Saying he “signed up” to accept a lot of pressure by opting to become a goaltender, the Canes' Cam Ward shouldered his share of blame in Carolina's struggle against Pittsburgh.
“I want to be that guy. I want [to be] the guy who has to perform at a high level in the tough situation,” Ward said after a practice session Monday in the RBC Center.
Down 3-0 in the Eastern Conference finals, Ward and the Canes need a win in their building Tuesday to avoid a sweep. Ward, the most outstanding player in the Canes’ 2006 Stanley Cup championship run, acknowledged he might need a perfect performance in net for the team to force Game 5.
“If that’s what it takes, that’s what we’ve got make sure we can deliver tomorrow,” Ward said. “I think we all have that in us. I know I can perform a lot better, and I need to.
"We’ve put ourselves in this situation but in doing so, we’ve got one more opportunity to do something about it. As long as we can keep that opportunity alive, that’s the important thing at this stage.”
Ward and defenseman Dennis Seidenberg both emphasized the importance of playing sounder fundamental defense on Tuesday.
“I think we’ll try to do the simple things better,” Seidenberg said. “We need to get the puck out of trouble spots quicker and keep Cam from having to deal with so much coming at him.”
Added Ward: “They make you pay for your mistakes. You have limit those as best you can. It’s not a lack of effort. It’s more like we’re trying to force plays that aren’t there.
"Sometimes the easiest thing to do is just get the puck off the glass and move it out of harm’s way. I think doing that [more] might frustrate them a little bit.”
— Caulton Tudor
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Tue, 05/26/2009 - 09:47 — Hockeydogwell to many times since March, did this Canes team. The well being Cam Wards great goaltending. The goal tonight should be to give Cam as easy a night as possible, regardless of how many goals the Canes manage to score.
Ward will...
Tue, 05/26/2009 - 08:19 — PensFanplay better. He is a top goaltender for a reason and will step up. Both goalies have let in some "softies", and if MAF soon doesn't start controlling some rebounds, he WILL get burnt. I think the Canes and Pens have good teams and along with the Caps (and the 2nd most annoying hockey fans, Flyers) will continue to meet in the playoffs for years to come. I am well aware that this series is not over so, Let's Go Pens!
thanks...
Tue, 05/26/2009 - 08:23 — gocanes2Love the sportmanslike attitude, PensFan. I really agree with all that you've said. Let's Go HURRICANES!! We need a win!!
Hey Shark Dude
Tue, 05/26/2009 - 06:56 — esteban1949Your Home training or the lack there of is showing...tsk,tsk,tsk,....They must have been or are very Proud of you Mr. President, or is that Senator or Congressman
Shark Dude? Or are you a Rev. Ike Wanna be in training ?/ Whoops!!! I am Sorry Rev. Ike, I didn't mean to sound so derogatory as you sir wouldn't have anyone like Shark Dude in your place of worship, the last national bank !!
Go Canes !!
Jaberwockey....
Tue, 05/26/2009 - 11:47 — JumptheSharkOr Jibberjabber. Dude, make sense sometime.
PS: Hope your Memorial Day was a day of peace and reflection. My neighbor's son died in Afganistan in 2006. He and they were honored at the parade yesterday. It was an overwhelming moment, especially at the Honor Roll. The roll call for townsfolk killed in action was read aloud. 36 soldiers from our community gave the ultimate sacrifice. Many were brothers, killed in the Civil War. One family lost three of their sons in one year (1865). Another family lost two sons.
A terrible thing. And deeply affecting. Hopefully we can get things done and over with in the Mid East and get them back home.
Peace.
Many servicemen and women
Tue, 05/26/2009 - 12:33 — Hockeydogare in this area as we have two major millitary bases here in North Carolina. You may well have been insulting a few here as many are Canes fans.
No Insult was Intended
Tue, 05/26/2009 - 12:54 — JumptheSharkThat was not meant as an insult to anyone. I know that Esteban is a mild mannered Canes fan who has wished many here well and who wished many a Happy Memorial Day weekend. I appreciate him for that.
As a veteran of a foreign war (Yes, I'm a VFW), I feel very stongly in the observance of memorial day by all, as well as in the symbolic acknowledgement of the sacrifices many veterans and their families have made to keep our country both strong and safe.
