Running Stanley Cup Playoff Thread

The Cup they give for actual victories:



The Cup they give for moral victories:



Okay, I'm done, I promise

 

Quote it all you want rule book you would be wrong. Far from homerific. Do your homework and come back to me. Biting or biting when someones finger is your mouth? 2 different situations. Read the linesman quote about and come back and talk to me. Your hockey credibility was shot a long time ago with your Devils and Stars references. No doubt you can read a rule book but that is far from understanding the game.

 

I'm a plastic cup guy. I will gladly raise a cup with you, filled with the proper beverage (and we're talking a wide range here). I'm just not willing to concede the other Cup just yet. Call me a fanboi, I accept that, but let's not write history before it happens just yet.

 

I don't know. The Canadian jingoism towards the Canucks is so over-the-top right now, it's making me want to puke, that they are trying to make Vancouver to be a better team than it is ... and Boston to be a worse team than it is.

I don't see how Vancouver is this far, far superior team. They're the President's Trophy winner, the best in the NHL a deep team with one pretty powerful line, a better-than-average second line centered by an Olympian, some shaky defensemen and a goaltender who is pretty technically sound and has won big games but also has been known to blow up in the playoffs ... playing a deep team with one very good line, a better-than-average second line centered by an Olympian, some shaky defensemen and a goaltender who has a bizarro style and is capable of stealing a game or blowing up.

The series isn't over. Vancouver wins tomorrow, you might start warming up the Cup, but Boston is two brain farts and a couple of bounces away from being up 2-0 right now.

 

My god what a load of BS. What makes their defense shaky? You have a lot of ifs there

Boston has dominated 1 period out of 6, if not for Thomas standing on his head game 1 is a blowout. The speed differential is ridiculous.

The Bruins may very well come back and win this series but i tell you, I honestly believe that the Bruins are on par with the Predators. They played in the East, huge difference.

 

OK, now we're talking. It wasn't that long ago (two years ago, I believe) that the Bruins themselves won the Presidents Trophy and had the most goals and the fewest given up during the regular season.

And that team didn't do shit in the playoffs, relatively speaking. OK, screw that team, perhaps they're not relevant now.

But the Sedin line has great playoff stats, overall, and they haven't been as devastating as everyone thought they might be against Boston. Bruins were right there in both games, for crying out loud. They haven't been dominated. They just fucked up. And in the finals, you just can't afford the smallest mistake. Good teams like Van make you pay.

I saw nothing of Van during the regular season, but they're more banging than I expected them to be.

 

They are far more banging than they were in the regular season.

If Thomas stands on his head Boston can win. The Canucks are far from a Juggernaut but in a league of parity they are the best this league has. If and it is a big if they win they will never be remembered as an all timer not even close, but that is the way the league is now.

 

As much as everyone, including me, loves speed, it's only one thing. And I haven't seen overwhelming evidence that Van's speed advantage is "ridiculously" the deciding factor so far. For one thing, hockey is a little more complicated than that.

Two close games between teams that have different complexions, talent, personnel and coaching styles? One team happens to figure out a way to win the first two. I'll buy that. And "Played in the East"? Not sure what the hell that even means or what bearing it has on this series.

 

It means if Boston played in the West they would have had no sniff of making the Final.

There have been six periods played Boston had been the better team in one. Thomas was unbelievable in game 1 or the game isn't close.

 

This isn't the old CBA, where you get credit for periods won. Your whole personal six-period scorecard is subjective and meaningless. Me? I watched both games and thought the teams played each other evenly enough, except the Bruins badly screwed up a couple plays late that cost them.

The Canucks dominated at the end of a few periods, most notably in Game 1, when the Bruins were gasping for life. But this is by no means a mismatch, as a lot of people were saying. Ask the Canucks.

The whole East-West thing is irrelevant and unprovable

 

Anybody who watched hockey this year will tell you that the West was far superior to the East.

My point is regardless of the score one team has been far better that the other. It does not mean that the Bruins cannot win this series, it just means through 2 games the Canucks have been a far better team regardless of score.

Knowing how the Canucks play, Luongo will probably shit the bed tomorrow and you can come back on here and rip me but I stand by the fact one team is much better than the other

 

Vancouver's the better team is my point. So far they've shown better goaltending, faster D, stronger on the puck and speed to burn.

The OT goal was perfect example of Boston's flaws. Only took 11 seconds to expose them.