Series Talk: Around the NHL - 2018 Stanley Cup Playoffs - Second Round

[YoSoyLalo]

Don't believe in curses. Pens are just a better team this year.

Yeah, the Caps were way better last year

It’s some real spooky shit

 

[Machinehead]

Yeah, the Caps were way better last year

It’s some real spooky ****

Holtby's save percentage was spooky.

 

[Ghost of jas]

Watching these playoffs would be so much better if that conditional 2nd was a straight up 1st.

 

[Thirty One]

Watching these playoffs would be so much better if that conditional 2nd was a straight up 1st.

Because you don't want to cheer for Tampa?

 

[Morten]

Just so everyone is ready...

this is lacking a "Rangers had too many players on the ice"

 

[Ghost of jas]

Because you don't want to cheer for Tampa?

Exactly

 

[Machinehead]

this is lacking a "Rangers had too many players on the ice"

Damn!

 

[YoSoyLalo]

Because you don't want to cheer for Tampa?

I forgot how awful their fans are after they were bad last year

 

[Ghost of jas]

I forgot how awful their fans are after they were bad last year

I thought I was done cheering for teams with Girardi and Callahan on them.

 

[FJB]

Wow that was... unexpected.

 

[trilobyte]

Sullivan takes notes about bad pinch.

 

[LeetchisGod]

Ovi has to bury that.

 

[YoSoyLalo]

Caps will reach new levels of ineptitude vs the Pens by taking a 3-0 series lead and still losing

 

[Lion Hound]

Fun game...both these teams playing physical.

 

[darko]

Caps will reach new levels of ineptitude vs the Pens by taking a 3-0 series lead and still losing

3-0 series lead while being 3-0 up in game 4 after 2 periods. The ultimate choke job. Also known as The Washington Capitals Special.

 

[YoSoyLalo]

I’ve said it before, but Kuznetsov is a monster and IMO easily Washington's best player.

And he wanted to be a Ranger, too (and we could have picked him) ...sigh

 

[Glen Sathers Cigar]

Murray looked like crap all season and looked like crap against Philly and he looks like crap again. It’s just an adventure out there with him flopping and always off his angle and just seeming so beatable all game. Complete 180 from the last two playoffs.


Not sure what’s wrong with him this season, not having the MAF security blanket maybe?

 

[Glen Sathers Cigar]

I’ve said it before, but Kuznetsov is a monster and IMO easily Washington's best player.

And he wanted to be a Ranger, too (and we could have picked him) ...sigh

He wanted to be a Ranger?

 

[YoSoyLalo]

He wanted to be a Ranger?

It was a LONG time ago but I definitely remember hearing this after the 2010 draft.

 

[trilobyte]

This Penguins strategy with their defensemen is ridiculous. Just go to a high stakes poker game if you want to gamble.

 

[Ghost of jas]

It was a LONG time ago but I definitely remember hearing this after the 2010 draft.

Yup...I remember discussing the idea of trying to get another 1st to get him, and that was part of the discussion.

 

[darko]

2 a-grade chances for Simon.

Is AV coaching the Pens. So many defensive breakdowns.

 

[GeorgeKaplan]

Penguins this year are way worse than they were last year, but the Caps are too. Now that I’ve said essentially nothing, I’m like 55/45 that the caps win the series

 

[trilobyte]

At least we don't have to watch the Flyers. Silver linings are there if you look for them.

 

[darko]

If Kuzy wants to be a Ranger he'll take a pay cut when he becomes a free agent.