{"id":43286,"date":"2020-08-09T00:31:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-08T21:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/slap-shots-nhl-going-crazy-inside-bubble\/"},"modified":"2020-08-09T00:31:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T21:31:00","slug":"slap-shots-nhl-going-crazy-inside-bubble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/slap-shots-nhl-going-crazy-inside-bubble\/","title":{"rendered":"#Slap Shots: NHL going crazy inside bubble"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Slap Shots: NHL going crazy inside bubble<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n Let me be the first to observe that there has never been a week like this in NHL history.<\/p>\n

The teams that finished 22nd, 23rd and 24th in the overall standings are in the Stanley Cup playoffs ,and a team that finished in the top 10 is alive in the lottery for the first-overall draft pick. The stuff about the bubble, COVID-19 testing and protocols, and no fans in the building(s)? Old news<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At app<\/a>roximately 10:15 Friday night, it was common wisdom that the Maple Leafs were a structural disaster and would obviously have to re-examine the wisdom of devoting $40.5 million of cap space \u2014 essentially half of the club\u2019s allotment \u2014 to four forwards.<\/p>\n

Fifteen minutes later, those four forwards \u2014 Auston Matthews, John Tavares, Mitch Marner and William Nylander \u2014 had been on for the three Toronto goals within the final 3:57 of the third period that erased a 3-0 Columbus lead and created the overtime in which the Leafs completed the most stunning comeback in playoff history to stave off elimination.<\/p>\n

Which means we won\u2019t know until late Sunday night, following the decisive Game<\/a> 5, whether everyone was right about the Maple Leafs in the first place.<\/p>\n

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Checked to see whether, 45 years and 4 months later, Zach Parise was on the ice for Alex Edler\u2019s overtime goal for the Canucks at 0:11 that KO\u2019d his Wild on Friday just the way his dad, J.P. Parise, was for the goal he scored at 0:11 to knock out the Rangers at the Garden in 1975.<\/p>\n

The answer was no.<\/p>\n

By the way, two playoff-round victories to show for the eight years Parise and Ryan Suter have been teammates in Minnesota after signing those twin, 13-year, $98 million free-agent contracts in July 2012.<\/p>\n

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Can I say this? If the Rangers had beaten Carolina, David Quinn would have received a fair share of credit. But I am still trying to figure out what share of the blame, if any, should fall on the coach for his team\u2019s abysmal showing in Toronto.<\/p>\n

He was not part of the solution, so he obviously was part of the problem. But I cannot figure out if it went wrong after the Rangers arrived in the bubble or before?<\/p>\n

Because, after Montreal-Pittsburgh, I think we can discount the catch-all of inexperience versus a grizzled playoff team.<\/p>\n

Though Sebastian Aho and Andrei Svechnikov are hardly grizzled.<\/p>\n

New rule: A moratorium on comparing Kaapo Kakko to Svechnikov.<\/p>\n

Please.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s one following Week 1 of August Madness: Two of the three Hart Trophy finalists, Artemi Panarin of the Rangers and Leon Draisaitl of the Oilers, are from teams that wound up not making the playoffs.<\/p>\n

But you say that Draisaitl\u2019s official career record includes a stat line of three goals, three assists in six points in four playoffs games? (And Panarin\u2019s shows one goal, one assist and two points in three playoff matches?)<\/p>\n

That\u2019s so 2020.<\/p>\n

And while we\u2019re on that topic, no, it does not bother me that, say, Matthews, has these extra five games to produce playoff scoring records any more than it bothered me that Jean Beliveau\u2019s playoff record of 12 goals in 1956 while playing two rounds was broken by Phil Esposito\u2019s 13 in 1970 while playing four rounds.<\/p>\n

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Montreal and Chicago, of course, and Vancouver, too, but no team was better served by the 4\u200a\u00b9\/\u2082-month pause than the Islanders, who suddenly resemble the team that went to the second round of last year\u2019s playoffs and not the floundering outfit that lost its last seven (0-3-4) and went 2-7-4 in its final 13 matches.<\/p>\n

It is never pond hockey with the Islanders.<\/p>\n

It is Trotz Hockey.<\/p>\n

And, for the second straight year, Barry Trotz is one Washington victory away (Sunday against Boston) from a matchup with his former team.<\/p>\n

Quick quiz: Which Rangers goaltender has the highest playoffs winning percentage (minimum five decisions) in the modern era traditionally recognized to have begun in 1944-45?<\/p>\n

It is not Mike Richter, third at .554 with 41-33.<\/p>\n

It is not Davey Kerr, .567 at 17-13 (and two ties).<\/p>\n

Not John Davidson, either, at .552 with his 16-13 record.<\/p>\n

It is \u2026 Eddie Mio, clocking in at .600 by going 9-6 in 1982 and 1983.<\/p>\n

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The Puddy Tats of Florida, now coached by the estimable Joel Quenneville, have not won a playoff round since 1996 and are looking at six more years of Sergei Bobrovsky at $10 million apiece.<\/p>\n

Are you really so sure that Aleksander Barkov, 25 in September, is sticking around when his contract expires in two more years?<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve heard it too from a number of sources the last couple of months. The folks at Sixth Avenue are lobbying for Peter Chiarelli to snag another shot as an NHL team\u2019s general<\/a> manager, and I guess I\u2019d have to ask why?<\/p>\n

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Finally, ratings for last weekend were lukewarm in the heat, with the audience for Pittsburgh-Montreal on NBC down about 9 percent from 2019\u2019s first-round Boston-Toronto telecast over the network.<\/p>\n

Which serves as a welcome reminder for those who think this new crazy calendar might suit the NHL: It is the summer and it does not.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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