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Originally Posted by Honolulu_Blue
It's interesting taking a look back at this analysis. It was before the series began and I think a completely fair one. Looking back at just the finals, I think it'd look like this:
Crosby - Zetterberg
Malkin - Datsyuk
Hossa - Franzen
Malone - Holmstrom
Staal - Draper
Sykora - Filppula
Ruutu - Samuelsson
Kennedy - Hudler
Dupuis - Cleary
Talbot - Helm
Roberts - Drake
Hall - Maltby
Gonchar - Lidstrom
Whitney - Rafalski
Letang/Sydor - Kronwall
Orpik - Stuart
Gill - Lilja
Scuderi - Lebda
Goaltenders I am calling a draw, because both playing extremely well.
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I would argue Talbot outplayed Helm, and not solely based on that one goal. And I could even say Orpik and Stuart even-- that is the best series of games Orpik has ever played, but Stuart was great too. Stuart was much more effective offensively, but also had so costly turnovers. Call it a wash.
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Originally Posted by Honolulu_Blue
MAF had an amazing Game 5. His performance in that game was one for the ages. But other than that I don't recall him really standing on his head in any of the other games and he had a pretty bad Game 6, due to exhaustion like you said.
Osgood had 2 shutouts and didn't really have any bad games. He was steady as they come, made almost all the timely saves, including a number of great ones.
I'm callin' evens.
Poor Osgood. He'll just never ever get the respect he deserves.
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I think anyone on this board could have won those first two games 4-1 and 3-1. He wasn't even tested. Not taking anything away from Osgood, but he didn't have to play nearly to the level Fleury did just to keep the Pens competetive.