All things 2014 Playoffs

shabbs wrote:Western Conf Finals get going today...

Kings @ Blackhawks - 3:00pm ET - Game 1

Here we go!

Pound the hell out of each other and then the Cup comes back East. Back to Canada, I dare say?

wprager wrote:

shabbs wrote:Western Conf Finals get going today...

Kings @ Blackhawks - 3:00pm ET - Game 1

Here we go!

Pound the hell out of each other and then the Cup comes back East.  Back to Canada, I dare say?

f the habs.

Blackhawks win. Toews is boss. 3-1 final. 1-0 series lead for Chicago.

Next up... Game 2 in the Eastern Conf Final.

Rags @ Habs on Monday night - 8:00pm ET. Rags lead series 1-0.

Stomp those smurfs!

#habsSuck

f the habs.

wprager wrote:

SpezDispenser wrote:Rangers look like they're putting it all together at the perfect time.

shabbs wrote:I wanna see a sweep of the smurfs by the Rags.

#delicious

I wouldn't be surprised if they hit the wall the rest of the way, either.  14 games.  A week ago they looked exhausted.  Often these 7-goal outbursts take way more out of the winning team than the losing one.  This is where coaching becomes ultra important.   Vigneault has to bring them back down to Earth -- they are not going to score 4 goals on Price every game, let alone knock him out of the game and have some more fun with Budaj.  Of course if Price is injured then this could be like the Sens series last season.

Therrien has an easier job to do, IMO.  Just tell them to forget that game and try to remember the ones in round one.  Losing that second game in Boston was a lot tougher (and harder to forget) than a 7-2 stinker.  All they have to do is win 2 of the next 3 to get home ice advantage back.  And stop taking so many damn penalties.

I'm pretty sure one of the worst offensive teams of the NHL last year scored more than 4 on Price a couple times in the playoffs 

You seem to like those stupids Canadiens, you should be ashamed  

I've got nothing to be ashamed of. Nothing at all. Didn't like the team last year except for Gallagher. Thought Subban was a selfish hot-head. Subban has really cleaned up his act. How can you say anything about Price? They've gotten a lot bigger or haven't you noticed. I said all along that the Habs would give Boston problems and, guess what -- they did.

I'm not telling you (or Shabbs or Sandy or anyone else) to feel ashamed for saying "f the habs", repeatedly, so piss off telling me to be ashamed. Watching games is a lot more interesting when you actually pick one side to root for. Go ahead and root for the Rangers. Me, I still remember Boyle two years ago and Kreider last year (Methot just looked at him and he went down and took Anderson's Vezina away).

Any Sens fan rooting for either Montreal or Toronto, under any circumstance/excuse/player preference... or whatever, is a traitor, end of story  

Anyway, Price is injured. It's over, Kings in 5 over the Rangers.

F the habs and hawks

LeKing wrote:

wprager wrote:

SpezDispenser wrote:Rangers look like they're putting it all together at the perfect time.

shabbs wrote:I wanna see a sweep of the smurfs by the Rags.

#delicious

I wouldn't be surprised if they hit the wall the rest of the way, either.  14 games.  A week ago they looked exhausted.  Often these 7-goal outbursts take way more out of the winning team than the losing one.  This is where coaching becomes ultra important.   Vigneault has to bring them back down to Earth -- they are not going to score 4 goals on Price every game, let alone knock him out of the game and have some more fun with Budaj.  Of course if Price is injured then this could be like the Sens series last season.

Therrien has an easier job to do, IMO.  Just tell them to forget that game and try to remember the ones in round one.  Losing that second game in Boston was a lot tougher (and harder to forget) than a 7-2 stinker.  All they have to do is win 2 of the next 3 to get home ice advantage back.  And stop taking so many damn penalties.

I'm pretty sure one of the worst offensive teams of the NHL last year scored more than 4 on Price a couple times in the playoffs 

You seem to like those stupids Canadiens, you should be ashamed  

The Rrager is starting to sound like a habs fan these days...

f the habs

LeKing wrote:Any Sens fan rooting for either Montreal or Toronto, under any circumstance/excuse/player preference... or whatever, is a traitor, end of story  

Anyway, Price is injured. It's over, Kings in 5 over the Rangers.

Are you accusing me of treason, Imp? I lived in Montreal for 20 years when I first came to Canada. I've been to a few parades. I screamed my lungs out at the old Forum when they lost in game 6 to the Flyers in the Wales Conference Finals in '87 (but what a game -- and what a pre-game brawl). I've got history your Impish mind cannot fathom. The current edition of the Montreal Canadiens is but a shawdow of their former glory, but they are certainly a better bunch than we've seen over the last few years (decades?) There are still players on this team I can do without (still haven't forgiven Prust, for example) but for the first time in a long while this is a Montreal team I can actually get behind.

