Channeling my inner Jim Mora. PLAYOFFS? PLAYOFFS?
Sort of. The qualifying round isn’t the regular season, but not quite the playoffs. The Canes looked rusty in the first 40 minutes of the exhibition game on Wednesday. Trocheck’s line was buzzing all night, Vatanen can run the PP. Reimer looked better than Mrazek, but that may have been a function of better play in front of him. In typical RBA fashion, he didn’t name a starter. Necas skated yesterday and could play. In place of whom is the question. All 7 dmen who dressed played a decent amount of time. Fleury played almost 2 minutes more bot at even strength and on the PK that TVR. Edmundson didn’t look good. Could we see a change on D?
The Rangers also lost their exhibition game, to the Islanders. Shesterkin started in goal and gave up 1 goal on 7 shots. Lundqvist gave up 1 on 15. The Isles did a good job bottling up Panarin, he was held without a shot in 22 minutes of ice time.
Today’s officials:
Referees:
Eric Furlatt (27), Trevor Hanson (14)
Linesmen:
Derek Amell (75), Bryan Pancich (94)
Fox Sports Carolinas for TV with Mike and Tripp from PNC. Intermissions with Abby Labar and Shane Willis.
Sort of. The qualifying round isn’t the regular season, but not quite the playoffs. The Canes looked rusty in the first 40 minutes of the exhibition game on Wednesday. Trocheck’s line was buzzing all night, Vatanen can run the PP. Reimer looked better than Mrazek, but that may have been a function of better play in front of him. In typical RBA fashion, he didn’t name a starter. Necas skated yesterday and could play. In place of whom is the question. All 7 dmen who dressed played a decent amount of time. Fleury played almost 2 minutes more bot at even strength and on the PK that TVR. Edmundson didn’t look good. Could we see a change on D?
The Rangers also lost their exhibition game, to the Islanders. Shesterkin started in goal and gave up 1 goal on 7 shots. Lundqvist gave up 1 on 15. The Isles did a good job bottling up Panarin, he was held without a shot in 22 minutes of ice time.
Today’s officials:
Referees:
Eric Furlatt (27), Trevor Hanson (14)
Linesmen:
Derek Amell (75), Bryan Pancich (94)
Fox Sports Carolinas for TV with Mike and Tripp from PNC. Intermissions with Abby Labar and Shane Willis.