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PromisedLand said:
Florida was collapsing well against the Leafs because Leafs play soft hockey; Leafs didn't want to take the beating go into the dirty areas in front of the net to create traffic and make it harder for bob to see the puck.

Sheldon Keefe was outcoached against the bolts too. Leafs were lucky to win that series. Treliving basically implied that in his musings i forget whether it was on TSN with overdrive guys or with Kypper on sportsnet radio
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Beating by who???

Gudas plays 15 minutes a game, you’re out there against Montour, Forsling, Ekblad and Staal 75% of the game. Ekblad and Staal are the only mild physical threats and they’re too slow to need to beat them to the slot in the first place. Staal got beat like a rented mule all series, their only actually effective D was Montour cause he’d push counterattacks at us every chance he could.

The majority of our chances were from in tight with bodies in front of Bob, you can’t call everything you don’t like perimeter hockey.
 
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Stephen said:
That brand of hockey will never work in post season because the other team has a response. If I'm an opposition coach:

1) Pack the slot where the Leafs don't want to go, force the Leafs into perimeter cycle and bad body positioning when they do get in the slot.

2) Rush their defensemen with speed when they start their puck reversal/escape game. Take away their time and space to make the extra possession play.

3) Dictate tempo. Leafs play most of their game at a mid tempo pace requiring a lot of puck touches and east west movement. Force them to speed up and make mistakes, or clog it up so they have nowhere to go.

4) 3) Beat their stars up with impunity because what are they even going to do about it?
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Pittsburgh did number 1 in the second year of the core and it set the blue print. Works every time. Even AZ can beat them with that and their speed.
 
Definitely shouldn't glorify this Florida team after this Cup final performance.

They benefitted from wicked hot goaltending through the first three rounds and it shows.
 
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Steven1562 said:
I think a lot of goalies in this league could have been in net for this Vegas team and still won. Like if you took Samsonov and threw him on Vegas it's probably the same result.
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I don't think so. Hill has been a stud since taking over for Brossoit. Samsonov tends to give up a soft goal once in a while, something Hill hasn't really done in the playoffs.
 
Remember when we were up on these assholes 2-1 to start the second period of Game 2 and the Leafs promptly shit their pants and allowed two goals in a minute and six seconds?
 
Buds17 said:
Teams will always try to wrap up a playoff series in as quickly a manner as possible. Florida (including Bobrovsky) arguably had yet to play a team of VGK's quality. Even winning 2 games out of 15/16 based on "luck" still ends up accounting for such a small percentage once all is said and done. While I definitely respect your opinion, overall we'll have to just agree to disagree here.
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Vegas would have to be arguably the best team of all time if you don't think Bob fell off.

Florida was on a 11-1 heater heading into the finals. If we're ignoring Bobrovsky and assuming he's played at the same level this entire series - then Vegas is a 16-0 team.

However, all the metrics show Bobrovsky is below average this series - versus the record setting pace he was putting in the second and third rounds.
 
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