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Well, it must be the first time a team win in sudden death OT by two goals.

Quite a horrendous non decision. The non decision is the fact that they did not reversed a call that would have been decisive for that series.

NHL culture runs pretty deep in the direction that they want the players to « decide ». They don’t want to be « responsible « in a critical situation that would give a clear advantage to a team. But, by doing so, they influence the outcome anyway. It’s just a bunch of spineless clowns run by a lawyer that never put a pair of skate on his feet.

Also, who said that Georgiev was the Achilles heel of Colorado? What a game he played. The problem was that Oettinger also played out of his mind.

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To be fair, Georgiev Was an Achilles heel. Honestly, I thought Colorado played well. Dallas was just better.

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The league has turned simple goalie interference decisions into impossible to predict nfl “is it a catch” like stupid rules, resulting in stupid ref decisions in almost every game.

It’s grade school Easy… if player is outside the blue paint, it’s 100% the goalie’s responsibility to avoid him… period, end of debate!!!

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If the goalie isn't 100% in the blue paint and a player gets shoved into him by said goalie's teammate...well, thems the breaks.

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Depends on if you play for Boston or not too.

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David, I put this in Sturms comment section and I wanted to put it here as well to get you valued opinion.

Does last nights win all but seal GMoY for Nill? We don't win last without Tanev and would have a more difficult time winning this series without him. Spice it all up with what it took to shimmy him under the cap. Brilliant IMO.

Thanks for all you're hard work. Found your substack just before the playoffs started, what a pleasure it's been.

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Thanks a bunch Chris!

I would say that Nill deserves it for more than Tanev, although for sure he's a big part. But his first round drafting has been other wordly, with the 2017 being the obvious talking point, but now throw in Johnston and Harley, who are being 1C and 1D duties, basically. All without lottery slots too. It's massive.

However, I think Bill Zito (Florida) will win it, and deservedly so. Manufacturing the Matthew Tkachuk trade (ala Seguin back in the day), picking Maurice, and turning spare parts into core pieces (Forsling, Montour, Verhaeghe) has been nothing short of miraculous. Plus they looked prime for back-to-back Cup Final appearances.

Does it mean I think Zito is better? Not necessarily. But for the purpose of back-to-back wins, Nill would have to leave no doubt, and Zito definitely leaves some doubt.

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If Nill wins it, and I doubt he does back to back years, I look at his fourth line moves to start the year. Duchene is a huge win, but he was only going to 5-6 teams who were legit cup contenders (sure that’s also on Nill too). Tanev was another big win but again the tdl got spicy and he went early and kind of was old news when it closed. Steel, smith, stank, those are 3 guys worth way more than their <3m cap that jim pulled off.

100% solid moves by Nill but I don’t think he takes it in back to back years.

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