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Albino Squirrel posted:Is it wrong I'm kinda tempted to put something down on Arizona at 500-1?
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DO YALL WANT A BOXC posted:I think the Avs are the favorite based on having Makar, Toews, Byram, and a healthy Girard probably back. It's entirely possible Erik Johnson retires in the next couple of weeks. He wanted to retire last year and Sakic had to convince him to go one more. He may call it quits now that he has a Cup, though he'd still be very useful if he sticks around.
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Jun 29, 2022 03:18
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He's come a long way from pulling his groin getting out of a golf cart. That was EJ, right? Back during the dreadful Sacco years?
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Jun 29, 2022 03:28
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He tore two ligaments in his knee after getting his foot stuck between the accelerator and brake pedals and missed an entire season. Impressive, honestly.
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Good Will Hrunting posted:Me too. Desperate miss it already. This was probably the season where I watched the least regular season hockey. I picked up watching in 2009 with my college roommate and friend but mentally, after the Avs collapses in the playoffs post-rebuild (and being a fan of another team who collapses a lot in another spot) so many years in a row I needed a bit of a break from the constant stress and just didn't watch as much in general. Still followed and caught highlights but.... didn't force myself to stay awake on the east coast for every game. It let me enter the playoffs with a pretty zen feeling, which of course waned very quickly, but I feel like now that the Avs won a cup I'll be able to enjoy the regular season again next year without stressing. You should have thought ahead like me and recorded all of the Avs playoff games. That way you could just watch them over and over until the next season starts 
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There's a good possibility I would have gotten game 7 tickets from my work, if Lightning had won game 6. But I'm real happy they didn't, because if they did, Avs would be super tense and nervous and Lightning would prob have won game 7 as well, which would not have been cool.
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DO YALL WANT A BOXC posted:I think the Avs are the favorite based on having Makar, Toews, Byram, and a healthy Girard probably back. In the middle of the WCF, when everyone was clowning on the Avs for "not knowing how to play defense", I said in this thread that Makar/Toews/Byram/Manson was probably the best top 4 d pairing in the league (when Girard gets back, if he's not traded, I'm betting he ends up on the 3rd d pairing with EJ). I don't think anyone believed me (except probably other Avs fans) at the time, but it feels nice that other people are starting to think the same way 
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Jun 29, 2022 04:38
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Dude, you were going on about how Colorado would barely have a shot against the Lightning or Rangers when that series was still going on. Enjoy the win, but you're being very revisionist about your confidence in the team and everyone else's supposed lack of confidence in the D. People questioned Kuemper and depth if they had to play JMFJ due to injury. The strength of the top 4 wasn't exactly in question.
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Jun 29, 2022 12:56
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You have to be really awesome to win the Cup with JMFJ and a pirate for a goalie.
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DrunkPanda posted:In the middle of the WCF, when everyone was clowning on the Avs for "not knowing how to play defense", I said in this thread that Makar/Toews/Byram/Manson was probably the best top 4 d pairing in the league (when Girard gets back, if he's not traded, I'm betting he ends up on the 3rd d pairing with EJ). I don't think anyone believed me (except probably other Avs fans) at the time, but it feels nice that other people are starting to think the same way Yes, cup favorites since September really proved everyone wrong!
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DrunkPanda posted:In the middle of the WCF, when everyone was clowning on the Avs for "not knowing how to play defense", I said in this thread that Makar/Toews/Byram/Manson was probably the best top 4 d pairing in the league (when Girard gets back, if he's not traded, I'm betting he ends up on the 3rd d pairing with EJ). I don't think anyone believed me (except probably other Avs fans) at the time, but it feels nice that other people are starting to think the same way The playoffs are over you don’t have to keep posting.
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Dr Zaius posted:Dude, you were going on about how Colorado would barely have a shot against the Lightning or Rangers when that series was still going on. Enjoy the win, but you're being very revisionist about your confidence in the team and everyone else's supposed lack of confidence in the D. People questioned Kuemper and depth if they had to play JMFJ due to injury. The strength of the top 4 wasn't exactly in question. No? Lots of people said Colorado played terrible defense. I said that Colorado's defense was really good, but Kuemper made them look bad by giving up a lot of terrible goals. Go back and look at my post history if you want, nothing I just said was revisionist at all. Yeah, at the time I said I didn't like our chances against the Lightning or Rangers, but I said it specifically because Kuemper was playing so bad. Not because of our defense. I said all along that I loved our defense. DrunkPanda fucked around with this message at 13:59 on Jun 29, 2022 |
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 No one ever said Colorado was bad at defense. Colorado is awesome at defense, as evidenced by the fact they carried an average goaltender with one eye to the Cup. All anyone ever said is that Jack Mother loving Johnson sucks at loving hell man, you realize you're being That Guy, right? The guy whose favored-all-year-long team wins the Cup and immediately goes WOOOOOOOO gently caress THE HATERS gently caress YOU ALL YOU NEVER BELIEVED IN US gently caress YOU!!! Like, this is how you get off? Really? After you spent most of the playoff run campaigning for Bednar to be fired, no less. The only person here who didn't believe in the Avs was you. Eric the Mauve fucked around with this message at 14:09 on Jun 29, 2022 |
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Jun 29, 2022 14:07
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Is anybody heading to the parade tomorrow?
