RANKING THE MOST AND LEAST SCARY NHL PLAYOFF TEAMS | BarDown Podcast 

Corwin being the defender of the canucks is the character development I was not ready for

Nice job to whoever handled the audio for this episode. Best quality of all the pods so far.

wouldnt wanna play the rangers

"We'll discuss, let's discuss." new tagline for the podcast boys😂

The Canucks will win against either wild card team. Especially if lindholm is back and figures out his injury issues. They can have a centre core of petey, miller, lindholm and they got a vezina calibre goalie.

Damn, this aged well with Avs now being 3-5-2 in the last 10 games with only 1 game to go, and Jets being on W6 streak 😂

Luca has been hating on the Canucks all season long (and given that his Avs swept them, I can't say I blame him). Gotta respect the consistency, at least.

I think with the caps it’s just impressive they’re even in the position they are. They lost both of their top 2 centers, the goalie they paid big is doing terrible, Ovi started the year with the worst slump of his career, sold at the deadline and are mostly rocking mostly a bunch of ahl vets and prospects at this point. They are analytically terrible almost across the board and somehow they’re still on pace to make the playoffs. This year has been the embodiment of the “Experience Capitals Hockey” meme and I love it

Yall are SLEEPING on NYR. They were the first team to qualify for a playoff spot, have been at the top of the league all season while dealing with injuries to key players, are on pace to set a franchise record for wins and points, individual players are setting records, their young players are stepping up, and in the course of the last 2 ish months they have only lost 5 games. They are looking so solid and yall need to give them more credit

Saying that Nashville has nothing but forsberg and nyquist is INSANE.

On the Hart conversation why don’t goaltenders or defensemen get more love? I feel like hellebuyck deserves some recognition beyond a Venza for what he’s done for Winnipeg. They’ve been struggling to get offense with and without Kyle Connor. Even what Q Hughes had done for Vancouver should get more than a Norris nod. Is it because Goaltenders don’t play 70+ games a season anymore?

florida should be #1 bc you know they're gonna injure at least one of your players

I think it’s kind of ridiculous that most everyone is doubting the Predators. Teams like them go on deep runs, even runs to the playoffs. With nothing to lose and everything to gain is crucial for a Stanley Cup run. Will the Preds win the Cup? Probably not. But teams like them tend to go to the Finals.

39:41 .Since the 1980 season there has only been 4 Vezina winners to go on in win the Stanley Cup. making it 9% winning chance with the Vezina winning goaltender in the net. (the goalies were Martin Brodeur, Tim Thomas, Grant Fuhr, and Billy Smith.)

Love all the discussions in this

Carolina has not been losing in the playoffs because of goaltending. It was always scoring. Our goaltending has been fine in the playoffs. Scoring and special teams have been the big issues in the past.

how could u possibly be bored with the caps right now? they’re essentially 3 penguins in a trench coat that snuck their way into the playoffs

Dope video, should chapter some of these type of videos

As a Caps fan I can understand wanting to play us in the first round (I don’t think we’re going to make a ton of noise in the playoffs), but I am very happy to see them in this position. They went into the year with Kuznetsov and Backstrom and neither of them are there anymore, the team is getting it done with their young players, plus a resurgence from Ovechkin. I think this year is an example of sometimes it being good to make the playoffs even if you aren’t going to contend for a cup. The young players getting playoff reps at NHL level would be huge.

Corbin: hears red wings. Cut convo immediately lol

I hope Colorado plays Vegas in the first round. Lucas tears are gonna be delicious after that disrespect

we'll discuss

If we are talking about the Hart we have to include Panarin in that conversation, leads the Rangers with 44 goals (9 ahead of 2nd on the team), has 107 points (32 more than 2nd on the team) he has improved a lot defensively and he is always keeping the Rangers in every single game

VGK getting hot boys, can not wait for the playoffs.

Everyone’s been doubting the Canucks all year.

