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Official NHL 2014 Playoffs thread

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iRONic said:
Quick will prolly get the Conn Smythe unless Justin Williams pots a hatty or OT winner in Game 4.
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I don't think he will this year. It hasn't been the Quick show like it was last cup run (and that entire season frankly). It'll probably be Kopi who had the most points, and you can make an extremely good case for Doughty. Justin Williams will be an outside shot I think, but there is a good case for him even outside all the game 7 stuff.
 
PingviN said:
The game 2 missed goalie interference will haunt the Rangers for many years to come ^^.
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It shouldn't.

It wasn't the tying goal or the winning goal. The Rangers went on to give up the lead and wasted PP chances (earned by missed diving calls) before eventually losing. You can't win a cup if you lose your shit on a questionable call and fail to execute for the remainder of the game.

Lack of mental toughness and failure to execute will haunt the Rangers for years to come.
 
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Slew Foot said:
yeah, who the fuck dumbass(bettman) made that decision? Lets put a potential cup clinching game on cable? i bet they rig the refs for this one.
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That is my fear.

It is in the best interests (eg money) of the league and the network for the cup to be won on Friday on NBC. I predict we will see the Kings draw a penalty in the first couple of minutes, and shortly after each goal they score.
 
MiataNC said:
That is my fear.

It is in the best interests (eg money) of the league and the network for the cup to be won on Friday on NBC. I predict we will see the Kings draw a penalty in the first couple of minutes, and shortly after each goal they score.
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Because that helped the Rangers so much in game 3. 😛
 
Time to finish 'er up LA! 😉

(Though i actually would guess NYR will force at least one more.)
 
AznAnarchy99 said:
Because the west side is the best side!
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Teams in the West who could also have beaten the Rangers:
Chicago
San Jose
St. Louis
Anaheim
Possibly Minnesota.

The funny thing is that the Rangers were the second best team in the East, too.
(Not in the standings, which don't really tell you much.)

It's pretty ridiculous how inferior the Eastern conference is right now.
 
Looks like NY is a defeated team aside from Lundquist. Dude stood on his head today, see if he can do it three more times
 
n7 said:
Teams in the West who could also have beaten the Rangers:
Chicago
San Jose
St. Louis
Anaheim
Possibly Minnesota.

The funny thing is that the Rangers were the second best team in the East, too.
(Not in the standings, which don't really tell you much.)

It's pretty ridiculous how inferior the Eastern conference is right now.
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oh here we go, tards and the east vs west debate.
 
KK said:
oh here we go, tards and the east vs west debate.
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Here you go, calling people tards when you feel insecure about their opinions being correct.
Care to provide an actual counter-argument?

Boston is the best team in the East, and they managed to find a way to lose to a much worse team, or they'd be in the Cup finals.

Your Pens won't be a real threat until they fix their lack of depth and sometimes questionable goaltending, and with them spending as much as they are on certain players i wouldn't be expecting that to happen easily.

It's not exactly shocking news to anyone that the West has a lot of much better teams than the East.
 
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n7 said:
It's not exactly shocking news to anyone that the West has a lot of much better teams than the East.
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This has been true for a couple of years now. The West has been stacked really strong and competitive.

Game 4 was not a great game for the Rangers, even if they did win it. They just looked tired in the 3:d. If Lundqvist hadn't been 100% on his game and one of those "got swiped away on the goal line"-pucks had gone in, they would never have won.

First 2 periods they looked pretty strong. Lots of good, clean hits, much better forecheck and net driving than in game 3. If they can get rested up and, I don't know, put Lundqvist in Game 4 stasis until Saturday, they might have a chance to drag this out a bit more.
 
I like how you can say the teams that could beat the rangers when those team haven't played in a series against them. So what you are saying is just your theory based on your opinion whether right or not, nobody knows. This series could have been easily 3 to 1 in the rangers favor, then what would you have said? I agree that the king's are dominating the rangers for the most part and should have been over after 4. I just think the whole East vs West debate is silly.
 
