Around the NHL - Part XLI - (Playoffs Edition)

[Machinehead]

I'll give you Nash, but Richards was already a shell of himself but the time 2013 rolled around. I remember him being terribad in the 2013 playoffs. Just checked to confirm. One goal, 0 assists in 10 games.

Those 2013 and 2014 teams were the deepest and best constructed rosters I've seen since the early 90's but don't have half the talent today's roster does.

That's fair.

 

[Richard Banger]

I'll give you Nash, but Richards was already a shell of himself but the time 2013 rolled around. I remember him being terribad in the 2013 playoffs. Just checked to confirm. One goal, 0 assists in 10 games.

Those 2013 and 2014 teams were the deepest and best constructed rosters I've seen since the early 90's but don't have half the talent today's roster does.

I’m 90% sure that ONE goal was a massive one against pitt.

 

[egelband]

No pens, no lightning, no bruins, hopefully the Avs are next.

I’m rooting for Georgiev actually. Would like to see him prove the haters wrong. I don’t buy that he is some monster bad guy.

 

[I Eat Crow]

Also wasn't Richards scratched for a game because he was so bad?

Yup.

 

[duhmetreE]

If we'd forecheck and backcheck like Seattle, we win a cup.

 

[Filip Chytil]

Also wasn't Richards scratched for a game because he was so bad?

The league intervened and even changed his name to Bad Richards

 

[I Eat Crow]

MacKinnon is ridiculous

 

[Machinehead]

I’m 90% sure that ONE goal was a massive one against pitt.

That was 2014.

As I recall, Richards was fine for most 2014 and then his old corpse just ran out of gas by the time we got to LA.

 

[will1066]

Mack

 

[I Eat Crow]

This one's going back. 62 is offsides

 

[Boris Zubov]

MacKinnon willing his team. What a shot.

 

[Filip Chytil]

MacKinnon = machine

 

[Machinehead]

That's coming back.

Lehkonen is a mile and a half offside.

 

[will1066]

This one is getting waved off

 

[Boris Zubov]

This one's going back. 62 is offsides

YUP...good call.

 

[Filip Chytil]

Oof that's offsides

 

[Fitzy]

I'll give you Nash, but Richards was already a shell of himself but the time 2013 rolled around. I remember him being terribad in the 2013 playoffs. Just checked to confirm. One goal, 0 assists in 10 games.

Those 2013 and 2014 teams were the deepest and best constructed rosters I've seen since the early 90's but don't have half the talent today's roster does.

It was truly a team built from the goal outwards.

Balance, depth, and a complete lack of top end talent. I appreciated Gaborik and Nash but they fact that from Jagr in 2007 to Panarin/Zibanejad that they were our best forwards is a solid case for why we never got over the hump.

 

[will1066]

I cannot do this tomorrow night for the love of hockey gods

 

[duhmetreE]

I still do not know how I feel about these challenges.

 

[Row I Goon]

No goal

 

[Machinehead]

I hate it when they start zooming in on toenails but I'm fine with them overturning a play like that.

 

[duhmetreE]

I cannot do this tomorrow night for the love of hockey gods

It wont be close, don't worry.

 

[Boris Zubov]

Avs fans in the crowd are truly delusional if they think they're getting jobbed here.

 

[Filip Chytil]

I cannot do this tomorrow night for the love of hockey gods

Game 7 OT two years in a row here we come!

 

[Machinehead]

It was truly a team built from the goal outwards.

Balance, depth, and a complete lack of top end talent. I appreciated Gaborik and Nash but they fact that from Jagr in 2007 to Panarin/Zibanejad that they were our best forwards is a solid case for why we never got over the hump.

The defense corps was also very reliant on Lundqvist stopping everything.

As flawed as we are now, you could make a convincing argument that we're less flawed than those teams were.