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You forgot the shining cities of Newark and Elizabeth, just an oppressing ride through the Holland Tunnel away.

Am I the only one that still calls it the “Brenden Byrne Arena?” I hate the sound (as well as the commercialist significance) of the “Continental Airlines Arena.”

Here’s hoping the Dev’s show up tonight and keep their home record perfect. Brodeur gave up 3 the other day, but he’s notorious for giving a great effort (not that the last one was bad, just not good enough) after a less than stellar outing.

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You must be thinking of a different Holland Tunnel, my main man. The one I avoid is between Dirty City and NYC.

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Ah, well there is that pesky ride over the Pulaski Skyway to get to the tunnel that I’d forgotten about. I was always fonder of the GWB anyway.

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Game 7 Friday, baby. How about those Ottawa Senators?

And they said we were toast. ESPN even put up a Devils vs. Ducks page.

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It looks like we have a series folks!

Game 7, Friday, in Ottawa.

Was I worried? You better fucking believe it.

Our Sens have rallied from a 3- deficit to even the series and oloy a fool would bet on the Devils when they roll into the nations capital on Friday night. The Senators are going to make Stevens and his gang their personal bitches and send them back to the depths of hell they were spawned from.

Fuck Stevens, fuck Brodeur, fuck Elias, Newendeik, and all those
demon spawn from Jersery.

All hail Hossa, Spezza, Bonk, Alfredson, and the rest of the Senators who will make their country proud on Friday night.

I can’t wait… it will be a hell of a game and then come Tuesday… duck hunting season starts.

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Holy crap!

Last night I was sitting in front of the TV like a 7 year old watching the saturday morning cartoons, yelling and pounding the floor with every close call.

The Sens did it. What an amazing game. I was mentally exhausted when it was done… I can’t imagine how much pressure there is on the ice.

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What can i say, it was a good game. We’ll have to see what happens Friday night.

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Wyld - Good??

It was three and a half periods of fucking unbelievable, nail biting, edge of your seat hockey.

Ironically, the Devils are going to have to pray for a miracle if they want to have any hope in hell to defeat the Senators at home in game seven of the eastern final.

The Sens will have more than 15,000 rabid fans providing that extra support and I’ll be surprised if anyone will be able to hear the referee’s whistles. It’s gonna be like a Who concert.

I’ve put people on notice here that under no circumstances will thay in any way disturb me while the game is on no matter what kind of sounds they hear emanating from my hockey lair.

Nothing short of my kids spontaneously bursting into flames will tear me away from what should prove to be one of the best games of this entire playoffs.

GO SENS!!!

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deb runs thru the thread with imaginary tickets to game 3 of the Stanley Cup

GAD, damn ticketmaster damn them. Once again I got lucky and got the window that shows I HAVE seats, so click click click I go. At the last window it say “we cannot determine if your transaction went thru please email us at …” DAMN! H E double hockey sticks. So I have written them. They emailed me back and want my credit card number given to them via email—WTF, everyone knows email is unsecure. Plus this is the email on my account. May they break a nose with a hockey puck and get a terrible corporate infection and burn in flames.

Within 10 minutes of the tickets going on sale they were gone. For ALL of the games.

I WILL be at the games. So I am currently gambling on ebay trying to obtain tickets to game 4.

deb

Go Ducks. Beat the _______.

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A Who concert???

How about AC/DC or Metallica, you octogenarian? Hopefully the game won’t keep you up too much after your evening tapioca pudding and medicine.

DEVILS!!!

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If you want Newark, avoid the tunnel and take the PATH. Much faster.

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“How about AC/DC or Metallica, you octogenarian? Hopefully the game won’t keep you up too much after your evening tapioca pudding and medicine.”

Great jumping jehosophat… I have been flamed. :slight_smile:

It’s actually more like warmed a little as that was pretty damn funny… octogenarian… tapioca… heh heh heh.

Wyld… that post makes me just want to run over and pinch those cherubic little cheeks of yours and tousle your hair you little whippersnapper you.

I still remember when I had to walk uphill (both ways) in the freezing Canadian winter to go and play shinny on the rink and when our goalies wore rolled up newspapers to protect their shins. The games only ended when someone lost an eye or our moms would come and call us in for dinner.

I hope you have your blankie and teddy at hand when the Sens whup the Devils asses tonight.

There won’t be any tapioca but I will (still) be medicated.

Can you say emergency dental surgery? I can.

I watched the last game while I was pretty stoned on painkillers and will be doing the same tonight.

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deb runs thru with real tickets to games 3 and 4 of the Stanley Cup

Called ticketmasters. The first guy I got said yes I got thru and [sing song voice] I have tickets to game 3 [/ssv] but it was flagged so had to go to customer service. Well, this lady took a bit to understand what happened and find the order but I held my tongue and was nice to her even though I wanted to rip thru the phone and slap her with a leftover ducks/detroit squid. But bottom line once again [sing song voice] I have tickets to game 3 [/ssv].

I bought tickets for game 4 on ebay–paid too much they are VIP tickets, but it will be worth it to see the Ducks clinch.

So let us analyze Ottawa vs New Jersey based on some of the important parts of the team.

Ottawa - Plays in Corel Centre. Someone did a typo during the spelling of the rink’s name. Corel’s a software designer supporting a hard sport. Good contrast in soft vs hard.

