GDT: Zykov vs McDavid

[Breakdowns]

Chicago is winning, good news for us

 

[Surrounded By Ahos]

So who's gonna start the bandwagon draft thread, I'm ready to follow a new team.

I'm in "**** that" territory when it comes to that even. Nashville and Vegas are the only two teams I want to see do well from here out... aside from the teams that are behind us in the standings.

Pretty much this. I can’t even be assed to care about the playoffs at this point. I guess I’ll bandwagon Vegas, but I just don’t have it in me to actively cheer for anybody at this point.

 

[Blueline Bomber]

Got to find ways to entertain yourself in game like tonight.

 

[Dishface]

I'm in "**** that" territory when it comes to that even. Nashville and Vegas are the only two teams I want to see do well from here out... aside from the teams that are behind us in the standings.

I'm rooting for vegas anyways, they have shown you can be successful with a great coach and system instead the usual tank for high picks mentality everyone else has.

 

[AD Skinner]

I may be misremembering but I feel like the first 15-20 games or so it wasn't so obviously in his head. That game against NY where peters never pulled him when he obviously needed it (and then the one against Toronto like a few days later) I think destroyed his confidence. He was always a flailer but was managing to keep it to 3 ish goals against. After that he was broken

 

[Svechhammer]

I'm in "**** that" territory when it comes to that even. Nashville and Vegas are the only two teams I want to see do well from here out... aside from the teams that are behind us in the standings.

I'm firmly into that territory when it comes to the team going forward. Even with Dundon, this team has to prove its worth the investment anymore. This whole season is such a massive cluster it's hard to have any faith whatsoever.

 

[My Special Purpose]

I kind of feel bad for the guy....

I really don't, **** him

It’s his job and he’s awful at it, making $4 million this year to boot. I don’t feel bad for him one bit

He does seem like a great guy that, for whatever reason, just has been unable to find his game in Carolina.

We should suspend him if he's not seeing a sports psychologist and an optometrist on a weekly basis.

I feel bad for Darling in the sense that you hate to watch anyone perform at such a low level in their chosen profession, night in and night out. However, Darling gets paid $4m per year for the next three years. As long as he's smart with it, he will be set for life. So in that sense, I don't feel bad for him, because he's getting his paper and ****ing up our team.

This isn't on Darling. It's obvious to everyone that Darling just doesn't have it. But for some reason, the team did *absolutely nothing* to attempt to fix whatever is going on and just continued to throw him out there. There was no attempt to send him down. No attempt to scratch him. No attempt to even start Ward for a few weeks and have Darling watch from the bench. They just kept playing him, as if there was nothing wrong.

You just can't bury your head in the sand and make believe everything is OK and keep running the guy out there.

Darling showed he was in over his head very early in the season. By January, he still didn't have anything figured out. Blaming him for playing the same way in March is silly. We *knew* this. It's on the team for continuing to use him.

 

[Breakdowns]

Hard to see Aho this disappointed when he played well, but we have to lose for greater cause

 

[Blueline Bomber]

He was iffy even early in the season. Obviously not on a 5-7 goal level, but he was allowing goals he shouldn't be on a consistent basis. Think he only won 8 of his first 20 something games.

 

[Big Daddy Cane]

If I'm Darling, I at least take solace in that I'm in the Finger/Clarkson-tier of UFAs signings gone immediately wrong and not in the Avery/Ribeiro-tier.

 

[Drivebytrucker]

Scott Darling made me turn off the game and watch "Breakfast at Tiffany's" with my wife.

 

[The Faulker 27]

Scott Darling made me turn off the game and watch "Breakfast at Tiffany's" with my wife.

 

[AD Skinner]

I said, "I think I remember the film"

 

[Drivebytrucker]

I may be misremembering but I feel like the first 15-20 games or so it wasn't so obviously in his head. That game against NY where peters never pulled him when he obviously needed it (and then the one against Toronto like a few days later) I think destroyed his confidence. He was always a flailer but was managing to keep it to 3 ish goals against. After that he was broken

Let's be honest here.... Any luck this guy had at the NHL level was just a horse shoe up his ass.

He doesn't have the athletic ability, style, or the mental composition to be a successful goalie long term in the NHL


Prove me wrong Scott Darling....

Prove me wrong.....

 

[The Faulker 27]

Prove me wrong Scott Darling....

Prove me wrong.....

Let's not and say he did.

 

[Blueline Bomber]

I wouldn't be surprised if he goes elsewhere and finds success. I also wouldn't be surprised if he completely drops out of the league.

 

[HisIceness]

I'll set the building on fire.

I said, "I think I remember the film"

And as I recall we both kinda liked it.

 

[Novacane]

I will predict he’s gonna sign a league minimum contract on some other metro team and THEN prove us wrong

 

[AD Skinner]

I will predict he’s gonna sign a league minimum contract on some other metro team and THEN prove us wrong

That way he'd only be the reason the canes lost 4-5 games a season instead of the dozen or more from this year

 

[geehaad]

“We need to lose for a better draft position!”

[team actually loses]

“f*** this team!”

 

[Breakdowns]

“We need to lose for a better draft position!”

[team actually loses]

“**** this team!”

Nah, just f*** Darling and his incompetence, losing is all good right now in my book!

 

[Hulkacaniac]

Got to find ways to entertain yourself in game like tonight.

Those poor guys..

one of them bought a darling jersey

 

[Novacane]

Lol, they’re not even pretending to care at this point

 

[robbieberns]

Aho and TT on the scoresheet, lose in regulation. Repeat for 9 more games.

Get the Finns to 65 points, Sea Bass at 30 goals, Turbo at 40 assists. This is all I care about now.

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

This team and the coach pretty much mailed it in from the beginning. As soon as Darling let in a few goals, the coach left him in signalling to the rest of the team that this game was a throw-away. Hard to complain about the "compete level", when it's clear that the coach is throwing in the towel as well. Not a big deal though.