ECQF: Game 3 - Tampa Bay Lightning vs Florida Panthers, 7pm ET, TBS

[Pablo El Perro]

Lol I never said Mack plays with bums. I just said tampa is a deeper team. Mack plays with a start winger and norris dmen.

Tampa isn't deep. Outside of Hedman, their d is average at best. Mack probably plays with two better players, Makar and Rants, than anyone on the Lightning other than Kuch.

 

[Hockeyholic]

Kucherov needs to stop winning the Art Ross.

Bad things follow his team in the postseason.

 

[Darren McCord]

Tampa isn't deep. Outside of Hedman, their d is average at best. Mack probably plays with two better players, Makar and Rants, than anyone on the Lightning other than Kuch.

Tampa only had 14 less goals than the avs. They were 5th in the league in goals. They had 3 40 goal scorers. 7 20 goal scores

Avs had 2 40 goal scores. 4 20 goal scores.

Zach Parise was signed mid season and was on a top line recently lamo

 

[Pablo El Perro]

Tampa only had 14 less goals than the avs. They were 5th in the league in goals. They had 3 40 goal scorers. 7 20 goal scores

Avs had 2 40 goal scores. 4 20 goal scores.

Cool. Wrong thread for this, but the guy with 100 assists might have helped others score 14 goals less.

 

[Darren McCord]

Cool. Wrong thread for this, but the guy with 100 assists might have helped others score 14 goals less.

Mack had 89 lol. Anyways ya wrong thread.

 

[SympathyForTheDevils]

It's easy to smother kucherov when the rest of the team other than stamkos isn't doing anything. The lightning made some huge blunders getting rid of their depth for their top performers. The only reason the top guys did so well was because of how deep the rest of the team was. This lightning teams top guys are kind of average when they are not backed by that third line. They gave the leafs a first round win so you know they aren't very good anymore.

So what do you suggest they should have done? Traded their top players to keep their depth? The cap exists; they couldn't keep those guys. What's happening to the Bolts is the same thing that has happened to every championship team in the cap era.

Funnily enough, letting most of those guys go proved to be a good decision in hindsight. Of all the guys who were let go after the Cups (Gourde, Goodrow, Coleman, Palat, Killorn, McDonagh), the only one still performing up to his contract is Coleman (arguably McDonagh too, but that cap hit combined with that age is a bit scary).

 

[DitchMarner]

The Lightning are at least keeping the scores close and showing some battle at times.

Last year was FLA's coming out party in the playoffs. They've become a tough team to get through. They're kind of doing to Tampa what the Bolts did to them in 2022.

 

[WaitingForThatCab]

I mean maybe Florida should have been more blatant with some of their infractions and they wouldn't have gotten called. Worked for them last game.

Heres an example.

If you're gonna complain about Too Many Men calls, there was a real blatant one on Tampa in game one that 19,000 people saw and complained about in real time.

 

[Pablo El Perro]

Mack had 89 lol. Anyways ya wrong thread.

The lol is unneeded. It doesn't help what you are trying to say. I still disagree, as a Panthers fan ( I could throw an lol in here, but I already said what I wanted).

 

[dhfa]

So what do you suggest they should have done? Traded their top players to keep their depth? The cap exists; they couldn't keep those guys. What's happening to the Bolts is the same thing that has happened to every championship team in the cap era.

Funnily enough, letting most of those guys go proved to be a good decision in hindsight. Of all the guys who were let go after the Cups (Gourde, Goodrow, Coleman, Palat, Killorn, McDonagh), the only one still performing up to his contract is Coleman (arguably McDonagh too, but that cap hit combined with that age is a bit scary).

probably needed to let at least one of their top guys and definitely not trade all their picks away for a guy they couldn't trade now for a bag of pucks

 

[Master P]

If you're gonna complain about Too Many Men calls, there was a real blatant one on Tampa in game one that 19,000 people saw and complained about in real time.

I'm not complaining about the too many men, I'm talking about the blatant trip in the clip lol.

 

[Bozo Nicholson]

Get your brooms out, assholes. It’s getting dusty as shit up in this bitch.

 

[GrumpyKoala]

And Way down we go go go....

 

[Chaos2k7]

If you're gonna complain about Too Many Men calls, there was a real blatant one on Tampa in game one that 19,000 people saw and complained about in real time.

Only 8 guys plus Vasi, no biggie

 

[Pablo El Perro]

I'm not complaining about the too many men, I'm talking about the blatant trip in the clip lol.

You lol people. Thanks for using words you didn't the first time to tell us what you were going for.

 

[Master P]

You lol people.

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