What's your Goaltending for next year?

[Breakdowns]

Dansk was great this year in the AHL and looked outstanding in his NHL cup of coffee. RFA this year, worth sending a pick for?

Oscar Dansk at eliteprospects.com

If we are going AHL route I would rather try to get Garret Sparks at eliteprospects.com

 

[Riverfront]

Mario Culina overage goaltender that played with the Kitchener Rangers in the ohl has been invited to the Canes development camp at the end
of June. Good pick up by the Canes, he can surprise hopefully he has a good week and gets offered a contract. Played real well in the ohl playoffs this past season.

 

[Bunch of Jurcos]

So when I looked up Mario Culina's stats I saw unfamiliar numbers .919 and .917. I know that's just juniors but I wouldn't know how to act if the Hurricanes had that right now. What does that even look like? When is the last time the Canes had numbers even close to that? I had to find the answer to that:

Cam had a .915 in the 11-12 season as the #1.
Khudobin had a .926 in 36 games played in 13-14.

No wonder I'm having trouble remembering. It's been a minute.

 

[Tryamw]

So when I looked up Mario Culina's stats I saw unfamiliar numbers .919 and .917. I know that's just juniors but I wouldn't know how to act if the Hurricanes had that right now. What does that even look like? When is the last time the Canes had numbers even close to that? I had to find the answer to that:

Cam had a .915 in the 11-12 season as the #1.
Khudobin had a .926 in 36 games played in 13-14.

No wonder I'm having trouble remembering. It's been a minute.

I think those numbers are lying no way we can have a goal tender that tends the goal and keeps the puck out!. That's just an urban legend. something that only other teams get.

 

[Svechhammer]

Mario Culina overage goaltender that played with the Kitchener Rangers in the ohl has been invited to the Canes development camp at the end
of June. Good pick up by the Canes, he can surprise hopefully he has a good week and gets offered a contract. Played real well in the ohl playoffs this past season.

His Sv% just fell by 0.035 just by being included in the same sentence as the Canes

 

[Cardiac Jerks]

What I find most interesting is that he played five Ontario university games for Ryerson (Toronto) in the middle of his ohl career. He never played more than 21 games in a season, either. Not sure how much of a prospect he is but honestly I’ve never heard of him before today.

Have any other camp invites been announced?

 

[My Special Purpose]

That's news to me. Can you point to where you saw that?

Literally took me three weeks, but I found it.

Now, as for the goaltending, upon which Brind'Amour's ultimate success is likely to depend, that remains as unresolved as ever. The Hurricanes hope a fitter, more focused Scott Darling can still be an NHL starter, and pushed hard to get him on the U.S. team for the World Championships in an attempt to boost his confidence. But after he essentially cost both his coach and general manager their jobs in his disastrous first 12 months with the team, only a credulous idiot would count on Darling at this point.

Full story: Rod Brind'Amour's mandate as Canes coach is simple: It's the culture, stupid

 

[Hulkacaniac]

Literally took me three weeks, but I found it.



Full story: Rod Brind'Amour's mandate as Canes coach is simple: It's the culture, stupid

Literally took me three weeks, but I found it.



Full story: Rod Brind'Amour's mandate as Canes coach is simple: It's the culture, stupid

Quite impressive diligence there. Now what about darling losing his **** on his team mates. I guess I can wait another 3 weeks

 

[My Special Purpose]

Quite impressive diligence there. Now what about darling losing his **** on his team mates. I guess I can wait another 3 weeks

Must.

Get.

Food.

First...

 

[tarheelhockey]

"only a credulous idiot"

 

[Stickpucker]

I don't get the Grubauer love here....what is there to suggest he is more than a good backup?

Did he shred the minors? Who is his closest comparable as far as development path?

 

[Stickpucker]

I'd rather target Samsonov from the Caps since Holtby is going nowhere after the cup.

Another backup behind the cup champs playing 30 games....doesn't look good.

