Joe McGrath
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The Bruins lost 3 in a row and looked like shit doing it. They’re the best team in 20 f***ing years. Calm the f*** down about a 2 game scoring drought.
GDT: Sir Svechy and his band of merry Hurricanes face off against the villainous band of the knights of gold
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this is a tough take, but when teams come in and match our effort we see the deficiencies in our forward depth extremely magnified. when the playoffs come around and everyone's effort is maximized for every game, it exposes that weakness further. we beat a lot of teams into submission by taking no shortcuts and that is our primary edge in the regular season because teams are rarely as prepared as we are. the staal line is the perfect manifestation of that willingness to give extra every game and having it somewhat negated when the opposition does the same with more talent.
Which is where your stars have to step up and be better … or have your goalie steal some games
Also, Auntie needs to come back yesterday because Freddie has been shit lately.
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Svechhammer
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Same story that it's been since the 2019 ECF.
When a talented team matches our intensity our talent deficiencies are exposed.
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MisterDobz
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Mystery guy 1 He's the Best better then Prime Gretzky and would have only cost a 7th in 201392378
(If you believe this I got something else to sell you please message me for deets.)
Svechhammer
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And the problem is, that's not really something they've shown they can be relied to do, for either one. So if that's our plan in the playoffs, we are betting everything on them doing something they've not yet shown they are capable of doing.
That’s why I’ve said repeatedly - I’ll believe it when I see it. They’re *capable* but I agree something of an upgrade would be nice.
Joe McGrath
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Then how do they have the 2nd best record in the league. Just they are the only team that try’s hard?
Sometimes you have to give credit to the other team. That was some stellar defense with just 2 rush attempts surrendered and very disciplined posture in the house. Nothing but hope plays.
MisterDobz
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missed most of this game, had a great dinner at a fancy-smancy french restaurant in downtown Chicago. Got home in time for the last 5 minutes, it won’t help my digestion, but the wine will help me not give a **** about this game.
Svechhammer
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I mean, yeah. The guys on TNT talk about it all the time about us. We play with playoff intensity for 82 games, which takes a hell of a lot of conditioning, but we struggle in the playoffs when everyone else ramps up and we don't have that extra level to hit.
DaveG
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The fact that it's only 7.5 xg when one of the opponents was Philly says a lot too. Something has not been clicking the way we've been playing these past two games.
MisterDobz
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Oh, yeah. Only 18 more games until the playoffs start, no more like this one please…
The Faulker 27
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That's tough for us, but yeah they beat us at our own game tonight. Plain and simple.
Joe McGrath
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They were 1 win away from the conference finals with their backup who is made of glass and completely fell apart last year.
Svechhammer
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I feel like this is a big playoff year for the core of the team. They have to prove that they are capable of stepping up in the crunch because our front office definitely seems to be primed to make a big trade and if they go offensively inept again in the playoffs I could see the urgency to get that done ramp up significantly, with possibly having to move out a player or 2 to make it happen.
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Can't wait to see the reactions when we lose to NJ.
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Svechhammer
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And played like absolute dog piss in each and every game we played on the road last year in the playoffs. It took one bad game at home to ruin the season because we were non competitive away from our arena.
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I'm feel pretty good about Kochetkov playing tomorrow night. We need his good vibes after that one.
