2014 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs (predictions and discussions)

I wonder what Darryl Sutter will say to the team now. "Flight's at 11".

 

2014 STANLEY CUP FINAL SCHEDULE
Game Teams Date
Game 1 Rangers at Kings Wednesday, June 4
Game 2 Rangers at Kings Saturday, June 7
Game 3 Kings at Rangers Monday, June 9
Game 4 Kings at Rangers Wednesday, June 11
*Game 5 Rangers at Kings Friday, June 13
*Game 6 Kings at Rangers Monday, June 16
*Game 7 Rangers at Kings Wednesday, June 18

 

2-2-1-1-1 is the way to go. how does the NBA still go 2-3-2. we don't travel by bus/train anymore.

 

You hear Milbury saying he'd take Toews first to start a team, not Sindy?

 

Lol, Mike Milbury, yeah that's someone I would listen to.

 

lol, yeah, how terrible it must be to be the Blackhawks right now.

 

any guys on that channel know half as much as you?

 

C'mon Rick, not what I said and you know it. Crawford at 2.5 is great value, at 6 not even close.

Still the best team going forward in the league, paying an average goalie 6 with Toews and Kane coming up hurts, do you disagree?

 

Toews is definitely a top-10 player in the NHL, but I go back and forth on whether I'd put him in the toward the front or back of those 10.

He never gets beat by his opposite number over the course of a series, but against other elite centers he gets fought to a draw an awful lot. He'll never get beat consistently defensively, but he disappears for long stretches offensively in the playoffs. Shouldn't the "No. 1 guy to build a team around" or whatever be definitively better in a series than, say, Kopitar?

If you take him first, you better make sure you have a guy like Kane on your second line who can score in bunches when Toews isn't.

 

I was surprised when they locked down Crawford like that, but that front office has more than earned the benefit of the doubt from the peanut gallery.