Like grit is the only factor in the playoffs....you win with points. Grit is only part of it but far from the main factor.
HF Habs: Out of Town Thread: 2024 Playoff Edition
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Why are Toronto fans wanting to get rid of a 90 point player? Did you watch the series against Boston? Where was he?
I feel for Patrick but the team had to know he was damaged goods, one of the reasons you have to be careful with Lindstrom
Not saying he's perfect or that I'd even want him. Where was Matthews? Where were a lot of other players?
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It’s also style of play - if a player is not willing / able to play on the inside & only plays perimeter game, that’s useless for playoffs
McDavid, MacKinnon etc get points yes…but they drive the inside not stay outside, like it or not most Russians play the perimeter game because that’s the system they’re used to on the large surface - the exceptions (Kovalev, Datsyuk, Kucherov) have had exceptional playoff careers
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They're desperate and going crazy with the massive missed opportunity they endured with this core.
Datsyuk had a bad reputation in the playoffs too... until he didn't.
Getting rid of Marner is an extremely dangerous move. He's a very very good player. Keefe was not fit to coach him.
Marner has put a string of playoff series where he has been non existent. That's why I would never want this overpaid player.
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you can never criticize nostrils. it is never his fault ever.
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MAG: 'Whether Michkov came over or not, I think that ultimately the reason the habs passed on him was not that he might stay in russia a few years, but that there was something about the player they did not like'
4-0 win for the Panthers who will purr-vail tonight. Rats will be raining tonight.
Well we haven’t won a cup in 30 years, time to start taking bigger risks. We most likely messed up the pick, I just don’t see Reinbacher as having as big of an impact as a Michkov, which is also why he’s ranked higher on every prospect ranking.
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Sounds fake, 2 hours since it has been posted and no one reacted to it.
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Probably not true but what ya think about your beloved Leafs not wanting ya anymore Mitchy Boy.
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Believe it when I see it lol, but God it would make me laugh
This Espn headline makes me laugh too :
Panthers tap Okposo to be G7 difference-maker
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Who the f*** trade a star player and make an official announcement about it "sometime this week".
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Only makes sense to be "later" because the NHL doesn't want anything on game days and that would be huge.
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They obviously don't want a major trade on a scf game 7 day or RealRobReinhardt is a blowhardt
Either way the Leafs suck
Either way the Leafs suck
A term Kent Hughes always uses is Balance.
Even if it isn't perfect Edmonton has found a way to balance their strengths with their weaknesses.
Guys like Brown Janmark Macleod and Hollaway are the grit any good club needs to get them over the line.
The balance up front has been so good on most nights they get away with having Ekholm as the only reliable defender.
It reminds me of the Penguins last cup where they had little to no D and still managed to win because they had that balance up front.
But you aren't wrong it starts with two power forwards Hyman and Draisaitl serviced by McDaid and Nugent Hopkins to some extent.
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