Not to mention the 27 regulation losses is tied for 8th fewest in the league, again only one behind Chicago, Pittsburgh, FLA and less than TBL, LA, San Jose.
Pre-Game Talk: Honest Expectations for the Playoffs
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I haven't seen Pekka Rinne steal a game since early last year. He needs to find that inner Rinne Wall in order for us to get by the Ducks.
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Why am I not surprised? Good thing is, I have noticed you seem to be wrong pretty often. Maybe we will get the sweep.
Agreed and that's what worries me the most. He was really bad in last years Chicago series. If he's like that this year, we'll be coming home soon.
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If he's awful, we ride Hutts to bounce back and win a couple. A strong Hutton could get us to the 2nd round if the top 6 are rolling. Think of last year's series with Chicago. We chased Crawford, then Darling came in and shut us down. As long as Lavy is willing to give Hutts a chance if Rinne falters, I think we'll be ok.
I think it's 50/50. Either team could win this. But if Preds do i think they lose the 2nd round.
Hutton was much better, but I think it's fool's gold with him. Put him under pressure and let's see.
I think the key is actually Johansen. I gave Poile grief over Vesey but that was the best trade in Preds history getting Johansen. An even better trade than gettng Filip Forsberg. With Johansen the team is not critically depended on Rinne. Johansen makes the whole team better.
Pushed to make a choice I say Ducks in 7.
Hutton was much better, but I think it's fool's gold with him. Put him under pressure and let's see.
I think the key is actually Johansen. I gave Poile grief over Vesey but that was the best trade in Preds history getting Johansen. An even better trade than gettng Filip Forsberg. With Johansen the team is not critically depended on Rinne. Johansen makes the whole team better.
Pushed to make a choice I say Ducks in 7.
It is always interesting how you pick and choose results to justify your negativity. Are you really taking our last 6 games as some kind of predictor of our playoff success/failure? For almost the entire second half of the season, we averaged over 3 goals per game, which would have been 2nd in the entire league. The fact that we didn't score much the last 6 games is absolutely meaningless.
And you are looking at special teams results from 5 or 6 months ago? Again- meaningless.
I don't know what numbers you are looking at, but if you are rational person with no agenda analyzing these two teams there is nothing whatsoever that suggests a sweep. Does that mean a sweep absolutely won't happen either way? Of course not- sure it could happen- there are sweeps in the Stanley Cup finals. But you cannot look at these two teams and objectively say the Anaheim is so far superior to us that we have not chance.
I guarantee you if you flip all of these numbers you are looking at and we had Anaheim's and they had ours, you would not be predicting a Predators sweep...
It's not just on Rinne. A big reason why Elliott had such a good game last night is that the Blues collapsed their D to support him, at the expense of offense (only 18 shots on Crawford all night). The way that they played not to lose is just as important in the victory as how Elliott played.
You can't simply put the burden on Rinne to step up and play like Elliott did when the players in front of them don't play the same way. Laviolette's players press more on the attack, but also give up more chances against. They win 4-3, not 1-0. I believe that that's a big reason why Rinne hasn't been as good under Laviolette as he was under Trotz. It's not so much that he's gotten worse, but that the way that the team in front of him supports him has shifted to supporting him less with defense and more with goals. That'll hurt any goaltender's numbers.
That said, you'd like to see him step up and play a little better than he has and, especially, make key stops at key moments. My point is simply that it's not really fair to expect him to return completely to old Rinne form and have performances like Elliott did last night unless the team changes how it plays in order to help him achieve that. As nice as it would be to have the old Rinne back, it's not likely to happen without a similar return to the stringent defense and resulting offensive ineptness that most of us were frustrated by and happy to turn the page on two years ago.
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Another thing I noticed last night was a lot of crease clearing. We have gotten into a bad habit this year stick swatting around the edge of the crease.
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I tried to tell you nothing whatsoever about these two teams pointed to a sweep- can you admit you were wrong?
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Like I said that day, I did not like this match up. I say we got lucky here as we forced them to 5 defenders by knocking out the other guy. On the other hand Nashville came out ready to play, something they haven't done in a while.
So I guess that is a no as far as admitting you were wrong about the sweep.
And I am not sure I understand what you are saying- are you seriously saying we got lucky last night?? We won the game because they lost one of their defensemen????
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I don't like the match up either but there was nothing lucky about game 1. Preds were better team start to finish. Ducks were not ready for the Preds to play that well and intense. Tonight will tell us a great deal. I expect the Ducks to come out with max effort. If the Preds can overcome that tonight and win I will become a believer.
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the 31,82% that were wrong are already known. I will not write down their names ... who wants to know them or doesn't remember what he voted ... go and consult.
And i can say, so far, never having had a doubt and with 100% confidence : i knew we would win.
And i can say, so far, never having had a doubt and with 100% confidence : i knew we would win.
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No matter what happens from now on, at least we avoided the absolute worst case scenario; we didn't go out in the 1st round again, and we actually showed some character to battle back and win the series.
and it feels amazing. I'm sure that the people who voted for the 1st round exit don't mind proven wrong in this case either.
and it feels amazing. I'm sure that the people who voted for the 1st round exit don't mind proven wrong in this case either.
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