DevotedWalnut wrote:
grandbazaar wrote:
Caligula_K wrote:
Two weeks ago, nobody would have ever thought that Philly could come back from a 0-3 deficit and take the series, myself included. Two weeks ago, according to DW, Boston was a clear lock to win the East. Hey, I'm not saying that it's likely that San Jose will win four in a row. I mean, it's a near statistical impossibility for it to happen twice in the same decade, let alone year, and Chicago is a damn great team. But San Jose looked pretty good out there tonight. And these playoffs should have taught us all to expect the unexpected. We'll see what happens, eh?
True but but Chicago ain't Boston, they are in all aspects superior
and they are much healthier than the Bruins were when it all crumbled.
+1
when Boston lost 4 straight they were down Krejci. That may not sound like much, but he gets hurt and they lose 4 in a row. He doesn't have the name power like Savard, but he was the key to their offence. Where Chicago has Toews, Kane, Hossa (who isn't scoring but is still a threat), Byfuglien, Sharp, etc.. not to mention the power on the back-end like Keith, Seabrook, and Campbell.
Chicago will not collapse.
But DW, I thought the Bruins "play a good team game and they are on a roll, full of confidence" and have some of that awesome defence. Defence is what lost them that series, not offense. Krejci is a good player, but if they could win a series without Savard, they could win one without him- Krecji was after all pretty useless all year (I'd know, I had him on fantasy hockey).
What I'm trying to say here is not that San Jose has much of a chance of winning this series. I'm just laughing at you all for being so certain in your predictions all throughout these playoffs, and that these predictions keep on turning out to be wrong. If Montreal can beat Washington and Pittsburgh, the top five teams in the East are knocked out before the bottom three, Philly can come back from an 0-3 deficit, I just have no idea how you all seem to think that playoffs are predictable and that Chicago is obviously going to win the cup against whatever team emerges from the East.