WCQF: (1) Nashville Predators vs. (WC2) Colorado Avalanche | Nashville Leads Series 3 Games to 2

[The Winter Soldier]

This is an entertaining series. Avs will need Hammond to come up big again.

 

[Legionnaire11]

I just hope both teams bring their best tonight. It just feels like this one has potential to be the most entertaining game of the series.

I voted Avs but I believe the Preds will win. They legitimately can go all the way, but it has to start tonight.

 

[AvsGuy]

I guess you'll need it cause you will have 8 guys out, on a back to back, using a back up goalie, played too many games in too many days....

Colorado and Winnipeg in particular are missing large and key parts of their roster. No one is making this up.

What’s Nashville’s excuse?

 

[Bringer of Jollity]

Colorado and Winnipeg in particular are missing large and key parts of their roster. No one is making this up.

What’s Nashville’s excuse?

We'd rather be golfing.

 

[Armourboy]

Colorado and Winnipeg in particular are missing large and key parts of their roster. No one is making this up.

What’s Nashville’s excuse?

Apparently you dont get the context of the post. We've had to listen to every single excuse all season long. When we had some of those same reasons and still won, something else was the issue.

It's become a rather enjoyable joke on the Preds section.

 

[AvsGuy]

Apparently you dont get the context of the post. We've had to listen to every single excuse all season long. When we had some of those same reasons and still won, something else was the issue.

It's become a rather enjoyable joke on the Preds section.

When were the Predators missing their two top goaltenders and two of their top 4 defensemen?

The jokes only funny if it works. Nashville has no salient injuries to speak of and is getting outhustled and outplayed.

That’s the enjoyable joke in the Avs section.

 

[Armourboy]

When were the Predators missing their two top goaltenders and two of their top 4 defensemen?

The jokes only funny if it works. Nashville has no salient injuries to speak of and is getting outhustled and outplayed.

That’s the enjoyable joke in the Avs section.

You do realize the guy I was responding too was a Jets fan and I was responding about the Jets, not the AV's right?

 

[JoeSakic13]

Considering how Colorado looked in game 3 & 4 combined with how Colorado has played all season at home, this could get interesting.

That being said, Nashville seemed like they woke up again in game 5 and Hammond kept us in it until our top line took off late in the 3rd.

Excited to see this one play out.

 

[Joe Sakic]

So you want to beat a tired team in the 2nd round ?

Why would anybody would say no to this though?

 

[JustaFinnishGuy]

When were the Predators missing their two top goaltenders and two of their top 4 defensemen?

The jokes only funny if it works. Nashville has no salient injuries to speak of and is getting outhustled and outplayed.

That’s the enjoyable joke in the Avs section.

The joke is still that you're justifying losing with how many people you're missing in the lineup. Just because you didn't lose dominantly doesn't mean you didn't lose- this is false hope and chain logic mixed together from fans.
It's the exact same line of thought that some Preds fans thought; 'The Preds breeze into the finals with this new center core they have, they took the Champions to 6 games with a core of Sissons-Fisher-Jarnkrok-F.Gaudreau and a historically low finals sv% Rinne!!!''
It's the exact same line of thought that large amounts of TOR fans had; They took on the Presidents trophy winning team and only lost the series 4-2, surely they must be better next year!''

It just doesn't make sense as an argument. Every series that happens is different from one another and the presumptions that people have usually don't change, although they should. What the Avs are doing isn't even on the level of the sweep that the Preds (note, #16 last year, #1 this year) did.. Not even close. Still, you're talking like they're taking the Preds to school. There's no logic behind suggesting that if you have a depleted roster, surely you will win easily with a full roster. Maybe the Avs never got this 'yes we can' attitude if they had no adversity. f***, we wouldn't probably have been in the SCF if we didn't lose Fiala and then Johansen. That group played for each other, just like Avs do right now.

I wouldn't count on Varlamov saving the Avs either, no, the Avs would have probably played same kind of defense in front of him that they did in the reg. season. And the Avs defense wasn't top tier. There's no other explanation to your argument but that you're wanting to put the Preds down since the Avs have fared better than expected. But you're still clinging onto the depleted lineup argument simultaneously. That's weak. And you cannot think both are true at the same time. That would mean that your depleted lineup is better than your full lineup, which doesn't make sense either.

 

[forsbergavs32]

If we end up winning, great. Injuries or not we knew this would be a tall order with such a young team that we know isn't quite ready yet. We've honestly gotten quite lucky that Nashville hasn't played up to their ability for a good portion of this season, otherwise it would have been the bloodbath I expected.

 

[Armourboy]

If we end up winning, great. Injuries or not we knew this would be a tall order with such a young team that we know isn't quite ready yet. We've honestly gotten quite lucky that Nashville hasn't played up to their ability for a good portion of this season, otherwise it would have been the bloodbath I expected.

I give the AV's props for what they've done. They could have easily folded after game 4 and losing yet another goalie and no one would have thought less of them. Problem is this as a series is less about what the AV's have done and more about what the Preds have not done.

I mean we have the highest scoring D in the league, and they have not one single goal and I'm not even sure I feel like there has been one they just missed on either. It's even worse when you consider one is a Vezina finalist and you are going against a depleted roster.

The Preds have zero excuse and if they come out flat again tonight and lose we may be hearing boos instead of cheers inside of Bridgestone Arena come game 7. I'm really tired of the " we just weren't ready at the start of the game ".

 

[cgf]

I do love that everyone keeps coming out flat against MacK n the boys. Who woulda thunk that that would hold up for 5+ months?

 

[Armourboy]

I do love that everyone keeps coming out flat against MacK n the boys. Who woulda thunk that that would hold up for 5+ months?

Dont think too much of it, we've come out flat against everyone the entire season. This isnt new, we've had to watch this mess for most of the 82 games.

The only complete game I can remember from us all year was when Fisher came back.

 

[cgf]

Dont think too much of it, we've come out flat against everyone the entire season. This isnt new, we've had to watch this mess for most of the 82 games.

The only complete game I can remember from us all year was when Fisher came back.

I hear ya, it’s just funny cause I remember reading GDTs back in November when somehow every team’s fans would lament how their best players just came out flat against the MacK line

 

[Armourboy]

I hear ya, it’s just funny cause I remember reading GDTs back in November when somehow every team’s fans would lament how their best players just came out flat against the MacK line

We seem to do one or the other, either come out on fire and then back off, or come out slow and go mad. It's been a frustrating year even if we did win the Presidents Trophy.

 

[Tralfamadore]

We seem to do one or the other, either come out on fire and then back off, or come out slow and go mad. It's been a frustrating year even if we did win the Presidents Trophy.

Awe poor you guys.

 

[Hockeyholic]

On one hand, blowing a 3-1 series lead would be a very dissapointing result for the Preds. On the other, I think they were lucky to even be up 3-1 to begin with. Nonetheless, should be a good one.

 

[Armourboy]

Awe you poor guys.

Fixed that for you.

 

[bdub24]

On one hand, blowing a 3-1 series lead would be a very dissapointing result for the Preds. On the other, I think they were lucky to even be up 3-1 to begin with. Nonetheless, should be a good one.

Yeah, if there is one thing I don't think the Predators have been this series, it's lucky.

 

[BaldAndBeautiful]

Off topic question for Predators fans. Are there more Vanderbilt fans or University of Tennessee fans in Nashville.

 

[Armourboy]

Off topic question for Predators fans. Are there more Vanderbilt fans or University of Tennessee fans in Nashville.

Tennessee fans but keep in mind Nashville has a ton of Universities there.

 

[antiqueslivers]

Just lucky with injuries