Players who was completely shutdown in a single series

[captain AARON MAIDEN*]

Gaborik in the 2003 conference final 4GP 0P
before 14GP 9G 8A 17P

 

[mouser]

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.

That's my recollection also.

Before the finals series began the media matchups all talked up Konstantinov against Lindross, but when the games started Scotty matched up Lidstrom and Murphy against Lindross most of the time. To the surprise of more than a few folks.

 

[GoldGuardian]

Joe Thornton in 2004 against the Habs. Absolutely no points for him, but IIRC he was playing hurt.

But Thornton's performance raised doubts on his playoffs play. It really was a surprising shutdown, as he played seven games while getting his share of ice time. Not even a single assist.

 

[jiggs 10]

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.

 

[JCD]

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.

Yes, he did only have a few points... but he was still on the ice for virtually every other goal.

You can be on the ice without registering a point.

Feel free to look it up yourself:
http://www.flyershistory.com/cgi-bin/season.cgi

Go to the Season Review for 96-97.

Here is the scoring summaries for all 4 games:
http://www.flyershistory.com/cgi-bin/poboxscore.cgi?19970076
http://www.flyershistory.com/cgi-bin/poboxscore.cgi?19970077
http://www.flyershistory.com/cgi-bin/poboxscore.cgi?19970078
http://www.flyershistory.com/cgi-bin/poboxscore.cgi?19970079

But I was wrong. He wasn't on the ice for virtually every goal... he was on the ice for EVERY goal.

It wasn't just Lindros that was shut-down, it was the entire Flyer team. Tough to say it was just Lindros that was shut-down when he was involved in EVERY score they had.

 

[Al Bundy*]

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.

 

[The Kingslayer]

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.

Part of the Hf Gospel somewhere between "PP points dont count" and "The refs hate us"...you can find "Old=Bad Young=Good"

 

[Mad Habber]

In 89, the Habs played the Flyers in the Conference Final. Yeah the Chelios/Hextall incident. Tim Kerr was scoring goals like he was playing against a bunch of kids in his previous series. Craig Ludwig, or Rick Green did the job against him and he was pretty quiet all series.