EDIT: For an 8th seed team in any sport to knock off the 1st and 2nd, while making it look easy, is pretty fucking nuts. They've been exciting as hell to watch and that's all I can really say. I don't know enough to confidently say whether they have some serious luck or just skill on their side.
I wasn't trying to call you out. Somewhere in this thread I said that the Kings were the most underrated team in the West. They have so many great players(players that almost only show up in the playoffs), and a goalie that although I don't think is the top of the league, has really been in the zone this year. As a goalie myself I can say that confidence (being in the zone) can really outweigh outright talent in a playoff series. I think if they keep playing like this they can go all the way. I am really excited to see the goalie duel between Mike Smith and J. Quick, if that's how it turns out.
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Re: CANUCKS! and those other Hockey teams, I guess « Reply #736 on May 7, 2012, 1:11am »
Also as a side note, I think in the NHL, out of any professional sport the seeding in the playoff genrally means very little. Almost every year it seems like an 8th seed knocks off a #1, if not they often get very close.
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Re: CANUCKS! and those other Hockey teams, I guess « Reply #737 on May 7, 2012, 12:26pm »
The Kings really need to lose their current logo and uniform, it is lame as hell. If they were smart they would bring back the old style purple and yellow uniforms. Is retro in right now?
Since I'm just talking to myself, anyone have thoughts on the Giroux hit on Zubrius(sp)?
1 game suspension.
Here's my fantasy: Giroux gets a two game suspension and can therefore not play in a possible elimination game. The Devils lose came 5 but then go back to home ice for game 6 and win. Giroux isn't even able to do the hand shake (fucker!).
But best of all, every single one of the Devil's fans are all wearing "Best Player in the World" (written in quotations) T-Shirts with a funny caricature of Giroux looking dumb and stupid and like a big ol' poopy face.
Laviolette cries in the post game press interview for his stupid comments about "when the best player in the world comes to you...". He then pronounces Giroux as nothing more than a "flash in the pan" player and then publicly swears all allegiance to Crosby and states that he has decided to be Crosby's stick boy because he has lost all credibility and status in the hockey world.
Another part of my fantasy would be that Briere gets suspended for the reason of, "being a vampire or being undead in some fashion or for being afflicted with whatever it is he has that makes him look like he's been constantly battling tuberculosis for the last 6 years"
Rusty, I think I would just be stubborn at this point to not admit that I was wrong about LA. Made STL look silly. Good call by you.
I'm standing by my opinion that this is one of the more boring playoffs in recent history, however.
Haha, thanks dude.
There is no simple equation to Dr. Garbanzoure out who will win a playoff series. But I generally look for two things: a team with players with great playoff pedigree; teams with a goalie who is on the roll of his life or who is peaking just as the playoffs start or who was peaking all damn year or who is generally a fucking monster in net.
I picked them over the Canucks because of Richards, Brown, Penner-- the type of player who you rarely hear of in the regular season, but you never stop hearing about every playoffs (for good reason).
...and because of Luongo. I like the guy, I like his personality, he is likeable; Luongo is a really nice guy. Despite what people say he is a fucking talented goaltender( people who say otherwise only watch highlights or listen to announcers or their fathers). What he never seems to be is in that zone. That place where goaltenders go sometimes, where they literally become a wall. That place where all of a sudden everyone in the vicinity of the arena gets this spidey sense tickling their spine letting them know that this guy is literally not letting a puck in. I've seen goaltenders with not an ounce of the talent that Luongo has be brilliant during the playoffs. Depending on who you ask, goaltending is between 50-100% mental and the rest is talent. Sadly Luongo lacks the mental end, at least in my opinion.
Also Schneider was pretty good, but he wasn't tingly-spidey feeling about a goalie good. That's what you need in the playoffs, and right now LA holds it.
Another part of my fantasy would be that Briere gets suspended for the reason of, "being a vampire or being undead in some fashion or for being afflicted with whatever it is he has that makes him look like he's been constantly battling tuberculosis for the last 6 years"
I think its Anemic your looking for. That or Zombie.
teams with a goalie who is on the roll of his life or who is peaking just as the playoffs start or who was peaking all damn year or who is generally a fucking monster in net.
This would be all of the goalies who attend the Pretty Lights Glowpocalypse at the Gorge.
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Re: CANUCKS! and those other Hockey teams, I guess « Reply #749 on May 7, 2012, 9:03pm »
Dude, did you hear that comment they made about the 4-minute penalty for high-sticking? I never knew that. I've always wondered the reasoning behind it.
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