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KingPuckChoo said:
LA was the best team for Bronze, unfortunately our coach is a total buffoon and cost us the series against a very beatable McDrai team

This will haunt me for years
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Beatable in the sense that LA got them when they hadn't had their full roster together in months due to injuries and were a disjointed mess. LA likely loses in 4 or 5 if they play the Oilers of the 2nd/3rd round.
 
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1. Colorado
2. Dallas (yes, they were fortunate to get past the Avs)
3. Tampa Bay
4. Toronto
5. Winnipeg
6. Carolina
7. Vegas
8. Los Angeles
9. St. Louis
10. Minnesota
11. Washington
12. Ottawa
13. Montreal
14. New Jersey
 
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BaileyFan said:
1. Colorado
2. Dallas (yes, they were fortunate to get past the Avs)
3. Tampa Bay
4. Toronto
5. Winnipeg
6. Carolina
7. Vegas
8. Los Angeles
9. St. Louis
10. Minnesota
11. Washington
12. Ottawa
13. Montreal
14. New Jersey
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LA gave Edmonton a tougher fight than Dallas and Vegas, but yeah the state of the Eastern Conference… ouch
 
Suntouchable13 said:
Toronto is not the 3rd best team, give me a break. Did you even watch games 5 and 7 on their home ice? LOL. They are closer to the bottom to me. They showed that right there with those games.
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They are not the 3rd team but they still gave the best opposition to FLO, def not in the bottom
 
Fourier said:
LA is much better than the OP is giving them credit for. Frankly, they were a tougher out for the Oilers than Vegas.
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I agree with you that LA was better than the OP suggested, but I don't know that they were better than Vegas or Dallas. I think it just took the Oilers a couple games to get their legs under them as they had a lot of guys who were just getting back into the lineup. Although to their credit, they have the only win over the Oilers that wasn't ~90% Stuart Skinner shitting the bed.
 
Quite difficult. It's of course going to be affected by who wins it all, but I'm leaning towards this, just listing them off of my mind of how well I thought they were doing:

1. Toronto
2. Dallas
3. Colorado
4. Los Angeles
5. Vegas
6. Winnipeg
7. Carolina
8. St Louis
9. Washington
10. Minnesota
11. Tampa Bay
12. Ottawa
13. Montreal
14. New Jersey
 
snipes said:
I thought LA was better than Dallas and Vegas as an Oilers fan.
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You’re still comparing a 1st round exit to a team that made it to the WCF. So not only did Dallas make it a lot farther, but they also had more wear and tear on them, which could have contributed to their poor showing against you guys.

Saying LA is better than Dallas is wild. They’re not, by any sense of logic.
 
McFlyingV said:
Beatable in the sense that LA got them when they hadn't had their full roster together in months due to injuries and were a disjointed mess. LA likely loses in 4 or 5 if they play the Oilers of the 2nd/3rd round.
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i agree that once edmonton collected all their pieces into a $95m cap circumvented roster they should technically be in a position to beat anyone, you don't say?

But to argue that the McDrais were limping in the first round with injuries and by pressing on that said injured region of a body in a high intensity playoff series that the McDrais miraculously heal as they go... can you name me the herbs they're taking? i have a nagging foot pain
 
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BlueDream said:
You’re still comparing a 1st round exit to a team that made it to the WCF. So not only did Dallas make it a lot farther, but they also had more wear and tear on them, which could have contributed to their poor showing against you guys.

Saying LA is better than Dallas is wild. They’re not, by any sense of logic.
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wear and tear??? no no no no, haven't you heard? McDrai fans argue that you only heal as you go

The McDrais healed
How is it possible for the Stars to be banged up as the series go on?? lol

Somebody is lying here
 
D1az said:
Quite difficult. It's of course going to be affected by who wins it all, but I'm leaning towards this, just listing them off of my mind of how well I thought they were doing:

1. Toronto
2. Dallas
3. Colorado
4. Los Angeles
5. Vegas
6. Winnipeg
7. Carolina
8. St Louis
9. Washington
10. Minnesota
11. Tampa Bay
12. Ottawa
13. Montreal
14. New Jersey
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Of these clubs which will more likely go farther next year than this year? IMO the Leafs would be at the bottom of that list with Washington. And clubs like the Habs, Sens, Avs would be at the top.
 
