Location: Mo can stay awhile, FL Joined: 10.27.2017
May 25 @ 10:52 AM ET
I wonder if Winnipeg is happy for Maurice, or if they hate him more now that he is winning with another team.
Seems he always was ridiculed for not having a great structure/plan, and tended to lose buy-in from his players during the year. Is he simply riding a better overall roster, or is he actually coaching better than he was previously. - Chunk
How much is he doesn’t have a room divided into cliques, as was reportedly so in Winnipeg? FL locker room is tight knit, and all working as one. Maurice has never said anything about the Jets....but he has glowingly spoken many times about the cohesiveness of the players in the Panthers’ room. I think in his mind he was comparing the two situations.
He also had what Q started here, he just had to work on tightening up their defensive focus, which Brunette let slide as last season went on. Sloppy, risky plays which Q would’ve checked and corrected, were allowed to continue as Brunette just rode the offensive wave that the Panthers were last year.
People need to understand this was not because Leafs fans thought Florida to be the easier route to the Final Four, but because we wanted to see the Bruins blow a 3 games to 1 lead and lose a series as such heavy favourites.
This was never about Florida, but about maximizing the pain for the Bruins (who has inflicted so much on the Leafs over the last 15 years). - bullethead7
Can confirm. There's little I enjoy more in life than watching Bruins fans suffer the way they've made us suffer. I could care less about the Panthers, they're a fine team with a goalie playing the best hockey of his life. The Leafs didn't show up but Bobrovsky did, simple as that. They were the better team in that series and they deserved to win.
Any time the options are "Boston loses" and "Boston makes it to the next round" I'll always be cheering for the former.
Can't wait until Leaf fans continue to meltdown after a non traditional hockey market wins the cup - 2Real
If by "meltdown after a non traditional hockey market wins the cup" you mean "not give a poop about a finals matchup between teams in cities that don't naturally have ice" then yeah, you're right. Props to those teams, though, clearly their GMs know how to do something that GMs in Canada haven't figured out since 1993.
If by "meltdown after a non traditional hockey market wins the cup" you mean "not give a poop about a finals matchup between teams in cities that don't naturally have ice" then yeah, you're right. Props to those teams, though, clearly their GMs know how to do something that GMs in Canada haven't figured out since 1993. - reepnorp
Those GMs also have some inherent advantages. Florida, Texas, Tennessee, and Nevada are all income tax free states. Players get to live an unassuming lower pressure life without media scrutiny. And families generally prefer the warmer weather.
People need to understand this was not because Leafs fans thought Florida to be the easier route to the Final Four, but because we wanted to see the Bruins blow a 3 games to 1 lead and lose a series as such heavy favourites.
This was never about Florida, but about maximizing the pain for the Bruins (who has inflicted so much on the Leafs over the last 15 years). - bullethead7
For me it comes down to, if I were to list all the Eastern Conf teams by "order of dislike" not including my hometown team of the Penguins obviously (who would obviously not go in the list), Florida would be last. In other words, they are my least disliked team in the East. The top three on my "dislike list" are the Flyers, Capitals, and Bruins and the last three, in reverse order, are the Panthers, Sabres, and Canes. Between the Panthers and Canes I slightly favored the Panthers but if the Canes had won I wouldn't have lost sleep over it.
I definitely will cheer for the Panthers against the western team. It will most likely be Vegas, who had things handed to them on a silver platter by the nhl and whose owner thinks they are entitled to a Cup. In the very unlikely event of a Stars comeback they are a very dirty team.
The league wants Vegas in the cup. The league wants Vegas to Win the Cup. To distract everyone from the fact they gifted Vegas a skilled team to immediately compete where other expansion teams were not given the chance. To distract everyone from the clown show that is the coyotes. A horrible blunder in the history of hockey. Since moving them from Winnipeg the league has owned them and seen the team relocated within the state and now to a college arena. Time to admit the mistake and move them to KC(personal choice) they have the arena and a immediate cross 70 rival with the Blues. I’d make that trek often. Houston. Could say the same with Dallas. Utah. I have no idea if that would work. They could remain in the central I think and be rivals with Colorado. Milwaukee makes sense if there is interest there. It keeps the conferences aligned.
I am all the way rooting for Florida. I like The Tkachuk family! Keith was good in St. Louis. Matthew and Brady are very good players.
