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League News: NHL Talk - (News n' Scores n' Stuff) - 2021-22 season, Vol. 3, Playoffs Edition
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I hope Trotz takes the Winnipeg job. He would fit in nicely there and I don't want him in the Metro anymore.
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The Bruins would be idiots to fire Cassidy. So what if he started a journeyman at goalie games 1 and 2? He's still one of the best coaches in the East.
His situation is largely due to his team getting shittier and older by the day.
it just makes too much sense. he grew up around the area, played junior hockey there, and goes home to Canada.
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People blame our goaltending, and we have no vasi, but TB shuts down florida's offense in a way the caps couldn't consistently which really sunk us. So many cross ice passes we gave up right in front of sammy or turnovers leading to odd man breaks that the panthers feasted on
FL special teams is so so soooo bad. If we had better PP we would have scored a lot more on them.
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I wonder if Carlson likes Trotz enough that he'd be willing to follow him to Winnipeg? Something around Carlson for Schiefele could work for both teams, but Winnipeg's almost certainly one of the 10 teams on Johnny's not-trade list.
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The goaltending got worse as the series went on but the team defense--particularly the top pair and a few forwards--are what really fell off.
FLA scored 20 goals in 6 games. I went through all of them here:
Speculation: - Caps General Discussion (Coaching/FAs/Cap/Lines etc) - 2021-22 Season Part 7: Off-season Edition
I'd certainly consider Malkin at his projected 1-year $3 million cap hit. He'd fit in on the half-wall on the PP and, unlike Backstrom and Kuznetsov, can shoot the puck from distance. I don't think he and Ovechkin would work well together at ES, though. Both are defense-optional kind of...
G1: no odd man rush goals against
G2: 2 goals against due to turnovers and bad defense leading to odd man rush or x-ice pass
G3: FLA's only goal is on a cherrypicking play
G4: one 2 on 1 goal against due to Carlson error
G5: four such goals
G6: two such goals
That's arguably at least 10 goals out of 20. Half their goals in the series were from odd-man rushes or cross-ice passes.
Compare to the Caps who had 5 such goals out of their 19 total (if you don't count Ovie's PP one-timer as a cross-ice defensive breakdown) and far more deflections & rebounds.
The Caps also blew several good chances on breakaways. I think Bob outplayed our guys and that may have been the difference in at least one game, maybe more.
Man if we wanted to fire our PP coach can only imagine what they think in Florida
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Not gonna lie - feels good to see FL lose like that in the last second.
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Again Caps pushed these "Cats" to the limit -- are being EXPOSED today against better LIGHTNING
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Again Caps pushed these "Cats" to the limit -- are being EXPOSED today against better LIGHTNING
They dominated majority of that game. Vasi was unreal.
He really just straight up dipped out lol
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we've still been waiting to see that team so talented to win a president's trophy
Lightning as usual having their way with "little brother".
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I know Florida was beatable and we had a really good chance to win the series… Tampa would’ve destroyed us in round 2. I think they would’ve won the series in 4 or 5 games against us.
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True. Our Caps are mediocre. Middle of the pack regular season and 1st round exit. We must get worse before we get better.
Washington shut down their offense pretty effectively. It was the nonsensical and unnecessary mistakes that did them in. Florida never impressed with their structure and system — they won the series because they had a speed and talent advantage and were able to take advantage of Washington’s mistakes. There is a reason we had a lead in the third period in five of the six games.
Florida’s problem right now is that Tampa is better and faster than Washington so Florida can’t rely on the counter when Tampa makes mistakes and Tampa plays their system better than Florida does. Tampa also has a much better goalie, so Florida really has no margin for error and their special teams struggles are just killing them.
This was pretty easy to see coming with the only real question mark for me being Point’s health. That Florida is down 2-0 heading to Tampa and Tampa has done it without Point does not bode well for Florida — obviously — barring a massive turnaround.
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I don't think Washington really shut down the Panthers offense at even-strength, especially not after game 3. Yes, the Panthers punished mistakes, but they were also manufacturing opportunities fairly regularly against Orlov/Jensen and Fehervary/Carlson
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