GDT: vancar

[zman77]

Mike Maniscalco Retweeted
Carolina Hurricanes‏Verified account @NHLCanes 4h4 hours ago

.@ASvechnikov14 is the first player born in the 2000s to score two @NHL goals

 

[Roboturner913]

Good God, I've literally got t-shirts older than that guy

 

[zman77]

Section 328 Retweeted
Jeff Marek‏Verified account @JeffMarek Oct 7

If you’re sleeping on the Canes early this season you’re sleeping on
how good Warren Foegele is.

 

[zman77]

Section 328‏ @Section_328 3h3 hours ago

This team couldn't be more different from last year's club and
WE LOVE IT.

 

[Sens1Canes2]

And three All-Star caliber centers. And a competent #1 goalie.

Andersen? He’s very very average.

 

[DougieSmash]

Before the season:
"Our biggest strength is that defense, top 5 core in the league".

Now:
"Offense, offense and offense. Our D sucks".

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

Before the season:
"Our biggest strength is that defense, top 5 core in the league".

Now:
"Offense, offense and offense. Our D sucks".

Other than the Rangers game, which was like pond hockey, this team has only given up 1 ES goal in each game, and they downright clamped down in the 3rd last night.

This team needs to get it’s special teams act together.

 

[Navin R Slavin]

I'm sad that these guys don't play again until Saturday.

 

[Norman Moscow]

Exiting team! Hope to see in final against my Caps.

 

[Cardiac Jerks]

Exiting team! Hope to see in final against my Caps.

You may be disappointed if you’re hoping for a Washington vs Carolina cup final...

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

Regarding the team giving up scoring chances. I like what the team is saying about it:

Staal: “It is definitely more fun, a style that every player likes to play,” Staal said. “Everyone wants to step on the ice and feel like they can be the guy to help the team win. That’s a good feeling. I feel like everyone’s got that feeling throughout the lineup which has been great and everyone’s contributing. Obviously, there’s always breakdowns and ways to tighten up defensively, but I feel like even in our previous style there were always times of defensive lapses.”

Aho: “There’s going to be chances for the other team, but as long as we play our way, we get enough scoring chances to score goals and win games,” said Sebastian Aho.

Brindy: “It’s a fine line, right?” Brind’Amour said. “We don’t want to give up chances but you’re also creating offense because you’re giving up chances, if that makes any sense. We’ve just got to shore up the things that are costing us that we’re not getting any offense out of anyway. Like giving up stretch passes. Or special teams.”

DeCock makes a good point in his article. If you are going to have shitty goaltending, then doing what the team has done in the past, trying to play a tight defensive game, leaves no margin for error. "When you score six or eight, the impact of a bad goal, any bad goal, is inherently minimized."

The message is they don't mind giving up chances if it's because they were creating chances on their own.

 

[TheBigKahuna]

Looking at the TOI it seems that Dougie is our #5 dman.

He will be lucky to not be #7 if he doesn't improve.

 

[go comets]

Chemistry is a weird thing... You don't wanna be moving players around when things are going good.... Necas is not ready.. a season in the AHL would do wonders....

 

[The Faulker 27]

We currently have 7 players at a ppg or better.

 

[Borsig]

We REALLY need to solve this goaltending problem.

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

I'd contend that we haven't had a goaltending problem yet this year.

 

[DaveG]

Counterpoint: we need to fix our special teams problem.

 

[GoldiFox]

We REALLY need to solve this goaltending problem.

The only group letting in ES Goals is the 4th line (the real 4th line with McGinn, Necas and PDG). Twice in a row now the Canes two goalies have let in early goals and clamped down the lead to hold on and win the game.

Canes goalies aren’t stealing games but they aren’t actively causing any issues and have played well enough to win. Which is more than the Canes have gotten in the past.

 

[HisIceness]

Positive from last night. Brandon Sutter did not end up on the score sheet. That has to be a first since the trade.

 

[Lempo]

Counterpoint: we need to fix our special teams problem.

We got 99 problems but Svech ain't one.

 

[GoldiFox]

The FSW line is playing just about as well as the Marchand-Bergeron-Pastrnak line that dominated all of last year. Foegele is already getting some hype but it will grow if he keeps hounding the puck like he has been. The guy is a demon, just having Foegele on the ice add +1 to forwards. A PK becomes 5v5. Even Strength is now a PP. The Canes won't even use him on the PP because the league would finally figure it all out and possibly permaban him.

Rod was subbing in McGinn on the Wallmark-Martinook line at the end of the game, I guess to get him some minutes (as the 4th line was benched) and add some defensive acumen over Svechnikov. That said, Svechnikov is currently 100% GF (4 GF and 0 GA). Surely at some point the other team will score while Svechnikov is on the ice.

Martinook is now 87% GF (6GF and 1 GA) with 3 points all 5v5.

 

[MinJaBen]

Counterpoint: we need to fix our special teams problem.

Counter-counterpoint: we need to fix our taking stupid penalties problem.

 

[tarheelhockey]

Regarding the defense, I feel like this is a symptom of leaving them on an island much more often than we did before. When I watch Slavin and de Haan, to a lesser extent Pesce, I see guys consistently making grade-A defensive plays against difficult situations. They’re brilliant defenders. But they’re facing down insta-transition, no-back-pressure type situations where the opponent can pick his spot with time and space to spare. That’s really, really tough on a defender. Likewise in our zone when the forwards are charging the puck constantly, you’re going to have the inevitable backdoor cuts which put the defensemen in a very tough situation trying to choose which risk to take.

Faulk and Hamilton haven’t been bad defensively either, not really, but those are two guys who are going to get abused occasionally if they’re constantly facing those situations. If they could defend like a Slavin or CDH while also bringing their level of offense, they’d be $8 million guys. They’re just not that, so as long as we play this swarming aggressive style we’re going to have to be OK with those two not looking so great in their own end.

TVR’s the only one who’s really struggled, and that’s a blip on the radar this early in the season. He’s not the most agile defenseman to begin with, so this might be something that forces him to grow with the team. Or it might help us make the decision about that logjam.

 

[Tryamw]

Counter-counterpoint: we need to fix our taking stupid penalties problem.

Slash those problems away? (Oh wait that's what we have been doing.) Staple PDG to the Press box?

 

[Roboturner913]

I've never understood the apparent preference league-wide for winning a game 3-1 as opposed to winning a game 8-6. It's a style difference., nothing more - and I suspect, a little bit of an ego thing for most coaches who need to "control" the flow of the game via their "system".

If we can continue to outwork the other team and create more good scoring chances that plays in our favor. Especially with guys like Slavin/Pesce/De Haan that specialize in negating high quality scoring chances.

Considering we have a weakness at goalie that we can't really do much about, the best way to protect that weakness is to score as many goals as possible. This seems like simple enough logic.

Or you could sit around ranting about how somebody needs to make a ****in' save