Oddly tonight was the first time I saw a home team win the Cup in a Game 7.
Bobrovsky should have won the Conn Smythe based on how the game played out.
Bobrovsky should have won the Conn Smythe based on how the game played out.
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I heard today the last team before tonight (well... last night) in north American sports to win a home game 7 was the Miami heat in 2013 but not sure if that's true or not or the parameters.
On the bright side folks, Shawn Thornton gets another ring. So in retrospect, not too bad of an ending.
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Hard to believe what I'm reading here........some of you actually watched the post game stuff? The second the clock hit 0:00 I turned the channel, who the hell wants to watch those scumbags celebrate?
Same I turned it off as well. Glad to hear Mcdavid got the Conn Smythe.
Ugly hat for a franchise with 10 legitimate fans
nORRis8
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Had to watch some of it last night as we were invited out to some friends place (3rd game night in a row) to watch.
This is the first Cup final game I've watched in 4 years. Largely due to not caring
McDavid was the obvious choice for the Conn Smythe IMO. Yes he faded out right at the end, but the numbers all playoffs were crazy good, he led from the front, and on the other side Bobrovsky lost just a little shine through three straight defeats and Barkov couldn't quite produce enough to take it off him. And if anyone's really unhappy about it, just think, the fact that McDavid was pretty much a nonentity who was well shut down in the most important game of his career to date, with a Cup on the line, will burn him immensely. He's the most competitive guy out there and someone who's very much aware of his legacy, so this one will sting for quite a while.
Probably wasn't the greatest game for the casual fan to watch, but elimination games of this sort are usually tight, defense-heavy affairs, and the Panthers would have been out of their minds to try and go toe and toe in a more open, back-and-forth game with the Oilers. Really what won it for them was finally getting back just in time to their hard-pressing, tough on pucks, take away time and space style that they've perfected all year. Not pretty perhaps, but very effective.
I don't mind Messier. Still not sold on Subban, but he benefited from the in-arena format for the finals where he had to be more serious and mostly just talk about the actual hockey. Without the antics, his knowledge of the game, which of course is pretty broad, was shared much more effectively. ESPN can still do better with their coverage and presentation, but what we got this playoffs was decent enough.
Always interesting to see who stands up when it matters most, and who doesn't. Verhaeghe is a big game player. -5 for the playoffs, but who cares because he comes up big when it's really needed so often. Lundell is sneaky good too. Janmark and Ekholm had very solid postseasons. A fit Kane as another attacking option was missed by Edmonton. Bouchard has all the offensive talent in the world but really needs to work on his defensive reads and positioning. Too often at present he's a liability. Draisaitl really hurt his stocks being near-invisible in the finals. Usually a playoffs beast so don't know what happened there. Cost his team bad.
Finally I feel like the wider hockey world was a little slow over the years in working out just how good Barkov is. Fully getting all the recognition and credit he deserves now and then some. Comparisons with Bergeron are misplaced because he's a slightly different type of player, but he's genuinely an excellent two-way center in his own right. Good on him for being able to raise the Cup as captain - well earned.
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Why would Edmonton trade for Ullmark who has 3 career playoff wins, when they came within one game of winning it all with Skinner in goal?
You two look like a heck of a nice family lol
LouJersey
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Florida benefitted big time by hiring a GM from outside the organization.
I'd take Ullmark over Skinner any day of the week. Skinner was great from game 4 on in this series, minus the costly cream puff goal, but he's looked shaky ASF a lot through the playoffs as well. Better yet if they had a tandum like Skinner-Ullmark during the regular season he might not have been as worn out when the playoffs came around. But that would take getting into the boring salary cap/business side to know if that would work, I don't go there.
As noted to OrrForever in the Music Thread, who posted Supertramp's "Long Way Home,"
I did not watch the game, though I had planned to do so.
You bear the burden of informing me of the outcome.
Hoped EDM would win. All respect to FLA. Wish my home team played like that.
Somewhere, Shawn Thornton is smiling.
Good on him, and good on that franchise.
I did not watch the game, though I had planned to do so.
You bear the burden of informing me of the outcome.
Hoped EDM would win. All respect to FLA. Wish my home team played like that.
Somewhere, Shawn Thornton is smiling.
Good on him, and good on that franchise.
I bet Fanatics made generic 2 tone gray hats and had some with Florida logos if they won, others with Edmonton's if they won. Cost savings, maximum profits
KrazyLegs
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Yeah, 1 whole PP for the Oilers. And looking the other way for the rest of the game while Florida did their normal hook, grab and hold party.
What a pro-Edmonton whistle. LOL
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On what frigging planet does that look like the Stanley Cup? The fact they are both shiny, silver, and vaguely cylindrical is about the only resemblance.
Bruins can learn a few things from this final, HOW TO WIN!
trenton1
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Bett and Jerry must be feeling vindicated on the same day as Alex Meruelo walks away from one of their other top TV market destinations.
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