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Skipper

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  1. Disappointing finish. Not ready to get into all of the post season stuff yet, but did watch Deboer's press conference and kind of hated it. If there was ever a time for just BS coach speak it was then. He was clearly beyond frustrated with his team's performance but you can't drive a wedge between your franchise goalie. Pulling him, deserved or not, right move or not, was plenty without the additional comments. Jake wasn't good enough this series but he was crucial in winning the first 2 series. Also, a lot of the guys in the room he was bashing won't be there. The time for that kind of messaging is training camp with a new team IMO. One thing I think is becoming clear is it really helps if you can finish off an early series in 4 or 5. We just looked more tired across the board and Jake played more games than any other goalie in the playoffs to date and it showed on him. I wonder if this team could have given Edmonton a better shot if we didn't get such a difficult first round opponent both years that took all 7. Regardless, absolutely deserved to lose this series. Lots to unpack for post-season but probably going to take a couple of weeks before I start reading all of that. Also, not going back and reading all post game hot takes, but if someone actually said Fire Nil that is just about the dumbest fucking take I've seen in a Stars thread. JFC.
  2. "Major" isn't the right word. But we just paid Miko long term. I think Harley's play is trending towards a pretty damn big deal in the next 2 years to lock him up long term. I don't know if we can pay both Harley and Robo "market" for their next contract and fill out the rest of the roster to adequately to compete for a cup. That is high level. But I'll dive into that (as will I'm sure the Stars writers) once playoffs are over.
  3. This is going to be a good discussion point in the offseason. Robo excels regular season and is absolutely an asset to us (or any other team) to rack up the points to get you into (or into a better seed) come playoff time. On the other hand, the space he needs to score consistently isn't there outside of the power play come playoff time. The bigger factor is we have major cap issues on the horizon and I don't think we can afford 'market' for him. Definitely a discussion to circle back to after final handshakes whenever that may be.
  4. It just sucks that the West is so damn loaded at the exact same time. We've had to play 2 teams with top 5 players in the NHL. The central is the toughest division in hockey. Healthy MN is really good and gave Vegas all they could handle (and but for being a centimeter offsides probably win that series). Blues pulled defeat from the jaws of victory against the Jets. It's just a really hard conference to win. I think this team is a lot better than our WCF team from 2 years ago and I still think that team beats Vegas if we pull out either of those first 2 in Vegas. The first we were outplayed but lost in OT. I was at Game 2 in Vegas and we had it won until Suter fucked up to give up the tying goal with a couple of minutes left and then we lost again in OT. Then Game 3 was the Benn debacle and we still got that series to 6. That Vegas team won the cup and I think the Vegas team we beat in round 1 last year was better than their cup team. I think this team (now healthy) is the best team we've had on paper during the past 3 years but we haven't made plays this round. It's not over. Maybe I'm being a homer but it's not going to shock me at all if this goes 7. Just string a few plays together, get some confidence, and we could easily grab momentum back and make this a series.
  5. I wonder if Harley is just running out of gas. Esa as well for that matter. They both carried such a heavy load after Miro's injury. Overall this playoffs the D group has exceeded my expectations to a man.
  6. He's been god awful this entire playoffs. Outside of the game 3 feed to Seguin (after we killed off his double minor), he's done damn near nothing productive and constantly hurting us with bad and horribly timed penalties.
  7. Win the margins are this slim it just comes down to execution. Look at both their goals last night. Elite/skilled plays. We were absolutely buzzing in the first period. That felt every bit of a 3 goal period if we could just fucking execute around the net and couldn't do it. Same in the 2nd period of game 3. Frustrating as hell. Those are plays we made every game we won in the Avs series where we were also matching up against 2 of the top 5 players in the league. And nobody is making those plays for us this time. We all said (whether in this thread or other conversations) there is zero chance Miko continues this heater and rest of our players have to step up and nobody has. Given expectations, I think to a man our D has outperformed what I expected of them the entire playoffs? Who has done that from our forward group. I would say Miko, Grandlund, Hintz (i.e., top line most of the playoffs) have all had a good playoffs to date (but not much this series). Maybe even put Seguin in there considering he was coming off a long term injury so adjusting expectations for that. And I think our 4th line has been fine. But Marchment/Benn/Duchene/Robo/Johnston have all had a really bad run simultaneously and it's killed us.
