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From: lor@ucla-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.sport.hockey
Subject: Re: The End of a Dynasty
Message-ID: <5101@ucla-cs.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 29-Apr-85 16:44:35 EDT
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Posted: Mon Apr 29 16:44:35 1985
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In article <5092@ucla-cs.ARPA> Richard Gillespie <rick> writes:
>
>The Islander dynasty is dead having been eliminated by the Philadelphia
>Flyers 1-0 in the fifth game.  I hate to take anything away from the Flyers
>victory (this isn't sour grapes, honest) but the game was won on a goal
>that should never have been allowed - really too bad. 

	Well, the island finally sank. What I like the Flyers is
they beat the Isles with their style: great defense and
goaltending. They could protect a slim one-goal lead in the 
3rd and 5th game. Don't think the win is a fluke because of Sinasalo's goal. 
You know even if that goal wasn't count, the Islanders would still have
lost a 1-0 game in overtime (no matter how long it is). They
simply couldn't beat Lindbergh. Not to mention the Flyers hit
the post four times.

	This series prove some points:

1) The dynasty has long been over. You have to keep a dynasty by
   an excellent team, not by magical, lucky rallies, as Rick has 
   dreamed.

2) The Flyers are playing the hockey that brought the Isles 4 Cups:
   stingy defense,  while the Islander has lost fire. They don't 
   have the intensity of the past.  You have to play great defense 
   with intensity.

3) Billy Smith was, but no longer is, the best money goalie in
   the playoffs. A goalie is only as good as the team in front of him.

4) As I said after the Caps-Isles series, whoever survived the series
   would get killed by the Flyers. The Caps have a struggling offense
   and a "blow-lead" defense.  The Isles just don't have anything
   left.

5) I still stick with the Oilers. If their offense is at high gear
   (which is apparent after the Jets series), NO defense can stop them.
   This Oiler team can play defense too. They also have Grant Fuhr,
   who is as good as Pelle Lindbergh.


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					Eddy Lor
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