Post-Game Talk: 2022 NHL Playoffs - Stanley Cup Final: Tampa Bay Lightning vs. Colorado Avalanche | 2-4 LOSS

[LightningStrikes]

4 more wins boys and girls!

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[TheRarestDangles]

Hey I just want to say, as a Golden Knights fan, good luck to you all! It's gonna be one hell of a series! Can't wait to see all of this talent against my Knights.

Take care

 

[TheDaysOf 04]

 

[Stammertime91]

ELEVEN CONSECUTIVE SERIES.

ELEVEN.

 

[flyfysher]

How well do the TBL handle teams with great speed? It will be interesting to see if the TBL are effective in denying the Avs NZ entries

 

[Hoek]

How well do the TBL handle teams with great speed? It will be interesting to see if the TBL are effective in denying the Avs NZ entries

Well they handled the Leafs and Panthers just fine...

 

[flyfysher]

Well they handled the Leafs and Panthers just fine...

Sea level teams. I wonder if the altitude will have any effect.

 

[Stelio Kontos]

Sea level teams. I wonder if the altitude will have any effect.

Tampa Bay being the more talented, experienced team with better Goaltending, Depth and Defense will probably have more of an effect than the altitude lol.

Colorado has literally played the predators who are f***ing trash. Edmonton who would of lost in the first round in the east and the Blues without their Starter.

 

[bov]

Colorado is just unreal. I can't sit here and pretend...

We play like we did in game 6 against New York? We have a chance. Anything less and Colorado will decimate us.

Vasy is the X factor. This matcbup has been in the cards for 3 years now, lets see what happens.

 

[TheDaysOf 04]

 

[justloveleafs]

The Table, she is set...

Its interesting. Not many Tampa fans, fanning right now.

And that is what is so, so, epoch, so epic...

31 teams in the NHL, starving for a finger of a lick, of a slurp, of the over drip of a Patrick Maroon, slobbering cool looking gobble of champagne.

Bolt fans, its kinda, a bit of a yawn.

Now as a guy, who would ordinarily put at least 2/5ths of a fund, against the Bolts for this anomalous situation...

I hesitate, I have four or five chances every day on the grand stage of the SPY or SPX to go big, or go suddenly home.

But here we are....

I hate losing, I hate seeing a dime hit the floor when I empty my jeans, who some say, are worth over 4k...

I hate losing and the more and more and more I watch the Tampa Bay Lightning play hockey, they hate losing more than I ever hated it.

I have watched gazillions and billions of talking heads talk, talk...

A network, that engages my wifi, has Chelios and Messier, calling the games.

How good is Messier at calling how GREAT Tampa is?

Well, to honour the guy, go find it yourself, he NAILED, why Tampa, snuffs grerat teams.

Tampa is going to beat Colorado. Why?

Watch the games or listen very carefully to what Messier had to say.

My opinion? Best player in the history of the NHL?

Mark Messier...

What he said?

Hahaha. He isolated and identified why Tampa is the best team in the NHL.

Tampa to win. .,

 

[DaBolts]

How well do the TBL handle teams with great speed? It will be interesting to see if the TBL are effective in denying the Avs NZ entries

Ask Florida.

 

[TheRarestDangles]

Lol no Steven, the Bolts are the best team in the league. Avs have to beat them to prove that.

 

[DaBolts]

 

[flyfysher]

Tampa Bay being the more talented, experienced team with better Goaltending, Depth and Defense will probably have more of an effect than the altitude lol.

Colorado has literally played the predators who are f***ing trash. Edmonton who would of lost in the first round in the east and the Blues without their Starter.

Remains to be seen which of us has the more complete team and has the ability to impose their style of play on the game. I suspect the Avs’ team speed on multiple fronts will be a challenge.

 

[Stelio Kontos]

Remains to be seen which of us has the more complete team and has the ability to impose their style of play on the game. I suspect the Avs’ team speed on multiple fronts will be a challenge.

the team who won back to back Stanley cups is probably more complete than the team who finally made it out of round 2 beating back up goaltenders

 

[DrMartinVanNostrand]

Three days off before Game 1 on Wednesday, but then two more days off before Game 2 on Saturday, which is also very nice in itself. This really is going to give this team a chance to grow into the series with optimal rest, and hopefully it means Point is back in the lineup no later than Game 2, with only one game between tonight and next Saturday and, by all accounts, he's already close to returning as it is.

Like this schedule a lot.

 

[flyfysher]

the team who won back to back Stanley cups is probably more complete than the team who finally made it out of round 2 beating back up goaltenders

Teams are different than past iterations. I do like the TBL’s experience and GT’ing though. Team speed seems okay but nothing special. It should make the Bolts more vulnerable in terms of their efforts to slow them down with NZ trapping. Avs might be able to get away with doing dump and chase in that event.

 

[DrMartinVanNostrand]

Sea level teams. I wonder if the altitude will have any effect.

With three days off before Game 1, there's plenty of time to get out to Denver and get acclimated the mountain air, so that should help a little bit.

 

[Stormbreaker]

 

[Stelio Kontos]

Teams are different than past iterations. I do like the TBL’s experience and GT’ing though. Team speed seems okay but nothing special. It should make the Bolts more vulnerable in terms of their efforts to slow them down with NZ trapping. Avs might be able to get away with doing dump and chase in that event.

honestly I’m just busting your balls. I do agree teams are different. Any word on when Kadri is coming back?

 

[JoeSakic13]

Avs Fan coming in peace.

Does anyone know when tickets for games in Tampa are set to go on sale?

My family (who live in Bradenton) are dying to go to a game with me (who would be flying from Vancouver) to witness what’s set to be an amazing finals. I promise no New York fan level antics.

 

[Rschmitz]

Glad we have a few days to process this

 

[twenty5psi]

With three days off before Game 1, there's plenty of time to get out to Denver and get acclimated the mountain air, so that should help a little bit.

Would be surprised if they don’t fly out tomorrow morning at the latest, extra few days up at altitude would really help neutralize the advantage.

 

[flyfysher]

honestly I’m just busting your balls. I do agree teams are different. Any word on when Kadri is coming back?

No offense taken. It’s the dream match up. IMO, the Avs are the most complete (i.e. well structured) team that the TBL will face, even over the TML, Panthers and Rags.

No official word on Kadri. A thumb doctor consulted by one of the Avs writers swore up and down 7-10 days. Kadri had surgery the day after the injury. But it was to his right thumb is what I heard. Cogliano also had the same surgery on one of his fingers. He has been a very effective 4th liner. So same with him. I think Landeskog, Toews and Manson might have minor dings but nothing that should keep them out. Girard, of course, is out. That probably hurts the Avs transition game more than anything so the Avs’ speed on the breakout becomes a potential factor.

But the TBL PP is scary. Avs must stay out of the penalty box to have any chance of success.