Damn Barret, How giddy is your St. Louis living ass....

[Chris]

way to play your way in....and I get to cheer in the first round....YAY!

[Zeus]

Who are they playin' in round 1 again? Is it Vancouver? That'll be a good matchup. They'll be against the best goalie in the world.

[Chris]

Who are they playin' in round 1 again? Is it Vancouver? That'll be a good matchup. They'll be against the best goalie in the world.

2 great goalies with 2 good offenses. but the blues are hotter than me right now. funny enough outside of the sharks I can't see any of the favorites winning easily in the west while the east will pretty much just be the top except for maybe the Devils going down

[Imakeholesinu]

Who are they playin' in round 1 again? Is it Vancouver? That'll be a good matchup. They'll be against the best goalie in the world.

2 great goalies with 2 good offenses. but the blues are hotter than me right now. funny enough outside of the sharks I can't see any of the favorites winning easily in the west while the east will pretty much just be the top except for maybe the Devils going down

The Blues are only hotter to you because you want Oshie's cheeks to keep you warm.

Mason has been absolutely stellar stepping in for Manny. Manny won't play up here next season and that's why Bishop was called up to back up Mason.

Vancouver only has two lines of offense. I think we've got a more balanced team. We will hopefully wear the Sedin twins and Sundin down. Two guys on their team I'm afraid of, Roberta and Burrows. Roberta can steal a game for them and Burrows...man the kid channels pat verbeek hit/score hit/score. 27 goals from this guy?

The Blues have the kid line though and Berglund likes to go fishing. Oshie will be the work horse he's been since the all-star break and Perron will continue to dangle, dazzle, and draw penalty after penalty.

If the playoffs are won on special teams, the Blues 3rd ranked PK and 8th ranked PP will certainly get them through this.

Blues in 5.

Oh and guess who has tickets to games 3 and 4 here in the STL??? THIS GUY!!!!

[Zeus]

Hold on. You're going up against the best goalie in the world who's playing quite well and you're predicting your team to win in 5? If they had Luongo and a bunch of cardboard cut-outs you'd be lucky to get it in 5. Has history not taught you anything? This is the playoffs not some regular season bunch of games.

This is going to be a long series. 6 at least if not 7. Vancouver has better forwards overall and are more experienced and at the end of the day, their goalie is playing very well and has more talent than any other goalie in the league right now. So I say they take it but it won't be easy.

[Imakeholesinu]

http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?DB_OEM_ ... &id=417597

Who won goal of the year? Oh and guess who it was against?

That's right it was Oshie vs. 3 Canunkleheads and Roberta.

[Tessian]

That's right it was Oshie vs. 3 Canunkleheads and Roberta.

I feel like I need a translator or something to understand this thread...

[Mental]

I feel like I need a translator or something to understand this thread...

1. It's hockey!

2. Hockey involves large men brutally beating the shit out of each other and sometimes also hitting a small round hard puck with a stick.

3. North of the "freeze your ass off line" at the Canadian border, hockey is a national obsession. Canadians spent roughly 70% of their lives either playing or watching hockey and the rest submerged under the winter ice (where they hibernate to wait for hockey season).

4. Saying bad things to a Canadian (or Chris) about his or her favorite team will result in a pair of ice skates being shoved right up your ass.

5. Do not pee in the Stanley Cup.

And that is all I know.

[kali o.]

http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?DB_OEM_ ... &id=417597

Who won goal of the year? Oh and guess who it was against?

That's right it was Oshie vs. 3 Canunkleheads and Roberta.

Wow...you are so desperate to find *proof* you are using a fan choice award? Hilarious.

Vancouver is walking through ya, I'll be nice and say in six. I'll visit this thread again and do my dance of always-right on the 26th

[Chris]

Hold on. You're going up against the best goalie in the world who's playing quite well and you're predicting your team to win in 5? If they had Luongo and a bunch of cardboard cut-outs you'd be lucky to get it in 5. Has history not taught you anything? This is the playoffs not some regular season bunch of games.

