#24 – Not Sure If Serious or Playing Dumba

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What's Up With Your Team - Third Round and Counting

[(Anonymous)]

Two tied series, wow! Also golf.

Re: What's Up With Your Team - Third Round and Counting

[(Anonymous)]

Well well well, Beau Bennett has at very long last been cleared to play, so Twitter is speculating we might see him tonight.

Re: What's Up With Your Team - Third Round and Counting

[(Anonymous)]

I wouldn't be totally shocked if he gets put in the lineup and then injures himself drinking water on the bench sometime during the first period.

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[(Anonymous)]

Flower's in tonight (my heart says yes, my mind says it doesn't matter), and Daley's out for the rest of the season with a broken ankle. :(((( That makes him crawling around on the ice because he couldn't get a stoppage even worse.

Re: What's Up With Your Team - Third Round and Counting

[(Anonymous)]

Shame, I don't think the pens have a good chance without him.

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[(Anonymous)]

I elect to take this cute picture of Ghost http://m.imgur.com/VntfHoz as proof that his surgery went well.

Re: What's Up With Your Team - Third Round and Counting

[(Anonymous)]

OMG. Bulldogs. (Briere also had bulldogs, so clearly they need to bond over this.)

Re: What's Up With Your Team - Third Round and Counting

[(Anonymous)]

This is exactly the kind of content I'm interested in.

I'm glad he's looking so cozy, aww.

Re: What's Up With Your Team - Third Round and Counting

[(Anonymous)]

Pens are starting Murray tonight, and on one hand that feels like a reasonable choice, but OTOH Flower posted a better save % two nights ago than Murray had in several of his starts against TBL, and if you were only going to give him one night (plus a period) to get himself going after a concussion and seven weeks off, why did you bother?

More personally, I'm just really sad for Flower. He's been really solid for the last several playoff runs, and that was not at all representative of his recent play, but it'll be just one more thing to point to for people still banging the "Fleury's bad in the playoffs" drum.

Re: What's Up With Your Team - Third Round and Counting

[(Anonymous)]

I remember someone predicting during the Washington series that if the Pens waffle on their goalies, what'll happen is that Fleury will be cold and underperform, then when they put Murray back he'll suffer from his confidence, leading to an eventual loss of the series from those losses.

Bad situation for the goalies, but the conference finals are the wrong place to be indecisive about them. I don't see the Pens recovering, especially when you add in their injuries.

Re: What's Up With Your Team - Third Round and Counting

[(Anonymous)]

Could it be that coaching staff ffeels like the team might play more confident with Murray in net as opposed to Fleury who's been out for so long and might still be a little rusty? Not that any of the goals last game were really on him and the bigger problem seemed to be letang not playing very good plus no Daley.

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[(Anonymous)]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capitals-insider/wp/2016/05/24/michael-latta-faces-the-most-uncertainty-among-the-capitals-restricted-free-agents/

Latta's end of the season review is making me unexpectedly emotional. Getting scratched so often must be tough, articles about that always get to me...
I've seen comments elsewhere say that "he can stay on the team and be the healthy scratch next season too" but I don't think Washington would go for that (or that it would be a good situation anyway).

Re: What's Up With Your Team - Third Round and Counting

[(Anonymous)]

The Bruins have signed Kevan Miller to a four year, $10M contract. Defensemen they have not managed to resign yet include Torey Krug and Colin Miller.

Re: What's Up With Your Team - Third Round and Counting

[(Anonymous)]

Vancouver what are you doing? Seriously.
McCann + 2nd + 4th for Gudbranson + 5th

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[(Anonymous)]

Stamkos sighting during warm-ups.

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[(Anonymous)]

Dustin Brown has been stripped of the captaincy, Kopitar will most likely have it next year. If he refuses it's probably Carter.

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[(Anonymous)]

Bolts breakdown day - Bishop says he "strained his shin and ankle area." I'm not sure exactly what that means, except OUCH.

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[(Anonymous)]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BF9buoijsXP/?taken-by=realstamkos_91

Stamkos has said that he wants to stay with the team and Yzerman said that they want to do whatever they can to keep him. It just doesn't seem possible though, and I think Stamkos is aware of that. Even one of the beat writers said that in his breakdown day interview "his postmortem on the season sounded in some ways like a funeral for his run as Lightning captain". This sucks.

Re: What's Up With Your Team - Third Round and Counting

[(Anonymous)]

So given that DeBoer's Sharks are in the SCF and McLellen didn't seem to make much difference in Edmonton so far (even in underlying numbers, like possession stats), is there any discussion of how maybe McLellen was part of the Sharks' problem? I feel like at the time people thought he was a good coach, but.

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[(Anonymous)]

‏@TSNBobMcKenzie
Kris Letang to talk to media at NHL podium this morning. Highly unusual. Some question as to his status for G1?

Given the Pens history with press conferences about specific players, I'm really concerned for his well-being...

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[(Anonymous)]

Panther's are unveiling their new jerseys at 7 pm EST. Strongly suspect it's going to be a major downgrade.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsZQcQRgEs8

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[(Anonymous)]

Really did not want to make a GDT to make this comment: WTF Nailers fans? Why are you throwing toilet paper on the Americans? Not cool.

Also Stevenson did color commentary on the radio today because he couldn't play, and I swear his voice is still breaking. It was cool, though.

/Allen nonny

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[(Anonymous)]

Hertl is out for the Sharks tonight with a lower body injury. Ouch.

Re: What's Up With Your Team - Third Round and Counting

[(Anonymous)]

A "very good source" says Hertl is done for the season with a knee injury. :(
https://twitter.com/jedli/status/739965972623294464

Re: What's Up With Your Team - Third Round and Counting

[(Anonymous)]

Lake Erie Monsters wins the Calder Cup sweeping the Hershey Bears.
Bjorkstrand with the GWG. He had a total of 6 GWG in the playoff.