In law, the Egg Shell Skull Rule counsels that when you tortiously wrong someone, you are responsible for all the damage you cause even if the person you injured was unusually sensitive to the type of harm you caused and the damage significantly exceeded what would have been caused to an average...
Fortunately, unlike the Habs, we have vets who have been through this before with the Caps. When heck starts to break loose, Aho, Slavin, Staal, and Martinook are gonna have to lead. (The only other Cane that was on that squad was Svech.)
If your ears ring after the event then you’re damaging your ears and you should’ve been wearing protection. Take that advice from someone who learned the hard way (and now wears earplugs).
Our last elimination game ended with a pretty epic collapse. This one had an epic comeback. Maybe next time we just get a lead and stick with it? Just a suggestion. Of course, what would be playoffy about that?
Speaking of PPs, am I correct that the Canes outscored the Devils 1-0 while the Devils were on the PP? Special teams was unbelievably lopsided. Even strength was probably pretty even goal-wise.
It’s interesting how different the 2OTs last night were from the 2OTs previously in this series. Night and day. Complete role reversal. I’m gonna chalk that up to home ice, coaching and leadership, experience, and the Canes just wearing the depleted Devils down over the course of 10 days.
To me it looked like Ekblad got Hagel in the shoulder and maybe the neck and it wasn’t that forceful (for hockey… if I were walking down the street and someone did that to me it’d be considered criminally forceful). Then Ekblad pushed Hagel down pretty forcefully and Hagel may have hit his head...