This is going to be a long series. 6 at least if not 7. Vancouver has better forwards overall and are more experienced and at the end of the day, their goalie is playing very well and has more talent than any other goalie in the league right now. So I say they take it but it won't be easy.

yes history has tought me something. I'll look at how a team is playing when the playoffs come around. And the Blues have been playing a hell of a lot better than the Canucks.

[Mental]

http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?DB_OEM_ ... &id=417597

Who won goal of the year? Oh and guess who it was against?

That's right it was Oshie vs. 3 Canunkleheads and Roberta.

Wow...you are so desperate to find *proof* you are using a fan choice award? Hilarious.

Vancouver is walking through ya, I'll be nice and say in six. I'll visit this thread again and do my dance of always-right on the 26th

Ain't nothing wrong with the fan community. I tend to trust the fans of just about anything more than the "establishment" these days anyway, like I was just saying on the G.I. Joe thread on the other forum.

But, I don't follow hockey, so in the interest of full disclosure I must admit I know nothing and recuse myself from this thread now.

[Zeus]

Hold on. You're going up against the best goalie in the world who's playing quite well and you're predicting your team to win in 5? If they had Luongo and a bunch of cardboard cut-outs you'd be lucky to get it in 5. Has history not taught you anything? This is the playoffs not some regular season bunch of games.

This is going to be a long series. 6 at least if not 7. Vancouver has better forwards overall and are more experienced and at the end of the day, their goalie is playing very well and has more talent than any other goalie in the league right now. So I say they take it but it won't be easy.

yes history has tought me something. I'll look at how a team is playing when the playoffs come around. And the Blues have been playing a hell of a lot better than the Canucks.

Not really. The Canucks went on a tear to win their division. That's what i was saying, they're both playin' very well. And with Luongo and a better overall forward group, I think that gives them the edge. But it'll be a close series

[kali o.]

Ain't nothing wrong with the fan community. I tend to trust the fans of just about anything more than the "establishment" these days anyway, like I was just saying on the G.I. Joe thread on the other forum.

But, I don't follow hockey, so in the interest of full disclosure I must admit I know nothing and recuse myself from this thread now.

You don't have to follow hockey, but ya obviously didn't follow the link (otherwise, ya woulda known by simple commonsense how little that award had to do with anything). As for "fans" over the establishment, most voting polls I saw had the canucks winning that series at around 70ish %. Barret is just blind and bias...and Chris is psychotic. And both are American and therefore wrong on everything hockey related.

So ya, run along...

Anyway ya...one game down...I'm doing my pre-dance stretches

[Zeus]

*points and laughs*

[Mental]

As far as I can tell, that award has to do with arguing about hockey, and this THREAD has to do with arguing about hockey as well!

Ergo, relevance. Q.E.D. FEEL THE BURN. A winner is me!

[Chris]

Holy fuck. fleury tonight made one of the best saves I have ever seen midway through the third. he has been fucking fantastic this game

[Imakeholesinu]

Holy fuck. fleury tonight made one of the best saves I have ever seen midway through the third. he has been fucking fantastic this game

Poor Philly....they are so awesome.

The Blues need to break out the 3rd jersey's on Sunday.

[Zeus]

*laugh starts turning hysterical*

[kali o.]

*coughs*

*snickers*

/runs outta this thread laughing

[kali o.]

Huh?

....

Oh my bad, thought ya said something.

/snickers

[Zeus]

*laughing gets a little stronger and audiable*

[SineSwiper]

I take it Canaidia won something?

[Mental]

http://www.theonion.com/content/news_br ... =a-section

[kali o.]

Man, that's what I get for being nice...4 days early and I'm not nearly stretched out enough to dance.

[Zeus]

Wow. I gave the Blues a little more credit than they deserved. Looks like they're gonna learn the Ottawa way

[Chris]

Wow. I gave the Blues a little more credit than they deserved. Looks like they're gonna learn the Ottawa way

no ottawa goes futher before dissapointing. then they blow up their team to get better, alienate every player not named Alfreddson whose to busy enjoying the dick sucking they are giving him to care.

