Well now that I've some time to come down from that game. All I can say is wow! They pulled it out, and it's a great felling.
I will fully admit that Landeskog was the best player on the ice tonight. He gave it everything and I'm very happy with that performance when we needed it most. That's what a good captain does and very happy to see him play that way.
Bernier came up huge, I don't trust him but he made it happen tonight and that is just awesome.
Girard is a beast, there is nothing else to say. He balled out tonight, scoring, hitting, blocking shots, making dudes miss him and have them go crashing into the boards face first. I liked Duchene a lot and was sad to see him go, but even if nothing else comes of that trade, we still got a huge piece of our future. That guy has top pairing potential all over him.
MacKinnon, he deserves the MVP (Hart), he just took a historically bad team strapped them on his back and carried us to the playoffs. He became the man this season.
The Soderberg line deserves a ton of credit, I thought that Comeau and Soerberg were done after last season but they brought their 'A' games this year, and played hard. Big props to them for not mailing it in this year.
Bednar deserves a huge shout out, he got this team playing a quality brand of hockey and they play well for him. Lots of people in here were way down on him, but I personally think he is a good up and coming coach and the type of coach a young team needs.
Lots of others had big nights as well and would love to mention them all by name but I'd write an epic novel at that point, but I just love how this team never gave up this year. They played hard and earned this opportunity to go play Nashville. I say bring them on, I know they are good, but we are too. So proud of this team, right now.
