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tarheelhockey

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Tryamw

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Well if I'm Bill Peters I'll have to try and get them all sent back down they go to the Front of the net and pass the puck to players (Some of whom fan the puck) They get to the Greasy scoring areas and we just won't stand for that oily mess. got to keep it clean Bill Peters will show them!.
 

My Special Purpose

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You guys aren't going to like this, but with actual forward depth, I kinda like Bill Peters. It's obvious to me that his hands have been tied by a total lack of skill. Bringing up Zeke (can this be Zykov's nickname, please) gave us three legit lines and helped Skinner. Bringing up Foegele gave us four legit lines. No more rearranging deck chairs. He's a good coach, who is totally willing to give deserving guys a chance to succeed, he just didn't have enough deserving guys the first five months of the season.
 

Coachcorner

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I'm going to guess no but I haven't any insight into the injury or anything so it's ye olde Dart board answer trick.
Ok sir, Thanks for the answer and big respect again for y'all. If the goaltending and game book of some of y'all players would have been more correct lately this season, maybe even the playoffs would have been there. I didn't like the game of darling nore ward lately. They poor. But could be better next season without the any drinks or anything like that there y'all heard me.

I would quess Faulk don't play neither tomorrow. That' aint too good though. This team needs that sucka. Real hard.
 

My Special Purpose

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this is pretty damning stuff for the team francis crowd around the nhl, but unfortunately nobody will notice and the narrative will remain that he was the fall guy for a maniacal owner hell bent on calling the shots from the top down.

Y'know, Francis did a real good job acquiring young talent. It's just that that's all he did. It's almost like GM isn't the best role for him. He GM'd like a Director of Player Development. At some point, you've got to utilize trades and free agency, and those just weren't in his wheelhouse. And who's to say if these guys needed every moment of time they had in the AHL this season, but it would have been nice to try something when things got bad in January.

Oh, and one more point on the game. I know Arizona/Ottawa/Ottawa isn't exactly a murder's row of opponents, but A) we went 3-0-0, and B) Buffalo won in Toronto and Arizona won in Tampa Bay tonight. Teams out of the race are dangerous now. These games aren't freebies.
 

Ole Gil

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Don't know if Zykov and Foegele are for realsies. I do know, however, that scoring a bunch of goals in Charlotte, and then scoring a bunch against Ottawa is what players who are for realsies would do.

Small sample, but if you're going to have a small sample, might as well fill it up with a bunch of points. Should be fun to see how they finish up the year.

Foegele in particular looks fancy. For whatever reason, maybe it's because he's a hyped canes prospect, I've been thinking he was 5'11 175. He's actually got some good size.
 

bleedgreen

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He hustles. He wants it. He'll hit or take a hit. That's all I need to see for him to finish the year up.

Nordy's job is his until someone better takes it, that spot needs fresh blood.

And if Lindy and Aho stay at center, do we NEED a huge number one? I know it's a nice thing to have but there aren't any available other than JT. With these three we can instead stock up on a couple of better wingers to play around them - and who would likely be easier to find.

Moving them both to center removes a lot of our over smurfy tendencies at wing and moves them to center where they're not really an issue. Just moving true wingers into the spots those two inhabited has made us quicker, stronger with better shots on the wing with PDG/Zykov and maybe Foegele as well as playing more of a north/south game which we needed. Now it's just Skinner and TT playing more east/west which is a much more balanced attack.

Speed overall has completely been ramped up as well. Taking out Rask and replacing him with Aho, with Lindy already there has negated Jstaal's moose-like efforts.

Putting Rask back in after watching this will be painful.
 
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