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Originally Posted by Sylvanfan
I tend to think that if Florida had this type of goaltending for even half the season they would not have been an 8th place team but more like the 120 point team they were last season. They're dead in round one if not from Bobrovski, now it's hard to to see them as the first team in the cup finals. One guy goes on a prolonged heater and their other top guys play to their capabilities and now they're on a run.
The one thing that Carolina is susceptible to is that they don't have some of the high end talent other teams do, especially without Svechnikov. So a hot goalie and opponents who do are the type of team that can take them out. To me they are a lot like the Tampa Bay Devil Ray's where they play a style and system that over a long time will be successful for number of wins. But in a 7 game series that one statistical Anamoly or elite level talent can be enough to get the other team that extra win despite all analytics and indicators stating that they could have won the series had everything gone as predicted.
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Yeah people seeing this as a Cinderella team are forgetting the year before. It’s almost more like TB the year before they won the cup (after blowing the league away but then falling in the POs to Columbus) and then the following year when they took it easy regular season and cruised to the cup.