Series Talk: Around the NHL: 2018 Stanley Cup Playoffs — First-round
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Machinehead
GoAwayTrouba
The Hawks are having a bandwagon draft and I can't decide who I'm rooting for so I wanted in.
So I signed a contract which makes me a Hawks fan for the rest of the day, and then I get drafted.
So I signed a contract which makes me a Hawks fan for the rest of the day, and then I get drafted.
Machinehead
GoAwayTrouba
Same here.
Boston-TB will also be lit unless Toronto pulls an upset. Then again, Tortonto-TB would be lit.
Machinehead
GoAwayTrouba
I already told them I'll re-enter the draft in which case the Ducks fans already offered me a UFA contract
TheTakedown
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Pens are a complete mirage as far as I am concerned. Their Forward lineup is better than last years, but their defense is arguably worse than last years even with Letang back there. For every weapon that PIT has, PHI also has a similar one. Crosby vs Giroux, Malkin vs Voracek, Letang vs Gostisbehere (more lop sided in PIT's favor here, but you get what I am saying), Schultz vs Provorov. Both teams have garbage goaltending, I give the flyers a slight edge since both of their goalies are low-low-tier starters.
It's going to be a HELL of a series, 7 games absolutely. Each game will have like 6-9 combined goals
Thirty One
Safe is safe.
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Kaapo Cabana
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Gardner McKay
RIP, Jimmy.
YoSoyLalo
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Wild over jets easily imo
For anyone who doesn’t know, the wild are without Suter
Plus they’re not even good with him
rangers1314
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The only emotion that comes close to rooting for the Rangers to win is rooting for the Flyers to lose.
Gardner McKay
RIP, Jimmy.
Roo Returns
Skjeikspeare No More
Why does everyone hate the Flyers so much? 80s WWF heels. I'm not saying to like them, but in the gallery of Rangers rogues, they're way below Islanders/Penguins/Canadians/Devils and probably even the Captials. I'd rather they somehow beat Pittsburgh.
HatTrick Swayze
Just Be Nice
Close with Caps and Habs for me, but yes, solidly below NJD/NYI/PIT. Could see how it would be different depending on what era you grew up with. Even as a 90s kid, never hated the Flyers the way I did the NJD.
aufheben
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Bob Richards
Mr. Mojo Risin'
Not going to front but I agree. I've seen the Penguins win the cup 69 times so yet another is just spilling your drink in the ocean at this point IMO
It's keeping new/waiting champions out.
Roo Returns
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I was a young child in the 80s and was a little too young for the Sandstrom/Brown incident, but I remember hearing about a few years later when I started watching every game. Other than that, even when the Flyers were the big tough guys, Rangers knocked them out plenty of times (82,83, 86 being the shocker) and they got the Rangers back a few times as well.
The way I look at it, yes blah blah blah Dale Rolfe,the Gaborik/Carcillo thing was embarrassing, and Gudas hitting Stahlberg was not cool, but it's actually been a very even rivalry, much like Rangers/Caps.
Roo Returns
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Sleeper team for me is the Ducks. While everyone is expecting the winner of NSH/WPG to represent the West and I believe that as well, the Ducks quietly went to the WCF last year and if they can get out of the first two rounds (no Jumbo Joe to start this series and who knows if he's even effective plus Joel Ward really slowed down this year and father time may overpower his playoff prowess) unscathed since they were pretty beat up all year, the winner of NSH/WPG might be spent.
McSauer
Defense Wins Games
For my own petty reasons:
- Tampa all the way so we can turn that conditional second round pick into a first next year--and then hopefully a Stanley Cup hangover in which they miss the playoffs and we get a lottery pick
- Also hoping for a TB sweep of the first round so I can ask all these f***ing white trash Devil fans around me how many playoff games have they won in the past six years? (seriously though, every single Devils fan I know is white trash; you can tell someone is a shitty person if they root for NJD--it's science.) Oh, and our second pick from the Grabner deal will be higher.
- TOR over BOS so our first round pick from the Nash deal is higher
- WASH over CBJ because I despise Torts and the bluejackets all together and hope they never win a playoff series.
- PIT over PHI because it's Philly, duh.
- MIN over WPG--and a sweep--because I think it would be great if that franchise (dating back to our sweep of the Thrashers in '07) never win a single playoff game
- ANA over SJS because f*** the Sharks and how they couldn't bury the Kings in '14 being up 3-0 in the first round...I mean are you f***ing kidding me???
- VGK over LAK despite my post above I don't really hate the Kings, but let's keep the nice storyline of the expansion franchise going
- COL over NSH because that Predator game a few weeks ago when Staal and Vesey got injured (with no penalties) burned me up
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Harbour Dog
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Harbour Dog
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Edge
Kris King's Ghost
Rooting for the Bolts for the pick.
Then hoping for a Cup hangover that pushes next year’s pick into the lottery.
Then hoping for a Cup hangover that pushes next year’s pick into the lottery.
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