2011 NHL Playoffs

Thousand wrote:
Have the Flyers found a goaltender? Or are they still playing spin the bottle?

whoever is chosen by the bottle has to make out with chris pronger. 

Looks like Boucher from here on out. He's been playing well. Helps to get a four goal boost in Game 7s.

for those who care (and can afford it) - tickets for games 1 and 2 went on sale not too long ago.  singles still left for both games.  not great seats, but at least they're available for face.  i got in early and scored third row off the ice ;D

correction: pairs still available for tomorrow's game 1.

Tampa's in for a long effing week. They played Tues/Wed now Fri and Sun then Tue/Wed

6 games in 8 days. Rough!

they played monday and wednesday in the last round. should be interesting sometimes the long layoffs can help, sometimes they hurt

Oh crap, right I was thinking of the Canadiens/Bruins

Getting very gitty. Giddy…..

For those watching the caps game: in the end where the bolts shoot twice, third row behind the faceoff circle (second 120), on the aisle, is a dude in a red t-shirt with bright yellow long sleeves. that may or may not be yours truly. TBD.

SHIT!!! Here we go again for Caps fans….

I'm not panicking. We outplayed them for 2 games now and they got 2 shitty bounces off of us. I hate when they get behind our net and we can't get them out. Argh. Very frustrating first 2 games. I think Boudreau has seen enough to make a solid game plan. When he called that timeout under 2 minutes he knew exactly what we had to do with the extra man and within seconds Ovi ties the game up. Their PK is stifling. I think we can break it, our offense is just too potent, but it's still frustrating. They've scored in each game on their power plays and gotten lucky bounces off of us, we've been slamming them and peppering Roloson with shots. I don't think they're deflated, I think we can still pull this out. Tuesday will be a huge game.

Thanks for that…it makes me feel better. I don't have whatever obscure cable channel they're putting the games on. And the local papers down here is basically YANKEES SPORT REPORT, even though we have the Marlins, not to mention the Heat if netball is your thing.

This was this mornings sport report on the local AM radio news channel.

The Yankess take the series over the Blue Jays. Smedruck Von Smedrick pitched 7 innings before being relieved by Herbie Schnurgleburger..blah blah blah. They now take their 14 and 4 (or whatever) record to some city for a 3 game series with blah blah blah. The Yankees remain top of their yada yada yada….. The Heat beat the Celtics 99-90. Oh, the Marlins were in Cincinnati.

I live in south FL but you would never know it eh? No wonder they call it the 6th burough.

Frank wrote:
Thanks for that…it makes me feel better. I don't have whatever obscure cable channel they're putting the games on. And the local papers down here is basically YANKEES SPORT REPORT, even though we have the Marlins, not to mention the Heat if netball is your thing.

except for a few games on the weekend on NBC, most games are on Versus.  i thought Versus was pretty much a standard cable channel.  what are all those snowbirds watching?!?

y'all also have the Panthers, not that they really count as a hockey team…

especially because comcast is everywhere

i thought that tb soundly outplayed the caps in the third last night. tying goal was a little bit of good fortune too

And the 2 TB goals that bounced off our players weren't? There's always luck in hockey, I feel like TB has been on the better side of that the first 2 games. Hopefully we turn that around tonight.

my bad, i was too vague. i mean the caps had some good luck on the tying goal like tb did on the second, though i think lecavalier puts it in if green doesnt

dont get me wrong, both games were very evenly played. i think the caps can still win this. but based on what i've seen tb is winning because their stars are better and they dont have mike green screwing things up. caps could turn both around

Green's playing better this series than last year against the Canadiens. He's playing a lot better, 1 mistake doesn't negate his great play in the post season so far.

-2, no points in the series. plus that awful penalty on stamkos. guess that's an improvement  :D

It's not always in the stats, he does get into plays and shoots when he has to.

Fuck the NHL. Who starts a playoff game on a weeknight before 7? Oh yeah, the NHL.

Thuroughly outplayed last night. Not even mad, frustrated, or disappointed. Just plain sad. They look exactly how they did last year. Deflated, defeated, and just beat. This team lacks fire and discipline. They panic too quickly. You could see the wind come out of their sails after TB scored their first goal. Neuvy's done just about everything to keep us in game and we've hung him out to dry. The only person I see out there for the entire game is Ovi. Everyone else just gets shoved around. Just a shame. I've been optimistic up until the end of last night's game. Now I think we're just in time for the collapse.

which TV channel carried the game last night?  Comcast?

i set up my DVR to record the game on Versus, but i came home to "best of the NHL special" - AKA the filler they put on for in-market games.  while the special was entertaining to watch for a while, i was pissed that i wasn't able to watch the caps game.  then again, maybe it was for the better.

anyhoo, i'm hoping to figure this out so i can record tonight's game.