NHL 08 Playoffs

10spro · Post by **10spro** » Sun May 18, 2008 5:52 pm

Now that the Pens are in the final dance, I hope DET will do what they have to do, and have a great Lord Stanley final.

dougb · Post by **dougb** » Sun May 18, 2008 5:54 pm

Diablo25 wrote:BIG GAME IN PITTSBURGH TODAY (obviously). Man, if the Flyers can pull this one out it is going to be a VERY interesting game 6...in Philly. 3PM the puck drops!

Got smoked!

Must be some bad karma hanging around from those thuggish 70's teams. Love to see a Pittsburgh Detroit series as it'll be the first time in awhile that there have been 2 really skillful fast skating teams in the final.

Best wishes,

Doug

Naples39 · Post by **Naples39** » Sun May 18, 2008 7:32 pm

Crash and burn!!

Diablo25 · Post by **Diablo25** » Sun May 18, 2008 7:33 pm

dougb wrote:
Diablo25 wrote:BIG GAME IN PITTSBURGH TODAY (obviously). Man, if the Flyers can pull this one out it is going to be a VERY interesting game 6...in Philly. 3PM the puck drops!
Got smoked!

Must be some bad karma hanging around from those thuggish 70's teams. Love to see a Pittsburgh Detroit series as it'll be the first time in awhile that there have been 2 really skillful fast skating teams in the final.

Best wishes,

Doug

Easy Doug....take it easy. Thanks for being a classy winner.

Congrats Pens. Thanks for a great year Philly.

dougb · Post by **dougb** » Mon May 19, 2008 9:34 am

Diablo25 wrote:
dougb wrote:
Diablo25 wrote:BIG GAME IN PITTSBURGH TODAY (obviously). Man, if the Flyers can pull this one out it is going to be a VERY interesting game 6...in Philly. 3PM the puck drops!
Got smoked!

Must be some bad karma hanging around from those thuggish 70's teams. Love to see a Pittsburgh Detroit series as it'll be the first time in awhile that there have been 2 really skillful fast skating teams in the final.

Best wishes,

Doug
Easy Doug....take it easy. Thanks for being a classy winner.

Congrats Pens. Thanks for a great year Philly.

Sorry,

those mid 70's Flyers teams have always bothered me the way they won those cups.

Actually, I'm a Habs fan and thought Philly deserved the victory in that series. The Flyers team now is light years from that dark era. You've got a lot to look forward to in Philadelphia with the team that's been assembled.

Again, I like a series between Detroit and Pittsburgh as it gets the two most talented and fasted skating lineups on the ice.

Best wishes,

Doug

Diablo25 · Post by **Diablo25** » Mon May 19, 2008 2:28 pm

dougb wrote:
Diablo25 wrote:
dougb wrote: Got smoked!

Must be some bad karma hanging around from those thuggish 70's teams. Love to see a Pittsburgh Detroit series as it'll be the first time in awhile that there have been 2 really skillful fast skating teams in the final.

Best wishes,

Doug
Easy Doug....take it easy. Thanks for being a classy winner.

Congrats Pens. Thanks for a great year Philly.
Sorry,

those mid 70's Flyers teams have always bothered me the way they won those cups.

Actually, I'm a Habs fan and thought Philly deserved the victory in that series. The Flyers team now is light years from that dark era. You've got a lot to look forward to in Philadelphia with the team that's been assembled.

Again, I like a series between Detroit and Pittsburgh as it gets the two most talented and fasted skating lineups on the ice.

Best wishes,

Doug

No problem...I wasn't really mad about the comment...just disappointed in the Flyers performance. Those 70's squads were a bit arrogant...just a bit ::)

Jackdog · Post by **Jackdog** » Mon May 19, 2008 8:41 pm

1st period 3-0 Wings. The boys got some jump in them tonight.

10spro · Post by **10spro** » Mon May 19, 2008 8:49 pm

They are attacking the neutral zone with their patent speed, Lidstrom and Rafalski have all the space they crave for and their puck possession offense is based on, and Turco just looks shaky again. You're not going to come back agaisnt a very good team like DET being down 0-3, although DAL seems to pick it up a bit with their late PP.

Jackdog · Post by **Jackdog** » Mon May 19, 2008 8:51 pm

10spro wrote:They are attacking the neutral zone with their patent speed, Lidstrom and Rafalski have all the space they crave for and their puck possession offense is based on, and Turco just looks shaky again. You're not going to come back agaisnt a very good team like DET being down 0-3, although DAL seems to pick it up a bit with their late PP.

No shots on goal in that last Dallas PP. Not a good sign for Stars fans.

XXXIV · Post by **XXXIV** » Mon May 19, 2008 10:29 pm

I know the score was 4-1 ...but....The stars did not just go away.

They threw everything they had at the Wings in the 3rd...Osgood was a monster.

Looking forward to the final.

Go game 7!

