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Originally Posted by CDSmith
If you read the flow of the conversation you'll see that that's not what my main point was at all. I only mentioned the sweep because someone else mentioned how the Rangers "owned" the devs so the Rangers must be supermen or something. My main point was that he completely left the Pens out of his entire post, which to me isn't right.
Nowhere in my post did I say the Pens were this or that because they shut out Ottawa. But the fact that they did not only beat them but utterly obliterate them must say something about them.
And hey, Ottawa may have "sucked" in the last part of the regular season but they did still make the playoffs ahead of how many teams that didn't? Obviously they did something right somewhere along the way. No one is given a playoff birth, you have to earn it.
One thing we should all be able to agree on is that the Rangers - Pens series is going to be a thing of beauty to watch.
Gotta pick somebody, I pick the Pens.
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right, the pens shouldnt be left out.
i dont know, ottawa wasnt playing well and was handicapped. so for me, the pens beating the sens shows the pens are a good team, but this is already known. maybe the series showed us that
fluery is ready to live up to all the hype.
the one-two punch of sid and malkin works well.... -very- well.
and that staal on the 3rd line is solid.
what i am saying is that the pens were just not tested enough for me to believe they can hardnose their way through NY, which is what they will have to do.
it will be a slow, grinding series. and if NY can dictate that flow through each game, they will win.