Series Talk: Pittsburgh Penguins take on the Philadelphia Flyers in Round 1 (Pens win series 4-2)

[JakeNBake59]

I’m warching Avs/Blues game and they just went over playoff matchups and have Pens/Jackets. Flyers/Tampa. They’re wrong?

yep that graphic is out of date

 

[cheesedanish87]

2 good offenses
2 good PP units

2 mediocre defenses
2 bad PK units
2 mediocre goalies

Their are going to be lots of goals scored in this series.

It should be entertaining and fun.

 

[Ginormousthumbs]

yep that graphic is out of date

Ok.

 

[Turin]

Penguins are a better team. Play Voracek-Couturier-Giroux to a draw and win handedly. The Flyers are the team most clearly handicapped by coaching in the league outside of Long Island.

If Murray plays well, Pens in 5. If he’s shaky Pens in 6.

 

[madinsomniac]

Eh the Philyers will probably give us more trouble than we expect, but it should be fun regardless

I don't blame the Bjs or the Satans for tanking today... for PR and ticket sales alone, facing anyone but the Pens in the first round is a must... plus Washington has that choker rep and the last time they played CBJ blew em out....

The devils lost a bunch of close games vs the Bruins but owned Tampa and Toronto... and of those three Boston is the least playoff tested... I don't think running the guantlet through the metro is enticing for a newb playoff team like the devils....

 

[Tom Hanks]

I have no faith in Murray right now and that's pretty much what it's coming down to honestly.

Elliot’s SV% in 2018 is .886 (Murray .911 in 2018)

 

[Chuck Norris Trophy]

Flyers give no problems to the Penguins, none. The series is over in 5 games tops.

 

[Tom Hanks]

Flyers give no problems to the Penguins, none. The series is over in 5 games tops.

Yeah I think that too. I’d say sweep but allow for one bad game.

 

[madinsomniac]

Flyers fans expect a redo of the 2012 series... its a much different team now... Flyers don't have the depth right now... barring defensive injuries for us... they shouldn't be able to keep pace in a series

 

[turd]

Not to take the discussion away from this series, but quite honestly, I’m also expecting Columbus to beat Washington. I think they match up really well against them.

 

[Jaded-Fan]

Complete this Jeopardy question.

'1975.'

 

[Brandinho]

2 good offenses
2 good PP units

2 mediocre defenses
2 bad PK units
2 mediocre goalies

Their are going to be lots of goals scored in this series.

It should be entertaining and fun.

3 mediocre goalies, actually, but fortunately all of them play for Philly.

 

[Tom Hanks]

Complete this Jeopardy question.

'1975.'

What is Letang’s IQ?

 

[dig1]

oh, I hope NJ takes out Boston. That's the team that I am scared of in the East the most. I dont think I care about Tampa as they have chinks that will be exposed in the playofffs but Boston. I feel like it's those Kings from the early 201x, except much faster and a better blue line

 

[Al Smith]

Complete this Jeopardy question.

'1975.'

NBC showed someone at the Flyers game wearing a "Schultz's Army" helmet. It's kind of sad if you're still living in the glory of your team from 40+ years ago. Of course, there's probably some jibroni still wearing Franco's Italian Army garb to Stiller games.

 

[wgknestrick]

Please do not forget that PIT is the weakest team in the entire playoffs at 5v5 (#20/31). Every series is going to be close unless that changes.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

I sort of liked ignoring Flyers fans and disliking Jackets and Caps fans mostly.

Well, I guess it's back to tradition.

Let's keep talk here. I miss @shureshot66 and his series talk threads

What happened to him/her?

 

[bathroomSTAAL]

I'm worried about A) Giroux absolutely going off and B) Gudas injuring someone. Other than that pretty confident. Their D is verrry weak after the top 2 and I think we can exploit them.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

Please do not forget that PIT is the weakest team in the entire playoffs at 5v5 (#20/31). Every series is going to be close unless that changes.

Those stats mean jack shit in the playoffs, we all know this. Regular season is a mixed back, you get on a streak, you catch a tired team, you catch a team that is injured or just not on their game, etc.

But in a best of 7, you can game plan the shit out of this and luckily for us, it's a very very familiar foe. The only thing that concerns me is that Hackstol seemed to have figured things out, then he didn't for a bit again. But that little Capuchin Monkey looking weirdo might upset us.

 

[Andy99]

If we can’t exploit this team and their goaltending, or get up for this matchup, we don’t deserve to be in the POs....

 

[Shady Machine]

Please do not forget that PIT is the weakest team in the entire playoffs at 5v5 (#20/31). Every series is going to be close unless that changes.

Give me that ranking from January through April.

 

[High Flying Birds]

Hakstol is a pretty terrible coach so we have that going for us. Murray needs to be playoff Murray if we want to progress though. If he continues to be shaky like he has been, the series could go either way with these two offenses colliding.

 

[Jaded-Fan]

The best stat guy in the business in my opinion has the Pens as second best odds of winning the cup after the Caps. Of course that is 87 percent chance of a team other than the Pens. But still, his models seem to like the Pens from an analytics standpoint.

 

[JimmyTwoTimes]

Outclass the bums

 

[mpp9]

Please do not forget that PIT is the weakest team in the entire playoffs at 5v5 (#20/31). Every series is going to be close unless that changes.

We’re top 3-5 among playoff teams in ES goals and shot totals over the last month.

Team needs to button down defensively. That’s pretty much it.

As for playing the flyers. I actually think that takes the pressure off Murray a little bit. It’s expected that it will be a high scoring series. He can let in a few and it’s not gonna change the fact we’ve dunked on that team all season.