Game Thread ..... @ Florida, 12/18/09 - HD [Archive]

Canesluver

12-17-2009, 09:50 AM

O.K., gentlemen..... are you listening?! Can you please, oh please, try to build some momentum and go on-a-run? You're heading down to Florida... and it's a home-and-home... now's the time, for crap's sake.

In the immortal words of Tim Gunn, "MAKE IT WORK!" DO NOT WASTE VALUABLE HD TIME IN PUTRIDITY!!!

Puck-drop at 7:30PM

LET'S GO 'CANES!!

nccanes

12-17-2009, 09:55 AM

In the immortal words of Tim Gunn, "MAKE IT WORK!" DO NOT WASTE VALUABLE HD TIME IN PUTRIDITY!!!

:laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:

I had to laugh last night when JF was on with MM and he talked about heading "down to the barren wasteland of the NHL that is Florida". Ziiiiiiing!

SoCalcaniac

12-17-2009, 10:39 AM

I cracked up at Forslund. He really has no love for "South Florida". :lol:

Yes, please do not do not waste all of this feel good stuff, and turn out a clunker. It will just be a KILLER.

c-girl

12-17-2009, 01:03 PM

For pete's sake, somebody keep Keith Ballard away from Cam.

KaniacFever

12-17-2009, 01:31 PM

So with the winter weather supposedly coming tomorrow afternoon through Saturday, wonder if either team will get into Raleigh Friday night.

The Kitty Cats are beatable. I really dislike them and I'd love nothing more than a Canes win.

Canesluver

12-17-2009, 01:40 PM

Actually.... I hope both teams are in Sunrise, FL on Friday night.... since that's where the game is. ;)

nccanes

12-17-2009, 01:56 PM

Actually.... I hope both teams are in Sunrise, FL on Friday night.... since that's where the game is. ;)

She means them flying back on Friday night AFTER the game (we play the Panthers here on Saturday). ;)

Canesluver

12-17-2009, 02:07 PM

She didn't say, AFTER, now did she??????? Hhmmmmm??? HHHHHMMMMMM!!!!! ;)

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

NCCaniac42

12-17-2009, 02:24 PM

For pete's sake, somebody keep Keith Ballard away from Cam.

:laugh::laugh::laugh: :yeah:

Solracer

12-17-2009, 03:06 PM

Woot High Dive Practice for all!! :)

livinthedream

12-17-2009, 04:07 PM

Oops! Falling down in my responsibilities.

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/ACA7033

They arrived a few minutes ago and close to on time, so hopefully that means Tuomo can make his 4:45 appearance on XM/NHLN.

ultrablue55

12-18-2009, 04:12 AM

nccanes

12-18-2009, 06:52 AM

Don't think getting 2 points will put that in jeopardy just yet.

nccanes

12-18-2009, 06:57 AM

So - I have big dinner plans tonight, so the game goes on the DVR (and twitter adjustments made).

News from the "barren wasteland"

Gregory Campbell, who sustained a head injury when colliding with teammate Bryan Allen on Dec. 7 against Edmonton, went through practice Thursday morning without any setbacks and will play against the Hurricanes.

``I feel good,'' Campbell said. ``It's been a long 10 days or so. You almost feel like you're an outcast sort of thing. One of the best things about hockey is spending time with your teammates, and now I'm excited to get back.''

Center Kamil Kreps might miss Friday's game with an injured rib after slamming into an open door by the Panthers bench in Wednesday's game against the Thrashers.

David Booth is still out.

I believe Stillman has been out....can't find if he'll play or not, he was skating on Wednesday.

C'mon Mo - please beat your best bud Pete!

SoCalcaniac

12-18-2009, 10:25 AM

Wow, the FLA dudes seem to be having these weird/freakish type injuries. :crazy:

I read somewhere on George Richards Panthers blog that Booth had started skating. E, I believe Stillman had a knee injury and has been out (?) I can't recall if he has come back recently, I've not watched much of the Panthers, they have that Moeller dude on the broadcast now that they got rid of Denis Potvin, and he just sucks. Difficult to watch so I don't.

Now that hub's birthday has officially passed, it's the holidays for us, so we're picking up and putting up our tree today. Canes, please make it a festive evening,the Panthers are no different than Dallas- they're beatable, so beat them, ok? thanks. :lol:

caveman

12-18-2009, 04:01 PM

I'm hoping to steal the time to watch most of this game tonight. And of course partake in either the fun or the car crash of 09-10 Canes fandom.

livinthedream

12-18-2009, 04:08 PM

I'm not going to be stealing time for this one tonight, I'm going to be out partaking in some yuletide cheer in the neighborhood. I will have my Blackberry with me though, so to those of you who have my number, you know I always appreciate the text updates and tweets!

ontheglass

12-18-2009, 06:44 PM

Any "Dish" viewers here. I kicked DIRECTV (after eleven years) to the curb today and now have Dish. The game is not listed in the guide, but channel 420HD has a block of time undesignated... is that the game? Thanks

Canesluver

12-18-2009, 06:52 PM

I see it in the guide.. but only the standard-def channel --451, but I don't see it listed on any of the HD channels...... for some reason

ontheglass

12-18-2009, 07:29 PM

I see it in the guide.. but only the standard-def channel --451, but I don't see it listed on any of the HD channels...... for some reason
Thanks CL

Canesluver

12-18-2009, 07:37 PM

You're welcome! :)

It's nice to see Ray in the background of Jussi's interview, up to his usual mugging! :lol: It means he's relaxed!! Success!! :lol:

FinFan

12-18-2009, 07:43 PM

Holy CRAP! Cam got caught behind the net. Thank goodness the guys were playing great defense!

