GDT: Around the NHL - Playoff Edition

[canadianguy77]

No team is able to stop them. Vegas shoulda been swept, they will probably make easy pickings against Dallas or Winnipeg next. No idea how Florida will stop them this time. Only going to get worse the more the cap rises in the coming years, they will keep making the finals probably.

No way Dallas is an easy out. Not with Heiskanen in game shape. They (Dallas) just have to remain healthy.

 

[Turin]

No team is able to stop them. Vegas shoulda been swept, they will probably make easy pickings against Dallas or Winnipeg next. No idea how Florida will stop them this time. Only going to get worse the more the cap rises in the coming years, they will keep making the finals probably.

It's weird though because if we're talking about should haves, LA should have beat them soundly.

 

[Randy Butternubs]

Granlund obviously worth that 1st.

Eat that sock @Gurglesons

 

[canadianguy77]

Makes me so angry how Sullivan misused him. Same with McCaan.

 

[Turin]

Hellebuyck holding down the fort with a... .840.

 

[Tasty Biscuits]

It's weird though because if we're talking about should haves, LA should have beat them soundly.

Horrible coaching. Running only 3 lines and 2 pairs caught up with them. And of course, that asinine challenge.

 

[Randy Butternubs]

Eat another sock

 

[Gurglesons]

Granlund is only producing because he’s on a bad team.

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

Lol just came across this on Google….

Two words Charlie….Mike Sullivan

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

Hellebuyck holding down the fort with a... .840.

Dude is such a scrub when it matters

He makes MAF look like prime Hasek, Roy, and Brodeur

 

[Turin]

Honestly, if you're Jets management.. what do you do? Goalies can be so bad that they permanently break the trust of a team. Hellebuyck is doing that. I'm sure he'll help them into the playoffs again, but he sure as hell doesn't look like a guy you'll ever get 8 playoff wins with again nevermind 16.

 

[66-30-33]

Lol just came across this on Google….

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Two words Charlie….Mike Sullivan

He's Rags problem now. Watch them decline and we get their pick no matter what because they keep their 1st in this draft. Come on McKenna!!!

 

[Big Friggin Dummy]

You get Hellebuyck a sports psychologist and hope for the best. That's all you *can* do, tbh.

 

[Miro4Norris]

Helle wasn't that bad tonight tbh Granlund's 2nd and 3rd goal were absolute No-Look top-shelf snipe and a one-timer bomb after Heiskanen's fake shot pass. 1st goal he could have saved but that was a good shot too.

Granlund has always been a great player who was misused terribly by Sullivan. That is your scoring line skilled close to a ppg player with a clutch-gene, not a shutdown bottom-line center.

 

[Rudy Russo]

Lol just came across this on Google….

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Two words Charlie….Mike Sullivan

He was going thru a divorce when he got traded to Pittsburgh.

 

[Rudy Russo]

Granlund is only producing because he’s on a bad team.

 

[PamBallam]

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Shell-shocked from being told how to "play the right way"

 

[GigaChad]

He was dealing with a death of his child at the time and other stuff if I recall right.
That's probably why he sucked.

 

[OtherThingsILike]

Granlund wasn't good here because he's a top 6 player who was tasked with playing in a bottom 6 role.
He was tasked with playing in a bottom 6 role because we lost a bunch of bottom 6ers, so it was either him or a literal Roomba in that role.

 

[Gold Diamond]

So glad Mediocre Mike is gone from this team. Dude wins back to back Cups then sucks for 8 years of fail. Enjoy him, Rags.

 

[GilbertSeinfeld]

According to a Pittsburgh writer who has his own website, Granlund was just out of shape, so of course, Mike Sullivan was not to blame.

 

[plaidchuck]

A tale as old as time with the Penguins. Started with Naslund