Stanley Cup Playoffs Random Thoughts

[leaffan]

Interesting fact. The Rangers now send their first round pick to Tampa because they made it to the conference final.

 

[kmanharris]

Interesting fact. The Rangers now send their first round pick to Tampa because they made it to the conference final.

Worth it.

 

[leaffan]

Things I found about the Pens series:

The penguins essentially were smashing the rangers stat wise for 5/6 of the 7 games.

Rangers were rolling McDonagh/Girardi against Crosby and Stralman/Stall Against Malkin. Might be why kman was worried about Malkin more then Crosby. They weren't doing this early on in the series and when they played the matchup game it really looked like they were outdoing the penguins on that front. Comes back to my point though that the penguins really couldn't do anything outside of the top 2 lines.

The only guy worth a dam secondary scoring wise was Jokinen and then they had one random goal from Stempniak and that's it. The other goals were Malkin or Kunitz/Neal. Oh and Sutter showed up once in a while.

Crosby was definatly playing hurt.

 

[Woy]

Yeah, I think it was pretty obvious that Crosby was playing hurt.

Jokinen was the Pens' best player over the entire postseason, IMO. Was always in the right spot at the right time and had a knack for the clutch goal. The rest of the wingers were shit, particularly Neal when you discount the bottom 6 forwards. I agree that the bottom 6 has been a big problem over this Cup "drought" - example being Pascal Dupuis serving as a fourth-liner in '09 and now being one of the teams' top scoring options.

 

[kmanharris]

Montreal :jack:

 

[leaffan]

Montreal :jack:

Should fav and save this comment from me:

"Have fun with the refs"

 

[leaffan]

With players named Dale Weise and Rene Bourque. Don't expect that to continue.

:shifty: He literally just went to the net and did nothing but I lost it with laughter when Weise scored.

 

[kmanharris]

Should fav and save this comment from me:

"Have fun with the refs"

When Montreal went up 3-1 the first thing I thought of was "I hope leaffan isn't going to be right." :truestory:

 

[leaffan]

For kman

 

[dave]

For kman

Please stop.

The only powerplay goal in Game 7 was scored by Boston.

Stop making stupid excuses because your team couldn't get the job done last year and mine did this year.

That said, I have nothing but respect for the Boston Bruins - a great team, quality organization, great fans, and I love our rivalry. Of course I always want my team to win.

My team did what your team couldn't ... get over it, Leaffan.

 

[kmanharris]

Please stop.

The only powerplay goal in Game 7 was scored by Boston.

Stop making stupid excuses because your team couldn't get the job done last year and mine did this year.

That said, I have nothing but respect for the Boston Bruins - a great team, quality organization, great fans, and I love our rivalry. Of course I always want my team to win.

My team did what your team couldn't ... get over it, Leaffan.

Montreal's 3rd goal was scored on the Powerplay :yao:

 

[dave]

Montreal's 3rd goal was scored on the Powerplay :yao:

Ooops.

(But that was a legit interference penalty)

 

[Tailback U]

Things I found about the Pens series:

The penguins essentially were smashing the rangers stat wise for 5/6 of the 7 games.

Rangers were rolling McDonagh/Girardi against Crosby and Stralman/Stall Against Malkin. Might be why kman was worried about Malkin more then Crosby. They weren't doing this early on in the series and when they played the matchup game it really looked like they were outdoing the penguins on that front. Comes back to my point though that the penguins really couldn't do anything outside of the top 2 lines.

The only guy worth a dam secondary scoring wise was Jokinen and then they had one random goal from Stempniak and that's it. The other goals were Malkin or Kunitz/Neal. Oh and Sutter showed up once in a while.

Crosby was definatly playing hurt.

They're all playing hurt and they are all rolling line match ups. Hockey fans are some of the dumbest of any sport because few truly understand the game and are quick to blame the star players and no one else.

People say this stuff about the sharks every year. Thornton and marleau can't get it done. They are too soft. They don't have what it takes. It's media BS that idiot fans get sucked into believing.

Mario Lemieux, arguably the second best hockey player of all time won 2 cups in back to back years and failed in the other 16 seasons that he played in.

Hockey is the biggest team sport of all because your star players aren't on the playing field the whole game. You don't play as a team, you don't have 4 lines chipping in, if your goalie doesn't match the opponents and if you don't capitalize on special teams then you aren't going to go all the way.

