The NHL Thread

Very concerned about Tanev playing and how he will be able to play if they decide to throw him out there.

catz/rag$ game 5: xg 69% panthers

best panthers xg: tkachuk 93%, rodrigues 92%, bennett 91%, ekman-larsson 86%, kulikov 81%
worst panthers xg: verhaeghe 47%, ekblad 48%, barkov 49%, forsling 50%, tarasenko 51%

yeah this was a beat down. panthers really rounding into form and their superior quality seems to be wearing the rangers down. only some serious lolbob can stop them now. tkachuk is absolutely dominant much of the time, and seems to have built great chemistry with some of these guys

best rangers xg: panarin 72%, lafreniere 58%, chytil 54%, trochek 52%, miller 45%
worst* rangers xg: roslovic 8%, kakko 9%, lindgren 12%, wennberg 13%, goodrow 16%
* - rempe had 0 xg for and against in just under 3 minutes so i excluded him

the rangers simply don't have enough good players, and shesterkin can only do so much. they seem finished, but feel free to prove me wrong. he's been good, but they probably need him to be ~perfect tbh. obv not his fault though

1st penalty was bullshit, 2nd was ... unfortunate. regardless learn how to kill penalties for more than like 5 seconds

stars in big trouble here if they don't wake up asap

soon, and for the rest of our lives...

welp

just going back to this from the start of the playoffs to remind myself ... the stars kinda dominated the knights and avs, both of whom are good teams. the loilers are also good, i guess, but i'm seriously struggling to understand what it is they're doing that renders their opponent completely impotent. they did the same to the canucks, who aren't bad. i don't get it. they aren't actually that good, and their goalies suck ... just shoot the ****ing puck

hell.

i forget who the stars coach is, but fire him too for not being able to solve this thing

Deboer

Stars dominated the Knights in 7 games?

maybe maybe not, i forget

don't mind me i've had 4 beers and i'm pissed off about a lot of ****, especially how the loilers might ship. big whoop wanna fight about it

loilers/stars game 5: oilers 56% xg

score/venue adjusted is 62% loilers, which yeah, seems relevant here bc the stars got some offense in garbage time. they had like 6 shots 36 minutes into the game*
* - don't cinemasins fact check this, it's not an actual fact, but more or less correct

(again, i decided to use adjusted numbers for this today bc the loilers were up 2-3 kinda early. watching the game edm seemed fairly dominant until the end)

best oilers: mcdavid 89%, hyman 87%, nugent-hopkins 80%, bouchard 77%, ekholm 76%
worst oilers: henrique 14%, holloway 17%, kane 29%, brown 31%, ceci 32%

keep nuge with mcbust i guess, worked out very well for both tonight. bouchard/ekholm have been great all playoffs, build a statue if they win. kane has been bottom-5 in a lot of games iirc, guessing he's injured. and now i'm just thinking about cody ceci at a parade in edmonton fml

best stars: pavelski 65%, hintz 56%, petrovic 53%, seguin 47%, heiskanen 44%
worst stars: dellandrea 11%, dadonov 17%, stankoven 31%, tanev 31%, steel 33%

~nobody showed up, wtf is this. figure it out. tanev is likely playing on 1 litre of horse tranquilizers. i guess dellandrea drew in for someone injured, but as the woat black ace i'd prob try anyone else next game

the deboer special - get to the conference finals with the best team left in the playoffs (other than last year obv) and fizzle out inexplicably

I thought maybe he had finally figured it out this year but nah apparently

edmonton - florida will be fun, other than for the players having to endure that travel

If they want to trade him and he won't waive, they could make it ugly by healthy scratching him repeatedly. The fans won't object.

Contract year for mitchy. He can get no pp time and play 3rd line. Wonder how that will impact his next contract.

The best explanation I've read is someone who said something to the effect of "everyone things the Oilers are this run and gun team because of McDavid, but if you look at the roster: Draisaitl. Hyman. Kane. Perry." they're a heavy cycle team that has one transcedental rush player. They just have the puck in the ozone a lot, and that freaking wears on teams, and teams are always a little apprehensive about defending too hard in case referee lottery shows up and its the night they decide to call the rulebook and the Oilers get 6 powerplays.

Add to that the Oilers bottom 6 doesn't really even need to worry about outscoring - they just dump it in, tie up on the boards and keep it far away from Skinner until the big boys are ready to go again. When they split 29+97 up, it's just demoralizing - you have a really good shift and defend the McDavid line, giving them nothing. Skate to the bench and see your fourth line come out while Draisaitl grins and hops over the boards.

They might actually do it.

Cheering for Edmonton overall.

Prefer Panthers greatly over Rangers, but not sure if one is preferable for Edmonton over the other.

Edmonton over Florida
Edmonton over Rangers
Florida cup
Dallas cup
Lol ragz

Woohooo Florida, picked them to go all the way, cha ching and on my birthday! 😀

I don't see either Western team beating Florida. Vegas had the size, defense and experience to stand up to them last season. This year Florida has the experience from last year and Tkachuk is healthy.

desperate times call for desperate measures:

helluva time to make your NHL playoff debut

catz/rag$ game 6: xg 64% panthers

best panthers xg: rodrigues 78%, tkachuk 75%, bennett 74%, lundell 73%, tarasenko 67%
worst panthers xg: lorentz 0%, stenlund 1%, okposo 21%, kulikov 60%, forsling 61%

their 4th line sucks so maurice solved this by just not playing them (like 7 minutes at 5v5), and with one simple trick his entire team was 60%+ xg. ez game

best rangers xg: roslovic 60%, fox 55%, lindgren 53%, chytil 49%, kakko 47%
worst rangers xg: schneider 19%, miller 21%, zibanejad 25%, kreider 27%, wennberg 27%

not much to say, so i'll say what i said after last game, but again; they just didn't have as many horses as the other top teams, and this fact was maybe obscured by shesterkin being one of the best goalies in the world

panthers series xg for east final vs rangers: 49%, 48%, 69%, 73%, 69%, 64%

very slightly outplayed the first couple games, but once they figured some things out it was gg. the final will probably come down to if lolbob can submarine this strong team or not

pm me for coaching rates, pete

👍 yeah I guess the stars are basically playing 4 vs. 5 with dellandrea on the ice. how much worse can it get playing anyone else in his place?

:shocked: lol wow

Might be time to retire the McBust moniker

McJ!!!!

Lollll Ceci