Pre-Game Talk: Optimistic home team plays host to defending champs in stickpuck match

[HisIceness]

It would be cool if the home team won this game. Go home team go!

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[Breakdowns]

Win vs Pens? These two don`t go together

 

[geehaad]

The Canes will put a cap on the pens so they’ve got no story to write.

 

[Negan4Coach]

Well, we're ahead of them in the standings for the first time since I can remember. Does it not stand to reason this is a game we can win?

 

[JCLA]

no murray in goal. did i also see no letang?

 

[Jerkob Slavin]

HUGE game. A win would be a serious confidence boost and it keeps a playoff spot within striking distance.

5-1 loss incoming.

 

[the halleJOKEL]

9-0 loss

 

[DaveG]

no murray in goal. did i also see no letang?

Yep, we're royally boned.

 

[Stickpucker]

Penguinos can't shave, easy win....so long as we don't forget to shave.

 

[Joe McGrath]

The Penguins 6 D are as bad a group as some of the early 2010s Canes groups. And a backup goalie tonight.

Definitely going to get shutout.

 

[WhiteTrashAmerican]

This might be the most GUARANTEED LOSS in Hcanes history

-Struggling team
-Division opponent in competition for playoffs(3 pts out of WC spot with games in hand)
-At home on a holiday weekend
-Likely biggest crowd of year
-Coming off a nice stretch of wins
-Other team is starting backup
-Pens defense is ridiculously injured

**EDIT** MARK IT DOWN RIGHT NOW. Carl Hagelin will have multiple breakaway opportunities in this game

 

[Wolfpuck]

It would be a late Festivus miracle if we win this game.

 

[WhiteTrashAmerican]

Also how do some of these other organizations manage to get steady and good goaltending regardless of the name on the jersey? Vegas, Pittsburgh, Washington, etc. Always seems like there is just another guy that can come in and make a name for himself. Then get pawned off to us and suck.

This team has caused me to have such a victim complex that I am already emotionally prepared for this draining loss and trying to imagine what way they can possibly surprise me this time....and we are coming off a winning streak. Christ.

 

[Hulkacaniac]

Will be at the game. It feels like there is a galactic alignment for this to be the first loss in a typical canes slide after a nice string of wins. A win would be so nice, it might actually cure my depression.

 

[Novacane]

 

[CandyCanes]

Excited to see how he plays tonight!

 

[Joe McGrath]

Should be interesting to see what Peters does with 3 centers he wants nothing to do with starting in the defensive zone.

 

[The Faulker 27]

If Ward has a good night, I suspect we can win this. It really comes down to goal tending. Ward is due for a stinker though. I hate that I anticipate him to shit the bed. I shouldn't, but we've been burned so many times in games just like this one.

 

[HisIceness]

Just gotta score more goals tonight. Shit aint that hard.

 

[DaveG]

Should be interesting to see what Peters does with 3 centers he wants nothing to do with starting in the defensive zone.

I mean, agreed but on the other hand Wallmark's pretty good defensively in his own right. I remember a few of us (myself one of them) that wanted him to be the #4 last year when he showed in the pre-season that he could play well both ends of the ice, though it's certainly a different level in the regular season to be sure.

 

[Joe McGrath]

I mean, agreed but on the other hand Wallmark's pretty good defensively in his own right. I remember a few of us (myself one of them) that wanted him to be the #4 last year when he showed in the pre-season that he could play well both ends of the ice, though it's certainly a different level in the regular season to be sure.

That’s why I think it will be interesting. Does he trust Wallmark enough to give him those assignments? What does he think of his face-off skills? If Nordy can’t go I think you might see Wallmark with Lindholm and McGinn getting those shifts and Rask centering PDG and Jooris.

 

[MinJaBen]

It would be cool if the home team won this game. Go home team go!

Does the team with the most fans in the building count as the home team? If so, we could be in trouble.

 

[NotOpie]

Unfortunately, there are those guys named Crosby, Malkin, Kessel, et al who will still be on the ice for the arctic flightless birds....could see this being a track meet.

 

[Negan4Coach]

HUGE game. A win would be a serious confidence boost and it keeps a playoff spot within striking distance.

5-1 loss incoming.

Not just a confidence boost for us- but an utterly demoralizing blow to the Pens- hopefully an epic beatdown that has a taxicab sent to Rutherford's residence in Pittsburgh to take him away.

"It is not enough that I win..all others must lose"

- Ghengis Khan (Or as pronounced by John Kerry Jennjis Khan)