Im not sure what you are saying. Everything he said was true and this year has nothing to do with 2014. This is a young, talented team that hasn't made the playoffs in 5 years and still needs time to learn and grow. Nobody was expecting a cup run, not this year at least.
There are severely diminishing returns though. I argued this until I was blue in the face for the entirety of Hank’s career. The best goalie is not better enough than the fifteenth best goalie to justify getting paid twice as much in a cap world.
Quick, Crawfrod, MAF, and Osgood had very good playoffs but they've also had terrible playoffs. That's my point. It's random. You hope for the best. Better and more well-paid goalies aren't really less random. Hank had some bad playoff runs and some absolutely abysmal series. It's an up down position and even the best goaltenders have never really demonstrated the ability to be less up and down. Shesterkin has low-key been bad since like Janaury in a season he's going to win the Vezina.
I’m not talking about style though. I agree they can’t be doing cross-ice passes and all the cute stuff at even strength. Save it for the power play. This team has the ability to create havoc and the talent to finish after scrambles. But they too often settle for low percentage passes.
Did I say we're going to win the Cup? I just commented that no rationalization is gonna convince me that we should be up in this series 3-0. If only this didn't happen, or if this went didn't get called off... as someone pointed out earlier, we got 3 PP chances IN A ROW. In Pittsburgh, ok? We couldn't put them away. Domingue robbed Panarin big time. Getting robbed. Blowing opportunities to put the dagger in. Story of this franchise.
No, I agree that they have intestinal and mental fortitude. But they're too cute trying to accomplish things that sometimes require brute force. Not enough jam.
Shit. So we’ve got to deal with Crosby for like 50 more years??? Argh.
Oh for sure. For example, I was screaming at Kakko trying to force a cross-ice pass from below the right circle with like 4 mins remaining. That’s exactly where you shoot it and storm the net.
He didn't say we should, he said we could, and he is correct. The Rangers have been tied or ahead in this series except for about 35 minutes.
Despite Tampa having built ideal playoff teams, they don’t win shit without Vasilevsky.
Ideally they’d play that gritty game at even strength and save the fancy stuff for the power play and odd man rushes. I guess that’s easier said than done. I wonder if Drury would consider trading one of their more passive guys, for a more aggressive guy. Maybe that was part of the thinking with the Buch trade. (Circumstances different of course). Clearly that was the idea behind acquiring Vatrano. it’s a fine-tuning thing, as I think the team is largely excellent. But need a couple more shooters.
No kidding. We blew it with the 3 PP's and not scoring. We just didn't get it done but we didn't get bitch slapped either and the game could have gone either way. That was the original poster's point.
No and that's fine.
How does Gerogiev get an F but Shestyorkin gets a C-?
That discussion is for another time. So many things can happen between now and then. Very premature at this point.
Good, you should. Glad fans are seeing Staal wasnt that bad.
I said it was something to worry about later.
Igor is not Hank nor Richter and like you said 53 games is a career high for him. He also played nearly 3 games of very intense hockey with a ton of shots against in the last 5 days. He made 79 saves in that triple OT game and about 37 in game two. That's a lot of work in those games and yeah I could see him being a little fatigued. He also got hit hard the last game so maybe that had something to do with it also.
