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Henrik Lundqvist is my wild card for them. If his performance against the Penguins was injury related, they should be okay.
If it was the bottom falling out on his career, they're in deep ****.
It was only 5 games. Marty had almost an identical 5 games against the Rangers in the 2008 playoffs and didn't really drop off for another 2 years after that. He had a pretty bad 25 games in the 2001 playoffs and then had a very strong 6 games the next playoff year but we couldn't score on 2002 Vezina winner of backups, Kevin Weekes.
Marty did also have a similar 5 game playoffs in 2010, then dropped off the next season. Though if you ask me, I think Marty started to show serious signs of breaking down once the 2010 part of the 2009-2010 season came around. It seemed sometime between when the calendar turned 2010 and the Olympics in February.
I don't think those 5 games are any indication of him breaking down just yet. I would almost bet that he had a 5 game stretch during the regular season last year (and almost every year) where he played as poorly as he did in the playoff series.