Carolina Hurricanes vs Philadelphia Flyers | Series Preview | Round 2 Stanley Cup Playoffs
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What makes the Carolina Hurricanes vs Philadelphia Flyers series intriguing?
This is an interesting series because one team we expected here, one team we did not. Carolina Hurricanes, Philadelphia Flyers? Really? Stingy defense, tough to play against, a team that looks like the Flyers of old. And we're going to start with goaltending here because I think that's kind of how we have to do it and just go, who's got the edge? So in the Flyers net, we've got Dan Vladar, and I don't think we're going to see Sam Arison in this series unless there's an injury, but he's there. He's a part of it. And Carolina, surprisingly, the guy that signed to the long extension has not seen the ice yet either. It's going to be Freddie Anderson, not Brandon Bussey. Who do you give the edge to here?
Freddie Anderson, who's older, but had a spectacular first round series. Dan Vladar, who we're all like career backup, who is now a starter and doing great.
I'm going to... I'm going to call it a wash. Freddie Anderson – I mean, it's just two goalies who have more to give than we thought of them. Freddie because of age and durability.
Who has the edge in goaltending for the Hurricanes and Flyers?
Vladar just because I've never really seen him play to this level. If I had to give an edge, I'll give a slight edge to Philly. Vladar had two shutouts in six games. That's – That's incredible.
Right. And does not have. I mean, listen, Philadelphia plays a stingy team defense. We'll get to it. But, you know, Carolina is like the gold standard for that. Right. Jesse, what about you in goaltending?
This is fascinating. I'm not wasting breath here. I need Adam Wilde's take on Freddie Anderson. What am I doing? Why throw to me? We need the man who is the number one Freddie Anderson doubter. I'm not a hater. I said this one word specifically. Not a hater, doubter. He hates when you don't doubt him. He had an unbelievable series against the Ottawa Senators. You say one goal, probably he shouldn't let in, but it's one goal. He got away with it. It's a four-game sweep. But you don't believe he can keep up that level of play, which was fantastic.
It was phenomenal.
You're not trusting it.
It was phenomenal. Listen, I've seen Freddie Anderson do this. And I go back to high leverage games, right? Nobody doubts the Carolina Hurricanes are a perennial second round team, which is so impressive. Like, let's just call it what it is. Yeah. My issue with Freddie was always high leverage games against physical opponents. If you saw game four, Ottawa, Carolina, I thought Ottawa dragging Carolina into the muck benefited Ottawa. They kept going up on the power play. I was like, why didn't Ottawa do this for the first three games? They didn't do it. They didn't do it. Philadelphia can play that game. They can play a nasty game. That was a nasty series against Pittsburgh. And that is when you can get into a guy like Freddie Anderson's head.
Remember, I always go back to last year, conference finals, 15 goals in five games allowed. I have asterisks next to Freddie Anderson. I do. I'm prepared to be wrong because I was in the first round.
I just have such a hard time picturing him playing two months consecutively and healthy.
100%. That is also a part of it. Yeah, but they have Bussey as a backup. They do. Which is pretty good. All right, on defense. Jake Slavin, who is just the NHL's most shut down guy there ever is, there ever was. He's paired with Jalen Chatfield. Keandre Miller, another cast off from the Rangers that is in the second round this year again. Sean Walker, who was tough as nails against the Senators. Goss Dispair and Nickishen, we think is going to play. He did have the concussion in game four. We'll see what happens there, but he's penciled in. Sanheim, Ristolainen, Cam York, Jamie Drysdale, Nick Seeler, Noah Juleson. I feel like the answer is obvious here. Yes, the Flyers play great team defense, but the Carolina Hurricanes are the gold standard, and I think most people would take their defensive core over the Flyers.
Am I right?
We're not talking about Team D. We're talking about D core. And if we're just going by the personnel back there, I think it's got to be Carolina. The Ghost Bear returns home.
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