With the Sens, Habs, Canucks and Flames fighting for playoff spots, TSN Director of Scouting Craig Button and TSN Hockey analyst Cheryl Pounder join Domino’s That’s Hockey to rank the four Canadian teams as playoff opponents from least scary to most scary.
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I love how everyone puts the Habs as the underdog team after they beat all the big teams since the last 2 months and just destroyed the Sens last night….please keep on underestimate them and they will keep winning. 2021 anyone?
1:50 Sure under 12 hours ago the Canucks played amazing against the Jets but TBD will be whether the Canucks can sustain that play over enough games, in a playoff series, to beat the Jets.
What happened in 2010? Seriously craig? What happened in 2021 huh?
Looks like tonight after beating the best team in the league 6-2! the Canucks are the scariest, Craig should rethink his opinion. Don’t count the Vancouver Canucks out.
The Eastern glaze is real my god.
Canucks will make it in then upset the Jets. OOF what another terrible take from TSN, its like they genuinely don't know there are people in western Canada.
I agree with the list, my team, the Habs are playing with house money now. I do think the Flames should be given more heed because Wolf has the talent to win a series and the Jets still need to show they can dominate in the playoffs
I think miss Pounder dosen't know what shes talking about. Thats my opinion.
Yeah lets ask the guy who said the habs wouldnt get a win vs the leafs that one year😂👌
Canucks have the worst luck. #1 vezna calibre goaltender is so injury prone he will probably have to retire in his 20's. A 20 goal scoring power forward gets testicular cancer, the top two centers hate each other so much they have to trade one of them. Why does Vancouver deserve this kinda luck?
Canucks beat the jets 6-2 last night 😂😂😂😂
I wish all 4 could make it, but realistically, 3 of the 4 could be in. I am rooting for an all-Canadian semifinal, and final. I'm an American/Italian dual citizen, living in the EU, saying GO CANADA GO!
That didn’t age well..😮
Canucks from “contenders” to the pretenders they always were are now a Cinderella story what a year… worst “team” in Canada
Mtl is not a very good team? 😂. This guy predicted the leafs would sweep us 😂
Habs can beat anyone if they make it. Remember Button quoting they wounldnt win a game vs leafs 😅 in playoff run to Cup final .
Bring on DC we have a Josh Anderson
6-2 Craig…. 6-2
Lol at Habs fans. Congrats on playing well after 4N though, the team is going on a heater rn. Still looks like they're punching up when they play — they have structural problems that won't disappear when facing the same opponent each night that I would worry about as a fan. In the meantime it's ok to have fun with meaningful games in March!
Sens are playing like a playoff team right now and there's still a world where they exit the good side of the WC standings. They did have a couple of lucky wins in their most recent streak, but the puck goes both ways as there has been more than a few games in their losing streaks that they didn't deserve. They have great depth right now and their goal scoring has improved so much since January — think they're going to make the first round feel like a battle even if they only play 4 games.
I think my Habs need some more respect. Other then their 10-16-4 start and that 1-7-1 stretch before the 4 nations break, they are 22-4-2. Yes your reading that right. And both stretchs are excuseable. First one, we didn't have Laine. Dach's first hockey in a year. Monty was ice cold. And we were running primeau. Second one, I mean injuries again. Laine in and out, Dach, Guhle, Heineman. We play Washington in round 1? Then Carolina or NJ in round 2? I mean NJ and Washington aren't that good on paper. Carolina the Habs are 2-0 this season against. ECF run?
Canucks ain’t scared of the playoff jets.