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Preds lost 3 straight draws and the Duck get the EN. Don't think the the Preds got a shot off once the goalie was pulled. Series tied.
 
KINGS17 said:
A deal could have been done the following season when Johansen was traded.

Columbus was extremely unhappy with Johansen, and if you remember that's one of the players I said Dean should be looking at if Kopitar wouldn't sign a reasonable deal.
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But Columbus got Jones, and he trumps Kopitar as a young, right handed defenseman, that takes up about half as much on the cap as Kopitar.

If Columbus got Toews for Johansen, that would be the same ballpark as Kopitar. Now we can blame Lombardi. He had nothing to match Jones though, outside of Doughty, and Jones will also take up about half the cap space for a couple years that Doughty will. Where's the deal? What could they do better than Jones? That was a 1 for 1 deal. Simple. With Kopitar, now you have to take back money from Columbus, then add some more there, then they have to add, then move this around, maybe carry the one, and then something else. It becomes a whole thing, and Nashville just sits there with Jones, which keeps being the better deal.

I think there's a reason you won't find too many examples of teams easily trading one #1C that is going to be making a lot of money soon, for a younger #1C that is going to be cheaper for at least half a decade. That transition doesn't happen. You have to draft that guy, but you'll have to get lucky to do it, like Detroit when Yzerman retired, and they just kept on with Zetterberg and Datsyuk.

If you wouldn't trade 2015 Johansen for 2015 Kopitar, and I'm guessing you wouldn't, why expect Columbus to do it?
 
Bandit said:
I will say though, what ****ing bizarro world are we living in where the Ducks are showing more mental toughness than their opponents?
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Getzlaf has really stepped up in the playoffs this season and is leading the way.

Nashville has been very good at home during the playoffs, so it will be interesting to see if Anaheim can get a split there, or win two.
 
The Johansen/Kesler stuff is hilarious as a bystander and as said above I can't believe we're living in a bizarro world where Kesler isn't just ignored/laughed off by guys with more swagger :laugh:

Oddly, Johansen IS getting the much better of the matchup, even if you wouldn't believe it based on those quotes.
 
KingsFan7824 said:
One thing Johansen can't do is worry about how Kesler's family feels about him.
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seriously, that was an incredibly stupid thing to say. just like, keep your mouth shut about it, you don't have to tell anyone a thing and you know kesler is gonna eat that stuff up

Raccoon Jesus said:
The Johansen/Kesler stuff is hilarious as a bystander and as said above I can't believe we're living in a bizarro world where Kesler isn't just ignored/laughed off by guys with more swagger :laugh:

Oddly, Johansen IS getting the much better of the matchup, even if you wouldn't believe it based on those quotes.
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agreed about johansen getting the better of it, watching kesler go full "controller disconnected" behind johansen's breakaway goal pretty much said it all to me

as soon as he gets ignored he's nothing
 
Pens-Sens playoff game may be the most boring game I've seen in years. Sens 1-1-3 or 1-3-1 system has sucked the life out of the game. Glad the Pens scored.
 
The dion hits were beauties though. Those are the kinds of hits that make the offense think twice about cutting through the middle of the ice with speed.
 
Guy Boucher pulled the same crap with Tampa Bay. I loved it when the Flyers completely made a mockery of his system. Gotta appreciate coaches trying to set the game back by sucking the creativity out of it.
 
Ziggy Stardust said:
Guy Boucher pulled the same crap with Tampa Bay. I loved it when the Flyers completely made a mockery of his system. Gotta appreciate coaches trying to set the game back by sucking the creativity out of it.
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Still think the onus is on the attacking team to generate that creativity. It's not like the 1-3-1 (or any other trap system) is unbeatable, especially with the kind of speed that the Penguins have.
 
Anyone who sat through that garbage last night lost a few years off their life.

Absolute drek.

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2017 Playoffs
Home Team Record 36-36
Team scoring first is 46-26
Scoring First
PIT 8-1
NSH 6-2
ANA 4-2
OTT 4-2
 
eleventy said:
Still think the onus is on the attacking team to generate that creativity. It's not like the 1-3-1 (or any other trap system) is unbeatable, especially with the kind of speed that the Penguins have.
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The way to beat it is to use speed and often dump around it. So it turns into a trap-into-dump-and-chase game. It nullifies the skill and speed of another team. There's no way to generate it when the opposition creates a neutral zone minefield with penalties turned off.
 
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