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Pungry posted:For the first time, in 26 years, the Florida Panthers have WON a playoff round! Three straight comeback wins! So happy. You’re never going to guess who takes over first place in the drought list. They could keep that first place tomorrow night, too
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Powershift posted:You’re never going to guess who takes over first place in the drought list. My question is who is now second. Buffalo?
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May 14, 2022 04:10
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Levitate posted:Rangers/Pens very much feels like "whoever can sustain offensive pressure the most will win" Pens defense has been exceptional. New York has been massively bailed out by injuring players, their vezina goalie, and shooting on some one slightly better than a shoot tutor.
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May 14, 2022 04:11
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Lol yea, Igor really stealing this series
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May 14, 2022 04:14
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CBJSprague24 posted:My question is who is now second. Buffalo? Yes, at 15 years to Toronto’s 16, but in their defence, they haven’t lost a playoff series in 11 years either.
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rex rabidorum vires posted:Pens defense has been exceptional. New York has been massively bailed out by injuring players, their vezina goalie, and shooting on some one slightly better than a shoot tutor. You forgot the refs
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May 14, 2022 04:15
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Ginette Reno posted:Pond hockey? They do stretch passes but Sullivan's system is about as grindy as it gets short of playing like Trotz hockey or something. meant the overall feel of the series. like I said neither team is really playing defense and the goaltending hasn't been great so it's kind of whichever team is putting on pressure goes bananas
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May 14, 2022 04:33
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Levitate posted:meant the overall feel of the series. like I said neither team is really playing defense and the goaltending hasn't been great so it's kind of whichever team is putting on pressure goes bananas Yeah both teams have been pretty bad in their own end and the goaltending has been rear end too. Shesterkin has gotten a little better the past two unfortunately for the Pens but Louis is still playing like Louis.
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May 14, 2022 04:39
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ah yes, there are the Calgary Flames I know and love. Has anyone seen Matthew Tkachuk? I desperately hope he is making $10M a year somewhere else next year. He's a true fuckin brick head.
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May 14, 2022 05:25
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Yeah after this disappearing act in the playoffs I’d be kinda fine if they looked for someone else. He played great in the regular season but he’s doing absolutely nothing now.
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May 14, 2022 05:29
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May 14, 2022 05:30
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The Panthers went 0 for 18 on the power play and won the series in 6 games. The most recent team to win a series without a PP goal was in 2020 when the Lightning went 0 for 10 against the Blue Jackets in their 5 game series win. As far as I could find, the record for most ineffectual power play in a series win was the 2011 Bruins when they beat the Canadiens in 7 games after going 0 for 21.
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May 14, 2022 05:32
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Rangers or Penguins could theoretically make it to the SCF (you never know, especially considering Montreal and Dallas in the past 2 years), but watching a Rangers team whose star forwards generally aren't performing and whose MVP goalie has been average at best butt heads with a third string goalie and dead Sidney Crosby really feels like the winner will eventually lose to Florida or Carolina or whoever eventually, but good for them. You can probably copy->paste the same thing about a few teams in the West getting to face Colorado too.
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May 14, 2022 05:45
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Yeah I haven’t been happy with their play, gone back a bit to how they were before the trade deadline, but still good experience for a young team to rally from down 3-1 etc
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Darude - Adam Sandstorm posted:Probably shouldn't have broken his hand trying to be a tough guy does breaking a hand make you stop looking where you pass it or are some people just born that way
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Tonight was the 2nd time in Rangers history they came back from multiple goals down in an elimination game to win. Game 5 was the first.
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May 14, 2022 05:59
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Jesus I saw people on twitter talking about how the Flames mortgaged the future to bring in Jarnkrok, Carpenter and Toffoli but I didn't realize it was this dire for them.. They only have 13 of their original 21 selections in the next three drafts... and no picks from other teams either. I don't know if I've ever seen a team on that few picks in their outlook on cap friendly.. Down to their 2nd, 5th and 7th round picks in the 2022 draft They really need to win on Sunday lol Starsfan fucked around with this message at 06:20 on May 14, 2022 |
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Is there anything that the Stars love more than forcing game 7 in the playoffs? Is this what they meant by them “being built for the playoffs”?Stiev Awt posted:N: A podcast I like did a 3 part crime story where the Calgary Flames run a drug ring and worship a fire demon named Gord. I am bad at internet and would like a link to this. e: Starsfan posted:Jesus I saw people on twitter talking about how the Flames mortgaged the future to bring in Jarnkrok, Carpenter and Toffoli but I didn't realize it was this dire for them.. They only have 13 of their original 21 selections in the next three drafts... 
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May 14, 2022 06:21
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Kupo! posted:Is there anything that the Stars love more than forcing game 7 in the playoffs? Yes, extremely long overtime games.
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FunOne posted:Yes, extremely long overtime games. Oh, yes, excellent point. That is indeed their favorite thing.
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Tomorrows game between the Leafs and Bolts might be the most excited I’ve been for a game that doesn’t involve my team in years. Both outcomes are just great stories… you either get two teams that struggle to get out of the first round facing eachother and guaranteeing one gets to the third, or a second round of the Baffle of Florida which could be incredible.
