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On June 09 2014 16:56 Manifesto7 wrote:
No professional athlete in this day and age remains unable to do a pullup after making the pros. He is still a kid, and will be fine once on a team program.
Plus if we take a second to evaluate the pull-up and its application to hockey, we might find that it's a pretty useless test. I mean, a proper pull-up is basically your ability to pull your arms back into the sides of your body - a function of your lats. And this is a big part of hockey how? He didn't fail at the bench-press test which is a far more applicable test of upper-body strength as it relates to hockey. These kinds of generic tests are kind of retarded if taken too seriously.
All his non-ability to do a pull-up proves is that he's never bothered training to do a pull-up =P. He's been too busy being good at hockey.
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Yeah I wouldn't worry too much about size At that age. Even if he never gets huge you can still be a very effective player without being very physical.
Speaking o physical hopefully the rangers don't get pushed around as much this game. Still that wasn't as much of problem as their insistence on doing for cute passes instead of getting I on net. And they get way too passive with the lead
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It's a frigging pull-up for crying out loud. lol..
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That Martin St. Louis beard
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This is the most boring SCF in a long time.
The difference in quality between the east and the west is kind of silly.
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Kings just dominating this game. I think that's the series. Rangers might tack on one win but the Kings should win 4-0 or 4-1.
Which is good :D
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The kings dont even look like they have their foot on the pedal. They certainly had to put it in a higher gear against SJS / Anaheim / Chicago.
The Kings dont even have to drive their own offense, the Rangers give it to LA. The difference in system play, the difference in how prepared these clubs are to play the game, the difference in compete level blows my mind.
That kind of thing at the SCF level is silly.
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This is the difference between the east and the west.
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lol there was a lot of talk about how the rangers would be evenly matched. damn this is embarrassing XD
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On June 10 2014 12:11 Blisse wrote:
lol there was a lot of talk about how the rangers would be evenly matched. damn this is embarrassing XD
2 overtime losses where they had the lead clearly show that they are at least in the ballpark of LA, but this last game shows LA has way consistency
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yeah i dont know how anyone can say la is cake walking here. tonight they had double the shots of the kings. they lost because of some funky deflections and quick bringing his a game.
even the other two, they were very much in them. the issue has been consistency. rangers play good for a period or two, get a lead, and completely sit back and let the kings dictate flow and shit the bed.
e: Dave Davis @DaveDavisHockey 2m
Per @extraskater, the Kings 5-on-5 were out-Corsi'd by the Rangers 64% to 36%. New York's power play went 0-6.
quick played his balls off, rangers cant finish, etc etc. goddamn.
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I'd personally love to know how a series that has had two overtime games with one of them being double overtime where the Rangers looked like the better team for 70% of the game is a walkover series. I mean have you watched the games or are you just seeing the fact that it's 3-0 and basing your assumptions off of that?
The series has been tight, but after two crushing defeats like that the Rangers were bound to drop. They're not a mentally tough team, and they don't have what it takes to beat LA. But to say that LA has been in control the entire time is just simply false and flat out ignorant of how well both teams played games 1 and 2.
I think LA still closes it out in 4, but that's only because I don't see NY recovering from losing the first two games in the way that they did.
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how can you call it evenly matched when theyre getting swept???
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On June 11 2014 06:13 Kevin_Sorbo wrote:
how can you call it evenly matched when theyre getting swept???
Because the Rangers dominated the first two periods of each game. Becuase the Rangers for pretty much every game have looked as good if not better than the Kings at various points in time. Because if the Kings don't get the favorable side of a 50/50 call in Game 2 they lose that in regulation. Because in the first two games the shot total and faceoff %s were just about even. Because the series could just as easily be 2-1 Rangers. Because there were 3 overtime periods so far in three games of the series. Because I don't put a lot of stock into a game 3 after a team has just lost two overtime games in a row.
Or you know, because I have actually watched the games rather than looked at box scores for my information.
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The Kings have played like shit yet they're still up 3-0. I think that says it all right there.
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I think if they disallowed that goal from the interference on Lundqvist in game 2, the Rangers would have won and this series would totally be different right now. But glad to see Jeff Carter doing well and proving his spot on the olympic roster this past February. He's always been a good two way forward so it's nice he's been showing it these playoffs.
btw if the Rangers get swept, I'll take the duties of consoling Hawk 
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As a current Leafs fan I believe that results speak louder than statistics or gameplay.
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lool soo many game 7s in these playoffs.... now imagine if LA sweeps the rangers -__-... looks pretty bad on the eastern conference
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On June 11 2014 12:15 castleeMg wrote:
lool soo many game 7s in these playoffs.... now imagine if LA sweeps the rangers -__-... looks pretty bad on the eastern conference
Would be even more hilarious if they put forth the same effort in game 4 as they did in game 3 and won.
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