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DOOMocrat
Oct 2, 2003

Just really hoping Chicago makes it past St. Louis because I think they have better odds of knocking out Dallas if they make it to the second round. Dallas is pretty good at exposing depth defense, but not very good at dealing with it.

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DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


DOOMocrat posted:

Dallas is pretty good at exposing depth defense, but not very good at dealing with it.

Wait... what?

RC Cola
Aug 1, 2011

Dovie'andi se tovya sagain
2 days until my playoff beard

xzzy
Mar 5, 2009

RC Cola posted:

2 days until my playoff beard

Can you even skate backwards?

Trevor Bird
Apr 1, 2006

On a mountain of skulls, in the castle of pain, I sat on a throne of blood! What was will be! What is will be no more! Now is the season of evil! LET'S GO PRED-A-TORS!
i'm not a fan of these dumbass 8:30 cst home games but whatever. go hockey, f a duck, etc.

Hand Knit
Oct 24, 2005

Beer Loses more than a game Sunday ...
We lost our Captain, our Teammate, our Friend Kelly Calabro...
Rest in Peace my friend you will be greatly missed..

DJExile posted:

Wait... what?

Basically he's saying that Dallas feasts on taking advantage of other teams' worst D and gets in trouble when their opponents don't have lovely replacement level D to take advantage of.

Chairman Wao
Mar 5, 2013

go star

Trevor Bird posted:

i'm not a fan of these dumbass 8:30 cst home games but whatever. go hockey, f a duck, etc.

Yeah, I saw that for the Thursday game for the Stars. Gonna be a crappy Friday morning but oh well.

a false
Mar 5, 2009

I DECIDE
WHO LIVES
AND WHO DIES

Hand Knit posted:

Basically he's saying that Dallas feasts on taking advantage of other teams' worst D and gets in trouble when their opponents don't have lovely replacement level D to take advantage of.

dallas feasts on the D. got it

Kyrosiris
May 24, 2006

You try to be happy when everyone is summoning you everywhere to "be their friend".



Chairman Wao posted:

Yeah, I saw that for the Thursday game for the Stars. Gonna be a crappy Friday morning but oh well.

I have tickets for thursday so I told my boss "look, it's a 8:30 game, how useful do you think I'll be on friday?" and he okayed me taking the day off. :v:

Chairman Wao
Mar 5, 2013

go star

Kyrosiris posted:

I have tickets for thursday so I told my boss "look, it's a 8:30 game, how useful do you think I'll be on friday?" and he okayed me taking the day off. :v:

I also have tickets but will be at work Friday morning. And driving to my parents' to get my brother on the bus before that. :suicide:

Zoran
Aug 19, 2008

I lost to you once, monster. I shall not lose again! Die now, that our future can live!

a false posted:

dallas feasts on the D. got it

We only like really soft and flimsy ones, though

RC Cola
Aug 1, 2011

Dovie'andi se tovya sagain

xzzy posted:

Can you even skate backwards?

No which is pretty bad since I play defense

Iodised QQ
Jul 23, 2004

the Islanders are winning the stanley cup


source: this dude simming the playoffs in nhl 16 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8VYdTpNS68



wrap it up, everyone else

Pornographic Memory
Dec 17, 2008

a false posted:

dallas feasts on the D. got it

that explains a lot about jamie benn's opinions on munching box

Albino Squirrel
Apr 25, 2003

Miosis more like meiosis

Kyrosiris posted:

I have tickets for thursday so I told my boss "look, it's a 8:30 game, how useful do you think I'll be on friday?" and he okayed me taking the day off. :v:
A good boss. How many would understand the importance of playoff hockey in Dallas?

Levitate
Sep 30, 2005

randy newman voice

YOU'VE GOT A LAFRENIÈRE IN ME
Rangers gonna get swept

A series of 0-1 losses where a different member of the D accidentally deflects a puck past an otherwise flawless Lundqvist each game

tofes
Mar 31, 2011

#1 Milpitas Dave and Buster's superfan since 2013

i am the bird posted:

https://twitter.com/NHLonNBCSports/status/719548817440309250/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Have we talked about this yet?

