Around the NHL — Episode XLXVII

[Senscore]

Winnipeg gets one back.

Maybe this game will be interesting

 

[frightenedinmatenum2]

If I was whoever owns the Avalanche right now, I'd be waking up my secretary to fax all of the front offices their notices.

 

[frightenedinmatenum2]

Something tells me they would have had a good chance to win if they just kept the Moose for these playoffs alone. They certainly would have gotten by Dallas at the very least.

They played themselves. They moved Rantanen presumably to not lose him for nothing, then proceeded to give up multiple 1st+2nd round tier assets for UFAs.

 

[Norris4Norris]

They played themselves. They moved Rantanen presumably to not lose him for nothing, then proceeded to give up multiple 1st+2nd round tier assets for UFAs.

Yeesh, did Colorado hire Pierre Dorion as GM for the second half of the year?

 

[frightenedinmatenum2]

Yeesh, did Colorado hire Pierre Dorion as GM for the second half of the year?

No, Pierre was smart enough to not get fooled twice. He put a clause in his trades to prevent what happened to Colorado.

 

[Norris4Norris]

No, Pierre was smart enough to not get fooled twice. He put a clause in his trades to prevent what happened to Colorado.

Hmm, what clause would that have been? Forgive my ignorance.

 

[frightenedinmatenum2]

Hmm, what clause would that have been? Forgive my ignorance.

He put a clause in the Karlsson trade that prevented San Jose from sending Karlsson back to the Eastern conference.

Had Colorado done the equivalent with Carolina, they would still be playing right now.

 

[Wallet Inspector]

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Mackinnon+Rantanen was a cup-winning duo, Avs should have tried harder to retain Rantanen,

 

[Senscore]

Some roughhousing in Winnipeg right now.

In for a bumpy finish.

 

[Senscore]

Jets come close but can't bury it

 

[Senscore]

No last second heroics this time. Dallas up 1-0

 

[Beville]

Can’t believe it with Florida.

You had just one job on behalf of multiple fan bases and you’re blowing it!

Boo.

 

[Xspyrit]

Personally, rooting for the Oilers. Would like to see McDavid and Connor Brown win the Cup. I'd also like Winnipeg but I don't believe they can. So if not Edmonton, go Dallas

They're better than us in certain ways, being able to dump and chase like demons, and better defensive structure. They're slower than us, though, and somehow even worse in controlled entries. I do think their playstyle and lack of assets means they're going to be on the downswing sooner than later.

Yeah I disagree about Florida not being much better than Ottawa... maybe for actual ice results but on paper, it's not even close...

Barkov > Stutzle
M. Tkachuk > B. Tkachuk
Reinhart >> Batherson
Marchand > Giroux
Verhaeghe >> Perron
Bennett > Cozens
Lundell > Pinto
Samoskevich < Greig
Rodrigues > Amadio
Jones < Sanderson
Forsling > Chabot
Ekblad > Zub
Mikkola > Jensen

Plenty of GMs with poor foresight.

Tavares was never going to produce his contracts worth and had maybe one year where he produced at a rate to justify the cap hit. Leafs had centre depth and made the contract for Matthews stupidly high by signing Tavares to $11 million.

If San Jose signed him to $12-13 million, that would've been a horrid move. Dubas should've let someone else waste their cap on him.

In Toronto's case it was maybe not the best move because they needed to invest in D-men but normally, I'd gladly overpay for a high profile offensive player, particularly for a market that has very little chance of attracting those.

 

[Icelevel]

Rantanen just scores as many goals as needed to win the game.

Wow

 

[NMacrules]

Marner and Mathews look invisible

The stats suggest otherwise. Marner with 10 points in 8 games with the game winner last night and Matthews with 8 points in 8 games and a 200 foot beast. That was then.

 

[BigRig4]

Rantanen just scores as many goals as needed to win the game.

Wow

Colorado looks pretty dumb now

 

[Sens9292]

We may be farther ahead in our rebuild then I ever thought we were. We took them to OT 3 times and showed resilience to come back from 3-0 to a close game 6.

We were also playing shorthanded the whole time! On account of the refs clearly favouring Toronto.

Florida is getting the same treatment. Leaf fans complain about the officiating but they are sure benefiting from it in these playoffs.

 

[Sens of Anarchy]

 

[Rhaegar Targaryen]

Toronto seems to get lucky consistently with those type of goals

Getting the luck, winning games they shouldn’t, and winning games they should. Sounds like a good recipe tbh.

I’m not set on Toronto winning this series yet, though. We’ll see how it goes back in Florida. The Leafs have definitely gotten some hometown calls in the first couple of games and Florida will probably get them the next two games. I’d also expect Bobrovsky to improve.

 

[MiscBrah]

The Sens' defensive structure is starting to look pretty good after seeing how the Leafs are cutting through Florida pretty easily. Toronto is also continuing its faceoff dominance against the Sens into the series against Florida. Though Florida wasn't good at faceoffs all year, and the Sens were excellent, that isn't as surprising.

 

[bicboi64]

The NHL is such a shitty league running the best sport in the world.

Bowman and Coach Q being allowed to return to the league is such bullshit. Hope Edmonton and Anaheim never have any success.

 

[Micklebot]

The Sens' defensive structure is starting to look pretty good after seeing how the Leafs are cutting through Florida pretty easily. Toronto is also continuing its faceoff dominance against the Sens into the series against Florida. Though Florida wasn't good at faceoffs all year, and the Sens were excellent, that isn't as surprising.

Man, I was watching some of that game and idk what Fla was doing... multiple times they got burned by the stretch pass (we made adjustments by game 2), and more than once I was dumfounded by how easily they got walked.

Hate to say it, but I've been really impressed with Toronto. The addition of Tanev this offseason, and then Carlo at the deadline were exactly what they've needed for years now. Between that and getting their forwards to commit to getting in lanes and they've turned a weakness into a strength.

WRT faceoffs, when asked about how we got killed at the dot, Pinto was suggested on Coming in Hot that maybe they weren't getting fully set, thought it was interesting hearing that.

 

[bicboi64]

Florida has a relentless and aggressive fore check, but their forwards are so deep that this type of fore check leaves them open to odd man rushes. They rely on their forewards skating back and hustling their way to backcheck but that can get tiring.

Berube just has TML read those odd man rushes and take advantage of it. TML has skilled forwards that can make those stretch passes.

 

[Sens of Anarchy]

anyone have a clip on the Gaudette hit on Matthews?

 

[Micklebot]

anyone have a clip on the Gaudette hit on Matthews?

The commentary is a bit laughable in that clip imo, so ignore that....