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Title: 2022 NHL Playoffs
Post by: raptorsfan29 on May 11, 2022, 05:28:39 pm
surprised no one has posted this since the panthers are ranked #1 in the league but anyways.

The Maple Leafs are one win away from doing something they haven't done in 18 years. Win a playoff series. I'm hopeful they will pull it off against Tampa Bay but they have let me down before so i'm cautiously optimistic.


Title: Re: 2022 NHL Playoffs
Post by: Phishfan on May 12, 2022, 12:48:37 am
I'm an Islanders fan. It was a rough season.


Title: Re: 2022 NHL Playoffs
Post by: EDGECRUSHER on May 12, 2022, 08:28:49 am
I'm a Rangers fan, why would I want to discuss another gutless effort where the players would rather golf than win?


Title: Re: 2022 NHL Playoffs
Post by: ArtieChokePhin on May 15, 2022, 07:34:34 am
The Lightning pulled it off leaving the Maple Leafs without a playoff series win since 2004.  Great to see the Panthers win their first playoff series since that miracle run in 1996.   Looking forward to this Panthers/Lightning series.  Got my tickets for games 1 and 2.   GO PANTHERS!!!


Title: Re: 2022 NHL Playoffs
Post by: Tenshot13 on May 15, 2022, 04:08:09 pm
Go lightning wooooo


Title: Re: 2022 NHL Playoffs
Post by: CF DolFan on May 16, 2022, 08:35:48 am
Lightning - Panthers series should be pretty good. You know Miami is looking for paybacks after last year when the underdog Lightning came in and spanked them.


Title: Re: 2022 NHL Playoffs
Post by: Tenshot13 on May 16, 2022, 09:09:13 am
Lightning - Panthers series should be pretty good. You know Miami is looking for paybacks after last year when the underdog Lightning came in and spanked them.
History repeats itself  >:D


Title: Re: 2022 NHL Playoffs
Post by: EDGECRUSHER on May 16, 2022, 09:36:09 am
Rangers somehow pulled off the series win, becoming the first team in NHL history to come from behind to win 3 times while facing elimination.

Craolina Hurricanes owned the Rangers all season despite being equally matched teams, I don't think this series will be much different unless Igor does a Patrick Roy impression. "No Quit in NY" is not really needed if you play well the whole game and not just when you're losing.


Title: Re: 2022 NHL Playoffs
Post by: ArtieChokePhin on May 17, 2022, 04:26:49 pm
Currently in my car with a couple buddies.  Headed from West Kendall all the way up to the BB&T Center at Sawgrass Mills.   GO PANTHERS!!!!


Title: Re: 2022 NHL Playoffs
Post by: raptorsfan29 on May 18, 2022, 12:29:33 am
As a leaf fan i'm starting to feel like the character Randy Quaid played in Major League 2


Title: Re: 2022 NHL Playoffs
Post by: EDGECRUSHER on May 18, 2022, 08:33:11 am
As a leaf fan i'm starting to feel like the character Randy Quaid played in Major League 2

Heard that they have cap issues with lots of impending free agents. I don't think next year will be any better.


Title: Re: 2022 NHL Playoffs
Post by: Tenshot13 on May 18, 2022, 09:00:56 am
Tampa up 1-0 on the Panthers.  Go Bolts!


Title: Re: 2022 NHL Playoffs
Post by: stinkfish on May 18, 2022, 09:06:08 am
Hockey shouldn't be a thing in Florida. Hope they all sink.


Title: Re: 2022 NHL Playoffs
Post by: Tenshot13 on May 18, 2022, 09:14:32 am
Hockey shouldn't be a thing in Florida. Hope they all sink.
Hate us cuz you ain't us.


Title: Re: 2022 NHL Playoffs
Post by: Dave Gray on May 18, 2022, 09:44:00 am
Hockey shouldn't be a thing in Florida.

I've never understood this perspective.  It's not like they're playing outside.  What's the difference?


Title: Re: 2022 NHL Playoffs
Post by: stinkfish on May 18, 2022, 09:59:07 am
Lol. That didn't take long. It's just that ice hockey being played in a region that doesn't naturally support ice is wrong to me. Believe me, I even think that playing the Stanley Cup Finals in June is odd no matter where it's being played.


Title: Re: 2022 NHL Playoffs
Post by: Dave Gray on May 18, 2022, 10:12:52 am
It's not like the players have to be from the region.  They're all Russians and shit anyway.