As a Canucks fan i have to agree with everyone's takes on them. The team feels a bit fragile, but I think if they can overcome round 1 its open season. For the record the team I'm most worried about facing if I'm the Canucks is LA, we just cant seem to figure out the 1-3-1 they play with, and with how mentally draining playing a team like that is I think they get the better of this inexperienced Canucks team.

unsurprising that the two guys who are fans of teams in the west underestimate canucks

Red Wings/Capitals have been playing playoff hockey for the last month, wouldn't want to face either in round 1...

when is corwin buying that Tyler Myers jersey

Some of y'all be sleeping on the preds cause they don't have the 'star' power of a Mckinnon or Mcdavid or Petriangelo. I'm not saying we make it far or anything but to put into perspective: We may not have the shining star or face of an nhl team etc. But we have spread out our play and run as a team without relying too heavily on any one player. Juice or Lankinen in net are both proven even if Juice's points are down slightly he's still above .9 ever since the all star break. Josi is so on his game right now he has to be back in talks around getting some votes for Norris. Forsberg has been literally on fire and undressing some of the best players along WITH josi. Nyquist has been assisting AND scoring to even keep pace with them and ROR has been essential for battling for the puck. That's just the top dogs. Evangelista is looking like a younger fil with his skate speed and puck handling, Mcdonagh has been about as essential on defense as josi and juice. Zucker is a late addition but has ALREADY proven to work well and start bringing in goals and assists on his line. Lauzon has an astronomical amount of hits nearly all of which have been massive at continuing offense and removing opposition from the puck. All of this under new management and a new coach. All while WELL under the cap space and WELL predicted to not even make the playoffs earlier in the season. Hockey can go any which way but if you aren't nervous you aren't paying attention just cause we don't have the same names as another team might. Heck if we don't have it in us to win this year i'm excited for the next 3 years too with Azkarov and our AHL team AND all our picks and cap space we have a lot to get even more dangerous.

They didn’t even talk about Reinhart

Saying the leafs should feel better because they've gotten regular season swept by boston is WILD. Playing a team a bunch of times and losing all of them means you'll probably win one at some point but a playoff series isn't one game

Jesse is definitely built different, tarps off fight on sight. Thomas again great contributor please keep him on the pod. Don't agree with Luca's takes very often but 100% agree with both his takes Vegas being better to face them in rd.1 when they still building chemistry rather than more polished and dialed in for rd.2 etc and that Canucks being a better 1st rd match up as they don't have that playoff hardening experience just yet. Hoping for Tor vs. Bos that'll be an awesome series. Ya'll sleeping on NYR too they just shutdown MacKinnon and the might Avs offence on the road in another clinical performance.

Luca giving the canes some love is very unexpected

hey nice pod as always! would love if you upload the deadline day stream to rewatch❤

luca’s scrunchie slays

Turn yourself in knots and convince yourself the champs aren’t a team to worry about in the playoffs. Just wait till they run it back

As a Canucks fan, agree with the argument from Luca that of the division champs the Canucks are the team to play but who WANTS to play a division champ?

Its crazy that these guys don’t really factor in the Canucks that will likely finish #1 or #2 over all in the west. Demko will be back and most likely stand on his head for the Canucks 😊

Dallas couldn’t beat Vegas during the regular season when Vegas was missing a bunch of key players.

Everyone slept on the Canucks in the pre-season, calling them a slim chance wildcard at best. Then they had a very consistent overall season(One where they never lost more than 6 games total in a 20 game stretch...look it up) and have placed themselves into a division win. Their center core 4 is right there with anyone(Miller, Petey, Lindholm, Blueger our Suter.) Quinn Hughes is doing things nobody has ever seen, and they have a talented top 6 forward core with some elite talent and speed with some skilled grit mixed in there and and a few 20 goal scorers in their BOTTOM 6(a rotation of Hoglander, Joshua, and Garland have been mostly bottom 6 regulars with some top 6 shifts). The D core has been very consistent all year long and they can put out on pair of Dmen in the rough and rugged playoffs that are over 13 feet tall combined(without skates...and one is particularily mean) On top of that you have a clear top 5, arguably top 3 goalie in the league with Demko("Bubble Demko" anyone?) and all of this is lead by an ENTIRE coaching staff of accomplished former NHL allstars and Hall of famers. Whether they win it all, or whether they have a first round exit, whoever the Canucks play this postseason will be pushed to their limits and y'all will start putting some respect on their name.

