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RC Cola posted:Hawks win games 3, 4, and 5 and then are shut out in 6 and 7 A division winner losing the first two games at home while getting shut out in both is not without precedent. It has even happened this millennium!
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i'm excited to see how much more adventurous MAF gets with each successive win in games 1 & 2 i remember being surprised at how little he ventured out to play the puck, how he didn't wind up on his belly or back too much, and how he didn't bite hard on CBJ players bringing the puck around the net leaving wraparound attempts totally unprotected. in game 3, i remember being worried that there was a little more of all of these things game 4 should be fun
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Do I count as a playoff poster if I only come back for the playoffs but I used to be here all the time?  That was a very exciting Penguins game yesterday. I was very mad at Bob Errey when he said Fleury kept his head there on purpose to make that save, but he may have been kidding.
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myron cope posted:Do I count as a playoff poster if I only come back for the playoffs but I used to be here all the time? nice av
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sup cope where the hell have you been lately and lol this fukkn owns https://twitter.com/TSNRyanRishaug/status/854061258164715520
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How did Torts react after yesterday anyway?
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I didn't see the movie but I think Marky Mark kicks those sharks' asses. Or lower rear torsos or whatever.
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iospace posted:How did Torts react after yesterday anyway? Cranky Torts isn't as much a thing these days. The only media member he deals with on a daily basis is Aaron Portzline, who doesn't seem to agitate him much.
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Lol, all that oil in the water gonna kill some marine life. Anyway, is there a gif of that maf "save" from last night. Cause that was hilarious.
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DJExile posted:Cranky Torts isn't as much a thing these days. The only media member he deals with on a daily basis is Aaron Portzline, who doesn't seem to agitate him much. Probably because he's the biggest tool on Earth.
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gahhh crap. Just noticed that today is officially the day I've been posting on this website for 10 years. thank you hockey goons for being the only thing I've consistently read on here for that decade, except for the lovely posters I don't like but won't name because I have good manners.
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youre welcome
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Hand Knit posted:A division winner losing the first two games at home while getting shut out in both is not without precedent. It has even happened this millennium! Wasn't that the Habs/Sens series where Eller got his face smashed in? Jamwad Hilder posted:the Bruins and Senators rosters for tonight look like AHL teams Here's to hoping they keep it up through round 2. quote:
Firstly, your D-corps is garbage. When the Habs were running Bealieu with Nesterov and Petry with Benn there was some competition for "worst D-pairings", but when Nesterov got dumped unceremoniously it ended that competition. Girardi-McD makes me question many many things. Mostly: Is Girardi bringing McD down that far or is McD just done? Secondly, your play through the neutral zone during the last game was... bad. Montreal's forwards are generally pretty defensively responsible, but when you get stood up at the blue line 60 times during a game, maybe it's time to try a different breakout strategy. Schlesische fucked around with this message at 21:30 on Apr 17, 2017 |
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RAS posting on AV
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JoelJoel posted:Lol, all that oil in the water gonna kill some marine life. This one? https://twitter.com/TheFlintor/status/853740832175910912
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Apr 17, 2017 21:27
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Schlesische posted:Wasn't that the Habs/Sens series where Eller got his face smashed in? I am thinking of this one
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That's lovely but I meant the one off his head in OT.
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 gently caress it, let Vegas have Murray. poo poo like this would be worth it.
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Schlesische posted:Girardi-McD makes me question many many things. Mostly: Is Girardi bringing McD down that far or is McD just done? i'm guessing you haven't seen him play without girardi, which he did for much of the season, during which stretches he was the team's best player. the fact that he is playing with girardi is something that he can not fix on his own. the coach, however could fix that. AV could also play adam clendening, who is better than at least 3 of the defensemen who the rangers dressed last night, but he does not do that because Leadership and Experience or some poo poo and i agree regarding the horrible play through the neutral zone, which is also something that it is incumbent, as a matter of strategy, upon the coach to fix. basically nothing that you have said has in any way disabused me of the notion that AV has run his course as the coach of the new york rangers
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I'm still not sure why he was doing that. Was he trying to extend the break in play?
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Stretch Marx posted:I'm still not sure why he was doing that. Was he trying to extend the break in play? I think 'loving with the refs' is reason enough
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yeah Ryan McDonagh is a legit top pairing defenseman in that spot of "not a superstar but a #1 defenseman" That he hasn't had a halfway decent partner to play with for most of his career is a drat shame
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Levitate posted:yeah Ryan McDonagh is a legit top pairing defenseman in that spot of "not a superstar but a #1 defenseman" It's a shame that Skjei is a LD because goddamn I'd love to see them together.