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Man, I was at the Caps' cup parade a few years back and that poo poo was wild, hope our Colorado goons have a blast 
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DrunkPanda posted:No? Lots of people said Colorado played terrible defense. I said that Colorado's defense was really good, but Kuemper made them look bad by giving up a lot of terrible goals. Jesus loving Christ just shut the god drat hell up already
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Aye Doc posted:Jesus loving Christ just shut the god drat hell up already Chill.
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Hand Knit posted:Chill. gently caress you (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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obnoxious little bitch posters should be called out every time
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Hand Knit posted:Chill. It’s ok to dislike them now cuz their team won the cup that’s heritage not hate.
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DrunkPanda posted:No? Lots of people said Colorado played terrible defense. I said that Colorado's defense was really good, but Kuemper made them look bad by giving up a lot of terrible goals. There are a lot of bad opinions in these threads, many of the mine. But nobody in earnest looked at one, if not the, Stanley Cup favorites and said they have terrible defense. Your team was not the underdog, you should be gloating that your team was the best and proved it was the best. This nobody believed in my teams defense victim complex is very strange on a team with Cale Makar...
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Good soup! posted:Man, I was at the Caps' cup parade a few years back and that poo poo was wild, hope our Colorado goons have a blast 2018 was glorious. I used my tenuous credentials to get on the press platform and then left early because I was getting sunburned as gently caress.  edit: My pre-series guess was Tampa in 6 based on the assumption that good things can't happen and that the WCF was a gong show. Avs defense is fantastic though. If they had Girard, I think they might have swept. Chad Sexington fucked around with this message at 16:50 on Jun 29, 2022 |
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Probably can't even watch the parade cause I'm super swamped with meetings on what should be a no meetings day but since Friday is a holiday for my department everyone felt the need to schedule meetings and I'm pretty sad. gently caress our hiring plan, I wanna watch my boys celebrate. EJ posted a video of a cup party that I'm guessing is Gabe's and the amount of McDonald's is definitely sending Nate crazy somewhere.
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Hand Knit posted:Is anybody heading to the parade tomorrow? Should be a big crowd, Kuemper and the Colorado D are working security so a lot of people are gonna get through.
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Hand Knit posted:Is anybody heading to the parade tomorrow? I might be.
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The Avs didn't win the president's trophy this year so I don't know why anyone would've considered them underdogs.
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acidx posted:The Avs didn't win the president's trophy this year so I don't know why anyone would've considered them underdogs. Just a 5 mile walk to the parade. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
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Lauging at the idea that the Avalanche weren't huge favorites and no one believes in them
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Chad Sexington posted:2018 was glorious. I used my tenuous credentials to get on the press platform and then left early because I was getting sunburned as gently caress. I’ve always been pretty ambitiously about the Caps, don’t hate them, but obviously not one of my teams. Caps might go down in history as the best post cup summer party ever. It was so loving epic.
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Ovi and the Caps winning the cup is my favourite cup win ever. He was so happy.
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https://twitter.com/spittinchiclets/status/1542191098650660864
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I don't think they are Edmonton bad, but I do think Colorado mostly plays defense by being really good offensively. The times they tried to sit on a lead and defend it, things tended to go very poorly (see Game 5 against the Blues). Whereas they could stifle other teams offense by keeping up their own offensive pressure (see Game 6 of the Finals which ended with Makar pinning the puck in the corner in the offensive zone). Guys like Makar, Byram and Girard aren't really great defensively, but they move the puck out of the zone quickly with tape-to-tape passes, or can skate it out, and you absolutely have to worry about them in transition.
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Simplex posted:I don't think they are Edmonton bad, but I do think Colorado mostly plays defense by being really good offensively. The times they tried to sit on a lead and defend it, things tended to go very poorly (see Game 5 against the Blues). Whereas they could stifle other teams offense by keeping up their own offensive pressure (see Game 6 of the Finals which ended with Makar pinning the puck in the corner in the offensive zone). They play really good defense in the neutral zone and are really good at possession of the puck. So any “deficiencies” in the d zone are less of a problem. They’re not going to be great against teams that are really good at cycling behind the net and down low, but they are good at disrupting passing lanes and turning it up ice quickly in transition. I know that doesn’t translate great as pure great defense, but at the end of the day it’s about keeping more pucks out of your net than you put in the other. And against Tampa they managed to stifle their offense in a couple games including game 6. So, not bad at D, just looks different than 10 years ago.
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ThinkTank posted:Ovi and the Caps winning the cup is my favourite cup win ever. He was so happy. Yeah, no lie. https://youtu.be/ZiezsZrOHAo
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Cartoon Man posted:Yeah, no lie. underrated too is the bro moment with him and backy, knowing his hand was broken somehow makes it even better
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Why are we talking about the Washington losers in the SCF thread?
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Simplex posted:I don't think they are Edmonton bad, but I do think Colorado mostly plays defense by being really good offensively. The best kind of defense.
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that’s really bad, crazy that he kept going! he was also apparently seeing an ocular specialist three times a day throughout the playoffs because it wasn’t working correctly. I hope he does get re-signed, he’s the best option the Avs have and I think (hope) maybe the weak eye-injury induced postseason leads to a contract everyone can be happy with. maybe 4x4.5? that was his cap hit on his last contract and isn’t onerous enough to cripple on that term
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Seeing Peter McNab was cool and depressing at the same time. I didn't know he was sick. Here's my kid shaking his hand when he was healthy and the Avs sucked. 
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