Around the League 44: The Three Thousand Mile Final

[Surrounded By Ahos]

Good for the Cats. It was really cool to see Lorentz lift the Cup. Man was a seventh round pick and worked his way up from the ECHL. You absolutely love to see it.

 

[Nikishin Go Boom]

Feel for perry. 4th SCF in 5 years, lost them all

 

[chaz4hockey]

Hey Messier—

Man to man teams can win the Cup (and versus powerhouse offensive teams too).

 

[Big Daddy Cane]

Florida just won a Stanley Cup Final with a -4.8% net PP.

There is hope.

 

[Brock Anton]

Feel good for Mo. Him getting the Cup mid-interview is an all-time moment.

 

[Ole Gil]

Nice bonding moment for two generations of Oilers fans.

 

[Blueline Bomber]

Watching Mo lift the Cup was great. Guy has put so much work in that deserved to get rewarded.

 

[Surrounded By Ahos]

Watching Mo lift the Cup was great. Guy has put so much work in that deserved to get rewarded.

Yeah, it really doesn't get much better than this:

 

[Francis10]

So……draft now in 2 days.

 

[Brock Anton]

Feel for perry. 4th SCF in 5 years, lost them all

Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

 

[Wolfpuck]

Feel for perry. 4th SCF in 5 years, lost them all

Whatever. The dickhead won it in 2007, so watching him lose is gravy.

 

[MrazeksVengeance]

Yeah, yeah… bag it, move along to the new season.

 

[Wolfpuck]

Yeah, it really doesn't get much better than this:


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[Unsustainable]

Lonestar, Forsling, Lorentz....

Man we lost some good ones there

 

[Nikishin Go Boom]

If the Yotes come back it will be with a new owner. They might have a chance

 

[Blueline Bomber]

If the Yotes come back it will be with a new owner. They might have a chance

The NHL really paid Meruelo $1billion to f*** off.

 

[Svechhammer]

Lonestar, Forsling, Lorentz....

Man we lost some good ones there

Its really frustrating to watch Florida have the success they are because, for all intents and purposes, there's really no excuse for us to not be there. They are everything we wanted our franchise to be, and they built it up under our nose, using some major pieces we either let walk away (Forsling, Maurice) or they beat us for (Tkachuck). They are better than us at pretty much every facet of the game, and they have the higher end talent locked up long-term that we're letting walk away because the price might be too high.

Hard to look at what they have done and not feel a little hopeless about the short term future of the Canes, because the last couple years, as good as we have been, they're better, and I don't know if our front office has the desire to do what is necessary to change that. We'll hide behind excuses and tropes like "hockey is weird", or "the playoffs are a coin flip" and just continue BAU going forward of being good, just never good enough.

 

[Nikishin Go Boom]

Ooof

This 2 year panthers run only exists because the penguins couldn’t hold their 8th seed lead last season and bob went on a crazy heater.

Luck and timing has just as much to do with success in sports as skill. Florida has a lot of it lately

 

[Blueline Bomber]

Oh yeah, I forgot Ruutu was on the Panthers staff as well. Another former Cane gets his first.

 

[CandyCanes]

Hot take. But I felt like McDavid didn’t deserve the Conn Smythe. The supposed “most valuable player” didn’t produce in 4 games out of the 7 in the Stanley Cup Finals.

 

[Chrispy]

Hot take. But I felt like McDavid didn’t deserve the Conn Smythe. The supposed “most valuable player” didn’t produce in 4 games out of the 7 in the Stanley Cup Finals.

But the Conn Smythe isn't the MVP of just the finals. It's the MVP of the entire playoffs.

And McDavid set records.

 

[Blueline Bomber]

Hot take. But I felt like McDavid didn’t deserve the Conn Smythe. The supposed “most valuable player” didn’t produce in 4 games out of the 7 in the Stanley Cup Finals.

It's most valuable player of the entire playoffs. McDavid put up 40+ points the entire playoffs and broke a Gretzky record in the process.

And he put up 8 points in Games 4&5. If there's any star that deserves criticism for their play in the Finals, it's Drais, not McDavid.

 

[raynman]

Its really frustrating to watch Florida have the success they are because, for all intents and purposes, there's really no excuse for us to not be there. They are everything we wanted our franchise to be, and they built it up under our nose, using some major pieces we either let walk away (Forsling, Maurice) or they beat us for (Tkachuck). They are better than us at pretty much every facet of the game, and they have the higher end talent locked up long-term that we're letting walk away because the price might be too high.

Hard to look at what they have done and not feel a little hopeless about the short term future of the Canes, because the last couple years, as good as we have been, they're better, and I don't know if our front office has the desire to do what is necessary to change that. We'll hide behind excuses and tropes like "hockey is weird", or "the playoffs are a coin flip" and just continue BAU going forward of being good, just never good enough.

They let Mo walk? That’s new.

 

[Svechhammer]

They let Mo walk? That’s new.

I mean if you fire someone you are letting him walk away.

 

[Derailed75]

Its really frustrating to watch Florida have the success they are because, for all intents and purposes, there's really no excuse for us to not be there. They are everything we wanted our franchise to be, and they built it up under our nose, using some major pieces we either let walk away (Forsling, Maurice) or they beat us for (Tkachuck). They are better than us at pretty much every facet of the game, and they have the higher end talent locked up long-term that we're letting walk away because the price might be too high.

Hard to look at what they have done and not feel a little hopeless about the short term future of the Canes, because the last couple years, as good as we have been, they're better, and I don't know if our front office has the desire to do what is necessary to change that. We'll hide behind excuses and tropes like "hockey is weird", or "the playoffs are a coin flip" and just continue BAU going forward of being good, just never good enough.

This is a lot of words that say very little. The only difference between the Canes and Cats this year was the play of BOB for the majority of the playoffs. He was a God in net for most of the games, faltered games 3-6 and held it together in game 7. If the Canes had BOB in net instead of Freddy (who is not a bad net-minder) I have zero doubt we raise the Cup this year.