dom

So looking forward to a all the 1-0 and 2-1 games out west. Yay.

Hawks in 7
Bruins in 7

Leafs over Wings in the Winter Classic golf tourney.

e30cabrio

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This is why I am glad to be out.

Yumcha

You know my unreasonable hatred for the Things aside, I have to say, you should feel awesome that the team has "rebuilt" relatively so quickly. In a year when many thought they would be a non-contender, Detroit rallied, made the playoffs and took out the #2 seed and pushed the #1 to the brink.

Not bad at all. That "Detroit Model" is definitely impressive...no wonder Chicago is trying to carbon-copy it.

Yumcha

Horrid play by Bolland in front of Chicago's no-name goalie shooting it right off of JASON Williams for a goal.

LA has 2 shots...with that goal-against really Bolland's shot. Chicago has 17 shots but are losing...although, LA's name-brand goalie didn't really have to work too hard for those 17 saves. Yup, feels like a game from previous playoff years against Nashville/Phoenix...

Yumcha

Chicago draws first blood.


Team w/ no-name goalie 1...team with name-brand goalie 0...

No-name goalie with a nice key stop on JACK Carter in the 3rd.

Yumcha

I may add...no-name-goalie's only goal was scored by his own player.

dom

2-1!! Shocker

Steven Bell

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4 in a row-Blackhawks.....

Yumcha

Probably the norm...Low-scoring also between the Pens/Bruins so far.

Yumcha

Nevermind. Bruins have a FG scored against the Pens.

black label

It was a pretty even game until the end of the second when Crosby took a cheap shot at Tuukka.

We'll see what game two beings...

Yumcha

Yeah, I dunno...and I hope 97Ack doesn't get all e-nuts on me (CUZ, I'M NOT HATING)...but, Sid looked very distracted in the game. Not very good defensively and yapping all night to the refs...reminds me of how he was going when the Flyers beat them last year. And WTF was he doing jawing with Rask...?

And Mr. Malkin: If you are fighting...please take off your visor. Rules of engagement 101.

Yumcha

And I wonder if Cooke is going to get suspended...?

MWalsh9152

halfway through the Pen's first power play my comcast service crashed, I ended up trying to stream bits and pieces of the game on my phone....missed mostly everything.

Yumcha

Name-brand goalie: yanked.


No-name goalie: doing just fine.

Yumcha

Good weekend series for Chicago and to hold serve...of course, it is not a series yet until a team loses at home. So, let's see what they do in LA where the Kings are very good.

Moog-Type-S

Was away at a beach house for the weekend....and I come back to find the Kings down 0-2?!?!?!?!

j/k....I watched both games.....from the beach :wink:

My Bottom Line: If the Kings continue to not show up and play for a full 60 minutes, then the Hawks will sweep them. It's as simple as that. The Hawks are very good, but the Kings can't make it easy by playing a period or a period and half per game and think they can win.

<----Waiting for the Kings to show up and play their game.

....and I can almost guarantee Kopitar will have knee surgery in the off season...that guy has got something seriously wrong.

Tyler Toffoli is the future!

It's tough to win games when your top two centers are out, and playing injured.

97BlackAckCL

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Not even a hearing, gets 5 minutes and a game misconduct for having that name on his jersey, that hit should have been a 2 minute at best. Marchand puts a far worse hit on Neal and gets 2 minutes from the same ref that almost cost Chicago the series in game 7... Hoping for a much more controlled and better called game 2

Yumcha

I can't believe Walkom is working the Conference Finals...

This is the same guy who didn't call Torres when he took Hossa's head off last year in the playoffs.

Moog-Type-S

A new addition to the Kings line-up....to go with Brad Doty, Anje Kopidor, Jonathan Swift, and Jason Williams:

"Ray" Regehr

Moog-Type-S

...and Yahoo, Well played.

Yumcha

Seriously, I think at this point, they HAVE to be doing it on purpose.

Moog-Type-S

^^ On the contrary....the media in LA is dumber than a box of rocks.

Yumcha

Pittsburgh lack of team defense is going to deep-six them this year...series is not over but if things continue, Iggy and Morrow picked the wrong team to join. And if they want a track meet against whatever comes out of the West (LA or Chicago), they may have issues too...Neither Western Conference rep is the Isles or Sens.

Yumcha

Okay...well, Hawks being up 2 right now is a minor shock since it can be argued Chicago is a slight underdog.

But, the Bruins are not supposed to be doing this on the road against the Pens. Wow. Did not see this coming in Game 2 at all. They now have to go to Boston and win Game 3 or this is over...

black label

That's all I got.

Fibonacci

Post pics of you and Statler frollicking on the beach in a bikinis or

Fibonacci

Poor Iggy, he picked poorly.

Now I know why Jonesi disappeared back into the witness protection program. He knew, he knew!!!

97BlackAckCL

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Not over yet, but the B's definitely used that week off watching lots of film, our passing is just too damn predictable

SLIKRIK

Go Kings Go!

Yumcha

You mean your D did not get addressed by adding the glacier-slow Murray.

Did Pens learn anything about watching Washington and their recent years' strategy to out-score opponents in the playoffs? Cuz, against a complete team like Boston...not happening.

Moog-Type-S

Oh those Pittsburgh Crosbies!!!!!!!

No D, No Goaltending.....No Cup.

Yumcha

If only the teams in the West had that sort of entry into the opponents zone like what the Pens D is allowing for Boston. Sigh.


It's like parting of the seas.

Moog-Type-S

^^ It's known as the "escort service".

The Kings used to do this in the late 80's and parts of the 90's.
The D-men would escort the opposition's forwards right to the slot.

Yumcha

You kidding, Hawks did this all the time in the dark years of the late 90s and early 2000s as well...!!


Dayum. We should be seriously happy and flattered, Waldorf!

Crosby and his boys are paying homage to the Kings and Hawks teams of yesteryears! Except, with All-Stars up and down their line-up!

Yumcha

Personally, methinks that Crosby et al are so confident in their skills and the All-Star team they assembled that they wanted to spot Boston a 2-game lead and then, go on the road to one of the hardest arenas to win in and ROAR BACK to win the series.

Moog-Type-S

I wouldn't count the Crosbies out yet, but they have a very tough fight ahead of them.

Yumcha

Nope. It's not over until a team reaches 4 wins in a series. Didn't Boston cough up a 3-0 lead once recently...?

So, anything is possible. But, Pittsburgh needs to fix that D big-time...or Iggy et all will continue to be ring-less.

97BlackAckCL

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Murray-Engelland has got to be the slowest D pairing in the history of the league...

Yumcha

It can be fixed by better positioning and support from the forwards. So, hopefully that will happen in Game 3.