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[Habsfannick]

Round 1 Results
1. BYE
2. BYE

3. WINNER 7 VS 14. 0
4. WINNER 7 VS 13. 0
5. 6 WINNER VS 12. 1
6. 1 VS 11. WINNER 6
7. WINNER 5 VS 10. 2
8. WINNER 3 VS 9. 4


Round 2

1. VS 11.
2. VS 8.
3. VS 7.
4. VS 5. ​

 

[Addison Rae]

VOTE

Chris Kunitz - Patrice Bergeron - Martin St. Louis
Milan Lucic - David Krejci - Jarome Iginla
Brad Marchand - Bryan Little - Derek Stepan
Carl Soderberg - Andrew Cogliano - Reilly Smith

Zdeno Chara - Dennis Seidenberg
Marc Staal - Dougie Hamilton
Torey Krug - Johnny Boychuk

Tuukka Rask
Chad Johnson​

Vote


Alex Semin - Sidney Crosby - Jeff Carter
Bobby Ryan - Evgeni Malkin - James Neal
Loui Eriksson - Nick Bonino - Curtis Glencross
Jamie McGinn - Brandon Sutter - Pascal Dupuis

Paul Martin - Kristopher Letang
Mark Giordano - Keith Yandle
Matt Niskanen - Robert Bortuzzo


Karhi Lehtonen
Tomas Vokoun

 

[How Ya Drouin]

FORWARDS
Gabriel Landeskog ($5.571m) / Matt Duchene ($6.000m) / P-A Parenteau ($4.000m)
Ondrej Palat ($0.605m) / Ryan O'Reilly ($6.500m) / Radim Vrbata ($3.000m)
Jussi Jokinen ($3.000m) / Paul Stastny ($6.600m) / Tomas Fleischmann ($2.250m—50.00%)
Alex Tanguay ($3.500m) / Maxime Talbot ($1.750m) / Cody McLeod ($1.150m)
Patrick Bordeleau ($1.000m) / John Mitchell ($1.800m) / Brad Malone ($0.772m)
DEFENSEMEN
Erik Johnson ($3.750m) / Erik Karlsson ($3.250m—50.00%)
Jan Hejda ($3.250m) / Justin Faulk ($4.833m)
Rob Scuderi ($3.000m—11.10%) / Tyson Barrie ($0.788m)
Andre Benoit ($0.900m) /
GOALTENDERS
Semyon Varlamov ($5.900m)
Reto Berra ($1.450m)


Offensively, the top line is fantastic with Duchene between two great wingers in Landeskog and PA Parenteau. Our second line is going to be a great two way line, with awesome two way winger Ondrej Palat, two way god ROR, and a great goal scorer in Radim Vrbata. The third line is surely a force to be reckoned with, with three proven top six players, and our fourth line has three proven third liners to complement our top nine.

This team is solid defensively, with a great top 4 of EJ, EK, Faulk, and the oft-underrated Jan Hejda, complemented by a great bototm pairing of the great defensively Rob Scuderi and the great offensively Tyson Barrie.

Semyon Varlamov is one of the best goalies in the league and behind that D he will continue to be.

The are one of the league's better teams, vote over ​

 

[member 202355]

Vote


Alex Semin - Sidney Crosby - Jeff Carter
Bobby Ryan - Evgeni Malkin - James Neal
Loui Eriksson - Nick Bonino - Curtis Glencross
Jamie McGinn - Brandon Sutter - Pascal Dupuis

Paul Martin - Kristopher Letang
Mark Giordano - Keith Yandle
Matt Niskanen - Robert Bortuzzo


Karhi Lehtonen
Tomas Vokoun

VOTE

Chris Kunitz - Patrice Bergeron - Martin St. Louis
Milan Lucic - David Krejci - Jarome Iginla
Brad Marchand - Bryan Little - Derek Stepan
Carl Soderberg - Andrew Cogliano - Reilly Smith

Zdeno Chara - Dennis Seidenberg
Marc Staal - Dougie Hamilton
Torey Krug - Johnny Boychuk

