Any time someone breaks one of Roy’s records, an angel gets their wings.
Everyone loves a goalie who can handle the puck, and Brodeur is the best in the game – possibly of all time – in that respect. But when a goalie mishandles the puck, it usually turns into a monumental f@ckup destined for highlight and blooper films for all eternity.
Ducks win!!!
My voice is totally gone. It was one tense game. Good thing I had a fowl towel to wring to relieve some of the pressure. It was hard not to be able to “coach” the team by yelling at them “shoot the puck” or “loose puck”
Well, I mean the Quack’s have some momentum now, but as we all know, home ice advantage is huge in the playoffs (both teams only have one loss this year). I’m still confident in the abilities of my team to win a 3-game tilt, since 2 of those 3 will be in the swamps of East Rutherford.
Mike Rupp is my dad.
We have a series here folks!
When the game started yesterday and they were panning the faces of the players I am sure that I saw looks of resignation on the faces of the Devil’s players. I think they knew there was no way they were going to win last night at the pond.
Both teams now have until Thursday to rest and recoup for another tilt at the swamp.
I am going to go out on a limb and predict a 3-2 win for the Ducks
Dammit! Now I find this thread!
Deb2World - Kiss your mom on the forehead for me for her prediction (but only after the Ducks hoist the Cup!). Your torch carrying ability for the Ducks is 2nd to none! I too have been routing for the Ducks, it’s just that I’ve been doing it on harborwolf’s thread, usually defending Giguere. Once I saw Brodeur’s mishap, I knew this series was going to swing in the Duck’s favor and now the Ducks will be going back to NJ with the mo’. Steve Thomas, thank you for ending the OT early.
I have been going to the Pond to watch the ducks since their first year (usually 5-30 times annually) and I do remember how loud it was in '97 when the Ducks took out the Yotes in the first round and then got swept by Detroit in the 2nd round. I also remember Detroit sweeping us in the first round the following year (double blech!) and Xena’s boob popping out during the national anthem. I have a picture on my office fridge of myself in Kariya’s jersey holding the Cup when it came to the Pond on March 5, 1999. We watched the Ducks practice (before leaving to NJ) at Disney Ice right after my son’s Memorial Day tournament game (the refs in our game kind of rushed the kids to finish the game early and then we sat in the cozy confines) and watch them for about an hour and a half. I know all the crap the Ducks have gone through over the years with Eisner at the helm, but this year is unbelievable! A seven-seed going through the 1, 2 and 6 seeded teams with no home ice advantages!
Ducks need this game 5 badly though - do not let it slip through your fingers!
GO DUCKS!
blush thank you Yeticus Rex. Just doing my part for the team.
Did you see me last nite on the jumbo tron? I was one of those replying to what we thought of when New Jersey Devils was mentioned. My reply was “They have Atlanta Brave Syndrome, too much success so the fans are blase’”. They asked me that at the Pond when I saw game 1 there; I never thought it would be on the screen during an actual playoff game and I was rather embarrassed about it. Everyone around me last nite had a good time ribbing me about it, in a good way, but they also teased me about my laryngitis.
I think Brodeur is getting tired. I watched the replays of that goof he almost made last nite. It sure looked like it went in from where I was sitting at in the Pond, but Brodeur barely got it back in (I was in Sec. 311 row A so I was looking at the net from the side). But this is a good thing for the Duckies, cuase Jiggy looks sharp.
Go Ducks.
Just bumping this up to the top of the Pit. Game 5 tonight.
The Ducks must win at least one game in NJ to hoist the Cup and so far they haven’t come close. Expect the trend to continue. Go Devils…
Sorry. Game 5 is Thursday, not tonight…Just got a little excited…
Well, it has to be embarassing to have your jersey involve the colors purple AND teal, but I mean come on, you’ve gotta learn how to control your rebounds Gene-Suhbastian. Must be those really small pads that he wears that make him such a good puckhandler/rebound controller.
Mike Rupp is still my dad. First, he takes out the no-good fag Gaygayre in a legal hit behind the net, then he gets his first NHL point.
Brian Gionta, pride of Upstate NY (my real home), has been easily one of the most important players on the ice in every game, and I thought it was a valiant effort when he tried to smack the puck in with his tricep.
