2013 AA Semifinal: Pittsburgh vs. Seattle

[seventieslord]

Pittsburgh Pirates

coach Bob Pulford

Oren Frood - Jude Drouin - Tommy Williams
Tord Lundstrom - Andy McDonald - Glenn Brydson
Brent Ashton - Mike Sillinger - Jason Blake
Ken Smith - Jarret Stoll - Tom Fitzgerald (A)
Mats Ahlberg, George Allen, J.P. Dumont

Dave Lewis (C) - Toni Lydman
Joni Pitkanen - Sylvain Lefebvre (A)
Tom Reid - Frank Mathers
Filip Kuba

Urpo Ylonen
Andy Aitkenhead


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Seattle Ironmen

coaches Vsevolod Bobrov & Boris Kulagin

Aaron Broten - Christian Bordeleau - Danny Lawson
Steamer Maxwell (A) - Jiri Novak - Jan Klapac
Val Fonteyne - Claude Lapointe - Kevin McClelland
Gord Pettinger - Jack Brannen - Dainius Zubrus
Don Gallinger, Rudi Ball

Ron Plumb - Curt Giles (A)
Jack Armytage (C) - Gary Doak
Luke Richardson - Rocket Power
Brendan Witt

Gary Smith
Joe Daley
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[VanIslander]

The Ironmen 2nd and 3rd lines and 2nd and 3rd pairings have done much better against the best of their era than the Pirates' have.

Links to each drafted pick bio by Seattle (which was profiled in the draft thread) will be provided before too long.

 

[Rob Scuderi]

The Ironmen 2nd and 3rd lines and 2nd and 3rd pairings have done much better against the best of their era than the Pirates' have.

Links to each drafted pick bio by Seattle (which was profiled in the draft thread) will be provided before too long.

Why is that? Maxwell probably had the worst quality of competition of anyone in the series.

Our third lines are made up of 5 post expansion NHLers, how did yours fare much better?

Lefebvre and Doak played on very good teams, but Lefebvre had a bigger role. Lefebvre was also called one of the best defensive defenseman in the league.

 

[Rob Scuderi]

Coach Bob Pulford

Oren Frood - Jude Drouin - Tommy Williams
Tord Lundstrom - Andy McDonald - Glenn Brydson
Brent Ashton - Mike Sillinger - Jason Blake
Ken Smith - Jarret Stoll - Tom Fitzgerald (A)
Extra: Mats Ahlberg, J.P. Dumont, George Allen (call also fill on defense)

Dave Lewis (C) - Toni Lydman
Joni Pitkanen - Sylvain Lefebvre (A)
Tom Reid - Frank Mathers
Extra: Filip Kuba

Urpo Ylonen
Andy Aitkenhead

 

[seventieslord]

Seems like comparing 4th lines to 3rd lines might make the most sense here. Pittsburgh's real role player line is its fourth, and Seattle's is its third. Pittsburgh's third and Seattle's fourth seem a bit more "bpa", with intangibles a concern, but a secondary one.

If we go by that, the big advantage I see is the excellent two-way Stoll over the scrub Lapointe.

 

[VanIslander]

Scrub? ****

 

[Hawkey Town 18]

Pittsburgh wins in 6

 

[VanIslander]

Pittsburgh wins in 6

LOL... seventieslord PM'd the series vote reminder as not even including Seattle (Pittsburgh vs. Quinte was the PM sent around by him)! So the result is apt. Cheers to it.

 

[seventieslord]

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