Title: Re: 2022 NHL Playoffs
Post by: stinkfish on May 18, 2022, 10:23:38 am
I know, but Florida doesn't even get cold. It's just a weird place for hockey


Title: Re: 2022 NHL Playoffs
Post by: Sunstroke on May 18, 2022, 10:33:57 am
I know, but Florida doesn't even get cold. It's just a weird place for hockey 

You mean like Phoenix, Los Angeles, Dallas, Las Vegas, Anaheim, Nashville and San Jose?

That's 10 of the league's 32 teams in warm weather markets...apparently the NHL is embracing the weirdness. ;-)




Title: Re: 2022 NHL Playoffs
Post by: stinkfish on May 18, 2022, 10:42:08 am
Am I the only one that thinks it's odd? That's ok with me. Actually One of my first NHL games was a Sharks game in San Jose. It was their inaugural season. LOved it. Loved the Sharks. Came back home to Boston all loaded up with Sharks gear. T shirts, Hat, pennant. Couldn't wear any of that stuff around town because that logo became a street gang symbol.


Title: Re: 2022 NHL Playoffs
Post by: Sunstroke on May 18, 2022, 10:46:25 am
Am I the only one that thinks it's odd? That's ok with me. Actually One of my first NHL games was a Sharks game in San Jose. It was their inaugural season. LOved it. Loved the Sharks. Came back home to Boston all loaded up with Sharks gear. T shirts, Hat, pennant. Couldn't wear any of that stuff around town because that logo became a street gang symbol.

Every NHL game I have seen (6-7) were all Panthers games. However, I watched a handful of minor league hockey games in Seattle and Kamloops before I got to the NHL.




Title: Re: 2022 NHL Playoffs
Post by: ArtieChokePhin on May 18, 2022, 10:57:07 am
Lol. That didn't take long. It's just that ice hockey being played in a region that doesn't naturally support ice is wrong to me. Believe me, I even think that playing the Stanley Cup Finals in June is odd no matter where it's being played.

There are a ton of Canadians living in Lauderdale By The Sea and the surrounding area.   That's why they moved the Panthers to Broward County.   Hockey in South Florida isn't as far fetched as you may think.

With that in mind, I should've gone to the Heat game.


Title: Re: 2022 NHL Playoffs
Post by: EDGECRUSHER on May 18, 2022, 10:58:40 am
There can be hockey teams anywhere, just stop changing around the divisions and playoff formats. Bring back the Patrick Division you bastards!


Title: Re: 2022 NHL Playoffs
Post by: MyGodWearsAHoodie on May 18, 2022, 12:43:21 pm
Am I the only one that thinks it's odd? That's ok with me. Actually One of my first NHL games was a Sharks game in San Jose. It was their inaugural season. LOved it. Loved the Sharks. Came back home to Boston all loaded up with Sharks gear. T shirts, Hat, pennant. Couldn't wear any of that stuff around town because that logo became a street gang symbol.

I am with you only cities with natural ice should have hockey.


Title: Re: 2022 NHL Playoffs
Post by: ArtieChokePhin on May 18, 2022, 01:06:38 pm
I am with you only cities with natural ice should have hockey.

There's plenty of snow in Miami.... just not the kind you have to shovel off your driveway in the winter.


Title: Re: 2022 NHL Playoffs
Post by: CF DolFan on May 18, 2022, 02:43:56 pm
While we've alway had ice skating rinks we now have hockey leagues here in the Orlando area for kids and adults. It's taken off in recent years. I have a nephew and neice who play.  


Title: Re: 2022 NHL Playoffs
Post by: Spider-Dan on May 18, 2022, 06:31:59 pm
It's not about the weather, it's about the culture.  In Canada, New England, and the Great Lakes area, hockey is more of a cultural staple than it is in Miami, Tampa, Phoenix, or Los Angeles.  It's like having a football team in Puerto Rico or a basketball team in Calgary.


Title: Re: 2022 NHL Playoffs
Post by: Phishfan on May 19, 2022, 02:06:00 am
Tampa had the number one attendance in the league. What about culture?


Title: Re: 2022 NHL Playoffs
Post by: Tenshot13 on May 19, 2022, 09:38:54 am
Tampa loves it's hockey


Title: Re: 2022 NHL Playoffs
Post by: ArtieChokePhin on May 19, 2022, 12:13:39 pm
Tampa had the number one attendance in the league. What about culture?