Samsonov at least has staerter potential. If you're moving a high pick or someone like Faulk it can't be for a soon to be overpaid backup.

 

[WreckingCrew]

I'd rather target Samsonov from the Caps since Holtby is going nowhere after the cup.

Another backup behind the cup champs playing 30 games....doesn't look good.

Samsonov at least has staerter potential. If you're moving a high pick or someone like Faulk it can't be for a soon to be overpaid backup.

I'm not really sold on Grubs either, but I think they'd move him before Samsonov. Pretty sure their plan would be to bring him in and groom him for a few years as they transition him to NA hockey from a backup to starter role

 

[A Star is Burns]

They are very unlikely to deal Samsonov over Grubauer I would think. They're going to need every bit of cap help they can get. Several present starters in the league weren't starters until they got an opportunity on a new team well into their career.

 

[My Special Purpose]

I think we're going to be gunshy no matter who we target. We've tried a lot of things that haven't worked and there's no real reason to think the next thing we try will work out any better. Right now, we could pick apart every single goalie on the planet.

Think of it this way, which goalie would you feel 100 percent confident we're going to the playoffs with if we acquired him?

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

I read on the main board that against "good" teams, Grubauer had like a .905 SV%. Now, that make sense and probably every goalie has a better SV% against worse teams than good teams. I don't know where to find that data, but I wonder what Grubauer's SV% was against playoff and non-playoff teams and what Ward's was?

 

[Anton Dubinchuk]

I think we're going to be gunshy no matter who we target. We've tried a lot of things that haven't worked and there's no real reason to think the next thing we try will work out any better. Right now, we could pick apart every single goalie on the planet.

Think of it this way, which goalie would you feel 100 percent confident we're going to the playoffs with if we acquired him?

Quick
Holtby
Bobrovsky
Lundqvist
Vasilevsky
Crawford (if healthy)
Price

 

[MinJaBen]

So I’m out and on my phone so I can’t link to the tweet easily, but I just saw that Bobby Mac is saying that Cam is on the verge of signing a two year extension.

Welcome to the Hurricanes Jack Hughes!

 

[Novacane]

So I’m out and on my phone so I can’t link to the tweet easily, but I just saw that Bobby Mac is saying that Cam is on the verge of signing a two year extension.

Welcome to the Hurricanes Jack Hughes!

It about gave me a heart attack when I first saw it earlier today

 

[SlavinAway]

So I’m out and on my phone so I can’t link to the tweet easily, but I just saw that Bobby Mac is saying that Cam is on the verge of signing a two year extension.

Welcome to the Hurricanes Jack Hughes!

That was an old tweet from 2016.

 

[MinJaBen]

It about gave me a heart attack when I first saw it earlier today

Lol! That’s what I get for not paying attention to the details. Thanks!

 

[SlavinAway]

I wouldn’t be opposed to re-signing Cam if we plan to move, buy out, or send Darling to Charlotte. Cam looked really good in a back up role last year and didn’t drop off until we had to start riding him again. Plus from everything I hear he brings a lot of leadership to the locker room.

 

[Cardiac Jerks]

In my mind the only way Ward comes back is if Darling isn’t here either because we bought him out, traded him or sent him to Charlotte. The two of them can’t form our tandem next year. If we’re stuck with Darling we have to get someone better.

 

[A Star is Burns]

I read on the main board that against "good" teams, Grubauer had like a .905 SV%. Now, that make sense and probably every goalie has a better SV% against worse teams than good teams. I don't know where to find that data, but I wonder what Grubauer's SV% was against playoff and non-playoff teams and what Ward's was?

I know you can probably do this with any goalie, but as was mentioned, there was an 8 spot against Philly that probably skews it a bit. The Caps weren't great in front of him early as I recall either.

 

[FlyingSquirrels]

I like Ward as much as the next guy, but as long as he's hanging around, I get the feeling any goalie we bring in will fail. Just a hunch but having a franchise icon looking over your shoulder can't be easy.