Tuukka Rask
Chad Johnson​

 

[hi]

6. 1 VS 11. WINNER 6

 

[Addison Rae]

Better team won

 

[Patchey*]

Roster
FORWARDS
Patrick Sharp ($5.900m) / Jonathan Toews ($6.300m) / Marian Hossa ($5.275m)
Zach Parise ($7.538m) / Kyle Turris ($3.500m) / Patrick Kane ($6.300m)
Jeff Skinner ($2.863m—50.00%) / Andrew Shaw ($2.000m) / Clarke MacArthur ($3.250m)
Bryan Bickell ($4.000m) / Tyler Johnson ($0.788m) / Kris Versteeg ($2.200m)
Marcus Kruger ($1.325m) /
DEFENSEMEN
Brent Seabrook ($5.800m) / Duncan Keith ($5.538m)
Niklas Hjalmarsson ($4.100m) / Johnny Oduya ($3.375m)
Nick Leddy ($2.700m) / Michal Rozsival ($2.200m)
GOALTENDERS
Corey Crawford ($6.000m)
Mac Carruth ($0.617m)
BUYOUTS
Steve Montador ($0.000m)
Rostislav Olesz ($0.000m)
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CAPGEEK.COM TOTALS (follow @capgeek on Twitter)
(estimations for 2014-15)
SALARY CAP: $82,000,000; CAP PAYROLL: $81,568,590; BONUSES: $150,000
CAP SPACE (21-man roster): $431,410

Vote over

 

[VanIslander]

Vancouver has Stamkos and Weber, but beyond that they have a shaky squad this year in underperforming Sedins, Mike Richards as the 2nd line pivot (when he's only getting third line minutes in LA behind even Stoll!) and this year's Canucks Bottom-6 and five starting dmen, backstopped by inexperienced Bishop, which all adds up to an underperforming squad far off of their career peak years, against a firing-on-all-cylinders Sharks squad built to win now....

Joe Pavelski - Joe Thornton (C) - Brent Burns
Patrick Marleau (A) - Logan Couture - Dustin Byfuglien
Mason Raymond - Martin Hanzal - Tommy Wingels
Raffi Torres - James Sheppard - Mike Brown

M-E Vlasic - Tobias Enstrom (A)
Roman Josi - Justin Braun
Brad Stuart - Jason Demers

Antti Niemi
Roberto Luongo​

VOTE ​

 

[donut]

FORWARDS

Daniel Sedin ($7.000m) / Henrik Sedin ($7.000m) / Steven Stamkos ($3.750m—50.00%)
Dustin Brown ($2.938m—50.00%) / Mike Richards ($2.875m—50.00%) / Ryan Kesler ($5.000m)
Chris Higgins ($2.500m) / Stephen Weiss ($4.900m) / Alexandre Burrows ($4.500m)
Shawn Matthias ($1.750m) / Brad Richardson ($1.150m) / Jannik Hansen ($2.500m)
Mike Santorelli ($0.550m) / Tom Sestito ($0.750m)

DEFENSEMEN

Dan Hamhuis ($4.500m) / Shea Weber ($7.857m)
Jason Garrison ($4.600m) / Kevin Bieksa ($4.600m)
Alexander Edler ($5.000m) / Yannick Weber ($0.650m)
Ryan Stanton ($0.550m)

GOALTENDERS

Ben Bishop ($2.300m)
Eddie Lack ($1.150m)

RETAINED SALARIES (1.13% of upper limit)
Roberto Luongo ($0.800m—15.00%)
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CAPGEEK.COM TOTALS (follow @capgeek on Twitter)
(estimations for 2014-15)
SALARY CAP: $82,000,000; CAP PAYROLL: $79,169,643; BONUSES: $0
CAP SPACE (23-man roster): $2,830,357

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New Additions:
Steven Stamkos
Shea Weber
Mike Richards
Dustin Brown
Stephan Weiss
Ben Bishop

Players Leaving:
David Booth
Lots of Prospects
Lots of Picks

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VOTE over ​

 

[Habsfannick]

Round 2 Results

1. 4 VS 11. WINNER 5
2. WINNER 6 VS 8. 3
3. WINNER 7 VS 7. 2
4. 4 VS 5. WINNER 5


Round 3
2. VS 11.
3. VS 5. ​

 

[member 202355]

How the **** did I lose to the Pens?

