Not with Regehr and Chara manning the Rangers blueline...

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Whatever load it is, it's all on Los Angeles, unless you feel that T.J. Oshie is the Patrick Kane of our generation or something.

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LOL, have you seen the new look Capitals? They play the exact same way the Coyotes and Preds play. I take it you didn't watch any of the Boston vs Washington series where Washington ground the pace to a standstill and every game had a total of 2-3 goals.


The ONLY series that has a chance of being wide open is Philly vs New Jersey and that's if Philly is able to dictate the pace.

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No, you're thinking of Andy McDonald.



Jokes aside, St Louis may not have the superstar, but they clearly have more offensive firepower than the other trap wagons of the west. Perron, Oshie, Backes, McDonald. Its not murderer's row, but it sure beats the hell out of Whitney and Vrabata or whatever they have in Nashville besides Radulov who looks amazing out there every shift.

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I don't get the joke.

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I was taking their defense, and trying to exaggerate them into something great, playing off of your emotional attachment to them... I obviously failed miserably.

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You definitely failed on 2 counts...one, Regehr? Really? That's the second name you reach for to make that joke? Not Weber or Lidstrom or you could've even said Bobby Orr if you really wanted to make that joke.

And two, you failed because the Rangers might very well have the best d corp in the NHL so my emotional attachment to them is not an overstatement on my part.


Double fail.

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harsh.

the youngsters need tough love if they're ever going to spread their wings and fly the nest.

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Au contraire mon frere!


Trolls statement was:


Would Lidstrom or Bobby Orr really make the series less wide-open? Of course not, you know who would? Robyn-fucking-Regehr, a great stay at home defense-men and Chara...

maybe I should have gone with Chelios... or Pronger...

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you know, now that I think about it, even though you made a terrible decision in choosing Regher to make your point, the choice of D is not what really sunk your joke and why I didn't understand it the first time. The problem is that with these defensive teams its not the defense that stops the game from being wide open, its the forwards and the trapping coupled with the way they sag down on the goal and camp out there in the defensive zone. The lack of free flowing play through the neutral zone and the wall of shot blockers are two things dragging down these defensive games, not the quality of their back lines.

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shakes and crosscheck arguing over a make-believe situation that was a terrible joke is the

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Sorry, I'm not familiar with the backchecking and trapping schemes of the New York Rangers...

that was probably my downfall, not Regehr...

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Alright, time to witness Marian Gaborik's defensive awareness firsthand...

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Wow, we're really having a failure to communicate here.

The Rangers don't play a trapping style, where did you ever get that impression from anything I've said? IN fact, I've praised them several times in this thread for actually going out and playing hockey in their series vs Ottawa.

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I'm not going to lie... I didn't really read your post, I just saw trapping, and something about sagging... I'm doing multiple things at once right now...

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please add "thinking" to the list.

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wow, it's like you've never interacted with me before...

type first think later baby!

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I wish more NHL teams would adopt your run n' gun philosophy.

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I wonder if the fact that the big-money, big-city teams stand to benefit from skill-oriented hockey will help get obstruction fouls reinforced in the new CBA. Notice that the teams who can't win with honest-to-God talent are the ones who couldn't make money if you gave them a printing press.

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I don't think calling obstructions is going to make much of a difference. All that will do is make it even more appealing to dump and chase which isn't going to stop anyone from playing a trap.

Honestly, the more I think about it the more I think that they need to do something extremely radical to fix this. One idea I've read about that makes sense is that they should get rid of the offsides call. Think about it, if there was no offsides, defense couldn't form a wall at the blue line because wingers would be able to enter the zone early. The defense would get stretched and there would be more room to operate. But, to get this to work they might need to bring back two line passes to discourage people from camping out by the other team's goal line. Or maybe they can have a rule where you can't enter the offensive zone if the puck is in your zone? There, that oughta do it.

How bout that, I just solved the new dead puck era in one paragraph.


And even more radical idea would be to add some sort of 3 second lane around the net. Make it so players can't camp out in front of the net. This would eliminate the wall of shot blockers and would encourage moving without the puck in the offensive zone and would naturally open things up and also you would start to see some really nice tic tac toe passing plays which you rarely see nowadays.

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Roberto Luongo likes this.

The limited offside rule at the end there intrigues me. Something for them to try at the R&D summit they always do. Unfortunately, they're probably going to go in the opposite direction with that ringette line bullshit. Is any league more sabotaged by its lowest common denominator than this one?

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Keep the same point system, but change the regular season ot rules to match the playoff one... you want to muddy-up the game into ot for that extra point? well how bad do you want it?

genius...

but we're not here to fix the NHL, we're here to discuss how badly the kings are going to beat the blues...

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Rangers win... we all lose...

confetti and fireworks? wow, congrats on beating a nut-less capitals team I guess...

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I really wanna be in LA-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xj3kTdx1QBw

although technically the game is in St Louis... but no one ever made the song "I really wanna be in St Louis"

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No, the best fix is the 3-1 point system. 3 for regulation and overtime win, 1 for overtime loss.

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Richards and Carter need to step up their brohiem levels, and get it done this series... I luv Penner playing alongside them... the three bromeos!

It's gonna get dirty and ugly...

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NO! Unlimited OT dammit!

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I like your fire and passion, but this sounds painful for all involved.

Let's just all go back to watching the Kings beat the Blues and be happy.

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I know my idea is unrealistic, I just like the idea of all those bitches on Nashville playing 30 2OT games a year...

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