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2022 Stanley Cup playoffs thread

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Cosmo, Apr 30, 2022.

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  1. outofplace

    outofplace Well-Known Member

    Trouba has three knockouts in 10 contests this offseason, two with elbows to the head. The third came last night, launching himself at an opposing player. That last one is a pretty common sort of hit, probably not a penalty, but the other two were dirty. Those are just the ones I've seen and I didn't really watch much of this series.
     
    outofplace, May 31, 2022
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  2. outofplace

    outofplace Well-Known Member

    Maybe they were Hartford Whalers fans who chose to stick with their team despite the move?
     
    outofplace, May 31, 2022
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  3. 2muchcoffeeman

    2muchcoffeeman Well-Known Member

    Avs in 6.
    Lightning in 6.
     
    2muchcoffeeman, May 31, 2022
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  4. HappyCurmudgeon

    HappyCurmudgeon Well-Known Member

    Andersen was the Hurricanes best player all season. They played zero seconds with him in the playoffs.

    Boston had their own issues in goal. Raanta was fine for stretches. but Andersen played at a Vezina level , so it was a massive drop off. A decent backup is still a backup and it shows when they are asked to start so many games in a row.

    But never fear...they can make fools out of all of us with 88 lined up in the opposite goal.
     
    HappyCurmudgeon, May 31, 2022
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  5. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    Raanta had a .922 save percentage and 2.26 goals against in the playoffs. That's better than "fine for stretches." Those numbers are on par with what Andersen did during the regular season, and as you said, that was a great year for him.

    I just don't agree that the difference wasn't Raanta not being good enough. He was really good. The big things were Shesterkin, and Carolina taking undisciplined penalties that the Rangers capitalized on with the PP. Yesterday, those two early power play goals put Carolina in the hole, and it's not a team built to play from behind. Their M.O. is to get a 1 or 2 goal lead and then clog the neutral zone and frustrate the opposing team.
     
    The Big Ragu, May 31, 2022
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  6. Tighthead

    Tighthead Well-Known Member

    $8 million on Kotkaniemi looks bad. I know they have extended him at a much lower rate, but he doesn’t look like a second line C to me.
     
    Tighthead, May 31, 2022
    #570
  7. Regan MacNeil

    Regan MacNeil Well-Known Member

    Eh?

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    Regan MacNeil, May 31, 2022
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  8. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    Yeah. I think they cut off their nose to spite their face with Kotkaniemi. They also needed Aho and Svechnikov to take over a game or two , and neither of them did it. That was the other difference. Zibanejad and Kreider, and Panarin to a lesser extent, got going late in the series.
     
    The Big Ragu, May 31, 2022
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  9. Liut

    Liut Well-Known Member

    +1

    Dating back to Florida leaving him curbside in Raleigh to Vegas not sticking with him. Maybe it was because of the rebuild that New Jersey did not hire him.
     
    Liut, May 31, 2022
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  10. Liut

    Liut Well-Known Member

    Peter Karmanos moved the franchise. Carolina seems to actually do a fairly good job of recognizing its roots ... unlike New Jersey.
     
    Liut, May 31, 2022
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  11. HappyCurmudgeon

    HappyCurmudgeon Well-Known Member

    Raanta wasn't good enough, Up 3-2 he wasn't good enough at all. Like Louis Domingue wasn't good enough up 3-1. If he was you would be thinking about the Rangers offseason moves right now. His numbers as a whole were fine, but I guarantee you felt a hell of a lot better with your team facing Raanta and Domingue in 80% of the elimination games than you would have facing Andersen and Jarry right?
     
    HappyCurmudgeon, May 31, 2022
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  12. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    Honestly, I felt great about them facing Domingue. He's a minor league goalie. I don't think anyone can compare Raanta to him. Raanta is a starting-caliber NHL goalie, the thing that has held him back is that he's been incredibly injury prone and you need another goalie, because you can't rely on him to be healthy for 60 games. Raanta backed up Henrik Lundquist for two seasons and he was great, so I know him. I honestly don't see that big a difference between Freddie Andersen and him (in terms of how good they are, obviously Raanta is little, Andersen a big goalie, etc). If I was a Carolina fan, all things being equal, I would have wanted Andersen out there because of the season he had, but I don't think Andersen is an appreciably different goalie than he was in Toronto, he's just playing in front of a team that protects him incredibly well. Raanta was bad in the game he got yanked, great in the rest of the series. And yesterday? That game was over when it was 2-0, certainly when it was 3-0, and none of those were soft goals. I honestly don't know that having Freddie Andersen in there would have made much of a difference.

    EDIT: BTW, the Rangers did face Jarry in the elimination game.
     
    The Big Ragu, May 31, 2022
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