back wrote:Hey, we could win as many as 4 games this season! Maybe even 5!Julian, wrote:
Unfortunately no, but living it up huge here!
just wait til football season!
Stanley Cup Picks
godsshoeshine wrote:Yes, and no. I'd put Osgood and "depth" as 1a and 1b in the reasons the Wings are winning. Zetterberg still owning Crosby is probably #2.
agreed. difference in the series to a large extent.
i'd go 1) osgood playing well 2) maf letting in some softies 3) faceoffs 3a) depth 4) zetterberg, but fair enough
I'd go (1) Pittsburgh is not Anaheim.
There is no #2.
There is no #2.
right because the ducks beat the wings this year
oh wait that was last year
no wait
oh wait that was last year
no wait
They were the last team to beat the Wings and certainly the last team to make a series out of it….
vansmack wrote:that was 2 years ago
They were the last team to beat the Wings
and with hasek, not osgood
OK - I'll stop for the next week.
Take this series to 7 (I won't even make you survive until the last three minutes of the game) and I'll never bring it up again.
Take this series to 7 (I won't even make you survive until the last three minutes of the game) and I'll never bring it up again.
Smackie, it's a lost cause. Eastern Conference fans will simply refuse, despite all evidence to the contrary, to acknowledge the 3-4 best teams in the West are generally better than whoever the East throws out there. It's like a mantra for them, act shocked – SHOCKED!! – when the eastern conference squad gets manhandled in the finals, then act like whoever it was is still the #2 team in hockey.
you really like making unprovable statements
the best team in the East had a crappy week and isnt playing for the Cup.
back wrote:and somehow thats more important than osgood
the best team in the East had a crappy week and isnt playing for the Cup.
godsshoeshine wrote:Yes, it's unprovable, because a bracket doesn't allow for the second and third place western conference teams to play the eastern winner in a pointless bragging rights match post-finals. All sorts of anecdotal evidence does point to it like pretty much every year in recent history the western conference champion (and Stanley Cup champion) facing a much sterner test from a conference foe then from their finals opponent. It's backed up by simply watching the playoffs and using the old eye-test. I don't know alot of unbiased people who can sit here and go, "Oh yeah, Pittsburgh would've beat Anaheim this year" or "Pittsburgh would've beat Dallas last year," or "Ottawa would've beaten Detroit 2 years ago."
you really like making unprovable statements
sorry but i could care less about a hypothetical match up between the ducks and pens or whoever while my team is in the stanley cup finals. its completely immaterial
julian, go back to fashion. it's more interesting. nothing like a sport where they are allowed to beat each other up for whatever reason, just to make it entertaining enough to watch. like nascar with the wrecks, and wrestling with the chairs over the head and george the animal steele chewing on the ring.
back wrote:
the best team in the East had a crappy week and isnt playing for the Cup.
No good team in the west has a crappy week. They're that good.
sweetcell wrote:Julian, wrote:
Next to The Victors, I think Don't Stop Believin' is becoming may 2nd favorite sports song.
other than the line about the boy being born & raised in south detroit, i don't understand how the wings can get away with playing this song.
A friend of mine who's mom is from Detroit hates that song, all because nobody from the southern areas of Detriot say that they're from "South Detroit."
RatBastard wrote:
OK onto the finals predictions…
I'll take whoever wins four games first to win the cup!
But seriously, lets go out on a limb and say pens in 6.
AGREED! Or I'll say Pens in 7…just like how their series with the Caps went.
vansmack wrote:back wrote:
the best team in the East had a crappy week and isnt playing for the Cup.
No good team in the west has a crappy week. They're that good.
I thought the Blackhawks were having a crappy week last week. But I guess I'm wrong?
Julian, wrote:
I don't know alot of unbiased people
Zebras in 7.
Julian, wrote:back wrote:OH!
i meant as far as underachieving on the ice. As a Canadian, i wish half the league was back there but we dont want the Coyotes, thank you. Unless its just payback for the Nationals!
I think Balsillie would throw so much money into the team (and have such unlimited resources if he puts it where he's talking about) that they'd turn around nicely. The Coyotes weren't bad for most of the year, and hockey futures ranks their farm system as really good (EDIT: #4 in the league). You add to that actually spending somewhere near the cap ceiling and I don't think it's a long turn around for the Winnipeg Jets Redux at all.
Also, unfortunately, I think if Canada wants more than 6 teams, the only way that's happening – barring Bettman dropping over dead and someone completely different coming in as commissioner – is for a terrible southern team to move up there. Might as well be this one.
Potential owner Jim Balsillie has filed an application for the relocation of the Phoenix Coyotes, a move expected to happen later this week: http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/news/story?id=4223269