The puck is really bouncing around. That ice looks awful.

FinFan

12-18-2009, 08:39 PM

That was a gorgeous shot. Great passing. Those drills are paying off!

And Cam, wow, he's now playing fantastic in goal. Let's hope we don't have a down 10 in the rest of the game.

I spoke too soon.

Okay, I'm leaving... I see me being here isn't working.

SouthernHockeyChick

12-18-2009, 08:52 PM

I'm behind in the game (it's 1-1 on my TV) but someone please tell me we're going to start to attempt to clear some of this traffic out from in front of Cam? :crazy: Jeebus! This is ridiculous.

And did you Dish people get the HD broadcast? We're planning to switch to Dish soon so I'd like to hear about any issues like that.

Oh joy, 2-1 cats.

toastmasterbone

12-18-2009, 08:56 PM

...it's 1-1 on my TV... Oh joy, 2-1 cats.

You might want to just go to live TV so you don't have as much to watch. :hurl:

SouthernHockeyChick

12-18-2009, 09:20 PM

Yeah, we're all caught up now. :mad: WTH.

And why on earth is Jussi wearing that thing (in the hospital visit video) that makes it look like he has a cervical collar on?!? :crazy:

Canesluver

12-18-2009, 09:21 PM

LOL -- I think it's just a fleece jacket or something with the collar all zipped-up. :lol:

SouthernHockeyChick

12-18-2009, 09:26 PM

Yeah, I could tell what it was but, he seriously looked like it was restricting movement of his neck. Un-zip it a bit, kid! You're from NORTHERN FINLAND! Like, near the Arctic circle! It's not that cold here! :lol:

And its especially never cold on any Peds unit I've ever been on.

Greensboro Hurricanes

12-18-2009, 09:40 PM

SouthernHockeyChick

12-18-2009, 09:41 PM

Oh, I'm in 09-10 Canes hell at 5-1 with Legace in net with the rest of you, now. :sick:

cmw00

12-18-2009, 09:43 PM

What a cluster**** of a goal that 6th one was :lol:

guinevere

12-18-2009, 09:43 PM

Oh God. Just stop the bleeding. :sick:

SouthernHockeyChick

12-18-2009, 09:46 PM

Hey, Walks scores....the comeback begins!

:laugh: I kill me.

Or I wish someone would kill me....something like that.

LOL, I got a tweet (gotta turn this **** off now that I'm back in town) immediately after Scotty scored and thought it had to be the fastest tweet in history....but it was about Moore's goal. Now here's the tweet about Scotty.

Solracer

12-18-2009, 09:46 PM

I was going to say I wish I could watch the game, for some reason its not broadcasting on the channel it is supposed to be on uverse... guess I am not missing Much

guinevere

12-18-2009, 09:48 PM

Whooo and Staal scores! Thats one way to stop the bleeding. Of course its like trying to staunch an amputation with a cotton ball....

SouthernHockeyChick

12-18-2009, 10:05 PM

^ :laugh:

1-13-4 on the road. Yeah, that'll do it.

guinevere

12-18-2009, 10:09 PM

^Thats what we call "road kill"

IceSun

12-18-2009, 11:06 PM

Good gosh - what happened. I peeked at the end of the first and saw it end 0-0. I peeked during the second and it was 1-1. I peeked during the 3rd and 6-3 :hurl:

We now return to your regularly scheduled 09-10 Canes (i.e. no worries about losing draft position.)

livinthedream

12-18-2009, 11:47 PM

Must have been riveting with less than 2 pages worth of comment in the game thread. Thanks to the folks who kept me updated tonight even though the news wasn't good, at least I knew what to expect when I got home. Anything worth watching from the broadcast or just hit the old 'delete' button and be done with it?

nccanes

12-18-2009, 11:50 PM

I turned off my tweets and then realized at dinner that I never set the DVR. No big deal I see.

I can't help but think about JF who musta got sucked in after Wed because I'm pretty sure he uttered "if they can go into xmas with 4 straight wins...lookout".

Or not. :(

Caniac4life

12-19-2009, 12:12 AM

Well thank goodness that JF and MM basically called our hockey team, and yes, the "future captain" was specifically called out, a collective bunch of wimps during the postgame. The only thing they didn't point out was that our passive style, employed by the coach, leads to no other conclusion.

SouthernHockeyChick

12-19-2009, 12:16 AM

Is that the 14 points in 11 games future captain? Not sure WTF else he's supposed to do.

