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Anders Nilsson is such a gong show. He makes Cam Ward look like a goaltender. :laugh:
He’s one of those goaltenders with a good save percentage (only over the last two years though), who still fails the eyetest.

Just got scored on again. That .915 on the season is regressing by quite a bit tonight.
 

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He’s one of those goaltenders with a good save percentage (only over the last two years though), who still fails the eyetest.

Just got scored on again. That .915 on the season is regressing by quite a bit tonight.

That last goal was just bad luck, though. I'll give him at least that much.

But the Subban goal...THAT was pure garbage. :laugh:
 
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I fully expected it when I surfed onto the NHL's site to check the standings, but it's still jarring to actually read up on the Eastern Conference wild card race and see that the 4-8 spots are all filled by Metropolitan teams while the entire remainder and bottom of the barrel is from the Atlantic. Tampa, Toronto, and Boston look solid, but my God what a dumpster fire the rest of the way down, all while the Metro remains pretty brutal from at least spots 1-6, and it's not like Carolina or Philly are complete pushovers.

If ever there was a season presenting an argument for going back to the old playoff format, we're living it.
 
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That last goal was just bad luck, though. I'll give him at least that much.

But the Subban goal...THAT was pure garbage. :laugh:
I saw he had a higher save percentage than Markstrom, but that Markstrom has pretty much been their starter. Now I know why.

He isn’t the worst that I’ve seen this year, that would go to either James Reimer or Scott Darling.
 
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I fully expected it when I surfed onto the NHL's site to check the standings, but it's still jarring to actually read up on the Eastern Conference wild card race and see that the 4-8 spots are all filled by Metropolitan teams while the entire remainder and bottom of the barrel is from the Atlantic. Tampa, Toronto, and Boston look solid, but my God what a dumpster fire the rest of the way down, all while the Metro remains pretty brutal from at least spots 1-6, and it's not like Carolina or Philly are complete pushovers.

If ever there was a season presenting an argument for going back to the old playoff format, we're living it.
Agreed. Keep the two divisions per conference. Bring back the 1-8, 2-7, 3-6, 4-5 first round playoff seeding.

Top team from each division gets a guaranteed spot, and the rest duke out the final 6.

Or, top two teams from each division get a guaranteed playoff spot, then the rest duke out the final 4 spots.

I think either of the two suggestions above are much better than the current format.
 
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Time for Nilsson to hit the showers. That terrible center ice goal last period, then a shortside goal, then a rebound almost controlled perfectly to the Preds and breaks his stick.

Now another goal against. The extra point for the Preds is good.
 
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Keep the two divisions per conference. Bring back the 1-8, 2-7, 3-6, 4-5 first round playoff seeding.

Agreed; this wildcard thing is confusing and visually unpleasing. Just do the 1-8, 2-7, 3-6, 4-5 based like old times.

The only change I'd like to see is playoff re-seedings, which make the regular season actually MEAN something. So if #1 beats #8, and #7 upsets #2, #1 then plays #7.
 
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The NHL wants to do those dopey 'bracket challenges' (a la the NCAA tournament), so I don't think they'll go away from the straight bracket format anytime soon.
 

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Agreed. Keep the two divisions per conference. Bring back the 1-8, 2-7, 3-6, 4-5 first round playoff seeding.

Top team from each division gets a guaranteed spot, and the rest duke out the final 6.

Or, top two teams from each division get a guaranteed playoff spot, then the rest duke out the final 4 spots.

I think either of the two suggestions above are much better than the current format.

Right, the only explanation that ever made sense to me for the initial change was that they wanted to go back to the old school format (e.g. Patrick Division playoffs) to guarantee that each playoff will include first and second rounds that include multiple rivalry matchups, yet the "top three + Wild Card" format ends up often negating some of that via the feature where a wild card team can be switched into another division's bracket, like the Isles were with the Atlantic recently.

Plus, I'd personally argue that the rivalry matchups are less special when you're guaranteeing them happening each year; I kind of liked how the old format meant that you'd get some strange or surprising matchups sometimes, anyway.
 

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I saw he had a higher save percentage than Markstrom, but that Markstrom has pretty much been their starter. Now I know why.

He isn’t the worst that I’ve seen this year, that would go to either James Reimer or Scott Darling.

I think Darling takes it this year, and both against the Rangers I believe.

There's the infamous center ice lob that he looked casual about just before letting it pass right by his glove. :facepalm:

Wasn't there also another casual handoff from the trap where the defender was easily beat to the puck by the guy lurking around net because of a real lazy pass? I just remember a guy at the side of net shoveling the puck in for a goal before Darling ever got his butt between the pipes again.
 
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werenski is such a threat to score.
He just jumped into the play again and got stopped on a breakaway

Tremendous player that Conte and Philly both passed on.

modern day Niedermayer
 
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Karlsson would be the perfect fit for the islanders, but there is no way he is entering that arena fiasco. Ice is subpar and the commute sucks.
 

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werenski is such a threat to score.
He just jumped into the play again and got stopped on a breakaway

Tremendous player that Conte and Philly both passed on.

modern day Niedermayer

Tough to play the revisionist card, when the scouting consensus was so high on Zacha.
 
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5 in a row for the Flyers, takes a hell of a lot of heart to beat the Buffalo Sabres for your fifth win in a row.
 
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I think Darling takes it this year, and both against the Rangers I believe.

There's the infamous center ice lob that he looked casual about just before letting it pass right by his glove. :facepalm:

Wasn't there also another casual handoff from the trap where the defender was easily beat to the puck by the guy lurking around net because of a real lazy pass? I just remember a guy at the side of net shoveling the puck in for a goal before Darling ever got his butt between the pipes again.
That was Darling, and the Rangers beat writers were already calling him Mr. Softy before that last game started against him.

Then he allows another couple bad goals that game, with one of them being that Bryzgalov to Clarkson like brutal giveway.

He's been pathetic this year. Imagine this year's Kinkaid playing in 20+ games. That's Darling this year.
 

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Buffalo is embarrassingly bad.
Some guy on another forum told me that their top 6 is good enough to keep them at least on the bubble and challenging for a wild card spot.

One of them was the guy who argued that the Hall for Larsson deal wasn't bad for Edmonton and was mostly about their cap situation (then why sign Lucic and Russell?) and argued that the Devils didn't draw many in the Meadowlands during the years they were winning cups because the trap was not conducive to an entertaining on-ice product, thus keeping fans away from the arena and away from the team.
 
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