Friday night NHL/AHL/ECHL playoffs thread/poll
by Dominik on Apr 16, 2010 5:50 PM EDT
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PrintHere's a thread for any playoff action you're following Friday night (What? You had social plans?), as well as the final first-round playoff series poll. You can follow Bridgeport-Hershey here. In the ECHL, Utah vs. Idaho is here (but without Mikko!) at 9-ish p.m. EDT.
And of course, there are five series tonight in the NHL, including Game 1 of Blackhawks-Predators, who had the longest wait to finally get their postseason underway. I say it's Hawks in six, with an equal mix of "Niemi quells doubters" and "Hawks goalie question" stories depending on the result of each individual game.
Lodge all your picks in WebBard's FanPost. Before you vote on any series, you should check out the irreplaceable Quisp's Quisp-o-matic Prediction Generator, for all your prognosticating needs.
Open polls for the other series are here, if you haven't voted:
- New Jersey-Philadelphia poll
- Buffalo-Boston poll
- Montreal-Washington poll
- Pittsburgh-Ottawa poll
- San Jose-Colorado poll
- Phoenix-Detroit poll
- Canucks-Kings poll
Hawks-Predators Schedule
I'm tapped out; no pretend insight from me on this series. But I'll be watching free agent-to-be Dan Hamhuis of Nashville, since the Islanders could use a new defensemen or three.
| Friday, April 16 | at Chicago, 8:30 p.m. | TSN2, VERSUS (JIP) | ||
| Sunday, April 18 | at Chicago, 8:30 p.m. | TSN, VERSUS (JIP) | ||
| Tuesday, April 20 | at Nashville, 9:00 p.m. | TSN, VERSUS (JIP) | ||
| Thursday, April 22 | at Nashville, 8:30 p.m. | TSN2, VERSUS (JIP) | ||
| *Saturday, April 24 | at Chicago, 3:00 p.m. | NBC, TSN | ||
| *Monday, April 26 | at Nashville, TBD | TSN | ||
| *Wednesday, April 28 | at Chicago, TBD | TSN | ||
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Sutton has done it again
He just destroyed Jordan Leopold — and the penalty box door — with his patented hip check. Legal. Leopold was being pursued by Foligno and got funneled right into him.
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….and that has ignited the fights at the end of the 1st period.
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Great stuff indeed. What’s instead shocked me a bit are the struggles of certain defenders. Carkner/Campoli in this series, Bartulis/Krajicek/Parent for the Flyers and partly also Skoula for the Devils look completely clueless whenever they are on the ice against a top line. Obviously, the playoffs are a whole different story and the stars play much, much harder, but to me that still puts some struggles of the Islanders D into perspective. Since New Year, invididual performances of defenders haven’t cost them a single win, so, good job Freddy, A-Mac & Co.
Fantastic night of hockey
I was thinking about defenders, too. Not those specifically (Carkner always seems overwhelmed) but just with an eye toward the other teams because that’s such a big need for the Isles.
But watching Colorado, Phoenix — two teams sort of playing or surviving above their paygrade — one thing that stood out was their speed. Both teams generally get outshot, but the speed seems to create a more dangerous counterattack.
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May 24, 1980: Tonelli to Nystrom. At long last, the steady build of the New York Islanders from expansion doormat to surprise semifinalist to annual contender reaches the promised land: Buoyed by a late season trade for Butch Goring that gave the team the depth up the middle GM Bill Torrey had been seeking, the Islanders knock off the Philadelphia Flyers in six games.
The victory justified the faith in coach Al Arbour who guided them from their second season to their first Stanley Cup seven seasons later. The Islanders would not be the first expansion team to win the Stanley Cup, but they would be the only one capable of a dynasty.
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May 21, 1981: This time it was much easier. After falling to "only" 91 points in the 1979-80 season, the Islanders returned to their division title tradition, piling up 110 points -- a whole 13 points over second-place Philadelphia.
Between the quarterfinals (where they beat the upstart Oilers in six games) and the finals, the Islanders reeled off eight consecutive wins -- with a four-game sweep of archrival Rangers in between. As they defeated the Minnesota North Stars in five games for their second Cup, their goal difference in the final was a combined +10.
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May 16, 1982: Another year, another landslide title. The Islanders won the Patrick Division by a whopping 26 points over the second-place Rangers, and were seven points clear of their nearest competition for the President's Trophy, the still-not-quite-ripe Edmonton Oilers.
A first-round scare against the Pittsburgh Penguins turned in the Isles' favor thanks to John Tonelli's heroics, and a true dynasty was on its way: Past the Rangers in six games, then an eight-game sweep of the Quebec Nordiques and Vancouver Canucks to run away with the Stanley Cup.
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May 17, 1983: Not so fast, whipper-snappers. The Edmonton Oilers' steadily rising challenge for league supremacy took them all the way to the finals for the first time, where the New York Islanders summarily dispatched them in a four-game sweep. For the Islanders, the Dynasty was secured. For the Oilers, it was a powerful lesson in where talent ends and the demands of playoff hockey begin.
Four years, four Cups, 16 consecutive playoff series wins (a record that would grow to 19 until the rematch with the Oilers the following year). Mike Bossy scored 60 goals yet again, and Wayne Gretzky became acquainted with Billy Smith's crease.
