Machinehead
GoAwayTrouba
This week in Kermit sipping tea: Bolts fans have grown quite an ego for a team that hasn't won anything.
Around the NHL - Part II
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LeetchisGod
This is a bad hockey team.
The Panthers are really bad for a team with a decent amount of talent. Perhaps firing Gallant was a bad idea.
Definitely. Sick of hearing for years now how teams like the Canes and Panthers are gonna turn it around.
FoxysExpensiveNYDigs
Boo Nieves Truther
LeetchisGod
This is a bad hockey team.
It really seems like the Canes have had an anemic offense for years. Imagine how bad it would be if they hadn't stolen Aho.
Machinehead
GoAwayTrouba
I'll be sitting here doing something else and randomly start thinking about LA in 2014.
As long as I live, I'll never come to terms with that.
As long as I live, I'll never come to terms with that.
Machinehead
GoAwayTrouba
We had two games flat out stolen from us by the refs. But listening to the main boards you'd think they played an ECHL team. The mainboards think the Rangers suck because their brains don't work beyond seeing big names.
I blame San Jose.
LeetchisGod
This is a bad hockey team.
I hear you. I will always believe that series along with 2004 Yankees-Red Sox took years off my life.
Great minds think alike pal. In all seriousness, besides that we would have even got an original 6 final which is something I would have loved to see involving the Rangers.
They are a very close 2nd for me. I hate that damn team since Thornton like Heisted Jagr's MVP in 06 from him. Art Ross too. Plus his comments about us being the softest team in the league during the Torts years. Torts had a beautiful retort for that remark.
GlasgowNewYorkRanger
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I'm sure for the greater good it's better for us if they win...but, screw it, let's pick up an additional couple of 1st rounders and I hope they never sniff a Cup.
GeorgeKaplan
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Lion Hound
@JoeTucc26
Really thought this was the season they would trunr it up a notch. Losing Trocheck hurts, but they need to find ways to win which they aren't doing.
Edge
Kris King's Ghost
I see a team with a number of very good individual parts --- players who can post good numbers and catch your eye.
What I don't see is a cohesive team, or guys who can put a team on their back and carry them, or will the team to win.
The Panthers are a team with the same fatal flaw that many teams have had over the years, they're built around individual skill and not necessarily built like a machine.
The former wins all-star games and exhibitions. The latter wins in the playoffs.
PlamsUnlimited
Big Church Bells
I remember you had to call me to make sure I didn't go and burn everything down. I think about it every day of my life.
Lion Hound
@JoeTucc26
They certainly don't play as a cohesive unit. Definatly skill there, and its spread out in their lineup. Their top 6 is legit. Looks like there is depth throughout the forward lines actually. Baybe Barkov wasn't the right choice for the C. Maybe Huberdeau should wear it? ...But they just find ways to underachieve.
East Coast Bias
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A good coach to organization them and get them playing a cohesive styel could go a long way. Maybe a guy like Gerard Gallant. Oh...
Edge
Kris King's Ghost
Yeah, that's definitely in the "root problems" category as well.
One of the other challenges the Panthers have is there ability to generate depth.
Since 2012, they've had only one player taken after the first round skate in more than 100 NHL games --- and that guy is a bottom six forward for them. In theory, that number should increase to two this season, but that's not exactly a track record to brag about.
They're also not a team that's been terribly active in filling in their holes via trades and free agency, so the holes persist between pockets of really good skill.
KirkAlbuquerque
#WeNeverGetAGoodCoach
Brooklyn Rangers Fan
Change is good.
I had a horrible nightmare where out of somewhere the Devils drafted Hughes only two years out of lucking into Hischier.
devils down 3-0 already haha. Didn't they just tank/luck into Nico two years ago? jeez. There Roster is in much worse shape compared to ours IMO.
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