That's all there is to it. If you don't get it then you don't understand hockey.

Watching nhl network right now and they are praising pacioretti for his goal tonight even though he was set up perfectly and all the effort was done by the assist man. PAC is a big name and scored so he is getting high media praise even though the assist man is who deserves all the credit.

This is exactly what I'm talking about.

 

[leaffan]

They're all playing hurt and they are all rolling line match ups. Hockey fans are some of the dumbest of any sport because few truly understand the game and are quick to blame the star players and no one else.

People say this stuff about the sharks every year. Thornton and marleau can't get it done. They are too soft. They don't have what it takes. It's media BS that idiot fans get sucked into believing.

Mario Lemieux, arguably the second best hockey player of all time won 2 cups in back to back years and failed in the other 16 seasons that he played in.

Hockey is the biggest team sport of all because your star players aren't on the playing field the whole game. You don't play as a team, you don't have 4 lines chipping in, if your goalie doesn't match the opponents and if you don't capitalize on special teams then you aren't going to go all the way.

That's all there is to it. If you don't get it then you don't understand hockey.

Watching nhl network right now and they are praising pacioretti for his goal tonight even though he was set up perfectly and all the effort was done by the assist man. PAC is a big name and scored so he is getting high media praise even though the assist man is who deserves all the credit.

This is exactly what I'm talking about.

What? Random rant about god knows what this morning lol.

 

[leaffan]

Please stop.

The only powerplay goal in Game 7 was scored by Boston.

Stop making stupid excuses because your team couldn't get the job done last year and mine did this year.

That said, I have nothing but respect for the Boston Bruins - a great team, quality organization, great fans, and I love our rivalry. Of course I always want my team to win.

My team did what your team couldn't ... get over it, Leaffan.

You really really want to harp on the fact that I for some reason have some sort of control over the leafs. Then you bitch and moan when I post some random comments. You're really going to hate the comments I have about the series later on when I do what I did with the rangers series because Montreal was fairly lucky to get through that round. It basically all comes down to the Bruins were not playing the same way they played the wings. Bostons 4th line really fucked them over all series and Chara had probably the worst game I've ever seen him play. At 37 years old though and all those mins is it starting to catch up to him.

 

[leaffan]

If you don't get it then you don't understand hockey.

Watching nhl network right now and they are praising pacioretti for his goal tonight even though he was set up perfectly and all the effort was done by the assist man. PAC is a big name and scored so he is getting high media praise even though the assist man is who deserves all the credit.

This is exactly what I'm talking about.

Oh and no he wasn't: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMouFikS1vs

Probably 95% of the time that puck is going over the net into the crowd because it was no where near flat on the ice.

 

[Senser81]

Oh and no he wasn't: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMouFikS1vs

Probably 95% of the time that puck is going over the net into the crowd because it was no where near flat on the ice.

Its my experience in this forum that there are 2-3 people who actually understand hockey, and then there is everyone else in this forum who pretends they understand hockey and get upset at others who have the same limited understanding of hockey. I'm surprised Ravin hasn't jumped in yet and wanked out his "thoughts" on this.

 

[Tailback U]

Oh and no he wasn't: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMouFikS1vs

Probably 95% of the time that puck is going over the net into the crowd because it was no where near flat on the ice.

95% of the time huh? What a nice number to pull out of your ass.

95% of guys in the nhl score that goal.

Great talk.

 

[leaffan]

95% of the time huh? What a nice number to pull out of your ass.

95% of guys in the nhl score that goal.

Great talk.

No they don't. There's a ton of different factors in it but when you get a puck wobbling over to you like that its not easy to score. Looks like he didn't even take a full wind up either which was smart because only a snap shot is really going to put that on net.

 

[Tailback U]

No they don't. There's a ton of different factors in it but when you get a puck wobbling over to you like that its not easy to score. Looks like he didn't even take a full wind up either which was smart because only a snap shot is really going to put that on net.

You're not in the nhl.

95% of forwards in the league should score that goal.

Sure it wasn't perfectly flat on the ice but I've seen hundreds of guys one time the shit out of bouncing pucks into empty nets. It happens all the time. Saying that it goes over the net 95% of the time is retarded. Maybe for you it does, but again, you're not in the nhl.