OOT Scoreboard 2021-22 Stanley Cup playoffs

[Bleedred]

I know it’s over and down with now and no harm, no foul, but it can’t be understated just how bad Domingue was in round one.

Anyone thinking he was getting an NHL deal/NHL backup job for next year and not another third string deal…. That might have been even more premature than crowning the Rangers the cup after the first two games of this series.

The Rangers got closer to the cup finals than Domingue did to getting an NHL backup job for next year. Domingue probably couldn’t have secured a backup job in the NHL for next season even if he were playing Colorado and had to step in for them these playoffs.

Speaking of Colorado and goaltending though…. I can see them beating Tampa…. But I can also see them losing basically on their goaltending, if Kuemper either has to take himself out again or plays like he did after the injury.

There was that really weak fluttering backhand by Nino in the Canes series. That had to be the worst. He finished these playoffs with ~1 GSAx/60. Insanity

Yeah I remember that one and those were the only two really bad ones I can remember him allowing the entire playoffs.

There were a couple he could have had in the Pittsburgh series, but I don’t think he really played badly that round either. He played way better the next two rounds, but I don’t think he was really costing them games that first round. Not like Domingue was for the other team.

 

[Camille the Eel]

That this game turned on a goal by Stamkos only 21 seconds after Vatrano tied it hasn’t maybe got enough attention. Because the Rangers were back in it and Shesterkin made a great stop on the initial shot. The puck then bounces in off Stamkos. Puck Luck.

It really seems that the proverbial Hockey Gods finally had enough of Igor and of the Rangers there.

 

[bossram]

There was that really weak fluttering backhand by Nino in the Canes series. That had to be the worst. He finished these playoffs with ~1 GSAx/60. Insanity

Thank the lord the NY Fugazis lost. Such an unlikeable team with Trouba trying to injure guys daily, and the puke Lafreniere trying to chicken wing Hedman.

But seriously, how bad of a team are you that your goalie is literally stealing a goal per game for you and you still lose the series. Comical.

 

[Devilsfan92]

All I can think of is Vatanen and Bourque

 

[nugg]

All I can think of is Vatanen and Bourque

Yeah, not a big fan of these two finalists either. I'll root for The Lanche simply because I don't want Tampa winning a third straight.

 

[Devils090]

God I love seeing Kreider sad, makes up for his stupid neanderthal goal celebrations.

Also love the rags fans cry about Tampa’s style being boring. Sorry you didn’t get to face Louie Domingue for 6 games

 

[Bleedred]

Gallant is a shit coach. NO adjustments. Guess that’s why he outstayed his welcome on two previously good teams.

I don’t know if I would say he’s a shit coach, but I would say he’s certainly an overrated coach. I’m sure he’ll be getting a lot of props and credit for “Taking this young team not only to the playoffs for their first time since the rebuild but to the conference finals no less” but I don’t think he really should get that much credit.

And now that he’s been brought up, I do wonder if maybe we would have hired him and maybe he would have signed here. Maybe we would have given him the money, but that he wanted more say and control over moves. Like trading for Ryan Reaves, a grit and toughness movement, etc. And with Elliotte Friedman reporting at the time of the Shero firing that he knows that our analytics department really has a lot of “Juice” in the organization, I wonder if we just didn’t wanna give him that freedom and weren’t willing to listen to his ideas and maybe that’s why we didn’t go with him after what I think was reportedly “Multiple” interviews and one guy going as far as to tweet out something like “With the way some people in the Devils organization are talking, it sounds like Gallant might already be the coach and has already been hired”. Although that part could have just been BS.

One other thing I didn’t like was after the Rangers came back from 3 goals down in game 3 of the Pittsburgh and Georgiev gave up a terrible stinker to win the game after Igor was pulled, he comments in the post game that it was good Igor got rest because he had played a long game 1 with the triple OT. Really? Like 5 days into the playoffs and he needed rest?

 

[AfroThunder396]

Panarin played 97 minutes at ES this series and had 1 point. That has to be alarming for NYR fans that their 31 year old franchise forward who makes 11.6M for the next four seasons disappears whenever there are actually stakes.

