Around the NHL: Part VII – Sweeps and Suspensions (Mod Warning Post #249)

[SnowblindNYR]

I was rooting for Tampa to start the series but ended up kind of rooting for the sweep just for the story.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

And them losing is worth more to you than a higher pick for the team you root for?

That seems like a joke to me. There was only one other 62 win team and it has Lidstrom on it.

 

[Leonardo87]

So technically, the Rangers had a better post season than the best team in the league....

Pretty much.

 

[Edge]

That seems like a joke to me. There was only one other 62 win team and it has Lidstrom on it.

I can’t even tell anymore. =)

 

[Maximus]

If I was Tampa I wouldn't change anything. Wouldn't be the first time a team suffered a horrendous loss only to come back the following year with vengeance. Think Virginia in college ball.

Totally agree with you ..Tampa is still stacked. I'll give a hockey example. Most long time Ranger fans like me recall as I was in HS at the time, that we beat the heavily and I do mean heavily favored Islanders in 1979 in the ECF as we finished 25 points behind and had no business beating them but we did in glorious fashion in 6 games.

Though it wasn't a sweep and it was in 6 games, it was a brutal and humiliating defeat for the Islanders but they were stacked and as we all know the next year, they won the first of their 4 straight Cups beginning the year after they suffered the humiliating defeat to us. So yeah, wouldn't surprise me in the least if the Lightning use this humiliation that occured getting swept and and it fuels them.

 

[trilobyte]

Maroon has been very good this series. He knows his role and goes into the corners, mucks it up on the boards and can dish the puck too.

 

[GoAwayPanarin]

Maroon has been very good this series. He knows his role and goes into the corners, mucks it up on the boards and can dish the puck too.

Picked the right time to show up.

He is the Anti-Tampa.

 

[Gresch04]

Totally agree with you ..Tampa is still stacked. I'll give a hockey example. Most long time Ranger fans like me recall as I was in HS at the time, that we beat the heavily and I do mean heavily favored Islanders in 1979 in the ECF as we finished 25 points behind and had no business beating them but we did in glorious fashion in 6 games.

Though it wasn't a sweep and it was in 6 games, it was a brutal and humiliating defeat for the Islanders but they were stacked and as we all know the next year, they won the first of their 4 straight Cups beginning the year after they suffered the humiliating defeat to us. So yeah, wouldn't surprise me in the least if the Lightning use this humiliation that occured getting swept and and it fuels them.

Good point but the Isles also added Goring as a key piece. Wouldn’t have won without him. Tampa needs something too. Can’t just stand pat.

 

[GeorgeKaplan]

Picked the right time to show up.

He is the Anti-Tampa.

Eberle feels like the true Anti-Tampa

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

Isles are going to the ECF at the very least. Teams can't play against them.

 

[Bob Richards]

 

[Gresch04]

Just recorded a 1-min loop of Yandle talking in case I have trouble sleeping. Do they screen test these guys to be sure they don’t cause mass narcolepsy while speaking???

 

[GoAwayPanarin]

Totally agree with you ..Tampa is still stacked. I'll give a hockey example. Most long time Ranger fans like me recall as I was in HS at the time, that we beat the heavily and I do mean heavily favored Islanders in 1979 in the ECF as we finished 25 points behind and had no business beating them but we did in glorious fashion in 6 games.

Though it wasn't a sweep and it was in 6 games, it was a brutal and humiliating defeat for the Islanders but they were stacked and as we all know the next year, they won the first of their 4 straight Cups beginning the year after they suffered the humiliating defeat to us. So yeah, wouldn't surprise me in the least if the Lightning use this humiliation that occured getting swept and and it fuels them.

Tampa has kind of been on the precipice for half a decade now.

The closest recent epic collapse I can think of is Boston blowing a 3-0 lead and then coming back to win the next year.

We'll see how they respond, but I haven't gotten the right vibes from the core of the Tampa group for a while now. They shouldn't rip it down and rebuild it, but I do think some pretty major changes are in order.

 

[trilobyte]

Picked the right time to show up.

He is the Anti-Tampa.

It always seemed the Lightning didn't know they needed to fight a lot harder for it in the series they just lost.

 

[bl02]

the tank baby!!! The Curse of Mcilrath pays off

 

[GoAwayPanarin]

About time Vladdy.

Great shot.

 

[Bob Richards]

 

[One Winged Angel]

Well this sucks ass.

Go Stars.

 

[trilobyte]

That was beautiful passing on that goal. nice all around.

 

[Zibanejbread]

Blues goal!

 

[bl02]

people where right about this kid Thomas. he is terrific

 

[Zibanejbread]

Strome is going to be our Eberle once were back in the playoffs.

 

[trilobyte]

Steen trying hard to sell that forearm from Wheeler to the refs. Glad it didn't work.
Hate that fakery.

 

[bl02]

The Tank just put Roslovic into tomorrow.

 

[Maximus]

I asked earlier but it likely got lost in all the excitement of what was happening with Jackets sweep but does this go down as THE most humiliating playoff defeat in history? I'm going to venture yes as only things that comes close top of my head is when Kings beat Oilers in '82 playoffs as Oilers were 48 points better. And as I mentioned, even our Rangers beating the Islanders in '79 ECF as they had I think the Isles had 25 more points than us was pretty damn humiliating....thoughts?