1/18 CAR: Trocheck Yourself

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Just caught up on the highlights, and I have to ask, what sort of blackmail material does Forbort have on Sweeney?
 

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California. Duh.
For some reason ESPN+ is showing this game as blacked out for me, despite being 3,000 miles from either team's home market.

In this case, it's more of a bug than a feature.
 

durandal1707

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Considering the game actually started at 7:26, the B's certainly only started to show up around 8:00, so that tracks.
 

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You would think that a bottom pairing defenseman having an already horrible night would at least hang in there and try to block that shot.
 

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I know in a playoff game you can shelter your 3rd pairing defense pretty well, but no team that has any sort of playoff aspirations should be employing Derek Forbort.
 

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I guess after 9 games in 15 days I should’ve expected something like this after how physical that Nashville game was.
 

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I guess after 9 games in 15 days I should’ve expected something like this after how physical that Nashville game was.
Maybe. I'm really hoping that those 9 games weren't just forwards 4-12 all going on a hot streak simultaneously. Because tonight looks like all of them going cold all at once.
 

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This is just one of those games you chalk up to an aberration and move on to the next. It’s so bad there’s almost nothing you can do.
 

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Maybe. I'm really hoping that those 9 games weren't just forwards 4-12 all going on a hot streak simultaneously. Because tonight looks like all of them going cold all at once.
I see a bunch of guys reaching a lot, not skating, behind the play. Sometimes you’re just tired as a team. They have to get over it, and they will. That’s obviously no excuse for Clifton & Forbort that haven’t played.
 

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This is just one of those games you chalk up to an aberration and move on to the next. It’s so bad there’s almost nothing you can do.
This exactly. It sucks, I was hoping to see a good one, it happens. No need for anyone (looking at you Boston media) to start hammering the panic button. I’m sure the Idiocracy of Tuukka Haters will make themselves vocal here, but otherwise we should all just take a breath and move onto Thursday.
Carolina is good and can do this to a team on an off night
 

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This is just one of those games you chalk up to an aberration and move on to the next. It’s so bad there’s almost nothing you can do.
Yup.

the Canes lost 6-0 to the blue jackets 5 days ago. Shit happens.
 

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My armchair psychology is that the team geared up for the crazy dense schedule leading up to this game, performed extremely well, and then unraveled a bit when that focus and intensity inevitably dropped with some much-needed days off. Fuggedaboudit and move on. Still have hope that the team from the past few weeks is the real one.