NHL Talk Miscellaneous NHL Discussion CIII: 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs for Thee
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Curufinwe
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Maybe Snider and Homer were right to give up on Bob 
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Maurice has let his team down. They needed more lineup changes tonight.
Edmonton is comfortable playing defensively, and letting the counter attack generate goals.
Floridas aggression is their undoing imo.
Edmonton is comfortable playing defensively, and letting the counter attack generate goals.
Floridas aggression is their undoing imo.
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Ive been saying since the end of Game 4 that this was going 7 only for the Oilers to still lose. The pressure actually shifts back to them in Game 7, and that little shift is all it takes and why there have been so few comebacks in 3-0 series.
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Still time to prove me wrong in Game 7, but after Bob was retconned into being a playoff monster I love seeing him revert to his annual Roman Cechmanek impersonation
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The Panthers rebuild was perfect, except they forgot that they have two Flyers goalies.Maybe Snider and Homer were right to give up on Bob
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It’s hard to blame Bob when the team in front of him has been hot garbage
FlyerNutter
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He won them game 1.
Maurice had been rolling with the same set up for a game too long here imo
Credit to Edmonton though, Skinner has stabilized - and defensively they haven’t allowed Florida to sniff a thing.
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The Panthers will have more to lose though. If the Oilers lose in Game 7 they'll say they did their best and at least made it a series after 3-0 down. The Panthers on the other hand will never hear the end of it.
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Panthers are scoring goals at a Flyers pace the last 8 periods
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So what's the meme play here?
Perry own goal to end the series on Monday?
Perry own goal to end the series on Monday?
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I don't know enough about Edmonton's specifics to gauge how their former Babyman coach handled the lineup and deployment, but I do know that their transition looks a lot better under Knoblauch, assuming my limited viewing of them this year is representative enough to call that. Seen Edmonton hold up and run what looks like planned breakouts from behind their own goal line instead of just giving the puck to McDavid and following. And then I think about how that was what he ran here and how transition/entry were the only intriguing parts of those teams, and how some of us noticed that and wanted Knoblauch kept and groomed.
Life as a Flyers fan!
Life as a Flyers fan!
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As I said earlier, the Oilers are killing the Panthers in the middle of the ice. They are forcing Florida into bad decisions with the puck leading to turnovers and odd man rushes the other way.
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Wasn't the PP under him pretty bad though? Not that it got much better after him...
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I don’t know but it feels like this series has been going on for a month
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Three of the four who have reverse swept did it by winning Game 7 on the road.
Both teams will feel the pressure, but the team that has lost three straight will be experiencing more doubt.
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Did Oilers add anyone at TDL who can lose them series with horrible turnover ala Campoli gifting Canucks OT winner in game 7 in 2011 after Hawks had forced a game 7 and forced a game 7 OT
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Yeah, I just want to see if any of those proposed trades pan out but I'm pretty sure that won't happen until the series is over.
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Panthers have been chasing the game the last 8 periods. They can play their grind you down style when they are leading. That has been a problem lately
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He hasn’t adjusted. I’ve seen the dance before with the Jets. Those top two lines needed a change up tonight. I’d like to see them pinch a little less. I know it’s worked for them, but Edmonton is eating it up.
I can’t help but to give the Oilers credit though. Skinner was going post to post for games 4-5, and it was beautiful to watch. Defensively they have been solid.
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The other big things was that he made were reassigning roles on the bench to Mark Stuart (PK coach) and Paul Coffey. And they started getting saves.
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I was typically pretty mum on PP blame then because I didn't know who was to blame. The way they kept up their blue line bombing to the point of it being forcefed had (and has now) led me more towards Hakstol mandates being a problem.
Kinda hard to judge when a team has McDavid, too. Drop McDavid into our PP and I bet Rocky starts looking a whole lot smarter.
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