LindG1000

The fuck is that shit? Bush league.

LFG LAFFY YEAHHHH

John Brancys head shines with the intensity of the Stanley Cup and his voice strikes fear in our enemies like a Viking war horn.

If he wants to keep playing like this, he's practically stamping his name on the trophy.

Just fuckin crush em. Take the home wins, keep MSG as the Fortress of Solitude, and take a 2-0 lead to MSG mid-South. Zibanejad continuing his Conn Smythe case tonight. I'm smelling another 3 point game.

Oh, I'm honored, but I wouldn't dare try to cut in front of you in this particular line. Or stay in it if I'm behind you.

Gotta say, I tried to hawk that gold and it just melted in the heat and stunk like a rancid porkchop.

I'd argue differently. Consistency really matters, but it's consistency relative to your opponent. If we can keep playing the defense we played yesterday? I love our odds. Hell, I love our odds at getting some rest after the series if that's the case. Carolina isn't poorly run though. Brind'Amour is a more experienced coach than Carberry, and a smarter coach than Gerard Gallant. Carolina will adjust to the Rangers, and it's on Laviolette and the star players to make them feel like nothing they do will work.

That player was Rejean Houle. The Canadiens also flexed their star power quickly in the expansion era. They'd routinely ask future first-round picks from newer franchises in exchange for stability/gate draw. That's how they ended up with Guy Lafleur and multiple first-overall picks while they were winning Cups. Every single year they had an extra first from an expansion team and just did not miss - Lafleur, Shutt, Gainey in consecutive drafts. Heck, even when they missed, they didn't miss hard - Doug Risebrough and Mario Tremblay - were good to great NHLers. It was only when the league grew to 18 or so and years of developmental advantage - both as the 70s Habs aged out and as the QMJHL became far less about the Canadiens - that they finally normalized.

I'll tell you what - if you're the Hurricanes right now, what did you learn in game 1? The Rangers can keep you outside. They aren't afraid of taking penalties because they're going to kill them. They're not going to break structure without you going full force all the time. And if you take a penalty? Good luck. Your PK got smoked.

Yeah, I mean, you can't plan for the marathon OT game. So...play your guys, let Rempe show the Hurricanes what causing chaos really means, and keep riding the wave here. And if we end up in a spot where Rempe's just getting the Stu Bickel treatment, so be it. Though, I don't think he would be too much of a liability taking a shift or two in an OT. Doubly so when you have a guy like Rempe out there to goad the Canes into taking penalties, and we've put the fear of Mika into them.

Seriously, @Zuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuc. This trophy may as well be renamed for Bergeron, who probably should have been winning Datsyuks. Barkov will probably win 5 of these in the next 6 years, with a pity win thrown to like...Mika at some point.

Apparently, the MoneyPuck model from the moment Vegas got shitcanned (and thus including our game 1 win) now heavily favors us.

Normally you get one prediction in this thread but....

Dude may have been casually taking a few weeks off there to make sure he's able to go absolutely fucking nuclear in the playoffs.