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Originally Posted by djsFlames
No kidding. If we're actually afraid of a bubble team with 20 less points than us then we have no business even discussing a championship.
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The problem is sometimes you run into your kryptonite.
Back in 2010 a team with Semin, Backstrom, Ovechkin all having killer seasons ran into one Halak and that was all it took.
I am concerned that the Minnesota Wild's top D pair (Suter-Spurgeon) has a knack for containing Gaudreau and Monahan, probably more than any other pair in the league (though Hampus Lindholm plays them extremely well too) as their style of defense is rarely about taking a body and almost always about absolutely perfect stick positioning and timing. That D pair can log 30, 40 minutes a night in the playoffs and that's not a good matchup. I honestly think that duo match up better to the otherwise excellent D cores of teams like Tampa, Nashville, San Jose.