Stanley Cup Playoffs 2015

tim1_2 wrote:Games sevens.  Enjoy friends, I'll be in the woods surrounded by bugs and rain.

I feel bad. I could have loaned you this:

tim1_2 wrote:Games sevens.  Enjoy friends, I'll be in the woods surrounded by bugs and rain.

Twoses gameses sevenses.

Only one game seven left.

This one shouldn't be close.

SpezDispensed wrote:This one shouldn't be close.  

Agreed. Bolts in 4.

SeawaySensFan wrote:

SpezDispensed wrote:This one shouldn't be close.  

Agreed. Bolts in 4.

Bolts in 2016 or later.

wprager wrote:

SeawaySensFan wrote:

SpezDispensed wrote:This one shouldn't be close.  

Agreed. Bolts in 4.

Bolts in 2016 or later.

Ok. That's enough. You're pushing things too far. That's bordering on our territory.

Just watched both games this morning. Didn't know the results previously.

Anaheim got unlucky. They had a couple great chances to start the game and then the Hawks capitalized...and continued to capitalize on pretty much every chance.

The Bolts...well I underestimated them again. That game could've gone either way, but Killorn got that lucky backhand through and that was all she wrote.

I dunno what will happen in the final, but it will be FAST.

Whoa! I think this trumps McDonagh's broken foot.

Pat Leonard ‏@PLeonardNYDN · 1h1 hour ago
Zuccarello said he had temporarily lost ability to talk & move his arm. Needed speech therapy. Blood in brain #NYR

wprager wrote:Whoa!  I think this trumps McDonagh's broken foot.

Pat Leonard ‏@PLeonardNYDN  · 1h1 hour ago  
Zuccarello said he had temporarily lost ability to talk & move his arm. Needed speech therapy. Blood in brain #NYR

Ya, that's pretty crazy.

More on it here:
http://deadspin.com/mats-zuccarellos-injury-turned-out-to-be-terrifying-1708195336

It was a McDonagh shot that put him out, BTW. Also McDonagh's stick that lifted Lundqvist's mask on that shot he took to the throat. #Leadership

Just thought I'd remind us of our playoff brackets for no reason in particular:

http://bracketchallenge.nhl.com/#/league/45571

tim1_2 wrote:Just thought I'd remind us of our playoff brackets for no reason in particular:

http://bracketchallenge.nhl.com/#/league/45571

Haha. I caught a lot of flak from friends when I told them my picks (and picked the Sens to win it all in another bracket). I maintain that, as a diehard fan, it's both my right and my responsibility to pick my team against all odds to win it all every year that they're in the race.

I have no excuse for the rest of my bracket.

It's always tough to separate your heart from your brain when making picks. I think it was reasonable to pick Ottawa to beat Montreal. The Cup though? Not so much.

tim1_2 wrote:It's always tough to separate your heart from your brain when making picks.  I think it was reasonable to pick Ottawa to beat Montreal.  The Cup though?  Not so much.

I picked my players in my work pool based on my guess that Ottawa, The Rangers and Ducks and Hawks would make it to their respective Conference Finals. If I would have had to commit to who I thought would win the Cup, I would have said the Rangers.

tim1_2 wrote:It's always tough to separate your heart from your brain when making picks.  I think it was reasonable to pick Ottawa to beat Montreal.  The Cup though?  Not so much.

Fans? Reasonable?

tim1_2 wrote:It's always tough to separate your heart from your brain when making picks.  I think it was reasonable to pick Ottawa to beat Montreal.  The Cup though?  Not so much.

See, that's the thing, though. I actively turned my brain off and basically let my heart make my picks. It's boring to pick a Blackhawks/Rangers final (which is what my brain would have chosen). It was much more fun this way.

I had Ottawa beating Montreal and Tampa then losing to the rags in the ECf. I thought it was reasonable at the time.

I had Nash in the finals though. That was my pool right there.