GDT: Canes vs. Sabres...in Da UP

[Unsustainable]

Woot infighting stage has begun on the season

 

[Anton Babchuk]

am i missing something? shouldn't you be harder on a guy expected be a top 4 defenseman playing 20 minutes a night than a fringe nhler? it's like being tougher on chris terry than jeff skinner.

murphy's playing fine. he's made a few routine, everyday mistakes that every defenseman makes and is getting grilled over it because people are obsessed with him.

edit: and of course the post i respond to gets edited. guy was saying that he's holding murphy to a higher standard than hanifin for some strange reason that didn't make any sense, said he was playing "terrible."

 

[The Faulker 27]

No one should be surprised by lack of scoring.

 

[FreshSeabass]

never mind ill hold my tongue i don't want to fight. I think I'm getting agitated of watching the hurricanes get out there and "try" to play hockey.

 

[FreshSeabass]

am i missing something? shouldn't you be harder on a guy expected be a top 4 defenseman playing 20 minutes a night than a fringe nhler? it's like being tougher on chris terry than jeff skinner.

murphy's playing fine. he's made a few routine, everyday mistakes that every defenseman makes and is getting grilled over it because people are obsessed with him.

edit: and of course the post i respond to gets edited. guy was saying that he's holding murphy to a higher standard than hanifin for some strange reason that didn't make any sense.

lol you must be itchin to argue. i edited cause i don't want to argue with people like you it's honestly a waste of time.

 

[Novacane]

No one should be surprised by lack of scoring.

I'm not surprised there's a lack of scoring. I'm surprised it's this bad.

For reference, last year they scored 15 goals and gave up 17 in 6 games. This year it's 7 goals and gave up 10 in 5 games.

 

[HisIceness]

If only there were rollover goals, then all those useless Tuomo Ruutu goals in 5-1 blowouts might count for something.

 

[The Faulker 27]

lol you must be itchin to argue. i edited cause i don't want to argue with people like you it's honestly a waste of time.

You must not know him.

 

[Vagrant]

wait people actually took this pond hockey game seriously? did you see the size of the fuggin rink?

 

[Finlandia WOAT]

am i missing something? shouldn't you be harder on a guy expected be a top 4 defenseman playing 20 minutes a night than a fringe nhler? it's like being tougher on chris terry than jeff skinner.

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dude i **** on hanifin for like the last half of the season last year.

also i think the pairings are going to be Slavin-Faulk, Hainsey-Pesce and Hanifin Murphy/Tennyson

 

[A Star is Burns]

Hopefully these last two games with what should be much better lineups will look a lot better. End of the day on this one, the few guys I would have expected to look good did, the guys I would have thought would be a mixed bag for whatever reason were, and it was a weird playing situation, so I'm not worried yet. Ward has a history of some bad games in preseason, not that that necessarily means anything, so it's nice to see him play solid so far, even when the team in front of him isn't great.

 

[Navin R Slavin]

wait people actually took this pond hockey game seriously? did you see the size of the fuggin rink?

smdh

 

[HisIceness]

wait people actually took this pond hockey game seriously? did you see the size of the fuggin rink?

If people posted about a preseason game on HFBoards but none of the posts were serious, would it really be HFBoards?

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

am i missing something? shouldn't you be harder on a guy expected be a top 4 defenseman playing 20 minutes a night than a fringe nhler? it's like being tougher on chris terry than jeff skinner.

Can't recall, how were you when it came to Chad LaRose?

In all seriousness though, you have a point. The criticism tends to be focused much more on the Chris Terry's, the Jay Harrisons, and the fringe guys in many cases more than the guys who really drive the bus.

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

This is my first viewing of the season, so here's my hot take. Murphy hasn't been the worst defenseman on his pairing. Hanifin has been awful but no one seems to notice because they're too busy waiting for Murphy to **** up.

Can't speak for the rest of the board. I didn't see the 2nd half of the game, but when Hanifin made a terrible drop pass at the blue line leading to a odd man rush, I commented on that in a post, the same way I would have if it was Murphy. I didn't see any goals but the 1st, in which Tennyson played poorly in front of Ward, which I commented on also so I can't comment on how guys played after 1 1st and a few min. into the 2nd.

None of it means much though. This is a pre-season game with a mish-mash line-up on a unique rink, etc..

 

[caniac247]

Guess now that Eric is gone, Murphy becomes the new scapegoat. I watched the first period and half of the second. I didn't see anything that was too bad from him. Yeah he made mistakes, but he isn't going to be our top guy, he'll be sheltered as the 6th guy. Ya'll should be loving Murphy for sacrificing himself to the expansion draft.

What we should be complaining about is the continued lack of scoring. Yes, I get it, we played mostly kids, but outside of Skinner, no one is putting the puck in the net. That's a huge problem.

 

[the halleJOKEL]

jeff 4 prez

make carolina score again