GDT: Zykov vs McDavid

[The Faulker 27]

Darling again eh.

 

[Finlandia WOAT]

I thought Zykov played RW? Looks like Peters is setting him for failure. Hopefully we can at least see him shine on the PP?

I'd be interested to see him play on a line with Lindy at some point. I for some reason can just imagine Zykovs net front precense meshing well with Lindy's play making abilities.

I was going to say "Yeah, replace Stempniak with Zykov!", but then that'd be Skinner-Ryan-Zykov and I had flashbacks to the year the 'Canes only NHL defender was a 20 something Justin Faulk...

 

[Breakdowns]

Darling again eh.

Be happy, he can't win 2 games in a row, so with this game we will get more lottery balls

 

[bleedgreen]

Smith could be getting the wings flipped in his tweet. Pdg is a lefty so he’d have two off side wingers there, which to be fair Phil does play both sides for us.

Does Zykov play RW this year?

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

Smith could be getting the wings flipped in his tweet. Pdg is a lefty so he’d have two off side wingers there, which to be fair Phil does play both sides for us.

Does Zykov play RW this year?

I've heard his a lefty that plays RW in Charlotte.

 

[My Special Purpose]

I've heard his a lefty that plays RW in Charlotte.

Check that. Reverse it. He's a righty who plays LW.

 

[My Special Purpose]

"Since meeting in the Cup Final in 2006, both Edmonton and Carolina have missed the playoffs in 11 of the next 12 seasons." - Boomer Gordon on NHL Network Radio a few minutes ago.

And I'd trade rosters with them in a heartbeat.

 

[bleedgreen]

Well that explains it. It’s not Peters getting it wrong and setting him up for failure by making Zykov play his wrong side, it’s Peters doing him a solid and having PDG stay on the wrong side to help Zykov.

Some of you guys with the Peters hate....

 

[My Special Purpose]

Well that explains it. It’s not Peters getting it wrong and setting him up for failure by making Zykov play his wrong side, it’s Peters doing him a solid and having PDG stay on the wrong side to help Zykov.

Some of you guys with the Peters hate....

And, he may not play a ton, but he's got a better chance of being successful with Rask than with Ryan. That's the thing about having multiple fourth-line centers. You might get lucky.

 

[StormCast]

But if you try sometimes you find, You get what you need

In the 20 years of Canes hockey, it's our 19th Nervous Breakdown.

 

[StormCast]

Darling again eh.

For those sitting in the North end of PNC, you're in luck.

Lots of goals scored in front of you.

 

[Surrounded By Ahos]

You can't always get what you want...

This song is playing right now at my job as i was checking the gdt. #2spooky4me

 

[Bub]

Darling again eh.

Eh, I could see playing him more as a win-win for us, even if all he does is lose-lose. If he plays well, then maybe he's turned the corner and will be the #1 we need next fall. If he continues to blow chunks, then we know he'll be the #2 guy next season.

 

[TheBigKahuna]

I hope someone in the crowd has the guts to start a "play Zykov" chant in the 1st and keep it up when he's not on the ice.

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

Check that. Reverse it. He's a righty who plays LW.

Yeah, that's right, err..I mean left.

Ah forget it. Yeah, that's correct.

 

[Unsustainable]

Yeah, that's right, err..I mean left.

Forget its. Yeah, that's correct.

Ok then

 

[My Special Purpose]

Eh, I could see playing him more as a win-win for us, even if all he does is lose-lose. If he plays well, then maybe he's turned the corner and will be the #1 we need next fall. If he continues to blow chunks, then we know he'll be the #2 guy next season.

From what I've seen from Darling, even when he wins, he looks awful. So I'm not sure that getting a few "W"s is going to help anything. If anything, it may give us a false sense of him getting his act together. He just looks awful in net. He overplays everything. He's terrible playing the puck. He has no rebound control. It's like the bar is so low for goaltending right now, that we don't even care about all this, as long as he stops something. But this is the NHL. We should be able to expect more. And it's obvious when Cam plays that Darling is nowhere near that level, and Ward is barely NHL caliber.

 

[tarheelhockey]

"Since meeting in the Cup Final in 2006, both Edmonton and Carolina have missed the playoffs in 11 of the next 12 seasons." - Boomer Gordon on NHL Network Radio a few minutes ago.

And I'd trade rosters with them in a heartbeat.

Man, that's a pretty crazy way to think about it. Both teams on a Cinderella run, both completely guttered out until the present day.

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

From what I've seen from Darling, even when he wins, he looks awful. So I'm not sure that getting a few "W"s is going to help anything. If anything, it may give us a false sense of him getting his act together. He just looks awful in net. He overplays everything. He's terrible playing the puck. He has no rebound control. It's like the bar is so low for goaltending right now, that we don't even care about all this, as long as he stops something. But this is the NHL. We should be able to expect more. And it's obvious when Cam plays that Darling is nowhere near that level, and Ward is barely NHL caliber.

That's been my view as well. He has never looked comfortable in net. I remember even after his first game noticing it (as did others) and we "hopefully" chalked it up to nerves.

 

[tarheelhockey]

Never did I think I would ever, EVER see a goalie less comfortable in an NHL net than Michael Leighton.

Thank you, Canes!

 

[Bub]

From what I've seen from Darling, even when he wins, he looks awful. So I'm not sure that getting a few "W"s is going to help anything. If anything, it may give us a false sense of him getting his act together. He just looks awful in net. He overplays everything. He's terrible playing the puck. He has no rebound control. It's like the bar is so low for goaltending right now, that we don't even care about all this, as long as he stops something. But this is the NHL. We should be able to expect more. And it's obvious when Cam plays that Darling is nowhere near that level, and Ward is barely NHL caliber.

No doubt; but that wasn't the point of my post.

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

The long list of Canes "non-Ward" goalies.

John Graham
Michael Leighton
Justin Peters
Manny Legace
Brian Boucher
Dan Ellis
Anton Khudobin
Eddie Lack
Scott Darling

Of those, only 3 have played at least 10 games in a season and put up a .905 or better SV% in those seasons: Khudobin: .926, Peters: .919 (in the same season); Ellis: .906

For how bad Eddie "Make a f***ing save" Lack was, he put up .901 and .902 SV% in his two back-up season compared to Darling's .889. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

 

[the halleJOKEL]

actually i wish they would stay the same instead of getting unquestionably worse tbh

 

[KeithIsActuallyBad]

"Since meeting in the Cup Final in 2006, both Edmonton and Carolina have missed the playoffs in 11 of the next 12 seasons." - Boomer Gordon on NHL Network Radio a few minutes ago.

And I'd trade rosters with them in a heartbeat.

Outside of McDavid and Draisatl our roster is a complete mess. Our winger depth is probably the worst in the league, our defense is unimpressive and our goaltending has been red lights all year.

 

[Lucky Lindy]

My Swedish team just finished playing period 5 in the playoffs, and will start period 6 in about 18 minutes.

Please win.