EPTFINALLY! - The 2013 NHL Season - Page 93
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Emzeeshady
Canada4203 Posts
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Gosi
Sweden9072 Posts
Interesting season tho. I'm looking forward to 2013/2014!  | ||
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Mementoss
Canada2595 Posts
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Exigaet
Canada355 Posts
On May 25 2013 10:24 Gosi wrote: Yeah, I'm not the one that usually call quits but this season is over. Pens are just too good... Interesting season tho. I'm looking forward to 2013/2014! It's not just the Pens being good. It's Anderson playing horribly. He's been pulled twice this series and let in 13 goals in the last 2 games.. | ||
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Slaughter
United States20254 Posts
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JeanLuc
Canada377 Posts
On May 25 2013 10:23 Emzeeshady wrote: Well, thats another year without a Canadian team winning the cup (or ever getting close). Fuck this,  Well since 93, three Canadian teams have been just one game away from the cup.. Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver. And Im pretty sure Vancouver and at least one of the two prairie teams were leading 3-2 going into game six.. | ||
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Emzeeshady
Canada4203 Posts
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Critter
United States196 Posts
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Sub40APM
6336 Posts
On May 25 2013 11:57 Emzeeshady wrote: Yah I know and I was on the edge of my seat in all of those games hoping beyond hope... It just seems hopeless. Toronto and Montreal are terrible franchises that look like they will never have playoff success in the upcoming future. Ottawa has a decently talented team but no where near cup potential Calgary is in a endless spiral of failure Vancouver has already cemented themselves as playoff chokers and their problems are quite large at the moment Edmonton seems to be the only future hope as the talent that they have growing there is ridiculous. wow. after watching Edmonton squander 6 years of failures into first round picks into ruining the first round draftees because they are rushed too fast into the NHL, onto a team that is leakier than the Iraqi navy you still have hope with Edmonton? That team is ruined by a terrible owner who would rather hangout with the heroes of the 1980s then hire someone who actually knows how to build a team. If Edmonton even looked remotely like they were going to be a Penguins 2:0, I'd be agree with your assessment but so far all they've managed to do was teach a bunch of first line players how to lose, how not to play as a team and how to deal with premature injuries. Sure no one they drafted is a Crosby or a Malkin but the Pens are a good team not only because of those two guys, they also had solid coaching, an incredibly underrated defensive corps and a bunch of role players who can step up. The oilers literally have 4-5 forwards who, had they been given to the Wings, would have joined the NHL sometime in their mid 20s and instantly become all stars. As of now, most of those kids are halfway to being ruined, becoming the new Ilya Kovelchuks. Stats padding, meaningless goal scoring, puck battle losing, very-little-for-actual-on-ice-performance adding video game style players. Only Toronto and the Flames are more hopeless, the Flames because Sutter and Feaster dont understand how modern hockey teams are built and Toronto because no matter what this season showed the MLSE honchos will figure out a way to undo all that good. Id say once Gillis is fired in another 2 years, the Canucks have a decent chance to have a Cup run in 2020ish or so. Ottowa has a pretty good amount of young talent. If Erickson goes back to the way he was pre-Cook, if their young goalie actually develops how they think he will and if guys like Silfberg keep growing I think that team will be a top 8 team in the East and if they throw some money around in two years or so once they will be pretty legit. Especially as teams like the Rangers slip out into irrelevance and teams like the Capitals wont have the South East division to pad their stats against. | ||
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fLyiNgDroNe
Belgium3994 Posts
On May 25 2013 10:07 DeepElemBlues wrote: I'm sure the Pens are interested in that too, unfortunately there aren't any actual teams in the rest of the Eastern Conference. (Sorry Boston but you just aren't) That's so true ... | ||
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sharkeyanti
United States1273 Posts
Nobody (Olcyk and Therrien) taught PIT how to play well. We should recall those first 5 years Crosby and Malkin weren't in everybody's highest regard. EDM will find it's way, there is just far too much talent. Also, TOR has a manageable cap situation with some high-quality talent on hand. I wouldn't discount them. OTT doesn't look to have much in the way premium talent, but they can certainly be a playoff team for a while. | ||
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Antylamon
United States1981 Posts
The only player on the Penguins I'm scared of is Crosby. That's it. I'm expecting either a onesided steamroll either way due to the crazy offensive style which the current Bruins defense favors against Crosby and his equal if not greater offense, or a close drawn out series with the injured Bruins healing up and the playstyle reverting to its well-balanced norm. Tuuka especially could deny a lot of Crosby's potential goals. A lot of emphasis on the "could." Basically, anything could happen. I just don't know what to expect because I don't know how well the Pens' defense will hold. | ||
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DeepElemBlues
United States5079 Posts
Don't see the argument that it's the playoffs now and the Bruins are rolling 4 solid lines and playing much better defense meaning much. It's not like the Pens aren't rolling 4 solid lines either at the moment, their defense has improved big-time since the Islanders series, and Vokoun is playing better than any other goalie in the EC has this playoffs (Quick and Howard and Niemi are definitely playing better in the West but not by a huge margin). Both teams have played significantly better in round 2 (let's just assume the Bruins are going to wrap up the Rags in game 5) after both had shaky round 1s. Boston doesn't have the offensive firepower to keep up with the way the Pens are playing. Vokoun is doing better in all statistical categories than Rask. Unless Tuuka steals some Jesus Goalie mojo from Jimmy Howard I don't see how the Bruins can win this series. Vokoun's GAA: 1.85 Pens goals per game: 4.1 That's a +2.25 goal differential. The Bruins aren't that good on offense, defense, or in the net to cross that chasm, not over 7 games. | ||
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Sub40APM
6336 Posts
On May 26 2013 02:45 DeepElemBlues wrote: Pens in 6 in a close series. Bruins didn't show me the potential to beat the Penguins in a 7-game series during the regular season. Pens beat the Bruins 3 times at their own game, twice without their best player and a bunch of other injuries as well. and Red Wings lost every game they played against the Hawks in the regular season. So? | ||
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Slaughter
United States20254 Posts
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Sub40APM
6336 Posts
Jonathan Erickson is actually functionally retarded. With 0 pressure he cant fucking clear the puck. Jesus. | ||
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Slaughter
United States20254 Posts
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Kyhron
United States945 Posts
On May 26 2013 10:58 Slaughter wrote: Welp the refs are favoring Chicago this game. Are we watching the same game? Yes the Abdelkader penalty was rather weak but Chicago is playing a hell of a lot better than Detroit and keep generating off hard work. | ||
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Slaughter
United States20254 Posts
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Jaaaaasper
United States10225 Posts
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