GDT: Around the League - 2021/22 - Playoffs edition

[Nylanderthal]

After playing the Leafs, they might breeze through the Panthers...they weren't great against Washington.

I don’t think much of the rangers, or Carolina without Andersen or Raanta either tbh. Cup final of Tampa Colorado will be great tho

 

[6ix]

Yeah I don't think it is coaching. Coaching plays in if you aren't getting looks. Our guys got looks, they just couldn't convert. And then they panicked and reverted to iso, which especially doesn't work when people aren't converting.

I don't think their PP coaches are telling them to play iso. Unless three different coaches don't have eyes, they know it doesn't work.

Our looks are pathetic in comparison. Matthews rarely ever gets the puck in a shooting position. No team respects Rielly point shot. Tavares wasted infront of the net.

Tampa has 2 shooters on each circle (stammer and kuch) plus Hedman has a blast from the blue line.

 

[nateylove100]

would you rather be the habs or the leafs right now?

 

[SeaOfBlue]

Our looks are pathetic in comparison. Matthews rarely ever gets the puck in a shooting position. No team respects Rielly point shot. Tavares wasted infront of the net.

Tampa has 2 shooters on each circle (stammer and kuch) plus Hedman has a blast from the blue line.

Matthews had the puck in shooting positions. He just took forever to get his shot off and missed far too often when he did. It was the same thing at ES too. He took far too long to get his shot off and lost his space. You don't get that time in the playoffs, and he couldn't one time for his life.

People also do realize that Tampa doesn't set Hedman up for one time slap shots either. He beat us the same way rielly beat them on the PP, and he beat us with a soft wrister in traffic; a shot that has been effective for Rielly when he uses it. Maybe that is a solution for our PP when Matthews and Nylander do not have it going.

Ultimately, our PP was too slow and then it was forcing things when they couldn't speed things up. Tampa's PP is no more talented than ours. Matthews has the best shot in the league and can get it off quick. Nylander's is nice too. Their guys don't take 5 seconds to make a decision with the puck. Our guys, with 3 different PP coaches in 3 years, have yet to figure that out, and instead think the solution is to pass it around the outside or force it to a seam to get that space.

It is also funny that our 2nd PP has that problem a lot less often, even when Rielly was on it at times, but they don't have nearly as much talent or puck moving skill with the forwards so they have different limitations, just like Tampa’s 2nd unit.

 

[2 Slick]

Avs up 2 to 1 now. Now THAT'S how you build a championship team. I'd be salivating if I were an Avs fan. Instead, I'm a status quo is kings fan of the Leafs. Woe is me lol

 

[Seath The Scaleless]

Florida should've put the game away in the 2nd period when they were dominating play. Tampa was sleep walking until the 3rd. I still have Florida winning the series, but Vas and the refs need to knock it off lol

 

[Maplebeasts]

I had the winner of TB-TOR going to the finals

We just have a mental block/complacency that didn't allow us to get the job done. It's extremely frustrating

Good call by the (early) looks of it. Florida is what everyone thinks we are. All offense but no defense or goaltending.

 

[1specter]

This feels like 2019 all over again. Tampa stole our girl just like Boston did

 

[Seath The Scaleless]

As expected, the Blues are incredibly slow compared to the Avs. Despite the bad goal, Binnington is keeping them in it.

Kuemper can't fall asleep and allow a goal on the next Blues chance lol

 

[BertCorbeau]

Reminder that the Av's have had 3 straight second round exits. This is a big series for them too.

 

[Seath The Scaleless]

Leafs legend Calle Rosen with a great play on MacKinnon

 

[GojuLeaf]

And we came out flat in the 3rd.

We also got screwed by the refs in the 3rd.

 

[Seath The Scaleless]

How is this only a 2-1 game

 

[keonsbitterness]

How is this only a 2-1 game

It is no longer.

 

[Seath The Scaleless]

It is no longer.

Thanks to an awful call by the refs lol

 

[keonsbitterness]

That should be a penalty on each team.

 

[Seath The Scaleless]

Refs are just ruining the game. What a joke

 

[keonsbitterness]

Avs win in OT.

Seeing-eye wrist shot from the point -- we gotta get us some of those.

 

[6ix]

Avs know how to close in OT. Wonder what it feels like

 

[Phion Keneuf]

Avs win in OT.

Seeing-eye wrist shot from the point -- we gotta get us some of those.

Why do we need those when we have shots off the shin pads lol.

Seriously though, that should be one of the top things we are looking for this off-season

Avs know how to close in OT. Wonder what it feels like

In Round 2 as well

 

[Seath The Scaleless]

Pure domination. Avs showed no rust and completely destroyed the Blues in every category except the scoreboard

Binnington was the only Blue to show up. Oh and I guess the posts with 5 huge saves

 

[Apotheosis]

I am finding it hard to think anyone can keep up with the Avs this year tbh. They are by far the most complete team top to bottom. They don't have the same holes the Leafs had and the Leafs took the Lightning to 7. Mackinnon and Makar would blitz past their slower D and Rantanen is large enough to actually forecheck against their team and is outright bigger than all of their forwards.

 

[SeaOfBlue]

Avs win in OT.

Seeing-eye wrist shot from the point -- we gotta get us some of those.

Isn't that how most of our defensemen score? Besides jumping up on the rush.

Who knows, maybe having Rielly/Sandin/Liljegren shoot the puck more often would be a good thing for this team. They can all shoot, so why not?

 

[Seath The Scaleless]

Isn't that how most of our defensemen score? Besides jumping up on the rush.

Who knows, maybe having Rielly/Sandin/Liljegren shoot the puck more often would be a good thing for this team. They can all shoot, so why not?

They have to be in the lineup in order to shoot

 

[keonsbitterness]

I am finding it hard to think anyone can keep up with the Avs this year tbh. They are by far the most complete team top to bottom. They don't have the same holes the Leafs had and the Leafs took the Lightning to 7. Mackinnon and Makar would blitz past their slower D and Rantanen is large enough to actually forecheck against their team and is outright bigger than all of their forwards.

I've been fooled before when the Avs had impressive game ones, only to lose the series.

They're still too much style not enough substance until I see different.