on ryan lindgren's 2% game

i saw that he took a big hit and appeared to get injured, but he did stay in the game so i guess he was ok enough. also he has been the worst rangers dman in the playoffs iirc, so. anyway...

on ice
14:07 at 5v5
2% xg
-17 corsi
-11 fenwick
-10 shots on goal
-1 goals
-10 scoring chances
-8 high danger chances

individual
1 shot attempt, 1 shot on goal
1 penalty taken
0 hits, 9 hits taken
0 giveaways, 1 takeaway
and then zeros across the board

just skating around out there getting his ass kicked. don't be surprised if he's too injured to play next game, because he is clearly hurt, and he's very ineffective and just eating hits left and right. but hockey culture is painkillers and playing anyway, so

Lindgren, not good.

I had a prediction for Monday's game, but I didn't post it because I thought it was already 2-1 Dallas until just before the game started, and it was very rude.

It did play out the way I predicted.

The last part of the prediction said Cuthbert would still be fixated on how superlative Edmonton's stars are today.

welp ... loilers had a good run

Yikes Oilers so far but still early.

loilers confirmed big time back?

stick save! and a beauty

confirmed. can't handle the swongs

i stg, if the loilers end up shipping because lolbob, i ..... i don't even know what

hell.

I feel your pain bro with Dortmund in the CL final and all. And i don't even pay attention to that anymore

and now it's a great run!

2-0 lead most dangerous in hockey (Oil were up 2-0 in G3 and lost by multiple goals)

Yikes but the other way,lol

5 minutes in Im like oh shxt . Im like on the second goal when things are not going right both Nurse and Skinner get that unlucky goal but after that they both were great

Big Win and if Dallas loses that D man Oilers have the momentum

game 4 xg: 60% loilers


best oilers xg: kulak 82%, perry 75%, draisaitl 72%, mcleod 72%, hyman 69%
worst oilers xg: brown 5%, janmark 11%, ryan 25%, broberg 25%, kane 46%

all but 4 players showed up, they've had a lot of these kind of games. reminiscent of those good kings teams where even the bottom of the roster players who weren't really that good were big and able to control the game by winning the possession game, and thus the xg. hold the fort down until mcdrai get back on the ice. the canucks weren't able to solve this problem, and if the stars can't, they'll be out too. they gotta figure out what worked in game 3, and fast.


best stars xg: hintz 73%, petrovic 72%, seguin 71%, dadonov 64%, steel 63%
worst stars xg: pavelski 4%, tanev 7%, marchment 10%, duchene 11%, harley 18%

lets hear it for malucci, 4% little joe. i know each game is such a small sample, but it's wild how many times a player has gone not just from good to bad or vice versa from game to game, but literally from best to worst or vice versa. lol hockey i guess. also tanev's 7% impacted by a puck to foot injury that limited him to 7 minutes at 5v5. related: the stars fell apart in the back half of the game. if that's a serious injury they could be in trouble here.

little joe pavelski's 4% night

on ice
-9 corsi
-10 fenwick
-7 shots on goal
-2 goals
-5 scoring chances
-4 high danger chances

individual
15:06 at 5v5
1 giveaway
1 hit, 3 hits taken
1 blocked shot
2 faceoffs won, 4 faceoffs lost

and that's it. no shot attemps, no nothing. just cardio


malucci is right, for one night anyway

yeah i kinda forgot/failed to consider the strong kangz aspect, that makes sense. were the sharks still good when he was there? i forgot. probably for at least some of it

anyway he can't be worth more than the ~minimum at this point, right? he seems risky as a backup, because that's your insurance policy. and most start 20-30 games these days


to schalke or ucl?

CL and most top level football really save for the odd Arsenal match. I might have watched more NHL playoff games than footy games all year!

Very concerned about Tanev playing and how he will be able to play if they decide to throw him out there.

catz/rag$ game 5: xg 69% panthers


best panthers xg: tkachuk 93%, rodrigues 92%, bennett 91%, ekman-larsson 86%, kulikov 81%
worst panthers xg: verhaeghe 47%, ekblad 48%, barkov 49%, forsling 50%, tarasenko 51%

yeah this was a beat down. panthers really rounding into form and their superior quality seems to be wearing the rangers down. only some serious lolbob can stop them now. tkachuk is absolutely dominant much of the time, and seems to have built great chemistry with some of these guys


best rangers xg: panarin 72%, lafreniere 58%, chytil 54%, trochek 52%, miller 45%
worst* rangers xg: roslovic 8%, kakko 9%, lindgren 12%, wennberg 13%, goodrow 16%
* - rempe had 0 xg for and against in just under 3 minutes so i excluded him

the rangers simply don't have enough good players, and shesterkin can only do so much. they seem finished, but feel free to prove me wrong. he's been good, but they probably need him to be ~perfect tbh. obv not his fault though

1st penalty was bullshit, 2nd was ... unfortunate. regardless learn how to kill penalties for more than like 5 seconds

stars in big trouble here if they don't wake up asap


soon, and for the rest of our lives...

welp

just going back to this from the start of the playoffs to remind myself ... the stars kinda dominated the knights and avs, both of whom are good teams. the loilers are also good, i guess, but i'm seriously struggling to understand what it is they're doing that renders their opponent completely impotent. they did the same to the canucks, who aren't bad. i don't get it. they aren't actually that good, and their goalies suck ... just shoot the ****ing puck

hell.


i forget who the stars coach is, but fire him too for not being able to solve this thing

Deboer

Stars dominated the Knights in 7 games?

maybe maybe not, i forget