2022-23 Canes Misc. Thread
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Yup. I'm also in the books for some travel right as the playoffs start, and that usually means good things for the team. We're doing our part.
I tried to be selfish, but couldn't ... for the record. This trip is basically a bonus from work and I have minimal control over the timing.
Had an interesting Canes-related travel experience today. We’re on our way at back from Massachusetts. Stopped in a Dunkin Donuts in Millis. I was wearing a quarter zip with the Canes logo. The manager spots my shirt and says “I love it”. And I’m thinking that I’ve gone through the looking glass in the Boston suburbs. But no. She says her cousin won the Cup in 2006. He brought it to the nearby Norton Country Club and she drank out of the Cup. Her cousin? Peter Laviolette. He grew up a few miles from where we were.
Your guess is as good as ours. The Canes have always been tight-lipped about injuries, treating them as state secrets. He’s been skating with the group instead of by himself, but all we’ve heard is he’s still a ways away.
Hopefully Freddie does too. He's been out long enough to rust all the way through his hull.
At practice this morning, Patches is in a top 6 jersey, KK is in a bottom 6 jersey and Stastny isn’t skating, hopefully just maintenance. Kase is in a non-contact jersey. Per Ryan Henkel of CanesCountry the lines look like this:
Teravainen-Aho-Jarvis
Svechnikov-Necas-Pacioretty
Martinook-Staal-Fast
Stepan-Kotkaniemi-Noesen
Teravainen-Aho-Jarvis
Svechnikov-Necas-Pacioretty
Martinook-Staal-Fast
Stepan-Kotkaniemi-Noesen
FWIW, I'm thinking this sets up for Pacioretty to eventually play on Aho's line with Turbo. He's another guy that doesn't really need the puck on his stick that much, like Stastny. That has played well with Stas on a line with Necas and Svech, allowing those guys to dominate puck carrying and possession while he worries more about distribution and providing screens. Putting Patches with Aho and Turbo allows Turbo to worry less about shooting (which is always his inclination anyway) and frees him up to distribute. Aho causes chaos, Pacioretty cleans it up. Eventually that 4th line probably has Kotkaniemi centering Jarvis and Noesen (or Kase) which is one heck of a dangerous and annoying to play against 4th line. The group up front is fixin' to get seriously deep.
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Pacioretty can be sent to Chicago for a conditioning stint without waivers. However, he has to be added to the active roster first, which means the Canes will need to have the cap room to add his $7 million (aka we cannot be using his LTIR space at that point in time). With Drury returned to Chicago yesterday, the Canes are now positioned accordingly.
Once Pacioretty is playing, the Canes will have an extra healthy forward and dman (hopefully). If the Canes need a callup after that point for some reason, we will either need to LTIR Kase to make that room available OR we would have to have a true roster emergency (ie we only have 11 healthy forwards or 5 healthy Dmen). Those roster emergencies allow you to go 'over the cap' by calling up a player who is on a minimal NHL salary (it used to be $800k) to fill the roster shortage until the emergency is over.
As for the lineups when Pacioretty returns, this is the moment we have been waiting for and discussing a few times. Show me another NHL team that has 4 lines that are as dangerous as what we hopefully will be icing. Yes, you are going to find several teams with top end talent that is better than ours at the forward position, but very few (none?) will be as deep as our forward group. We should have advantages all over the place.
Once Pacioretty is playing, the Canes will have an extra healthy forward and dman (hopefully). If the Canes need a callup after that point for some reason, we will either need to LTIR Kase to make that room available OR we would have to have a true roster emergency (ie we only have 11 healthy forwards or 5 healthy Dmen). Those roster emergencies allow you to go 'over the cap' by calling up a player who is on a minimal NHL salary (it used to be $800k) to fill the roster shortage until the emergency is over.
As for the lineups when Pacioretty returns, this is the moment we have been waiting for and discussing a few times. Show me another NHL team that has 4 lines that are as dangerous as what we hopefully will be icing. Yes, you are going to find several teams with top end talent that is better than ours at the forward position, but very few (none?) will be as deep as our forward group. We should have advantages all over the place.
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We should be tough to match up with. 2 pairs and 2 sets of forwards we’re happy to match up with their ones however they want.
While Staal’s line grinds whomever they’re matched against into dust.
Yep, Staal has 8 points, Fast has 6, Martinook has 5. They’re also +19 in the last 5, Martinook is the only one of them who had a minus game in that stretch.
To be fair, Staal almost always has a month like this at some point in the season. The offensive production rarely lasts. Kind of like Brady Skjei's annual 4 game hot streak.