Vancouver disrespect from east media is insane.

Two weeks later you will never guess who's spleen is feeling juuust fine in time for playoffs.

Plot twist: Jets finish within 4 points of first place but as a wildcard team

Golden Knights Back 2 Back Champs ⚔️🏆🏆

Boston is one center injury away from being swept. Not having center depth is scetchy

16. Detroit/Washington 15. Philadelphia 14. Los Angeles 13. Nashville 12. Vancouver 11. Toronto 10. Winnipeg 9. Boston 8. Tampa Bay 7. Dallas 6. Edmonton 5. Vegas 4. NY Rangers 3. Carolina 2. Colorado 1. Florida

As a flyers fan, I get the reasons why you'd brush aside philly, but they dominated the Stars, beat the canucks twice, beat Florida, Carolina, Colorado and Boston. They play up to their opponents and on their day can beat any good team

wouldn't want - Boston, nyr, Colorado, Florida. would want - wings/caps, leafs, Edmonton, LA

Corwins lettuce is coming in nice

28:17 jump scare warning

I hope Dallas make those black and green jersey their home jerseys those look awesome

Canucks will beat Nashville if they match up in Rd. 1. Canucks have dominated Nashville this year. You can say it's before they got hot but last year, every single first round match up was won by the team that won the season series (or tied it, but no losses). Team match ups are important and I think the Canucks style and system just matches well against Nashville's.

Las Vegas Injure Reverse

Hot take maybe but this playoffs doesn’t really have an “easy option” at least in the west. Every team in it rn has either been consistent all year or is getting hot right at the time it matters most. As well every single team has been doubted throughout the entire year for different reasons and have a chip on their shoulder because of it. There is no “weak team” there is just the team you play against. I could see litterally every series possible going to 7 games. Its gonna be a bloodbath

As a stars fan, I hate to admit it but the way corwin spoke about oettinger at the beginning of the year was correct. I love otter but he seems to be off this year. To be fair to him his defense has let him down in some games but he has not looked great all year. Thankfully we got tanev and in these last couple of games otter has looked much better. However I think that will be the stars downfall is the goaltending.

here's why washington has a better shot to make it to game 5 over detroit: lindgren. lyon and reimer haven't made a save all szn.

Love your podcasts and quizzes and vlogs next quiz should be a nhl playoffs

Everyone wants to play Van in rd 1...lol

Did you guys stop putting your podcasts on Apple Podcasts?

What a difference 6 days make

The one thing with Boston is they feed off of all the negativity and some how always makes them better when everyone counts them out which is part of the reason i think they blew it last year. They were on top and just took it for granted. Getting ready for a slow rebuild this is really the year to do something and prove everyone wrong. Truly their last real chance at something

I think the bolts are MASSIVELY slept on this year. They have had an up and down season and spent most of it in a wild card spot so fair enough but people are so quick to forget the absolute beast this team was for 3 years in a row. They are built for the playoffs and have the same core as the cup winning teams. One first round exit (a series which they outplayed the leafs 5/6 games) and they've seemingly disappeared from the contenders conversation. This is a scary team and I would not be surprised to see them come out of the east this year.

Watching this after the tier list they made is funny Imagine not anyone of them having islanders in there they didn’t believe they would make it over capitals but top 4 from a Swedish guy 1 Caps 2 Islanders 3 LA 4 Nashville

Why does the bardown team hate the caps so much sheesh 😂

"Regular season doesnt matter" then why isn't tampa up there.

