The Stanley Cup is in Afghanistan Today?!

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  • Songburst
    Songburst Posts: 1,195
    Purple Hawk wrote:
    Bullshit...we might just dress Peters to go one on one with Emery!

    If we do beat the Rangers, I'm headed to Ottawa for a either game 3 or 4!

    There is no heart on that Sabres team for some reason. They looked bad against the Isles and they have looked worse against the Rangers (up until the last minute of game 5). That come from behind win should give the Sabres that extra jump that they have been missing though. We'll see today -- if they come out on fire, I'll give the Sabres a game (2 if they dress Peters) against the Sens. I'll probably hold off until the Cup final to go down to see another game in Ottawa.
    1/12/1879, 4/8/1156, 2/6/1977, who gives a shit, ...
  • NMyTree
    NMyTree Posts: 2,374
    RolandTD20Kdrummer wrote:
    We'll see if NY pulls out any silver bullets for the Playoffs :D

    I'm betting Sens v.s. Rangers for Stanley Cup 07.

    Should be a corker...Hi-o silver away!

    That is impossible.

    Either the Rangers or Sabres will play the Senators in the Semi-Finals (Third Round) and the winner of that series will go on to the Stanley Cup Finals; against the Ducks, Sharks or Red Wings.
  • NMyTree
    NMyTree Posts: 2,374
    The Rangers have been the better team in this series, 95% of the time. Sabres should consider themselves lucky to have a 3-2 lead in the series.

    Exclude three major mistakes by the Rangers and the dispicabley lop-sided officiating, and the Rangers probably already would have this series wrapped up or they would be up three games to one.

    That tying goal in Game Five with seven seconds remaining, should have never counted. Zubrus (of the Sabres) practivcally raped Girardi (of the Rangers, in the corner and on the way to the crease. Girardi gets crosschecked down from behind, away from the puck.

    Then the Zubrus holds his stick (took two tugs for Girardi to get his stick loose). Followed by a blatant Hook and a stick across the front of Girardi's body.........where he obstructed Girardi for three strides! That's four blatant infractions in an 8-10 second sequence of play. Yet the Refs refused to call a penalty and simply let the play develope.

    It's relevent because in Overtime the same Refs who permited Zubrus (of the Sabres) to get away with such blatant infractions, decide to call Jagr (of the Rangers) for a extremely mild brush of the stick......on a Sabres arm.

    That wasn't even a Hook. Jagr's stick barley grazed the guy's arm and Jagr's stickblade wasn't even turned into towards the middle of the body. Nor did his stick ever break the treshold of coming across the body. it wasn't a Hook and it certainly didn't obstruct the Sabres player in any way, shape or form. It was a mild graze that barely even touched the Sabres' arm.

    So how do you justify these Refs pemitting Zubrus of all those infractions during such a vital and significant last few seconds of a game, yet, call Jagr for what was basically....nothing?

    I really hate to harp on the officiating, but these Refs have been digustingly biased or irresponsible in the way they have called this series. It's horrible.
  • NMyTree
    NMyTree Posts: 2,374
    Case in point:

    Ryan Callahan chases down the Sabres puck-carrier, takes an elbow to the head and the genius Refs call Callahan for a " Hold":rolleyes:

    What a joke.
  • NMyTree
    NMyTree Posts: 2,374
    Congratulations to you Buffalo Sabres fans!

    What a dogfight.......what a battle!


    My Ranges will get ya' .......next season:D
  • Songburst
    Songburst Posts: 1,195
    After watching todays game I can't see Buffalo taking a game from Ottawa. The Sabres don't have what it takes this year.
    1/12/1879, 4/8/1156, 2/6/1977, who gives a shit, ...
  • Purple Hawk
    Purple Hawk Posts: 1,300
    Songburst wrote:
    After watching todays game I can't see Buffalo taking a game from Ottawa. The Sabres don't have what it takes this year.

    your goalie is ray emery...

    we'll be just fine :)
    And you ask me what I want this year
    And I try to make this kind and clear
    Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
    Cuz I don't need boxes wrapped in strings
    And desire and love and empty things
    Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
  • Songburst
    Songburst Posts: 1,195
    Purple Hawk wrote:
    your goalie is ray emery...

    we'll be just fine :)

    Haha. You have to get shots on Emery to score on him. And Ryan Miller isn't exactly Martin Brodeur. This will be 4 and out. The Sabres could win the series if they find some heart. I don't think they have it in them.
    1/12/1879, 4/8/1156, 2/6/1977, who gives a shit, ...
  • Songburst
    Songburst Posts: 1,195
    Purple Hawk wrote:
    your goalie is ray emery...

