June 12, 2023
Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2023 10:41 pm
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I'd like to say that the Kings played a tough, gritty road game to try to force a deciding game 7 with (ideally) a multi-shot overtime... but no, not really. TB dominated this game start to finish and the lone goal by TayTay early in the 3rd didn't swing the needle.
Congrats to TB's Geoff Smith for his first Cup win in just 3 years, congrats & condolences to Hugo for coming close without Zadina, and better luck next season for the rest of us.
Playoff leaders:
Goals: 13 - Kirill Kabanov - TB
Assists: 18 - Frederik Gauthier - LA
Points: 29 - Frederik Gauthier - LA
+/-: +19 - Frederik Gauthier - LA
PIM, fights, fights won: too many - Brady Tkachuk - SJ (it wasn't even close)
sv%: 89.3% - Simeon Varlamov - FLA (min. 7 games)
GAA: 2.95 - Carey Price - TB (plus the only stat that matters, 16-5-4)
I'd say Gauthier would get top votes if there weren't a winner bias, Kessel otherwise. Gildon with 21 pts in 24 games on D's not bad, albeit with a -1 (funny enough, many of the top OFD had poor +/-).
I'd like to say that the Kings played a tough, gritty road game to try to force a deciding game 7 with (ideally) a multi-shot overtime... but no, not really. TB dominated this game start to finish and the lone goal by TayTay early in the 3rd didn't swing the needle.
Congrats to TB's Geoff Smith for his first Cup win in just 3 years, congrats & condolences to Hugo for coming close without Zadina, and better luck next season for the rest of us.
Playoff leaders:
Goals: 13 - Kirill Kabanov - TB
Assists: 18 - Frederik Gauthier - LA
Points: 29 - Frederik Gauthier - LA
+/-: +19 - Frederik Gauthier - LA
PIM, fights, fights won: too many - Brady Tkachuk - SJ (it wasn't even close)
sv%: 89.3% - Simeon Varlamov - FLA (min. 7 games)
GAA: 2.95 - Carey Price - TB (plus the only stat that matters, 16-5-4)
I'd say Gauthier would get top votes if there weren't a winner bias, Kessel otherwise. Gildon with 21 pts in 24 games on D's not bad, albeit with a -1 (funny enough, many of the top OFD had poor +/-).