Also alarming is that their coach is a f***ing idiot. I don't want to say he's a bad coach because there are so many NHL coaches who are actively detrimental to the success of their team, but he has made so many unavoidable errors.

 

[Devils090]

Panarin played 97 minutes at ES this series and had 1 point. That has to be alarming for NYR fans that their 31 year old franchise forward who makes 11.6M for the next four seasons disappears whenever there are actually stakes.

Also alarming is that their coach is a f***ing idiot. I don't want to say he's a bad coach because there are so many NHL coaches who are actively detrimental to the success of their team, but he has made so many unavoidable errors.

Panarin was horrible minus the odd cross ice pass, guy had to be hurt. If not then that is a massive red flag.

 

[NJDevs26]

ahahhahahahahahhahahahahahaha f*** this guy

Something else had to be going on considering he took the pregame rushes too. No reason to hide an injury now so what, did he get in a fight with someone in the locker room? This is like the Malcom Butler benching in the Super Bowl a few years back.

 

[Hisch13r]

Panarin was horrible minus the odd cross ice pass, guy had to be hurt. If not then that is a massive red flag.

I’d be shocked if he isn’t battling through something pretty significant

 

[Eggtimer]

Panarin was horrible minus the odd cross ice pass, guy had to be hurt. If not then that is a massive red flag.

Ranger fans better hope he was. 11+ mil for what he he did this series….. He was invisible. I never saw him look overly dangerous at all.

 

[Hisch13r]

Something else had to be going on considering he took the pregame rushes too. No reason to hide an injury now so what, did he get in a fight with someone in the locker room? This is like the Malcom Butler benching in the Super Bowl a few years back.

Well he took rushes because they weren’t sure Strome would play. Then Strome ending up playing before shortly ended up not playing lol. Regardless of Strome though Kakko belongs over Hunt.

 

[Bleedred]

I’m really over all the Colorado stuff from 21 years ago. So I don’t really give a shit if they win.

I’m also over the 2018 Tampa series. Tampa has also come up big in taking out our two local teams in the last 3 years and even in 2015 when the Rangers were trying to get to the SCF for the second year in a row.

The Islanders were close to the SCF last year. It looked like tonight’s game was almost gonna go down the same way, with Tampa just getting out with a 1-0 win.

Can you imagine if the Islanders made the SCF last year? “the winning culture” stuff would have went on forever and became more unbearable and ridiculous than it was in the first place. The winning culture stuff would have really just been never ending. People would have been waxing poetic about how we shouldn’t have fired Lou and how his successor has already been purged and there’s no end in sight to our rebuild and how Lou just has this winning culture and winning touch.

And how set the Islanders are at the head coaching position for at least the next 5, maybe even 10 years.

 

[Devilsfan92]

Yeah, not a big fan of these two finalists either. I'll root for The Lanche simply because I don't want Tampa winning a third straight.

I'll root for game 7 ot, or the the least expensive popcorn

 

[Devils090]

Ranger fans better hope he was. 11+ mil for what he he did this series….. He was invisible. I never saw him look overly dangerous at all.

Did he even attempt a shot 5 on 5 the last few games

 

[NJDevs26]

I’m really over all the Colorado stuff from 21 years ago. So I don’t really give a shit if they win.

I’m also over the 2018 Tampa series. Tampa has also come up big in taking out our two local teams in the last 3 years and even in 2015 when the Rangers were trying to get to the SCF for the second year in a row.

The Islanders were close to the SCF last year. It looked like tonight’s game was almost gonna go down the same way, with Tampa just getting out with a 1-0 win.

Can you imagine if the Islanders made the SCF last year? “the winning culture” stuff would have went on forever and became more unbearable and ridiculous than it was in the first place. The winning culture stuff would have really just been never ending. People would have been waxing poetic about how we shouldn’t have fired Lou and how his successor has already been purged and there’s no end in sight to our rebuild and how Lou just has this winning culture and winning touch.

And how set the Islanders are at the head coaching position for at least the next 5, maybe even 10 years.

Not to mention the Isles 95% would have 'won' the Stanley Cup last year if they got by Tampa in Game 7.

 

[jkrdevil]

I’m really over all the Colorado stuff from 21 years ago. So I don’t really give a shit if they win.

