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2024-25 Canes Miscellaneous Thread

cmaleski2 said:
They will definitely be going outside of the organization for someone.
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Oh, yeah ... for sure. Kochetkov still will have two years left but that $2 million hit for him isn't wildly out of line for a backup/platoon guy. It would be a heck of a course correction for the Canes to try to make a deal for an established franchise goalie, but there's always loose parts floating around on the market. They'll figure something out.
 
cmaleski2 said:
They will definitely be going outside of the organization for someone.
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I know it’s easy to rag on the Leafs but the early returns on a free agent guy like Anthony Stolarz as a full time dependable starter looks promising. I wouldn’t mind the Canes finding someone like that as a 1A to pair with Pyotr next year.
 
CanadaCanes said:
I know it’s easy to rag on the Leafs but the early returns on a free agent guy like Anthony Stolarz as a full time dependable starter looks promising. I wouldn’t mind the Canes finding someone like that as a 1A to pair with Pyotr next year.
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It took Stolarz forever to find his feet in the NHL in the Ducks system, but once he finally got a crack behind a proper defense in Florida, he looked the part. I would expect Carolina to continue to go with more of a platoon setup, since that's been the approach since Dundon bought the team, so it'll be worthwhile to lookout for those kinds of guys this season.
 
No changes to the lineup at practice today. Kochetkov had the day off so Jorge Alves was the other goalie. They won’t have a morning skate tomorrow, I wonder if Martin gets the game, it was the most likely of the 4 game homestand, considering how the Flyers are playing.
 
I'd give Martin the start. He was starting to turn the corner in Chicago and Kooch isn't used to carrying this big a load.
 
CanadaCanes said:
Has NC State moved up a tier to start playing friendlies against the D1 big boy schools now?
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No. They moved up to ACHA (club) division 2. Michigan State has enough players to field a NCAA D 1 team and a club team. There are a lot of schools that field teams in both NCAA and ACHA. For example, all of the Big 10 hockey schools except Notre Dame have ACHA Division 2 teams.

and I was wrong about the location, the game is at Invisalign, if anyone needs a hockey fix after a 4 game homestand.
 
CanadaCanes said:
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/42273303/mlb-braves-file-objection-diamond-sports-reorg-plan

The Diamond Sports Reorg plan coming under scrutiny by the Atlanta Braves and MLB and the Cincinnati Reds dropped Diamond completely…it’s sounding more and more like Diamond might not be able to make it out of bankruptcy…maybe Dundon is proactively taking Capitol Broadcasting out on a test run before Diamond turns the lights out mid-season…
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I don’t think Capitol would be an option. Both WRAZ and WRAL are network affiliates. I know WRAL used to pre-empt network broadcasts for ACC basketball, but they were a CBS affiliate then and NBC now. I don’t think network stations in the 24th biggest market would do that now. And ACC basketball probably drew more viewers than hockey and it was only once night per week instead of multiple nights. Maybe they can put them on one of their alternate HD channels but they’re not widely available.
 
Yeah, I think they'll try to secure as many over the air broadcasts as they can but that will be complicated, especially during football season. It gets easier after that. In the meantime, most other teams have talked about streaming as their contingency plan since a huge chunk of their viewership is currently streaming games anyway. ESPN+ could also be an option since the market blackout issue goes away with the RSNs.
 
I have no inside information on this, but Capitol’s technical capabilities are impressive, and I’m sure they can support their own stand-alone streaming platform if the possibility presents itself.
 
HeyKurtz said:
I have no inside information on this, but Capitol’s technical capabilities are impressive, and I’m sure they can support their own stand-alone streaming platform if the possibility presents itself.
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I've also been told that this is a distinct possibility and I know the NHL also has the capacity to host streaming. That was something they made sure was the case back when the RSNs first started going all wonky. While it certainly wouldn't be seamless should Diamond Sports suddenly lock the doors, I think it's safe enough to assume that something would be in place rather quickly.
 
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