Miscellaneous NHL Discussion LX: Covid Cup II nears its finale

[Rebels57]

Can't wait for Flyers to get run over against next year the Rags and have AV blame the players. f***ing bet on it.

"Carter needs to work harder"

Cant f***ing believe he said that shit in the media.

 

[TheKingPin]

This seems like a never ending cycle of shit

 

[GKJ]

Why? Gallant is a flat-out better coach. He gets the most out of his rosters. He's not hanging his hat on two runs with Hall of Famer calibre goaltending from 10 and 7 years ago. Gallant teams are hard to play against. Vigneault teams are decidedly not. It's a mortal lock that the Rangers will finish ahead of the Flyers next season.

Gallant made the playoffs 3 times in his career (which is fine for a coach who has only coached full seasons 5 times even though he's going to be 58 I guess), twice with Fleury as his goalie, and the other with Luongo, both of whom are absolutely going to the hall of fame. You're not successful for any period of time in this league unless you have goaltending.

There's a whole ton of recency bias with Vigneault around here. Everyone hated his Canucks teams with a passion even though he was undermanned depth-wise (they also talked a ton of shit on the ice). And I remember the Rangers werent much fun to play against since they beat us like all the time, didn't we lose like 15 games in a row at MSG or something? Sure he makes mistakes, but all this stuff where the Flyers started settling for point shots and defense backing off and generally playing Hakstolian is not nor has ever his game either.

 

[FLYguy3911]

Let’s not pretend Fleury was the only reason his Vegas team’s were so good.

 

[Starat327]

Let’s not pretend Fleury was the only reason his Vegas team’s were so good.

Leaving out huge details in narratives seems to be a common theme these days around here.

 

[CanadianFlyer88]

A Hall of Fame goalie is the excuse many use for Vigneault which is also decidedly misleading with respect to his time in Vancouver.

The old adage is "show me a great goalie and I'll show you an Adams nominee", though.

 

[GKJ]

Let’s not pretend Fleury was the only reason his Vegas team’s were so good.

This is TV, and entertainment. You gotta tell people who don't know better who the stars are. NBC is looking for viewers, not the truth.

 

[TCTC]

Must be a strange feeling for the Habs to play in front of a full crowd again all of a sudden.

 

[CanadianFlyer88]

Romanov may have received a penalty himself if Marchesseault just let him continue to hold him there.

 

[Rebels57]

Gallant made the playoffs 3 times in his career (which is fine for a coach who has only coached full seasons 5 times even though he's going to be 58 I guess), twice with Fleury as his goalie, and the other with Luongo, both of whom are absolutely going to the hall of fame. You're not successful for any period of time in this league unless you have goaltending.

There's a whole ton of recency bias with Vigneault around here. Everyone hated his Canucks teams with a passion even though he was undermanned depth-wise (they also talked a ton of shit on the ice). And I remember the Rangers werent much fun to play against since they beat us like all the time, didn't we lose like 15 games in a row at MSG or something? Sure he makes mistakes, but all this stuff where the Flyers started settling for point shots and defense backing off and generally playing Hakstolian is not nor has ever his game either.

I don't know how you can watch the job AV did on AND off the ice this past season and give him any benefit of the doubt. He was lost in the woods, came up with excuse after excuse, threw half the team under the bus, and yet still carried himself like gods gift to hockey.

 

[Rebels57]

What a hit by Romanov

 

[CanadianFlyer88]

Nice hit by Romanov on Pietrangelo there.

 

[GKJ]

I don't know how you can watch the job AV did on AND off the ice this past season and give him any benefit of the doubt. He was lost in the woods, came up with excuse after excuse, threw half the team under the bus, and yet still carried himself like gods gift to hockey.

I'm talking the job he's done in all of the seasons. This season was bad, and his rope is very short for next year. It's one thing to be critical of the job he did this season, but at the expense of mischaracterizing what his hallmarks are as a coach is missing the mark.

 

[TCTC]

There are quite a few players quickly balding right now. Kucherov, Vasilevskiy, Gallagher.

 

[CanadianFlyer88]

Price has to stop that, but I'm not complaining.

Edit: actually was a better shot than I thought.

 

[Surrounded By Ahos]

Knights score

suck it canada

 

[Starat327]

Nice screen by Gustafsson there.

Good to see he still blows.

 

[BackToTheBrierePatch]

Nice shot by Theodore

 

[CanadianFlyer88]

Nice screen by Gustafsson there.

Good to see he still blows.

His previous shift, I think, was on the powerplay where he almost allowed a breakaway off of the first faceoff.

The reward is not worth the risk.

 

[flyerslducks]

Thoughts on gallant going to ny? Seems like they are on a upward trajection while we are stuck in the sand.

 

[Starat327]

His previous shift, I think, was on the powerplay where he almost allowed a breakaway off of the first faceoff.

The reward is not worth the risk.

I've only watched. Few MTL games this post season, but every time I see him, he's handicapping his team.

 

[Henry Miller]

Imagine a MTL-NYI Stanley Cup Finals

 

[TCTC]

Montreal's lack of depth on D could be their downfall. Without Petry they basically only have 3 reliable defensemen. Price and Weber will have to be super-human in this series.

 

[sigma six]

Funny to watch Keegan Kolesar as a pro. He was a big kid with the T-birds and never failed to draw the ire of the Portland crowds. The drunk ones used to shout "COLD SORE" at him.

 

[flyerslducks]

Vegas is too good. Montreal didn’t do that bad but I just can’t see them keep up