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Game Statistics. MTL : Price W Video Highlights. Post-game Quotes. I was convinced that our players would kill it off. It shows the character of our group. We wanted to do everything we could to kill the penalty for our captain.
It was all positive things in the room. We just had to execute. I thought we did a phenomenal job. Carey was a wall tonight.
He gave us that chance to finish it in overtime. Everyone stuck together and did their jobs. Thus, merely making the playoffs and losing in the first round is only acceptable if you can build on it in the following years, otherwise it is a four-to-seven game extension to an already long 82 game season and nothing more.
Around half the teams in the NHL do not finish a given season in a playoff position, leaving the other half to compete for the Stanley Cup. So the quality of competition is significantly higher — there are no hopeless teams to bully anymore.
That said, every team that is in the playoffs is competitive enough to think they can compete in their playoff series and lower-seed upsets happen quite often enough in the first round. If you want to measure success, then being top quarter, or first quartile, is an appreciable target. The Habs defeated Pittsburgh and promptly lost in the first playoff round in five quick games anyway. Unfortunately for Habs fans, the Cindarella-style run of the playoffs turned into a pumpkin before the playoffs were over and the beatdown at the hands of the victorious Tampa Bay Lightning in five quick games ensured there was a damper to the celebration.
And to be uncharitable, all put together the Marc Bergevin Habs won a combined six playoff series out of a theoretical upper limit of forty, and zero in the five years of futility between and inclusive. A pathetic record if one were so inclined to expect a Stanley Cup every year — but despite what the goons in the Montreal Media space have to say about Habs fans, nobody serious feels entitled to a Stanley Cup every year.
A reasonable performance indicator for the success of a given NHL season should therefore be playoff series won and not playoff appearances. No, the Montreal Canadiens have been known by that name since The Montreal Canadiens last made the playoffs in , when they lost the Final.
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