The whole shootin' match: Kings vs Devils
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maplesyrup
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I think what you're proving here Nik is that unlike baseball, hockey games can't be reconstructed with stats. I really think your tune might change had you been paying attention to these games.
Kin
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Tigger said:
It's 2% higher than Phoenix and .7% higher than St. Louis. Admittedly, they were helped in that regards by facing LA's power play but still.
Tigger said:
If a series of close wins cumulatively amounts to dominance then...sure. Personally it'd be like calling Mike Gartner a dominant goal scorer but, hey, people need to construct narratives where they can, right?
GhostofPotvin29
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Kings haven't trailed since game 5 against Phoenix (going from memory of what they said). That's crazy.
Nik? said:
Just a teensy difference in times short handed compared to the Blues, Phoenix I agree and hey, they gave LA one of their only 2 losses so far.
Nik? said:
Nah, 16-2 and a cup is a little different. They may not have outright dominated a single game but this playoff performance is dominant.
GhostofPotvin29
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A dry, sarcastic, obscure-reference filled, possibly insulting way, typically works.
maplesyrup
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Potvin29 said:
You know you've just won the tmlf Conn Smythe for the post of the playoffs, right?
I'd say that when a team's playoff goals for more than doubles their playoff goals against, as LA is currently doing, that's a pretty dominant performance. I can't think of any team in modern history who has done that though I could easily be overlooking a team. Their dominance may not be as obvious because they're not lighting the lamp as much. But aside from the crazy Flyers-Pens series, they're the best offensive club in the playoffs playing dominanting defense.
In the games I've watched, once they get ahead, it's like their opponent has almost no chance. They barely seem to be able to muster a scoring chance and when they do, much more often than not, Quick is there to snuff it out.
I took the Canucks series as some sort of upset aberration. Didn't see many of those games. But during the Blues series, they just dismantled them. They smothered Phoenix pretty well too. I never would have predicted it prior to the playoffs.
Some of the reason they haven't lit the lamp as much as they might have has to relate to the defenses of their opponents: Blues (1st in GAA), Canucks (4th), Coyotes (5th). LA is second so the only top 5 NHL defense they haven't faced is the Rangers.
Towards then end of the Blues series, I developed a sense that these guys were playing at a different level and didn't look like they could be stopped ... because they were defensively dominating their very good opponents - just physically out skating and out muscling them.
If their 1.41 GAA holds up, that may be (not positive) the best playoff team GAA put up since '67 - in decades. It's right up there with the best. And it provides some statistical reinforcement for how stingy they've been defensively.
Only two of their key players are over 30: Mitchell & Scuderi. Average team age is 27 = pretty young. And most of these guys are signed for next season - they don't have a real cap issue (Penner & Stoll being the only notable UFAs).
I think the Kings have been very, very impressive. So much so, I figured the playoffs were basically over towards the end of the second round. I've never seen anything like it from an 8th seed.
In the games I've watched, once they get ahead, it's like their opponent has almost no chance. They barely seem to be able to muster a scoring chance and when they do, much more often than not, Quick is there to snuff it out.
I took the Canucks series as some sort of upset aberration. Didn't see many of those games. But during the Blues series, they just dismantled them. They smothered Phoenix pretty well too. I never would have predicted it prior to the playoffs.
Some of the reason they haven't lit the lamp as much as they might have has to relate to the defenses of their opponents: Blues (1st in GAA), Canucks (4th), Coyotes (5th). LA is second so the only top 5 NHL defense they haven't faced is the Rangers.
Towards then end of the Blues series, I developed a sense that these guys were playing at a different level and didn't look like they could be stopped ... because they were defensively dominating their very good opponents - just physically out skating and out muscling them.
If their 1.41 GAA holds up, that may be (not positive) the best playoff team GAA put up since '67 - in decades. It's right up there with the best. And it provides some statistical reinforcement for how stingy they've been defensively.
Only two of their key players are over 30: Mitchell & Scuderi. Average team age is 27 = pretty young. And most of these guys are signed for next season - they don't have a real cap issue (Penner & Stoll being the only notable UFAs).
I think the Kings have been very, very impressive. So much so, I figured the playoffs were basically over towards the end of the second round. I've never seen anything like it from an 8th seed.
Leafaholic99
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If the Kings win the cup, which they should, wont they become the first 8th seed team to ever win it, even more so, won't they become the first team seeded 5th to 8th to win the cup?
hockeyfan1
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History...will...be...made.
hockeyfan1
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If L.A. wins the Cup...
...Kings will end 45 years of frustration and leave the Toronto Maple Leafs and St. Louis Blues as the only two teams who have been around since 1967-68 to not win a cup...The Kings are rolling, perhaps like no team ever before in NHL history...
...and...
they?ll become the first team to sweep the Stanley Cup final since the Detroit Red Wings in 1998.
Source: THN
...Kings will end 45 years of frustration and leave the Toronto Maple Leafs and St. Louis Blues as the only two teams who have been around since 1967-68 to not win a cup...The Kings are rolling, perhaps like no team ever before in NHL history...
...and...
they?ll become the first team to sweep the Stanley Cup final since the Detroit Red Wings in 1998.
Source: THN