GDT: 2018-2019 Other Playoff Games Around the League

[LeeIFBB]

Bye bye Isles.

Save us Thomas Grease.

 

[Pavelski2112]

Carolina is unstoppable.

 

[LeeIFBB]

Sharks have had all the McGinns except the one who is actually useful.

 

[OrrNumber4]

Carolina is unstoppable.

Partly true, but also NYI is playing very poorly. They've rolled over.

 

[bluefunnel]

Sharks have had all the McGinns except the one who is actually useful.

I know I followed the Sharks that entire season but I feel like I do not remember 2014-2015 at all. I forgot Tye was even on the team.

 

[Crazy Joe Divola]

Partly true, but also NYI is playing very poorly. They've rolled over.

Que major penalty to their captain

 

[hohosaregood]

Canes gonna win the cup

 

[drunksage]

Wasn't even watching the scoreboard between long day at work and subsequent beering. Then some other customer asked for NBCSN to be put on.

That's kinda insane that they really did it, and in dominating fashion. Two more rounds to go for that bunch of jerks.

 

[The Nemesis]

Canes gonna win the cup

They should appear on Hockey Night in Canada when they do

 

[Crazy Joe Divola]

We’re gonna get swept by the Canes. Cause Sharks.

 

[JackSkellington]

If you told me before the season started that the only teams that stand in the sharks way of reaching the finals are the Avs and Dal/Stl I would’ve screamed for joy. Now I’m worried if we can even show up against Colorado and want nothing to do with Dallas

 

[The Nemesis]

We’re gonna get swept by the Canes. Cause Sharks.

Nah, we'll squeak by in 7 games to get to the WCF, then get obliterated by St. Louis, who have by then been forced to replaced Binnington with Jake Allen due to injury but still win every game 11-6 as Jones reverts to regular season Jones.

 

[Sharksfan83]

I'd be happy playing whoever in the next round..

 

[JackSkellington]

Nah, we'll squeak by in 7 games to get to the WCF, then get obliterated by St. Louis, who have by then been forced to replaced Binnington with Jake Allen due to injury but still win every game 11-6 as Jones reverts to regular season Jones.

Blues aren’t even gonna get by Dallas

 

[The Nemesis]

Blues aren’t even gonna get by Dallas

They will if we want the Shorkiest of Shorks playoff scenarios to happen.

Either that or the league will step in and award Vegas the spot that would go to the Dallas/St Louis winner, setting up a conference final rematch between SJ and Vegas where the refs all show up wearing Vegas jerseys and Gallant has a buzzer on his bench where he can press it to disallow any Sharks penalty or goal if he wishes.

 

[drunksage]

Welp, that's enough Game 5 victorious away teams in the WCSF for this year.

please

 

[Paka Ono]

Is there a more jacked up nose in hockey than Brind'amours?

 

[Pavelski2112]

Is there a more jacked up nose in hockey than Brind'amours?

Ricci?

 

[OrrNumber4]

In that 2006 run, Carolina had a lot going for them, but most of all they had Cam Ward and Eric Staal plowing the way. Considering the experience level, it was perhaps unexpected, but Ward and Staal proved that their 2006 playoff runs were no fluke...they were superstar players delivering superstar-level performances.

Up to this point in the postseason, yes, Slavin is having a Norris-quality run, Staal/Teravainen/Foegele are playing well above expected levels, McElhinney is playing exceptionally, and Aho is the best forward on the team. But in the main, out of all those players only Aho IMO is a franchise-caliber forward (and I understand why many would not share that opinion). Does anyone think that players like Jordan Staal, Slavin, or McElhinney are just breaking out and are going to be superstar-caliber players for even a single regular season? If not, can all those players play above water for another two rounds? It's very rare...among Cup-winning goaltenders, only Mike Vernon comes to mind. With forwards or defensemen, it has generally been a borderline franchise-caliber player like Kris Letang or Craig Simpson playing above water for the postseason.

 

[vilpertti]

Is there a more jacked up nose in hockey than Brind'amours?

Tim Hunter?

 

[DeadGhost]

This is the first time I can recall that the Derby and a playoff game are not scheduled at the same time. I miss the tradition of an NHL on NBC game getting cut into to watch some horses run in circles.

 

[DeadGhost]

In that 2006 run, Carolina had a lot going for them, but most of all they had Cam Ward and Eric Staal plowing the way. Considering the experience level, it was perhaps unexpected, but Ward and Staal proved that their 2006 playoff runs were no fluke...they were superstar players delivering superstar-level performances.

I lived in Buffalo at the time so I remember their run vividly and I still believe it was a lot of luck that they got out of the ECF. Buffalo brought them to a Game 7 in which the GWG was on a 3rd period PP for a puck-over-glass infraction.

The Sabres were also depleted on their backend that series. They trotted out their 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th defensemen.

Imagine the Sharks with this lineup in a playoff game:
Ryan - Burns
Dillon - Heed
DeSimone - Middleton

 

[Nighthock]

Tim Hunter?

 

[OrrNumber4]

Some good goaltending in Boston.

 

[OrrNumber4]

Bobo has to have that one.

Rask had to have that one.