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GDT: Canes @ Utah 11/13 9:00

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The first trip to Utah and the last Canes After Dark until March.

The Canes make their first ever trip to the Great Salt Lake after a thorough dismantling of Vegas, handing them their first home loss of the year. Marty and Marty continued their points streaks, Martinook at 4 games, Necas at 10. He’s the 10th player since relocation to have a double digit game point streak. He’s also tied for 3rd in the league in scoring with 24 points. The Canes also extended their streak of scoring at least 4 goals to 9 games, also a record since relocation. The franchise record is 11, set in 1980-81. Jarvis missed the game with an upper body injury and is listed as day to day, we’ll see what happens today. Tyson Jost stepped into the lineup and scored his first goal as a Cane with an inadvertent deflection of a Slavin point shot. No word on the goalie, I’d imagine Kochetkov goes again.

Utah started the season on fire, winning their first 3 games. They‘ve crashed to earth going 3-6-3 since. That leaves them at NHL .500 with 15 points in 15 games. Dylan Gurnther leads with 7 goals, Nick Schmaltz has 12 assists, but no goals yet. Connor Ingram has started 12 games in goal and is at 3.40/.879. He’s backed up by Karel Vejmelka, who we’ll see tonight. He’s winless in 3 starts but has decent numbers, 2.75/.899. The Utes are 22nd in goals per game, 25th in goals against. They’re 26th on the PP, 22nd on the PK.

FanDuel for TV.
 
Utah's fast start fizzled when Durzi got hurt and they're currently dressing 6 but basically playing 5 on D ... and that's never a good look. That has put too much pressure on their goalies and Ingram responded by getting all kinds of shaky. Vejmelka is better under siege than Ingram so maybe he'll get in the mix a bit more, but it just goes to show how fragile a team defense can be when one or two injuries throw the whole thing out of whack. It helps when special teams can pick up the slack, but that's never been this team's strong suit and it's still not.

This should be a scenario where Carolina's balance and pressure can just sort of do its thing, but the Canes have to show up ready to work and that's been a struggle on the road against this team in the past. Maybe the change of scenery will convince the road team that it's a real NHL game.
 
Scouting the refs has awakened from their slumber. Tonight’s officials:

Referees:
Graham Skilliter #24, Brandon Schrader #34

Linesmen:
Kiel Murchison #79, Jonathan Deschamps #80

The Canes were 2-1 with Skilliter and 1-1-1 with Schrader. Utah was 2-1-1 with Skiller and an improbable 6-2 with Schrader. They won 36 games last year and he worked 16.6% of them.
 
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I forgot that Utah is in the mountain time zone. I may actually be able to watch this whole game tonight. The word "may" is doing some heavy lifting, though
 
Love to see Aho light it up tonight. I keep expecting his goal scoring to catch fire. Just a matter of time. Feel better Jarvy.
Make them rember that they're Coyotes with a different address.

Jim
 
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