New Jersey - plays at Continental Airlines Arena. Airline industry not doing well. But they do get points for correct spelling of all the words.

advantage: Ottawa (but need more data about what the local nickname of the link’s name is)

Ottawa: Web site 1st page is busy. Has sound at certain pages which is irritating. Community emphasis on main page is nice touch.

New Jersey: Web Site is easy to traverse. Picture on main page is of backsides of players. And not even the best butts on the team.

Advantage: New Jersey

Ottawa: Jacques Martin looks like a comedian or else the kid you used to play with’s dad.

New Jersey: Pat Burns looks like a shoe salesman.

Advantage: Ottawa (barely)

Bonus Material: The above stats w/ ducks added to the equation.

Anaheim: Play at Arrowhead Pond. A bottled water company supporting a hockey team is so natural. Nickname of arena in The Pond.

Advantage: Ducks

Anaheim: Web site has the article links blinking plus a popup. Nuff said.

Advantage: New Jersey

Anaheim: Mike Babcock looks like the captain of a football team. Mmmm. Droll. Great looking. Could eat crackers in my bed anytime. Married, oh well.

Advantage: Anaheim. By a large margin.

The cuteness of the head coach overwhelms all other stats, therefore the Duckie are gonna hold loft the cup. :slight_smile:

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Deb… like I’ve said before… only in Anaheim would you be able to get Stanley Cup playoffs tickets this late into it.

I’m sure that you can get a great deal on first born children in Ottawa right now as that’s what it would cost to get a seat in the nosebleed section where they hand out complimentary oxygen.

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Runs over Feynn with a Zamboni

History Lesson: Zamboni Was invented in Paramount California. Which is 9.4 miles from my home.

Go back a few pages and read my rant about what is good for the sport. This whole Stanley Cup thing is creating new fans AND it is with fans who see snow rarely. The last time I saw snow was in 1992 or was it 1993 coulda been '91 I remember it was cold.

Surely they sold Stanley Cup finals tickets to the general public in Ottawa. Well the Duckie tickets only went on sale on Wednesday at 10am. They sold out ALL of the general public tickets in 1hr 15 min. Ticketmaster internet allowed tickets sold out ALL of them in 10 minutes. deb backs up the Zamboni to make sure Feynn is not moving I got lucky and got thru on the internet and got game 3 tickets. I had to give up my dog, cat and all 1st born children on the block to get the game 4 ticketsthey were not cheap they dude is only selling them cause he has a trip he can’t put off. I know, you are just jealous cause I am going to the Stanley Cup games–twice–and you aren’t–AND my mom can beat up your mom, so there neener neener pfffth!

You had better be nice to me or I will watch the game tonight with my Rally Monkey (the one which has been proven to work and not the defective models) and root for the team on this side of the border [/end of threat]. :smiley:

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Feynn, sorry. For the record, I did not have a rally monkey anywhere near the game. I didn’t even get to watch the game since I just got home from work and it wasn’t on the radio, so I just listened to updates on ESPN radio.

Wyld, I have transferred sworn enemy status to you now, at least until the end of the Finals. :slight_smile:

deb

Go Ducks! Go Ducks! Go Ducks!

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SHIT - GO DAMN - MOTHERFUCKING - COCK - WHORE - BITCH !!!

FUCK FUCK FUCKK FUCK FUCKITY FUCK FUCK FUCK !!!

The Senators are a bunch of namby pamby, pustulent, syphilitic, goat felching, lizard squicking, choke artists!

(They’re still better than the Devils though.)

But how the fuck could they lose?

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH !!!

I HATE THE DEVILS !!!

PAT BURNS CAN ROT IN HELL !!!

Wyld… I know what I’ll do. I’ll cheer on the Devils because then they are guaranteed to lose against the ducks.

NAH…

[sub]go ducks[/sub]

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Ducks vs Devils!

I think I’ll cheer for the Ducks because I’ve always been a fan of Steve Thomas. That would be cool to see him hoist the cup. Same with Oates.

Now that I’ve said that I would like to throw in a hockey rant of my own directed at a certain player.

First we trade one of our top defencemen for you, then you come and take the number 67 because it’s the last time we won the cup, then you retire after one lousy year with the club?
What the fuck were you thinking? When you come to a team and make a bold statement like that, it means you’re in it for the long haul!!! Fuck you Robert Svhela you stinking piece of crap!! You don’t make a statement like that when you arrive with a team, then abandon ship after one year!! You get your ass out of retirement, get into game shape, and you fix this no cup since 67 nonsence that us Leaf fans have had to put up with, or you will forever be known as a quitter, you gutless sack of sugar!!!

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Tonight, it begins!

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I was hitting on Paris Hilton et. al. in East Hampton all weekend (Friday night post-game boozin’ was particularly satisfying) despite the absurdly horrid weather, so sorry for my lack of brash boastful posts after the triumphant win over the second best team in the league.

It was a great game though.

So, Devils win 3-0. Too bad for you deb, that the Devils have a great team while the Gaynaheim Weakly Fucks only have a great goaltender. As I said in an earlier post, now it looks like the Sykora/Friesen trade will be a big deal. Anyone else notice when Sykora was trying to bat down an airborne puck and Friesen introduced him to the blue line? You’d better hope that the Elias Gomez line doesn’t keep getting matched up against Chistov and his sorry crew, I smell lots o’ goals.

Bwahahaha… the Devils shall once again drink the blood of the damned out of (Dark) Lord Stanley’s Cup (of Sin!)