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2024-25 Canes Miscellaneous Thread

Yeah ... not sure what happened with Ghost but at least Rod didn't go straight to worst case territory. Of course, they'll primarily miss him on the power play.
 
jeffbear said:
Yeah ... not sure what happened with Ghost but at least Rod didn't go straight to worst case territory. Of course, they'll primarily miss him on the power play.
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Speaking of the power play, Smith was running PP1 at practice. I guess leaving Burns on PP2 is a back door way of reducing his minutes? But why Smith and not Walker? At least Walker has run PP2 before.
 
Walker and Orlov both have spent plenty of time running point on the power play in their careers. So long as it isn't Slavin I'm OK with basically anyone at this point.
 
andyt said:
Speaking of the power play, Smith was running PP1 at practice. I guess leaving Burns on PP2 is a back door way of reducing his minutes? But why Smith and not Walker? At least Walker has run PP2 before.
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Smith is not an NHL defenseman period! Go either plug Stillman or Morrow in there and stop the nonsense with Smith. Better yet, start having a more NHL experienced guy as your number 7 D like most teams have. Similar to Jost up front, at least have a guy to plug and play that has played more than enough meaningful nhl games at some point in the league. The games that Smith played back with the Pens years ago were not anything you would want to see again…trust me.
 
They're gonna need to pay poor Walker more money if he's going to have to cover for Smith for more than a couple of games. The poor guy skated his blades dull on Saturday night.
 
Jaaska has been playing in a top 6 role in Chicago for most of the season, but he can grind so he should be a decent 4th line option. Shame about Jost, because he was starting to show out a little after being pretty invisible early in this stint with the big club.
 
Jaaksa is a winger, so he doesn't really directly replace Jost in the lineup. A 4th line of Robinson-Blake-Jaaska would be without a true center.

As for PP#2, we might be able to get away with Jaaska just replacing Jost, but that means KK being the primary faceoff guy. KK is 49.3% to Jost's 49.2% overall this season but KK is just 28.6% on the PP to Jost's 66.7% (yes those are very small sample sizes, 7 faceoffs for KK, just 3 for Jost). KK gets booted from more than half of the draws he lines up for, so we would just be left with Roslovic really as a faceoff option for PP2. He is at 45.1% (40% on PP).

PP2 faceoffs isn't a huge concern, but Line 4 on the road is. You could argue we could avoid having line 4 out for any faceoffs that are not as a result of icing by actively managing the lines, but that isn't ideal.

Are we really going 'centerless' on line 4 @Florida tonight? Or is Jaaksa going to slot into line 2 and we are going to bump KK down to line 4 (and have Necas taking faceoffs on line 2? Necas is 42.3% for the season.
 
cmaleski2 said:
Jaaksa is a winger, so he doesn't really directly replace Jost in the lineup. A 4th line of Robinson-Blake-Jaaska would be without a true center.

As for PP#2, we might be able to get away with Jaaska just replacing Jost, but that means KK being the primary faceoff guy. KK is 49.3% to Jost's 49.2% overall this season but KK is just 28.6% on the PP to Jost's 66.7% (yes those are very small sample sizes, 7 faceoffs for KK, just 3 for Jost). KK gets booted from more than half of the draws he lines up for, so we would just be left with Roslovic really as a faceoff option for PP2. He is at 45.1% (40% on PP).

PP2 faceoffs isn't a huge concern, but Line 4 on the road is. You could argue we could avoid having line 4 out for any faceoffs that are not as a result of icing by actively managing the lines, but that isn't ideal.

Are we really going 'centerless' on line 4 @Florida tonight? Or is Jaaksa going to slot into line 2 and we are going to bump KK down to line 4 (and have Necas taking faceoffs on line 2? Necas is 42.3% for the season.
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I think we’ll see Jaaska on the 4th line. PP2 could be Walker at the point and Burns as a net front, they’ve done that before.
 
Jaaska has been playing a bit of center for Chicago, so I expect Brindy to white knuckle it with the one for one swap for Jost ... at least for now.
 
RBA said after practice that Jost’s injury is more than a week to week thing and he’s getting a 2nd opinion. That’s…not good.
 
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