GDT: Canes @ Devils Game 3: (3:30PM on TBS)

[MustardStew]

Ouch! Should I be glad to have missed this one? Thanks, schedulers???

 

[The Faulker 27]

Martinook has to be the most unexpected MVP for this team so far. Dude has skated his ass off every shift in every game, while laying some big hits. He's LaRose on steroids. Staal and Fast too. That's the kind of veteran leadership that wins Cups. Not that we will but we certainly aren't lacking it.

 

[Sens1Canes2]

Martinook has to be the most unexpected MVP for this team so far. Dude has skated his ass off every shift in every game, while laying some big hits. He's LaRose on steroids. Staal and Fast too. That's the kind of veteran leadership that wins Cups. Not that we will but we certainly aren't lacking it.

Fast has been a different player in the playoffs, I’m finding. So impactful.

 

[TheReelChuckFletcher]

I'm not worried about what happened this afternoon. New Jersey was a hugely desperate and vengeful team that needed atonement for two straight ass-kickings and was ready to show their best in front of their adoring fans. What I am worried about is how the Canes are going to respond on Tuesday. THAT'S the big test.

 

[tarheelhockey]

On a positive note, this was the least embarrassing loss of the day.

 

[Lempo]

On a positive note, this was the least embarrassing loss of the day.

Whoo-pee.

 

[AD Skinner]

Devils played their best game yet and still got 4 scored on them

 

[Kat Predator]

Make no mistake, nobody is really rooting for us other than us Canes fans and I like it that way. We're well past the cinderella story of 2019. We're Metro division winners and a thorn in the side of most Eastern Conf teams. We especially draw the ire of the so-called hockey "purists" who dont believe hockey belongs in places like Raleigh and Nashville. We can count ourselves the minority from top to bottom.

Don't forget that we don't have the proverbial $10M+/yr superstars that get their tires pumped furiously. The media would much rather sell their "Tom Brady" guy than a well-balanced team playing at an elite level.

 

[Svechhammer]

Don't forget that we don't have the proverbial $10M+/yr superstars that get their tires pumped furiously. The media would much rather sell their "Tom Brady" guy than a well-balanced team playing at an elite level.

Not just the media but ESPN in particular. If you don't have a player or team they can hype up as the best ever, you're worthless to them

 

[Stickpucker]

Confucius say better three poo poo in bush than one in hand.

 

[Stickpucker]

Don't forget that we don't have the proverbial $10M+/yr superstars that get their tires pumped furiously. The media would much rather sell their "Tom Brady" guy than a well-balanced team playing at an elite level.

Yep NFL has no hype for the Tannehill Tennessee Tittians.

 

[MinJaBen]

On a positive note, this was the least embarrassing loss of the day.

You sure about that? Because getting eight hung on you by a bunch of smurfs is pretty embarrassing. I think the Leafs loss this game is the least embarrassing. 2-3 in overtime against a hot team with a hot goalie, at home...no shame in that. That fact that they haven't won a second round game in two decades is embarrassing, but not this singular game.

 

[The Faulker 27]

You sure about that? Because getting eight hung on you by a bunch of smurfs is pretty embarrassing. I think the Leafs loss this game is the least embarrassing. 2-3 in overtime against a hot team with a hot goalie, at home...no shame in that. That fact that they haven't won a second round game in two decades is embarrassing, but not this singular game.

8 is terrible and embarrassing especially for this team, and we still only lost by 4.

 

[3CanesInTheBox]

You sure about that? Because getting eight hung on you by a bunch of smurfs is pretty embarrassing. I think the Leafs loss this game is the least embarrassing. 2-3 in overtime against a hot team with a hot goalie, at home...no shame in that. That fact that they haven't won a second round game in two decades is embarrassing, but not this singular game.

8-4. 7-2. Series choke job to go down 3-0.

A loserfest competition but at least we weren’t alone lol

 

[hblueridgegal]

And so it continues...

 

[tarheelhockey]

You sure about that? Because getting eight hung on you by a bunch of smurfs is pretty embarrassing. I think the Leafs loss this game is the least embarrassing. 2-3 in overtime against a hot team with a hot goalie, at home...no shame in that. That fact that they haven't won a second round game in two decades is embarrassing, but not this singular game.

That all makes sense from inside a Canes bubble.

This morning I tuned into XM’s Canadian Talk station (no need to ask why) for literally about 5 minutes. It’s like Canadian NPR, there is no sports content. Within that 5 minutes, unprompted, the host diverted the topic toward the Leafs, and the guest proceeded to say he is going on strike from following hockey in general because there’s something so fundamentally wrong with that team that it can’t be fixed and will end up ruining his kid psychologically. The other guest, from Winnipeg, acknowledged that the Jets recently went through a similar defeat, then spent the remainder of the segment mercilessly roasting Toronto and the Leafs, calling the We Want Florida chant “the most Toronto moment in history”. This is how NON sports pundits on a NON sports channel are reacting after that loss.

We had a bad matinee game that is easily blown off. They’re ready to burn the players in effigy — or otherwise — because an OT goal went the wrong way. Careers will end over the result of that game. The embarrassment factor for us isn’t in the same stratosphere, it’s just an ordinary L.

 

[Joe McGrath]

That all makes sense from inside a Canes bubble.

