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NHL '12 Playoffs |OT2| NHL ratings up 50%; GAF ratings down 90%
- Thread starter ZeroGravity
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Cup Finals performance anxiety definitely kicked in. NJ should've had it at least 3 or 4 times.
I feel good, like I did after losing game one of the ECF to the Rangers. Lots of chances that were "unforced" misses on our part, played an even game with the opposition otherwise, etc.
Kings' size concerns me moving into the next games, as there's stretches where the physical presence kept the Devils from forechecking adequately.
Kings' size concerns me moving into the next games, as there's stretches where the physical presence kept the Devils from forechecking adequately.
Kings will only get better in this series and the Devils needed a bounce off three guys to even get a goal. They lose game 2 and they're done.
On the flip side Clarkson had two pretty great opportunities to net one early in the 1st. Parise had a great chance but the puck took a bad bounce on that disallowed goal. Fayne had a wide open net right near the doorstep and he somehow shot it wide.
They needed luck to net a goal, but had plenty of opportunities to pot a couple of more. Didn't even look like they wanted to forecheck in the 1st, mostly sent one guy in. 3rd period was strange, they outplayed the Kings for the first half and then it flipped.
white dynamite
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Sutter's a goddamn road warrior.
Seems to me like the Kings have an answer to the Devils forecheck that gave Philly and the Rangers fits.
You could definitely draw that conclusion based on the first period, but I don't think the Devils were as aggressive, they kind of hanged back. They picked it up later in the game.
It wasn't a well played game, sloppy for both sides. Kovalchuk did nothing, Carter is a corpse on skates, Brown was quiet, didn't notice Richards.
Their answer was twofold: size and going up the middle.
The Devils shut that latter shit down against Philly after Game One. After spending all series takin the boards away from the Rangers, it was like they forgot how to shut down the middle of the ice in the last two games. Adjustments are possible here, and could work very well, given past experience.
The size, though, is a concern.
CrazedArabMan
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Well I'm all set for tomorrow now... Going to be a tough day. 
wsoxfan1214
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Well I'm all set for tomorrow now... Going to be a tough day.
:lol
brucewaynegretzky
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Amazing game. Anyone dismissing this series is missing out.
FLYERS WEST BABY!
FLYERS WEST BABY!
hu? what game did you watch? Honestly, most of it seemed pretty boring to me...
brucewaynegretzky
Member
And this is why I never see eye to eye with the people on this board. That was a really fun game to watch for me....
Maybe he's announcing it's his last year! Or that he'll play up until the Winter Classic!Well I'm all set for tomorrow now... Going to be a tough day.
I'm fully expecting Teemu to retire. I kind of almost want him too. We need new blood. Trade everyone.
wsoxfan1214
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oh hey you're back
TheAtomicPile
Member
I actually think there's a small chance that could be the case.
I'd rather have #5 back, but on the other hand he was taking up way too much cap room. Judging by the last 3 seasons, the Wings need all the cap space they can get so they can blow this team up and try to stay competitive at the same time. I'm really hoping for some radical changes.
If only Detroit were in a position to ship Franzen's lazy corpse out of town. Big-money lifetime deals are almost always a bad move.
CrazedArabMan
Member
Highly doubtful, I guess I'll be joining you guys on that bridge sooner than I thought.
wsoxfan1214
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it's not like you guys will be as bad as the ducks.
Jump or get off the pot.
alexthekid
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Did people actually think that the game was boring?
Maybe that sometime they was a little cautious but man the amount of time when they got someone at the board on the forecheck and just kept coming with all the attackers. So glad that all the boring teams are finally out.
Maybe that sometime they was a little cautious but man the amount of time when they got someone at the board on the forecheck and just kept coming with all the attackers. So glad that all the boring teams are finally out.
even as a Kings fan, the first period was mostly bleh... mostly.
but yeah the rest of the game was good. especially OT. especially.
He confirmed it with an interview in Sweden
http://www.expressen.se/sport/hockey/nhl/lidstrom-jag-har-haft-en-fantastisk-karriar/
I'll be at my sons hockey training at 5pm (I'm in the UK) tonight trying not to shed too many tears as I listen to the press conference.
I have never know hockey without Lidstrom.
Doctor West
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How could you find any part of that game boring as a Kings fan?!? It took 19 years to get there. That alone should have made you tense as fuck.
Anyway, the Kings played one of their worst games and still won, and I expected Game 2 to be much more intense due to all the rust being gone. Game 2 is also when Brown starts to piss everybody off.
Anyway, the Kings played one of their worst games and still won, and I expected Game 2 to be much more intense due to all the rust being gone. Game 2 is also when Brown starts to piss everybody off.
Pickles the Firecat
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I don't even know what to do with myself until Saturday.
yankeehater
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That is dedication. lol
It was nice to see the Kings win and Richards and Carter both be invisible. Hopefully that happens 3 more times.
brucewaynegretzky
Member
Richards was mostly invisible, but he had some huge shifts as well. Kings 4th line was the best line on either team all night.
Also Clarkson had more major fuckups than I could count.
Yeah Zetterberg is my 1st choice for sure. Datsyuk may be the best player on the Wings 9 games out of 10, but Zetterberg is the hardest working and he always shows up in the playoffs.
Lone_Prodigy
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Habs got fleeced.
HabLol
The Internet
Member
So the Flames are set to become even more boring?
I wonder how Iggy will feel.
I wonder how Iggy will feel.
Was just about to post this, what a strange turn of events.
Er, what? I'm jumping for fucking joy that the Habs dodged that bullet. Poor Calgary.
CrazedArabMan
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A part of me died today. ;_;
CrazedArabMan
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Just finished watching the Lidstrom press conference, the end of an era my friends. Fighting back tears because of this, he has been a part of the Red Wings for as long as I have lived, I don't know a Wings team without him...
This is such a depressing day right now and watching Lids fighting back tears during the conference.
It's now up to Holland to right this ship come the draft and free agency or it will be a long season.
This is such a depressing day right now and watching Lids fighting back tears during the conference.
It's now up to Holland to right this ship come the draft and free agency or it will be a long season.