I recently watched Game 4 of the Finals, and it was Lidstrom-Murphy and Yzerman/Draper who played against Lindros on every shift.
Don't know about the other three games though.
Joe Thornton in 2004 against the Habs. Absolutely no points for him, but IIRC he was playing hurt.
I think that isn't as accurate as people think.
Wings didn't shut down just Lindros, they shut the Flyers down.
Lindros was on the ice for virtually every goal the Flyers scored in that series (IIRC, there were only 1 or 2 exception). They were just completely over-matched.
Lindros had, what? 2 points in the 4 games? He was completely shut down by Lidstrom and Yzerman (Larry Murphy had NOTHING to do with it!).
I was surprised by Gaborik's (lack of) performance this year in the playoffs. He had really been firing on all cylinders all year, but sure crashed in the playoffs. Too bad.
I was surprised by Gaborik's (lack of) performance this year in the playoffs. He had really been firing on all cylinders all year, but sure crashed in the playoffs. Too bad.
The fact that he crashed against the Colorado geezer squad was the real surprise.
He was contained last year by the champs, but I NEVER thought he would produce nothing against a team loaded with golden oldies.