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[TheDaysOf 04]

 

[DFC]

I understand Cooper is saying this is A problem. I don't understand how he believes it's THE problem, since we rarely led in that series after that game.

 

[Felonious Python]

I understand Cooper is saying this is A problem. I don't understand how he believes it's THE problem, since we rarely led in that series after that game.

Don't want to give them too many Pro Tipz.

 

[Felonious Python]

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Tug of War (too many embeds): [4K] 2020 NHL All Star Game - Mascot Showdown: Tug of War

 

[JoVel]

Remember this guy? I was so excited for him, doesn't seem like he'll make it to the big boys' league though as he has 5 goals in his 111 AHL games.

 

[Five Alarm Fire]

Important:



Tug of War (too many embeds): [4K] 2020 NHL All Star Game - Mascot Showdown: Tug of War

I'm not going to lie, the thumbnail of the first video had me thinking there was some Mascot Wrestling event that I slept on.

 

[These Are The Days]

Uhhh Coop? THE problem has been that we've scored a whopping 2 goals between the Pens in games 6 and 7, Caps in games 6 and 7 and Chicago in game 6 and both goals came in the same game vs the Pens in game 6. Excluding the NYR series, our offense has completely died once we've gotten to the Conference and Cup Finals. Your comment is completely isolated to last year and yet it somehow followed the same pattern as all the other years.

If it happens again and Kucherov and Stamkos are zip for like the 4th year while the rest of the team plays well I'm done blaming Cooper. It's gonna prove our 2 biggest stars are the 2 biggest chokers under pressure in the league. We can change coaches but I doubt it's gonna fix the problem. You can't fix S A W F T. For what it's worth we played fantastic as a whole vs Pitt and fantastic vs the Caps in game 7. We couldn't buy a goal to save our damn lives.

 

[DFC]

Uhhh Coop? THE problem has been that we've scored a whopping 2 goals between the Pens in games 6 and 7, Caps in games 6 and 7 and Chicago in game 6 and both goals came in the same game vs the Pens in game 6. Excluding the NYR series, our offense has completely died once we've gotten to the Conference and Cup Finals. Your comment is completely isolated to last year and yet it somehow followed the same pattern as all the other years.

If it happens again and Kucherov and Stamkos are zip for like the 4th year while the rest of the team plays well I'm done blaming Cooper. It's gonna prove our 2 biggest stars are the 2 biggest chokers under pressure in the league. We can change coaches but I doubt it's gonna fix the problem. You can't fix S A W F T. For what it's worth we played fantastic as a whole vs Pitt and fantastic vs the Caps in game 7. We couldn't buy a goal to save our damn lives.

So what you're saying here is... "Cooper, you have the problem totally wrong and you're addressing an entirely different problem. But if it happens again, you're off the hook."

This logic makes 0 sense, Sunny.

 

[DaBolts]

Boston lost to Detroit. All is well today.

 

[Five Alarm Fire]

Can't wait to hang that second President's Trophy banner

 

[2020 Cup Champions]

Can't wait to hang that second President's Trophy banner

We can pretty much call it a season at that point.

 

[These Are The Days]

So what you're saying here is... "Cooper, you have the problem totally wrong and you're addressing an entirely different problem. But if it happens again, you're off the hook."

This logic makes 0 sense, Sunny.

What happened last year was a one-off and I'm over it. Vasy, Hedman, Stralman were all hurt and Coop is pretty bang on about our mentality. It was a recipe for disaster waiting to happen and we bowed out in 4 games. Boston probably beats us in 6 even if we survive the CBJ because you're not beating them without Hedman. But it's the persistent lack of goal scoring late in series that's always done us in and it's happened in every series we've lost but 2 (last year and Montreal in 2013-2014) with Stamkos and Kucherov leading the way while the rest of the team continues to play well despite them. Stamkos gets a pass for Pittsburgh game 7 for the obvious reasons. But in any case, I'm split 50/50 on whether Cooper is failing to prepare Kucherov and Stamkos or if the two of them are chokers. They will start a series well and then completely disappear when the pressure is greatest. How in the hell a coach is supposed to win a championship with that kind of handicap is beyond me. You can't fix chokers. You have to just hope they finally pull it together well enough to not cost you.

But let's put it this way. It's the ECF, we lead the series 3-2. Boy where have we seen this before? Stamkos and Kucherov are playing well thus far like usual. Team plays well as usual. But they combine for 0 points rest of the way and look like scared dogs wandering through traffic. We lose game 6 by a 2-0 and lose game 7 by 2-1 with Point scoring our lone goal.... that's not a coaching problem. That's your superstars being soft af YET AGAIN and I've got about 3 other times to prove it.




Edit: But in any case I picked us to win it all this year when the season started. I have no idea why. It just felt right kinda like how 2014-2015 did but even then I figured on day 1 we'd get to game 6 of the ECF and bow out. I never expected a SCF berth. We'll see if my prediction holds up.

 

[TheDaysOf 04]

Players going down left and right

 

[Hoek]

Feels like McDavid misses at least half of the games the Oilers play against us.

 

[Felonious Python]

 

[TheDaysOf 04]

 

[BowDownToVasilevskiy]

Leafs have been destroyed by injuries this year.

 

[DFC]

Leafs have been destroyed by injuries this year.

I'm realizing now why it was smarter to trade Callahan's contract rather than acquiring LTIR space.

 

[These Are The Days]

Boudreau fired.... Dear God the stars are aligning for us to be able to pick between him, Lavi, Gallant and Babcock if we have to move on from Cooper.

 

[Felonious Python]

 

[Felonious Python]

 

[TheDaysOf 04]

 

[LightningStrikes]

 

[Felonious Python]

Pretty interesting fan stories to come out of yesterday's Stadium Series game.

 

[Major4Boarding]

Pretty interesting fan stories to come out of yesterday's Stadium Series game.

This one's gonna hurt. Man, what a disaster.