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2605224, They look soooo fucking dangerous right now
Posted by ConcreteCharlie, Fri Apr-21-17 11:06 PM
You could look at their season on a macro level and think WTF? They were a bad road team, they were really inconsistent and they had the worst record of the eight teams in the West that qualified.

But if toss out a couple crappy stretches they were a lot better, that food poisoning outbreak and some other injuries hurt them. In November Rinne was lights out and then around New Year's they were good again, at times down the stretch, too. They kept showing flashes of what they could be and that was a deep team that didn't rely on any one guy or one line or one pairing.

You look at their team, they don't have any point-per-game guys but they have guys who are above-average scorers for their role through much of their lineup. Even some of their muscle like Watson can chip in a little, along with other guys more or less in checking roles (e.g. Fisher, Wilson).

This is the kind of potential they showed at their best during the year and then some. Subban is playing simple and it is very effective. Their other D are all hustling and they have good defensive forwards to begin with. Great structure here and Rinne was saving everything he could see. He has been very streaky in recent years but when he gets hot he is still very much an elite goaltender.

I think the Blues are in trouble against these guys. They played that first-round series like a team no one wants to face. Kind of reminds me of the Kings when they were the team no one wanted to play, but honestly these guys dominated the fuck out of Chicago while the Kings, relatively speaking, squeaked past Vancouver that year.