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What’s Wrong With Carolina?
by Paul on 11/01/09 at 05:59 PM ET
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from Luke DeCock of the News & Observer,
In the winter of 2003, after a dismal six-goal loss to the Los Angeles Kings, the Carolina Hurricanes reached the inevitable conclusion that no matter how hard anyone tried or what anyone did, their season was only getting worse. And it proceeded to get worse, all the way to last place.
Is it possible the Hurricanes have reached that point on the first day of November, after a dismal four-goal loss to another West Coast team? After all, this is the first time the Hurricanes have gone nine games without a win since then.
This team doesn’t have the injury problems or overwhelming lack of interest the 2002-03 team developed as it slid down the standings, but it also doesn’t have a whole lot of answers, either.
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What’s wrong with the Canes?
They don’t have any offensive forward depth, and they don’t have any offensive defenseman depth. If Staal doesn’t put up huge points for them (and 3g-2a through 12 is not huge points) they are dead.
The Canes defenseman corps is like watching a Zombie movie. Corvo? Pitkanen? Good night, Irene.
Posted by HockeyinHD on 11/02/09 at 05:04 AM ET
They don’t have any offensive forward depth, and they don’t have any offensive defenseman depth. If Staal doesn’t put up huge points for them (and 3g-2a through 12 is not huge points) they are dead.
The Canes defenseman corps is like watching a Zombie movie. Corvo? Pitkanen? Good night, Irene.
Spot on. They’re just not a very good team, plain and simple. They’re relying heavily on guys like Whitney, Samsonov, Ruutu, and Jokinen to score points—guys that are notoriously flakey and go on looonnng cold streaks at a time.
Once again, I believe you have ot look at their previous run as a fluke and nothing more.
Posted by Primis on 11/02/09 at 08:03 AM ET
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While obviously not the #1 problem, it looks like Rod Brind’Amour is on his last legs…. His greatest asset in recent years, his faceoff dominance, is off 10% from previous years…. That’s a lot less possessions in a game….
Posted by Tony from Virginia Beach, VA on 11/01/09 at 07:53 PM ET