 

[donut]

Damn I was just gonna send my votes...

 

[Patchey*]

How the **** did I lose to the Pens?

Sidney Cwasby?

Damn I was just gonna send my votes...

Lol who were you going to vote for?
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Honest question guys, do you vote for yourselves/on your matchup in the playoffs? lol. I don't vote on the matchup that I'm in and i am wondering what you guys do.

 

[member 202355]

Sidney Cwasby?

All I remember is the Bruins shutting him down last year.

I guess things have changed?

 

[donut]

Lol who were you going to vote for?
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Honest question guys, do you vote for yourselves/on your matchup in the playoffs? lol. I don't vote on the matchup that I'm in and i am wondering what you guys do.

Probably voting 1, 2, 3, 4. Typically I do cause a vote is a vote, but that's my take.

 

[Patchey*]

Probably voting 1, 2, 3, 4. Typically I do cause a vote is a vote, but that's my take.

That's a shame. That would have tied two series

 

[donut]

That's a shame. That would have tied two series

Whatever. Time to wait for the next game, PIG's idea sounds fun.

 

[VanIslander]

Habs-Sharks series match-ups

1st lines

Andrew Ladd - Tyler Seguin - Ryan Callahan
vs.
Joe Pavelski - Joe Thornton - Brian Burns

Advantage

2nd lines

Max Pacioretty - David Desharnais - Thomas Vanek
vs.
Patrick Marleau - Logan Couture - Dustin Byfuglien

Advantage

3rd lines

Brendan Gallagher - Tomas Plekanec - Joel Ward
vs.
Mason Raymond - Martin Hanzal - Tommy Wingels

Edge .
Wingels and Hanzal are among NHL leaders in hits with 200+ each (while putting up a combined 78 points). Hanzal is stronger on faceoffs but Ward has been clutch in the playoffs; both Wingels and Ward are among the forward leaders in blocked shots.

4th lines

Rene Bourque - Ryan White - Brandon Prust
vs.
Raffi Torres - James Sheppard - Mike Brown

Even.
Bourque is hot these playoffs with 3 goals but Torres has 2 as well as shift disturbing play that has drawn penalties by the opposition. Sheppard is much better on face-offs but Prust is a quality checker.

1st pairings

Ryan McDonagh - P.K. Subban
vs.
M-E Vlasic - Tobias Enstrom

Edge

2nd pairings

Victor Hedman - Andrei Markov
vs.
Roman Josi - Justin Braun

Edge
Josi and Markov both play 25+ minutes per game, both block a lot of shots, Josi scoring 13 goals but three less points than Markov. Braun has had top-2 dman minutes for San Jose this season and a great plus-minus but Hedman has had a great offensive year.

3rd pairings

Josh Gorges - Alexei Emelin
vs.
Brad Stuart - Jason Demers

Even.

Goaltending

Carey Price
Peter Budaj
vs.
Antti Niemi
Roberto Luongo

Even.
Price has had a good year but so has Niemi, except for a few shaky weeks down the stretch. Lu can step in in a heartbeat any time in the series.​

 

[Patchey*]

Habs-Sharks series match-ups

1st lines

Andrew Ladd - Tyler Seguin - Ryan Callahan
vs.
Joe Pavelski - Joe Thornton - Brian Burns

Advantage

2nd lines

Max Pacioretty - David Desharnais - Thomas Vanek
vs.
Patrick Marleau - Logan Couture - Dustin Byfuglien

Advantage

3rd lines

Brendan Gallagher - Tomas Plekanec - Joel Ward
vs.
Mason Raymond - Martin Hanzal - Tommy Wingels

Edge .
Wingels and Hanzal are among NHL leaders in hits with 200+ each (while putting up a combined 78 points). Hanzal is stronger on faceoffs but Ward has been clutch in the playoffs; both Wingels and Ward are among the forward leaders in blocked shots.