The Blues earned there way in and ran out of gas. THe difference was exactly what you said it would be Zeus. It was Luongo who was stellar. That was a good game yesterday though.

Right now I'm too busy being lectured on how when you are a goalie and initiate contact with someone skating backward a few feet outside the crease it's goaltender interference. no....no it's not...

[Imakeholesinu]

That 3rd period scrum in front of the net you could see from the replay it was a goal. If O'Rourke hadn't had such a quick whistle then this wouldn't be an issue. The problem was though he then went to review it after he said he blew the play dead. According to the official rules, once a play has been blown dead by an official it is not reviewable. So when O'Rourke went to review then the play should have continued with the puck crossing the line while Roberta lay spread eagle on the ice.

The officiating was trash, but the Blues never took advantage especially in OT.

Perron, Tkachuk, MacDonald, and Mason were BY FAR the best players on the ice for the Blues last night. Mason kept them in the game.

Our Team Defense was poor. Jackman was out of position and coughed up the puck way to many times.

Berglund was benched the entire 2nd half of the 3rd period and all of OT, along with BJ Crombeen. The Blues were playing 3 lines and still outplayed the Canucks 70% of the game.

The Blues wanted it more but couldn't score.

[kali o.]

That 3rd period scrum in front of the net you could see from the replay it was a goal. If O'Rourke hadn't had such a quick whistle then this wouldn't be an issue. The problem was though he then went to review it after he said he blew the play dead. According to the official rules, once a play has been blown dead by an official it is not reviewable. So when O'Rourke went to review then the play should have continued with the puck crossing the line while Roberta lay spread eagle on the ice.

Puh-lease. That was a no goal no matter which way they took it, dead play or pushing Luongo's leg in net with the stick.

The officiating was trash, but the Blues never took advantage especially in OT.

It was good, not sure what you are talking about - especially since the Blue's are the one's that ended up on the advantage end. The Blue's just couldn't penetrate the D and were kept on the outside (which allowed Luongo easy saves). Anyone have the final stats PP stats and 5 on 3 #'s?

Edit: I checked, 24 TS canucks, 18 Blues. No contest. Not even considering 5 on 3's.

Our Team Defense was poor. Jackman was out of position and coughed up the puck way to many times.

Jackman was the only reason it wasn't worse, imo.

Blues were playing 3 lines and still outplayed the Canucks 70% of the game.

If ya say so. Desperation gave them some energy (after the goals), but they still couldn't beat the obviously better team. And they were dead and totally out of it prior to those 2 quick goals.

The Blues wanted it more but couldn't score.

Because they don't have the depth the canucks do, nor the goaltending. Like me and zeus stated at the beginning

[Imakeholesinu]

That 3rd period scrum in front of the net you could see from the replay it was a goal. If O'Rourke hadn't had such a quick whistle then this wouldn't be an issue. The problem was though he then went to review it after he said he blew the play dead. According to the official rules, once a play has been blown dead by an official it is not reviewable. So when O'Rourke went to review then the play should have continued with the puck crossing the line while Roberta lay spread eagle on the ice.

Puh-lease. That was a no goal no matter which way they took it, dead play or pushing Luongo's leg in net with the stick.

The officiating was trash, but the Blues never took advantage especially in OT.

It was good, not sure what you are talking about - especially since the Blue's are the one's that ended up on the advantage end. The Blue's just couldn't penetrate the D and were kept on the outside (which allowed Luongo easy saves). Anyone have the final stats PP stats and 5 on 3 #'s?

Edit: I checked, 24 TS canucks, 18 Blues. No contest. Not even considering 5 on 3's.

Our Team Defense was poor. Jackman was out of position and coughed up the puck way to many times.

Jackman was the only reason it wasn't worse, imo.

Blues were playing 3 lines and still outplayed the Canucks 70% of the game.

If ya say so. Desperation gave them some energy (after the goals), but they still couldn't beat the obviously better team. And they were dead and totally out of it prior to those 2 quick goals.

The Blues wanted it more but couldn't score.

