Wasn't the prevailing wisdom that you could just cheapen out at the crease and a good defense would cover it up? How the turn tables...
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Is LA/Denver really wild? Denver is a much better team.
Also, IDK if people have this issue, but I just feel nothing for teams in the south east.
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I think this team would have broken down this LA team in 6, especially with a healthy Demko. LA has little fire power and their D sucks.
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I remember the "goalies are devalued" thing from a while back, but I've never really bought into it personally
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Problem is also that there isn’t that many good goalies in the league anymore. It’s definitely a position of weakness for many teams.
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That was the worst 6 on 5 I've ever seen.
edit: and I've watched Loui Eriksson slide Gudbranson into an empty net own goal.
edit: and I've watched Loui Eriksson slide Gudbranson into an empty net own goal.
Skinner vs Talbot a turtle derby in nets if I've ever seen one
Interesting how the Oilers still gave up 4. LA needs to figure out their PK and defense, mostly their PK or get the guys not to take any penalties.
Now imagine Georgiev va Thompson
Bubbles
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I actually subscribe to this theory, but your goalie has to be at least somewhat competent.
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? He’s 39 and going against the championship favourites on a team with only one reliable bench player
Even if you don’t like LeBron, the game was fantastic. Pretty much any NBA personality is saying this was the best doubleheader of games in recent NBA playoff history, at least since the bubble.
Both games were fantastic
I mean I would like to hope so but the oilers steam rolled the kings in the final few meetings with la and van had trouble with that style.
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Normally I'd agree, but I just can't stand LA Kings' white torture style hockey anymore.
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Either that or a fresh face that gets hot with weaknesses that are initially overlooked. Murray, Binnington and Niemi come to mind. All 3 were exposed after teams scouted them.
That may have been the mindset a decade ago when scoring was down and the average SV% was around .915 vs .903 this year, the lowest it's been in 19 years.
Bubbles
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Yep exactly. Once the shooters and coaches got the book on "new" goalies, they went back down to mediocrity.
The Avs kicked Kuemper out the door immediately after winning it all. Looks like Adin Hill is headed down that road too.
Hopefully we can take advantage of all these teams cheaping out on goalies
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I don’t think it was a valid timeout call. It looked like he hadn’t committed to a timeout call when they had it on the baseline and was waiting if they were close to a 5s call inbounding. And then it was loose on the second one
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Maxey played lights out, Embiid played lights out, Tobias Harris continues to struggle come post season time.
I said as much a day or so but even the Golden Knights didn't believe it considering they signed Hill to a sizable contract instead of letting him walk and rolling with Thompson.
Commentators were saying that the Vegas Golden Knights entered these playoffs more than $11m over the salary cap, with the activation of Mark Stone.
And the Dallas fans weren't being conned. They booed him unmercifully all night long, which kind of surprised me. Usually fans in some of these U,S. markets aren't that knowledgeable about the nuances of contracts, the salary cap or NHL hockey roster rules.
But even they've reached the conclusion that the Knights are fudging the LTIR rules, and obviously getting away with it. And their demeanor wasn't helped by Vegas handing the home team Stars a 4-3 loss.
And the Dallas fans weren't being conned. They booed him unmercifully all night long, which kind of surprised me. Usually fans in some of these U,S. markets aren't that knowledgeable about the nuances of contracts, the salary cap or NHL hockey roster rules.
But even they've reached the conclusion that the Knights are fudging the LTIR rules, and obviously getting away with it. And their demeanor wasn't helped by Vegas handing the home team Stars a 4-3 loss.
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