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I'm not that excited anymore about Rod coaching this team. If he hasn't peaked yet, I feel it's coming. The same issues that come up in the playoffs (failure to win road games, no overtime wins in their last 5, abysmal power play, and this past postseason failure to see Freddy was shaky) probably won't get addressed again.
I'm getting tired of watching the team shoot 40 times into the opposing goaltenders chest with no one there for a rebound. I'm tired of the power play not clicking when it's needed. I'm tired of players like Svech and KK, and occasionally Aho, going weeks to sometimes months without scoring goals. I'm tired of Rods refusal to call timeouts or make goaltender changes as he should have done in game 6. I'm going to be really disappointed when Necas starts having career seasons elsewhere and wondering why Rod couldn't utilize him better.
I get it, we're not getting anyone better but I fear Rods stubbornness is going to backfire on him pretty soon. He could prevent this and hire someone to help him with the forward corps and the powerplay but it appears Jeff Daniels is sticking around. At some point the coaches have to take ownership of their teams shortcomings. I feel that hasn't been addressed.
I'm glad Rod and crew are extended.
They rise to a level of opportunity that few other teams experience.
And, the guys like to play for him. Well, I hope we see evidence of that in signing the UFAs they want to keep.
To each, his/her own. But with all due respect, it sounds like sour grapes to me. The reality: NYR is a better team. Not by much, but better. The best teams don't always win, and if Carolina had better goaltending, we could have scraped by the Rangers and we wouldn't be having this conversation -- at least, not yet. I'd argue that Florida is another slightly better team on paper. Tactics go only so far; you have to look at talent. It didn't help that the Canes lost Fast and Pesce. Fast was a good checking forward, and although DeAngelo played alright he's no Pesce. The Canes goalie probably faces a few less scoring chances with Fast and Pesce in the lineup. Andersen had a .932 save percentage going into the playoffs. Kotchetkov had .911. You're going to sit Andersen with those numbers? And if you look at save percentage in the two playoff series, Kochetkov had .880 in a single game and Andersen had .895. Take your choice between them, but you're unlikely to win a Cup either way with save percentages like that.
I'm sure they hope to get an answer on Nikishin before they decide what to do about Skjei, Pesce, Chatfield, and DeAngelo. Morrow will probably fill one of those slots, but it would help the salary cap a lot if Nikishin could fill another.
So apparently Linus Ullmark is requesting a trade from Boston. He's a little on the old side but he has never had a SV% below .905. 40+ games played each of the last three seasons with SV% of .917, .938, and .915.
Perhaps we have a trade partner for Necas? Necas isn't a fit here and we could really use a solid Goalie.
I'd rather have a 4-player deal where we give up Andersen and Necas in exchange for Ullmark and Morgan Geekie, former Cane. He's a right-handed shot at center that the Canes need and had a good year in Boston.
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