I see a lot of posts about your players getting involved in extracurriculars and getting off their game when chaos starts happening.
Did you ever consider that you guys just don't play well when teams play you physically?
That's how you beat us in the late 2000s, particularly in the playoffs. Some of your veteran physical forwards would hit Timonen along the end boards at every opportunity. You would physically pound our defense and try to chip at our forwards. Elbows, boardings, crosschecks, the whole nine yards. Not exaggerated and obviously goony stuff, but the kind of chippy play that goes into games. At we did it too, but we were a softer team back then. Now, when we are being more physical (since about the acquisition of Pronger among others), things changed.
We do that now to Letang, and we're the bad guys? Guys like Rinaldo and Zolnierczyk are paid to make it hard for guys like Letang to do their jobs. You guys also keep talking about Couturier playing Malkin tough and being physical.
Our players finished every check last night. That 16 your barn gave us in the hits category doesn't do last night justice.