Blah blah blah, Feynn’s gonna probably come in here and talk about how the Gayvalanche came back to beat the NHL’s greatest franchise two years ago, but uhhhh, dude, uhhh, the Weakly Quacks ain’t the Gayvalanche.
Lastly, I’m gonna start stalking Sam Ryan (fans watching on ABC know what I’m talkin’ 'bout). Hot brunette chick, into hockey (presumably), probably makes some good bank, sounds all good to me!!
DEVILS!!!
The NHL’s greatest franchise?
The Avalanche never played Montreal two years ago.
Anyways, I fell asleep when the game was 2-2 and was pretty surprised to see the final score.
Does anyone else but Wyld hear the fat lady singing?
I don’t.
NHL’s current greatest franchise. Not 20 years ago.
I don’t hear your mom singing.
Oh… current franchise.
That would be those Dead Things wouldn’t it?
BTW… Your momma is so fat that when she sits around the house, she sits AROUND the house.
Yo mamma’s so fat, that she has her own zip code (US Version, since Canada uses some wyld version of alphanumerics purporting to be a zip code that I do not comprehend).
Yo mamma’s so fat, she’s got her own Tim Horton’s bakery in the basement (Canada version).
No one has commented on the sweetness that is Samantha Ryan, but here’s a page devoted to her. The picture doesn’t even come close to doing her justice. Sadly, it looks like she’s spoken for, and furthermore that she’s too aged and wise for a young buck of my age and extremeness (she was reporting on the '96 Olympics while I was a spry high-schooler watching from the stands).
Oh well, I’ll just have to keep my eyes peeled for the next young hockey chick to rise up.
PS> Feynn’s mamma is so fat, that she’s actually a mathematically perfect sphere.
This looks cool, even if it is the Edmonton Leonhard Eulers against the More-rey-al Cagaydiennes.
It should be the Devils vs. the Ranjerks at Giants Stadium. With a Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi duet during the first intermission, and a retrospective on the life and times of Frank Sinatra during the second intermission.
The myopia here is piling up into a mountain of Stallyn dung.
The Ducks were on the wrong end of the bouncing pucks and the Devils took advantage of it. I doubt that we’ll see that again in the next 2 games. The “weak” Ducks will give that thumping back with interest.
Yeah, Sam Ryan
Stallyn, your momma’s so fat that her jacuzzi is the Hudson River.
This is good. We have them right where we want them.
Last nite’s game reminds me of game 5 of the World Series. The good guys were blown out, totally annihilated but everyone knows how it ended. The fans in Orange County have an excitement that fans of teams that have won frequently cannot fathom. Plus there is a pride that will last no matter the outcome, just cause the team was in the finals. I was telling my mom that the Duckies should watch the 7th & 8th inning of game 6 of the World Series today to remind them of what can be done and to give them an emotional lift.
I told a friend that I thought Babcock was much cuter than the coach of the other team and so she watched the games and had to agree with me. This is a person who knows nothing about hockey, never watched a game before, born and raised in LA so her knowledge of snow is on par with mine. I sent her a brief paper on the 3 rules that are not easily picked up during a game and briefly told her how to tell which teams are which and where their goals are. New hockey fans are being created.
Let me rant here about how stupid Devil fans in LA are. The only people who have said that there is no way I could know anything about hockey much less be a fan have been Devil fans. The Duckie/Kings/Ice Dogs fans I told the accusation to had a good laugh about it, they have been to games with me.
Duckies are on home ice tomorrow and the fans are excited and ready to send the team owned by the Evil Empire back to a game 7.
Go Ducks! Go Ducks! Go Ducks!
Despite looking like a shoe salesman, Pat Burns is a great coach.
Wyld… if my mom has a Tim Horton’s in her basement why is it that she can’t brew a decent cup of coffee…huh?
Your theory tht my momma is fat falls apart with this kind of flimsy evidence.
And I’m making plans to attend that little game of shinny between the Habs and the Oil.
You’re a hockey fan, deb. You’re supposed to be cheering the massive hits, the fistfights, the blood. If you want cute guys watch another sport, a sport that doesn’t involve so many missing teeth and broken noses. Cute has nothing to do with anything. Scotty Bowman was a great coach, and he looked like a constipated bulldog.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad that there’s a girl in the sea of testosterone that is this thread, but you’re making us look bad. So shape up! Scratch yourself, chug some beer, and call somebody a fucking asshole while you’re watching that game. Please. For the ladies.