Early Season Report Card

Well I was thfifth D and there are 4 F’s. That’s telling, wonder why i am the first post…????

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This cannot end well.

too early to tell, didnt we have this problem last year?

D is for Doh!

Does anyone really need to expand on their vote? Well, unless somehow somebody gives an A or B…

I really think the ‘Canes need to make a trade. I know JR won’t start tinkering until late Nov. into Dec. I think he should really take a look at those Frolov rumblings out west. I have not a clue as to who we would trade tho, as I like most of the guys in the lineup and would have trouble saying bye to any of them. But a decent 25-30 goal scorer could really help.

yeah…. I gave them an F… and I think that speaks for itself…..

I remember over the summer going to the Rec Zone watching “Camp Brind’Amour…” I was all excited for hockey season to start…. I couldn’t believe how awesome our team was going to be…..

And well… I wish I had a time machine….. I’d go all the way back and live in the spring/summer of 2006…..

Something I was glad to read:

Discipline was a heavy focus at Monday’s practice, with the entire group having to skate the length of the ice twice if the coaches spotted an infraction during various drills.

Hopefully we can start to kick this penalty bug?

I gave the Canes an incomplete because I beleive they are a better team than they are letting on….

Who the hell are you people and what have you done with the glass half full friends i used have????

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So far the only one for a C. The reason why is because I do not blame all of these losses on the team necessarily. There have been many “bad luck” goals, penalties and chances go against the team so far this year. Not sure who pissed off the Hockey Gods (hopefully it was Yelle), but the bonces and deflections of last year are definitely not going for us so far.

I am holding out hope that they can turn this around somehow. They have the personnel to do so. Let’s see it happen.

i believe, but i still gave them a D
cause C is average
and we arent that
and incomplete doesnt make sense cause the question was to grade the season so far, and the season so far is complete

I probably have to explain my incomplete:
I don’t think there has been one game with an entirely healthy roster. Even the first game of the season, we were down Joni. Second game, we were still down Joni and we lost E.Cole. It’s just been downhill from there, especially with the d-men. Injuries can’t be an excuse, but it’s hard to get a real handle on a team that has yet to play a game together.

I still think this team is capable of great things and when everyone is in some sort of health, I think we’ll see them play the way we all expected at the start of the season.

I gave them an incomplete. Because I like these players. And I still want to believe.

But that article is pretty damn depressing LOL.

Jeezuz, i live in the middle of nowhere in a small wood box, I kn ow I have no life!!! WTF is with all you? It’s like a scary movie or somethign…

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FWIW, I’ve found that giveaway and takeaway stats are terribly inconsistent. Since, like hits, they are not official statistics and are done by the home team scorer, you’ll find some teams have a lot of both, while others have next to none. Fo example, the Isles always grade out high in both. It’s hard to screw up the “hit” stat .. but giveaways and takeaways are pretty subjective.

Get your $hit together and act like the franchise player!

100!!! It’s the little things in lfe, but don’t spit onmy biscuit, you all just helped jack up a hundred posts in no time on a friggin’ Monday night!!

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Well below “average” performance, so certainly no C.

Not a total failure, so as said so well above, Cam makes the save to keep them from scoring an F.

Going to need some extra credit (4+ game win streak at some point in the season) to undo the damage so far.

Areas that need work, as documented by Bob above:

Goals against – third to the Panthers and Leafs?…pathetic.

Power play – no excuse for being 25th (15.6%) with the pieces we have with which to work.

Penalties – ’nuff said about that…cut it out.

+1 to the 10th..

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The Leafs won, so they are catching up….

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On a totally unrelated note… The NHL is going to buy the ’yotes

Problem is three of those losses are to NYI, Minnesota and Colorado (better than expected, but still …)

In a situation like this do you think the breaks in the schedule have been a hindrance to the continuity they are need to establish? This is definitely a grind it out, feed off team members type of make up. I just wonder if the breaks hurt that and then all the extra time to think about which has been a lack of progress. I think the schedule picks up here to generate some flow enabling some type of positive momentum (crossing fingers).

I just can’t bring myself to give them an F because I feel like there are a (very) few bright spots – Cam, and Walker’s skating well. I think Alberts is going to be good, but he’s had his bad moments too. TKO is playing his role well too I think. That’s about where it ends. The lines they have up now are interesting….

Still no Gleason at practice today – any word on him?
HM – where were you…? I was waiting for someone to come up to me and say ‘Timmy…’
CG – the cut under Brandon’s eye looks good on him…
You know who else looked good? Oh, nevermind…
=D

when we knew those who voted “F” on the player evaluations were just trolls? We speculated if they were sourgrapes from Boston, New Jersey, Buffalo or Edmonton.

My, how times have changed.

Inconsistent, unfocused play. Pits has been solid since he’s back, Gleason was solid before he got hurt. The offense has been a sore spot. The D has been okay, but only because Cam has been good. Either our system is flawed and it needs to be tweaked, or this group just can’t make the system work. Just 10 games in so i remain optimistic, but it would be nice to see something to support that. I’m excited to see Sutter on the 3rd line and hope he gets decent minutes. I’m baffled by Rosie on the first line.