Quoting: BOLTLOVER1
Actually agree with you on Philly early being tougher matchup than all else .. and Bruins and Caps late of course will be wars.. St. Louis isn't going to repeat.. lucky goalie last year .. look for them to fall by 2nd round and East team to take out whoever is West finals team which I think will be Vegas
Seriusly all west teams are same, i can't differentiate them: Dallas - slow(we 0-2 vs them this year but they far from unbeatable), Vegas - fast, Vanc - riding the JT miller early hype + hot goalie
Colorado has incosistent matches, like lose vs LA in stadium series... and injury prone... not that good goalie...Grubauer = bad season kinda...
Nashville might not even make it...
St. Louis i think the best team there - with Tarasenko they will pretty good, i'm not sure where that guy returns... they might lose before he returns... they are in a slump and yes no hot goalie for them right now, they lose a lot... maybe the grinding is too much for them for a full year... i really don't want St. Louis in the finals...
Oh god... that's a nightmare, even if we somehow win.
I take Vegas any day... Marchessault is their best player kinda, who we didn't need... alright maybe after Stone trade, it's mark Stone... but still he is more like a Cirelli 2.0 more refined version(bigger+ scores more). I mean Cirelli is my fav player so Mark Stone is a good one, but when Kucherov scores from nothing 2 goals, it's better than him
See MVP title+hart etc...last year
Fleury also seems like declining... really inconsistent, so even with your "shrimps" we should still need to go deep or byeerino Cooperoni...
I hope Brisebois telling him in these days: "you better win in the playoffs couple series with the added gritty player Coleman or you can search a new team next summer."
Stamkos + Johnson + whole team defending, that's a really good sign, just need to keep away those bad injuries, like last year's Hedman... They didn't defend at all next year. They just forgot to come back to D-zone after a good scoring chance missed... This new system u have to agree, Cooper did a good job last 3 months. December it was still shaky... but better then early season... but Jan+Feb is hands down our month both... Top1 team in the NHL right now on the power rankings... I hope we don't win the president's trophy... i don't wanna face possible NYI/Philly matchup 1st round... The NHL should do 1 vs 16 playoffs format, so that trophy means something.... currently it's more often than not, the grinder teams make it around those places like 7th-8th in the conference way too often... i mean for upset it's good... but we don't want upsets every year
I will be scared if
is 1st round opponent.... but maybe they will be good prepration for us for rest of playoffs... i would rather take an easy toronto series though.... or florida if they don't collapse... but to me florida looks like complete done... like arizona...
alright until next trade! let's hope we do something else on the RH-Defense front