Not mention the Bs is fair they have been like oddly inconsistent and the east is so tight but like it wouldn’t surprise anyone if they went on a run if we are real

I don't remember that st Louis team being that good

The Vancouver disrespect is diabolical

Some thoughts from a Bruins fan. I have very little faith in this team. Unfortunately the team just doesnt have the depth scoring to compete with others. The team relies so heavily on Marchand and Pastrnak for like 80% of their offense. Ullmark has been mediocre at best in the playoffs so far. Swaymans numbers are slightly better but small sample size. I have no clue if they are going to rotate their goalies come playoff time or what. If the Bruins get the goaltending though in that round 1 they will be very very intimidating to play. They seem like a team that as the rounds go on theyd only get better and better.

There's no point in having both the Art Ross trophy and the Hart trophy if whoever wins the Art Ross automatically wins the Hart. It's gotta be MacKinnon or Kucherov for the Hart regardless of the Art Ross and I'm hoping MacK gets it since all the other guys have already got one.

Rags have been above the Carolina Hurricanes this entire season. Yes it’d be a tough series. But nobody has the number 1 team in the league. And consistent top of the metro the whole season in top 4? I know there’s a lot of great teams and I’m for sure just a salty fan but Vancouver and the Rags need more love in this.

As a oilers fan I’m scared of Vegas 😂

Don't even know how the Rangers aren't in the top 4 for anyone's list. I don't see how the Canes would be scarier, the Rangers are much better 5v5 and are 21-5-1 since the all star break. Most wins out of every team, there is just no reason why anyone wouldn't be scared of them unless they just care too much about the past. Rangers made the ECF a couple years ago without Panarin having as good of a year as he is now, just saying.

Would not want to face NSH because of Ryan McDonagh and would not want to face NYR because of Igor.

if u get 60 tucks u should get the hart

"We want Florida"

Not to be negative but these are a much easier listen without DZ, also corwins been working out

Please use chapters on your videos

God bless you Corwin

Luca has always hated the Canucks hopefully we pound the avalanche 4-0 in the conference finals

Corwin wanting the Bruins to play the leafs just made me laugh. It’s not like the Bruins have won every single regular season game this year against the leafs.

man keep disregarding the flyers, it’s been all season long

PG Cougars are gonna win the memorial cup.!

Can’t wait for Jets to fall into the wild card and get smashed by the Canucks. Bring it on Jesse💪🏼

Theres just so many great teams right now. Rangers are 5th most scary team lol

Vancouver would easily be more difficult opponent than Nashville. Better goaltending, Nashville got Josi but Vancouver got better player with Hughes. None of Nashville forwards are nowhere near Elias Pettersson or JT Miller. Vancouver also got Hronek, Boeser etc. Way better team.

Idk guys, did they discuss?

But when the leafs played the bruins they had Anderson so would you till wanna play him with Woll

completely unrelated to anything but lucas scrunchie is cute

Lol i love it. Everyone has been sleeping on the Canucks all year . Even when they were in first place for a long stretch of the season. And still sleeping on them now. That's ok . Just don't be shocked when they make a deep run.

This "Sleeper" Nashville team got clapped 8-4 by the poverty yotes. They're in the wild card spot for a reason...

49:54 Yeah let’s not give the hart trophy to a guy that is going to be the 4th player in NHL history to have 100 assists and got Zach Hyman 52 goals so far.

Canucks fans stoked to serve Luca and Jesse a big plate of shit sandwiches come playoff time. Appreciate Corwin for sticking up for the Canucks a little, as it's clear he's the only one watching the games, still. Canada goes past Alberta, guys.

Pock needs to bring back the jesse counters. taking shirts off, we'll discuss, random jets mentions, derailing the conversation to talk about food etc.

I so look forward for Winnipeg to make you guys eat crow

The last 4 winners of the Memorial Cup are from the Q. The last winner from another league was in 2017...Funny how the Q is often looked at the weakest league out of all 3.

Alright I found the Ashl team for the bardown boys and just gotta say under the career stats list for the team Jesse had played 47 less games and is only 1 point back of corwin come on Mccallum get your head outta your ass

I’m just starting to watch this video, but before it even starts, IF THEY DONT SAY TAMPA IM GOING TO BE SO MAD

Priviliged Princess😂😢. Heres the statistic... No one playing with macdavid scored more then 30 before other then Leon. That being said u have to do things right alot to get 50.🎉