Kat

12-19-2009, 12:31 AM

^Thats what we call "road kill"

:lol::lol:

Caniac4life

12-19-2009, 12:47 AM

SouthernHockeyChick

12-19-2009, 12:57 AM

Or, maybe we should get him about 5 other #1 picks to play with, like Crosby has? Or how about lets just get all his teammates an Evgeni Malkin instructional video and maybe that would help? Or perhaps Cam needs the Marc Andre Fleury video?

Tripp sure was glowing with praise on Staal's play at both ends tonight for this criticism to now crop up.

WTFever. He'll never be good enough until he becomes in a one-man Stanley Cup champion, I suppose, and that comes with his contract. I just think people look sorta silly constantly criticizing him while his points constantly go up and up. Especially when we roll out the crap that his goals come as empty netters or when it doesn't matter. That's just silly, IMO. We sound like Leafs fans. But I know, he's Superman and he's just not playing like it and carrying this under-performing TEAM to the playoffs.......you know, like he did LAST YEAR. I guess he didn't understand he needed to do it EVERY year with no help from the other 22 men we're over-paying for.

Kahz

12-19-2009, 08:04 AM

I don't think "showing up" after the score is 5-1 makes much difference.

How about playing both ends of the ice.

Just because your scoring chance didn't work out, is that a reason to pout and just "hang out"?

He just seems like a moody personality that doesn't seem to take a team that is struggling,and make them better, but to lull about in the problems that exist. There's no take charge in his game this year.

That's not the leader we're paying big bucks for.

Should we send him a Sidney Crosby instructional video?Maybe we should send Ward a Patrick Roy instructional video and Pitkanen a Nicklas Lidstrom instructional video. All coming from the "Completely Unreasonable Expectations" video series.

Staal has 14 points in 11 games since returning from his injury. That's five more points than the next closest teammate during that span (Pitkanen with 9). Isn't that what we're paying him big bucks for? How else exactly is he supposed to "lead"? There are quite a few near-useless highly compensated veterans on this team who allegedly have great leadership qualities yet have done jack **** all season, so I guess it is time to scapegoat a 25-year old for failing to lead the team by scoring 150 points.

SoCalcaniac

12-19-2009, 10:53 AM

Excellent points Kahz & SHC. There just isn't anything else to say on those points-you both said it very well.

I just KNEW I would come in here and read some kinda crazy sh** about The Future Captain and his apparent "lack of leadership". :eyeroll
It's great that I'm right, I love that. :lol:

This was an equal opportunity bunch of bull**** last night. The wheels on the "hopeful" bus flipped all straight to hell.

Well thank goodness that JF and MM basically called our hockey team, and yes, the "future captain" was specifically called out, a collective bunch of wimps during the postgame.

Did they really call Staal a wimp? Did Maniscalco then go into his Crosby, Gretzky comparison? Surely to gosh they pointed fingers at others besides #12.

There was seriously PLENTY to go around. They looked exactly like they did over a month ago when this team was beyond pitiful.

I have no clue what team is going to show up tonight, but it will get very ugly in that bldg if they duplicate last night's performance.

guinevere

12-19-2009, 12:26 PM

Put me on the list for agreeing with all as well. The guy was trying to play injured at the beginning of the season. Maybe that might have been a little selfish- who knows- but that is certainly not a hallmark of a wimp. Since he's been back, he really has been performing fairly well given what he has to back him up.

Kat

12-19-2009, 12:40 PM

I agree on Staal. No-one can do it by themselves, and I see sh!tty play all over the place.

My cross to bear is someone in my house for whom CWard can do no right... and nights like last night sure don't help.

I think the real problem here is that the team just plains sucks. Not the individual players, necessarily, but the team. People (here and in the Canes org itself) pick on individual players here and there to make themselves feel better, and/or hope to "fix" the problem...

livinthedream

12-19-2009, 12:51 PM

Bat signal to the man from Greensboro. Would it be possible to include the feature segment on the hospital visits when you publish your game highlights?

Thanks!

Canesluver

12-19-2009, 02:29 PM

Actually -- The video of the hospital visits is already up on the 'Canes website, and it's exactly the same as what was aired last night. :)

livinthedream

12-19-2009, 02:40 PM

Oh, good. Then I won't waste my time flipping through the broadcast for it.

caveman

12-19-2009, 02:43 PM

So it ended up the "Car Crash" variety. Ah well.

Alicia

12-19-2009, 02:45 PM

I can't help but think about JF who musta got sucked in after Wed because I'm pretty sure he uttered "if they can go into xmas with 4 straight wins...lookout".Well, that was kinda funny...:crazy:

Greensboro Hurricanes

12-19-2009, 06:37 PM

Bat signal to the man from Greensboro. Would it be possible to include the feature segment on the hospital visits when you publish your game highlights?

Thanks!

That's funny, because my first and middle names are Bruce Wayne.

Seriously.

I'll get to the videos tomorrow. Between pulling two extra shifts this weekend and the half-foot of snow we got dumped on us that's going to be the earliest I can get to it.

Greensboro Hurricanes

12-20-2009, 03:51 PM

The hospital video.

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And the highlights.

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