Around the NHL — Episode XLXVII

[Bjornar Moxnes]

Doughty, Kopitar and Kuemper all have cups where they played a leading role in the wins. I would say they have a little bit of accomplishment.

Avs won in spite of Kuemper, and he isn't even cocky. I like Kuemper. I get Doughty and Kopitar being a bit cocky, but most of the Kings roster shouldn't be, especially not that POS in Danault.

 

[Senscore]

Canes extend Taylor Hall 3 years $9.5 mil total.


Good deal for a vet who can still score.

 

[bicboi64]

Watching Pesce hug his former teammates was wholesome af. If Ottawa ever beats Buffalo in the playoffs, Norris is getting huge bear hugs from everyone.

 

[Sens of Anarchy]

I think he's a great coach and I love the style Carolina plays.

 

[DylanSensFan]

Avs won in spite of Kuemper, and he isn't even cocky. I like Kuemper. I get Doughty and Kopitar being a bit cocky, but most of the Kings roster shouldn't be, especially not that POS in Danault.

Kuemper actually played pretty solid in a lot of games for the Avs.

 

[Xspyrit]

Go Oilers! I want to see McDavid surpass everyone in playoffs points (ok maybe not Gretzky) but he has a decent chance to end up 2nd of all time

Expected Tampa to do better but it is not over yet! And wow Dallas, despite their injuries. are 1 win away from the 2nd round. If they win and they get their guys back on the way, they'll be the main favorite for the Cup.

Edmundson, Jeannot, Doughty, Anderson, Gavrikov, Clarke to an extent, Byfield, and Kuzmenko. Even the coach doesn't seem likeable. Edit: Forgot to mention Danault hated that pos since he was a Hab.

I really like Danault because he chose to sign elsewhere. Habs are still lacking a 2nd line center and Danault is a great 2-way C getting Selke votes every year.

 

[PlayOn]

Sens PP operates in slow motion when you compare to the Habs lol

 

[Micklebot]

Ovechkin strikes first

 

[Hotsam Batcho]

Habs are done. f*** them.

 

[Ouroboros]

Looks like Wilson put the Habs down with that hit on Carrier. Caps have outscored them 7-0 since then.

 

[SensFactor]

Looks like the Battle of Ontario series might be the only one left in the Eastern Conference to be resolved after tonight.

Whoever gets Florida next round is in big trouble. They are starting to look like the Florida from last year. Relentless pressure. Although Bobrovsky seems a bit leaky this year in the playoffs.

 

[Senscore]

Looks like the Battle of Ontario series might be the only one left in the Eastern Conference to be resolved after tonight.

Whoever gets Florida next round is in big trouble. They are starting to look like the Florida from last year. Relentless pressure. Although Bobrovsky seems a bit leaky this year in the playoffs.

Yeah I'm kind of surprised people didn't actually look at the lineup they had been running in the final month of the season and instead decided to just write them off as declining.

 

[Very Stable Genius]

OLE OLE OLE OLE!

 

[Senscore]

Goodbye Habs

 

[Tuna99]

4 goals for old man Ovechkin in the series, whatever the Russian doctored have him on its working

 

[Nac Mac Feegle]

Habs had a respectable first round...definitely not something I thought would happen at the start of the year. Fast rebuild for them, but they're also at a really tricky point...continue building or trade away prospects & picks to try and speedrun (and potentially screw up everything)?

 

[aragorn]

Tom Wilson is so good, he made the difference in this series.

 

[Wallet Inspector]

Washington finally wins a playoff round again after their Cup run, good for them.

 

[Rhaegar Targaryen]

lol I love Sportsnet saying "Montreal gave Washington all they could handle"

Umm, Caps won in 5 games, only one game went to OT and two of the wins were by 3 goals (some empty netters in there but same with Montreal's win)

Must be a term thrown around very loosely

 

[Senscore]

lol I love Sportsnet saying "Montreal gave Washington all they could handle"

Umm, Caps won in 5 games, only one game went to OT and two of the wins were by 3 goals (some empty netters in there but same with Montreal's win)

Must be a term thrown around very loosely

Caps have been winning games like this all year long.

They look like close contests but really aren't.

 

[PlayOn]

Habs had a respectable first round...definitely not something I thought would happen at the start of the year. Fast rebuild for them, but they're also at a really tricky point...continue building or trade away prospects & picks to try and speedrun (and potentially screw up everything)?

Trading away picks and prospects won’t screw anything up, unless they do something stupid and trade an unprotected first next year.

But they’re the exact type of team that should be selling futures to round out their roster. You only have so much room for prospects.

 

[ottawagm]

We'll see how much Brady wants to play his brother based on his performance tomorrow night.

 

[Ouroboros]

Tampa out in the first round for the third straight season.

 

[Nac Mac Feegle]

Trading away picks and prospects won’t screw anything up, unless they do something stupid and trade an unprotected first next year.

But they’re the exact type of team that should be selling futures to round out their roster. You only have so much room for prospects.

It's tricky. Was this an unusually lucky season for Montreal (with Boston & Rangers imploding opening up 2 unexpected playoff spots), or is this the real deal for them?

Time will tell.

 

[frightenedinmatenum2]

Tampa out in the first round for the third straight season.

It's the jerseys. The hockey gods mistake them for the Leafs and boot them in the first round.

In all seriousness, I like seeing the Leafs lose in the first round as much as anybody else, but I don't take the "Leafs always lose in the first round" thing that seriously because the nature of the current format is that it's very hard to win in the first round if you're in the WC2 or WC3 spot in a strong division. So the same way that I'm willing to give the Leafs a slight pass for losing most years, I don't see Tampa losing to Florida twice and Toronto as being the same as a team back in the day constantly losing to 7th or 8th seed teams under the old format.