All Playoff talk all the time.

Ah...thanks!

Crosby, Hank Sedin, and Ovechkin are the Hart finalists.

I think either Sedin or Crosby will win it.

Skew it any way you want, but Crosby's good for 1.5 points per game, so, he'll have around 8 points in 5 games and so on. All the Hal Gills and Halaks in the world won't stop that.

SpezDispenser wrote:Skew it any way you want, but Crosby's good for 1.5 points per game, so, he'll have around 8 points in 5 games and so on. All the Hal Gills and Halaks in the world won't stop that.

I still can't take him seriously. Wow. I can't believe he was their best D-man this series. We'll see what he'll do against the Pens.

Woo Hoo!! Game 1 of the Wings and Sharks tonight!! BRING IT ON!!!

SpezDispenser wrote:Skew it any way you want, but Crosby's good for 1.5 points per game, so, he'll have around 8 points in 5 games and so on. All the Hal Gills and Halaks in the world won't stop that.

Lets just see what we shall see. The Habs are still a long shot but so were the Sens and they took them to 6 games with a game six OT and the Sens were severely under-maned. Of those in the lineup the two biggest leaders were playing with surgery requiring injuries.

But Pittsburgh is Pittsburgh and Crosby is Crosby so advance them now without playing the games because the series will never be in question and MAF is money. If he lets in soft goals or bad goals he'll just shake it off and make the key save.

Also, keep in mind that Ovechkin still had 9 or 10 points in the 7 game series and that Crosby is a much, much better player right now.

SensGirl11 wrote:
I still can't take him seriously. Wow. I can't believe he was their best D-man this series. We'll see what he'll do against the Pens.

No kidding, it's like he's skating in quicksand. I don't understand why the Semins of the world didn't just blow by him and drive the net. When I was yelling for them to do it, they did and they started getting chances, but you certainly can't enter the zone, dipsy-doodle and shoot, it'll be blocked 99% of the time.

Cap'n Clutch wrote:But Pittsburgh is Pittsburgh and Crosby is Crosby so advance them now without playing the games because the series will never be in question and MAF is money. If he lets in soft goals or bad goals he'll just shake it off and make the key save.

Oh Cap'n... you are too funny.

Cap'n Clutch wrote:
Lets just see what we shall see. The Habs are still a long shot but so were the Sens and they took them to 6 games with a game six OT and the Sens were severely under-maned. Of those in the lineup the two biggest leaders were playing with surgery requiring injuries.

But Pittsburgh is Pittsburgh and Crosby is Crosby so advance them now without playing the games because the series will never be in question and MAF is money. If he lets in soft goals or bad goals he'll just shake it off and make the key save.

Their Achilles heal is MAF. He blows, but I don't really see him as any worse than Varlamov, so...yeah...

The thing people forget about Pittsburgh is they play an air-tight system. We'll see if those little dudes on Montreal are dancing around like they were against the Caps. My money's on 'no'.

I'll give Montreal 2 games though.

SpezDispenser wrote:

SensGirl11 wrote:
I still can't take him seriously. Wow. I can't believe he was their best D-man this series. We'll see what he'll do against the Pens.

No kidding, it's like he's skating in quicksand. I don't understand why the Semins of the world didn't just blow by him and drive the net. When I was yelling for them to do it, they did and they started getting chances, but you certainly can't enter the zone, dipsy-doodle and shoot, it'll be blocked 99% of the time.

Oh yeah, those dipsy doodling Caps. I couldn't understand why they were playing that way, it clearly wasn't working. If they wanted a chance against a goalie like Halak who is playing ridiculously well right now, they needed to crash the net. Why they never figured that out is beyond me. Boudreau failed in that sense with them, he's gotta put them in the right direction if something isn't working. He clearly didn't. As I said yesterday when we were watching, they were all asked to play like Alex Ovechkin, from the forwards down to the D. Problem is, there is only 1 Ovie. That definitely did them in.

SensGirl11 wrote:
Oh yeah, those dipsy doodling Caps. I couldn't understand why they were playing that way, it clearly wasn't working. If they wanted a chance against a goalie like Halak who is playing ridiculously well right now, they needed to crash the net. Why they never figured that out is beyond me. Boudreau failed in that sense with them, he's gotta put them in the right direction if something isn't working. He clearly didn't. As I said yesterday when we were watching, they were all asked to play like Alex Ovechkin, from the forwards down to the D. Problem is, there is only 1 Ovie. That definitely did them in.

Yeah. It's tempting to want to play run and gun all the time when you have the tools, but if a team is suffocating you, you must change the game plan. They're the biggest team at forward in the entire league, they needed to dump, chase and crash over and over and over again. If not that, they needed to bring the puck right up the middle and chip it on net and follow it up by absolutely plowing into Halak (again, over and over).

Boudreau is to blame. I was thinking yesterday that he'd get another chance - and I still do - but I could certainly see if they were to fire him for this.

Also Mike Green blew that series. What is up with that dude? I thought he had his defensive game coming along - boy was I wrong.

shabbs wrote:

Cap'n Clutch wrote:But Pittsburgh is Pittsburgh and Crosby is Crosby so advance them now without playing the games because the series will never be in question and MAF is money. If he lets in soft goals or bad goals he'll just shake it off and make the key save.

Oh Cap'n... you are too funny.

I think the Cap'n is a closet Habs fan...

SpezDispenser wrote:Also Mike Green blew that series. What is up with that dude? I thought he had his defensive game coming along - boy was I wrong.

Oh yeah, all the way for Green. That guy stunk up the joint so badly I could smell it over here.

SensGirl11 wrote:

shabbs wrote:

Cap'n Clutch wrote:But Pittsburgh is Pittsburgh and Crosby is Crosby so advance them now without playing the games because the series will never be in question and MAF is money. If he lets in soft goals or bad goals he'll just shake it off and make the key save.

Oh Cap'n... you are too funny.

I think the Cap'n is a closet Habs fan...

Maybe that's it or I just forgot to put on my Crosby is a god glasses.

You don't need glasses to see that Crosby is the best.

SpezDispenser wrote:

SensGirl11 wrote:
Oh yeah, those dipsy doodling Caps. I couldn't understand why they were playing that way, it clearly wasn't working. If they wanted a chance against a goalie like Halak who is playing ridiculously well right now, they needed to crash the net. Why they never figured that out is beyond me. Boudreau failed in that sense with them, he's gotta put them in the right direction if something isn't working. He clearly didn't. As I said yesterday when we were watching, they were all asked to play like Alex Ovechkin, from the forwards down to the D. Problem is, there is only 1 Ovie. That definitely did them in.

Yeah. It's tempting to want to play run and gun all the time when you have the tools, but if a team is suffocating you, you must change the game plan. They're the biggest team at forward in the entire league, they needed to dump, chase and crash over and over and over again. If not that, they needed to bring the puck right up the middle and chip it on net and follow it up by absolutely plowing into Halak (again, over and over).

Boudreau is to blame. I was thinking yesterday that he'd get another chance - and I still do - but I could certainly see if they were to fire him for this.

Well, if this didn't teach them that the run and gun play doesn't work in the playoffs I don't know what will. They will be in for this year after year after year. They need to rid themselves of the Joe Corvo's on that team and the soft forwards and D. They need rough and tumble guys to come in and show them how it's done. Backstrom was brutal, Semin was cursed beyond belief (or he just sucks in the playoffs). Morrisson didn't do jack Dung in the series and so on and so forth. I dont' know what they were thinking at the deadline, but they made themselves so much softer.

Boudreau messed-up so badly here, it'll be interesting to see what happens with him.