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Sickening. I hate Julien's thinking in OT. Put #27 and #41 out there and just go for it FFS.

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Patches? What the hell was Danault doing? At least Patches hustled and tried to get back in the play. Danault whiffed on a hook of Monahan and then never came close to catching up.

Ugly with a capital H. Ya.. I know..

Ya.. We're all human. OK..me..not so much .. but ,..most of us... sorta...

Here to overly support Pacioretty and I see that's already been a theme this game day thread Decent backhand pass to Danault from Pacioretty for a 2-1 lead

The studies account for that http://nhlnumbers.com/2012/10/3/clutch-nhl-playoff-big-game-performers

Down a goal, late in a game? Those situations are crucial, and you should put your BEST players on the ice in crucial situations, because they are the ones most likely to succeed. That is why you put Crosby on the ice. That is why you let Michael Jordan take the shot, that is why you put your best pitcher on the mound. The best players are the ones most likely to perform in a key situation, because they are the ones most likely to perform in all situations. Clutch is a myth, its a narrative, just like character. Give me talent. As for your examples... those are hypotheticals. The player who goes 10 for 10 and 0 for 10, don't exist in real life professional sports. Find them for me and then we can talk. But here is an example of an actual player i know of. Alex Rodriguez was a great player. However many called him a choker cause he had a near mendoza-line batting average over the 2005, 06 and 07 playoffs with the Yankees. Fans in New York wanted him benched in the playoffs. The next time the team made the playoffs, the manager played him despite the fans callin for his head cause the guy isn't clutch. Then in 2009, he hit over 400 in the playoffs as the Yankees won the world series. What happened? Why did he stop choking? The truth is that he didn't discover some secret of being clutch that year. He was simply always a great hitter, but one who was unlucky to hit a slump in the playoffs. The next year he hit a hot streak in the playoffs. The lesson is always play your best player, don't count on something mythical like clutch to make you believe some other player should be put into the crucial situation.

1 or 2 outliers doesn't prove that those players are clutch. it is what you would expect. Simple math here. 90% of a population is expected to be within 2 standard deviations of the mean. 5% would be more than 2 standard deviations above it.... and 5% would be below it. Seeing two or three players whose numbers increase, and two or three who decrease from that mean does not prove that clutch is a skill that players have. It just shows that with small sample sizes, 5% of the population on either end is white noise. If clutch was a true skill that you can draft for, that you can trade for, that you can build your team with... then you would see more than that 5% of noise. Instead of downvoting me for posting the studies that have been done, maybe try to read them and understand what they are trying to prove and what they say about finding one or two outliers. Outliers exist, it still doesn't prove that clutch exists.

5 on 3...we're screwed!

We should have cut him lose whe he tore up his knee the second time and go a different direction. Gionta tore up of his arm muscles and MT made fun of him crying in his arms. Saku was not even offered a contract. In those cases the CH didn't show any respect. But Markov, geeze!