Because they don't have the depth the canucks do, nor the goaltending. Like me and zeus stated at the beginning

Vancouver will be a different team next season.

The Sedin's (UFA) and Sundin (UFA) along with, Pyatt (UFA), Krog (UFA), Vaananen (UFA), Wellwood(RFA), Burrows(UFA), Ohlund(UFA), O'Brien(RFA), Ouellet(UFA) are just a couple of the guys that are going to be RFA or UFA when their season ends.

[kali o.]

Vancouver will be a different team next season.

The Sedin's (UFA) and Sundin (UFA) along with, Pyatt (UFA), Krog (UFA), Vaananen (UFA), Wellwood(RFA), Burrows(UFA), Ohlund(UFA), O'Brien(RFA), Ouellet(UFA) are just a couple of the guys that are going to be RFA or UFA when their season ends.

Teams are different every year, the free agent status doesn't change much, it's just a reality of the new cap system. Pretty much every team is like that now in the "new" NHL now - what's your point?

St. Louis got swept, nothin left but the tears and excuses I guess. /shrug

It'll be interesting to see who the Canucks play next and whether the rest hurts or helps em. I think they'll get Sundin and Salo back, which will be huge.

[Zeus]

Wow. I gave the Blues a little more credit than they deserved. Looks like they're gonna learn the Ottawa way

no ottawa goes futher before dissapointing. then they blow up their team to get better, alienate every player not named Alfreddson whose to busy enjoying the dick sucking they are giving him to care.

The Blues earned there way in and ran out of gas. THe difference was exactly what you said it would be Zeus. It was Luongo who was stellar. That was a good game yesterday though.

Right now I'm too busy being lectured on how when you are a goalie and initiate contact with someone skating backward a few feet outside the crease it's goaltender interference. no....no it's not...

The first year Ottawa was in the playoffs they were a good young team that was supposed to be one to watch out for and they got Ished (speaking of Ish, where the hell has that boy been?) by the Leafs and were swept in the first round. Then they got beat 3 more times in the next 4 years by the Leafs by the second round. Ottawa learned the very, very hard way what it takes to win in the playoffs.

[Chris]

Wow. I gave the Blues a little more credit than they deserved. Looks like they're gonna learn the Ottawa way

no ottawa goes futher before dissapointing. then they blow up their team to get better, alienate every player not named Alfreddson whose to busy enjoying the dick sucking they are giving him to care.

The Blues earned there way in and ran out of gas. THe difference was exactly what you said it would be Zeus. It was Luongo who was stellar. That was a good game yesterday though.

Right now I'm too busy being lectured on how when you are a goalie and initiate contact with someone skating backward a few feet outside the crease it's goaltender interference. no....no it's not...

The first year Ottawa was in the playoffs they were a good young team that was supposed to be one to watch out for and they got Ished (speaking of Ish, where the hell has that boy been?) by the Leafs and were swept in the first round. Then they got beat 3 more times in the next 4 years by the Leafs by the second round. Ottawa learned the very, very hard way what it takes to win in the playoffs.

yes, they did. and then they started trading away and alienating the core players on their team (Something Alfreddson is not. you have to have heart to be the core of a team)

[Chris]

nobody can beat the best goalie in the game.....

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

[Imakeholesinu]

ROBERTAAAAAAA ROBERTTAAAAAA!

That sucks for the Caps tonight. 5 - 0 at one point? Varlamov imploded.

[kali o.]

Meh, Canucks beat themselves, 3 outta 4 of those games, Gotta hand it to the Hawks for game 6 though - both teams came to play, but Hawks either wanted it more or got the better bounces. Either way, entertaining game.

[Zeus]

nobody can beat the best goalie in the game.....

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

That was a helluva lot more than Luongo. The Canucks simply couldn't handle the Chicago onslaught

[Chris]

man fuck goddamned versus. you have 2 fucking game 7's on the same night and you schedule them at the same time. Whoever is in charge of scheduling is fucking retarded. it's GAME FUCKING 7 YOU DO NOT NOT TELEVISE ONE OF THEM! Fucking ass holes.