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I wonder qhat he thinks about the wild getting slaughtered in 5 games against the Hawks and the Wings almost beating them and going 7. Wild are bushleague. Wings' future looks bright

Griffs also beat the WIld's farm team in the first round.

Zoink!

"Now go home and get your f****** hockey stick."

I don't care what the terms are, get him and his nose signed!

USA's going to win it anyway so it doesn't matter who Canada's coach is. This is fact.

Soccer  (4-2-3-1 formation)

 

 

                        Howard

 

White - Ericsson - Dekeyser - Kronwall

 

                 Helm - Filppula

 

      Brunner - Datsyuk - Zetterberg

 

                      Franzen

I don't know much about formations but if I'm looking at that right, Helm/Flip are defensive mids, Dats line are attacking mids, right? And I'm guessing the striker position doesn't do as much work as everyone else except trying to score goals?

I wonder if centcougar has been paying attention?

I'm pretty confident that the Pens won't win it all. They're just too one-dimensional.

Hopefully that deflates the Hawks and Wings take advantage of that.

 

I think we're seeing a new kind of dynamic developing.  Top teams have their "core" players Pav/Dats, Kane/Toews, Crosby/Malkin etc, the key is the supporting cast around them.  You get a good supporting cast of cheap young players and cheap role players, but then those cheap players leave for for more money and you lose all your depth, so you have to start building your depth again.

 

I think success is going to go in cycles for the top teams for the forseeable future.

I agree with this, Pavel Datsyuk is equal to two of their best players 

Wasn't everyone 2 months ago or so saying "Trade Nyquist?"

 

The times are uh changing.

Wrong. Not everyone 

How about Zetterberg diving in front of that shot by Stalberg at around 24:25? Captain Willpower.

He's a good coach in the regular season, but he pretty much hasn't done anything in the playoffs. He won the cup in 2010, but aside from that he has never even made the finals. His teams always get bumped out early despite having some great teams.

On a lighter note, quenneville has been eliminated by Detroit 5 times out of the 13 playoff teams he has coached

I don't know the ins-and-outs of coaching or what it takes to be a good coach in this league, especially now with parity. I know Q is trying everything he can to switch up lines to get better opportunities from his stars, but when I see a stat like Zetterberg's line getting on the ice almost 95% of the time Toews line takes a shift, then that's when a good coach has to talk to their players about will power and fighting through it because it's basically your best players versus their best players.

This is where I think Q fails. If he's getting frustrated, then that's going to carry over to your best players, in this case their captain. What's everyone's mentality now when their captain is frustrated and has no answers? Who was it that skated over to Toews in the penalty box and gave him a pep talk? Why's the captain need a pep talk from another player?