The Official 2008 Stanley Cup Playoffs Thread

Towsertunes

Rockin'InCanada wrote:

Detroit looks great...but I believe they have yet to be physically tested....the Av's were never a real match for them...easy one to call.....

This team is alot tougher than people give them credit for.
Also you can't hit what you can't catch.
Kronwall is one of the best open ice hitters left in the playoffs.
Not to many people know of him bec.he was injured the last
few playoff years

restlesssoul

i have to pick the winners in my pool, so far im tied for first


who is gonna win: Detroit or Dallas?

For the East im going with PITTS, but this Dallas team, they are a force.

RockinInCanada

restlesssoul wrote:

i have to pick the winners in my pool, so far im tied for first


who is gonna win: Detroit or Dallas?

For the East im going with PITTS, but this Dallas team, they are a force.

Yeah I dunno....Detroit/Dallas match-up will be interesting.....I think Detroit can take them down though...they have looked solid and composed....I think you are right with Pittsburgh though.....

Towsertunes

restlesssoul wrote:

i have to pick the winners in my pool, so far im tied for first


who is gonna win: Detroit or Dallas?

For the East im going with PITTS, but this Dallas team, they are a force.

I would pick Detroit.
But...
How do you know Dallas and not San Jose?

Flagg

God Dammit. I don't even want to talk about last night's game.

kenshunt

Sharks are coming back hehe, Turco will blow it somehow

Phantom Pain

kenshunt wrote:

Sharks are coming back hehe, Turco will blow it somehow

Niiiiiice

I hate Dallas

Towsertunes

Ohh Dallas.
How many give aways did San Jose have last night?
Can't believe they escaped.
Morrow should learn to score legitimate goals.Haha.
Although he got ripped off on the first one.
Campbell's goal was a beauty.
Keep pounding each other,it helps my Wings.
Lets see a seventh game.

GO RED WINGS!

Bathgate66

http://ordinaryleastsquare.typepad.com/blueshirtbulletin/



In the bass-ackwards Orwellian world of the NHL, one player can do a strange, probably unsportsmanlike, but at that time legal dance in front of a goalie and in the process be speared in the groin by that goalie, and the league ignores the dangerous, definitely unsportsmanlike, and highly illegal spear while creating a new rule to avoid a recurrence of the strange dance routine. And in the bass-ackwards Orwellian world of the NHL, one player can run around the ice in the final minute of a frustrating loss and twice commit the dangerous, definitely unsportsmanlike, and highly illegal act of slew-footing an opponent (and for good measure target the ailing ribs of an opponent, albeit with a legal check), but the only thing the league has to consider the next day is how to explain why a legal push by a defenseman led to a penalty shot (because the referee on the ice never explained what the infraction was).

So Martin Brodeur is allowed to freely spear Sean Avery and Evgeni Malkin is allowed to freely slew-foot Paul Mara (not once, but twice), but new rulings have to be created to keep Avery out of Brodeur's face and to give Malkin a penalty shot when no discernable infraction was committed. And on top of that, Penguin coach Michel Therrien, who was whining to the officials even before the series began and whined some more after last game when an apparent Malkin was disallowed because he slid into Henrik Lundqvist (a bad call, by the way, if Girardi was in fact guilty of something in taking Malkin down), thinks it's OK to dismiss Malkin's slew-footing as being competitive.

Therrien, adding to the Penguins' classy image, also thinks it's OK to kick a man when he's down. In excusing Malkin's acts, which Mara called "classless", Therrien takes a potshot at Avery, who is lying in intensive care due to internal bleeding from a lacerated spleen, saying that Malkin's pair of slew-foots was nothing compared to Avery's slash to the back of Marc-Andre Fleury's leg at the end of Game 2. Of course, in the bass-ackwards Orwellian world of the NHL, all that will be remembered of that incident is Avery's slash, not Fleury's spear to Avery's groin -- courageously, from behind -- or George Laraque courageously being third man in on Avery after Hal Gill already began exacting a pound of flesh from Avery.