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Starsfan posted:Jesus I saw people on twitter talking about how the Flames mortgaged the future to bring in Jarnkrok, Carpenter and Toffoli but I didn't realize it was this dire for them.. They only have 13 of their original 21 selections in the next three drafts... and no picks from other teams either. I don't know if I've ever seen a team on that few picks in their outlook on cap friendly.. Down to their 2nd, 5th and 7th round picks in the 2022 draft Flames draft picks for the next 3 years are 2, 5, 7 1, 2, 4, 6, 7 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 Avs picks are: 3, 5, 6, 7 1, 3, 5, 6, 7 1, 4, 6, 7 though Avs get the 2024 3rd rounder back if they don't win the cup this year or if they do but Kuemper for some reason doesn't play in 50% or more of the games. I like a team going for it.
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EL BROMANCE posted:Tomorrows game between the Leafs and Bolts might be the most excited I’ve been for a game that doesn’t involve my team in years. Both outcomes are just great stories… you either get two teams that struggle to get out of the first round facing eachother and guaranteeing one gets to the third, or a second round of the Baffle of Florida which could be incredible. I am very excited for it 
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PANTHERS YESAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGHGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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I want the stars to win, but I also want them to burn the organization to the ground. I'm a man of extremes
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Scruffy the janitor posted:I want the stars to win, but I also want them to burn the organization to the ground. I'm a man of extremes
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May 14, 2022 10:05
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Well, at least the Caps didn't blow a multi-goal lead this time or do it extremely late in the game. So I guess that's an improvement. But man what a weak team. They just lose straight away into overtime every time it happens. Thank god the cup in 18 happened. Cause if it hadn't the Ovechkin era(not meaning the dude himself) would be considered one of the biggest wastes of a career in history in terms of postseason success. It's baffling.
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Kawalimus posted:Thank god the cup in 18 happened. Cause if it hadn't the Ovechkin era(not meaning the dude himself) would be considered one of the biggest wastes of a career in history in terms of postseason success. It's baffling. Calvin Johnson and Barry Sanders would like a word
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Except for the years of success cumulating in the franchise's first championship after 45 years of waiting, what a waste the Ovechkin era was and will be for the remaining four years of his contract as he chases the all-time goals record.
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EL BROMANCE posted:Tomorrows game between the Leafs and Bolts might be the most excited I’ve been for a game that doesn’t involve my team in years. Both outcomes are just great stories… you either get two teams that struggle to get out of the first round facing eachother and guaranteeing one gets to the third, or a second round of the Baffle of Florida which could be incredible. Dude , I am stoked.
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Some guy on here tried dunking on me that Calgary was a better team than St Louis lmao
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DJExile posted:Calvin Johnson and Barry Sanders would like a word Totally different sports and football has a postseason way more prone to flukes with its one-and-done playoffs. And again, I don't mean ovechkin himself I mean the inability to build a team around him that could succeed in the postseason.
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Kawalimus posted:Totally different sports and football has a postseason way more prone to flukes with its one-and-done playoffs. And again, I don't mean ovechkin himself I mean the inability to build a team around him that could succeed in the postseason. Ok, Henrik Lundqvist would like a word.
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Kawalimus posted:Totally different sports and football has a postseason way more prone to flukes with its one-and-done playoffs. And again, I don't mean ovechkin himself I mean the inability to build a team around him that could succeed in the postseason. Except they did! The Caps won a cup. Hockey is one of the most luck based sports on earth. The 2nd all time leading point scorer won a pair of cups as a bit part on the early 90s pens as a teenager then spent the remaining 22 years of his career when he emerged as the best winger in history wining nothing and returning to the finals just once aged 41. The NHL's sixth highest scorer Marcel Dionne never won a cup, in fact he appeared in just 49 playoff games over 18 seasons and never made it past the 2nd round. Ray Bourque, probably the 3rd best defenceman in history, had to be traded to a super team aged 39 before he finally won a Stanley Cup. The best player in the league today in Connor McDavid (and arguably since Lemieux) hasn't won squat yet. I get that Ovi hasn't won as many cups as his archival in Crosby, but not many guys in history have. Ovechkin and the Caps have done petty well all things considered and statistically should've won like maybe one more cup. Overall I don't know how you can call the Ovi era anything other than a success unless your baseline expectation was "80s Oilers dynasty in the cap world somehow."
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Matt Zerella posted:Ok, Henrik Lundqvist would like a word. He's right over there, talking to Carey Price
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Another Bill posted:He's right over there, talking to Carey Price And Luongo. And the Sedins. And Sundin. And Iginla. And Oates. And Hawerchuk. And Perreault. It's really hard to win in hockey. Individual accomplishments have relatively little overall impact on a game.
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The take of "if Washington HADN'T won the Cup (that they did win, they won the Cup) then Ovechkin would be a historically great player to not win a Cup (even though he did, he won) is not a good one
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Meanwhile Colin Fraser won 3* Cups in 6 seasons. * Technically 2 since he didn't play enough games for the 2014 Kings
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ThinkTank posted:And Luongo. And the Sedins. And Sundin. And Iginla. And Oates. And Hawerchuk. And Perreault. It's really hard to win in hockey. Individual accomplishments have relatively little overall impact on a game. I'd forgotten that Oates never won, that's wild.
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