Stanley Cup Playoffs 2020 Thread

[Andrew Amerk]

These Vegas-Stars games have been fairly boring. 

[SwampD]

36 minutes ago, Andrew Amerk said:

These Vegas-Stars games have been fairly boring. 

I rarely find Vegas games anything but.

[Andrew Amerk]

2 minutes ago, SwampD said:

I rarely find Vegas games anything but.

I can’t disagree, just this series has had a hard time keeping my attention. 

[Thorner]

Khudobin is carrying Dallas 

1 hour ago, Andrew Amerk said:

I can’t disagree, just this series has had a hard time keeping my attention. 

Dallas sucks, Vegas I find entertaining 

[Wyldnwoody44]

I hate Dallas

[Zamboni]

C’mon Isles. Win this one. 

[bunomatic]

Lightening counter with 2 quick ones. Make it look easy really. 

[Wyldnwoody44]

3 goals in 30 seconds wow 

[Stoner]

18 hours ago, Zamboni said:

C’mon Isles. Win this one. 

Because we hate Boston, Philly, Toronto, Pittsburgh, Montreal, the Rangers, Tampa?

[Zamboni]

4 hours ago, PASabreFan said:

Because we hate Boston, Philly, Toronto, Pittsburgh, Montreal, the Rangers, Tampa?

Wow a hybrid question/statement all in one! 😂

[Andrew Amerk]

On 9/12/2020 at 10:48 PM, Thorny said:

Khudobin is carrying Dallas 

Dallas sucks, Vegas I find entertaining 

 

On 9/12/2020 at 10:53 PM, Wyldnwoody44 said:

I hate Dallas

Dallas is pretty boring. I was hoping for Vegas in that matchup, but it doesn’t look like it’s meant to be. 

[Zamboni]

C’mon Vegas!!

[Thorner]

Of course this series is gonna end on that ***** rule

[Zamboni]

Fudge  

fudge 

fudge 

[Thorner]

.... and there it is. The NHL is so maddeningly stupid sometimes. In OT, the officials let everything go but the over the glass call, which remains an automatic call. In effect, the over the glass minor is weighted much more severely than the other penalties. 

[Wyldnwoody44]

Hate the delay of game, but at least it's consistent. Damn Dallas, I kinda hate all the teams left. 

[Andrew Amerk]

Yawn. 

[Broken Ankles]

Nice to see Robin Clapton (slowhand) playing his greatest hits.  Now I can root against Dallas.  

[SwampD]

I'm somewhat intrigued by a Dallas/Tampa final.

I think it could be thumpin'.

 

I will not apologize for liking physical hockey.

[Wyldnwoody44]

If it wasn't for 1999, I wouldn't hate Dallas so much, but, 1999 happened....

[Eleven]

43 minutes ago, Wyldnwoody44 said:

Hate the delay of game, but at least it's consistent. Damn Dallas, I kinda hate all the teams left. 

I hated all of the teams left already.  It's time that Tampa ends the Isles, and hopefully whichever team wins does so 4-0 so we can move on to next season.

[PerreaultForever]

1 hour ago, SwampD said:

I'm somewhat intrigued by a Dallas/Tampa final.

I think it could be thumpin'.

 

I will not apologize for liking physical hockey.

With you on loving physical hockey but do you really think we'd get that? I dunno, there's been some physical moments in this bubble hockey but overall I think the nastiness and level of intensity and physicality is at an all time low. Am I wrong? Is it just my perception with the somewhat flat bubble atmosphere (no boos and home crowd stuff)? Certainly not the same level as last year, but maybe in this era that was the outlier. 

Wish Jamie Benn was a Sabre that's for sure. 

[SwampD]

Just now, PerreaultForever said:

With you on loving physical hockey but do you really think we'd get that? I dunno, there's been some physical moments in this bubble hockey but overall I think the nastiness and level of intensity and physicality is at an all time low. Am I wrong? Is it just my perception with the somewhat flat bubble atmosphere (no boos and home crowd stuff)? Certainly not the same level as last year, but maybe in this era that was the outlier. 

Wish Jamie Benn was a Sabre that's for sure. 

Couldn't be lower than that Tampa vs Chicago final a few years back.

 

I hope.

[carpandean]

7 hours ago, Thorny said:

.... and there it is. The NHL is so maddeningly stupid sometimes. In OT, the officials let everything go but the over the glass call, which remains an automatic call. In effect, the over the glass minor is weighted much more severely than the other penalties. 

I've always said that it should be treated like icing -- faceoff in your own zone without the possibility of substitution -- not a penalty.  Maybe have a flagrant version that is a delay of game penalty (ref's discretion) for those cases when a team is hemmed in badly and the player just flips it straight up over the boards to get a stoppage.  I assume that used to happen, thus the rule, so having it on the books should still prevent it.  For accidental ones, though, it shouldn't be a penalty.

[Eleven]

2 hours ago, carpandean said:

I assume that used to happen, thus the rule, so having it on the books should still prevent it.  For accidental ones, though, it shouldn't be a penalty.

Yeah, that used to happen, and the referee's discretion was inconsistently applied, so now it's automatic.  Frankly, this is better than leaving it up to the refs to decide whether it was intentional.  I'm not sure it warrants a two minute penalty, as you say, but discretion is a bad thing here.