Re: UNH Wildcats 2019 Offseason - How Much Progress Did We Really Make This Past Seas
I do stand corrected then on the longevity of the "senior checking line" getting significant PP time. Apologies to Snively65 for missing that. Otherwise, '32's point of the SCL being tactically matched up against the opposition's top lines was accurate. I think we can all agree that strategy was ill-founded.
If Dan didn't post the UNH PP combination of the SCL backed by Dawson and Furgele, I'd have forgotten that it ever happened. Funny how your mind can sometimes block out really bad things. It looked awful when it was happening, and now in retrospect it looks even worse. Modern day equivalent would be something like Sato/Cefalu/Sacco with Hickey and Verrier on the points. Ugh. Again, apologies '65.
I'm not sure if you've noticed this yet, chickod, but the home teams are 2-4-0 in this series so far.
The dumbest thing the B's can do is play the Blues at their physical-first game tomorrow night. The Blues were arguably smart to lay that stuff down at the end as a calling card for Game 7, when it couldn't possibly hurt them (they'd lost already). If the B's are thinking about the last minute of Game 6 at the start of Game 7, I'd be really worried if I were a B's fan.
What really WAS dumb in St. Louis though was the ownership and the local media somehow putting something out there with premature congrats to the "champion" Blues. Talk about self-inflicted damage. I'd hate to be the idiot in the SLB organization responsible for that eff-up. Whether it's creating motivation for your opponent, or just bad karma for your guys … ugh, what a stupid JV thing to do. Berube will probably hunt down the person(s) responsible for some deserved corporal punishment after the series if the Blues blow it. Classic "We have met the enemy, and they is us" stuff …
Also … interesting how the turning point in Game 6 was arguably when O'Reilly put his team down two players on the PK when he flipped the puck up over the glass in his own zone, right before the Marchand PPG that gave the B's the lead. The same O'Reilly who was being spoken of as the Conn Smythe leader in the clubhouse. Oops.
If the officiating crew is going to swallow their whistles in true Game 7 tradition … I believe the Blues have outscored the B's 12-10 so far at 5 on 5 (excluding PP/SH/EN goals).
I always said the winner was going to win it on the road, so I'm glued to the Blues in 7.
2019 - The Year No One Really Wanted to Win the Cup
* All the top seeds pretty much bow out in the first round
* The B's doing their best to lose a Cup to the Blues that was theirs to win
* The Blues then returning the favor, when it was finally within their reach
* Game 7 goes into double OT before an obscure player scores a fluke goal
* Nothing gets done at work Thursday in the Hub O' the Universe and at the Gateway to the West
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If Dan didn't post the UNH PP combination of the SCL backed by Dawson and Furgele, I'd have forgotten that it ever happened. Funny how your mind can sometimes block out really bad things. It looked awful when it was happening, and now in retrospect it looks even worse. Modern day equivalent would be something like Sato/Cefalu/Sacco with Hickey and Verrier on the points. Ugh. Again, apologies '65.
Originally posted by chickod
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The dumbest thing the B's can do is play the Blues at their physical-first game tomorrow night. The Blues were arguably smart to lay that stuff down at the end as a calling card for Game 7, when it couldn't possibly hurt them (they'd lost already). If the B's are thinking about the last minute of Game 6 at the start of Game 7, I'd be really worried if I were a B's fan.
What really WAS dumb in St. Louis though was the ownership and the local media somehow putting something out there with premature congrats to the "champion" Blues. Talk about self-inflicted damage. I'd hate to be the idiot in the SLB organization responsible for that eff-up. Whether it's creating motivation for your opponent, or just bad karma for your guys … ugh, what a stupid JV thing to do. Berube will probably hunt down the person(s) responsible for some deserved corporal punishment after the series if the Blues blow it. Classic "We have met the enemy, and they is us" stuff …
Also … interesting how the turning point in Game 6 was arguably when O'Reilly put his team down two players on the PK when he flipped the puck up over the glass in his own zone, right before the Marchand PPG that gave the B's the lead. The same O'Reilly who was being spoken of as the Conn Smythe leader in the clubhouse. Oops.
If the officiating crew is going to swallow their whistles in true Game 7 tradition … I believe the Blues have outscored the B's 12-10 so far at 5 on 5 (excluding PP/SH/EN goals).
I always said the winner was going to win it on the road, so I'm glued to the Blues in 7.
2019 - The Year No One Really Wanted to Win the Cup
* All the top seeds pretty much bow out in the first round
* The B's doing their best to lose a Cup to the Blues that was theirs to win
* The Blues then returning the favor, when it was finally within their reach
* Game 7 goes into double OT before an obscure player scores a fluke goal
* Nothing gets done at work Thursday in the Hub O' the Universe and at the Gateway to the West
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