Penguins March Toward Ottawa
There are certain things you expect to see in the playoffs.
Alex has already written about how the Canucks fell to the Sharks but did anyone actually predict a four-nil series whitewash? I didn't. I thought it was going to be much closer. After all, the Canucks had a decent season and the Sharks lost a few key players through trades.
Who would have expected the Canadiens - Senators games to be so controversial? Competitive yes, but when the allegations of diving came out, things got nasty. Unfortunately for the Habs, too many big name injuries became the team's undoing.
The biggest cupset that almost happened was in the Penguins - Islanders series. Although the series was sealed last night with a 4-3 overtime win for the Pens, the Iles were able to win two of the games in the series and quite often had the Pens on the back foot.
The Pens, who firmly broadcast their intentions to win the Stanley Cup at all costs by making some big trades should have won this series ages ago. This isn't to take away from what the Islanders have done, Coach Jack Capuano has done a superb job to pick apart the Penguins' defense. The team was one goal away from taking the Pens to a final game decider. Realistically though, there's only two teams you expect to be in the cup final and neither are from New York.
Pittsburgh has suffered its fair share of injury woes, superstar Sidney Crosby had his jaw rearranged by a stray deflected puck and missed the end of the regular season. James Neal and Evgeni Malkin also spent time on the injury roster.
Now though the team's big hitters are back and advance into the next stage where they will meet the Ottawa Senators. This should definitely make for an interesting series.
Alex has already written about how the Canucks fell to the Sharks but did anyone actually predict a four-nil series whitewash? I didn't. I thought it was going to be much closer. After all, the Canucks had a decent season and the Sharks lost a few key players through trades.
Who would have expected the Canadiens - Senators games to be so controversial? Competitive yes, but when the allegations of diving came out, things got nasty. Unfortunately for the Habs, too many big name injuries became the team's undoing.
The biggest cupset that almost happened was in the Penguins - Islanders series. Although the series was sealed last night with a 4-3 overtime win for the Pens, the Iles were able to win two of the games in the series and quite often had the Pens on the back foot.
The Pens, who firmly broadcast their intentions to win the Stanley Cup at all costs by making some big trades should have won this series ages ago. This isn't to take away from what the Islanders have done, Coach Jack Capuano has done a superb job to pick apart the Penguins' defense. The team was one goal away from taking the Pens to a final game decider. Realistically though, there's only two teams you expect to be in the cup final and neither are from New York.
Pittsburgh has suffered its fair share of injury woes, superstar Sidney Crosby had his jaw rearranged by a stray deflected puck and missed the end of the regular season. James Neal and Evgeni Malkin also spent time on the injury roster.
Now though the team's big hitters are back and advance into the next stage where they will meet the Ottawa Senators. This should definitely make for an interesting series.
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