4th lines

Rene Bourque - Ryan White - Brandon Prust
vs.
Raffi Torres - James Sheppard - Mike Brown

Even.
Bourque is hot these playoffs with 3 goals but Torres has 2 as well as shift disturbing play that has drawn penalties by the opposition. Sheppard is much better on face-offs but Prust is a quality checker.

1st pairings

Ryan McDonagh - P.K. Subban
vs.
M-E Vlasic - Tobias Enstrom

Edge

2nd pairings

Victor Hedman - Andrei Markov
vs.
Roman Josi - Justin Braun

Edge
Josi and Markov both play 25+ minutes per game, both block a lot of shots, Josi scoring 13 goals but three less points than Markov. Braun has had top-2 dman minutes for San Jose this season and a great plus-minus but Hedman has had a great offensive year.

3rd pairings

Josh Gorges - Alexei Emelin
vs.
Brad Stuart - Jason Demers

Even.

Goaltending

Carey Price
Peter Budaj
vs.
Antti Niemi
Roberto Luongo

Even.
Price has had a good year but so has Niemi, except for a few shaky weeks down the stretch. Lu can step in in a heartbeat any time in the series.​

tl;dr

 

[VanIslander]

tl;dr

Too long, didn't read? It takes 30 seconds or less! _ _ _ _ ! Minimal effort is the way to go, eh?

 

[Habsfannick]

Habs-Sharks series match-ups

1st lines

Andrew Ladd - Tyler Seguin - Ryan Callahan
vs.
Joe Pavelski - Joe Thornton - Brian Burns

Advantage

2nd lines

Max Pacioretty - David Desharnais - Thomas Vanek
vs.
Patrick Marleau - Logan Couture - Dustin Byfuglien

Advantage

3rd lines

Brendan Gallagher - Tomas Plekanec - Joel Ward
vs.
Mason Raymond - Martin Hanzal - Tommy Wingels

Edge .
Wingels and Hanzal are among NHL leaders in hits with 200+ each (while putting up a combined 78 points). Hanzal is stronger on faceoffs but Ward has been clutch in the playoffs; both Wingels and Ward are among the forward leaders in blocked shots.

4th lines

Rene Bourque - Ryan White - Brandon Prust
vs.
Raffi Torres - James Sheppard - Mike Brown

Even.
Bourque is hot these playoffs with 3 goals but Torres has 2 as well as shift disturbing play that has drawn penalties by the opposition. Sheppard is much better on face-offs but Prust is a quality checker.

1st pairings

Ryan McDonagh - P.K. Subban
vs.
M-E Vlasic - Tobias Enstrom

Edge

2nd pairings

Victor Hedman - Andrei Markov
vs.
Roman Josi - Justin Braun

Edge
Josi and Markov both play 25+ minutes per game, both block a lot of shots, Josi scoring 13 goals but three less points than Markov. Braun has had top-2 dman minutes for San Jose this season and a great plus-minus but Hedman has had a great offensive year.

3rd pairings

Josh Gorges - Alexei Emelin
vs.
Brad Stuart - Jason Demers

Even.

Goaltending

Carey Price
Peter Budaj
vs.
Antti Niemi
Roberto Luongo

Even.
Price has had a good year but so has Niemi, except for a few shaky weeks down the stretch. Lu can step in in a heartbeat any time in the series.​

Could you please explain the difference between edge and advantage to me? Cause if your top 2 lines have a clear advantage over mine (which is absolute bull**** but fine) than I don't understand how my top4 doesn't have advantage times 10 to your top 4

 

[member 202355]

First pairing isn't an "edge". McDonagh-Subban is a clear advantage over Vlasic-Enstrom.

 

[hi]

I'm still trying to figure out who Brian Burns is

 

[Patchey*]

I'm still trying to figure out who Brian Burns is

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Burns
He is an American director

 

[Addison Rae]

How the **** did I lose to the Pens?

Because you had an inferior team?