Championship Round: Buffalo (1) vs Anaheim (6)

[CasperX22]

xoxo

[Shoalzie]

Very impactful game out of Swayman...we go from 9-1-6 to 9-6-1.

Matt has a solid lead in the categories he's ahead but 60% of the projected GP for this matchup has yet to be played. We basically have a full week left to go.

[Matthew]

Kahkonen vs Gibson head to head tonight?

[Matthew]

Apparently Casper is an afterthought in the West.

Casper thinks he’s better at everything then he actually is lol.

Teams finishing bottom 5 trashing playoff teams

[Matthew]

7-8-1
Getting closer. A couple pp points could flip this

[Matthew]

C'mon minny bury one

[Matthew]

There we go

[Matthew]

7-7-2 tie now. So at least I can say I was neck and neck with Matty til a decent way through the matchup

[Bruyns]

Ya goalie stats are locked up for you. My guys need to stop getting all their pts at even strength

[Matthew]

Nearly a 100 gp between us so far and just 8 stp total in the matchup. It's kinda sad.

[Matthew]

Fuck. Makar got the gwg and I was celebrating and 30 seconds later marchessault gets the ot winner. Lmao first he does it to Thom and now me. Whichever Asian traded you that guys sucks balls.

[kyuss]

lol, turning into quite the thriller. Bruyns still the favorite though.

Nearly a 100 gp between us so far and just 8 stp total in the matchup. It's kinda sad.

for those who didn't make the final, you mean.

Thom's Pavelski, or my Hintz, tonight did more than your entire finalist teams

[dave1959]

great matchup guys. very excited to see how the next few days go.

[Shoalzie]

Just because of this matchup, I watched the third period of Ducks-Wild.

[Bruyns]

I was pretty happy when I saw Marchessault scores the winner after seeing Makar did, needed that.

[Bruyns]

Losing MacKinnon last night hurts my chances at FOW, hope he plays again.

[Matthew]

7-8-1
Getting closer. A couple pp points could flip this

8-7-1!

[Bruyns]

If this were ending tomorrow it would be crazy close.

[Shoalzie]

For entertainment's sake, it's nice there's still a few more days of this matchup. Doing a quick scan of the lineups...it seems like only Drysdale, Rakell and Gibson from the Ducks are the only players on either side who have finished their season.

7 teams total have played 56 games on what was originally the last day of the NHL regular season. All the playoff spots are wrapped except the 4th seed in the North. 3 of the 4 division titles are decided...Colorado can still win the West away from Vegas and they play each other Monday night. It'll be interesting to see how the teams who are going to the playoffs approach these extra games.

Just focusing on goalies...Lankinen is still in play for Matt. The Hawks play the Stars today and Monday. I would think Lankinen plays in one of those games. For Matthew, Minnesota games with the Blues on Wednesday and Thursday and Boston has games with Islanders and the Capitals on Monday and Tuesday. I would imagine Matthew's duo has 1 or 2 more starts.

Matthew just needs to hold serve with goaltending and keep those in his favor and then try to take any of the tied categories or even flip the blocks category to his favor to pull this off. Most of the categories that Matt has a lead on, I think he'll hang on. SHTOI is a close lead for Matthew...he needs to hang onto that one. If this was election night, we've got three ties and two other categories that are "too close to call".

[dave1959]

so much fun watching this