OOT scoreboard 2025 playoff edition

Also I am happy that the St. Louis move of targeting Scheifele with cheap shots and knocking him out of the series didn’t get rewarded. It very nearly did. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen such blatant head hunting against another teams star player as that involved in the way they went after Scheifele. (Am sure I misspelled this). It came within 2 seconds of working.
 
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Another team shorthanded from injuries pulls through.
I think this is what folks are talking about when they get annoyed with your posts

This is glutton of punishment type stuff. Instead of enjoying a great playoff game, its piling it on the already dead horse that is the NJ Devils. We know what the issues were with NJ all season pre injury woes.
Which made their injury woes even more cataclysmic.

Bringing it up here, again, is just much.
 
I think this is what folks are talking about when they get annoyed with your posts

This is glutton of punishment type stuff. Instead of enjoying a great playoff game, its piling it on the already dead horse that is the NJ Devils. We know what the issues were with NJ all season pre injury woes.
Which made their injury woes even more cataclysmic.

Bringing it up here, again, is just much.
Losing your whole defense and top center doesn’t matter because a team managed to miraculously tie a game with 1 second to go
 
It's also dumb when you consider their two key injuries (Scheifele and Morrissey) had been healthy all season until these last few games. So yes, a team with key injuries sucked it up and won a playoff game. Something which, if I remember correctly, our own injury riddled and depth starved team also did at one point, before succumbing to their inevitable fate.
 
Yes the entire point is that these teams have way more depth. We have a ways to go.

Also, I quite enjoyed the game thank you very much. Mutually exclusive things.

It's a really inane point because none of these teams lost close to what we lost. But okay, yes, nobody here knew that teams with injuries can win playoff series, glad you're here to explain it to us.
 
It's a really inane point because none of these teams lost close to what we lost. But okay, yes, nobody here knew that teams with injuries can win playoff series, glad you're here to explain it to us.
We literally have posters here who say, “Take away any team’s 1C and 1D and they will look like shit”. But heaven forbid someone point out any examples of that not being true. :eyeroll:
 
I think this is what folks are talking about when they get annoyed with your posts

This is glutton of punishment type stuff. Instead of enjoying a great playoff game, its piling it on the already dead horse that is the NJ Devils. We know what the issues were with NJ all season pre injury woes.
Which made their injury woes even more cataclysmic.

Bringing it up here, again, is just much.

Not to mention their depth was crap, even when fully healthy. We knew this going into the season (or I did anyways). It was a huge red flag on Fitz offseason that wasn't really brought up enough imo
 
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You watched an incredible game last night and you came here to post that. I absolutely know where you stand.
What does this even mean?

These teams have great depth. They can lose a couple of top players and still play quality hockey against other really good teams. It isn’t true that any and all teams who lose two of their best players are gonna look like crap. The end.

It’s like you guys can’t handle not being 100% right about everything. Jesus.
 
What does this even mean?

These teams have great depth. They can lose a couple of top players and still play quality hockey against other really good teams. It isn’t true that any and all teams who lose two of their best players are gonna look like crap. The end.

It’s like you guys can’t handle not being 100% right about everything. Jesus.

For you to say that is pure comedy. Just like, absolutely no self-awareness - you watch one of the great playoff games of the decade and you come in here to talk about the 2024-25 New Jersey Devils by crowing about injuries. Which person is obsessed with being right?

The Devils played solid hockey in the playoffs. That's the incredible thing about what happened - the Devils had 4 healthy D, Dumoulin, Nemec, Casey, Cholowski. Everyone else was either playing injured, returned from injury, or was injured and left the series. The Devils won the xG battle 5v5, something that Sheldon Keefe himself probably would've said was impossible. They had all sorts of obvious depth problems and they still managed to persevere 5v5. But no, YOU have to be right.

The Jets were 2 seconds away from losing. They lost the 5v5 goal battle 3-1. They didn't play well until overtime where they were clearly the better team. Instead of recognizing what a gigantic role that luck plays in all of this - Hellebuyck imploding again, the crazy bounces on Goal #1, the bounces on the Jets goals - you're here to talk about the 2024-25 New Jersey Devils.

So now you've done it.
 
For you to say that is pure comedy. Just like, absolutely no self-awareness - you watch one of the great playoff games of the decade and you come in here to talk about the 2024-25 New Jersey Devils by crowing about injuries. Which person is obsessed with being right?

The Devils played solid hockey in the playoffs. That's the incredible thing about what happened - the Devils had 4 healthy D, Dumoulin, Nemec, Casey, Cholowski. Everyone else was either playing injured, returned from injury, or was injured and left the series. The Devils won the xG battle 5v5, something that Sheldon Keefe himself probably would've said was impossible. They had all sorts of obvious depth problems and they still managed to persevere 5v5. But no, YOU have to be right.

The Jets were 2 seconds away from losing. They lost the 5v5 goal battle 3-1. They didn't play well until overtime where they were clearly the better team. Instead of recognizing what a gigantic role that luck plays in all of this - Hellebuyck imploding again, the crazy bounces on Goal #1, the bounces on the Jets goals - you're here to talk about the 2024-25 New Jersey Devils.

So now you've done it.
I’m not bringing the 2024-25 Devils playoff circumstances into this. You guys are. I’m making a counterpoint to the general refrain we’ve heard across multiple seasons, that any team that loses two of their best players is gonna look like crap. This is a message board where we debate these things. If you guys can’t handle counterpoints to your claims without going off into tangents about whatever grievances you have with me, then don’t make the claims in the first place.

I posted it here because it’s an observation about an OoT game.
 
Meanwhile I'm just looking forward to a meat grinder Leafs/Panthers series and a very fun Jets/Stars series. Caps should cruise over the Canes and I don't want to get my hopes up for any Vegas-involved series.

I don't think the Caps cruise over the Canes, I still think the Caps are kinda fake, but the Canes aren't all that good either. Obviously a lot depends on the goaltending.
 
Your C situation becoming Vlad Namestnikov and Adam Lowry 1-2 doesn’t exactly scream depth to me either. They needed 33 minutes from Haydn Fleury when Morrissey went down in the big 2025.

The Jets generated 1.5 xGF 5v5 through the first three periods in a game they trailed in the entire time. Depth, bro, you just don't get it.
 
Not to mention their depth was crap, even when fully healthy. We knew this going into the season (or I did anyways). It was a huge red flag on Fitz offseason that wasn't really brought up enough imo
I did my best.
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Anyway, really expect Panthers vs Caps ECF. Will be shocked if Canes beat Caps. Both series in the West are a clash of styles imo....gonna be interesting.
 
And shockingly tied it back to the devils! We’re all #flabbergasted and #dismayed.
Yeah it can tied to the devils, so what? It’s still also about this particular game and a general commentary about all teams throughout the league. It doesn’t take much to get people ruffled here, my goodness.
 

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