Re: Cousins - I think Cousins is better than Okposo, which likely isn't difficult. It's a bold play - though Cousins has drawn and taken 0 penalties, I can't imagine Florida gets much benefit of calls with Bennett/Tkachuk/Cousins all skating. Coming into a game and crowd like this, could be dynamite with Cousins... temperament - just depends who's holding the stick when it goes off. Hopefully PoMo.
Re: team - I feel more anxious about Game 6 than Game 5. Lots of clippings for the boys to read about how great they were (and a lot of media momentum for this inevitable game 7) but we're still down 3-2. Lucky bounce away from Florida winning the cup. It's slightly different from the Vancouver series, as we came back with our backs against the wall and after a loss. In McJ we trust, I guess.
Re: lineup - I can't imagine Perry comes out, but I also would not like to imagine Kane-McLeod-Perry. If we insist, Kane-McLeod-Carrick (over Ryan) is at least 2/3rds of a reasonable bottom-6 line. Our fourth and third (Jan-Rico-the better Connor) didn't have great games with the fancy stats, and, though I love them, the third did get relatively caved in the third and gave up the OEL goal. Having a semi-capable fourth line would help keep everyone fresh - M-Carrick-P if they must. Carrick, in his last game, was 67% on the dot. Ryan has been high 40s all season.
I think the boys were also excited to play some more Mario Kart on the plane
How about 2 more plane rides, boys - one to Florida, one with a cup back home
Let's f***ing go