The way you spelled "offence" tells me all I need to know about your hockey allegiances - Good luck to the Habs. I will be rooting for them.

My statement was "finesse hockey CANNOT win in the NHL playoffs in its current state". Neither the Bruins nor the Habs play a finesse style of hockey. Additionally, if you truly believe that "the Bruins were not as skilled as Montreal", then perhaps you need to remove your head from your asshole.

I'll attempt to address your stupidity line by line:

Nice sarcasm failure. Your "not particularly gritty" Blackhawks list over the past few years includes: Byfuglien, Bickell, Bolland, Bollig, Ladd, Madden, Shaw, Saad, and this motherfucker:

This is not all on Bylsma, or Crosby, or the bottom six. Quite simply, the Penguins got booted because finesse hockey CANNOT win in the NHL playoffs as it currently exists. It happens year after year - teams with almost no skilled players (especially in the East) defeat teams with highly skilled players by adopting…

Quite simply, they lost because finesse hockey CANNOT win in the NHL playoffs in its current state. It happens year after year that teams (especially in the East) with marginal skilled players defeat teams with highly skilled players by adopting the strategy of clutching, grabbing, holding, and interfering with them…

He had two hands on the ball until Barnes smacked one of them off of it. Troll on.

Unfortunately, Ron Hextall thinks "analytics" is the study of his bowel movements.

I guess you can Knock the Hustle for real!

Zdeno Chara (the best defenseman of his generation)

in comparison to Devin Ebanks, who focuses more on sicking ducks...

Or because they drank themselves into bankruptcy. ::Kosared::

You realize that you've refuted nothing that I've said, and trolling you is so much fun.

Wow, so this is what irrational optimism sounds like when you've never seen your team win the Cup.

This article must have been written in a universe that lacks i.i.d random variables.

By any statistic, advanced or not - goals, assists, points per game, +/, win shares, corsi, or fenwick - Toews cannot hold Crosby's decades-old dirty jock strap. Toews is a nice defensive forward and among the better playmakers in the NHL, but he is not at the top. Sadly, your uninformed opinion does not count as a…

He overcame that horrible 0-3 record that he inherited and they finished with the 13th best record "on the league". I bet you were one of the smartest kids in school because your GPA was 130th out of 300.

Considering this guy is the brains of the operation, I'd say the sky's the limit!

But then we wouldn't get to see him in the playoffs!

Pronger is a no doubt Hall of Famer...