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GDT: Stanley Cup Final Game 4 Canes @ Vegas 6/9 8:00

Please let's take the next two and finish this off in six games, even if it means being awarded the Cup in our opponent's rink.*

*DISCLAIMER: I just realized that Game 7 is not scheduled until Wednesday, when I'll be attending a business conference in Spain. Awaking at 2AM for the opening day of the conference will not be an option.
 
HeyKurtz said:
Please let's take the next two and finish this off in six games, even if it means being awarded the Cup in our opponent's rink.*

*DISCLAIMER: I just realized that Game 7 is not scheduled until Wednesday, when I'll be attending a business conference in Spain. Awaking at 2AM for the opening day of the conference will not be an option.
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That's one more thing beer is for, man!
 
ThinIce said:
I'm still flying high after that 3rd period performance. It wasn't that the Canes were dominant (we weren't), but rather the determination and the fight that impressed me. Staal's highlight winning goal, Bussi's huge saves when we needed it most, and Ehler's puck luck on the boards, while keeping Vegas off the scoreboard the entire period made for fantastic finish. Now let's get a win at home tomorrow and put Vegas on the ropes.
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Yeah, worth noting that Carolina really did nothing to address their two biggest defensive problems in Game 4 and yet they managed to build a lead with sheer determination and battle level and then pulled the win out of their butts in the 3rd. But Marner was still allowed WAY too much freedom when he was on the puck and Theodore was allowed WAY too much time and space to pick out long breakout passes after puck retrievals. A massive percentage of Vegas’ offense in this series has come from those two guys and Carolina thus far hasn’t really done a heck of a lot about it other than trying to match with Slavin/Chatfield whenever Theodore was on the ice … when they could. That worked to a degree, mostly because those two recover better than the other pairings, but Theodore still managed that nasty breakout pass to Stone for a Vegas goal. Marner is still a freaking problem basically every time he’s on the ice.

I love the effort level from Carolina’s guys, but there’s still a lot of stuff to clean up in terms of execution. Some of it is that those two guys are just playing out of their minds, but some of it is down to Carolina not minding their Ps and Qs defensively
 
I am still awaiting a game in this series where the big boys like Aho, Svech, etc break out and the team as a whole is firing on all cylinders...I still think it's there and another gear to reach and why not game 5 when the place is going to be jumping off the foundation...
 
CanadaCanes said:
I am still awaiting a game in this series where the big boys like Aho, Svech, etc break out and the team as a whole is firing on all cylinders...I still think it's there and another gear to reach and why not game 5 when the place is going to be jumping off the foundation...
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Yeah, I quit waiting on that a while ago. Svech just isn’t switched on for some reason and Aho has been all over the place in the offensive zone. Jarvis has been much better but isn’t really playing with those guys anymore so I’m not even lumping them together at this stage. At this point, I’ll settle for Aho continuing to hold his own defensively and for him to get some PP production. That seems like a reasonable ask. Svech? Whatever. Just stay out of the freaking box, keep jamming the front on the PP and start annoying the D more than you annoy your own line mates. I thought Marty was going to slug him after a particularly dumb turnover last night.

For right now the first line is Stankoven’s line, and when Hall switched on about halfway through Game 3 there were magically enough goals to get some results. Let’s hope Torts doesn’t figure that out, because it literally hasn’t occurred to him yet. Torts may be a lunatic, but he's still a quality coach. His blind spots are pretty obvious though and one of them is little guys.
 
CanadaCanes said:
I am still awaiting a game in this series where the big boys like Aho, Svech, etc break out and the team as a whole is firing on all cylinders...I still think it's there and another gear to reach and why not game 5 when the place is going to be jumping off the foundation...
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And Vegas fans are waiting for Eichel and Dorafeyev to go nuts in this series too.

Conventional wisdom was that the Canes couldn’t win without the Aho line getting going. It’d be nice if we could get some offense from them but we’ve gotten 14 Ws without them. We can get 2 more if necessary.
 
Fayettenamcanesfan said:
Don't know why - most of his successful teams thrived from his own 'little' guys. He should know how to counter it
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St Louis was starting to get pretty candid about his relationship with Torts in Tampa before he started coaching. Suffice to say it wasn’t great. So yeah, it’s always been a thing even when those guys thrived under him.

And to be fair, St Louis and Tocchet made the same mistake although I’m not sure either of them had enough options to do much about it. As much I bag on Travis Green, he had the best basic plan to match up with Carolina. His guys just didn’t execute and then they ran into injury problems with Sanderson that limited their flexibility.
 
Jarvis got so frustrated that he missed that shot that he simply wasn’t going to get beat on that puck battle. Even if it was against 4 dudes in stupid sparkly uniforms. Hell of a play by that young man.
 
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