HoseEmDown
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Let me try to elaborate so that what I said isn't taken out of context.
In no way am I suggesting we got lucky winning the cup or we weren't the best team. I dont think that at all.
All I was suggesting was based on the way our team was playing and the lack of PP and secondary scoring through stretches I think we were fortunate to get a lot of defensive minded matchups. Esspecially since our 2nd line was non existent. If we would have dried up 5x5 or gone 1-16 on the PP against a high powered team like Colorado we might have been done for. Thats all. It wasn't a knock on the team or our accomplishments.
Here's the thing though do you think we go 1-16 or get no secondary scoring against teams that aren't as good defensively? I think it's harder to win against defense first teams especially in the playoffs. So our offensive issues were compounded by our opponents, if we played a more open team I think we score more goals and don't have the struggles like we did. I think our defense was good enough to shut down a high scoring team and we would still win the Cup regardless.