. I can see the rest of the series being very tight the rest of the way doesn’t look like much space in this game.

Edit: Maybe spoke to soon penalty trouble for them now double minor. Shots are 23-8 Florida at this point wow.

They’re getting destroyed. Series is far from over but I just don’t see a scenario Boston wins the series let alone another game

 

[Flik]

Wow, Boston is getting absolutely murdered tonight.

What a shame.

 

[crazychimp]

Marchand not coming back looks like. As much as I dislike him for his rat behaviour he is the heart of that team and is quite the player.

 

[Jay26]

Man, seeing other teams struggle with SOG in these playoff makes me ease up a bit on the Canucks. Clearly several teams have another gear defensively they can get to where they can absolutely stifle some of the best offenses. That includes our team. We stifled Nashville and Edmonton had what? 18 shots in game 1?

 

[SopelFanThe3rd]

Go Panthers

My second fav team

 

[Jay26]

Go Panthers

My second fav team

They're a wagon. I'll believe in my team the whole way but the objective part of me says it's the Panthers' Cup to lose.

 

[SopelFanThe3rd]

Boston has NINE shots

They're a wagon. I'll believe in my team the whole way but the objective part of me says it's the Panthers' Cup to lose.

I fell in love with them last playoffs. I always root for them though when they are in it. I used to love their 95 team.