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 Kr55
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Registered: May 2002
Location: Edmonton
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Just comparing to last years finals
Here was game 4 last year when we started to recover:
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins -- Connor McDavid -- Zach Hyman
Ryan McLeod -- Leon Draisaitl -- Corey Perry
Mattias Janmark -- Adam Henrique -- Connor Brown
Warren Foegele -- Derek Ryan -- Dylan Holloway
Mattias Ekholm -- Evan Bouchard
Darnell Nurse -- Philip Broberg
Brett Kulak -- Cody Ceci
Stuart Skinner
Calvin Pickard
This year:
Nugent-Hopkins - McDavid - Perry - Similar, Hyman was broken in the finals last year, Nuge struggled with Florida's checking. McDavid had to solo almost the entire series. Maybe Nuge has another level in him this time and it will be a better line. Perry may be able to do more than the beat up Hyman did last finals.
Kane - Draisaitl - Kapanen - Much better. Drai was physically destroyed by the finals, Kane was just done.
Frederic - Henrique - Brown - Similar, but Henrique was injured last year. Maybe Frederic can bring some physical play. I think Henrique and Brown are playing much better 5v5 right now than they did last playoffs
Podkolzin - Janmark - Arvidsson - Better IMO as an energy line.
Ekholm - Bouchard - Similar, need to see how Ekholm holds up. I think Bouch has taken his overall game to another level
Nurse - Kulak - Better in terms of analytics. The Nurse/Broberg pair were blessed by the hockey gods last series though. No matter how many quality chances they gave up, they were never punished. It's hard to reproduce that.
Walman - Klingberg - Infinitely better.
Skinner - Same dudes. Can only hope Skinner has a better start to these finals
Pickard
All that said. Florida added Marchand and Jones with their LTIR scamming, so they improved a bit too. Rodrigues is having a rough playoffs at least. He was probably the guy that killed us the most last finals.
[Updated on: Wed, 04 June 2025 14:44]
"We need to get better immediately. That starts today"
- Lowe, 2013
"Next year I would forecast as another developmental year"
- MacT, 2015
5 x $5,000,000
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