How does one even fix that? On paper, this is the best team in the league, I'd say. Easily the most talented roster we've ever iced.
Well, I guess we should fill our team with Ryan Callahans then. Never takes a shift off.
It's partially an ego thing, and it's been going on all year. He thinks he's arrived, and doesn't play like he has something to prove anymore.I think we're going to find out something's off with Kucherov. His shot is still there, but he doesn't seem to have much agility or speed. At least not what we're used to.
Quit making freaking excuses for the guy, everyone including the commentators can see what is going on and he is not giving it his all. He is a poor example of a your supposedly best player leading by example and I am not talking just about scoring.
Minus his contract, I’m all for it. I’ll gladly take guys with less talent that lead with unrelenting hustle and perseverance than prima donnas like Kuch, who people like you make excuses for because you can’t admit that a guy who by all means should be a leader on this team looks like a pouty brat.
That’s why I think Vegas would beat our skulls in.
I love how on this board the players that are liked get a million excuses but the scapegoat players are not allowed such leeway.Quit making freaking excuses for the guy, everyone including the commentators can see what is going on and he is not giving it his all. He is a poor example of a your supposedly best player leading by example and I am not talking just about scoring.
...I'm saying he's had two bad series. But there are people in this thread saying we should get rid of him.
Yes, he's bad right now, but we've made 3 ECFs in the last 4 years, and two of those don't happen without Nikita Kucherov. So let's not be so emotional and reactionary over a bad loss and think we'd be better off without one of the ten best players in the league.
I love how on this board the players that are liked get a million excuses but the scapegoat players are not allowed such leeway.
This is going eerily similar to 2016 ECF. Vasy keeping us in it, have a 3-2 series lead... I just hope the game 7 result is different.
So that's three playoffs in a row where we've run into a team that's been night and day better than us.I think we ran into a defensive structure that just completely has our number. And we've had no answer for it, outside of a moment or two.
Come on....Because some of them have a big, long track record of coming up big in the playoffs.
Yeah, because James Neal is such a perfect example of gamesmanship.
You're talking about Kucherov the way people often talk about Ovechkin, who was a key part of Washington's win tonight. And Kucherov has been a key part of every playoff success we've had in the Cooper era except for this one.
It's recency bias. You just watched the guy have a string of bad games, so you're forgetting those times he put the team on his back.
Lmao i'll never get over "the sky is falling" mentality of some fans.
Gotta learn to put the bad games behind you and move on. I'm ready for a game 7.
Like I said, it's not that we are just losing, it's that we are getting convincingly beat by another team throughout the series.Every year this happens it feels like I am having apart of my soul ripped out.
I dont agree with Hawks or Caps being Decisively better than us-especially the formerIf we lose on Wednesday that will be 3x playoffs in a row where we were eliminated by a team that was DECISIVELY better than us. Not evenly matched series, but beat by a team that was EASILY better.
That seems to be a problem.
No offense, but I just don't think we are watching the same series.I dont agree with Hawks or Caps being Decisively better than us-especially the former