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Well then: EAST Philadelphia @WashingtonCaps in 6, but who knows cause it's the Caps. NY Islanders @FloridaPanthers in 6, Isles too banged up I think, but Florida has some guys without a lot of experience. NY Rangers @PittsburghPens in 5. Lundqvist going nuts is only chance I see for...

Ronaldo saves Real, and Man City manage to get through that clusterfuck of a tie with PSG.

Btw thoughts on whether or not we should make a new thread for playoffs? Was going to do my predictions for Round 1

It begins.

If Malkin is back and anywhere near 100% I don't see any way the Rags pull it off unless Lundqvist goes full on Halak mode.

Also, the top of the West is stacked, but man the bottom of their playoff bracket is shit. Wild lose 5 straight and get in by 5 points?

I'm basically in agreement with you. I think 600 happens after two more years. He's at 525 already. 75 in the next two is averaging below 40 a year. But after that, he's got to fall off at some point, it's going to happen. If he plays 8 more years, I think he almost certainly hits 700. If...

McDonagh likely out at least Wednesday.

No really, love it when the summer has the Euro or World Cup. Helps get through the shitty only baseball otherwise days.

I think Stamkos would be a threat to hit 60+ (or would have been a couple of years ago), and guys like Sid, Benn, and Tarasenko would be threats for 50 goals a lot more as well if they were all playing in that era. I just think the fact he's done it 7 times in this era is roughly on par with...

Yeah that play at least on Murray seemed more like incidental than anything intentional, still took a pretty good blow.

Seriously, what's with your team and concussions? Any word on Fleury?

Obviously it's a good move for Denver. It's just not a bad one for the Jets in the very short/immediate term, given the sudden hole at the position. He was never going to bring back a lot, but I think the return was decent and you move that money

Decent chance they win it before then, but the symmetry would be amusing.

Their possession numbers actually look extremely good most likely over their last 10-15 games. But again, a lot of those models are based on results of the last ~25 games or so, which the Caps have had nothing to play for over the majority of that span and have seen a predictable dip in their...

During the game today (I believe it was in the 2nd half) they mentioned it's been over 400 minutes since Schmeichel conceded a goal

Can't help but love seeing them grind out wins like they have too. Keeping clean sheets and always finding a way to squeeze out a goal, although Vardy did make it 2-0 very late today, it's just their year.

So Clady to the Jets? Heard they're sending a 5th to Denver but getting a 7th in return as well as Clady. Old and coming off injury, but given what they gave up, not a terrible fill in move I suppose.

Is it really that bad though? Everyone was bitching earlier in the season about the Pacific, and divisions having a team miss out over the #3 team in a weak division...but the top 8 teams in both conferences are the ones that are going to be in the playoffs. I actually really like the...

So the Isles and Philly play tomorrow, and oddly enough, Philly has nothing on the line (other than pride I guess?). They're already locked into WC2 and will face the Capitals. Isles and Rags can still flip spots if the Isles win tomorrow (any win, 2 points leapfrogs them over the Rangers)...

Ovechkin joins Bossy and Gretzky as the only guys to score 50+ goals in a season 7+ times.

That's pretty sick. We're only at something like 35-0-1. Was hoping to put that 1 up on your end last night. Great finish by Sid.

Pretty sure both of our PP's were like 0-4 tonight...including a 5 minute one for the Pens. Plus we gave up a shortie.

Also, if you liked watching efficient and dangerous PP's...tonight's Caps/Pens game was not the one you should have been watching.

It was nice we left him the entire ice. Good lord our #3 D pairing (Schmidt, Orlov) was horrific tonight. Nice to comeback I guess, but OT seemed to follow a trend for us in 3 on 3 lately, generate some chances that we do nothing with, give up one big chance and it ends up in the back of the net.

It affects it, certainly. Haven't done the math on how much Holtby is helped out by it. If we gave him as many starts as last year, he'd probably be right around the number without the extra help from current OT/shootout rules.

As a Rags fan, I find it weird you would be rooting against Holtby breaking Marty's record. Guy kind of deserves it, especially when you look at the Games Played for Marty and everyone else on the top 5 wins in a season list. Everyone else is north of 70 games, Holtby likely to top out at 66.

Sounds like Backstrom might be back in for us tonight.

Oh Grimm, I was merely pointing out that I'm selling hard on a model that has the Flyers as the 4th best chance to win the Cup and Chicago and us not even in the top 10 among the 16 playoff teams. Wheels came off for Holtby last night, that's for sure. With Backstrom out, Marcus Johannson...

Holtby manages to blow his chance to tie Marty with 48th win by giving up a couple of softies. Girardi hurt late in Rags win over Tampa.

Hedman and Callahan out tonight for Tampa. Holy shit their injuries.

Fuck.

Oh no it's a real thing. It's not just the Caps getting pushed down either, includes Chicago. I don't follow a lot of the advanced stats guys enough to know who's who, but one recent one released % chances for all teams currently in the playoff spot to Win the Cup. Philly was 4th at ~8%...

I kind of love all these models coming out only weighing team's play over the last 25 games as a predictor of the playoffs. Caps have been in full coast mode for awhile now, and everyone is picking the Pens or LA to win the Cup now. Caps not even making top 10 most likely to win it in some of...

I think Tampa can still beat Detroit in Round 1 (assuming the Wings edge out Boston for the #3 seed in the Atlantic and Tampa ends up the #2 seed)

Nothing to do with the Isles? That team is dysfunctional as shit right now. Coach just called out a couple of guys, Halak is still hurt (and one of their other goalies just got hurt they had to do an emergency call up I believe)...If the Isles end up playing anyone in the Metro in Round 1 I...

I don't. Only way we ever win a Cup I'm convinced includes exorcising the demon that is the Penguins. Fully expect any deep run by us to include facing the Pens in Round 2. Gotta earn it.

Straight up, Kaepernick is better than Peyton's corpse that played most of last year. If he can find his game again, everyone knows his ceiling could still be pretty high. They wouldn't need an all world D if their offense did more. I'm not expecting them to contend for another 5 years...

As much as it's fun (and right) to troll Romo, the only reason "turnover" hasn't been renamed to "Hoyer" is because of what Carson Palmer did in the NFC Championship Game.

Speaking of, Houston re-signed Weeden to back up Osweiler.