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Will anyone outside of NSH and PHX actually watch that series?

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PHX deserves a ton of credit for battling through more injuries than Chicago had.


No.

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If they don't make a serious run at a legitimate 2nd-pairing defenseman, I will be disappointed. Someone who plays with some physicality. Let Oduya walk please. Leddy / Suter is exactly what I would like. Probably will never happen. Give Leddy a safety net so he can be free to move the puck.

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I think there is an overreaction to Oduya......would not mind seeing him back at all.....not his fault we ran into a fucking wall

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right, but there are a lot of turnovers in this series that were his fault.

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I will give you that.....although are they magnified by the fact that we could not score for shit?

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I'm done. the season is gone. Things needs to change. See ya in the next thread.

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I will still be around....Not sure who i want to win the game 7's
Will get to go to some Kings games though

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Go Canada.

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Watching Kane score helps ease some pain....still really sucks though...Go Preds and Kings now.

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Hopefully there will be some but I'm not sure how many. It will probably be the series with the lowest ratings next round and that's too bad. There's still good hockey that's going to be played and not to mention I'd think NHL fans would want to support higher ratings for playoff games so there can be more coverage of hockey in general. It's a travesty that baseball games are front page news during the NHL playoffs.

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I'll be watching. Caring about the ratings is stupid.

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Really happy to see Rangers score some goals last night. Gives them a HUGE confidence boost going into game 7 knowing they can score not 1 but multiple goals on Anderson.

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I'll watch parts of the series but not much if it turns out the way I think it will. The most intriguing part of all of this is what will the attendance be in PHX? This is the first time since going to Glendale that they haven't had Detroit or Chicago facing them and their fans travel well. Will there be enough new bandwagoners for the Nord...Coyotes to fill the place?

I have to give props to Smith and the Coyotes though. Only took them 25 years.

Rangers did what they had to do nice to see two game 7's. If the Rangers play Philly I don't think they win. Although their goals for should go up.

Have a feeling Panthers pull it off tonight and Parise plays his last game in NJ. Your stall in JLA is waiting for ya.

A funny tweet I read earlier: "If the #RedWings #Blackhawks #Canucks and #Pens got together to have a tournament right now, you'd watch that instead. You know it's true." And yeah...it is. But still gonna watch the playoffs. I'm interested to see what the ratings do though. I mean they were sky high so far will they keep up if the Rangers get knocked out too?

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No way Flyers win if they face the Rangers. The Flyers goal tending is too horrendous and the Rangers is too good.

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Skipped a bunch of pages, could have missed the discussion but how in the fuck was Ottawa's 2nd goal allowed to stand last night? If that wasn't a kick-in goal, I don't know what would be.

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not terribly excited about the prospect of this match-up, but I do not know if i would say "no way"...anything is possible this post-season

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The Panthers backing into the playoffs while the Devils were playing well is a good example of that. Or the Hawks and Canucks rolling into the playoffs and getting knocked out.

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Well, of course that is just sport chatter. This post season has been full of surprises, both good and bad. But, if the Flyers match up with the Rangers the Flyers will need to step up their D to help their goalies, unless their goalies start making stops. Letting in multiple goals will be a disaster for them against the Rangers. Hank will not return the favor.

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New York has owned Philly though....and that has mattered so far...see Penguins Philly for evidence of that.

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As much as I generally hate Don Cherry, he made a good point last night in that he spoke to the fact that Vancouver just coasted into the playoffs and didn't really have a whole lot of fight in them, and it showed.

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I used to like him but he's off his rocker even more now but I could agree with that.

Also agree with what he said last night that Lou needs to go and to not fight it much. Give them a list and get out. The term will be tough for a team to take on but his cap hit is very friendly at $5.3mil.

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http://www.mlive.com/redwings/index...._wings_22.html

I wouldn't go there either.

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Don't think Ottawa's goal was kick-in. The guy who kicked at it didn't touch the puck. It was more goalie interference.

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That may be the GM position that is just as bad, or worse, to take than the Maple Leafs.

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no doubt...and that is why I will be a Caps and Ottawa fan hoping for at least one of those (if not both ;)) to advance!
if we got to play rangers or bruins, let's do it in Eastern finals...oh and I guess the Devils could help too...but I think that series ends tonight

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Yeah, I don't think the Devils are going to force game 7. Which its funny to think of the Panthers advancing, let alone in the playoffs.

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Well for the West all I got right was the Preds. I knew the Kings would be tough and thought they could win but sure didn't expect that.

The East I was wrong with the Cats regardless of who wins cause they had backed in and I thought they would be out quickly. Rangers and Bruins so far I could still be right about the winner and was wrong about the Pens. But who would have thought Fleury would have pulled his best Theodore from 08 impression early in that series?

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Fresh off my suspension! Good to be back :lol

Nice to see Phoenix advance. You've gotta give them credit... they have every reason to fail, and yet they continue to soldier on. A team of warriors... and scumbags (Torres).

I remember when they signed Smith... I didn't agree with many who said it was a terrible signing - I did see some potential there - but I didn't see him literally standing on his head most of the season. They are nowhere without him.

The job status of Coach Q going forward is an interesting one. Bylsma is another one. It's obvious both are great coaches, but at what point is it time for a fresh message? When you make a coaching change, it's not usually because the coach is "bad", it's just that a new message needs to be preached to keep the players motivated.

This is especially important on young teams. Vets know what they have to do... it's obvious they don't need as much hand-holding and "go get 'ems"; if they did they probably still wouldn't be in the league. But youngsters need that. Is Hitchcock a bad coach because he got fired from CBJ? Obviously not. Laviolette because he was fired from Carolina? Obviously not. The list goes on. It's just a "message getting stale" issue, and that's why we see the coaching carousel continuing to go around in the NHL. Not necessarily a bad thing.

I think the question both Pittsburgh and Chicago management need to consider (and it's not an easy one) is: At what point is it the coach's responsibility to get his guys going to play their best, and at what point is it the players responsibility to buck up and play to their full potential, and who's not pulling their full weight? I firmly think the players bear most of that responsibility, but the coach certainly has a job to do in that as well.

Will be interesting to see where it goes. One thing's for sure, Q and Bylsma are both good enough to land other jobs quickly. San Jose and Calgary come to mind.