Around the NHL - Part XLI - (Playoffs Edition)

[I Eat Crow]

This was the most boring playoffs ever.

And fittingly, it ends with us as the ultimate loser.

Second most*

Boston still beefed it more than the Rangers did.

 

[Kane One]

Our Rangers could NEVER do this. The Vegas owner said they'd win a Cup within five years. Rangers, in the 2018 letter, promised us...to be Cup contenders in a few years. BIG difference. One is a winning mentality; the other is just pathetic and doesn't believe in their ability to win it all.

The Rangers won the cup in their second year, though, during a time where it was significantly harder to build a team.

 

[will1066]

This was the most boring playoffs ever.

And fittingly, it ends with us as the ultimate loser.

Boston. Cassidy.

 

[Cmox]

Winning the cup in the daylight. Will the sun go down before... we shall see.

 

[hackeyman]

Marchesault will be the first truly undrafted player to ever win the Conn Smythe. That's pretty cool. One of the original misfits.

 

[BleedBlueNYR]

It’s a shame the Cup is about to be lifted by men wearing such disgusting uniforms. It would’ve looked much better in the hands of players wearing a nice Rangers uni. Too bad we won’t be seeing that again.

 

[AirGut]

imagine if we had Stone instead of Panarin

skinhead Panarin better be a whole other level of beast otherwise he's gone next summer

 

[SA16]

Selfish play by Stone. How about trying to win the game rather than pad your own stats? Shoots at the empty net blindly from his own zone three times and ices it twice.

 

[Boris Zubov]

This was the most boring playoffs ever.

And fittingly, it ends with us as the ultimate loser.

You called it about three months ago when I stated the playoffs last year were really bad....you said it wouldn't get any better. This is like 4 or 5 years in a row the playoffs have been so meh.

 

[GoAwayPanarin]

imagine if we had Stone instead of Panarin

skinhead Panarin better be a whole other level of beast otherwise he's gone next summer

Would like it if that newly buzzed head was getting sunburned as a member of the Panthers next year.

 

[17futurecap]

One 7 game series from the second round on, don’t have any hate for Vegas, glad the season is over, playoffs stunk.

 

[Machinehead]

Second most*

Boston still beefed it more than the Rangers did.

Boston. Cassidy.

The ultimate loser refers to chain of nothing but losing from the Stanley Cup Champion all the way back through the first round. Only one team occupies this spot each year.

Vegas beat Florida, Florida beat Carolina, Carolina beat NJ, NJ beat us.

I don't think we've been the ultimate loser before, at least not in a long time.

 

[Machinehead]

One 7 game series from the second round on, don’t have any hate for Vegas, glad the season is over, playoffs stunk.

The games aren't even close

 

[will1066]

I wish I was a purveyor of fake chain mail right now

 

[mike14]

It's like the entire population of Melbourne!

Think we've just gone over the 5 million mark

 

[Fitzy]

Hard to conclude anything except that championships sometimes aren't won on paper.

Lots of luck in a 16-28 game stretch.

 

[17futurecap]

The games aren't even close

Not great when the regular season is meaningless, and then playoffs stink, then throw in another season of no cap growth.

 

[Machinehead]

Hard to conclude anything except that championships sometimes aren't won on paper.

Lots of luck in a 16-28 game stretch.

They're a good team. That's the prerequisite.

The hottest good team wins the Cup.

And the absolute bye against Winnipeg didn't hurt.

 

[Machinehead]

Not great when the regular season is meaningless, and then playoffs stink, then throw in another season of no cap growth.

I watched the NBA playoffs more for the first time in my life.

 

[ajdj10]

Congrats to Rangers legend Brett Stanley Cup Champion Howden!

 

[Boris Zubov]

I wish I was a purveyor of fake chain mail right now

I still have so many years of bad luck heading my way from not forwarding something along in 1998.

 

[Row I Goon]

Apologies if it’s been asked already, but….

Does anyone legit think we could have taken Vegas in the final?

Or is the wound still too raw to discuss this…..??

 

[Machinehead]

The only saving grace of this shitshow is that Phil Kessel gets a Cup.

A nicer guy, that couldn't have happened to.

 

[I Eat Crow]

This is just humiliation. There's the 3rd field goal!

 

[will1066]

LMFAO