I’m also over the 2018 Tampa series. Tampa has also come up big in taking out our two local teams in the last 3 years and even in 2015 when the Rangers were trying to get to the SCF for the second year in a row.

The Islanders were close to the SCF last year. It looked like tonight’s game was almost gonna go down the same way, with Tampa just getting out with a 1-0 win.

Can you imagine if the Islanders made the SCF last year? “the winning culture” stuff would have went on forever and became more unbearable and ridiculous than it was in the first place. The winning culture stuff would have really just been never ending. People would have been waxing poetic about how we shouldn’t have fired Lou and how his successor has already been purged and there’s no end in sight to our rebuild and how Lou just has this winning culture and winning touch.

And how set the Islanders are at the head coaching position for at least the next 5, maybe even 10 years.

I was over the Colorado loss two years after it happened, nevermind 21 years later.

I also don’t get people getting mad over the Tampa series in 2018. They never had a shot in that series.

 

[ZachaFlockaFlame]

I’m really over all the Colorado stuff from 21 years ago. So I don’t really give a shit if they win.

I’m also over the 2018 Tampa series. Tampa has also come up big in taking out our two local teams in the last 3 years and even in 2015 when the Rangers were trying to get to the SCF for the second year in a row.

The Islanders were close to the SCF last year. It looked like tonight’s game was almost gonna go down the same way, with Tampa just getting out with a 1-0 win.

Can you imagine if the Islanders made the SCF last year? “the winning culture” stuff would have went on forever and became more unbearable and ridiculous than it was in the first place. The winning culture stuff would have really just been never ending. People would have been waxing poetic about how we shouldn’t have fired Lou and how his successor has already been purged and there’s no end in sight to our rebuild and how Lou just has this winning culture and winning touch.

And how set the Islanders are at the head coaching position for at least the next 5, maybe even 10 years.

That 2018 series was so weird, like you could see that TB team had cracks in them and that Tampa Bay wasn't ready to win yet but they still demolished in 5. The last two games were pretty close and the games that Schneider played we had every chance to win those too. I just remember Sergachev and Boyle fighting late in game 3 too, lol.

 

[Bleedred]

Not to mention the Isles 95% would have 'won' the Stanley Cup if they got by Tampa in Game 7.

I think they could have beaten Montreal in the SCF, although Montreal did somehow get through a couple of better teams than them
In Toronto and Vegas.

I really couldn’t see either the 2021 Canadiens (the WESTERN CONFERENCE champion Canadiens LOL) or 2021 Islanders as cup champs. But one of them would have had to have been the winner.

 

[ZachaFlockaFlame]

I was over the Colorado loss two years after it happened, nevermind 21 years later.

I also don’t get people getting mad over the Tampa series in 2018. They never had a shot in that series.

Kucherov killing Vatanen and then scoring the GWG the next 2 is the biggest thing for me but in general, yeah you're right.

 

[Devils090]

Tampa has stopped the rags twice in the ECF, I absolutely love them

 

[NJDevs26]

I think they could have beaten Montreal in the SCF, although Montreal did somehow get through a couple of better teams than them
In Toronto and Vegas.

I really couldn’t see either the 2021 Canadiens (the WESTERN CONFERENCE champion Canadiens LOL) or 2021 Islanders as cup champs. But one of them would have had to have been the winner.

Don't get me wrong I think it would have been a closer series than Tampa-Montreal was...might have even gone seven, some of those Cinderella teams manage to make it to Game 7 (Anaheim and Calgary in back-to-back years before the lockout, Edmonton right after it, Vancouver in the 'one that will last a lifetime' series in 1994) but put it this way, I just couldn't see the Isles losing to that team after slaying the Tampa dragon. It would have been like the US losing to Finland in 1980 after beating the Russians.

 

[Hisch13r]

lol I honestly think the Rangers would've had a far better chance with Ruff as their coach. Their offense at 5v5 would've flourished more. The Rangers were no better than us defensively this year. Even if they were slightly better Igor's there to mask any defensive deficiencies

 

[Devilsfan92]

I'm still annoyed by Hull scoring on Khabibulin