This morning I tuned into XM’s Canadian Talk station (no need to ask why) for literally about 5 minutes. It’s like Canadian NPR, there is no sports content. Within that 5 minutes, unprompted, the host diverted the topic toward the Leafs, and the guest proceeded to say he is going on strike from following hockey in general because there’s something so fundamentally wrong with that team that it can’t be fixed and will end up ruining his kid psychologically. The other guest, from Winnipeg, acknowledged that the Jets recently went through a similar defeat, then spent the remainder of the segment mercilessly roasting Toronto and the Leafs, calling the We Want Florida chant “the most Toronto moment in history”. This is how NON sports pundits on a NON sports channel are reacting after that loss.

We had a bad matinee game that is easily blown off. They’re ready to burn the players in effigy — or otherwise — because an OT goal went the wrong way. Careers will end over the result of that game. The embarrassment factor for us isn’t in the same stratosphere, it’s just an ordinary L.

That’s without mentioning Dallas who lost by 5 and gave up 7 goals, and is now down 2-1 to a 2nd year expansion team.

 

[The Faulker 27]

That all makes sense from inside a Canes bubble.

This morning I tuned into XM’s Canadian Talk station (no need to ask why) for literally about 5 minutes. It’s like Canadian NPR, there is no sports content. Within that 5 minutes, unprompted, the host diverted the topic toward the Leafs, and the guest proceeded to say he is going on strike from following hockey in general because there’s something so fundamentally wrong with that team that it can’t be fixed and will end up ruining his kid psychologically. The other guest, from Winnipeg, acknowledged that the Jets recently went through a similar defeat, then spent the remainder of the segment mercilessly roasting Toronto and the Leafs, calling the We Want Florida chant “the most Toronto moment in history”. This is how NON sports pundits on a NON sports channel are reacting after that loss.

We had a bad matinee game that is easily blown off. They’re ready to burn the players in effigy — or otherwise — because an OT goal went the wrong way. Careers will end over the result of that game. The embarrassment factor for us isn’t in the same stratosphere, it’s just an ordinary L.

Up until this series I was texting with my buddy whose from Toronto and a diehard Leafs fan. He's gone radio silent. I was really pulling for the leafs for his sake, and honestly the fanbase in general. Not that it's over. They could certainly win tomorrow, and give it another go in Toronto but statistically it's unlikely they come out of that series.

 

[tarheelhockey]

Up until this series I was texting with my buddy whose from Toronto and a diehard Leafs fan. He's gone radio silent. I was really pulling for the leafs for his sake, and honestly the fanbase in general. Not that it's over. They could certainly win tomorrow, and give it another go in Toronto but statistically it's unlikely they come out of that series.

Psychologically they NEED it not to be a sweep. The stink of that won’t ever come off, especially for management.

 

[Navin R Slavin]

If they get swept, does Wonder Boy get shitcanned? Five years is a long tenure in that town.

 

[Anton Dubinchuk]

If they get swept, does Wonder Boy get shitcanned? Five years is a long tenure in that town.

If you don’t win a game in the 2nd round, have you really made it out of the 1st?

 

[Lempo]

If they get swept, does Wonder Boy get shitcanned? Five years is a long tenure in that town.

Our broadcast yesterday had a feature of the previous(?) TOR game, and there was some emphasis on their very frustrated GM throwing a bottle in the brass' box.

 

[tarheelhockey]

If they get swept, does Wonder Boy get shitcanned? Five years is a long tenure in that town.

Yes, he does. His career is staked on the success of this group. Shanahan might be the guy with big enough balls to show solidarity with his guys under these circumstances, but it's also a matter of pressure from above his head.

If you don’t win a game in the 2nd round, have you really made it out of the 1st?

This is exactly how a sweep will be framed. Getting through the first round was supposed to end the humiliation, but now it's more of a pivot.

 

[MinJaBen]

If they get swept, does Wonder Boy get shitcanned? Five years is a long tenure in that town.

If they lose the next game and get swept, the question of if he gets fired is only going to be by whom, because Shanahan's seat has to be equally hot at this point.

That all makes sense from inside a Canes bubble.

This morning I tuned into XM’s Canadian Talk station (no need to ask why) for literally about 5 minutes. It’s like Canadian NPR, there is no sports content. Within that 5 minutes, unprompted, the host diverted the topic toward the Leafs, and the guest proceeded to say he is going on strike from following hockey in general because there’s something so fundamentally wrong with that team that it can’t be fixed and will end up ruining his kid psychologically. The other guest, from Winnipeg, acknowledged that the Jets recently went through a similar defeat, then spent the remainder of the segment mercilessly roasting Toronto and the Leafs, calling the We Want Florida chant “the most Toronto moment in history”. This is how NON sports pundits on a NON sports channel are reacting after that loss.

We had a bad matinee game that is easily blown off. They’re ready to burn the players in effigy — or otherwise — because an OT goal went the wrong way. Careers will end over the result of that game. The embarrassment factor for us isn’t in the same stratosphere, it’s just an ordinary L.

I get all of that. But the game itself was not an embarassing game to lose. No massive comeback occured, the other team is good, the other team was at home, the game was lost in overtime, your starting goalie left on an injury and you had a rookie coming in cold on a powerplay to take his place....any team can lose that game. The only reason we are talking about that game being "embarrassing" has nothing to do with the game, just the franchises' history and importance to Canadian culture.

Now, if they had lost a game where their own Zamboni driver was the goalie, well, that would be embarrassing.

 

[Navin R Slavin]

Now, if they had lost a game where their own Zamboni driver was the goalie, well, that would be embarrassing

But it's all the same embarrassment, you see. One long and neverending embarrassment.