LonLon Lei
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- Feb 27, 2018
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well let's hope for a different outcome...!!Every year this happens it feels like I am having apart of my soul ripped out.
well let's hope for a different outcome...!!Every year this happens it feels like I am having apart of my soul ripped out.
It’s not that simple. It’s one game now. Anything can happen. Hoppie could steal it. Vassy could steal it. Who knows.Game 7 is simple, if we show up and play like scared little children like we did in game 6, we lose. If we show up and play like we actually care about winning anything of worth, we win. We'll find out Wednesday.
Love when we lose we are quick to blame the players who got us here- Russian connect-Kuch & Vasy. Kuch is our best player now and Vasy second, both are irreplaceable.For every clutch goal (that never led to a Cup) there’s a game he takes off that led to an elimination.
Someone else can pay him 11 mil to be a crybaby for all I care.
So that's three playoffs in a row where we've run into a team that's been night and day better than us.
Is that not unusual? We're not just getting beat, we're getting THOROUGHLY beat.
The team, hopefully!!!!I'll admit it - I'm the biggest negative, sky is falling fan. Fire Cooper. Kucherov sucks. Stamkos is invisible. Hedman was terrible. I'm as pissed as anyone about tonight's effort.
But I say just step off the ledge and take a deep breath.
I just have this feeling that Wednesday night we will all be singing a different tune. I just feel it.
Who's with me?
Love when we lose we are quick to blame the players who got us here- Russian connect-Kuch & Vasy. Kuch is our best player now and Vasy second, both are irreplaceable.
None taken. 3-3 going to game 7 after being down 2. Ask Winnipeg who the much better team was....No offense, but I just don't think we are watching the same series.
So Kucherov never took off games before this series? The entire board was in an uproar for half the season because the guy looked like a head case. But yea keep making excuses.
*gasp*We might not be the best team in the league.
I wonder if we do get bounced Wednesday night if Stevie Y **** cans Cooper.
I agree with you , I think we have run into a better team.Oh my God let's please not start this. I'm not even much of a Cooper fan, but there are like three teams who've been more successful than us since Cooper's come on board. NHL coaches do not get fired in this situation.
We have to step down from the ledge. We're a good team who might possibly have run into a better team.
Oh my God let's please not start this. I'm not even much of a Cooper fan, but there are like three teams who've been more successful than us since Cooper's come on board. NHL coaches do not get fired in this situation.
We have to step down from the ledge. We're a good team who might possibly have run into a better team.
Oh my God let's please not start this. I'm not even much of a Cooper fan, but there are like three teams who've been more successful than us since Cooper's come on board. NHL coaches do not get fired in this situation.
We have to step down from the ledge. We're a good team who might possibly have run into a better team.
Lol if we lose it'll only have been the 2nd time we "collapsed" in the ECF, and somehow that's "tiring."
I agree about one of them.
We’re a top 4 team that Cooper can’t lead to a Cup. Sounds like a coaching problem.
But hey letting our window pass until we fade into a non-playoff team is the correct response right?
Lol if we lose it'll only have been the 2nd time we "collapsed" in the ECF, and somehow that's "tiring."
The only reason we aren't already golfing is because of Vasy. I think we will be by Thursday. Just a hunch. This team, repeatedly, is getting dominated and tonight was really embarassing as a fan seeing our 4th line, Coburn and some of our gnats get tossed across the ice. They're bigger, just as fast and make smart plays. We dump it in and if we manage to retrieve the puck by the grace of God, and up giving it right to them. We get the puck in our zone and flick it our or again - give it right to them. Our entire game plan tonight looked like a mix between Lost and Survivor. Neutral zone was completely garbage as it has been for 5 of these games. They zip ONE pass and beat 2-3 of our guys which they manage to make one more and create 2v3 and 1v2 situations in our zone. We lose our coverage and fail to do something about it, or hustle to knock them off the puck. It's the same thing from puck drop to the end of the 3rd. These guys, Cooper or whoever you want to point a finger at, give them too much respect while at the same time their high hockey IQ suddenly fades when they're on the defensive side of the game.
As for the posters blaming Kucherov. Blame Stamkos. Blame Palat whose sorry ass killed damn near everything tonight. Blame McDonagh for failing to clear a puck 345 times. Blame Gourde for losing board battles. Blame Killorn for having 3 solid shifts and disappearing. Blame Johnson for not creating offense. Blame Cirelli for missing his 1v1. Blame Stralman for that awful failed clearance on the first goal. Blame everyone bar Point and Vasy cause they all deserve it.
Kucherov is the best offensive talent we have on this team. He was an inch or two away from 20 posts saying "KUUUUUUUUCHHHH" or "He's been off but there he is!!" We don't run the Eastern Conference ablaze the last 4 years without him. We don't get by the Isles in 5 without him. We don't get by Detroit two years ago that easily without him. We don't come within 1 point from him dragging this team to a playoff spot last year. He had 10 points in 5 games. He scored a crucial goal against Boston late in the series. Not every player is Crosby who can be off and suddenly run up 7 points in 2 games and win a series being 50%. There's no player in the modern era that's been a dominant star EVERY round. Kucherov is a lazy player at times but the problem lies with the team not shooting, hustling, etc - not Kucherov who propelled this team to where it's at. Wanting to get rid of him because he's not performing in one round and a half is laughable. He's the highest producing player since 2015 that's still in the playoffs. That's not a coincidence. Plenty of hall of famers, legends and superstars today don't perform every round.
With that said, I do think Brayden Point is the most valuable skater on our team. Without him we would be at the country club.