Pretty amazing game last night. Just as in 2 of the first 3 games rangers get a couple goal head start. You can feel the building about to implode when the kings get the quick break for the unassisted goal. Then the almost goal at the end where if it had been at the beginning of the period the puck would have made it all the way in, but 19 minutes in with a lot of action around the net has enough debris on the ice to have the puck stop at the line. And then the amazingly long amount of time it just sits there. Not to mention the single open net shot which just glides wide to prevent the comfortable margin.
 
KK said:
I like how you can say the teams that could beat the rangers when those team haven't played in a series against them. So what you are saying is just your theory based on your opinion whether right or not, nobody knows. This series could have been easily 3 to 1 in the rangers favor, then what would you have said? I agree that the king's are dominating the rangers for the most part and should have been over after 4. I just think the whole East vs West debate is silly.
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Maybe the Rangers somehow could beat some of those teams?
But looking at a best of seven it seems unlikely.

I have nothing against the Eastern conference, but i do find it pretty really weird how it seems there a lot more top tier teams in the West.

Other than Boston, no one in the East is built really well to compete with the big punishing forechecking style that is employed by the best teams in the West.

Note i did not say Colorado or Dallas would be beating NYR, as the Avs wildly overachieved and barely belonged in the playoffs, and Dallas would be unlikely to match up well with all four lines of the Rangers.

While you can dismiss that the West has far more better teams as just my opinion, it's a pretty popular one.
 
I don't understand how anyone can make all these claims of dominance, when this series has been so close and the Rangers were arguably the 3rd best EC team. Two overtime games, 3 of 4 one goal games. Bounces go the other way, New York is the one up 3-1.
 
n7 said:
Maybe the Rangers somehow could beat some of those teams?
But looking at a best of seven it seems unlikely.

I have nothing against the Eastern conference, but i do find it pretty really weird how it seems there a lot more top tier teams in the West.

Other than Boston, no one in the East is built really well to compete with the big punishing forechecking style that is employed by the best teams in the West.

Note i did not say Colorado or Dallas would be beating NYR, as the Avs wildly overachieved and barely belonged in the playoffs, and Dallas would be unlikely to match up well with all four lines of the Rangers.

While you can dismiss that the West has far more better teams as just my opinion, it's a pretty popular one.
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Shows how much you watched Colorado this season. They won the division with Chicago and St Louis for a reason. If they would have had Duchene in the first what, 5 games of that series or had Barrie in any of the games after the first one. There is no doubt in my mind they would have beaten Minnesota. Barrie was our second most important Dman after EJ and even more so than him on our PP, as he was our PP QB. Without him our PP was lacking. And obviously Duchene was our best player. It would have been like LA without Kopitar or Chicago without Toews, or Minn without Parise, etc, etc ad infinium.

But whatever, I'm used to the haters. I doubt Chicago would have beaten St Louis if Toews had missed the first 5 games of their series.
 
JujuFish said:
I don't understand how anyone can make all these claims of dominance, when this series has been so close and the Rangers were arguably the 3rd best EC team. Two overtime games, 3 of 4 one goal games. Bounces go the other way, New York is the one up 3-1.
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The better team (eg more dominating team) doesn't always win. That is why playoffs are a best of 7 series. Even then the better team doesn't always win, because 1-2 players can put in the performance of their lives and create an upset.

Just look at the numbers put up by the players. Man to man and shift to shift the Kings are clearly "better" than the Rangers expect in goal. In goal it is a toss up, and whichever goalie has the better night determines the winner. If you put both backup goalies in net for games 5-7, who do you think walks away with the cup? My money would still be on the Kings.

Quick stole game 3, and Lundqvist stole game 4. Lundqvist has the potential to win the series if he can stand on his head for 3 more games. If he pulls it off, he will be a hockey legend, and win the Conn Smythe despite the fact that all of the current favorites are Kings (see my point above about the better team).
 
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