Like i said, when it comes right down to it, and you're with the family of a deceased soldier, and they begin the roll call, it's a very emotional moment. Thanks to all who participate in the events on memorial day and to those who find it within themselves to either donate to veteran charities or else volunteer.
Call it the softer side of jumptheshark.
SofterShark
Tue, 05/26/2009 - 13:05 — CaniacGuyThank you. That was well put.
Hey, Esteban...
Mon, 05/25/2009 - 19:30 — JumptheSharkPlease get a post up quick telling Cam Ward he need not play any better. It's the D that needs to step up. He seems to think he's been off his game a bit. He wants to shoulder the load (hopefully with his left shoulder, where all those pucks keep flying into the net). Hey Danny Boy, hit me up with my signature ending. That way, my post won't be missed, taking up half a page and all. Maybe add some new material, if you're up to the mental challenge that generally poses for your puny brain. Hey, if you shake your head around really fast, I bet you can get a sound like that of miracas, what with those two or three brain cells bouncing around in your skull.
JumpTheShark
Mon, 05/25/2009 - 20:07 — CaniacGuy"Hey Danny Boy, hit me up with my signature ending. That way, my post
won't be missed, taking up half a page and all. Maybe add some new
material, if you're up to the mental challenge that generally poses for
your puny brain. Hey, if you shake your head around really fast, I bet
you can get a sound like that of miracas, what with those two or three
brain cells bouncing around in your skull."
I suppose you're talking to me. More than happy to oblige your request.
You just don't get it though, do you ... sonny.
Are you going to disappear into the wind, pffffft, here like you've done in so many other places?
Again.
Thanks!
Tue, 05/26/2009 - 11:23 — JumptheSharkMuch obliged. Please add another here.
No need
Tue, 05/26/2009 - 11:38 — CaniacGuyNone. Nada. Nyet.
Quit Already?
Tue, 05/26/2009 - 11:39 — JumptheSharkLet's hope the Canes have more fight in them than you.
You set a poor example.
I took care of your dirty work....
Tue, 05/26/2009 - 11:40 — JumptheShark@JumpTheShark:
Before you made your final pot-stirring post in the Bruins-Canes threads and then announced you weren't going to stick around to take the heat, if it came, I tried to be polite (I think) and respectful. The only thing I called you out on was your apparent hardon for Luke.
You showed your true colors and your true self when you departed after spewing your nastiness and not being man or fan enough to take your payback.
Now, sir in spite of your assertions to the contrary, not all Cane's fans think our team is without fault or even unable or unwilling to admit when we're being beat by a superior opponent. Pittsburgh, for these past 3 games is certainly superior to the Canes, definitely to the Capitals and Flyers as proven by those series, and if it gets that far and it certainly does look like it will, may be superior to either the Red Wings or the Black Hawks. There it is, black, bold, and italicized to make it easier for you to find through your fogged vision. Does that satisfy your compulsive need to feel superior? If so, enjoy your pyyrhic
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victory?
Do I still hold out hope for my guys to come back and win this series? You're damn right I do. Is it possible? You're damn right it is. Is it likely? As a *hockey* fan as opposed to a *Canes* fan, you're damn right, it's NOT. If that happens, and we lose, is that going to stop me and whole pile of Nascar loving (Nascar? Nascar ain't NOTHING till you've driven from Queens to Montauk on the Long Island Expressway on any given Friday between June and September. Oh, and Route 128 is a backwoods drive in the country by comparison. Yes, I've been on both more times then I care to have been.); beer-swilling (can't stand the stuff); redneck (I'm a Jewish yankee from Lung Island); well educated (I even graduated from High School, not to mention two Universities) and 10 or 12 or 16 or 18 thousand of my friends from being in the building tomorrow night, maybe next week, maybe the week after that, and CERTAINLY next September ... IT MOST CERTAINLY WILL NOT!
On the other hand, by having a two week head start, it is entirely possible that the Bruins players may be able to, for a while anyway, beat the Canes players on the
golf course.
By having the gall to return to these blogs and continue to cast aspersions upon the Canes faithful while pitifully trying to feel superior and justify your miniscule existence, you sir, have earned the right for me to call you an A**.
