Hintz knew I’ve been on his ass. Especially since he’s one of 2 jerseys I own. Told you I had the script ohhaithur This was a beautiful sequence and he made up for his shit play
To Tampa. Absolutely. I think we are entering a stage where the panthers are considerably better than Tampa for the next 5ish years though.
Pointing out that the lighting had a massive PP opportunity advantage and only managed a split at home isn’t complaining. It’s pointing out that the lightning had their opportunities to make this a series and failed.
I know I’m guilty of living in the moment, and clearly not all these teams are perfect, but I feel like we are staring down the barrel of the best position second round. DAL (or VGK) vs COL EDM vs VAN FLA vs BOS NYR vs CAR
NYR and Carolina should be the best matchup on paper Edmonton and Vancouver hate each other MacKinnon and Makar try to knock off whichever team advances with half the depth of those teams Florida should destroy Boston Will be fun
Last years Eastern Conference round 1 had 2 game 7s and 2 game 6s. this year they should all be wrapped up in 5 or less. I said it around the trade deadline that the East just got so top heavy but still thought the playoffs might get weird.
Panthers should be the favorite in the series v. Boston or Toronto, but Boston definitely has a good chance to take the series if Swayman keeps this level of play up.
He looked awful in this playoff series. Looked like he was skating in cement. Either way, one hell of a player and we will always have TJ Sochi.
not really. It could be true but usually the starting goalie takes morning skate for about 30 minutes just to get the feel of the puck and stretch out the legs, but we shall see.
I think that Woll is the right move as well. Just saying that a goalie skipping the morning skate is unusual if he is going to start that night.
has to be a while for the NHL. we didn't get any goalie go on a god run in the first round. Closest would be the Canucks getting their #2 and #3 goalies to play well above their head while their offense is shooting like a combined 30%
1980, strangely in a best of 5 first round 2018 was essentially all chalk though. 7 top seeds went through and the Ducks lost Cam Fowler and only were one point ahead of the Sharks in the regular season. Betting was essentially 50/50 as the series started and the Sharks were the only "upset" of the round
I don’t know why but why is it specifically saying it was before Panthers lightning game 5? It makes it sound like he had media availability in south Florida. Odd sentence.
Would be curious to know wtf he’s doing that is pissing players off. And seems like he would’ve done something to adjust after the first go-round and flop.
These playoffs have just shown how terrible and entitled leafs fans are. Shitting on Matthews and Nylander due to injuries and claiming Marner sucks
Toronto clearing and playing a concussed Matthews would be a helluva cherry on top narrative to add to the regular Leafs playoff elimination fallout
Marchand probably took a dive there to draw a penalty thinking it was a leaf and not a ref who grabbed him
it’s just this one guy’s model but yeah probably that wasn’t really the point tho it’s how good the kids are