So I guess Carolina is worse than Leafs?

[MiamiLaw]

Watching Tkachuk and Verhaeghe operate around the net makes me wonder why the Canes and other teams can't do it, too. There aren't any secrets: when you have a shot take it, take the puck to the net, look for guys breaking into the slot or backdoor post, and if you don't have the puck move to open space in front the net or off a post. I mean, what forward CAN'T do that?

Yet over and over we see [Canes] forwards pulling up looking to pass and getting checked off the puck, or taking outside shots that have little hope of getting through to the net. Very little movement in and around the slot, around the net. Rod has to be pulling out his hair, his team is playing tea time with snarly fang-toothed animals.

I don't think I have ever heard a "shoot the puck" chant like we heard last night. I have of course heard random people yell it a lot (sometimes me lol) but never a chant like that. The Canes simply do not seem to want to do the dirty work. They look absolutely awful.