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a false posted:AV could also play adam clendening, who is better than at least 3 of the defensemen who the rangers dressed last night, but he does not do that because Leadership and Experience or some poo poo Clendening is terrible and seems to meander indifferently around his own zone. He played two games against Montreal this year and looked lost in the general vicinity of his own net for four goals against him. https://www.nhl.com/video/webers-wrister-beats-lundqvist/t-283378694/c-49995803 https://www.nhl.com/video/lehkonen-slams-home-one-timer/t-283378694/c-49998903 https://www.nhl.com/video/shaws-wraparound-tally/t-283378694/c-50001403 https://www.nhl.com/video/emelins-game-tying-goal-in-3rd/t-283283424/c-48388203
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It's entirely possible he may have his hands tied a little on some of this as well, I can imagine having three of your four highest paid D-men being on the third pair and bench might not reflect well upon the GM / former GM and might be frowned upon. That being said I think this is still very much a series. Rangers need to figure out how to counter the habs forecheck and somehow get the puck off the wall in their zone because the habs are just waiting for the puck to be rimmed along the wall to the wing and are ready to pounce. However if they can figure out the counter to that and start going back to the drop passes on the PP zone entry I think they're very much still in this. My biggest fear is that they're all skittish because their backs are against the wall and are going all out just for the sake of going all out. Prime example of this is Kleiner, makes the awful turnover to Radulov and blindly charges at him to try and make up for his mistake instead of just calmly defending and makes everything even worse. That whole goal is prevented if he just back skates off the turnover. Vesey is the only guy who has looked up and played with the puck a little on the breakout instead of just blindly forcing it ahead into the 3 waiting habs. We need more of that.
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hi i'm guy boucher. my favourite disgrace Mark Borowiecki is injured so tonight instead of dressing the competent big swedish kid who plays a solid heads-up hockey and went on a long point streak when he was given a chance to play recently, I'll play the even bigger Canadian kid with maybe four games NHL experience of the best that can be said is "he wasn't completely incompetent". Also, if I spread my terrible fourth line players out across all the lines, I've got no fourth line to be victimized when I put them out against the best team in the league!
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Zodijackylite posted:Clendening is terrible and seems to meander indifferently around his own zone. He played two games against Montreal this year and looked lost in the general vicinity of his own net for four goals against him. only two of those goals could really be said to have had anything to do with clendening, those being the second (which was a clusterfuck to begin with because of a bad broken play started by a misplay of the puck, not by clendening, on a routine dumpin) and the fourth (which, granted, wasn't very good on his part but i'll take what he contributes to the transition game over whatever the gently caress girardi is doing on any play in any part of the ice)
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the42ndtourist posted:Also, if I spread my terrible fourth line players out across all the lines, I've got no fourth line to be victimized when I put them out against the best team in the league! The Bruins are not the best team in the league this year, hth. a false posted:i'm guessing you haven't seen him play without girardi, which he did for much of the season, during which stretches he was the team's best player. the fact that he is playing with girardi is something that he can not fix on his own. the coach, however could fix that. AV could also play adam clendening, who is better than at least 3 of the defensemen who the rangers dressed last night, but he does not do that because Leadership and Experience or some poo poo I've only watched the Rangers when it was Rangers Habs and, with the exception of the "Oh god, Carey and Henrik are bad now" game, they all more or less foreshadowed this series perfectly. Also, if you wanna fire AV, have a dead cat bounce year next year and then suffer the Canucks fate be my guest. Jovial Cow posted:It's entirely possible he may have his hands tied a little on some of this as well, I can imagine having three of your four highest paid D-men being on the third pair and bench might not reflect well upon the GM / former GM and might be frowned upon. If I was to draw a "I'm bad at drawing conclusionsTM" conclusion, it would be that the Rangers aren't really set up to deal with a team that can consistently match or beat the amount of speed they bring. The Habs (also the Pens, and a few others around the league) can definitely do that. You could argue the coach needs to find a solution to that, but I think it cuts both ways and that there are definitely players who need to step it up - players just need to slow it down, panic less in their own zone and make smarter plays through the neutral zone.
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Yeah boston's not like total rear end or anything but to call them the best team in the league is... well just hilariously wrong.
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lmao @ anyone calling the Bruins the best team in the league. however, i would like some of that crack you have been smoking in other news: there is hockey tonight!!!!!! 
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Boston was second in CF% this season, for what that's worth*. * The Kings were #1
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Boston definitely has the best first line in the league in Pasta-Bergeron-Marchand though.
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Zodijackylite posted:Clendening is terrible and seems to meander indifferently around his own zone. He played two games against Montreal this year and looked lost in the general vicinity of his own net for four goals against him. So Clendening is your version of the Hawks' Rozival.
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bub spank posted:Boston definitely has the best first line in the league in Pasta-Bergeron-Marchand though. Doesn't have McDavid or Crosby, therefore cannot be true.
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Haha I didnt notice him doing that at the time. Is there a gif of him convulsing around on his back in the crease like an overturned turtle during the same game?
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Schlesische posted:Doesn't have McDavid or Crosby, therefore cannot be true. Edmonton and Pittsburgh don't have first lines, they have a first duo featuring a guest artist.
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aejix posted:Haha I didnt notice him doing that at the time. Is there a gif of him convulsing around on his back in the crease like an overturned turtle during the same game? maf flopping around without rhyme or reason is too routine to be notable enough to gif anyway this one's for you, joeljoel... https://streamable.com/lehx0
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https://twitter.com/Real_ESPNLeBrun/status/854100415574683648 Congrats Caps fans?
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Bootcha posted:So Clendening is your version of the Hawks' Rozival. we had him once when he was younger and better and true to form he was terminally underrated and made into an undeserving whipping boy
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