Don't think credit should be taken away from the Habs. At the start of the Final, it wouldn't be a stretch to say it was a matchup between the best two teams in the playoffs.

Habs had to beat 3 great teams to get there. Problem is that they were pretty much firing on all cylinders for that to happen and now that they're playing a team that's probably in a league of their own, it looks worse than it is because everything isn't clicking like it was.

This post was edited by LuLer on Jul 3 2021 03:44am

Habs pretty much won when they scored more than 2 goals cuz their defense was good enough to keep the other team from scoring more. Didn't effect tampa though, their firepower too OP. The only way Habs can get a win is if price gets a shutout

Tampa are the best team since the 70's Habs. I want to hate them but they're so fucking good. The only thing beating that team are cap rules changing and the fact that they have no money to re-sign Coleman and Goodrow, plus they'll still need to dump another 5-7 mil of cap. Seattle will get two good players from Tampa just to clear their fucking cap. Probably two of Cirelli/Johnson/Gourde.

So cirelli and gourde

Yeah I can see some backdoor deals going on between Tampa and Seattle to benefit each other

they woulda lost cirelli, and sergachev, maybe even cernak if kucherov didn't decide to get a surgery toward start of season

let's see if stammer or hedman gets a surgery to start this season to keep coleman and goodrow

new meta

it'll be patched in next cba. teams obviously gonna be pissed tampa iced a 100 mil cap team to steamroll a cup

Wow

Canada isn’t letting family in

Lightning could end up winning 2 cups without family there

Why would they? They let fans behind the glass in Vegas and Ducharme ended up with COVID out of it.

Who’s gonna sympathize here exactly