Originally Posted by UChieffyBugger:
What a load of crap. Firstly you've been bitter with me ever since we went back and forth about your avs, so needless to say I'm not surprised about your baseless accusations. Secondly can you back up that Taylor comment please?? Because from what I remember i merely wanted an RB taken high, I didn't favor one guy. Thirdly YES I support the Sixers and Knights and seeing as you're a mod maybe you can go and check my posting history if you really want to challenge that claim.
As for yesterdays game. Same old story!!..conceded the first goal, a disgrace during the power plays, missed tons of chances with our scorers not turning up the entire series and despite not losing a single game in regulation on the habs ice we lost two in OT which happened against Dallas last year too.
This thing is likely to be blown up now and hopefully positive changes will be made. The pp coach will be fired, Stone and Patch possibly shipped out along with Fluery. The mistake he made in game three killed this team imo and he needs to go now.
Two years running we've lost to less talented teams in the third round and something will have to give. I don't see the habs hanging with TB at all if they get through tonight but we'll see.
The AVS lost to a less talented team also, we just did to you what you did to them when facing a more talented team, be opportunistic , Staal's giveaway cancels out Fleury mess up in that game, and vegas had more call/non-calls go their way, mtl just outworked them . [Reply]
Originally Posted by Monticore:
The AVS lost to a less talented team also, we just did to you what you did to them when facing a more talented team, be opportunistic , Staal's giveaway cancels out Fleury mess up in that game, and vegas had more call/non-calls go their way, mtl just outworked them .
Vegas's game is to keep games close and try to win them in the third/OT. The late coin flip luck went their way against the Avs. It didn't against the Habs. That's really all it came down to. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Monticore:
The AVS lost to a less talented team also, we just did to you what you did to them when facing a more talented team, be opportunistic , Staal's giveaway cancels out Fleury mess up in that game, and vegas had more call/non-calls go their way, mtl just outworked them .
Not true..we had the same record as the avs this season and the regular season series was 4-3 to them with us losing the last game when we were shorthanded with key players missing. And no..Staals incident was nowhere near as bad as Fluery's. [Reply]
Originally Posted by DaFace:
Vegas's game is to keep games close and try to win them in the third/OT. That worked against the Avs. It didn't against the Habs. That's really all it came down to.
MTL has done a good job of shutting down top lines, and hope their 3-4 lines can beat your 3-4 lines and so far it has worked out , MTL has decent depth they lost Evans and team didn't lose a beat, Drouin at home , tatar/frolik/romanov/kulak in the stands, was there some luck ilvoved playing their style sure but it is amazing how working harder than the other guy gets some some good bounces, Gallagher must show up to the bench with snot bubbles after every shift. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Monticore:
The AVS lost to a less talented team also, we just did to you what you did to them when facing a more talented team, be opportunistic , Staal's giveaway cancels out Fleury mess up in that game, and vegas had more call/non-calls go their way, mtl just outworked them .
OMG you're so bitter!
Yeah, it feels very self-fulfilling/"they are who we thought they were"... but, when you add up the shutouts versus the Wild and 0 for a lot on the PP against Montreal, and all the times they couldn't make the initial play but benefited from a bounce (the goal off Grubauer's back, just to name one), and the sheer number of defenseman goals through traffic.... there's just no way it's a "scorers didn't show up" kind of problem.
They don't have scorers.
Yeah, force 4 million turnovers against a bunch of puck handlers who are hell bent on fitting their round offense into a muck-it-up defense, and score a few times... and even then a more talented team would have been scoring 10 per night with that number of odd man rushes.
Punch them in the face though and try to beat them at their own game? ....yeah, it becomes a grind of a 50/50 series, and a brutal one at that.
A couple of guys who can finish would probably make a huge difference. [Reply]
