Is it scaring anyone else that people are expecting the Isles to win round 1?

I’m a canes fan, and I’d say that this series is a tossup. We’re teams that play a very similar style of hockey. I’d say that the canes are the better team by far, and I’m not saying that with bias. It’s just the truth. What evens us out this series is that we lost Pacioretty, ideally our best scorer, and we lost Svech, our most physical and one of our best all around players. You guys have an advantage in net with sorokin, but we have an advantage because of our stifling defense. Unless I just get surprised, this is going to be a low-scoring series. The team That wins is going to do it by stifling the other team’s offense and pushing those hard to come by goals through.

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