Benn was suspended for the cross check to Stone. What did Pietrangelo get for his over the shoulder swing at Draisaitl? (frank) Vegas
Leafs fans... I used to feel sorry for them because...well, because their Leafs fans... but apparently all these years of underachieving with a squad of divas has them just not thinking clearly.... so yes, we understand..... in terms of 10 teams to like...I don't think so, this is the NHL and generally fans hate nearly every team but their own ..... I honestly was pulling for Carolina, though I'm not upset that Bob is owning the series..... if it's Florida and Vegas I may tune in a little, but won't invest in entire games... - angryagain
I generally feel sorry for people who don't know the difference between "their" and "they're" because...well, because they are stupid.
People need to understand this was not because Leafs fans thought Florida to be the easier route to the Final Four, but because we wanted to see the Bruins blow a 3 games to 1 lead and lose a series as such heavy favourites.
This was never about Florida, but about maximizing the pain for the Bruins (who has inflicted so much on the Leafs over the last 15 years). - bullethead7
If Leafs fans wanted to hurt the Bruins for what they inflicted on the Bruins over the last 15 years, they would've been chanting "We want Boston" so that their Leafs could be the ones to do it. - Osprey
This.
The other guy saying it was meant to be about Boston needs a mental health/welfare check. It’s simply not healthy to be THAT delusional and manipulative. He needs help…
Location: ...serial abuser...and misuser...of the ellipsis , NF Joined: 12.12.2014
May 26 @ 10:14 AM ET
The league wants Vegas in the cup. The league wants Vegas to Win the Cup. To distract everyone from the fact they gifted Vegas a skilled team to immediately compete where other expansion teams were not given the chance. To distract everyone from the clown show that is the coyotes. A horrible blunder in the history of hockey. Since moving them from Winnipeg the league has owned them and seen the team relocated within the state and now to a college arena. Time to admit the mistake and move them to KC(personal choice) they have the arena and a immediate cross 70 rival with the Blues. I’d make that trek often. Houston. Could say the same with Dallas. Utah. I have no idea if that would work. They could remain in the central I think and be rivals with Colorado. Milwaukee makes sense if there is interest there. It keeps the conferences aligned.
I am all the way rooting for Florida. I like The Tkachuk family! Keith was good in St. Louis. Matthew and Brady are very good players.
Benn was suspended for the cross check to Stone. What did Pietrangelo get for his over the shoulder swing at Draisaitl? (frank) Vegas - BluesDroogie
Weren't the rules, format and setup the same for the Kraken? I think the difference is McPhee was WAY MORE aggressive than Francis preying on teams in bad cap situations and also all the GM's learned from that expansion draft going into the Seattle one.
I don't think the league really gifted, more so a lot of the GM's did. Also, some players really took it to another level. For instance no one thought Karlsson would be a top line, or top 6, center and either did the CBJ's.
Weren't the rules, format and setup the same for the Kraken? I think the difference is McPhee was WAY MORE aggressive than Francis preying on teams in bad cap situations and also all the GM's learned from that expansion draft going into the Seattle one.
I don't think the league really gifted, more so a lot of the GM's did. Also, some players really took it to another level. For instance no one thought Karlsson would be a top line, or top 6, center and either did the CBJ's. - MattStrat
McPhee was more incentivized to make everyone forget that he traded Filip Forsberg for a bag of pucks and a half eaten mango
Weren't the rules, format and setup the same for the Kraken? I think the difference is McPhee was WAY MORE aggressive than Francis preying on teams in bad cap situations and also all the GM's learned from that expansion draft going into the Seattle one.
I don't think the league really gifted, more so a lot of the GM's did. Also, some players really took it to another level. For instance no one thought Karlsson would be a top line, or top 6, center and either did the CBJ's. - MattStrat
Bingo. Nearly every side deal backfired on those GMs. I still remember Holland in Detroit being grilled by local media on why he didn't make any side deal to protect this guy or that guy. His answer was simple. We got to protect 11 players. I'm going to lose one roster player, equivalent to a 3rd line forward or 4/5 d-man. We'll fill that role internally or via free agency. The end. So Vegas chooses from Helm, Sheahan, Glendening, Mrazek, Nosek. Go ahead. Take someone and let's move on. Other GMs tried to get clever and paid a huge price for it.
it’s never about Florida, even after they beat the Leafs in 5.
