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For whatever it's worth, in the games where Igor Shesterkin wasn't on a vision quest, we won twice and held shit down.

A pox on the Hurricanes.

Debates around Lafreniere versus Kreider may not be the issue here. Looking around the league, you can see that the 2020 draft class got railroaded by COVID game loss, and they're just figuring it out now. Stutzle and Lundell were the exceptions - and the reason is clear - they played overseas during the pandemic and didn't "lose the season" the way others did. The 2020 class went off this year. Lafreniere, obviously, but Byfield, Raymond, Jarvis, Peterka, and maybe one or two others really made big impact steps forward. Then there are guys like Schneider, Guhle, Sanderson on D, and a few goalies to come, but it feels like this class was a year behind the curve.

oh please nobody else wants to run this forum of yahoos and crazies. I mean, uh, you're all wonderful upstanding people.

Given our special teams, I'll play to a modest advantage at 5v5 and take my chances on our PP and PK being the better special teams unit. We'll win that game more often than not, and hey, you only need to be marginally better than .500 to win a cup anyway.

While this thread is far from over, please take a moment and give our fearless, sleeveless leader his kudos.

I think that's the problem right now. If Chytil's ready, who sits? Our "competition" was Rempe and Roslovic, but Rempe sitting for Chytil probably bumps Cuylle down and breaks that line up. Not sure you want to do that. Roslovic had a point-a-game series against the Caps - you don't sit him after that. Yay, good problems?

I can't wait to hear about how Mika Zibanejad was invisibly scoring nearly 2 points a game.

This dude is Biff Tannen

Yep. Bang on. I also really love the combination of the Canes "fire early and often" approach with our transition defense. Lots of those shot attempts aren't on net, and that can feed our rush offense.

Exactly. Give me a limping, bruised, exhausted Canes team over an Islanders team playing on adrenaline and big time "we're not supposed to be here" vibes.

That would explain the low breakaway speed. Eating the donuts, then using too much insulin to offset the donuts, thus hypoglycemia. We're about to unlock Kakko here. We need to remove the donuts from the room. We're geniuses! Carolislanders are so fucked!

Do you think Kakko and Panarin can't play together because Panarin is the Breadman and Kakko has diabetes?

I don't wish injury on anyone per se, but it would greatly please me to face the Bridgeport Sound Tigers in the next round.

I would rather face a Canes team with a good scare put into them than an Islanders team playing with absolute wads of house money.