GDT: Carolina @ New York Islanders - Game 1

[Lempo]

According to the main board, this was an Islanders win.

So no. We lost.

I hate quantum stickpuck. The game would be ours if the normal rules were heeded.

 

[MinJaBen]

I've got the Jackets, Canes, Blues, and Avs on to the next round.

Weird to say I honestly think we match up better with the Bruins than we do the Jackets, but I think the Jackets win their series.

I don’t think that is weird; I also think we match up better with the Bruins. That said, I think the Bruins take that series. I don’t think Columbus has the confidence to play from behind well in the series and could falter after losing the first game.

 

[Conrad McBenis]

I JUST AWOKE FROM MY DEEP SLUMBER

#CANESWIN

 

[Turin]

I really like playoff staal

Glad you guys got to see him.

Now give him back.

 

[Dishface]

It's still so surreal how this season turned out. So many questionable decisions in the off-season and question marks at the beginning of the season.

New owner as of Jan 2018 (claims he wants to be very involved)
Francis done.... DW as GM
RBA as HC
Flames trade (taking risks with Fox and Ferland)
Skinner traded for pucks
Only signing Mrazek to our goalie arsenal
Rask goes down (blessing so he didn't destroy his trade value for the Nino trade)
Not doing a 1 for 1 D for forward trade
Darling goes down after impressive preseason (Godsend for us to pick up another goalie)
Aho moved to center
Hamilton not playing the best in the beginning due to injury
Zykov waived

And here we are in round 2 beating the defending champs a year and a half later. Incredible stuff we just witnessed.

 

[3CanesInTheBox]

Is this real? This isn't real, right?

 

[sctvman]

A 4.4 on a Friday night on cable (about 49,000 TV households). And this doesn’t count all the people watching at sports bars and such.

 

[FreshSeabass]

At least we maybe get more than one nationally televised game next season.

 

[Tryamw]

At least we maybe get more than one nationally televised game next season.

I won't bother the magic 8 ball for this: signs point to unlikely.

 

[tarheelhockey]

No. It wasn't luck. I saw the best postseason performance so far. Yes, the Isle may have had the better chances but that was mostly because of all the individual mistakes the Canes made.

That last sentence is my point exactly.

This series is going to be SO different than the Caps series. It was encouraging to see them focus up and play maybe their most disciplined game so far. They deserved to win. But yes, they definitely were lucky not to lose. They dodged about 10 game-changing bullets, including an incorrect GI call. NYI dodged some too, but the balance was in our favor.

Doesn’t matter, a win’s a win, but we’ll need to be better.

 

[3CanesInTheBox]

Lucky is an interesting term. Yes, I think we've had luck in this postseason and a lot of it --as is necessary for every NHL team that wants to make a big run.

That being said, we earned that win. we grinded, fought, mucked it up, and scraped out a goal. Incredibly proud of that effort.

 

[tarheelhockey]

I hate quantum stickpuck.

Is it a line or a wave?

 

[HisIceness]

A 4.4 on a Friday night on cable (about 49,000 TV households). And this doesn’t count all the people watching at sports bars and such.

I remember some on this board saying this would be a low-rated series, there was even a main-board topic about it during the playoff push when this team was 3rd in the Metro. Hell even after we beat the Caps some were saying that NBC was going to be pissed. Perhaps maybe even the casual Hockey fans are happy to see teams other than the Flyers/Pens/Caps/Hawks/Rangers for once?

Also, people in Raleigh don't care about Hockey. They only care about NASCAR and College sports. Move the team to Quebec.

 

[VAcaniac]

How were we struggling to sell out the last few regular season games when playoff ticket prices are out the wazoo now and were setting TV rating records. Kind of bizzare.

 

[Vagrant]

lol at pesce banging the glass after staal's goal at the dude flipping them off

sources say that brett was a very quiet child and slept a lot and he's making up for that now

 

[AD Skinner]

The national audience doesnt even know what they missed by no one tracking bradlee down and getting a few quotes

 

[Vagrant]

They dodged about 10 game-changing bullets, including an incorrect GI call. NYI dodged some too, but the balance was in our favor.

god help me for getting into a discussion about establishing what goaltender interference is/has been, but even with the assumption that wallmark pushed him into the goaltender, the onus is still on the player to avoid contact. anders lee, all 235 lbs. of him, had a lot more time than it appeared to adjust his trajectory and didn't. the fact that lee didn't put up a big stink about it says to me that he knew what he was trying to do.

 

[DaveG]

A 4.4 on a Friday night on cable (about 49,000 TV households). And this doesn’t count all the people watching at sports bars and such.

It's almost as if people are putting their money where their mouth is about being sick of seeing the same matchups all the time, and that the playoffs this year being utter chaos makes things absolutely fascinating for an outside viewer.

naaaaaaaaah.

 

[Borsig]

Lehner saying that we won on a shiity bounce seems like they don't respect us.
I'm ok with that.

 

[3CanesInTheBox]

How were we struggling to sell out the last few regular season games when playoff ticket prices are out the wazoo now and were setting TV rating records. Kind of bizzare.

yes and no. I've seen it happen in areas with a lot of transplants etc. different sport, but before one of the nationals playoff games a few years back I got ridiculous tix for like twenty bucks each. literally, a week later in the playoffs, they were selling for hundreds.

Hype matters. Transplants and just people with money who want to see a good show makes a diff too. Maybe some people were also waiting to see if they'd make the playoffs for sure before investing in them. could be a lot of things.

 

[tarheelhockey]

god help me for getting into a discussion about establishing what goaltender interference is/has been, but even with the assumption that wallmark pushed him into the goaltender, the onus is still on the player to avoid contact. anders lee, all 235 lbs. of him, had a lot more time than it appeared to adjust his trajectory and didn't. the fact that lee didn't put up a big stink about it says to me that he knew what he was trying to do.

I don’t disagree... I think GI was going to happen there either way.

The lucky break comes in the ref calling it a penalty, not just a regular no-goal. The penalty prevented a review, and I don’t think there’s any way they review that play and call it no-goal. The shove makes it too easy for them to overturn the call.

 

[3CanesInTheBox]

Lehner saying that we won on a shiity bounce seems like they don't respect us.
I'm ok with that.

not a smart move by him. i'm sure he was just in the moment but this is just extra bulletin board matieral lol .

 

[tarheelhockey]

How were we struggling to sell out the last few regular season games when playoff ticket prices are out the wazoo now and were setting TV rating records. Kind of bizzare.

It’s the nature of regular season ticket sales. When you’re operating from a base of 7-8000, it’s extremely hard to sell out regardless of how important the game might be.

 

[Canes]

Lehner saying that we won on a shiity bounce seems like they don't respect us.
I'm ok with that.

People need to start putting some respeck on our names. Fans, pundits, and now even players seem to be discounting the Canes success. I think a lot of it has to do with us not having any marquee names on our squad.

You see it on the main boards about how boring we play and how we "play the trap" when we played and won a 7 game barn burner against the defending Stanley Cup champs, and when we don't play the trap at all. People seem to already have their minds made up. If we do well at all, it has to be due to luck, I guess.

 

[sctvman]

It’s the nature of regular season ticket sales. When you’re operating from a base of 7-8000, it’s extremely hard to sell out regardless of how important the game might be.

Yep. And a market with 3 universities that have large season ticket bases for basketball, competing directly against the Canes except for two months a year.