Hartnell has 11 points over that span while basically playing 4th line minutes around 11-12 minutes a game. They have depth....
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Hartnell has 11 points over that span while basically playing 4th line minutes around 11-12 minutes a game. They have depth....
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Kind of haha. But it's a legit cult. He's a 22 year old 4th round pick who is in his sophomore season and leads Carolina's D in total ice time/game. He gets the toughest minutes and zone starts and leads the team in GF% and is 3rd in expected GF%, behind his partner, Pesce, and Faulk. He's their work horse.
It's just funny looking at Carolina's great organizational blue line depth, and it consists of Faulk (2nd rounder), Slavin (4th), Pesce (3rd). In rounds 2-4, the Canes just seem to kill it lately....add in Aho, Kuokkanen, Rask, Nicolas Roy for forwards. It's funny that they (over) drafted Fleury 7th overall, and he'll probably be a nothing special, simple bottom 4 guy, and now Hanifin hasn't been quite as good as advertised so far (soooo young, so it's no final judgement, but he was always #3 for me of those d men in that class, even pre-draft). They just took Bean too. They're pretty stacked even if their high 1sts don't reach their ceilings. Curious that they've really not been a great 1st round drafting team (Gauthier pick I wasn't a fan of this year either), but they're great in the middle rounds and those guys are most of the core of their team.
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Two things that standout about Slavin.
1. Two C's in "Jaccob"
2. He has played on some pretty terrible teams in his life.
1. Two C's in "Jaccob"
2. He has played on some pretty terrible teams in his life.
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Budaj being at .919 might be the biggest indicator. He was an AHL goalie the past two seasons.
There was a big discussion of Bishop's struggles this season on Hockey Central and Dave Andreychuk (who works for TB) said part of it was definitely his uncertain contract status.
There was a big discussion of Bishop's struggles this season on Hockey Central and Dave Andreychuk (who works for TB) said part of it was definitely his uncertain contract status.
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Have been since 2010.
It has almost surpassed the DPE now... lowest scoring era since the late 1940's to mid 1950's
DPE was really 1997-2004, with ~5.3 GPG average over whole period of hockey.
2010-present is at right about 5.3 GPG too. If no jump in scoring next year this era of low scoring will have been longer than the DPE too.
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Reduce goalie equipment to just the helmet and put razor blades on the puck.
Bet scoring goes up then.
Bet scoring goes up then.
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Nope not today.
I know I have said it before but I have a soft spot for Pesce. He is a kid who has earned everything so far in his career because unlike some high end prospects he has had to earn his way into the spot he is in with Carolina.
Doesnt happen much with prospects from UNH, so I am happy for him.
Doesnt happen much with prospects from UNH, so I am happy for him.
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Everytime I watch a Carolina game they look like a pretty good team. But then I check the standings and they're the same mediocre a team they've been for ~10 years now.
Granted the Metro has been crazy good this season, but there just seems to be no progress in Carolina.
Granted the Metro has been crazy good this season, but there just seems to be no progress in Carolina.
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They have nearly the worst group of forwards in the league and have gotten bad goaltending so far.
A good young defense can only accomplish so much.
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There are some interesting young players on that team and Jeff Skinner is someone I'd love to see on the Flyers. Always been a fan of him.
Still though at some point they need to at least be in the race for the playoffs.
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I'm a big proponent of making the ice bigger, and I would like to think that the new arenas are being constructed with the possibility of expanding the ice surface built into the architecture, so it's an easy convert if/when that happens. It seems like the issue with that has always been that it takes seats, and thus revenue, away from the owners. I can understand that, although the benefits to the play should be worth the relatively minimal loss of revenue.
But I've seen some comments on these boards where seemingly knowledgeable fans are saying that the trapping/clutching/grabbing would get even worse on big ice, and I don't really get that. There would be more room to operate and fast and/or elusive players would have more ice on which to pull their tricks. It has really started to look crowded out there - human beings are, on average, much bigger than ever before - especially professional athletes involved in Hatcherism (i.e. weightlifting) - and Bettman added a fourth (i.e. useless) official to the fray to crowd it further.
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If you watch the Olympics when overseas with the NHL personnel it doesn't really change a whole lot. They still bring their tactics to maintain the middle of the ice over with them. There's more room to the outside but teams are still clamping down through the middle of the ice just like they do with the NA surface.
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There's really no benefit to pressuring guys on the perimeter. There's too much space to work with. You're just asking to get beat if you do. The only thing I could see the bigger ice helping out is the powerplay, because powerplays on the big ice are pretty much sent entirely in the offensive zone due to all the space to work with.
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