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I want 7 games in the finals. Hell, hockey NEEDS 7 games in the finals. The NCAA tourney left us wanting, the NBA playoffs are a joke, and it's hockey's time to shine. Can it happen? Maybe. Just maybe.  |
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Overtime would be orgasmic.
I think everyone would be pretty happy as long as there were seven games though.
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Such a odd collapse by the Canes. New Jersey was pretty bad down the stretch, and Boston at times seemed like they lost something after steamrolling the Canadiens... but then again, Carolina was pretty great before the playoffs. I don't know. Maybe it really WAS Gary Bettman.  True about their opponents, but man they were looking good those two rounds. They sure looked ordinary. They got hot for a while I guess and then reality set in. It can also mean the Pens are getting hot at exactly the right time. BTW, good on Sidney for picking up the Wales Trophy. Refusing to touch it is a superstition that needs to die. One more thing: RIP Peter Zezel. |
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BTW, good on Sidney for picking up the Wales Trophy. Refusing to touch it is a superstition that needs to die.
He didn't touch it last year and that did not work out so well. Mario touched it during the Pens back-to-back Cup wins in the early 90s. It's a silly superstition anyway — really, the teams (with dubious officiating sometimes being a major factor also) will settle the matter on the rink… |
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Huet is the only reason Chicago is still alive. The last second on your face pad save...that's gonna be on every highlight reel tomorrow. I STILL can't believe he pulled that off to keep them in it.
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Well, here we go.
Should be fantastic.
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The idiot announcers are going to make this whole finals about the touching the trophy superstition.
In my mind, Detroit is the better team so I don't think anything matters in regards to trophies, but I'm hoping the Pens win to shut the door on that stupidity.
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It might help that Datsyuk and Lidstrom might be slowed down a little bit.
Of course, our #1 defense has a fucked knee so..
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Huet was amazing tonight. Still couldn't save em. Cleary continues to be my D-Towne hero. Hossa is really playing like he wants a cup. I look forward to Saturday.
Does anyone care about that dumb superstition? Let's just watch back to back cups for the Wings.
P.S. - Osgood has been underrated for years. Maybe two cups from now he'll start getting respect.
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Does anyone care about that dumb superstition? Let's just watch back to back cups for the Wings.
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Let's bring it on. At least we don't have to wait until July for the Cup, right?
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Depends.
If Crosby gets hurt, surely Bettman will postpone the games. Something to do with Jean-Claude Van Damme, dirty pucks and terrorism I'm sure.
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I'll be the first to say it. Pens in 7. Why? Destiny, that's why. |
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I'll be the first to say it. Pens in 7. Why? Destiny referreeing, that's why. Changed for ya :) |
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I'm rooting for Detroit.
Why? Because I hate that PIT is good only because they sucked during key draft years.
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Azaroth
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You hate PIT because you're a Flyers fan.
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I would have a lot more respect for PIT as a franchise if they simply hadn't been lucky enough to have all those #1s during key years.
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Azaroth
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So you hate Chicago and Washington too?
Or, where does respect come from? Signing free agents = respect? Lucking out on lower picks = respect? Drafting a few spots lower but being an equally terrible team = respect?
Anyway, apparently Hughson is calling the final because it was written into his contract. I hate Hughson's cheeseball bullshit, and they had a poll on a radio show today to see what people preferred.
IMO, Bob Cole is a legend and raises the excitement of the game regardless of whether he can follow the play anymore. You should respect a legend - Hughson is going to likely have many years of annoying the hell out of everyone and making them feel like they're being sold used Hyundais on the local radio station.
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Especially with the cap now, free agency takes a lot more financial gymnastics.
Also, lucking out/properly scouting lower picks is nothing like having multiple #1s in possibly some of the best drafts in recent memory.
There's building through the draft, and then there's being handed stars on a platter.
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Financial gymnastics such as signing Daniel Briere at $10m/year.
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Oh... and Wings in six.
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I'll be eating Little Ceasar's at the Joe on Saturday night. And you got an extra ticket for a Flint guy, right? :) Congrats, always been a dream of mine to see a Stanley Cup final game at the Joe. And the impressive thing about Detroit is their ability to see be a great as they are, even after the cap. |
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I  Jim Hughson. Why don't all you haters force CBC to fire him so he can come back and do all the Canucks games? We miss him. |
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I'll be eating Little Ceasar's at the Joe on Saturday night. And you got an extra ticket for a Flint guy, right? :) Congrats, always been a dream of mine to see a Stanley Cup final game at the Joe. And the impressive thing about Detroit is their ability to see be a great as they are, even after the cap. There's no better arena to be in, as far as I'm concerned, than the Joe for a cup final game. I was on the ice before game four in '97 when they swept the Flyers. When the won that one, the place Exploded. The Wings' secret? Depth. The whole organization believes in it. From Ilitch on down. Develop your entire team as role players, even your stars. |
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NHL.com robot predicts Red Wings in a romp tonight.
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And Detroit with allllllll the bounces.
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Never seen so many bounces go for one team and against another.
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Never seen so many bounces go for one team and against another.
That just the way it goes some nights. MESSAGE TO NBC: PLEASE, FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY, BANISH THIS BROADCAST TEAM, REPLACE WITH *2* THAT DO NOT INCESSANTLY RAMBLE AND SPEW OUT EVERY IRRELEVANT THOUGHT THAT CROSSES THEIR DUMBSTRUCK MINDS… |
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Never seen so many bounces go for one team and against another.
Yeah pretty well everything went their way. But the Pens didn't look bad against them. Fleury was ill prepared for the bounces the puck would take off the boards, which can happen when you only play in the building once a year or less. |
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So I DVR the game and come home to 4 hours of a telethon for a local hospital instead. That's right. The local affiliate preempted a game from the Stanley Cup Finals for a telethon.
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No, Pens looked half decent. And I'd hate it if we won and someone started complaining about bounces. But it really was frustrating watching every single break go their way all night.
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Never seen so many bounces go for one team and against another.
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I didn't think the Pens looked all that great. Their defense and passing was sloppy. The refs were fucking asleep through the first and most of the second period. That Cooke hit in the crease after the puck was frozen should have been called. What a dirty cheap shot.
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