Article: Think With Your Heart During the Wild Playoffs

[Justin Hein]

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[Dis-allowed display name]

Perhaps the refs should stop swallowing the whistle in the playoffs. 

Not with the way our power play looks right now.  Oof.

[IllicitFive]

51 minutes ago, Dis-allowed display name said:

Perhaps the refs should stop swallowing the whistle in the playoffs. 

Not with the way our power play looks right now.  Oof.

Outside of the slew foot on Ek and punches to the face of Kap I don't mind letting them play, but those two are egregious and should be called.

Besides deep  dives of effectiveness, analytics, and who should be playing I think most here have embraced the " Lay down your agendas, pick up a sword, and join the ranks of hockey fans ready to sweat and bleed through every seven-game series from now until June ". Because well, what else do we have to debate about which is half the fun of sports. In the end, we are all fans who want more hockey.

[mnfaninnc]

Logic says we now have a 1/5 chance of winning this series. Logic says we're too small to win. Logic says we were lucky last night/early this morning. 

Logic can't measure puck luck, momentum, refereeing, or streakiness. The intangibles are unmeasurable, and they are maybe the most important thing. 

Herb Brooks' speech did not come out of logic except for the part that someone was due to beat USSR. It came out of heart, and that's what that team played with once they got the lead. 

In 2 games we have seen the heart of Hartman and Foligno. We've also seen Boldy's heart as he is playing really well right now. After getting punched in the face with no call, I suspect we are about to see Kaprizov's heart & drive on full display in St. Paul. Hopefully some more will jump on and really up their play levels. 

Heck, even Johansson looks like he's found his heart!

[OldDutchChip]

28 minutes ago, mnfaninnc said:

Logic says we now have a 1/5 chance of winning this series. Logic says we're too small to win. Logic says we were lucky last night/early this morning. 

Logic can't measure puck luck, momentum, refereeing, or streakiness. The intangibles are unmeasurable, and they are maybe the most important thing. 

Herb Brooks' speech did not come out of logic except for the part that someone was due to beat USSR. It came out of heart, and that's what that team played with once they got the lead. 

In 2 games we have seen the heart of Hartman and Foligno. We've also seen Boldy's heart as he is playing really well right now. After getting punched in the face with no call, I suspect we are about to see Kaprizov's heart & drive on full display in St. Paul. Hopefully some more will jump on and really up their play levels. 

Heck, even Johansson looks like he's found his heart!

hmm i actually think more logic and tactical, smart thinking is absolutely necessary. do not be content with what played out thus far. we have a chance to win this round, not just show that we could hang with big boys....the reality is we have the better goalie. we also have boldy playing better than anyone on vegas side. we have kaprizov who is playing like the best player in the world - which he is. but we are not perfect, we need to optimize our approach and remove parts that will undoubtedly do us in - like Braz and Zeev likely too (too raw). Using MN miracle is all good apart from the fact that US got whooped by USSR earlier and would not have won more than a game against the soviets in best of 7. that one was luck. let's not follow their method - it's been played out before for us many times.be smart - make the right call to win.