OT: Around the NHL: Go Cats Go

[TNT87]

The game was right there for McDavid.

 

[Tasty Biscuits]

Benn is automatic in the dot.

 

[Turin]

It was pretty neat when the Pens were in these games

 

[canadianguy77]

Might be a real quick series if hintz is back for game 2. Maybe the Oil can steal one tonight.

It was pretty neat when the Pens were in these games

16 years in a row is a pretty good run. Half the teams don’t make it now so I think that will be a tough one for anyone to beat in todays league. We were pretty lucky. Basically averaged a Final every 4 years.

 

[Sorry]

Varlamov made that heel save on Sid... Sid didn't hesitate to shoot tho. Mc***** shrunk.

 

[Turin]

Might be a real quick series if hintz is back for game 2. Maybe the Oil can steal one tonight.


16 years in a row is a pretty good run. Half the teams don’t make it now so I think that will be a tough one for anyone to beat in todays league. We were pretty lucky. Basically averaged a Final every 4 years.

I'm not complaining just reminiscing haha.

 

[Turin]

Boooooooo

Doesn't make me doubt my prediction still.

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

Gross

 

[Sidney the Kidney]

Dallas just seems like one of those paper tiger teams to me. Can't put my finger on it, but they remind me of a lot of those 100+ point regular season teams that everyone labels "Cup favorites", but always fall short (ie. San Jose during the Thornton/Marleau era).

 

[Rossi Rat]

Looking more and more like McDavid’s year. Let’s be real - he wasn’t going to just not win a cup. Pretty wild he’ll probably go down as a better player than Sid.

 

[Ignatius]

Dallas just seems like one of those paper tiger teams to me. Can't put my finger on it, but they remind me of a lot of those 100+ point regular season teams that everyone labels "Cup favorites", but always fall short (ie. San Jose during the Thornton/Marleau era).

I get what you're saying but also consider that of the current final four teams Dallas is the most recent franchise to have actually won a cup. Over the past 15 years there have not been a whole lot of teams that have actually won the Cup and most teams that did won multiple Cups. After Colorado won a few years ago I felt like that was a real changing of the guard and now we are starting to see a lot more variance in what teams are legitimate contenders compared to decades previous.

 

[Smasher]

Looking more and more like McDavid’s year. Let’s be real - he wasn’t going to just not win a cup. Pretty wild he’ll probably go down as a better player than Sid.

Yeah, it was Boston's year after game 1 as well. We'll see.

 

[AuroraBorealis]

Dallas just seems like one of those paper tiger teams to me. Can't put my finger on it, but they remind me of a lot of those 100+ point regular season teams that everyone labels "Cup favorites", but always fall short (ie. San Jose during the Thornton/Marleau era).

Paper tigers don't make the 3rd round, going through teams like Colorado and Vegas.

 

[Ulf5]

Damn, Zach Hyman is criminally underpaid.

 

[AuroraBorealis]

Drai with 6 PPGs this playoffs. We got that out of Malkin over 82 games.

 

[Goalie_Bob]

Drai with 6 PPGs this playoffs. We got that out of Malkin over 82 games.

What did Prime Malkin give the Pens?

 

[Jaded-Fan]

Both Dallas and Edmonton look like paper tigers with some real exploitable flaws.

Of the two I am more for the Oilers, and yes I get the hate because of how that franchise was misrun for many years and was rewarded for it.

But I am for the Oilers more because of McDavid, and that one of the greatest of this generation should be in a Cup.

In the end though I don't see either of these teams nearly as strong as Florida.

 

[Tom Hanks]

Paper tigers don't make the 3rd round, going through teams like Colorado and Vegas.

Avs didn’t have a playoff quality goaltender and paid dearly.

 

[vodeni]

Drai with 6 PPGs this playoffs. We got that out of Malkin over 82 games.

it helps when other four playes on PP are buzzing and have a competent QB

 

[Tom Hanks]

Was a fan favourite when he played for the Canucks

https://x.com/i/web/status/1794089011713118491

 

[AuroraBorealis]

Avs didn’t have a playoff quality goaltender and paid dearly.

Tanev shut down Mac too.

 

[AuroraBorealis]

What did Prime Malkin give the Pens?

Most he ever got was 17 PPGs. Drai had 32 last year. It's just a different level.

 

[Turin]

Looking more and more like McDavid’s year. Let’s be real - he wasn’t going to just not win a cup. Pretty wild he’ll probably go down as a better player than Sid.

Literally every post you make is this exact post, every year, in the Around the NHL thread.

Dallas just seems like one of those paper tiger teams to me. Can't put my finger on it, but they remind me of a lot of those 100+ point regular season teams that everyone labels "Cup favorites", but always fall short (ie. San Jose during the Thornton/Marleau era).

I dunno.. they're pretty damn good.

 

[Jaded-Fan]

I think that there is a good chance that a greater percentage of the board will be rooting against the Rangers tonight than rooted for the Pens the last time they backed into the playoffs.

There was a nice percentage of our base back then with no hope of a win and wishing for a loss hoping for change.

 

[Sidney the Kidney]

Paper tigers don't make the 3rd round, going through teams like Colorado and Vegas.

I mean, I literally referenced those San Jose teams as an example of what I meant, who made it to the Cup final against us in 2016.

I'm talking about a team who can finish at or near the top of the standings in the regular season, but for whatever reason, just doesn't seem to have that "it" factor when it comes to winning it all.