CanadaCanes
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Could he fetch a center in a trade??? I’d do that in a New York Minute!
GDT: Canes @ Flyers 1/3 7:00
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Could he fetch a center in a trade??? I’d do that in a New York Minute!
TheBigKahuna
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Canes are Canesing.
HurryCanes
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Solid effort by Mrazek. Good guys hold off Gritty 5-3
If Dougie ever gets settled in and heated up, I think you'd regret that.
For the record, I ignored this one through 2 periods in favor of watching State play their ACC opener at Miami. Once that was done I flipped over to the hockey (although Spectrum thought it was tennis ... idiots) and almost jinxed the whole thing. Sorry about that ... my bad.
Again though ... young teams have trouble with big leads on the road sometimes. Nobody has forgotten that horrible result in Washington back in December, right? At least this time they hung on for the W. And it sure is nice to play a team with worse goaltending for once, isn't it?
Again though ... young teams have trouble with big leads on the road sometimes. Nobody has forgotten that horrible result in Washington back in December, right? At least this time they hung on for the W. And it sure is nice to play a team with worse goaltending for once, isn't it?
Elsker
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From what I've always seen from Calgary fans is that Hamilton is a "late starter". By that, I thought they meant a month or two into the season. But last night I saw one say to a Canes fan "welcome to January Hamilton".
This season I think his "late start" is more related to how and when he's being deployed, plus our overall futile system of cycle - pass to the point at the blue line - fire towards the net as an "entry" strategy - go get the puck - rinse - repeat. And with little to no net-front screening going on, those blue-line point shots are an easy catch for an unscreened goalie...if they make it to the net at all.
Note that last night's goal was a completely different thing. Hamilton dropped down low on the rush with the puck, firing from the right-dot area instead of way back there at the blue line. Physics says there's no time for goalie-twitch when you're shooting from that distance. If you can hit the target, it's in.
And that, says Calgary fans, is his game. On the move, on the rush. Not standing at the blue line. That's Faulk's game.
This season I think his "late start" is more related to how and when he's being deployed, plus our overall futile system of cycle - pass to the point at the blue line - fire towards the net as an "entry" strategy - go get the puck - rinse - repeat. And with little to no net-front screening going on, those blue-line point shots are an easy catch for an unscreened goalie...if they make it to the net at all.
Note that last night's goal was a completely different thing. Hamilton dropped down low on the rush with the puck, firing from the right-dot area instead of way back there at the blue line. Physics says there's no time for goalie-twitch when you're shooting from that distance. If you can hit the target, it's in.
And that, says Calgary fans, is his game. On the move, on the rush. Not standing at the blue line. That's Faulk's game.
Yeah ... and it's worth noting that while he hasn't had a ton of shooting luck this season, that's the kind of scoring chance that Hamilton has been creating the most thus far. He's a decent passer and has a pretty good long range snapshot, but he's much more dangerous dancing past a defender into an opening in the high slot before letting it fly. And that's the kind of goal he most often scored in Calgary, from memory. Again, I know how Canes fans can be and most (if not virtually all) of them have already thrown in the towel and turned HARD on Hamilton, when I'm 100% sure he's going to give the team a LOT more offense than he's managed thus far. I can't count how many times I've heard somebody on the concourse mumbling about "trading that bum Hamilton" this season. I think it would be a mistake to listen to that crowd too much.
Oh, and note to Brind'Amour ... Hamilton needs opportunities to get his offensive game untracked. Burying him on the 2nd power play unit has NOT helped. Especially since Faulk isn't giving us anything on the first unit anyway.