    we'll be just fine :)

    1 down. 3 to go.
    1/12/1879, 4/8/1156, 2/6/1977, who gives a shit, ...
  • RolandTD20Kdrummer
    RolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    2 mins left...cmon 5-2 :D
    Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

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  • RolandTD20Kdrummer
    RolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    done! :D
    Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

    http://i36.tinypic.com/66j31x.jpg

    (\__/)
    ( o.O)
    (")_(")
  • Songburst
    Songburst Posts: 1,195
    RolandTD20Kdrummer wrote:
    done! :D

    Haha - good call -- the sweep is on.
    1/12/1879, 4/8/1156, 2/6/1977, who gives a shit, ...
  • small town beck
    small town beck Posts: 6,691
    Could the Cup be coming back to Canada this year? :p Looks like a nice beginning :D
  • RolandTD20Kdrummer
    RolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    2-0 series...ouch...Buffalo blues...

    Go Sens...
    Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

    http://i36.tinypic.com/66j31x.jpg

    (\__/)
    ( o.O)
    (")_(")
  • Songburst
    Songburst Posts: 1,195
    Zing. 2 down. 2 to go. No heart Sabres are going to be on the wrong end of some broom handles on Wednesday.
    1/12/1879, 4/8/1156, 2/6/1977, who gives a shit, ...
  • MLB5150
    MLB5150 Posts: 70
    Songburst wrote:
    Haha. You have to get shots on Emery to score on him. And Ryan Miller isn't exactly Martin Brodeur. This will be 4 and out. The Sabres could win the series if they find some heart. I don't think they have it in them.

    Yeah, the sabres have no heart at all. good joke.
    "Who did you say you were, replacing might for miracles?" - ajc
  • Songburst
    Songburst Posts: 1,195
    MLB5150 wrote:
    Yeah, the sabres have no heart at all. good joke.

    What's the series at? The Sabres are done. They know it, and they are playing like it. Aside from 10 minutes here and 5 minutes there, the Senators have completely dominated the Sabres through 2 games. It hasn't even been close.
    1/12/1879, 4/8/1156, 2/6/1977, who gives a shit, ...
  • NMyTree
    NMyTree Posts: 2,374
    The funny thing here is, the Refs continue to permit the Sabres to Hold, tug/pull, grab, set up picks, obstruct and generally commit every infraction in the book; with minimal response (actually calling the penalty).

    Perfect example was when Paul Gaustad, in the First Overtime, along the boards, about half way between the Red Line and Sabres Blueline; not only grabs and pulls on a Senator player trying to chase the puck into the Sabres' zone, but completely grabs a hold, maintains the Hold and pins him against the boards; all this with the puck in the Sabres zone.

    A blatant cross-check when they (the Sabres) pulled their goalie in the Third Period and just before scoring the tying goal.

    These are just two of several dozen similar infractions the Sabres are permitted to commit; in every game and every series in this year's Playoffs.


    With as much latitude as they have been given by the Refs, and that's a whole lot of latitude; the Sabres should have breezed through their the first two series, if they were any where near as good as the NHL, their media and the Sabres fans think they are.

    Sabres simply aren't that good. They have benefited greatly from the biased, lop-sided and preferencial officiating by the NHL, who are desperately trying to weasel their Gary Bettman's New NHL Poster Boys all the way to the Stanley Cup Finals.

    Fortunately, the Senators are too good a team and thus far have proven the ability to not just overcome the Sabres; but also overcome the blatant agenda-driven, dispicably-biased officiating.

    The Sabres are in deep trouble here and unless the Refs take their already lop-sided Sabre-favored approach to officiating - to an even more disgusting low; the Sabres are done.
  • Songburst
    Songburst Posts: 1,195
    I don't think that the reffing has been overly biased towards the Sabres, but I really did like the fact that they basically put the whistle in their pockets in OT last night. That is what NHL playoff OT should be. Having 5 power plays in OT is not right in the NHL playoffs. I fucking hate watching power play hockey. The only thing worse than watching power plays all night is watching 5 seconds of a Detroit Red Wings game.
    1/12/1879, 4/8/1156, 2/6/1977, who gives a shit, ...
  • small town beck
    small town beck Posts: 6,691
    Songburst wrote:
    What's the series at? The Sabres are done. They know it, and they are playing like it. Aside from 10 minutes here and 5 minutes there, the Senators have completely dominated the Sabres through 2 games. It hasn't even been close.

    It would be nice to see this finished neat and tidy in four games and then on to the Cup :D:D I do hope the Sens continue to play such a solid game. :)

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