My eyessssssssssss they burrnnnnnnnnnn

there goes MTL streak

F*cking brutal. The habs are the better team by far, and we’re down 1-0 off of an Erik Gustafsson screen on Price.

Someone needs to teach the vegas announcers how to say Kotkaniemi's name lul

Koka...Kaka...Kukane...

Montreal needs to put tatar back in the lineup

He seems to have gotten on Ducharmes bad side so no idea if he gets in game 2

Man Vegas wtf were you doing on that PK, Caufield almost scores, you proceed to ignore him and give him more room and the easiest goal of his career occurs lul.

He’s a legit 1st line winger - he can help with zone entries and he should be opposite caufield on the powerplay considering he’s an elite playmaker. MTL can win this series with petry and tatar in the lineup

No one at forward has been bad though. The defense is what’s been struggling tonight. Not having Petry is obviously a massive hole in every facet of the game. Kulak has played his worst game of the season, and Gustafsson has obviously always been bad defensively. And the worst part is that they’re at the mercy of injuries, unless they want to take Kulak out for Ouellet.

Montréal’s 1st PP doesn’t need Tatar. Suzuki is a phenomenal right side player on the PP. We could however use him on the 2nd PP which has been brutal, but that’s what happens when you have Shea Weber (and Ben Chiarot, since Petry is out) on a man advantage. Although I still don’t think that’s enough to bring Tatar into the lineup.

We’re not talking about a middle 6 winger , tatar and Taylor hall are very similar players with nearly identical impacts. It doesn’t make sense to leave a player of his caliber out of the lineup. MTL is a better team when he’s on the ice.

everyone we witnessed something very rare tonight a wild beachball appeared

Habs in 5

I like seeing Romanov a young rookie patting grizzled veteran a Weber on the head lmao..

I didn't see much of the game. Can anyone let me know how Price let in 4 goals?

1. Screened by Stone & Gustafsson
2. Basically a 2 on 0 with Montréal’s poor positioning in the D-zone
3. Screen and unlucky deflection
4. Bad defensive coverage, Price couldn’t move across fast enough

I know it's early in the series but it's a must win game for Tampa.

If the Lightning go down 2-0, headed to Long Island, they could be in trouble

Yep

It happens every year. What a team does to one team comes right back to them. You just never know when it's gonna happen. If they lose tonight, I'm predicting Tampa will lose in 5 just like they beat us in 5.

This represents how unfair Makar's vs Heiskanen's line mates are.

Mackinnon>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Faksa

Landeskog>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Cogliano

Rantanen>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Comeau

I think the big takeaway is Heiskanen is trusted with a ton of responsibility. He's better than Klingberg imo and gets worse line mates because they need him to do more lifting. Whereas Klingberg (who isnt bad) gets the veteran line mates but who actually are good. That way Dallas can deploy the lifting lines with a great D Klingberg and then send out a worse lineup but with a killer D in Hesikanen.

Whereas Makars team isnt weak, and so he can be abused with the big 3. Col can spam deploy Toews, Girard, Makar with the big 3 beacuse it's just "unfair". Then they can rely on Byram, Graves, Timmins to play with Saad, Donskoi, Kadri etc because Colorado is so much stronger they can be fine with sending out everyone else while Toews, Makar, Mac, Lande, Rant, Girard rest because "everyone else" is basically top 6 players playing bottom/ middle 6 roles.

I like Hesikanen a lot and its good to see that he is still produces with these poor matches. Plus his point pace was very good this year (what 27 pts in 56 games versus his like 30-40 in full seasons?). If anything its a great learning exp if he can develop from it (learning to be a responsible and offensive D and work with what hes got). If Dallas can get stronger and they could really start abusing the D pairings like COL does. Tho Colorado has shown their own flaws in their own end, so Dallas could even be getting ahead of it because Hesikanen is already having to learn to play better because of his worse linemates. Where Vegas exposed COL lack of responsible D; theyre super talented but got exposed in the corners, too flashy passes/ plays, puck battles, retrieval in their own end. These are things I'd assume Hesikanen is already having to work on since his team is worse and as we know; hes not getting to play with guys like Pavs, Robertson or Hintz a ton.

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It’s a chart of how much ice-time each defenseman plays with the forwards, comparing Dallas and Colorado.

Score Prediction
2-1 Tampa

Hopefully Islanders win tho

Seattle Kraken

https://www.capfriendly.com/forums/thread/464312

Got home just on time to see the big scrum. Mayfield was interfering with Maroon pretty much the whole way down the ice. A bit late, but my prediction is 3-1 Tampa even though I want the Islanders to win.