|
ThinkTank posted: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 didnt intend to make it a competition. And I do see your point--although its the lack of even getting to the conf finals aside from the year they won it all that makes me really sour. I realize there are not dynasty type teams very often but it would have been nice to see a couple more teams have more serious runs even if they didnt get all the way there in the end. Aside from that one year theyve just stumbled and bumbled as soon as they got to the second round, if that.
|
#
?
May 14, 2022 14:55
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 1, 2024 10:24 |
|
|
Close your eyes and picture the idea that your team is an even older franchise, has won no cups, never really appears in the playoffs and has never had a player even half as good or entertaining as Ovechkin. That is the hell in which Sabres and Canucks fans live. Be thankful for 2018.
|
|
#
?
May 14, 2022 15:00
|
|
|
ThinkTank posted:Close your eyes and picture the idea that your team is an even older franchise, has won no cups, never really appears in the playoffs and has never had a player even half as good or entertaining as Ovechkin. That is the hell in which Sabres and Canucks fans live. Be thankful for 2018. Totally fair about not winning the Cup but you had Pavel fuckin' Bure on your team dude. And the Sabres had Hasek. Mike Works posted: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. It's always possible Shesterkin will snap back to being dominant and drive the Rangers all the way to the Finals. But unless that happens the Bruins are going to win the East. The Rangers haven't been impressive at all and that's putting it mildly. They lost three games out of four to a team with one line, a weak D corps and no goaltender. Well and good that fortuitous success at killing Crosby got them through the first round by the skin of their teeth, but unless Shesterkin reactivates god mode they're going to get crushed in the second round. It's been enough to make me rethink the high opinion I've had of Gallant. Eric the Mauve fucked around with this message at 15:08 on May 14, 2022 |
|
#
?
May 14, 2022 15:03
|
|
|
ThinkTank posted:Close your eyes and picture the idea that your team is an even older franchise, has won no cups, never really appears in the playoffs and has never had a player even half as good or entertaining as Ovechkin. That is the hell in which Sabres and Canucks fans live. Be thankful for 2018. Again, i am thankful for 2018 and its not intended to be a competition of whose career was wasted the worst or which team has it worst Like since that 2018 theyve had *straight* first round exits.
|
|
#
?
May 14, 2022 15:17
|
|
|
McDavid is gonna play his career with the Oilers, never win a cup, and be labeled a failure.
|
|
#
?
May 14, 2022 15:25
|
|
|
Duckman2008 posted:McDavid is gonna play his career with the Oilers, never win a cup, and be labeled a failure. good
|
|
#
?
May 14, 2022 15:25
|
|
|
Why are people posting about the Capitals in this, the playoff thread? Some of us are trying to enjoy our remaining 8-15 hours of belonging in this place before slinking off quietly.
|
|
#
?
May 14, 2022 15:28
|
|
|
Yep that's me for sure  But the answer to your question obviously enough is that the gimmick poster is doing his gimmick.
|
|
#
?
May 14, 2022 15:34
|
|
|
desperately looking for a sportsbook where i can put money on a full-blown vancouver-esque riot in toronto tonight
|
|
#
?
May 14, 2022 16:18
|
|
|
whatis posted:desperately looking for a sportsbook where i can put money on a full-blown vancouver-esque riot in toronto tonight My SO said the same thing to me last night. She figures there's gonna be riots win or lose.
|
|
#
?
May 14, 2022 16:21
|
|
|
ThinkTank posted:Close your eyes and picture the idea that your team is an even older franchise, has won no cups, never really appears in the playoffs and has never had a player even half as good or entertaining as Ovechkin. That is the hell in which Sabres and Canucks fans live. Be thankful for 2018. The Sedins at their height was great hockey to watch. The rest of the team... Eh, I take your point
|
|
#
?
May 14, 2022 16:31
|
|
|
Posting doom and gloom about a successful franchise is Kawalimus' gimmick in the football forum as well.
Pimpcasso fucked around with this message at 16:45 on May 14, 2022 |
|
#
?
May 14, 2022 16:33
|
|
|
ThinkTank posted:Close your eyes and picture the idea that your team is an even older franchise, has won no cups, never really appears in the playoffs and has never had a player even half as good or entertaining as Ovechkin. That is the hell in which Sabres and Canucks fans live. Be thankful for 2018. the sabres had like 8 years of hasek, that poo poo owned
|
|
#
?
May 14, 2022 16:40
|
|
|
Crosbys practicing gonna play with a concussion and get hosed up
|
|
#
?
May 14, 2022 16:54
|
|
|
Levitate posted:Crosbys practicing gonna play with a concussion and get hosed up I sense your fear https://twitter.com/Real_RobRossi/status/1525504517839757315?s=20&t=10kP5GFLUOOG9ahOEa-Pww
|
|
#
?