I hope Detroit can defeat the Sharp Bananas.

Let's institute divisional playoffs and then depict east vs west.

-the NHL

.Spec
Oct 4, 2001

Levitate posted:

Rangers gonna get swept

A series of 0-1 losses where a different member of the D accidentally deflects a puck past an otherwise flawless Lundqvist each game

After the Pens losing all 4 games each by one goal last year I'd be cool with this.

edit: The Lightening's mascot/whatever in that picture immediately made me think of Earthworm Jim.

Levitate
Sep 30, 2005

randy newman voice

YOU'VE GOT A LAFRENIÈRE IN ME

.Spec posted:

After the Pens losing all 4 games each by one goal last year I'd be cool with this.

edit: The Lightening's mascot/whatever in that picture immediately made me think of Earthworm Jim.

MAF getting scored on twice in OT means they should have lost by 2 in my book :colbert:

Pornographic Memory
Dec 17, 2008
out of 13 games the rangers played against the pens and caps last year, 9 of those games had scores of 2-1 or 1-0. playoff rangers :argh:

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


tofes posted:

Let's institute divisional playoffs and then depict east vs west.

-the NHL

This wasn't the NHL's work, just an illustrator that NBC retweeted.

Levitate
Sep 30, 2005

randy newman voice

YOU'VE GOT A LAFRENIÈRE IN ME

Pornographic Memory posted:

out of 13 games the rangers played against the pens and caps last year, 9 of those games had scores of 2-1 or 1-0. playoff rangers :argh:

Well if the other teams would just let the Rangers score more often we wouldn't have this problem

Matt Zerella
Oct 7, 2002

Norris'es are back baby. It's good again. Awoouu (fox Howl)

Pornographic Memory posted:

out of 13 games the rangers played against the pens and caps last year, 9 of those games had scores of 2-1 or 1-0. playoff rangers :argh:

Hank is a monster.

But the defense is going to get dunked on hard so no amount of heroics will help.

Levitate
Sep 30, 2005

randy newman voice

YOU'VE GOT A LAFRENIÈRE IN ME

LmaoTheKid posted:

Hank is a monster.

But the defense is going to get dunked on hard so no amount of heroics will help.

I pray that Gorton realizes how bad the D is and that it has to change

WhiskeyJuvenile
Feb 15, 2002

by Nyc_Tattoo

Pornographic Memory posted:

out of 13 games the rangers played against the pens and caps last year, 9 of those games had scores of 2-1 or 1-0. playoff rangers :argh:

All 7 games against the Caps were one goal games

yikes

Rotten Cookies
Nov 11, 2008

gosh! i like both the islanders and the rangers!!! :^)

Just going to call it in here, game 3, while down 2-0, one of the Isles 4th line is going to board Jagr hard or something and everyone is going to hate the Islanders. They're going to lose the game like 3-1, the series probably by like 4-1, and everyone is going to say "see, that's what you get for trying to tank to get the Panthers, you dolts."



Y'know... just trying to anticipate something bad because why would anything go well for the Isles.



Not that I expect much better from the Rangers, excepting Hank.

xzzy
Mar 5, 2009

Or it's a completely innocuous hit, sends Jagr spinning to the ice and his helmet flies off. Which isn't that big a deal, but his toupee comes with it and the entire hockey world's jaw drops as they learn the mullet has been a lie.

A sad lump of horsehair rotting near the faceoff dot, no one wants to touch it and they decide to cancel the game and try again tomorrow after hazmat cleans things up.

But that never happens, because the Panthers forfeit the series out of shame.

