IAGTTAYM
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7th in Corsi this season, 8th last season. But yeah, they are the Calgary of the East.Calgary Flames East. I keep saying.
7th in Corsi this season, 8th last season. But yeah, they are the Calgary of the East.Calgary Flames East. I keep saying.
7th in Corsi this season, 8th last season. But yeah, they are the Calgary of the East.
There is no team in the East that should frighten the West champion. I mean we all know it's either the Hawks or the Kings anyway.
I know you don't believe in it. But wasn't that the thing with Calgary last season? That they got outshot, outchanced and outplayed most of the time, and still somehow managed to make it to the playoffs ahead of LA and SJ?Corsi smorschy Hershey...
Tampa is not as good as last year. I mean, they had 2.8 goals/60 5v5 in 14/15, compared to 2.2 this season. And I know you like to pick out Johnson, but the truth is that Palat, Kucherov and Stamkos all have seen similar drop offs in goals/60 5v5.Tampa definitely know how to pull out wins and have some swagger. But allowing the lowly Winnipeg jets to fill the net and take the lead in the 3rd doesn't speak volumes to their mental prep, focus, whilst desperately needing points.
nor does requiring the Oilers to score 3 goals in their own net to beat them.
Tampa is good, but haven't done that much to impress this season except for the usual good players, Stamkos, Hedman, Kucherov, who run the show. How deep is this team really, is the question.
Answers will come soon enough.
I wouldn't trust the Blues goaltending as far as I could throw it. The Caps look dangerous but as 2010 showed you can shut any team down with enough trapping. That's all it takes to win in today's NHL.
Tampa made it through the East with fire power. I think Washington has enough depth to play a shutdown style of game against a trapping west team
Oshie/Williams/Orpik/Carlson/Alzner could do it
And then Chicago took care of them. The East just doesn't have what it takes to beat the West, and haven't for quite some time.
I don't think Tampa cares what people who don't even bother watching any of their games think.
I know you don't believe in it. But wasn't that the thing with Calgary last season? That they got outshot, outchanced and outplayed most of the time, and still somehow managed to make it to the playoffs ahead of LA and SJ?
Tampa is not as good as last year. I mean, they had 2.8 goals/60 5v5 in 14/15, compared to 2.2 this season. And I know you like to pick out Johnson, but the truth is that Palat, Kucherov and Stamkos all have seen similar drop offs in goals/60 5v5.
I was looking for them to be folded in the summer that's my only disappointment
Sorry for your bad luck....haha.
There is no team in the East that should frighten the West champion. I mean we all know it's either the Hawks or the Kings anyway.
I would bet on the Caps over either the Kings or the Hawks. This is not the same team anymore.
Is there a better 1-2 punch in the league than Backstrom/Kuznetsov? Throw in Holtby in net and you have a big problem to deal with.
I would bet on the Caps over either the Kings or the Hawks. This is not the same team anymore.
Is there a better 1-2 punch in the league than Backstrom/Kuznetsov? Throw in Holtby in net and you have a big problem to deal with.
It's not about being "good", it's about knowing how to ramp it up for the playoffs. There's a reason why the Caps haven't made the third round since 1998.
This kind of thing has been stated before.
Its not at all clear the Caps will even make it out of the EC. In fact this being a squad that have been very disappointing in playoffs year after year.
They have 3 rounds to get through before they can even surmise about beating whoever advances in WC.
Caps would have problems being resilient in the playoffs and theres an element in seven game series where one team just believes where the others can find doubt. OV, and the caps have so much postseason losing history that I wonder how they really face adversity of being down in a series. Such a thing is nothing to a team ike the Hawks or Kings. They just get over it. Kings went back from being 3-0 down in a series and winning against a very good club. I think Caps, with expectancy, have an even greater load now and will have trouble doing that. They couldn't do much when expectations weren't so heavy. I think its more difficult for them now.
Caps for all we know are still regular season lions and not much else.
I was very impressed with them last year to be honest. They gave the Rangers everything they could handle. I truly believe the Rangers would have come out of the East last year if the Caps didn't beat them down so badly. Their forwards are huge and they were punishing the Rangers D every game. The just couldn't score. The emergence of Kuznetsov and the additions of Oshie/Williams should help in that regard.