But unless the NHL creates a new rule to rationalize the erroneous call against Girardi, all of that is water under the bridge -- no harm, no foul after Malkin's "competitive" penalty shot was stopped in his sleep by Lundqvist -- heading into tomorrow afternoon's Game 5 in Pittsburgh. The Pens are still in a playoff series, but the Rangers have just one game to play. And that game has to be a repeat of Thursday, when they hounded Malkin and Sidney Crosby into frustration and Marian Hossa into his annual playoff invisible man disappearing act.

In the news today, Larry Brooks writes in the Post that the refs must allow the Rangers to play that game as long as they do it legally, which to the credit of the officials was the case in Game 4. Blueshirts Blog and Newsday address the forthcoming new "Girardi Rule", the Record, THN, and NHL.com take a closer look at the Beast, Jaromir Jagr, the Daily News has a brief update on Avery, and Stan Fischler describes how the Rangers can win Game 5 here and here. More on the series: Daily News, Journal News, Times, Post, Star-Ledger, Rangers Report, Blue Notes, Prospect Park, ESPN, Vancouver Sun, and AP. Penguin point of view here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. Howlings has an update on Thomas Pock.

drivingrl

What's up, haters?

Bring on the motherf*ckin' Red Wings.


Marty Turco, I want to have your babies.

even flow?

Bathgate66 wrote:

http://ordinaryleastsquare.typepad.com/blueshirtbulletin/



In the bass-ackwards Orwellian world of the NHL, one player can do a strange, probably unsportsmanlike, but at that time legal dance in front of a goalie and in the process be speared in the groin by that goalie, and the league ignores the dangerous, definitely unsportsmanlike, and highly illegal spear while creating a new rule to avoid a recurrence of the strange dance routine. And in the bass-ackwards Orwellian world of the NHL, one player can run around the ice in the final minute of a frustrating loss and twice commit the dangerous, definitely unsportsmanlike, and highly illegal act of slew-footing an opponent (and for good measure target the ailing ribs of an opponent, albeit with a legal check), but the only thing the league has to consider the next day is how to explain why a legal push by a defenseman led to a penalty shot (because the referee on the ice never explained what the infraction was).

So Martin Brodeur is allowed to freely spear Sean Avery and Evgeni Malkin is allowed to freely slew-foot Paul Mara (not once, but twice), but new rulings have to be created to keep Avery out of Brodeur's face and to give Malkin a penalty shot when no discernable infraction was committed. And on top of that, Penguin coach Michel Therrien, who was whining to the officials even before the series began and whined some more after last game when an apparent Malkin was disallowed because he slid into Henrik Lundqvist (a bad call, by the way, if Girardi was in fact guilty of something in taking Malkin down), thinks it's OK to dismiss Malkin's slew-footing as being competitive.

Therrien, adding to the Penguins' classy image, also thinks it's OK to kick a man when he's down. In excusing Malkin's acts, which Mara called "classless", Therrien takes a potshot at Avery, who is lying in intensive care due to internal bleeding from a lacerated spleen, saying that Malkin's pair of slew-foots was nothing compared to Avery's slash to the back of Marc-Andre Fleury's leg at the end of Game 2. Of course, in the bass-ackwards Orwellian world of the NHL, all that will be remembered of that incident is Avery's slash, not Fleury's spear to Avery's groin -- courageously, from behind -- or George Laraque courageously being third man in on Avery after Hal Gill already began exacting a pound of flesh from Avery.

But unless the NHL creates a new rule to rationalize the erroneous call against Girardi, all of that is water under the bridge -- no harm, no foul after Malkin's "competitive" penalty shot was stopped in his sleep by Lundqvist -- heading into tomorrow afternoon's Game 5 in Pittsburgh. The Pens are still in a playoff series, but the Rangers have just one game to play. And that game has to be a repeat of Thursday, when they hounded Malkin and Sidney Crosby into frustration and Marian Hossa into his annual playoff invisible man disappearing act.

