Rene Lecavalier Division 2nd Round - Chicago Shamrocks vs Kansas City Scouts

[TheDevilMadeMe]

Chicago Shamrocks

Head Coach: Cecil Hart
Captain: Mario Lemieux
Alternate Captains: Ebbie Goodfellow, Brian Sutter

Henrik Zetterberg - Mario Lemieux - Charlie Conacher
Busher Jackson - Milan Novy - Ace Bailey
Brian Sutter - Walt Tkaczuk - Bob Nevin
Brendan Morrow - Bill Thoms - Tony Amonte
Craig Conroy, Alf Skinner

Vladimir Lutchenko - Bill Gadsby
Ebbie Goodfellow - Bob Goldham
Jerry Korab - Jiri Bubla
Bob Dailey, Brian Campbell

Charlie Gardiner
Percy LeSueur

PP1
Busher Jackson - Mario Lemieux - Charlie Conacher
Ebbie Goodfellow - Bill Gadsby

PP2
Milan Novy - Lemieux/Zetterberg - Tony Amonte
Jiri Bubla - Vladimir Lutchenko

PK1
Walt Tkaczuk - Bob Nevin
Ebbie Goodfellow - Bob Goldham

PK2
Henrik Zetterberg - Ace Bailey
Jerry Korab - Vladimir Lutchenko

Extra PK F: Bill Thoms

VS

Kansas City Scouts

GMs: Bluesfan94 & Nalyd Psycho
Coach: Bob Johnson
Assistant Coach: Jaroslav Pitnar
Captain: Dennis Potvin
Assistant Captains: Ted Kennedy & Milt Schmidt

#39 Clark Gillies-#15 Milt Schmidt-#10 Pavel Bure
#23 Charlie Simmer-#9 Ted Kennedy-#14 Vaclav Nedomansky
#11 Rusty Crawford-#27 Michael Peca-#16 Bengt-Ã…ke Gustafsson
#8 Dave Trottier-#77 Pierre Turgeon-Milan Hejduk

#5 Dennis Potvin-#2 Sylvio Mantha
#51 George Boucher-#12 Cy Wentworth
#24 Bill Hajt-#55 Lennart Svedberg

#1 Jiri Holecek
Riley Hern

Spares: Clint Smith, Mark Tinordi, Bobby Schmautz

Power play:
Bure-Kennedy-Nedomansky-Potvin-Svedberg
Turgeon-Schmidt-Simmer-Boucher-Mantha

Penalty kill:
Peca-Crawford-Potvin-Mantha
Kennedy-Gustafsson-Hajt-Wentworth​

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[bluesfan94]

This is obviously a very good matchup, and a great team, with Lemieux. However, I think our team, loaded with two way players and an elite defenseman, will be best suited to shutting down Lemieux, or at least limiting his scoring.

 

[Hawkey Town 18]

Sorry for the lack of discussion, been a busy week for me. I hope to get into some more detail later, but for now here are my quick thoughts on the series...

- Chicago has the edge up front, but KC has the better blueline.

- Chicago has a clear edge in coaching...Hart is an above average coach, and Johnson is a below-average to low-end coach. I also think Hart is a better fit for his team. Both coaches are best equipped to play a highly offensive style, and Chicago is loaded with offense, while KC is lacking up front.

- A clear goaltending edge for Chicago, which should help make up for KC's advantage on the blueline. Gardiner is an above average goaltender, while Holecek is below average.

- You can't miss Chicago's big top line, who will be a handful for any team, but don't forget about the 2nd line led by Busher Jackson (who would be a slightly above average LW on a 1st line). KC does not have a RW to give Jackson the special attention he will require.

- KC has a good deal of toughness in Potvin, Schmidt, Gilles, Mantha, and Trottier but Chicago does not have many "soft" players and brings plenty of toughness of it's own with Conacher and Jackson as strong power forwards on the scoring lines, Sutter and Tkaczuk as tough/miserable to play against types on the 3rd line, and Goodfellow and Korab on the blueline.

- Leadership is an edge to KC with 3 all-time greats in Potvin, Schmidt, and Kennedy (probably the best leadership in the entire league this year), but Chicago does have leadership up and down the lineup with 9 players who served as their teams' Captains at some point (although a few of those were only for one or two years).

 

[TheDevilMadeMe]

Chicago wins in 5 games

Stars:

1. Mario Lemieux
2. Denis Potvin
3. Charlie Conacher

Ted Kennedy also played well in the loss.

 

[Hawkey Town 18]

Well there wasn't much in terms of discussion this series, but want to say that you guys built a solid team this year.