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This is all great points, Watson definitely is set up to succeed. I'm not sure how good he'll be in the NFL, but honestly the Texans don't need much just competent play. He has weapons there as you note, and that defense will be unreal. That division as a whole should be getting better (save...

No love for Skins nabbing Allen at 17? Just kidding man. I pretty much agree with everything you said here. If Winston doesn't put up monster numbers this year, I don't know what to say. He's loaded with receiving talent around him now. Seriously wondering if Cook/Mixon keep falling if...

It's weird seeing them be competent.

There goes Foster.

I wonder how far Foster falls. I have doubts we'd move up at all, Allen has been clear he is only in favor of trading back...but if he keeps falling...

Can't believe Allen fell to us. Some good luck for us? Great player at exact position of need? If tomorrow goes well draft should already be a big success, can use our abundant Day 3 picks to take some shots on guys.

Nice Game 1. Nice to see Kuznetsov get on the board again. Feel pretty good about our chances overall if we play like that the whole series. Maybe not hand out freebies like we did tonight next game, though.

Yeah Drouin has been a beast ever since the whole trade demand flap blew over. Kucherov and Hedman both absolute monsters and have reason to be like "look at our play, where you guys at?"

More or less, only they would do it even when they didn't have a lead as well when games were tied (not all the time, but some of the time). It's essentially another version of the trap. I remember a clip of a game Capitals had against Tampa where we were up a couple goals in the 3rd and...

This Blues/Preds series is going to be amazing.

Depends if there's battles over what they found and who gets their shares. But a lot of it still seems contrived. Also shitty he pissed off Gene Kranz, although he should have known he can't just ask about that stuff without it being sensitive.

Seriously fuck Guy Boucher and his 1-3-1. I'll be real interested to watch the West series tomorrow night. I think both are pretty fantastic and aside from Anaheim lot of new blood (St. Louis not exactly new, but they've only really had the one deep run).

And this is why I won't be able to quit this show...meeting Gene Kranz. The connections to the space program with all these neat bits of history more than makes up for any other bullshit of the "reality" of it.

Not to offend, I find Rags/Sens the least compelling of the 2nd round match ups (honestly the other 3 I think are all pretty fucking good). Mostly because of the Sens, I'm a little surprised they beat Boston, but I don't see them having a real chance against the Rags. As for people picking...

What the fuck, literally intro to episode 2 says "true story of one man's journey to find what lies at end of treasure map from space"...then "what he finds is worth billions". I mean shit, it's nice to know there is a payoff, but didn't need to spoil it all to that degree.

Love you too, Grimm. Legit question though, if Murray gets healthy, does he start immediately?

Really excited we have to wait until Thursday to start Round 2 (the Caps at least)...no not really, we do terrible after long breaks. Went 6-2 with my Round 1 picks, funny enough I had Nashville pushing Chicago to 7, didn't realize they were going to go full ham on Blackhawks. Only series I...

Felt like we were the much better team. Not sure what they were counting as shots for Toronto all night but didn't feel like Holtby had to work 28 saves hard through the first 2 periods. Leafs with barely any shots in the 3rd (which we basically dominated) and they get another crazy bounce off...

Agreed best shot is Europa. But if they win the derby against City, they go 2 points ahead of them, and being only 3 back of Liverpool with 2 games in hand makes it very doable. As tough as their run in is, Liverpool's struggles against teams in the bottom half of the table means their finish...

So Tottenham to lose while Arsenal go through. Spurs always seem on the cusp without being able to get over the hump. Maybe the rematch with Chelsea coming up will let them get the ultimate revenge and help them to league title. Liverpool dropping all 3 points leaves a big opening for either...

Yeah I don't see the point of building up all that fake tension between them when it's clear they're going to just resolve it and start working together. I just hope sitting through all the bs is worth it for a payoff at the end.

I wish they had won in the Finals last year.

Feel like Bruins just got screwed out of a goal in OT. Would be a little weird if Ottawa end up scoring now and ending the series.

Justin Williams so clutch. It's weird for a series with 4 out of the 5 games going to overtime, 3 of them have been relatively short. The 3 that didn't go double OT all finished roughly 5 minutes into first extra period or earlier.

Yeah that's a nice haul. I'd figure even getting a 3rd + a 5th would be sweet.

Curious what the best compensatory pick haul in one year ever was. Pretty sure no team has ever come close to having four extra 3rd round compensatory picks. The picks are also ranked, since they are essentially added to the end of each round after teams' normal picks in rounds 3-7. But...

Down big and at 3-2 goalie interference takes goal off the board and they get a penalty out of it where Pens score on following PP...yeah, I'd say that was huge. I think Columbus outplayed Pittsburgh possession wise for a lot of the series, but Pittsburgh with their shooting talent can be...

That's pretty crazy division loaded final 6 games. Any other teams that loaded down the stretch? I thought the new thing was to play at least 2 division games early, and have 2 or 3 late as well (with 1 or 2 potential in the middle).

It's definitely not great. But considering the West worked out basically perfectly with 2 divisional brackets...and the #1 and #2 team out west (by points) include a team that just got swept scoring only 3 goals all series, and the other which is in a 3-1 hole.

He has a save % above .900 in only 6 appearances in 18 playoff games (not all starts). That includes a .902 and a .903 game, neither of which is great.

Yeah it looks tough because they have to play their own division and NFC East...the two best divisions overall last year (at least as far as win-loss goes)

Skins schedule is weird. Early bye, playing Dallas twice in the middle, hosting Giants on Thanksgiving night. Get to go see McVay in LA Week 2. Finish up against the Giants again. Need to see draft and how our D is going to look before I can even guess what we'll go this year.

This is pretty funny.

Heard Columbus got screwed on game tying goal. Oh well. Chicago maybe getting swept with Rinne shutting them out 3 out of 4 games...crazy.

Wild trying to hang in, Flames look like they might be swept. Although that might be easier for them, given their crazy streak of X amount of years they haven't won a game in Anaheim.

13th in PP opportunities. Despite being one of the top possession teams in the league. 5th in the league for most times short-handed. I'm not sure we've reached Pens status. As for this series, the Leafs have 1 more PP chance than we do so far. Ovie, backstrom and oshie were possessed...

Didn't feel like a 1 goal game. Is what it is, got it back to 2-2 going back home.

You think we're getting a PP the rest of this game? I laughed. Thank goodness for Oshie. Hell the top line in general.

And there's another friendly bounce...you guys can win well enough on your own. Just tired of getting jobbed on calls that affect the game in huge ways.

It's okay, yet another terrible playoff goalie interference call that goes against the Caps. Unreal while Andersen is holding Backstrom's leg, and he actually tries to move away out of the crease when the ref yells get out...then D man helps push him back in. Gotta keep it close we're in...