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I certainly agree with pretty much everyone that he hasn't been quite himself this year, but not bad production for a slump year.
News Article: News & Notes XXXII: Simply Having a Wonderful Canesmas Time
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HisIceness
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And the award for best performance by a hockey player goes to...
cptjeff
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Who's gonna be the one to dig that thread up?True and we all get free beers from that one guy
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It's linked on MB in the brand new Sebastian 30 goals thread started by that one usual suspect.
Svechhammer
THIS is hockey?
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Svechhammer
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Is it too early to start tailgating?
Canes
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Knowing our luck, the day of our outdoor game it would be 80 degrees outside and the game would turn into water polo.
SvechneJerk
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And 27 degrees the day after. It IS North Carolina, after all.
HisIceness
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TheJackAttack says the 2006 Canes were really lucky or something. If TheJackAttack says it, then it must be true.
Svechhammer
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The fact that thread quickly devolved into shitting all over the 2006 Canes brings me endless joy that their fans are going to be forever haunted by that series after the way their fans acted in our house.
tarheelhockey
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As we get more distance from those events, and they STILL keep bitterly bringing it up like it happened yesterday, it becomes more clear just how much the Canes ripped the heart out of that fanbase. It’s not quite Hull-in-the-crease or Wide Right, but it’s very close and it’s the most recent.
In a way, it all turned out better than if we had just dominated them in a sweep. Dunking on a team is one thing, but this was like the half-court buzzer beater on Senior Night. They’ll never forget it.
Svechhammer
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I mean seriously. There's one guy in that thread going into intricate detail about that series and it just makes me laugh. They obsess about it. Some of them know what happened on literally every shift in that Game 7. You know what I remember about that game? We got a lead and then squandered it in the waning seconds of the 2nd period. Then we pretty much dominated the 3rd leaving no doubt by the end. And then their fans ran to the doors of the RBC Center like cockroaches scurrying after a light was turned on.
Funny thing is, for a team they claim to have been oh so stacked, they couldn't even manage to win their own division during the season. Just sayin...
tarheelhockey
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For that matter...
- Canes finished ahead of Buffalo that year
- Canes won 3 of 4 in the season series
- Canes were ahead 3-2 in the playoff series
Somehow this all amounts to Canes being an improbable winner over the heavy favorite Sabres
canes had lost cole, who was basically a ppg player.
gerber won 38(!) games that year, got mono, and never really recovered. unlike buffalo's d, we had someone step up.
(random thought - murray and binnington have retroactively made people less impressed with what wardo did as a rookie)
something something mike card!
gerber won 38(!) games that year, got mono, and never really recovered. unlike buffalo's d, we had someone step up.
(random thought - murray and binnington have retroactively made people less impressed with what wardo did as a rookie)
something something mike card!
tarheelhockey
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That’s the real narrative of 3 out of the 4 series we won that year. Canes didn’t fold under injuries the way other teams did. Largely because they were the deeper, better team in all three series.
My favorite thing to do in those threads is to point out that the canes played with their backup goalie for most of the playoffs.
“But that’s different,” they moan, “Ward won the Conn Smythe!”
“Exactly,” I say, “Having depth and players who can step in and play at a reasonable level is maybe important. Maybe that’s why Carolina won?”
They lose their minds. It’s adoreable.
And nobody ever brings up New Jersey who had prime Brodeur and were on a 16 game winning streak and got absolutely manhandled by the canes.
“But that’s different,” they moan, “Ward won the Conn Smythe!”
“Exactly,” I say, “Having depth and players who can step in and play at a reasonable level is maybe important. Maybe that’s why Carolina won?”
They lose their minds. It’s adoreable.
And nobody ever brings up New Jersey who had prime Brodeur and were on a 16 game winning streak and got absolutely manhandled by the canes.
i mean, we had kevyn adams out there winning faceoffs with a broken wrist.
and iirc, one of the guys (weight?) went to the room to get a shot in the shoulder or something like that after game seven just so he'd be physically able to lift the cup.
and iirc, one of the guys (weight?) went to the room to get a shot in the shoulder or something like that after game seven just so he'd be physically able to lift the cup.
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tarheelhockey
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Because the Devils were the only one of the four fanbases that had already experienced recent success and weren’t ready to crack psychologically.
DaveG
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I mean that was an absolute destruction job of a series. In a sense that's what annoyed me about not finishing off Buffalo in 6 and Edmonton in 5. The Buffalo series was an all time great no doubt, but the Edmonton series we dominated from the late 2nd of game 1 on, and the only reason it wasn't a sweep was stellar play by Markkanen after game 2. The revisionist history surrounding that series is absolutely baffling.
tarheelhockey
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I really love waiting for Habs fans to complain about Koivu, Sabres fans to complain about the D, Oilers fans to complain about Roloson... then point out that Koivu was awful, Markkanen was great, and a substitute D was responsible for half the Sabres’ Game 7 offense.
It causes them to do the internet equivalent of sputtering in frustrated rage.
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