Get used to it son (and you're obviously SOMEONE's son), because you're going to see THIS post at least once in reply to EVERY post I see with your name on from this
point on.
Or, you could just pack up and leave with your tail between your legs. You've shown once before you're quite qualified for that.
Again!
In polite society, and
Tue, 05/26/2009 - 11:59 — CaniacGuyIn polite society, and academia, and other places where intelligent people gather for intelligent conversation and the exchange of ideas, what you have just accomplished with that posting is referred to as plagiarism.
Which is frequently resorted to by those who are unable to, or incapable of, finding the proper words to express their points of view or opinions, or who find themselves out of their class.
Ummm, which phrase?
Tue, 05/26/2009 - 12:12 — JumptheSharkI believe both are in the public domain at this point. And, anyway, any intellegent person knows those stock phrases and would not have assumed I was trying to pass them off as my own.
Even you, Mr. Academia, ought to know that.
Mr. Uninformed
Tue, 05/26/2009 - 12:18 — CaniacGuyThe act of plagiarism which you performed and to which I was referring was the copying of my entire post, verbatim and then publishing it (and yes, this is a form of publishing) as your own under a different title.
Proving once again, that you don't even have the common courtesy to read and understand that to which you respond.
JumpTheShark
Mon, 05/25/2009 - 20:04 — CaniacGuy@JumpTheShark:
Before you made your final pot-stirring post in the Bruins-Canes threads and then announced you weren't going to stick around to take the heat, if it came, I tried to be polite (I think) and respectful. The only thing I called you out on was your apparent hardon for Luke.
You showed your true colors and your true self when you departed after spewing your nastiness and not being man or fan enough to take your payback.
Now, sir in spite of your assertions to the contrary, not all Cane's fans think our team is without fault or even unable or unwilling to admit when we're being beat by a superior opponent. Pittsburgh, for these past 3 games is certainly superior to the Canes, definitely to the Capitals and Flyers as proven by those series, and if it gets that far and it certainly does look like it will, may be superior to either the Red Wings or the Black Hawks. There it is, black, bold, and italicized to make it easier for you to find through your fogged vision. Does that satisfy your compulsive need to feel superior? If so, enjoy your pyyrhic
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= (definition: –noun
= 1. an ancient Greek warlike dance in which the motions of actual warfare were imitated.)
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victory?
Do I still hold out hope for my guys to come back and win this series? You're damn right I do. Is it possible? You're damn right it is. Is it likely? As a *hockey* fan as opposed to a *Canes* fan, you're damn right, it's NOT. If that happens, and we lose, is that going to stop me and whole pile of Nascar loving (Nascar? Nascar ain't NOTHING till you've driven from Queens to Montauk on the Long Island Expressway on any given Friday between June and September. Oh, and Route 128 is a backwoods drive in the country by comparison. Yes, I've been on both more times then I care to have been.); beer-swilling (can't stand the stuff); redneck (I'm a Jewish yankee from Lung Island); well educated (I even graduated from High School, not to mention two Universities) and 10 or 12 or 16 or 18 thousand of my friends from being in the building tomorrow night, maybe next week, maybe the week after that, and CERTAINLY next September ... IT MOST CERTAINLY WILL NOT!
On the other hand, by having a two week head start, it is entirely possible that the Bruins players may be able to, for a while anyway, beat the Canes players on the
golf course.
By having the gall to return to these blogs and continue to cast aspersions upon the Canes faithful while pitifully trying to feel superior and justify your miniscule existence, you sir, have earned the right for me to call you an A**.
Get used to it son (and you're obviously SOMEONE's son), because you're going to see THIS post at least once in reply to EVERY post I see with your name on from this
point on.
Or, you could just pack up and leave with your tail between your legs. You've shown once before you're quite qualified for that.
Again!
Boo'in !!
Tue, 05/26/2009 - 09:57 — HockeydogDid not the Boo'in's go the way of Erin Ward's glass jaw? I'll take losing in the Confernce Finals to a fine Pengiuns team over losing in the second round to a lower seeded team any day. And I'll tip my cap to the Pengiuns and root them on as they carry the banner of Eastern Conference Champions into the Cup finals. Which team will look back on their season and say they achieved more than they should have?