Not to mention the 27 regulation losses is tied for 8th fewest in the league, again only one behind Chicago, Pittsburgh, FLA and less than TBL, LA, San Jose.
I could be wrong but the more I look at the numbers the more I think we will get swept.
Agreed and that's what worries me the most. He was really bad in last years Chicago series. If he's like that this year, we'll be coming home soon.I haven't seen Pekka Rinne steal a game since early last year. He needs to find that inner Rinne Wall in order for us to get by the Ducks.
Agreed and that's what worries me the most. He was really bad in last years Chicago series. If he's like that this year, we'll be coming home soon.
Why am I not surprised? Good thing is, I have noticed you seem to be wrong pretty often. Maybe we will get the sweep.
Well if you remove the 2 OT wins and the 4 shootout wins you have a team that has 35 regulation wins that's .304 hockey. And I agree with you about the gimmicks of the 3 point games. But that is out the window now. So straight up wins are what count and I have seen nothing to indicate we can expect better results than the regular season. The last 6 games of the reg season the team scored more than 2 goals once this was after the 7 game win streak where they scored 3 or more 5 times. Now in the 3 games vs the Ducks the team did score 10 but two of those games were early in the year when the Ducks were playing poorly. The Preds also allowed the Ducks 3 pp goals while only scoring 1PP goal themselves. I could be wrong but the more I look at the numbers the more I think we will get swept.
After watching the Hawks / Blues game last night, one thing I realized is that I haven't seen goaltending like that for quite some time (out of the Predators). How priceless that is to the team to only have to score 1-2 goals to win the game. Pekka really needs to step it up in the playoffs.
I haven't seen Pekka Rinne steal a game since early last year. He needs to find that inner Rinne Wall in order for us to get by the Ducks.
If he's awful, we ride Hutts to bounce back and win a couple. A strong Hutton could get us to the 2nd round if the top 6 are rolling. Think of last year's series with Chicago. We chased Crawford, then Darling came in and shut us down. As long as Lavy is willing to give Hutts a chance if Rinne falters, I think we'll be ok.
Agree. I now believe that we will be swept by the Ducks.
I tried to tell you nothing whatsoever about these two teams pointed to a sweep- can you admit you were wrong?
Like I said that day, I did not like this match up. I say we got lucky here as we forced them to 5 defenders by knocking out the other guy. On the other hand Nashville came out ready to play, something they haven't done in a while.
Like I said that day, I did not like this match up. I say we got lucky here as we forced them to 5 defenders by knocking out the other guy. On the other hand Nashville came out ready to play, something they haven't done in a while.
So I guess that is a no as far as admitting you were wrong about the sweep.
And I am not sure I understand what you are saying- are you seriously saying we got lucky last night?? We won the game because they lost one of their defensemen????
Like I said that day, I did not like this match up. I say we got lucky here as we forced them to 5 defenders by knocking out the other guy. On the other hand Nashville came out ready to play, something they haven't done in a while.
Like I said that day, I did not like this match up. I say we got lucky here as we forced them to 5 defenders by knocking out the other guy. On the other hand Nashville came out ready to play, something they haven't done in a while.
I don't like the match up either but there was nothing lucky about game 1. Preds were better team start to finish. Ducks were not ready for the Preds to play that well and intense. Tonight will tell us a great deal. I expect the Ducks to come out with max effort. If the Preds can overcome that tonight and win I will become a believer.