Rooting for you guys. I don't wanna play Vegas.
Crazy how this all started with a crazy game 6 comeback after going down 3-0 in the 1st to having the same thing happen to us in a different game 6, five years later
Is the way we lost somehow less embarrassing because we didn't blow a 3-1 series lead? Asking for... a friend.Remember when we said it would have been huge to go up 3-1 in the series because there was no way Dallas would win three in a row?
Welllllll.....
Is the way we lost somehow less embarrassing because we didn't blow a 3-1 series lead? Asking for... a friend.
Sam and Rasmus had those injuries since game 2 of the Winnipeg series, that's insane considering how well they both played.
If Sam needs surgery, maybe they can finally fix his chin-up shoulder along with his tricep.
Seriously though, he always looks like our best player in pre-season and playoffs.
He pretty much is our best player. Maybe not as deft and delicate as Johnny or as crafty as Tkachuk, but it's sort of a Bergeron vs Pastrnak / Marchand type of deal. The center is always the most valuable piece.
I really think we need to keep Johnny and join him at the hips of Benny and Tkachuk. That make is so lethal.
Bennett is a monster. If this team were willing to give him 22+ minutes a night in the playoffs, they'd probably have won a few more rounds over the last five years.
With torn triceps? I too was curious why Bennett wasn't getting promoted, but I was also chalking it up to Ward scared to ruin the chemistry of that line... but keeping his numbers low due to injury makes sense too.
Especially with Ward so willing to chat up the players and ask how they want to play and see if he can make it happen.
The idea of another three months of the same static lines and Ward refusing to change them short of injuries makes me die a little inside.
??? Ward line blended lines more than Peters with little criticism because a lot of it worked or the stuff that didn't work was quickly blended back out. It really blows my mind that many fans think most of his lines were static. Pairings, sure... but the only ploffs line (and most of his regular season lines weren't static either) I can think of was the LuBeDu line.