Shawn Cotureier
Jan 21, 2009

Still better than Umberger
I just remembered this today when Rod Brind'Amour told a story about Ed Snider kicking in the door to the referee's locker room to yell at them about talking to his players like poo poo

http://www.csnphilly.com/blog/700-level/rod-brindamour-remembers-ed-snider-kicking-down-refs-door-defend-his-players

Pornographic Memory
Dec 17, 2008

Rotten Cookies posted:

Just going to call it in here, game 3, while down 2-0, one of the Isles 4th line is going to board Jagr hard or something and everyone is going to hate the Islanders. They're going to lose the game like 3-1, the series probably by like 4-1, and everyone is going to say "see, that's what you get for trying to tank to get the Panthers, you dolts."



Y'know... just trying to anticipate something bad because why would anything go well for the Isles.



Not that I expect much better from the Rangers, excepting Hank.

the inevitability of matt martin's dumb caveman brain causing him to decide to hurt somebody to "spark the team" or whatever is pretty much why i wanted the pens to play the rangers instead of the islanders

Ginette Reno
Nov 18, 2006

How Doers get more done
Fun Shoe

Levitate posted:

Rangers gonna get swept

A series of 0-1 losses where a different member of the D accidentally deflects a puck past an otherwise flawless Lundqvist each game

However hot the Penguins are these days they still tend to give up their share of goals against. If the Rangers do lose it will probably at least be in entertaining fashion with goals both ways.

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


Shawn Cotureier posted:

I just remembered this today when Rod Brind'Amour told a story about Ed Snider kicking in the door to the referee's locker room to yell at them about talking to his players like poo poo

http://www.csnphilly.com/blog/700-level/rod-brindamour-remembers-ed-snider-kicking-down-refs-door-defend-his-players

holy poo poo that's a great story

Shawn Cotureier
Jan 21, 2009

Still better than Umberger
Not playoffs related but Bryz tweets

https://twitter.com/bryzgoalie30/status/719680355989454848

Spring Break My Heart
Feb 15, 2012

Poonerman posted:

mike vernon allowed 14 goals on 96 shots ( :eyepop: ) in 1995. one of the great final performances of our time
1995 had a really cool first round with a bunch of close series followed by the death of hockey as we know it.

Vernon also had a bunch of meltdowns for the Flames in years where they were top teams. Vernon had 2 really great playoff runs and a lot of trash. Although...

i am the bird posted:

Oh we talkin' about Conn Smythe winner Mike Vernon in here?
Fedorov really should have won it.

GopherFlats
Mar 16, 2011
Hey guys the Ducks are going to win the Stanley Cup and it will be cool and good.

xzzy
Mar 5, 2009

But, gently caress Corey Perry.

Not butt gently caress, I'm not into that. But it's cool if you are.

iwentdoodie
Apr 29, 2005

🤗YOU'RE WELCOME🤗

xzzy posted:

But, gently caress Corey Perry.

Not butt gently caress, I'm not into that. But it's cool if you are.

Too close to butt loving Ron Howard. As a meth head. Who also sucks. And is a bad person.

gently caress Corey Perry.

Look Around You
Jan 19, 2009

Meanwhile, at the Department of Player Safety:

https://twitter.com/BurkieNHL/status/719701460628467713


(I'm only slightly jealous and it doesn't help that i'm starving)

Matt Zerella
Oct 7, 2002

Norris'es are back baby. It's good again. Awoouu (fox Howl)
Lugers is good but the loving morons didn't go "steak for X amount of people" so they screwed that up.

Jamwad Hilder
Apr 18, 2007

surfin usa
looks good to eat

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Trevor Bird
Apr 1, 2006

On a mountain of skulls, in the castle of pain, I sat on a throne of blood! What was will be! What is will be no more! Now is the season of evil! LET'S GO PRED-A-TORS!

GopherFlats posted:

Hey guys the Ducks are going to win the Stanley Cup and it will be cool and good.

i don't agree with this take. consider yourself disagreed with.

perry's gonna get neal'd.

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