10spro · Post by **10spro** » Tue May 20, 2008 12:36 am

All Hockey puck-heads will be happy to watch this final. A dream final that has the potential to go the distance. It's been more than a decade that I crave to watch wonderful final game seven. The last gem was the one between the Rangers and Canucks in 94. This one has 'that' potential and I am really looking forward to it. Bad thing: Game one doesn't start until Saturday.

pk500 · Post by **pk500** » Tue May 20, 2008 8:34 am

10spro wrote:All Hockey puck-heads will be happy to watch this final. A dream final that has the potential to go the distance. It's been more than a decade that I crave to watch wonderful final game seven.

James:

Not following you, mate. The final went seven exciting games in 2006, with the outcome as my only disappointment, as the Oil lost to Carolina.

There have been four Game 7's in the finals since the Rangers-Canucks' classic:

2006: Edmonton-Carolina (my heart still bleeds)
2004: Tampa-Calgary (that was a very good series)
2003: New Jersey-Anaheim (Jiggy was unconscious the whole series)
2001: Colorado-New Jersey (How is Ray Bourque finally winning the Cup not a classic?)

But I agree that this series has the potential to be dynamite. I think the teams are very evenly matched. Goaltending will be pivotal, as always.

Take care,
PK

10spro · Post by **10spro** » Tue May 20, 2008 10:20 am

Maybe I wasn't more specific PK. All those SC games went to seven games as you mentioned, but in terms of melodrama, ups and downs, a few players in their primetime, Messier, Richter, Bure, Linden, 'Nucks being down 1-3 in the series at one point and stretching it to game seven,(when everyone started to parade in Broadway) all that unpredictability in the series has potential to be repeated again with DET-PIT. Two dynamic duos for each team in Datsyuk-Zetterberg and Malkin-Crosby, two equally well balanced goalkeepers, Ozzie gets an edge for his experience and a couple of very good puck movers from the blue line like Lidstrom and Gonchar.

That Rangers-'Nuck series was dynamite to watch and with all the ingredients available for this series I am hoping that this clash will provide us all the excitement and unpredictablility that the finals in 94 brought to me. Not a slap to the other game sevens since then at all. All those games had their own drama but I can't remember looking forward with such anxiety for a SC final like this one in a long while.

pk500 · Post by **pk500** » Tue May 20, 2008 10:50 am

Agreed, James. I was just talking with the motorsports writer of the Detroit Free Press -- also a huge hockey fan -- here in the media center, and we both agreed that this final could be epic.

Can't wait!

Take care,
PK

Sudz · Post by **Sudz** » Tue May 20, 2008 12:37 pm

why are the games at 8pm on weekends?

f bettman and his round charlie brown head!

Jimmydeicide · Post by **Jimmydeicide** » Tue May 20, 2008 1:14 pm

Sudz wrote:why are the games at 8pm on weekends?

f bettman and his round charlie brown head!

lol he is a cross between Charlie brown and stuey from family guy.

10spro · Post by **10spro** » Thu May 22, 2008 10:53 am

Is it Saturday yet?

XXXIV · Post by **XXXIV** » Thu May 22, 2008 11:41 am

10spro wrote:Is it Saturday yet?

Tell me about it...

Jimmydeicide · Post by **Jimmydeicide** » Thu May 22, 2008 11:46 am

No s***, may have to buy Euro 2008 to pass the time , still only thurs.

10spro · Post by **10spro** » Sat May 24, 2008 12:01 am

So game one is almost upon us. Good grief! I just hope that the final everyone wished for won't disappoint any of us Hockey fans, look forward to a hard, close contest between these two teams, I think they are so evenly matched that in the end it will come to youth vs experience. I also look it as a Canadian (PIT) content vs the Swedes (DET) for fun, so I am going to pick the Pens in six games. Regardless of who wins in the end, I hope it's a thriller one.

pk500 · Post by **pk500** » Sat May 24, 2008 8:48 am

Quickie prediction from Indy:

Detroit in 7. Rafalski and Lidstrom on the blue line are the difference, and Fleury is much more susceptible to meltdown than Osgood.

Drop the damn puck!

Take care,
PK

Gangrel · Post by **Gangrel** » Sat May 24, 2008 11:36 am

My brain says that the Red Wings win in 5, teaching the Pens another lesson on the road to becoming a dynasty (as much as yuo can these days), a la the first time the Oil faced the Isles for the Cup.

Butttttttt...... my gut is telling me the Pens in 7, in one of the most exciting finals in years.......

XXXIV · Post by **XXXIV** » Sat May 24, 2008 10:43 pm

Wings put the clamps on the Pens...Shut em down completely after giving up 4 power plays in the first..

Would have rather had seen a Penguins win but it was nice to see playoff hockey again.

Jackdog · Post by **Jackdog** » Sat May 24, 2008 10:52 pm

XXXIV · Post by **XXXIV** » Sat May 24, 2008 10:53 pm

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