2016 Stanley Cup Playoffs

[cool-vintage]

I guess I should take back everything I said about the Blues failures to beat the Hawks.

That was one of the best series I've seen.

[bbcardzman]

Great job Blues on finally knocking off the dreaded Hawks!!!
ON TO DALLAS!!

[vintagewhitesox]

Great series. Best first rounds in a long long time.
Hawks can't drop 2 at home to a tough St. Louis team and expect to win the series.

Congrats Blues and their fans. On to the next round, best of luck!

[ALR-bishop]

Very gracious of you Josh.

[stlcardsfan]

Stars have throttled Tarasenko so far in this series. He needs to step it up tonight! I think the ice time controversy is overblown, here is the most pertinent quote from Hitch:

“When you view a player ... knowledgeable hockey people don’t look at time, they look at shifts, and shifts matter,” Hitchcock said. “He plays a short-ice game with short shifts and that’s impacts his energy. He’s a big body that plays a lot, he gets leaned on, he leans on a lot of people. It’s very wearing.

“The game he plays is a physical game: it’s at the puck, it’s around the puck, it’s one on one and it’s very demanding. He’s not going to be a 48, 49-second hockey player, not and be effective. He’s a guy that has to play in short bursts and that’s what he does. He plays great in short bursts so his energy stays high.”

[cool-vintage]

The SJ/NSH series is a lot better than I was expecting. That triple OT game last night/this morning was one of the best games so far. I was expecting the Sharks to dominate.

[irv]

Originally Posted by cool-vintage

The SJ/NSH series is a lot better than I was expecting. That triple OT game last night/this morning was one of the best games so far. I was expecting the Sharks to dominate.

Same. I thought it would be a 4 straight or 4 to 1 series.

Proud of Cuz getting the tying goal, and I hope they can win the series, but their definitely in tough, but at the same time, SJ has been known to choke before.