2022 Stanley Cup playoffs thread

[MadDog2020]

Rags lose 👍

[jagknife]

Hello, 911, I’d like to report a murder

 

I saw this live and almost spilled my beer

[jagknife]

4 minutes ago, NJDevils1214 said:

That fvcking pass by Sid on the EN...lol

 

[NJDevils1214]

1 minute ago, jagknife said:

Hello, 911, I’d like to report a murder

 

I saw this live and almost spilled my beer

RIP to that guy.

[slasher72]

Good for Domingue! I thought for sure they were packing it in after that 2nd period. Would love to see Pittsburgh win this series. 

As for Domingue he never looked this good playing for us, hmm. If Blackwood goes to the Oilers as some speculated a few months ago, he would probably turn into the second coming of Grant Fuhr, lol. 

[RunninWithTheDevil]

I'm not expecting it, but I would love for the Pens to rally around him and Domingue to go on some nutty Cinderella run

[ajsgolf]

1 hour ago, slasher72 said:

Good for Domingue! I thought for sure they were packing it in after that 2nd period. Would love to see Pittsburgh win this series. 

As for Domingue he never looked this good playing for us, hmm. If Blackwood goes to the Oilers as some speculated a few months ago, he would probably turn into the second coming of Grant Fuhr, lol. 

In the nicest way possible, Blackwood has a better chance of becoming black like Fuhr than he does as playing like him.

[Colorado Rockies 1976]

Thank god Cinco Domingo turned into…

Cuatro Domingo.  Good enough!

[EdgeControl]

1 hour ago, Colorado Rockies 1976 said:

Thank god Cinco Domingo turned into…

Cuatro Domingo.  Good enough!

yup, if the rags keep jerking their shesterkin.. then domingue might be able to keep it under 5 going forward

[mfitz804]

33 minutes ago, EdgeControl said:

yup, if the rags keep jerking their shesterkin.. then domingue might be able to keep it under 5 going forward

10 goals allowed in under 3 games with a .928 save percentage. The definition of getting hung out to dry by your team.

I love every minute of it. 

[Colorado Rockies 1976]

1 minute ago, mfitz804 said:

10 goals allowed in under 3 games with a .928 save percentage. The definition of getting hung out to dry by your team.

I love every minute of it. 

Same thing they did to Lundqvist.  And yeah I love it too.

[EdgeControl]

but it was 0.73 sav % yesterday and i love that too!!

[mfitz804]

17 minutes ago, EdgeControl said:

but it was 0.73 sav % yesterday and i love that too!!

Hell yeah. 

[CarpathianForest]

12 hours ago, slasher72 said:

Good for Domingue! I thought for sure they were packing it in after that 2nd period. Would love to see Pittsburgh win this series. 

As for Domingue he never looked this good playing for us, hmm. If Blackwood goes to the Oilers as some speculated a few months ago, he would probably turn into the second coming of Grant Fuhr, lol. 

Fuhr has a career .887. He benefitted a ton from having guys who score a few goals every now and again

[Colorado Rockies 1976]

12 minutes ago, CarpathianForest said:

Fuhr has a career .887. He benefitted a ton from having guys who score a few goals every now and again

You’re not taking into account the era that he played in.  The Oilers also weren’t terribly concerned with defense back then.  Guys putting up .900+ save%s back in the 80s were few and far between. 

[Devil Dan 56]

1 hour ago, Colorado Rockies 1976 said:

You’re not taking into account the era that he played in.  The Oilers also weren’t terribly concerned with defense back then.  Guys putting up .900+ save%s back in the 80s were few and far between. 

Yeah the 80’s were the Wild West. Fuhr was able to hold off the odd man chances but he knew his job… if Wayne and company put up 7, he just had to hold the other guys to 6. He was great at making those big saves in a high scoring game. 

[NJDfan1711]

Lightning with a huge rebound game against the Leafs.  This series looks like it may go 7. 

[mfitz804]

Interesting stat, in 1987-88 Grant Fuhr had a 3.43 GAA (21st) and .881 SV% (26th) He gave up more goals than any other goalie that year, part of that was that he also played 75 games. 

40 wins for Fuhr, and the Oilers won the Stanley Cup, because it was the late 80’s and that’s what Edmonton did back then. 

They gave Grant Fuhr the Vezina Trophy. 

Thar’s right, the Vezina winner gave up more goals than anyone, and didn’t finish in the top 20 in either GAA or SV%. But did lead the league in wins. 