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If the Panthers win in 6 or less my head is going to explode. Homer vote maybe, but I think Toronto is the best eliminated team, Dallas/Colorado are right there as well.
 
Fatass said:
Of these clubs which will more likely go farther next year than this year? IMO the Leafs would be at the bottom of that list with Washington. And clubs like the Habs, Sens, Avs would be at the top.
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Next year is of course next year's challenge.
To me Toronto's future is strongly attached yo how they utilize the space after Marner's and Tavares' contracts (I'm assuming/hoping they don't hand Marner a new contract, and if they re-sign Tavares then hopefully it's at a very low price)
 
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I think some of you guys are overrating LA, not that they’re not a strong team, but because their downfall, which was Hiller’s over-reliance on 4 D and 9 forwards- 2 of whom are an aging Kopitar and Doughty- would have caught up to them against any team. They ran out of gas as the series went on and I don’t think that changes against most playoff teams. You need 6 D and at least 12 forwards your coach trusts, and they clearly didn’t have that.
 
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Frank Drebin said:
If there was a bronze medal series, who would win it?

1. Toronto
2. Dallas
3. Las Vegas
4. Tampa Bay
5. Carolina
6. Winnipeg
7. Washington
8. Colorado
9. St Louis
10.LA
11. Minnesota
12. Ottawa
13. Njd
14. Montreal
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So I think the AVS would win this series. Reason is because I keep reading Edmonton is in the finals because we didn't play the AVS. They sound amazing.
 
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Frank Drebin said:
I think Toronto beats any of the other 13 teams in a 7 game series
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Honestly I hate TOR so much but I watched every single games and to me it's their best PO I saw, consistency was the problem but I seriously thought they would go all the way at some point. I would keep the core one more season personally
 
KingPuckChoo said:
i agree that once edmonton collected all their pieces into a $95m cap circumvented roster they should technically be in a position to beat anyone, you don't say?

But to argue that the McDrais were limping in the first round with injuries and by pressing on that said injured region of a body in a high intensity playoff series that the McDrais miraculously heal as they go... can you name me the herbs they're taking? i have a nagging foot pain
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Ekholm did not play until Game 5 of the WCF
 
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Ducks would win the bronze. Pretty easily I might add.

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Only a few months ago!
 
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KingPuckChoo said:
i agree that once edmonton collected all their pieces into a $95m cap circumvented roster they should technically be in a position to beat anyone, you don't say?

But to argue that the McDrais were limping in the first round with injuries and by pressing on that said injured region of a body in a high intensity playoff series that the McDrais miraculously heal as they go... can you name me the herbs they're taking? i have a nagging foot pain
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Wrong. Edmonton was not over the cap against LA at any point. The LTIR space they saved on Kane was out of the lineup in Ekholm, who they could have LTIR'd if they didn't try to bring him back re-injuring his previous injury weeks before the season ended.

McDavid and Draisaitl were far from the only guys to miss games in the last 2 months of the season. Klingberg, Walman, Kane, Stetcher, Hyman, Frederic, Stuart Skinner all missed games down the stretch. The point was this current roster had not all played together this season and they took a couple games to gel.

Keep coping though. The Oilers haven't iced an over the cap roster once this year (or at least not by much). When Kane came in Ekholm was out, and when Ekholm came in Hyman was out.
 
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avocadosmoothie said:
not much better, actually

Oilers unfortunately will not be able to ice a circumvented roster at any point these playoffs
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but the options are wonderful aren't they?

How does one manage to have $95m worth of players where as soon as one player is out, for example... like a Hintz, would the Stars have a 1000 game NHLer ready to come in and fill his shoes? Or are they stuck with an inexperienced Mavrik Bourque?

Only a team that is circumventing the cap would have the luxury of choosing its players and have little to no impact if one of your players gets injured... ahh Hyman got knocked out? Phew, good thing Ekholm is stepping in right on time

But seriously if you really can't comprehend this basic logic... we'll just wait until one of your rivals do it, and i'll explain it again to you and you'd agree
 
Toronto is clearly the best, therefore they should play the winner of Edmonton and Florida for the real winner of the Stanley Cup. Hockey's mecca deserves better and we as neutral fans demand the NHL step in and make it happen.

Time for Beauty and the LEAFS!

 
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