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Originally Posted by Monticore
The AVS lost to a less talented team also, we just did to you what you did to them when facing a more talented team, be opportunistic , Staal's giveaway cancels out Fleury mess up in that game, and vegas had more call/non-calls go their way, mtl just outworked them .
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OMG you're so bitter!
Yeah, it feels very self-fulfilling/"they are who we thought they were"... but, when you add up the shutouts versus the Wild and 0 for a lot on the PP against Montreal, and all the times they couldn't make the initial play but benefited from a bounce (the goal off Grubauer's back, just to name one), and the sheer number of defenseman goals through traffic.... there's just no way it's a "scorers didn't show up" kind of problem.
They don't have scorers.
Yeah, force 4 million turnovers against a bunch of puck handlers who are hell bent on fitting their round offense into a muck-it-up defense, and score a few times... and even then a more talented team would have been scoring 10 per night with that number of odd man rushes.
Punch them in the face though and try to beat them at their own game? ....yeah, it becomes a grind of a 50/50 series, and a brutal one at that.
A couple of guys who can finish would probably make a huge difference.