FWIW: the fan base enjoys the celebrations, particularly at the PNC.
if they continue to play like that, perhaps I’ll consider it!
I'm pretty sure that no Canes goalie has started back to backs at any point in the season, or last season either.
I know Rod doesn't like to do it anyway but I didn't realize it was that extreme. I was more just speaking about that's what I thought Waddell and/or Brindy said around the deadline. That they wanted the flexibility to call up Kochetkov as a 3rd goalie or in case of injury just to be sure none of the goalies would have to play in a back to back. I could be wrong though.
They also held us without a shot for like 15 minutes or something. Usually that's us doing it to other teams. It was definitely bizarro world out there at times.
Still scratching my head over that 3rd Toronto "goal". Even Steve Dangle had some reservations on the goal. I try to stay far away from the "everyone is against us" mantra but this just straight up sucks. Rod has every right to blow a fuse over shit like this.
I was saying before the game we need to try it 5v4 PP bc it really forces the opposition to decide who to cover. Sure PP2 won't be as much of a threat with Slavin or Pesce, but hopefully PP1 can score enough or create enough chaos to make the overall PP more effective
Think the after the 5 on 3 goal, they were back to normal. They also had Ghost alone on the 1st unit before getting the 5 on 3 too I think. Seems like it was just a 5 on 3 thing, but hard to say since we got no more PPs after.
It feels like more and more the first unit has gone like 80-90 seconds, so might as well just load up the first with Ghost and Burns at this point. As I said, didn't look like they intended to do that necessarily.
I don’t disagree but we can’t forget about top 10 scoring d man Brady Skjei
I don’t think it’s been that many but it’s been at least 2-3. And there have been a couple against as well. This is the first time I’ve ever seen it called the way it was last night, and I’ve seen that type of goal disallowed 100’s of times in NHL games and games I’ve played. Everyone screams at the refs and they apologize and say I blew the whistle I lost sight of it and everyone goes about their business.
They must have been drunk, or are just dumb, and bought tickets yesterday thinking the Bruins played at PNC Saturday instead of Sunday.
That whole sequence deserves more discussion IMO. Really it was 3 players because the goalie was pushing Noesen too even after the Toronto goalie got up. Noesen was being push down and being kept in their net by 3 Toronto players as the ref was literally no more than 6 feet away staring at all of it. The refs are embarrassing, and it's so tiring having them as a big distraction almost every game. The refs also clearly didn't want to give Carolina a power play after they scored on a 5 on 3. Game management.
Yep, the 2nd period last night was one of the worst periods the Canes have had in a long time. It was even more jarring after we had an amazing 1st period.
