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Around the League 2019-2025 Edition

Yeah I think the Oilers dominate as much or more than the Leafs dominate Montreal. And then they'll be the favorites against the Leafs in the second round. Cuz juggernauts and stuff.
 
Artnes said:
With the hack hockey we are seeing so far I wouldnt be shocked to seem them maul McDavid any chance they get and get away with it
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It really has been gross. The only league in the world terrified of letting skill players dominate the game to the point where their own rulebook just doesn't fucking matter at the most important time of the year.
 
its funny, as a kid I was all about Darcy Tucker, Gary Roberts, Shane Corson, truculence, pugnacity, grit, character, etc. I loved the Pat Quinn teams, especially how hated we were, and how I knew we could 'handle' the Sens.

in hindsight, I realize that is largely because of the narrative in the media and how the talking asses view things.

now that we have Matthews, Marner, et al. mature DP has realized the errors of young DP. give me a high skill game every day of the week.

but I dunno how we prevent the next generation from being taught that skill sux and grit rulez.
 
Wayward DP said:
its funny, as a kid I was all about Darcy Tucker, Gary Roberts, Shane Corson, truculence, pugnacity, grit, character, etc. I loved the Pat Quinn teams, especially how hated we were, and how I knew we could 'handle' the Sens.

in hindsight, I realize that is largely because of the narrative in the media and how the talking asses view things.

now that we have Matthews, Marner, et al. mature DP has realized the errors of young DP. give me a high skill game every day of the week.

but I dunno how we prevent the next generation from being taught that skill sux and grit rulez.
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Never forget that those Quinn teams were actually built around revolutionary speed, skill, and puck moving dmen - while the rest of the league was trapping.

Quinn built around the likes of Sundin and Kaberle and Berard and McCabe and Thomas and Mogilny and was always bringing in skilled depth like Sullivan Johnson korolov reichel renberg hoglund antropov ponikarovsky mccauley berezin cote svehla karpovtsev lumme leetch Berg etc etc etc.

Tucker was good as long as he was scoring. Corson was actually poop.

Roberts was a true beast though.
 
zeke said:
Never forget that those Quinn teams were actually built around revolutionary speed, skill, and puck moving dmen - while the rest of the league was trapping.

Quinn built around the likes of Sundin and Kaberle and Berard and McCabe and Thomas and Mogilny and was always bringing in skilled depth like Sullivan Johnson korolov reichel renberg hoglund antropov ponikarovsky mccauley berezin cote svehla karpovtsev lumme leetch Berg etc etc etc.

Tucker was good as long as he was scoring. Corson was actually poop.

Roberts was a true beast though.
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oh I don't disagree. but as a young'un, I was generally told the opposite by the people who I assumed knew better and were supposed to be authorities.
 
zeke said:
Never forget that those Quinn teams were actually built around revolutionary speed, skill, and puck moving dmen - while the rest of the league was trapping.

Quinn built around the likes of Sundin and Kaberle and Berard and McCabe and Thomas and Mogilny and was always bringing in skilled depth like Sullivan Johnson korolov reichel renberg hoglund antropov ponikarovsky mccauley berezin cote svehla karpovtsev lumme leetch Berg etc etc etc.

Tucker was good as long as he was scoring. Corson was actually poop.

Roberts was a true beast though.
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Yeah, Quinn may have been a plug during his playing career, but as a coach he abhorred the trap and his teams played a pretty wide-open offensive style.

Like Dubas has done though, he made sure his teams had plenty of “grit”, since he knew the rule book gets tossed in the playoffs.

Meanwhile, the high-skill Sens were run by Mr. Roboto Jacques Martin, who loved forcing his skilled teams into playing an overly regimented and boring defensive style.

He also delayed the start of Spezza’s NHL career by a couple of years because the kid had the audacity to make high-skill plays and wasn’t a perfect defensive checker yet.
 
That said, Gary Roberts was a bad, bad man. Go back and look at the hit he tagged Kenny Jonsson with in the Isles series.

Today, that’d be a minimum 20-game suspension, and he’d probably be clapped in handcuffs once he stepped off the ice.
 
Tippett does appear to have some bizarre voodoo that makes Mike Smith enter god-mode on any team he coaches. I don't know if there is any actual causation here, or if it is sustainable, but I'm willing to entertain the possibility that there is something to it.
 
zeke said:
Some station was flashing Smith's .934 career playoffs save percentage in 25gms and I pooped my pants a bit.

Then I looked and in the last decade it's a .904 in 6gms.
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they did the same for price this morning talking career and not lately in regular or postseason
 
zeke said:
Some station was flashing Smith's .934 career playoffs save percentage in 25gms and I pooped my pants a bit.

Then I looked and in the last decade it's a .904 in 6gms.
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Yeah, that one Arizona miracle run to the third round in 2012 is basically the entirety of Smith’s career playoff experience.
 
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