May 14, 2022 16:58
|
|
|
Levitate posted:Crosbys practicing gonna play with a concussion and get hosed up Rakell and Jarry too so there's two opportunities to make head injuries worse and permanently mangle a foot.
|
|
#
?
May 14, 2022 17:17
|
|
|
.Spec posted:Jarry too Kreider suddenly perks up
|
|
#
?
May 14, 2022 17:18
|
|
|
Not sure the Pens win game 7 even with Crosby. Maybe if Jarry can play and play well. Next to no chance with Domingue https://twitter.com/DannyShireyPGH/status/1525509023696658434?s=20&t=3dYLnfeTyH63IFMnJTg-Qg e: https://twitter.com/MoneyPuckdotcom/status/1525447431101497344?s=20&t=dWfjNwKBDegSBdz3p2Jh0A Pens sitting here with the highest xg of the first round and probably gonna get bounced tomorrow. Tragic Ginette Reno fucked around with this message at 17:25 on May 14, 2022 |
|
#
?
May 14, 2022 17:20
|
|
|
Pimpcasso posted:Posting doom and gloom about a successful franchise is Kawalimus' gimmick in the football forum as well. Hockey is a game defined by losing and, between being repeatedly owned by the Crosby Penguins and that hilarious loss to the Habs, the Caps certainly have some very defining loser energy. It's easy to understand them as losers in the same way it's easy to understand those MacInnis-Pronger Blues teams as losers. Like, at no point is anyone saying the Caps were bad. Some of those teams were really incredibly good, but that's part of what makes the loserness so felt.
|
|
#
?
May 14, 2022 17:29
|
|
|
Sometimes you just lose to the other best team in the league as well. I think from 2016 to 2018 the Pens and Caps were the two best teams in the league and the Pens won two of those matchups and the Caps one. Whoever won those series was gonna win the cup in each of those three years and that's how it played out. I think the Pens would have very likely threepeated if they got by the Caps and I'm pretty sure the Caps would have managed to beat San Jose or Nashville had they got by the Pens.
|
|
#
?
May 14, 2022 17:37
|
|
|
I find it hard to imagine Crosby couldn't go two days ago but is totally OK now. The Rangers will resume targeting him and I'm worried about him.Ginette Reno posted:Sometimes you just lose to the other best team in the league as well. I think from 2016 to 2018 the Pens and Caps were the two best teams in the league and the Pens won two of those matchups and the Caps one. Whoever won those series was gonna win the cup in each of those three years and that's how it played out. I think the Pens would have very likely threepeated if they got by the Caps and I'm pretty sure the Caps would have managed to beat San Jose or Nashville had they got by the Pens. I get what you're saying but in hockey poo poo happens. The 2017 Pens may have been the best team in the league but they nevertheless came within one double overtime goal of losing to the loving Senators. Honestly I still can't believe a team with that bad a D corps managed to win the Cup. Murray was awesome and the forward lines on that team were ridiculous.
|
|
#
?
May 14, 2022 17:37
|
|
|
Eric the Mauve posted:I find it hard to imagine Crosby couldn't go two days ago but is totally OK now. The Rangers will resume targeting him and I'm worried about him. Dumb poo poo happens in the playoffs every year. There's always a chance. I don't think the Pens are winning game 7 but there is a little voice in the back of my head saying but mayyyybe
|
|
#
?
May 14, 2022 17:44
|
|
|
Through a sufficiently pissed/determined Crosby, all things are possible
|
|
#
?
May 14, 2022 17:45
|
|
|
Good Soldier Svejk posted:Through a sufficiently pissed/determined Crosby, all things are possible Who’s finger is he chopping off tomorrow?
|
|
#
?
May 14, 2022 17:57
|
|
|
Matt Zerella posted:Who’s finger is he chopping off tomorrow? Fingers? They won't be so lucky... He's gonna be out there breaking ankles. Possibly with sick dekes but either way
|
|
#
?
May 14, 2022 18:09
|
|
|
Hand Knit posted:Hockey is a game defined by losing and, between being repeatedly owned by the Crosby Penguins and that hilarious loss to the Habs, the Caps certainly have some very defining loser energy. It's easy to understand them as losers in the same way it's easy to understand those MacInnis-Pronger Blues teams as losers. This is where I am. I just don't get why every blowing off steam has to be followed with "you should be grateful". Something like "Man the caps sure do know how to bungle playoff series. But at least you got 2018! Coulda been worse" is just fine. The scolding is tiresome. But either way it's no big deal. Hopefully I see you all next year but this time pissing and moaning about how we lost in the conference championship instead 
|
|
#
?
May 14, 2022 18:39
|
|
|
Kawalimus posted:This is where I am. I just don't get why every blowing off steam has to be followed with "you should be grateful". Something like "Man the caps sure do know how to bungle playoff series. But at least you got 2018! Coulda been worse" is just fine. The scolding is tiresome. Hey, look on the bright side. Your team could have just fired Trotz for no reason................ oh, right 
|
|
#
?
