Half-Assed GDT: Caps Blues: Well Well Well, We Meet Again.

[Linkens Mastery]

Where are the trains!?

I forgot

Edit: real reason is the attaching of pictures on the site lately has been too much of a headache. using the attachment feature doesn't work correctly, and finding a picture small enough to go through is a headache.

 

[joe galiba]

Where are the trains!?

on the train tracks

 

[Ted Hoffman]

The 2019 Blues would destroy the 2018 Caps and it wouldnt even be a close series.

Yeah ... it would, because Ovechkin's line was a f***ing monster in the playoffs and Lars Eller made trying to match up with Ovechkin's line costly. God love ROR and Sunny and everyone else, but they weren't handling Ovechkin in the 2018 playoffs, and Washington's D was just as physical and gritty as ours.

BTW: not that I think HF is some be-all, whatever people say here is gospel source of truth by any means, but I think it's interesting this question has been asked twice - once right after the Blues won the cup, the other about 2 1/2 years later, and ... well, let's just say it's a semi-convincing result both times.

2018 Caps vs 2019 Blues

Who wins?

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2018 Washington Capitals vs 2019 St.Louis Blues in a 7 game series

Both franchises ended their Stanley Cup droughts back to back, but who would win in a 7 game series between these two (assume a neutral venue)? Capitals Coach: Barry Trotz Ovechkin – Kuznetsov – Wilson Vrana – Backstrom – Oshie Burakovsky – Eller – Connolly Stephenson – Beagle – DSP Kempny –...

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2019 Rask was playing at a far superior level than 2018 Holtby was.

Regular season? Holtby was really meh, Grubauer got the reins to start the playoffs. Once he shit all over himself, Holtby stepped in and was really steady through the playoffs Statistically, better than Binnington. When the Caps needed him to make saves, he did it. Caps didn't have defensive breakdowns that cause you to remember great saves from Holtby like we do with Binnington; that alone tells you how suffocating their defense was, and that defense had to deal with Crosby/Malkin and then Stamkos.

What Rask did is irrelevant, because we're talking about winning teams.

 

[Mike Liut]

If we lose tonight, It could get ugly with 7 of the next 9 on the road.

 

[Mike Liut]

Liut, Walt and Pavol were 3 of my favorite Blues. Cool seeing them all go in together.

 

[i aint Dunn yet]

lets go blues !!!

 

[DoubleK81]

Chuckie Sideburns looking SHARP!

 

[Linkens Mastery]

Woo! Let's parade ourselves to the penalty box tonight!

Nice Shot Colt

 

[i aint Dunn yet]

ping , colt mother truckers

 

[Linkens Mastery]

Colt is the only defender that is completely off limits for any trades.

 

[joe galiba]

10 shorties, Patey had 8 all by himself one year for the Blues

this Blues memory brought to you by an old dude

 

[Davimir Tarablad]

Good to see the PK score after a long drought

 

[Linkens Mastery]

Why did they take Colt off the PP? stupid

 

[GoldenSeal]

Let try this AGAIN: Win boys win!!!

 

[joe galiba]

if Neighbors and Oshie go head to head, who falls first?

 

[GoldenSeal]

This is a purely hypothetical, loaded conjecture and presumes there are no other scenarios to consider.


Weird, Perron was also a drama queen [white skates? Lots of 1-on-3, 1-on-4 offensive play? Lots of ignoring coaching instructions?] and a perennial playoff choker here. And, elsewhere after he left here. His goal in the 2018 playoffs came with him literally sitting in the net and having the puck go off of him. Going into 2018-19, everyone's expectation was "nice guy, might put up regular season stats, ... going to f***ing disappear in the postseason."

P.S. - that time between when Perron left and Oshie left? Same head coach for the Blues. Oshie must have sucked at killing coaches after Perron left.


I'm just going to stop right here.

* Montreal got 2 Cups and Boston got a Cup playing "a[n] expansion team in the finals." I don't see anyone calling those 3 Cups illegitimate.
* Vegas at 107 points was very legitimate competition. The Golden Knights were light years better than those Blues teams that got to the Finals, who couldn't go even .500 against the O6 teams in any of those 3 years.
* Washington had to come back from 0-2 at home against Columbus, had to slay their perpetual playoff nemesis in Pittsburgh, and had to come back from down 3-2 by winning at Tampa who led the Eastern Conference with 113 points. Let's not pretend they got there by beating Buffalo, Ottawa and Montreal and then ended up with Arizona in the Finals.

Thank you. I almost got a migraine reading that OP. I thought I was bad with my own brand of occasional conjecture.

 

[Celtic Note]

Colt is the only defender that is completely off limits for any trades.

If he landed us a top end #1 I would do it pretty easily and I like Parayko

 

[Mike Liut]

If he landed us a top end #1 I would do it pretty easily and I like Parayko

true, but nobody in the top 7-8 would be trading for him.

 

[GoldenSeal]

true, but nobody in the top 7-8 would be trading for him.

Wouldn't surprise me if the Oilers kicked tires on him.

 

[Mike Liut]

Wouldn't surprise me if the Oilers kicked tires on him.

they wouldn’t be drafting high enough, but yeah, I could see them being interested.

 

[Kylester]

Wouldn't surprise me if the Oilers kicked tires on him.

But who would the Oilers be willing to trade that we would want?

 

[Celtic Note]

I was saying a #1D, a top 5 pick I would do too.

 

[GoldenSeal]

But who would the Oilers be willing to trade that we would want?

Exactly. That's why I said 'kicking the tires'. Their needs have abit too much similarities to ours.

 

[Mike Liut]

But who would the Oilers be willing to trade that we would want?

two #1’s ?

 

[i aint Dunn yet]

nice period