In the news today, Larry Brooks writes in the Post that the refs must allow the Rangers to play that game as long as they do it legally, which to the credit of the officials was the case in Game 4. Blueshirts Blog and Newsday address the forthcoming new "Girardi Rule", the Record, THN, and NHL.com take a closer look at the Beast, Jaromir Jagr, the Daily News has a brief update on Avery, and Stan Fischler describes how the Rangers can win Game 5 here and here. More on the series: Daily News, Journal News, Times, Post, Star-Ledger, Rangers Report, Blue Notes, Prospect Park, ESPN, Vancouver Sun, and AP. Penguin point of view here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. Howlings has an update on Thomas Pock.

Brodeur should have chopped Avery down like a tree in a forest. And, don't the Rangers have Orr or some other goon. That is all it would have took for payback in the next game. Should have just taken runs at Malkin all night long. Bring back good old fashioned hockey!

Flagg

Marty!
Marty!
Marty!
Marty!


Go Stars!!

Brenden Morrow just had the best series by any player I've seen in a long time. And he finished last night with 19 hits, 43:59 of ice time, and the game-winner in 4OT after having two reversed in the previous game.

Also nice to see Modano and Roenick at the handshake. Those two have been friendly rivals for forever and that might have been Roenick's last game.

What a game. Bring on the Wings!!

kenshunt

Flagg wrote:

Marty!
Marty!
Marty!
Marty!


Go Stars!!

Brenden Morrow just had the best series by any player I've seen in a long time. And he finished last night with 19 hits, 43:59 of ice time, and the game-winner in 4OT after having two reversed in the previous game.

Also nice to see Modano and Roenick at the handshake. Those two have been friendly rivals for forever and that might have been Roenick's last game.

What a game. Bring on the Wings!!

I don't know how you go 70 mins with out a penalty, then blow your whistle on that, what a shitty way to end the 4th period, yeah chulk one up for the refs congrats.

Flagg

kenshunt wrote:

I don't know how you go 70 mins with out a penalty, then blow your whistle on that, what a shitty way to end the 4th period, yeah chulk one up for the refs congrats.

Sharks had their chance on a PP in the 3rd OT and blew it.

Yeah, it sucks that it ends on a PP goal, but fitting that is was Morrow, considering he was robbed on that 1st disallowed goal the other night. There shouldn't even have been a Game 6.

drivingrl

kenshunt wrote:

I don't know how you go 70 mins with out a penalty, then blow your whistle on that, what a shitty way to end the 4th period, yeah chulk one up for the refs congrats.

The Sharks had their chance and they blew it.

I will take you, Bertuzzi, and every other hater out there.

GO STARS!

Towsertunes

drivingrl wrote:

What's up, haters?

Bring on the motherf*ckin' Red Wings.


Marty Turco, I want to have your babies.

Red Wings are rested,ready and waiting for tired out Stars.
Dallas will try to dumb the Wings down with boring defense.
Just try to stop those high flying Wings.

Go Wings!

Thecure

even flow? wrote:

Brodeur should have chopped Avery down like a tree in a forest. And, don't the Rangers have Orr or some other goon. That is all it would have took for payback in the next game. Should have just taken runs at Malkin all night long. Bring back good old fashioned hockey!

don't worry about Malkin. teh same thing will not happen now that they are playing a team that actually hits other players.

LET GO FLYERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

drivingrl

Towsertunes wrote:

Red Wings are rested,ready and waiting for tired out Stars.
Dallas will try to dumb the Wings down with boring defense.
Just try to stop those high flying Wings.

Go Wings!

I'm fairly certain Stars soar higher than Wings do.

kenshunt

drivingrl wrote:

The Sharks had their chance and they blew it.

I will take you, Bertuzzi, and every other hater out there.

GO STARS!

I'm a Leafs fan btw, could careless really, but i just hate series ending on stupid penalties

Towsertunes

drivingrl wrote:

I'm fairly certain Stars soar higher than Wings do.

What is the hockey atmosphere like in Dallas?
Are they getting alot of press?
Looking forward to a good series.
I'll take Brendan Morrow on my team any day.Good Canadian kid.
Too bad he won't go further.

Wings in six.