Pre-Game Talk: PRE-ECF Thread (B/C Why not?)
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I fear the special teams in this series. Stay out of the box Canes.
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The Faulker 27
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The box is dark and full of terrors.
Borsig
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If special teams cost us - it will be here. Their PP is lethal, better than even the caps who scored on us nearly every time.
DaveG
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50% On the draw? That has to be a typo, feels like we've been getting absolutely wrecked in the circle this postseason
tarheelhockey
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Yeah there have been a couple of times where we lost 3-4 key faceoffs in a row. We must be balancing that out with a dominant performance in first-period neutral zone faceoffs.
Literally an entire first line of pretty boys. Love it lol.
That being said, our lines change every ten seconds so who knows what it will actually look like by the 2nd period of game 1.
Svechhammer
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I just have this feeling that whoever wins the East will win the Cup. So yeah, if anything is going to be our downfall this postseason, it's going to be against Boston.
But I have faith we're going to get it done. I think with the style we play, that extra rest is going to have us buzzing these first couple games and I would not be surprised if we split in Boston. I think we are better than people give us credit for, and the Bs are more vulnerable than people think.
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That's a 4th line that you can roll out against anyone. Love it.
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Except svech is like a freight train. I'm nervous about this series, but seeing all those names makes me happy.
I hope Petr comes out 100% and doesn't skip a beat. Rask has been really good and it might be hard to beat him without traffic.
Then again, Lehner. so...
I hope Petr comes out 100% and doesn't skip a beat. Rask has been really good and it might be hard to beat him without traffic.
Then again, Lehner. so...
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4th line is like the hammer section at Lowe's
Svechhammer
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Bingo. We took the heart out of the likely Vezina winner this year.
Like, PNC Arena has been a house of horrors for opposing goalies. 5 games played. 5-0, and we've scored 5 goals in 4 of them.
tarheelhockey
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If Lehner wins the Vezina, we will have played Vezina-winning goalies in all three rounds.
Svechhammer
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and we lit at least 2 of them up like a Christmas tree. So yeah, I don't think running into a good goalie is necessarily intimidating for this squad.
LOL. I'm going with Mighty Ducks theme (mostly Mighty Ducks 2), because these teams give me the grizzled winners vs quirky misfits vibe 
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first few preditions Ive seen give us 33-37% chance of a win. Money puck had us at 54 then dropped to under 50.
The no respect train continues.
The no respect train continues.
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Yeah, but they're in the scratch and dent bin
82 game paces for the Top 6 + Top 4 since January 1 (playoffs included):
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[/TBODY]Put the sustainability of some of those numbers in the future aside, that's a lethal group of players offensively in 2019. People can sleep on them at their own peril.
| G | A | P | |
| Teravainen | 28 | 55 | 83 |
| Aho | 28 | 51 | 79 |
| Staal | 26 | 41 | 67 |
| Niederreiter | 26 | 33 | 59 |
| Williams | 28 | 30 | 58 |
| Svechnikov | 20 | 17 | 37 |
| Hamilton | 27 | 27 | 54 |
| Faulk | 15 | 28 | 43 |
| Slavin | 7 | 36 | 43 |
| Pesce | 6 | 34 | 40 |
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It takes a real jerk to make cannolis for two hours for no pay.