  8. Seriously. It wouldn't have mattered but what an absolute fucking joke to give Draisitl that call and nothing there. Absurd.
  9. Like we shot our load in the first. Going to have to dig deep and grab some momentum. Need one big play.
  10. Oh GTFO with this fucking bullshit.
  11. We have dominated zone time. Obviously winning shots and shot attempts and I'm quite confident winning expected goals, high danger chances, etc. easily. They are finishing and outside of the Robo snipe we aren't. And obviously they are winning special teams.
  12. Fuck you Marchment. Constant fucking momentum killer
  13. Agreed. But they had a couple of close no calls before that their fans were bitching about so it was just a matter of time we got called for the next close one
  14. God damn that shot from that angle was nice.
  15. Controlled play. Tons of SOG although quite a few were weak and easy saves. I would need to go back and watch replays but our best setups just didn't connect at all. This is the exact same thing that happened to us the last 3 games of WCF's last year. Fucking deja vu. But still time to flip the switch this series. Get a GD power play goal to start the 2nd and let's see if that can help open up the floodgates.
  16. Weak call. But that's a more skilled shot than we've put up in 6+ periods. Have had multiple great setup chances and we are just lost around the net man. I don't get it. How do every one of our goal scorers go ice fucking cold at the same time. Someone has to break this open for us or it's church.
  17. The ever rare 6-1 defeat where we outplayed them (60.5% win percentage in the "deserve to win o'meter"). 2-1 after 3 is probably the right result as Edmonton probably deserved game 1. I haven't read the rest of this thread since logging off pregame Friday, but the right time for retaliation was the last 5 minutes of game 2 and I'm still pissed we didn't do it. It would have been tough for the league to suspend one of our players and not Nurse. Now we are down 2-1 and don't have any margin for error or time for that bullshit. Pretty much have to win tomorrow night as I don't think we can pull off 3 straight. If Skinner plays like that maybe not much we can do, but we are running into the exact same issue we had last year in the playoffs which is flat out inability to finish. Rantanen/Duchene/Robo/Johnston flat out have to score goals. It's pretty simple. 2 goals on 33 high danger chances this series isn't going to cut it.
  18. How early is too early to start pregaming? Asking for a friend.
  19. I felt like we were still trying to play the Winnipeg series the first 2 periods of the game and just weren't ready for Edmonton's speed. Of course, it's impossible to be ready for McDavid's speed, but they just play a completely different game. 3rd period was insane and it's crazy how one team can just grab momentum and run with it (Oil in the 2nd and Stars in the 3rd). Great to get a win when we were thoroughly outplayed the first 2 periods and also great to flip the special teams after last years WCF. What a crazy 3rd period. At intermission we were talking and I just wanted to play better and didn't see us coming back but was hoping to look competitive and play better to ramp up to game 2. Never saw that coming. You all will be happy to know though my buddy and I switched seats before the 3rd after keeping the seats the entire jets series (last switching before Colorado game 7 third) so that is clearly what they needed.
  20. Who sits between Lyubushkin and Petro will be interesting. Lyubushkin obviously started in regular season and has played more minutes than Petro but they may value Bischel comfort level playing with Petro. However they decide tonight, I could see that toggle based on performance.
  21. Interested what Pete does with our lineup tonight. I didn't see any reporting on that front from morning skate although have been a bit tied up today. Did I miss?
  22. All I know about Canadian TV is "Hockey Night in Canada" on Saturday night so don't think there will be any more Saturday matinees scheduled going forward. We got that window last Saturday obviously and will for game 6 (if necessary) as well.
  23. NBA game that night but no hockey. I would think 3PM or 3:30 Central would be prime afternoon spot to maximize ratings, but probably doesn't matter much. Personally displeased as going to have to rush back from kids sports and might miss puck drop unless they do like a 20 minute pregame (which is probably the case so I may make it home in any event)
  24. I'm sure neither team thrilled about it. That's a quick turnaround after a Friday night game with a long ass Saturday flight. I assumed there was an NBA game after they were prioritizing, but looked it up and followed by a fucking WNBA game, so it is some bullshit not to push it a couple of hours. Oh well, gives their fans less time to get boozed up.
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