With four teams remaining in the hunt for the Stanley Cup, 28 teams are wondering what went wrong. And more importantly, what can they learn from the four conference finalists? DownGoesBrown has his lesson plan ready:
was one of the biggest UFA signings of the cap era, and among goalies, there isn’t even a close second. He was also a disaster … right up until he wasn’t.a few years into the deal. But we said that we were offering these lessons from a fan’s perspective, and a vibrant free-agency market is fun. The NHL usually doesn’t have one, and if Bobrovsky going psycho on the league for six weeks convinces some GMs to get crazy on July 1, that’s a good thing.You know my rant by now.
Then you get the Panthers, a team that led the league in scoring last year and was in the top five this year, a season that saw them give up more goals than any other playoff team. You could point to their recent stretch, including eight straight games of allowing two goals or fewer, as evidence that they’re only winning now because they’ve figured it out. But that’s not some philosophical shift, it’s their goalie going on a heater. The point is that this team isn’t afraid to go end-to-end with you, because they think they can win that way. Over the last few years, they’ve been right more than they’ve been wrong. It can be done.
So when your GM tries to sell you on the “just get in” message, ask him a question before you buy in: When was your last 122-point season?Subscribe to The Athletic for in-depth coverage of your favorite players, teams, leagues and clubs. Try a week on us.has been a senior NHL writer with The Athletic since 2018. He launched Down Goes Brown in 2008 and has been writing about hockey ever since, with stops including Grantland, Sportsnet and Vice Sports.
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