Here's my take. The posters like 94, and strud, and Step, and dump, and cage all have their good points. The playoffs are not the regular season. The Pres trophy doesn't mean much (I have been saying that for weeks). The Rangers do get pinned in their zone too often. The Rangers do get sloppy with the puck in their zone too often. The best way to beat the Rangers is with physical play and size. Those comments aren't crazy or way off. They have merit for sure. These posters are 100% entitled to have those opinions and discuss them.
My comment is we get all that. Yeah this team has some flaws...ALL teams have flaws (you show me the perfect team this season). I don't think anyone is sitting in here saying this team is perfect or we cannot be beat. So we get it. Every game thread turns into a knocking session. That is what makes me laugh. Complain and whine about this and that every single game. Mention oh size we cannot handle it game after game. I just don't see the upside of that. If an outsider came in here and read the game threads no doubt they would think we were a lower level team if they stopped reading before the final result.
Enjoy the ride. Know that the playoffs will NOT be easy, they NEVER are in the NHL. We are going to play some long series. We will look bad some games. Lose some games where you say WTF. And guess what...we may lose round 1 or round 2...it CAN happen in the NHL playoffs. All very possible. But, as I have been saying, all you can do is put your team in he best situation possible heading into the playoffs, with the most talented roster as possible, and then it will be what it will be...and that is EXACTLY what we have done.
I MUCH rather play the Pens or Wings round 1...but if we get Boston so be it. If we lose to Boston in round 1 we were not winning the cup anyway. We were not as good as some think. I am not going to be all afraid to play Boston NOT because I think we cannot lose or I want to play them, but because if we are the # 1 team in the NHL, and as good as many think, we NEED to beat Boston. And if we don't this becomes a huge downer of a season.
That's reality guys. We all know it. No need to be negative every game thread or say the playoffs are not the regular season or big teams we cannot play with. We all know it will not be easy, and in the NHL playoffs ANYTHING can happen. Just look at us in the SCF last season and the Kings winning the cup as an 8 seed a few seasons back over the 6 seeded Devs. We know how the NHL playoffs work. Might as well enjoy the ride.
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