Karan

Good news: "Head coach Rod Brind'Amour said that Pesce's injury is "not looking good" and that he would be re-evaluated on Tuesday. It sounds like Pesce is going to miss some time, which would be a huge blow to the Hurricanes' blueline. " Need the Isles to win a couple more and drag this thing out to 7 and bang each other the fuck up in the process.

It'll certainly be interesting to see if they turn back to Sorokin for Game 3, after benching him for Varlamov for the key games down the stretch and now Games 1/2. Unless they've lost confidence in him and are going to live/die by Varlamov.

I expect the opposite. I think they're going to try and take more chances and try to open up things a bit more, and for sure play a more physical game. It'll be important for the Rangers to try and stay patient, not get dragged into a track meet and stick to their gameplan. The mistakes and opportunities will come. Be ready to capitalize on them. Lets fucking do this.

I was referring to in the playoffs, not regular season play. In the regular season, he seems capable of having these mini hot streaks and pulling out Ws, whether the Avs are scoring a pile of goals or not. But playoffs are another story. Just doesn't strike me as the kinda goalie who'll make that big save at a key point in a critical game, or stand on his head in an elimination game to help his team advance. Yeah fair. His overall body of work across the season didn't seem excessive to me, but certainly down the stretch it seemed like he was playing just about every game which I would agree was bit of mismanagement on the Avs part.

He actually had slightly less TOI than last season. So define 'completely overused'? If we're saying the new standard for starting goalies is 55-60 games, he was only a handful of games more than that. It's not like he was in the 70+ game territory. I would describe his workload on the upper end of the average scale but by no means overused. He was actually semi-decent in their 1st round exit last year (which was due to a multitude of factors), but just doesn't strike me as the kinda goalie that could lead a stacked team like the Avalanche to the promise land. If they somehow do it, it'll be inspite of Georgiev.

What a colossal collapse by the Islanders. Not sure if they'll mentally recover from this one. Way to sit on a lead ya dumb fucks.

Refs definitely should definitely get the primary assist on that first Boston goal

- @Phil better? - Statistics and probability aside, it's still not really all that ballsy considering the context of this thread. Tweety would've probably made a ballsier prediction mate. - No certainly not by my definition, considering my prediction in this thread and the near-success of my take in the regular season ballsy thread Perhaps you were thinking of some of the others and their parallel universe predictions

Looks like a lot of people missed the 'Ballsy' part and just went with any likely prediction they could think of And since when is a Presidents Trophy winning team sweeping the lowest seeded playoff entrant considered ballsy?

Toronto got smoked by Tampa Bay 7-3 in Game 1 last year and I think we all recall how that series turned out...so let's not count them out yet. Although tonight's going is going to be key. Even if they don't get the win, they absolutely need to look more competitive and show they can hang with the Bruins.

Vintage Kreids.

It's that extra gear French Canadians tend to have in the playoffs

CHARLIEEEEEE A bit premature if you ask me

Wtf how did that go in?

I didn't see no elbow there. Good sell job. Sit down pal.