Rene Lecavalier Division Quarterfinals: (3) Rögle BK vs. (6) Kentucky Thoroughblades

[jarek]

Coach: Scotty Bowman
Captain: Steve Yzerman
Assistants: Larry Robinson and Rod Brind'Amour

Frank Mahovlich - Steve Yzerman - Glenn Anderson
Mats Näslund - Pavel Datsyuk - Daniel Alfredsson
Don Marcotte - Rod Brind'Amour - Reggie Leach
Rejean Houle - Kris Draper - Rick Tocchet
Red Berenson - Pit Martin

Larry Robinson - Serge Savard
Leo Boivin - Brian Rafalski
Kimmo Timonen - Harvey Pulford
Al Arbour - Calle Johansson

Clint Benedict
Vladimir Dzurilla

PP1
Frank Mahovlich - Steve Yzerman - Glenn Anderson
Larry Robinson - Serge Savard

PP2
Mats Näslund - Pavel Datsyuk - Daniel Alfredsson
Kimmo Timonen - Brian Rafalski

PK1
Kris Draper - Pavel Dastyuk
Larry Robinson - Serge Savard

PK2
Rod Brind'Amour - Don Marcotte
Leo Boivin - Harvey Pulford



vs.



Kentucky Throughblades

Head Coach: Glen Sather
Captain: Derian Hatcher
Assistant Captain: Markus Naslund
Assistant Captain: Pat LaFontaine


Bobby Hull - Marcel Dionne - Rod Gilbert
Marian Gaborik - Evgeni Malkin - Mike Gartner
Markus Naslund - Pat LaFontaine - Steve Shutt
Ryan Smyth - John Madden - Todd Bertuzzi

Larry Murphy - Brian Leetch
Derian Hatcher - Sergei Gonchar
Brian Campbell - Paul Reinhart

Johnny Bower
Roberto Luongo

Extras C Jason Spezza, C/RW Jeff Carter, RW Phil Kessel, D Steve Smith

Special Teams

PP 1: Hull - Dionne - Gilbert - Reinhart - Gonchar

PP 2: Naslund - Malkin - Bertuzzi - Leetch - Murphy


PK 1: Madden - Smyth - Hatcher - Campbell

PK 2: LaFontaine - Bertuzzi - Leetch - Murphy

PK 3: Naslund - Dionne​

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[Johnny Engine]

Discussion starter:

Kentucky: Your opponent can throw a Robinson-Savard pairing at you, along with the very tough Brind'amour and Draper. How will your relatively small, non-physical forwards overcome this disadvantage?

Rogle: It looks like Bobby Hull might line up across from Alfredsson if you send out your best defensive line against him. How will a small, cerebral checker like Alfie handle Hull's physical strength?

 

[Hobnobs]

Discussion starter:

Kentucky: Your opponent can throw a Robinson-Savard pairing at you, along with the very tough Brind'amour and Draper. How will your relatively small, non-physical forwards overcome this disadvantage?

Rogle: It looks like Bobby Hull might line up across from Alfredsson if you send out your best defensive line against him. How will a small, cerebral checker like Alfie handle Hull's physical strength?

It's a fair question. Bobby will definitly be the big challenge for my team to overcome. But I think the combination of Alfie shadowing and annoying him with Robinson/Boivin taking cacre of the physical part will make him less effective.

 

[Voight]

Discussion starter:

Kentucky: Your opponent can throw a Robinson-Savard pairing at you, along with the very tough Brind'amour and Draper. How will your relatively small, non-physical forwards overcome this disadvantage?

Well for one, our second line is freaking fast.

 

[seventieslord]

Rogle wins in a quick four game sweep. Kentucky managed just two goals throughout.

 

[monster_bertuzzi]

Rogle wins in a quick four game sweep. Kentucky managed just two goals throughout.

Thats just insane. Kentucky can put the puck in the net, their problem was obviously just hanging their goalie out to dry resulting in more going in their own net than they will score on the opposition in a 60 minute game.

But a team with Bobby Hull/Leetch/Dionne/Malkin/Murphy etc. only scoring two goals in a four game sweep is wild.

 

[seventieslord]

Thats just insane. Kentucky can put the puck in the net, their problem was obviously just hanging their goalie out to dry resulting in more going in their own net than they will score on the opposition in a 60 minute game.

But a team with Bobby Hull/Leetch/Dionne/Malkin/Murphy etc. only scoring two goals in a four game sweep is wild.

ugh. You're right. I'm sorry for trying to add any sort of narrative in this case, because obviously I got it way wrong. The point was that the voting wasn't close, and that it was less close than any series I've ever seen. 9 votes had it ending in 4 or 5 games, and only one had it going to 7. I should have said "the floodgates opened as Rogle pumped in a first round high 22 goals in just 4 games."

 

[Voight]

Whatever. people obviously don't know what a good team is.

Until next time.

 

[seventieslord]

Whatever. people obviously don't know what a good team is.

Until next time.

That's the spirit.