Nah hes slow as shit.
His skating is definitly not been the same, cant pivot right, no top end speed, his acceleration is just average now.
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NHL PlayOffs |OT| Keep your hopes up, and your salt on the ice
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Nah hes slow as shit.
His skating is definitly not been the same, cant pivot right, no top end speed, his acceleration is just average now.
MrToughPants
Brian Burke punched my mom
Lol
equippedwithtowel
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To be fair Detroit's been making the playoffs since before they were all born.
Wild fans will disappear as quick as they arrived. I bet Frey will be the only Blues fan to post regularly in the Offseason thread.
CrazedArabMan
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Once again this is said every year.
Buba Big Guns
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Thank God for the longer break.
We need pre injury Karlsson back, arguably the best player in the league.
He's allowed 40 goals in his last 10 playoff games. That Fleury existed and died in 2009.
If the Pens go back to Fleury it will be done as a desperation move. ie. facing elimination or down 2 games to none. (Maybe if Sens win the first game too)
I don't think the Pens D is good enough to win a Cup.
If Vokoun has a bad game and gives up 4-5 goals, I can definitely see Bylsma going back to Fleury. He wouldn't have a choice. MAF is the guy you're paying big bucks. Maybe this time away would give him the motivation he needs to get his shit together. Good Fleury definitely exists. He just hasn't been around in 3-4 years.
He peaked. You're now witnessing the regression.
Nah. He had a solid February and March this season. Could just be going through a rough patch right now, or...he might actually just be shit in the playoffs, OR it's a combination of the Pens hanging him out to dry since THEY can't play in the playoffs either.
Anyway, really hoping these playoffs will have the Pens getting stronger each round, and tightening their game.
the near-miss from the Pens-Isles game:
That was ridiculously lucky.
Yeah, that was millimetres away from being absolutely horrific.
Didn't get enough captains.
equippedwithtowel
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For a bunch of flightless birds the penguins sure do let their blades fly.
Yeah it's a weird spot to be in. You bench him for the rest of the playoffs, and let's say the Pens lose a bunch of close games and don't win the cup, then what? What does that do for Fleury going forward, is that it for him? Getting ahead of ourselves a bit but yeah, going to be interested to see not only who they start for game 1 but the reasoning behind it. Vokoun also had the "well he's hot against the Isles" thing going that they could rely on too.
Interested to see how our PP does against the Sens PK next round. Special teams bailed us out a lot in this series.
apocalidiot
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Two shitty photoshops on this page, huh? Pens-age in full effect
As Alu pointed out, I'm mainly talking about regular season where we've seen the good Fleury, as recently as this year.
True but we all know that the regular season means fuck all in the playoffs. The Pens almost found that out the hard way versus the Isles in the first round.
Just imagine what will happen if the Pens make it to the Finals.
You got a point there.
It's so cute when bandwagoners try to talk shit.
Only two? That's not nearly full strength.
Coldnoodle
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Listen to this guy, he knows his shit.
The crappy photoshops have begun.
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My boy coldplay won't like that one!
There have been good ones?
For sure. Your core is very strong, you just need a goalie.
We're ready for war. I'll try to tone it down. Likely won't get to watch too many of the games as is. Just hope CBC carries them since I don't have TSN.
equippedwithtowel
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One more finisher wouldn't hurt. Hopefully Strome or Niederreiter is that guy.
CrazedArabMan
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It was nice not having to put up with Pens-Age and their Photoshops for a while as it died down the last year or 2. I miss those days.
apocalidiot
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I'm personally waiting for User33 to chime in
KernelPanic
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They'll talk about Crosby 99% of the time.
The other 1% will be the Cooke/Karlsson incident.
Where is user33?
Niederreiter is atm 7th in World Championship scoring, 4 goals & 2 assists in 5 games. Looking good out there.
For comparison, Giroux also has 6 points, Eberle has 5.
Pens just won a round in the playoffs. Just a one-night thing, I swear. It was only 3. I'll only go into beast mode if they make the finals.
:lol this thread is madness!
We all know that's not true.
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