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NHL Playoffs 2016 |OT| Clear Eyes, Full Salt, Will Lose
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CreeperBlocks
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i feel this is Washington's year to win the Stanley Cup. Ovi's been waiting for ages.
I want a Stars vs Capitals SCF. I'm getting sick of Chicago and LA in it every year.
I want a Stars vs Capitals SCF. I'm getting sick of Chicago and LA in it every year.
These are going to be Sidney Crosby's playoffs, friends. All that "Has he still got it?" talk at the start of the season has fueled the fire. Dude's been a much more mature player over the past 5 months.
And Ovi's not winning a Cup, bros. He's joining Adam Oates, Pat Lafontaine, Marcel Dionne, and Peter Stastny - great players who just never got to taste that final victory.
Actually, wish him all the best and hope he does get a Cup eventually. Just not this year.
And Ovi's not winning a Cup, bros. He's joining Adam Oates, Pat Lafontaine, Marcel Dionne, and Peter Stastny - great players who just never got to taste that final victory.
Actually, wish him all the best and hope he does get a Cup eventually. Just not this year.
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Crosby, the Hagelin line, and Letang are my major concerns going into this series. That I'm including Crosby is saying something because quite frankly in the last few years I haven't sweated Crosby in the slightest going into our series against him. Usually I'm more worried about Malkin, who I generally consider the more dangerous all-around player this time of year (for what it's worth, I also think Malkin's absence this time around may be much more impactful than people seem to be expecting if we can find a way to take away the Hagelin line's speed). Sid has looked different down the stretch this year, though, and these Penguins in general aren't the same frail, easily shook team that we've seen the last two years. I attribute that largely to Crosby's change in attitude. He is the captain, after all.
Last year especially I was extra confident going into the series because I knew from the year before that we could spook the Pens into submission, and that's more or less what happened after we scored 30 seconds into the series to set the tone. I don't think that's going to happen this time around. We have to beat them on the ice this time, not in their heads.
Blame Windsor, Canada
Totally didn't expect to be here this year lol.
Interesting to see most calling for Flyers - Caps to be close considering the on-paper mismatch. Though I guess that has less to do with feelings of Philly having a legit shot and more to do with the Caps penchant for playing long series and choking in the playoffs.
Interesting to see most calling for Flyers - Caps to be close considering the on-paper mismatch. Though I guess that has less to do with feelings of Philly having a legit shot and more to do with the Caps penchant for playing long series and choking in the playoffs.
Henrik is the X factor for me. If the Pens can get to him like they have done this year, this could be a surprisingly quick series. But you just never know in the playoffs. I love the Pens on paper this year, and I love how they've been playing and wrecking teams, as well as getting those close victories, but it doesn't mean much if the young guys get stage fright, they run into a hot goalie, etc.
Why even play in the NHL at all if he's that nationalistic?
MultiJhonny
Banned
The cup is ours! No one else even try!
All about the money, money. If a Russian team offered him the same cash as the Capitals, how fast do you think he'd be on a plane?
Doubt it's the money. No tax in Russia. He'd make WAY more playing over there.
You know nothing about anything.
I'm picking up what you're Putin down.
Dubbedinenglish
Banned
Team amenities, standard of team care, is much higher in the NHL as well.
Booo
But to his point, Ovechkin would get MORE money in the KHL and have a MUCH lower cost of living. If money and mother Russia were his primary drivers, he wouldn't be here. Professional sports in North America, though, is where the prestige is. It's hard to be regarded as one of the best in the game unless you play in the best league.
MultiJhonny
Banned
Tomorrow it begins'
this gif is small
Dastardly Jerks
Banned
I know I'm meant to be doing work right now, but reading Players Tribune articles is something so entirely different from any other hockey media out there.
I bloody love it.
I bloody love it.
CreeperBlocks
Banned
There's great articles for any sport. But Hockey Ones are always fantastic. I forget who the player was but it was an article on an ex-NHLer journey to the KHL that had me in stitches.
SmackCrackleNPop
Member
Former Penguin and Anaheim Duck Ryan Whitney.
Traded after he returned from the Olympics to Edmonton. Didn't seem to like us for that.
MultiJhonny
Banned
This be the playoff thread! Get that golf talk back to the Canada OT
Dubbedinenglish
Banned
Friedman putting in Barkov love for Selke and Byng. Buenos.
Thinking Tallon would leave for Vancouver? No buenos.
Thinking Tallon would leave for Vancouver? No buenos.
Yeah, disappointing choice. CBC has by far the broader coverage, but not surprising that Rogers choses to have the more interesting series on their channel.
Legitimately one of the dumbest things I've read in NHL-Gaf in a long time, I assume you're related to Don Cherry somehow
MultiJhonny
Banned
Livingskeletons
If I pulled that off, would you die?
Jones starting for the Sharks for Game 1
The master vs apprentice duel is set:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzVBqBosf5w
The master vs apprentice duel is set:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzVBqBosf5w
CreeperBlocks
Banned
Are you trying to say Ovechkin is a lazy Russian? What are you trying to say here?
SmackCrackleNPop
Member
Really looking forward to this Kings/Sharks matchup.
Jonathan Quick is so good but so is Martin Jones. Revenge for the reverse sweep two years ago, perhaps too. Kings players injuring Sharks. Joe Thornton trying to knee Dustin Brown
Edit: derp
Surprised Rimer isn't getting it with how well he's supposedly played down the stretch
Livingskeletons
If I pulled that off, would you die?
That series was nuts. Quick going after Thornton, brawls at the end of every game etc.
Clockblockers
Member
But your facing st louis you have got to have your grit...
I can never figure out how Q decides his lines in the playoffs, this might be the first year since 2011 where the roster isn't good enough to win on pure talent. Than again without Keith maybe he figures game 1 is a wash so screw it
wsoxfan1214
Banned
This is patently false as our last few playoff runs show.
If I had a dollar for every time I read about how we needed grit the last few years before we won a series...
Clockblockers
Member
I was being sarcastic, though i guess i didn't convey that well, but I completely agree that its a BS excuse. Remember when Q kept playing Scott and than Bollig