Yeah, he’s been around forever and doesn’t appear to be getting any worse.
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Yeah, he’s been around forever and doesn’t appear to be getting any worse.
And here I was expecting a cheap shot, not a love tap...??
In the second half of the game for sure. As I predicted, game 2 was a much more competitive game, but a Colorado win ?
You must have been distracted smoking some of that $80 Red Ribbon on the back porch, Frank! That was complete domination for 2/3 of the game, but in typical Vegas playoff fashion they can’t score.
It could have been 2/3. Period 1 CO looked like game 1. Somewhere in the second Vegas found their game for sure. 2/3? 1/2? Splitting hairs here, I think we both agree on the point that this game was much more what we all expected of this series. Still sticking with my earlier prediction of CO in either 5 or 6 games though.
No. Fleury played. That was the difference. Avs sweep the tournament. You heard it here.
Oh yeah, and Reaves being out. That probably enabled Vegas to score one more.
But Murray did win the Pens 2 Cups! Besides, name a goalie that maintains his excellence long term in this league? You get what you can out of one then dump them for prospects before you’re saddled with high Cap and extremely low output (Quick, Crawford, Luongo etc..... all perfect examples of what happens when you keep a netminder too long. Not coincidentally all three teams have been mired in the doldrums too.)
Tampa moved on from Bishop and won with Vasilevsky. Pitt moves on from Fleury and win with Murray. St Louis went with hot hand rookie and rolled to a Cup? Netminders have short shelf life in the modern era.
He delivers equally dangerous hits all the time. That's why he is perennially voted the second dirtiest player in the league by his fellow players (Behind, of course, Brad Marchand).
This is true, and I'll admit, I supported the move at the time. However, I would argue that our 2017 cup run can be credited as much to Fleury as to Murray. Fleury was between the pipes until half way through the conference final and played extremely well. I believe had Pitt left him there instead of swapping with Murray in game 4, they still would have won the Stanley Cup.
Simply a hindsight is 20/20 coulda shoulda woulda statement above, hahaha.
It's odd that on the so called dirty hits, Wilson doesn't even get a penalty from the three on ice officials, so keep telling yourself that. He's also never blinded sided anyone like last night. Al the retired Defenseman in the NHL always comment "that was not a dirty hit", but what do those guys know, right? Keep watching slo-mo replays and feeding into the frenzy. We'll keep loving Tom Wilson.
It's amazing how deep the bias runs in some NHL fans. I admire your commitment to your team. Putting the blinders on for a guy like Wilson takes some serious dedication.
?????? The old “If it wasn’t called on the ice” argument. By that rationale, the Shea Weber grabbing and slamming Zetterberg’s head into the glass was “kosher”.?
Hahaha, yeah nevermind the 37 games of suspensions and fines galore, hahaha. Only clean players rack up that kind of record, right?
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