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Originally Posted by GranteedEV
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.
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Nothing is easy but seriously...who is an easier match up than the Wild?
Flames win the game tonight 9 out of 10 times...they were incredibly unlucky. Plus the Flames have beat them twice when they had better players