Around the NHL: Playoff Edition

[the spirit of radio]

The issue with Thompson was he was a 4C that we had to play at 3C because we had no center depth. He was a perfectly fine player though.

Yeah that's true, but that's not Thompson's fault. It'd be like criticizing Poehling for not being a good enough 2C when Granlund and McTavish were either hurt or incompetent.

I never quite understood why we didn't qualify or try to re-sign Perreault* (or better yet, give up something other than Bonino in the Kesler trade). The offensive depth was never quite enough and that was Murray's biggest issue imo - we were always a piece short. We just had to hold onto the Jacob Larsson and Max Jones picks

*I realize Perreault was smaller and not great in his own end, but you can't just let 40+ points walk without being replaced.

 

[70sSanO]

Allen started his own business after retiring. He sells traffic cones to cities.

John

 

[Anaheim4ever]

This was Murray's fatal flaw, even when he was mostly managing the roster pretty well. I hated the annual "which team beat us and/or won the Cup? Let's be more like them!" roster tinkering. It was dumb because there was never any way to completely remake the roster from one season to the next, so you wound up with this Frankenstein's monster-esque amalgamation of disparate parts.

This is how we ended up with such Ducks legends as:

• Mark Fistric and Tim Jackman (bigger d-men!)
• Rene Borque (be tougher!)
• Nate Thompson (more defensive forwards!)
• Carl Hagelin (faster!)

I was a fan of how Murray managed the roster but looking back the whole copying the team that beat them or team that won the cup was way too reactionary of Murray. He needed to pick a team model and stick to it.

Brian Gibbons 5'8 was another one of his 'Get Faster' signings.

 

[Dr Johnny Fever]

Don't forget the summer of 2012 signings of Souray and Allen lol

Wow, there's a blast from the past. I remember running into him in Newport Beach when we were both going to the same place for physical therapy for hand injuries. That mofo had enormous hands. The rest of him was pretty ginormous too. He was not a guy I would ever want to tangle with. Don't ever recall him doing much for the ducks though.

 

[Terry Yake]

I was a fan of how Murray managed the roster but looking back the whole copying the team that beat them or team that won the cup was way too reactionary of Murray. He needed to pick a team model and stick to it.

Brian Gibbons 5'8 was another one of his 'Get Faster' signings.

@Dirk316 favorite player

 

[ff8]

Let’s go C4rter

 

[Kariya 9]

Nothing more satisfying to Ducks fans than watching Hart have a historically terrible Finals performance.

 

[All Mighty]

I know it’s been reported that Vegas has an extension for Andersson in the drawer (allegedly they have to wait to make it official for tagging reasons related to Pietrangelo being on LTIR), but they might not want to go through with that anymore. He hasn’t been very good.

 

[ADHB]

Never thought Andersson was that great. If he isn’t racking up points, he’s pretty useless.

Unrelated, but Vegas just got away with an obvious pick that almost led to a goal. Some things never change.

 

[ADHB]

And after letting that go, they call the Canes for interference when Hart kicks his skate out and a guy unwittingly clips him outside the crease. Incredible. When will the Vegas love affair end?

 

[Big Fat Rebound]

How are there so many Canes fans in Vegas? That was not an insignificant cheer from the road crowd on that 2-0 goal.

 

[Boo Boo]

I was a fan of how Murray managed the roster but looking back the whole copying the team that beat them or team that won the cup was way too reactionary of Murray. He needed to pick a team model and stick to it.

Brian Gibbons 5'8 was another one of his 'Get Faster' signings.

This seems so overblown. We’re talking tertiary players or like 7th dmen/13th forwards here. Just the fringes of the roster. Its not like there was ever a chance we was going to move off any of the core guys who actually dictate team identity.

 

[FiveTacos]

This seems so overblown. We’re talking tertiary players or like 7th dmen/13th forwards here. Just the fringes of the roster. Its not like there was ever a chance we was going to move off any of the core guys who actually dictate team identity.

IMO, your depth players to a large degree are what dictates your identity more than the couple of core guys.

 

[ff8]

come on Carolina don’t screw this up

 

[Big Fat Rebound]

No way Eichel blew that again.

 

[FiveTacos]

That kind of feels like the last chance. Dagger could be coming?

 

[dracom]

vegas completely falls apart without karlsson

 

[terranraida]

good for Freddy

 

[Big Fat Rebound]

Bussi is in some kind of zone.

 

[HE Pennypacker]

Beat it trash franchise Vegas!!!!

 

[dracom]

get f***ed vegas, so happy for the canes and their fans

 

[Bender66]

Bus STOP baby.

And all is right in the universe tonight.

That was 60 min clinic on how12 forwards can back check as a team. Suffocating back checking by every cane forward.

 

[Bender66]

Freddy is out on ice

 

[Big Fat Rebound]

Didn’t think it’d affect me given he’s been gone for so long, but good for Freddie. If this is it, he goes out a winner

 

[Unholy]

Hell yeah

f*** Vegas