Official 2015 NHL Playoff Thread

[philou21]

Crazy ending, was hoping for an OT though, would've been exciting! Anyway, my guess is that NY will win it at home. Caps wasted their chance tonight.

[Peter_Doherty]

Horrible officiating as usual in this series, both ways though i must say, not biased officiating, just bad Swedish journalist who follows Rangers said that Hank has never been this tired after a game before, he could barely talk to him after the game....

[philou21]

Dammit the Flames lost! I went to sleep after the second period because the game was going to finish too late and I thought the Flames were playing well. Well, it's not like I was expecting them to win in 7 but that would've been cool.

[ForNever]

Conference finals, here we come!

[philou21]

So will the Habs be able to push that serie to game 7? Yes or no, I hope the game will be as good as the last one.

[Peter_Doherty]

I think that Tampa clinches it tonight, but if Habs win today surely they win game 7 aswell.

[umwoz]

Go Tampa!

Kane/Toews vs Getz/Perry in the west and Stamkos vs Ovechkin in the East (I hope at least)

[philou21]

Stamkos is nowhere to be found so far in the playoffs. He played a good game and half of another one vs the Habs and that's about it. We almost dont hear his name from the commentors, make it seems like he's injured and he's not on the roster.

[umwoz]

Tyler Johnson on the other hand....

[Manimal]

... Stamkos vs Ovechkin in the East (I hope at least)

You mean Price vs Lundqvist

[philou21]

haha Also a good choice Manimal and yeah umwoz, Johnson is having killer series thus far.

[batdad]

Stanley Cup final....HOLTBY vs whoever Chicago decides to play.


That will make loads of people around here happy.

[philou21]

Not looking good for the Habs so far!

[CJ]

Bye bye Montreal!

[batdad]

AS long as Washington wins I believe I go 4-4 in this round, but I did not check above somewhere. GO CAPS GO.

Really want the Chicago-Washington final. FAST PACED HOCKEY.

[philou21]

And Price after the game blames himself for not making key saves in that serie! He's the only reason the Habs got to the second round AND made the playoffs.

[Peter_Doherty]

Well, that sure was AMAZING!!!!!!!!

[CJ]

What a game 7!!

[Peter_Doherty]

Hank with some scary numbers, some illuminati stuff here!

5/13/13: Henrik 35 saves, Rangers win Game 7
5/13/14: Henrik 35 saves, Rangers win Game 7
5/13/15: Henrik 35 saves, Rangers win Game 7

[philou21]

Yeah he's 6-0 in his last game 7. His saving % was something like .960.

[Peter_Doherty]

.972 i think

[batdad]

Henrik is the one and only reason the Rangers won that game.

That Capital line of Ward-Kuznetsov-Chimera was totally dominant in OT. Without Henrik they could have finished the game 5 times. And Beagle? Jay Beagle? Really---you became a player.

Alex--that was the best I have seen you play in a big game. Love the fact that you led this series in hits. YOu were beat by a goalie, and only a goalie.

[Peter_Doherty]

Yeah, Caps definitely was the better team in OT, but based on the whole game it was a very even game... Ovechkin did sort of back his statement up by scoring, but after the goal he kind of disappeared from the game...

[batdad]

Totally disagree. Best game in a big game situation I have ever seen Alex play. If anyone disappeared it was Backstrom and Johansson. However, the rangers did do a great job of making sure Alex could not get clear. Even his attempts off faceoffs in third and OT were jammed, either by Ranger D or by the bad pass from Johansson.

Passes in his feet all third and OT and in bad situations. Forget who the dman was but one pass up the wall with two guys on him and Alex has nothing he can do....he was screwed and RAngers got a great chance.

One three on two in OT....Carlson, Alex, and Jo.....Jo goes offside as Carlson to feed Alex driving up middle open to slot.....Jo screws up, pulls a Bertuzzi and kills the chance.

[Peter_Doherty]

Bäckström was MIA the whole series and MoJo just ain't that good to start with... Still expected more from Ovie after doing a Messier, he wasn't bad but he wasn't great either I'm obviously happy about that though... AV did a good job of getting the matchups against Ovie all series, he did mess up a few times in the first 2 games but after that Ovie only saw Danny G and Klein for the rest of the series and Bäckis was completely nullified by Stepan.

Overall one of the most even series i have ever seen, goaltending clinic by both goalies aswell, i'm just really happy we edged it out..