Some of you who watch more than 12 games a year can give a better answer than I can, but I'll start.
Peters plays a very active moving game. Rarely are players standing put on the ice, especially on offense. We use defensemen often to activate the puck and move it directly up the ice, and all our defensemen need to be good skaters and passers to make it work. On the powerplay, we constantly do reversals to get zone entry. That is, a guy like Lindholm will skate down the ice for an apparent entry, only to stop on a dime, and pass it up to a streaking Terevainen who really enters the zone. It can catch the D flat-footed. It works surprisingly well given that we do it like on every PP. Sometimes we do 2 reversals and then an entry. They may have a different name. On the PK, we are pretty active at chasing the puck. We try not to give any space to the offense, but occasionally we get an odd man out right at the crease for a quick goal against. The biggest, most physical presence on the team is Jordan Staal. We aren't a team to use body-checks and physicality exclusively to knock the puck off of you. We tend to use positioning and stick-checks. We have a mobile and big defensive group for sure. However, they use their size more for their reach. Faulk is easily our most physical D-man, and he's also the shortest. Our goalies do a great job of not saving the puck. Last year I believe one goalie had a near league-worst SV% on high-danger shots, and the other goalie had really bad SV% on low-danger shots. We usually rely on out-skating other teams. A typical game will look like Canes outshooting opponents 30-22, being down 2-1 late in the game, and grinding down and getting to pucks more in the 3rd period. We sacrifice size for skating like 99% of the time. Our forward units are very mix and match. We have some skill, cerebral Euros and a few more straightforward get-the-puck-down-the-ice forwards like Staal and Nordstrom. Most forwards are pretty defensively responsible.
Smarter Canes fans please correct me where I'm wrong.
