Modifié 9 juill. 2020 à 22 h 27
Quoting: mhockey91
One of the worst comments ive read on here. Wow. Dumo by then was a top pairing LHD, He literally inked a 6 year $24,600,000 contract after that playoff series. Hainsey was extremely solid night in through night out. He was miles better on Pittsburgh than Toronto. He was logging over 22 mins a night on that cap run. Schultz was top 10 in Norris votes that season. Cole in the 2016/17 had the best year of his career. He had a career high in Points, Plus/Minus, Blocks, and Hits. Daley/Maatta was extremely solid on the 3rd pairing as well. You are severly underestimating this d-core. If it was as bad as you say it was, we would have lost in the first round like what the leafs do every season. How can you seriously sit here and tell me that a Stanley Cup D-core that also led us to 111 points in the regular season was "atrocious" Maybe you should stick to your own team as you clearly know nothing about the Penguins.
I was looking forward to having an interesting, civil discussion/debate about this... Guess you can't always get what you want.
I was wondering myself if maybe I was being a bit too quick to jump to conclusions here. Upon further 'investigation', I think I was a
little bit harsh with my evaluation. But really not much. And just to be clear - I'm talking purely about their playoff performances. (I made a mistake in my last comment that was misleading.)
Dumoulin and Hainsey, though they got out shot/attempted to holy hell, did quite a good job of limiting high danger shots against.
After that, though, it's a steep drop-off.
Schultz still put up the points - credit to him; you need Dmen that can do that. But (points aside) he, along with the rest of the D-core, put up very poor results across the board. Shots, attempts, expected goals, scoring chance%, high danger chance% (not as bad as the others but still below average), etc. They simply did not perform well in the playoffs - there's nothing wrong with that - they still won the f***ing Cup.
As for your 'If it was as bad as you say it was, we would have lost in the first round'... The Penguins had a .929 Sv% throughout the playoffs; that can carry you far. And it's obvious that the D-core was the beneficiary of that and not the other way around (except perhaps Hainsey and Dumoulin) - the Dmen were riding PDO
benders. The whole point of my original comment was that a team does not have to be perfect to have success,
especially in the playoffs, which this team/D-core made abundantly clear.