Cancer0081
Team Aqua member
good luck to Tampa Bay fans.... and to the Lighting themselves. not sure if I'm gonna watch any of the final games. maybe game 1 if anything since I'll be off work that night.
Yeah, Blackhawks win and I immediately lost all interest in watching the finals. GG Tampa, you'll be dead in 5 games.
The problem I'm seeing with Tampa all comes down to goaltending and overall experience. If they had faced the ducks, the goaltending matchup would have been pretty even (as no matter how many goalies they put in net I still think the Ducks have a weird goalie-friendly system which allows them to use basically anyone with decent results). Instead, they're facing Corey Crawford and a Blackhawks team which could not only win the cup this year but will probably win 2-3 more before the end of this decade. Should Tampa want to win this series, they'll need to up their scoring quite a bit (stamkos will need at least 10 goals) and Bishop will have to lower his GAA. Doing both will be a pretty tough task.
Didn't people say likewise with the other 3 of the Original Six teams that Tampa had to go through to get to this point, though? I wouldn't be too quick to assume, but I suppose time will tell.
If Tampa can beat Price and Lundqvist they can beat Crawford. You guys can keep underrating Tampa until they win the Cup. I'm loving it.
Tampa takes Game 2. While I want them to win I also want this series to go to game 7, short finals are boring.
Well, Tampa actually pulled out a win there. Didn't think they would, but meh.
Also, based on the way latvian goalies have played (especially in the olympics) they should be fine, albeit Vasilevskiy was the backup in the game in which Canada scored on 1 of their 59 shots on goal.