GDT: Other games around the league 2021-22

[OrrNumber4]

Can you imagine this Oilers team with Burns on the backend?

Edit: And maybe Reimer in goal?

 

[The Nemesis]

Can you imagine this Oilers team with Burns on the backend?

Burns + 11 for Draisaitl

 

[sharski]

poor goalies

 

[Great Makohead Shork]

Can you imagine this Oilers team with Burns on the backend?

Edit: And maybe Reimer in goal?

Can't be going and spending any late firsts or prospects during McDavid's prime!

 

[Pavelski2112]

Can you imagine this Oilers team with Burns on the backend?

Edit: And maybe Reimer in goal?

They'd still be terrible defensively and need to rely on McDavid to do anything. Reimer would be an upgrade in net but you can't just expect to outscore all your problems.

 

[slocal]

Dang, I wanted to see the ooga boogas fight.

 

[Lebanezer]

I wonder how frustrated McDavid must be after scoring 4 points, being -1 and losing 9-6.

 

[Alaskanice]

Dang, I wanted to see the ooga boogas fight.

Did the Barbapapas ever fight??

 

[Cas]

I wonder how frustrated McDavid must be after scoring 4 points, being -1 and losing 9-6.

He's going to try to play forward and goal simultaneously.

 

[OrrNumber4]

They'd still be terrible defensively and need to rely on McDavid to do anything. Reimer would be an upgrade in net but you can't just expect to outscore all your problems.

I think that in a different role, Burns could be a lot better defensively than he's been in SJ.

 

[SJSharksfan39]

Watching Florida in the playoffs is like watching the Sharks in the playoffs any year other than the 2016 Stanley Cup Final year. That powerful team who was lethal on the power play and just dominated all regular season long has gone missing. I'm always amazed in Hockey how it feels like the way the game is played changes from regular season to playoffs.

 

[Alwalys]

Watching Florida in the playoffs is like watching the Sharks in the playoffs any year other than the 2016 Stanley Cup Final year. That powerful team who was lethal on the power play and just dominated all regular season long has gone missing. I'm always amazed in Hockey how it feels like the way the game is played changes from regular season to playoffs.

Not a fan of how it changes and never have been. Literally changing the rules of the same is insane.

 

[Pavelski2112]

Not a fan of how it changes and never have been. Literally changing the rules of the same is insane.

The rules don't really change per se. Penalties actually go up in the playoffs. It's just a different mindset playing with higher stakes and against one team at a time; you're going to play harder, tighter, and more physical.

 

[SJSharksfan39]

Not a fan of how it changes and never have been. Literally changing the rules of the same is insane.

But it's not really how the rules change. It's just a much more hard hitting and defensive game (Other than Calgary last night, what was that). The adage defense wins championship seems to apply in Hockey more than any other sport.

 

[Alwalys]

The rules don't really change per se. Penalties actually go up in the playoffs. It's just a different mindset playing with higher stakes and against one team at a time; you're going to play harder, tighter, and more physical.

Committed penalties go way up due to the intensity and they are just not called at the rate of regular season nor in the same manner. The rules may not change per se but the enforcement of them changes which changes the rules of the game on the ice.

 

[Pavelski2112]

Committed penalties go way up due to the intensity and they are just not called at the rate of regular season nor in the same manner. The rules may not change per se but the enforcement of them changes which changes the rules of the game on the ice.

I mean, in a way sure, but you can't call every other play a penalty. That wouldn't be fun either. It's like the first couple games of the TBL/TOR series - basically everything was getting called and it was terrible hockey because there was no flow to the game.

 

[LadyStanley]

Prime chirp

 

[ChompChomp]

Wow!!

 

[sharski]

damn tampa just timo'd florida

 

[Pavelski2112]

I don't see anyone beating Tampa

 

[fasterthanlight]

cool, jumbo will never win the cup fml

the "go 10M over in the playoffs" loophole is so stupid. tampa is good without it, but it goes to show teams who play by the spirit of the rules have significantly less of an opportunity.

 

[ChompChomp]

I'm reminded of the last Pens-Caps playoff series that occurred before 2018 when the Pens won the series in a game in DC and some fans outside the arena were chanting "YOU CAN'T BEAT US". I feel like Tampa fans feel like towards the Florida Panthers.

 

[fasterthanlight]

I don't see anyone beating Tampa

I think colorado could beat them

 

[Levie]

cool, jumbo will never win the cup fml

the "go 10M over in the playoffs" loophole is so stupid. tampa is good without it, but it goes to show teams who play by the spirit of the rules have significantly less of an opportunity.

He's not getting the cup anyway. Florida won't play him in a finals game.

 

[Pavelski2112]

I think colorado could beat them

They theoretically could, but COL hasn't won a 2nd round series since 2002, so they have a lot to prove.