Around the NHL - Part XLV (Playoffs edition)

[bl02]

At this rate Mikkola is gonna win the conn smythe

 

[Boris Zubov]

At this rate Mikkola is gonna win the conn smythe

That's what happens when you do nothing wrong.

 

[Mothmann78]

Nah, NYR just target awful players.

But magically once those awful players end up on teams with strong cultures/expectations and the player in leadership roles on those teams go above and beyond what their contracts say, it's uncanny that these players suddenly become oh-so-coveted.

Maybe, just maybe, it's how the players/leaders in NYR conduct themselves and what expectations are actually enforced/imposed on them by their peers, not which players NYR have targeted. There's that mini-story going around about some FLA player turning a puck over in the neutral zone who then got a talking to by his teammates about how that's not how they play. I couldn't imagine anyone on this team sitting another teammate down and trying to iron out their bad habits.

It was a meme for a minute that this group acted like "Aw shucks, we'll get 'em next time, friends" was their team mantra, but that seems to be what this team's culture actually is. Good try everyone, you all did so amazing, we'll try again next game if we're feeling up for it.

I mean the coach also doesn’t use these guys like idiots. Only the NYR bring these guys in to play on the top pair instead of realistically evaluating what they’re capable of. The organization is the poster child for nepotism and “we know best”

 

[Mothmann78]

Also the panthers play the game to the limit. There’s no other team that plays to the edge like they do. The brialliant thing is that they make so many plays that are over the line knowing that the refs can’t call all of them. It also pushes the boundaries and what the refs will see as normal if they’re constantly always that high octane

 

[Machinehead]

I mean the coach also doesn’t use these guys like idiots. Only the NYR bring these guys in to play on the top pair instead of realistically evaluating what they’re capable of. The organization is the poster child for nepotism and “we know best”

We barely used Mikkola

 

[Mothmann78]

We barely used Mikkola

Yea but we had the Lorax as the coach

 

[Machinehead]

Oh boy, another edition of The Berenstain Bears commit a penalty on every play.

 

[ArPanet]

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@Machinehead

Love is a Battlefield

 

[Machinehead]

I wanna see the Rangers vs the Hurricanes in Game 5 of the ECF just to see what happens.

 

[Boris Zubov]

I was saying Boo-urns.

 

[RangersFan1994]

Jesper Boqvist such an underrated pick up for the Panthers 2-1

 

[RangersFan1994]

At this rate Mikkola is gonna win the conn smythe

It's amazing that Rangers refused to resign him. This organization can't identify talent

 

[Machinehead]

I'm so over it

 

[Boris Zubov]

Mikkola is an animal

 

[bl02]

Like I said he is gonna win the Conn Smythe lol

 

[Mothmann78]

It’s actually comical at this point

 

[RangersFan]

Mikkola for Conn Smythe

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

Mocko Nippola.

The next coming of Chris Pronger

 

[will1066]

Of course it's Boqvist, because Reinhart is out so he is moved up the lineup and delivers, because Florida has depth out their ass.

 

[Mothmann78]

The wheels on the train have come off

 

[Boris Zubov]

Stop the fight

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

Florida now dragging their nuts on Carolina's chin

 

[RangersFan1994]

Mikkola 2 goals tonight

Barkov goal 4-1 Panthers

 

[bl02]

Carolina has no goaltending and never will. Where Is Irbe? Cam Ward?

 

[DuneGoon84]

Mikkola is the offensive juggernaut? Since when ? Why couldn't he play like this with us?