May 14, 2022 18:55
|
|
|
Eric the Mauve posted:I find it hard to imagine Crosby couldn't go two days ago but is totally OK now. The Rangers will resume targeting him and I'm worried about him. Time for me to remind everyone that Nashville got hosed in game one on that offsides review specifically, and in my opinion a few calls like that were enough to tilt it to Pittsburgh. No lie , I’m still very bitter about 2017 and it’s been 5+ years now. My best friend is a huge Penguins fan, we legit didn’t talk for like, 3-4 months after that playoff series (obviously also life is busy, etc).
|
|
#
?
May 14, 2022 19:20
|
|
|
I think there’s a very good chance Crosby isn’t healthy but is going to play because “playoffs”
|
|
#
?
May 14, 2022 19:25
|
|
|
I'm sure all the rangers fans cheering on Trouba taking runs are legitimately very concerned for Crosby's health
|
|
#
?
May 14, 2022 19:36
|
|
|
Does ESPN+ get you the ESPN games or do you have to actually have access to the channel?
|
|
#
?
May 14, 2022 21:16
|
|
|
MJeff posted:Does ESPN+ get you the ESPN games or do you have to actually have access to the channel? Believe + lets you watch the games yeah
|
|
#
?
May 14, 2022 21:18
|
|
|
Good Soldier Svejk posted:I'm sure all the rangers fans cheering on Trouba taking runs are legitimately very concerned for Crosby's health 
|
|
#
?
May 14, 2022 21:34
|
|
|
Good Soldier Svejk posted:I'm sure all the rangers fans cheering on Trouba taking runs are legitimately very concerned for Crosby's health but really, I (and I think all of RAS) enjoy watching Sid a lot and never had any hate for him. Letang? sure, he's a bitch rear end to play against. Guentzel? sure, looks weird, gently caress him. Cooke/Kunitz/Ruutu/the rest of the shitheads they've employed the past, sure. but Sid, Mario, Jagr, Kessel, and to a lesser extent Malkin (he's borderline) have always been okay. not even in the same universe as anyone on Philly/NJ/NYI.
|
|
#
?
May 14, 2022 21:36
|
|
|
The only person I wish physical harm to in the entire NHL is TonyD.
|
|
#
?
May 14, 2022 21:37
|
|
|
Duckman2008 posted:Time for me to remind everyone that Nashville got hosed in game one on that offsides review specifically, and in my opinion a few calls like that were enough to tilt it to Pittsburgh. In both cup runs Pittsburgh receiving extremely borderline coinflip questionable offside and goalie interference calls in their direction played a significant part in their winning. With that said Tom Wilson was suspended for the rest of the series against Pittsburgh for a hit against Zach Aston Reese that wasn't even penalized then Wilson went on to get a primary assist on the game winner for that game. This is, of course, after blindsiding Pettersson in the prior game that both DoPs and refs shrugged at. So either you win via head shots you get away with or win via a bunch of decisions going your way the moral of the story is you need a bunch of luck to win a cup too.
|
|
#
?
May 14, 2022 21:38
|
|
|
MJeff posted:Does ESPN+ get you the ESPN games or do you have to actually have access to the channel? It makes you log in to your TV provider for games on ESPN and ESPN2 the last time I did it.
|
|
#
?
May 14, 2022 21:43
|
|
|
rex rabidorum vires posted:In both cup runs Pittsburgh receiving extremely borderline coinflip questionable offside and goalie interference calls in their direction played a significant part in their winning. You get away with the vast majority of head shots, so the right strategy is to take as many of them as you can. I mean knocking Crosby out is huge. It literally turned a 4-1 series loss into a 4-3 series win. And as usual the refs and league office ruled it a Cool and Good Hockey Play. It's nuts not to be taking every possible opportunity to injure your opponent's best players, it has a gargantuan impact on winning in the playoffs that dwarfs everything else. Running goalies should also be happening a lot more than it does, it's super easy to make look like an accident/the other guy's fault for pushing you, injuring goalies is pretty easy given how freakishly they're already contorting their bodies to begin with, and though it's likelier to get you a 2 minute vacation than an elbow to someone's head it's far less likely to get you a suspension. Eric the Mauve fucked around with this message at 21:48 on May 14, 2022 |
|
#
?
May 14, 2022 21:45
|
|
|
The funny thing about the game tomorrow is I think it's tragic either way. Either the Penguins blow a 3-1 lead which has a certain level of tragedy to it despite the Penguins' injury trouble or the Rangers come all the way back to force a game 7 and then lose to a team they probably should have been able to beat in 5 or 6 given their injuries.
|
|
#
?
May 14, 2022 21:56
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 1, 2024 10:24 |
|
|
Sid was a huge baby whiner when he was younger That said it was probably mostly because he had such a little kid mad at his parents face
|
|
#
?
May 14, 2022 22:25
|
|