polarbare
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I'd rather be wrong, but I'll pat myself on the back for foreseeing this. Hmm, maybe I should open a psychic place.I mean, it's Detroit, what could go wrong?
I'd rather be wrong, but I'll pat myself on the back for foreseeing this. Hmm, maybe I should open a psychic place.I mean, it's Detroit, what could go wrong?
Hey, as long as we don't need to score goals or save them, we'll be fine!Can't watch on ESPN+ or Hulu+ so I didn't follow this game, except to check on the scoring. We've now dropped 3 in a row and haven't played really well for a couple of weeks now. Reminds me of how our performance plummeted during the last part of the last two seasons. Shaky goaltending and a lack of scoring doesn't bode well for the playoffs.
Well, they don't have that ONE guy. This is a team effort kind of team. And if too many guys aren't bringing it, they simply fail. Lately, too many aren't. And there isn't a star player with the skillset to carry this team. Goaltending isn't going to "steal" any games. Waddell tried. He did. But they fell short. He's going to have his hands full this summer. This isn't the roster to get it done.Most nights anymore it just feels like the Canes have no one offensively that scares anyone and it’s just a pop gun offense.
Yeah, I'm so sick of hearing that one. Standings don't mean squat if you're playing like dog doo and NO ONE expects you to win in the playoffs.Don’t panic. We’re still second in the league!
We seem to be saving them for something. Damned if I know what we're saving them for, however.Hey, as long as we don't need to score goals or save them, we'll be fine!
Exactly. And now I want some chocolate
Exactly my point about the Canes’ failure to use Pacioretty’s cap hit. Another trade deadline that brought us minor lineup tweaks— Max Domi and now Pool Party and a Ghost.We've now dropped 3 in a row and haven't played really well for a couple of weeks now. Reminds me of how our performance plummeted during the last part of the last two seasons. Shaky goaltending and a lack of scoring doesn't bode well for the playoffs.
If all it was is cap space you’d have an excellent point. But with the contracts coming up the last thing they need is to sink a lot of their future cap space on a deadline overpay and or give up their top prospects and or high draft picks.Exactly my point about the Canes’ failure to use Pacioretty’s cap hit. Another trade deadline that brought us minor lineup tweaks— Max Domi and now Pool Party and a Ghost.
Yea, nothing earth shattering on the market when we were looking and I’m glad we didn’t bite. Will be interesting next year. The free agent market is pretty weak.If all it was is cap space you’d have an excellent point. But with the contracts coming up the last thing they need is to sink a lot of their future cap space on a deadline overpay and or give up their top prospects and or high draft picks.
They’re pretty well situated to restyle the top of their forward group in the next year or so and upgrade some of those roster slots but they’ll need some younger cheaper guys that can fill roles. If they trade them all that’s a big hit on their ability to continue to compete.
To make a good deadline move there has to be a good move there. I think the cost for us would have been too high.