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Spring Break My Heart posted:The Montreal series was a bigger mismatch. Everyone was predicting a sweep, and a more pronounced one that what people are predicting now. Saying it's very obvious that is dumb as hell, and the 2010 series is a good reason for that. The Capitals outplayed Montreal by a staggering degree, and a goaltending matchup that should have been pretty close turned into a gigantic chasm. There are no series now or in the past 20 years where you should have been that surprised to see an upset, because it takes one goaltender having the series of his life to shift any matchup. Also the Habs beat the Pens in a similar fashion that year and it was an amazing time to be a Habs fan, up until they
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other great things include goalie goals, players tripping on a shootout, some nobody getting dressed as a backup, ref getting a puck in the groin, and anthem singers falling over
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Mike_V posted:Checked through the glass* There's the classic Larry Robinson hit where he hits the guy so hard they had to stop the game and nail the boards back in place https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKd4HJNSbQg
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violent sex idiot posted:i know, we are talking about logan couture the guy whos entire mouth is currently a bowl of soup Emelin was called out by Thornton and Ryan Malone at distinct points for not being able to take a beating, while Emelin has a metal plate in his head that could re-shatter his orbital bone if he gets into a fight. The self-policing of players they love so much kind of gets weird there when you get into the "well the guy won't get his skull caved in for a hit that was borderline and/or dirty what a pussy" territory where nobody knows how to deal with it. Punching a dude in the teeth is the only way to keep hockey mans from murdering each other, that's why you can't have visors, apparently.
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Emelin on a bottom pairing is probably fine. It's mostly painful to see him get top minutes and a top salary for 3rd pairing performances and judgement. I can't imagine he'd be worse than Nesterov or a major downgrade from Davidson
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Xtanstic posted:I regret coming back to root for this sorry sack of poorly mismanaged lump of sandpaper character potatoes. Sports fandom is perpetual misery. we have forgotten the unhealthy regular cynicism mandatory for a realistic Habs fan since the day Julien replaced Therrien. Back to the roots.
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Wondering if we're seeing the effect of teams adjusting their strategy to corsi as a stat. Its correlation to success was possibly relevant as long as it was an observe side-effect of some specific type of playing (i.e. good play was a cause of high corsi). The moment you adjust strategy to voluntarily generate more corsi events, you pad the stat without actual related impact on winning. Jack Han is starting to track the zone entries and exits with and without control of the puck in the rangers series as a metric, and it seems interesting: http://www.habseyesontheprize.com/a...ytics-breakdown
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Furnaceface posted:How else would people skate backwards? 
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I'm fully committed to the PK Subban In Nashville bandwagon now.
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Aphrodite posted:2 losing to 7 is worse than 8 losing to 1, obviously. if you look at point-based standing, Montreal was 4 losing to 5, which is not flattering, but less bad than 2 losing to 7.
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I think the proper idea is to turn the 4 out of 7 into an 8 out of 15 so that we need double the fluke to gently caress up a series
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An Oilers vs. Senators final would surely go well over the US sports media though
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get rid of the forward pass and play original hockey
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Spelling Mitsake posted:Not trying to be a homer or anything, but I thought the 76-77 habs were supposed to be the greatest team ever. Yeah that would have been my reflex too. http://www.thehockeynews.com/news/article/greatest-teams-of-all-time-1967-77-montreal-canadiens posted:All told, they established 21 NHL records, including a 132-point performance that still stands as the league’s benchmark. Their goal differential of 216 is by far the best in NHL history, 40 ahead of the next-best mark, which was established by the Habs the following season. I can't think of a more dominant think in their respective era than that one.
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I'm already wrong with Nashville 
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yeah like why won't they get another cup it's been over 20 years
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ThinkTank posted:If someone goes out of their way to insist they work really hard, they don't actually work that hard. this comment angers the baby boomers in my life
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