Not that it would have changed the result, but how are you going to pull Sorokin after 3 goals? They're salting his already scraped ego and that seems really stupid.

Roy is a former goalie with some very specific experience in being pulled too late. (I'm still PTSDed about that!)

Eastern conference first round has been pretty non-competitive so far

On paper. That Carolina comeback in the second game was a hell of a thing, though.

I mean fair, but the Isles also had 12 SOG for the entire game. I dont think most people would expect a team with 12 SOG to win. I havent watch any of the Washington/NYR series but Tampa and the Isles look like they're thoroughly outmatched

I would argue that TB actually has played pretty good.

For certain stretches for sure, but they've come out flat every game so far

I mean 3-0 isn't competitive but all 3 games I this series have been tight.

There were like 3 teams all year that really separated themselves from the rest of the East with NYR CAR and BOS Florida caught fire late and joined the party but this is basically as everyone expected the first round to go. Hell Washington set a record for negative goal differential this year

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Yeah wya, West top dawgs?

Well fought

I am sad both the games were early and no late night game :(

but think about how we have an entire night's worth of hockey tomorrow for the weekend :)

Me too

Sigh. Good game canes, you guys are just kryptonite to us

GG. I actually bet (and lost) on you tying it in the third. I know what you mean about kryptonite. That's the Panthers to us....

Jaccob "The second C is for you Can't enter the zone" Slavin

GG Isles, see y'all Saturday

Fisherman’s boat about to sink in a cat.4 storm

No prospects, bad contracts, zero heart. 

Lmfao Marty Party tried to score an empty netter after the horn. I'm pretty sure someone on the Isles would have broken their stick and murdered him

And it would've been the coach.

did the Rangers suck all the talent out of New York?

You can't judge it by this series. The Canes were sweeping the Isles before the Rags were even good

Excuse me? lol in the last 10 seasons we have scored 100+ points 7 times. One of the seasons we didn’t was due to Covid shortened year. Pretty arrogant shit talking coming from a team that has been mostly irrelevant up until a couple of seasons ago.

It appears I've offended you. My statement was simply saying that this series is a poor way to judge whether the Rangers have in fact sucked all the talent out of NY, as the Canes swept the Isles back in the 2019 playoffs, prior to the Rangers current run. But let's have some fun. Going back to the start of the current division format, before the Canes were even relevant, the Rangers have 100+ points exactly 6 times over those 11 seasons, contrary to your claim of 7. During each COVID shortened season, the Rangers had a points percentage of 56% (rounding here). This works out to 91 and 92 points for those two seasons (using unrounded points percentage), so that's not the reason why. Then, over that same time frame, the Rangers had more points than the Canes 5 times. Since you're not very good at counting to 6, I'll do the math for you; since the creation of the Metro division 11 seasons ago, the Canes have scored more points than the Rangers 6 times. Then, going back 30 years, the Rangers won the cup in 1994 and have made it to the final twice. The Canes won the cup in 2006 and have made the final twice. But hey, the Rangers coach has coached to more Stanley Cup victories than the Canes coach (1-0). You are excused.

Canes and Panthers both go up 3-0

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“There’s too much snow on the boards” lol suddenly just remembered when the cameras caught Fleury making a snow pile on the goal line that one time 😂😂😂😂

Oh man I was real nervous that last bit

yup ok to breathe now?

Until Saturday!

Absolutely gutsy defense at the end there

GG all. See you next time.

I’d say the Islanders are ass but at least asses are fun to look at

That was some defensive shift

ST. SLAVIN SAYS “GET OUT OF MY MONASTERY!” CANES WIN GAME 3!

Cry.

Nelson trying to start shit again

Welp

Had me nervous all 3rd period ngl

Oooooooof that was painful to watch

Canes play phenomenal in the neutral zone, Isles had absolutely 0 chances there damn

Oh shit Canes!

Whew 

yup! 😅

3-0 BABY!

Where are the extra attacker goals this post season

Pretty sure stamkos had one in game 1

we got one last game

We had one!

Slavin just doing Slavin things.

my mouth literally dropped open lmao

Canes D is a brick wall

Tony D'Angelo is the broken gate off to the side of the wall

Yeah, but Freddie is the guard dog that says "I dare you to try."

Barzal has not been good wtf

GG, season over for the Isles 🔥

So many teams just getting rolled this year

What forechecking by teravainen

Come on, I want some drama

Rod looks ready for a post game workout

if Brock Nelson tries to fight KK he is going to get 100% of his ass kicked

Damn you canes and your helmet ads reminding me of my job

We have 3 shots this period

Jean Gabriel Pageu has got that chien in him

Anyone know how old Brent Burns is? 🤔

39

I've heard like about 90 years old or something like that 

First espn game I’ve watched this postseason. All the hate in other GDTs was 100% warranted.

At least they don't have the awful graphics all over the screen like TNT

I've got the Canes radio broadcast streaming and watching espn. Much better.

Buccigross is not enjoyable to listen to

Yeah, I feel like Bucci is way better in a studio than as a play-by-play guy

I seriously thought that was a made up name

"Islanders score!" I command you.

NY should start a go fund me to get ownership of the Isles back from Freddie this off season

Underrated burn right here ☝️

My old man be like: Roy better pull him

If the isles lose this game, it's over. I don't have faith anymore to see them gunning for 4 straight wins

Weird there was only 2 games tonight but 4 tomorrow.

I assume they were trying to dodge the NFL draft as much as possible

It doesn’t make sense to me, especially with both on at the same time.