If the Sens were still around, sure, I'd be rooting for them. But, guess what, they are scattered to the four winds, some in Ukraine, some hunting or fishing, some sipping Mai-Tais on a beach I could never afford to see in person. But none of them are playing in the Stanley Cup Playoffs so as a hockey fan I can damn-well root for another team if I so desire.

Just not the Leafs. Never the Leafs. I *do* have standards.

shabbs wrote:

LeKing wrote:

wprager wrote:

SpezDispenser wrote:Rangers look like they're putting it all together at the perfect time.

shabbs wrote:I wanna see a sweep of the smurfs by the Rags.

#delicious

I wouldn't be surprised if they hit the wall the rest of the way, either.  14 games.  A week ago they looked exhausted.  Often these 7-goal outbursts take way more out of the winning team than the losing one.  This is where coaching becomes ultra important.   Vigneault has to bring them back down to Earth -- they are not going to score 4 goals on Price every game, let alone knock him out of the game and have some more fun with Budaj.  Of course if Price is injured then this could be like the Sens series last season.

Therrien has an easier job to do, IMO.  Just tell them to forget that game and try to remember the ones in round one.  Losing that second game in Boston was a lot tougher (and harder to forget) than a 7-2 stinker.  All they have to do is win 2 of the next 3 to get home ice advantage back.  And stop taking so many damn penalties.

I'm pretty sure one of the worst offensive teams of the NHL last year scored more than 4 on Price a couple times in the playoffs 

You seem to like those stupids Canadiens, you should be ashamed  

The Rrager is starting to sound like a habs fan these days...

f the habs

Ahem:

@THEshabbs wrote:
May 14

As much as I hate the #habs, gotta #rispek what they've done in this series. Here's hoping they #bonk huge tonight. #NHLPlayoffs #habsSuck

By the way, the Habs (IMO) are way off saying Kreider did it accidentally on purpose.  

From the article:

Kreider wrote:"It wasn't really sitting for me, so I had my head down trying to settle the puck. I put it wide and somehow lost my footing. I thought maybe someone pressured me from behind,"

Here's the "pressure from behind":


That's not an optical illusion like bending your pencil.

wprager wrote:

shabbs wrote:

LeKing wrote:

wprager wrote:

SpezDispenser wrote:Rangers look like they're putting it all together at the perfect time.

shabbs wrote:I wanna see a sweep of the smurfs by the Rags.

#delicious

I wouldn't be surprised if they hit the wall the rest of the way, either.  14 games.  A week ago they looked exhausted.  Often these 7-goal outbursts take way more out of the winning team than the losing one.  This is where coaching becomes ultra important.   Vigneault has to bring them back down to Earth -- they are not going to score 4 goals on Price every game, let alone knock him out of the game and have some more fun with Budaj.  Of course if Price is injured then this could be like the Sens series last season.

Therrien has an easier job to do, IMO.  Just tell them to forget that game and try to remember the ones in round one.  Losing that second game in Boston was a lot tougher (and harder to forget) than a 7-2 stinker.  All they have to do is win 2 of the next 3 to get home ice advantage back.  And stop taking so many damn penalties.

I'm pretty sure one of the worst offensive teams of the NHL last year scored more than 4 on Price a couple times in the playoffs 

You seem to like those stupids Canadiens, you should be ashamed  

The Rrager is starting to sound like a habs fan these days...

f the habs

Ahem:

@THEshabbs wrote:
May 14

As much as I hate the #habs, gotta #rispek what they've done in this series. Here's hoping they #bonk huge tonight. #NHLPlayoffs #habsSuck

LOL! Hatred and respect are not mutually exclusive son. In fact, they are complimentary.

No Price at habs practice today... oh oh...

wprager wrote:By the way, the Habs (IMO) are way off saying Kreider did it accidentally on purpose.  

From the article:

Kreider wrote:"It wasn't really sitting for me, so I had my head down trying to settle the puck. I put it wide and somehow lost my footing. I thought maybe someone pressured me from behind,"

Here's the "pressure from behind":


That's not an optical illusion like bending your pencil.  

Yep. Blame Emelin, as I tweeted earlier...

Price out for the series.

Loooooooolllll. Respect my Donkey.

shabbs wrote:
LOL! Hatred and respect are not mutually exclusive son. In fact, they are complimentary.

Did you mean complimentary or complementary?  Not sure either one fits, to be honest.

Just melnyk tweet was the kiss of death lol