Gretzky had 149 points in 64 games that year. Fuhr probably owed him (and a couple other high scorers) a steak dinner or something. 

[Colorado Rockies 1976]

28 minutes ago, mfitz804 said:

Interesting stat, in 1987-88 Grant Fuhr had a 3.43 GAA (21st) and .881 SV% (26th) He gave up more goals than any other goalie that year, part of that was that he also played 75 games. 

40 wins for Fuhr, and the Oilers won the Stanley Cup, because it was the late 80’s and that’s what Edmonton did back then. 

They gave Grant Fuhr the Vezina Trophy. 

Thar’s right, the Vezina winner gave up more goals than anyone, and didn’t finish in the top 20 in either GAA or SV%. But did lead the league in wins. 

Gretzky had 149 points in 64 games that year. Fuhr probably owed him (and a couple other high scorers) a steak dinner or something. 

I kinda remember that the general feeling back then that Fuhr was never going to finish high in those categories because of his team's style of play, but that he was still considered top-notch...and that given all of the dangerous chances that the Oilers allowed the other way, that Fuhr's numbers were actually really good...that, and he was often able to raise his game when needed.  

In general .880s save%s back then were considered solidly good (probably what .910s would be considered today), with .870s being mediocre, .890s being very good, and anything over .900 excellent.  

[Chimaira_Devil_#9]

Geating some practice in for when he retires. 

 

 

[mfitz804]

18 minutes ago, Colorado Rockies 1976 said:

In general .880s save%s back then were considered solidly good (probably what .910s would be considered today), with .870s being mediocre, .890s being very good, and anything over .900 excellent.  

He was 26th in the league in SV%, and I think there were only 21 teams at the time. Only 4 of those guys above him were guys who barely played (the elusive Sam St. Laurent included). 

BUT, Patrick Roy was the only guy who played more than 6 games that had a .900 (on the nose). So you are definitely correct. 

I still find it funny that the Vezina winner had such awful stats compared to the rest of the field, except in wins. Pretty clear that despite it being an award for individual performance, they just said "ok, 40 wins, that's the best goalie".

It's quite obvious that it wasn't his play winning those games. 

[mfitz804]

5 minutes ago, Chimaira_Devil_#9 said:

Geating some practice in for when he retires. 

 

 

Don't forget "sand the floor", ESPN broadcast team, the sweeper is on his way. 

[Colorado Rockies 1976]

18 minutes ago, mfitz804 said:

He was 26th in the league in SV%, and I think there were only 21 teams at the time. Only 4 of those guys above him were guys who barely played (the elusive Sam St. Laurent included). 

BUT, Patrick Roy was the only guy who played more than 6 games that had a .900 (on the nose). So you are definitely correct. 

I still find it funny that the Vezina winner had such awful stats compared to the rest of the field, except in wins. Pretty clear that despite it being an award for individual performance, they just said "ok, 40 wins, that's the best goalie".

It's quite obvious that it wasn't his play winning those games. 

It would seem that way, but keep in mind that his team was playing absolutely wide-open hockey (and when you have some of the very best offensive talent in the entire NHL scoring 400+ goals per season, while the hell not?)...his play was a factor in allowing them to do that...the feeling at the time was that a lot of guys wouldn't have been able to play as well as Fuhr did for them, given how that particular team played hockey.  The funny thing is as great as we remember Roy being now, back then there was a level of "Well yeah, if he wasn't playing on team that was so good defensively..." (same as some Marty detractors would say, but of course, Marty played some of his best hockey behind much less-talented teams).       

[Devil Dan 56]

8 minutes ago, Colorado Rockies 1976 said:

It would seem that way, but keep in mind that his team was playing absolutely wide-open hockey (and when you have some of the very best offensive talent in the entire NHL scoring 400+ goals per season, while the hell not?)...his play was a factor in allowing them to do that...the feeling at the time was that a lot of guys wouldn't have been able to play as well as Fuhr did for them, given how that particular team played hockey.  The funny thing is as great as we remember Roy being now, back then there was a level of "Well yeah, if he wasn't playing on team that was so good defensively..." (same as some Marty detractors would say, but of course, Marty played some of his best hockey behind much less-talented teams).       

Yeah goaltending was such a different position back then. The reason Fuhr was considered great is because he was left out to dry often (think Devils goalies) but made the saves needed to win big games. Now having a team put up 6 goals a game sure helps, but the general thought was how many goalies could play under fire as often as Fuhr? The guy made some absolutely magical saves at times. 

[MadDog2020]