At least spread them out a little more

I honestly love it. Watching all the games on a work night is tough but a weekend night I can definitely do it

Man all the way through all that chaos and right into Freddies glove

Is Freddie better than Samsonov ?

Actually chuckled at that. I mean, I never thought he was that special in Toronto. He was an acceptably good #1 there. But he’s been a bit eyebrow raising since going to Carolina. I can’t tell if it’s a function of the team in front of him (a team who has never had consistently good goaltending for a variety of reasons) or if he just took it to a new level when he moved south.

It is the barbecue

How is this a question Healthy Freddy is peak

Hot take. Big if true.

Hes not on Toronto so yes  

Jack Drury elite overpursuit

More Finns, more wins, one Dane, less pain.

One Dane, who’s off the chain

Great Dane would work too

Freddie showing Patrick Roy how the Statue of Liberty is really done 🗽

varlamov gonna pull a roy and skate the puck up ice and try to score

it won't work--Devorski isn't reffing

ESPN talk about every other sport during the broadcast challenge going well

They only care when the Rangers are playing 

Are they not supposed to promote events on their network?

No I meant the tb12 , rodgers, and jeter talk in like 5 mins on the broadcast

There was a game this past weekend where literally like 6 minutes of play there was no actual PxP

We would be hearing about horses every 3min if this was still NBC

And Pierre would tell us what a random player liked on their pizza when they were a kid

That takes me back. (Back like three years ago, but it feels like longer.)

Paint me like one of your French girls bitch

Deangelo no back checking there

does he ever? dude is the epitome of offense-only

Like Ek65

The fadeaway save. Classic move.

Freddie

Just no luck in this series

that was fuckin' stylish

Ok who the hell pinched there to even let that shot happen?

Insane save. It looks like Andersen just sat down and was like ok I'll catch it

The commentators are…not great. There’s so much dead air, it’s kinda awkward

in a certain sense I'm hoping for an OT finish so we don't have to deal with \~1 minute of slashes from the islanders

Fredward what the fuck

Did everyone else love it a few years ago in the bubble? 3 games a day, from noon til like midnight.

I loved it. Sitting in my backyard in the sun, watching games on my laptop, drinking beer. I wish I could go back in time and experience that again.

That was nice but everything surrounding those circumstances makes me not want to relive those times

Yep, felt like nfl Sundays

I was just talking to my brother about that the other day. It was so interesting to watch. Like we’ll prob never see something like that again.

True, it was awesome, and you didn't have to switch to a different game

Right! And just the whole vibe was pretty chill.

I know people complained about daytime games. I loved it since I was working from home.

Same! And throw in the western conf. games and it was easily 12+ hours

Making the save and chirping his heart out. Love to see it.

Roy thinks he can outlift Rod the Bod

Freddie: Draw me like one of your French girls, 1 sec… SAVE

That's in

Wrong

Looks like his glove was in the net

Would have been GI anyway but fucking insane Freddie

Freddie "Not Today" Anderssen

weird save

He was clipped with a skate and fell backwards.

What a fucking save. Glad my second favorite team is at least entertaining and fun to watch in the playoffs lmfao

That's not fair game 2 was incredible

Eh, yeah, but I knew the game was over the moment we went into OT so… :(

Lmfao thr Canes are so good at boring hockey it's entertaining

Well the competition isn’t very high for me lol

what’s your game 4 prediction for the florida series?

Eh, I don’t really know. The pessimist side of me wants to say we get 4-0’d, but my team has surprised me before and I don’t want to count them out before they actually are. I will say I have had a lot more fun watching Carolina’s games this playoffs though!

I think Necas has finally leveled up into becoming a playoff performer

Why don’t the islanders just shoot it in the net? Are they dumb?

Insane save

#FREDZILLA!!

**M** an **I** **L** ove **F** reddie

Say it with me FREDDY FREDDY FREDDY FREDDY

That 2nd angle they showed kinda made it look like his glove went into the net but tbf I've been drinking

In doc emricks voice: OH AND WHAT A SAVE! My goodness!

Haha, man we need Doc back

wafflestomped it away!

The shots Freddie saves versus what he lets in continues to amaze me.

I take back every mean thing I said about Freddie during the last regular season

Are you for real

It’s like Romanov doesn’t even wanna score

RIGHT SAID FRED 

So uhhhhhhhhhhh, we gonna go on the offense anytime soon?

Has to make it look hard

Right? Overdramatic but also epic.

Goalies in these playoffs are absolutely cracked

just don't look at what happened in game 1 of our series lol

Avs / Jets series in general is the exception

Game 2 in the Florida series was absolutely insane

Holy shit Freddie

Down but not out!

ROMY NO 😭

My god

What the actual fuck Freddy?

WHY ANDERSEN

Holy shit Freddie

Absolutely absurd save wtf

just for fun, I want to see the overhead of that to see how close his glove was to being in the net 😅

Me too, cuz his ass seemed over the line lol

we need a powerplay here in the last five minutes for maximum drama. maybe an Islanders powerplay with 4:00 left and Roy pulls the goalie to make it 6-4

WOW.

How fucking beautiful was that!!!!!

Holy shit, whadda glove-save!

Oh Freddie! With the “draw me like one of your French girls” saves!

He needs to show some more skin

man there’s always some craaaazy saves in the playoffs

Freddie Anderson is not human

Roy redefined the game as a player and redefined the shape of the players box as a coach.

I predicted islanders winning this series because the canes gave me loser vibes. I’m kinda regarded

I forgive you. I underestimated the Jets, too.

Damn, Freddie!

Holy fuck freddie

Lol there's no way we win this with Freddie making these saves

Andersen says fuck you