I'm sure winning two Stanley Cups in a row had something to do with that.   After the Panthers miracle run in 1996, attendance for their games was at an all time high.


Title: Re: 2022 NHL Playoffs
Post by: Tenshot13 on May 19, 2022, 01:36:26 pm
I'm sure winning two Stanley Cups in a row had something to do with that.   After the Panthers miracle run in 1996, attendance for their games was at an all time high.
Top 10 attendance since the 2012-2013 season. 


Title: Re: 2022 NHL Playoffs
Post by: Phishfan on May 19, 2022, 02:24:54 pm
Need to do better than that to deserve a team.


Title: Re: 2022 NHL Playoffs
Post by: Tenshot13 on May 20, 2022, 12:40:15 pm
2-0 Tampa, wooo


Title: Re: 2022 NHL Playoffs
Post by: ArtieChokePhin on May 20, 2022, 02:51:39 pm
Need to do better than that to deserve a team.

Like actually score on penalties, or not allow a goal in the final seconds.   That's why the Panthers are as good as done for the year.   Cup winning teams are able to score on power plays and kill penalties.   Tampa does that very well.  Florida does not.


Title: Re: 2022 NHL Playoffs
Post by: ArtieChokePhin on May 24, 2022, 07:56:51 am
And just like that, the Panthers get swept.   Don't tell me this was a good season.  It wasn't.   When you have the best record in your conference and get swept by your rivals in the second round, it's not a good season.


Title: Re: 2022 NHL Playoffs
Post by: Tenshot13 on May 24, 2022, 08:00:44 am
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Title: Re: 2022 NHL Playoffs
Post by: CF DolFan on May 24, 2022, 08:10:46 am
Tampa is going for that ever elusive three-peat! Only five teams have ever won three straight championships and no team has pulled the feat off in nearly 40 years.


Title: Re: 2022 NHL Playoffs
Post by: EDGECRUSHER on May 24, 2022, 09:54:10 am
And just like that, the Panthers get swept.   Don't tell me this was a good season.  It wasn't.   When you have the best record in your conference and get swept by your rivals in the second round, it's not a good season.

Agreed. It's one thing to lose in 7 but to get destroyed in the 2nd round after going 7 games in the 1st is a terrible playoff run and almost negates the entire season. You gotta have a certain toughness to do well in the NHL Playoffs, during the offseason I bet they get some tough guys like the Rangers did.


Title: Re: 2022 NHL Playoffs
Post by: ArtieChokePhin on May 24, 2022, 02:12:43 pm
Agreed. It's one thing to lose in 7 but to get destroyed in the 2nd round after going 7 games in the 1st is a terrible playoff run and almost negates the entire season. You gotta have a certain toughness to do well in the NHL Playoffs, during the offseason I bet they get some tough guys like the Rangers did.

Last time they did that, they ended up missing the playoffs the following season.  Essa Tiakenen was his name,  I think.

Back to the present.   This team had one of the best offenses in a long time in all of hockey.  Averaged over 4 goals per game.  They averaged .75 goals per game in the Lightning series and were a horrendous 1 for 31 on power plays in the playoffs.  That's gotta fucking hurt.


Title: Re: 2022 NHL Playoffs
Post by: Dave Gray on May 26, 2022, 03:23:43 pm
I still think it's a successful season.  I know that traditionally, it would suck, but just in terms of local relevance, the Panthers have made noise and people have cared, talked about, gone to the games -- there's been a buzz, which there hasn't been here in a long time.

That probably doesn't matter in many hockey markets, but here, it does.  It gives you something to build on and there will probably be excitement into next season.


Title: Re: 2022 NHL Playoffs
Post by: ArtieChokePhin on May 27, 2022, 07:42:05 am
I still think it's a successful season.  I know that traditionally, it would suck, but just in terms of local relevance, the Panthers have made noise and people have cared, talked about, gone to the games -- there's been a buzz, which there hasn't been here in a long time.

That probably doesn't matter in many hockey markets, but here, it does.  It gives you something to build on and there will probably be excitement into next season.

You may be right, but in hockey, things can change quickly from year to year.   In 1996, the Panthers made that miracle run to the Stanley Cup finals.   Two years later, they were out of the playoffs with a losing record.

Last year, the Lightning beat the Islanders in the ECF and the Canadiens in the Stanley Cup Finals.  This year, neither of those two teams made the playoffs and the Islanders replaced their coach.