I posted this in the Stanley Cup Thread in MPSIMS, but I believe it needs wide, wide, wide, wide, wide, wide exposure…
GO KINGS!!
GO SABRES!!
::Upon seeing “All Your Goals,” Wolverine breaks down in tears, screaming to the sky…::
NOOOOOO!!
How dare you mock my pain! At least wait until after the first game with Colorado before hurting me so. 
Uh, was there any music with the link? 'Cause I didn’t get any. 
Well at least I get to turn my attention to the Tigers. Oh wait, never mind.
(Pseudo rooting for New Jersey because my friend does but I can’t seem to get over that whole '95 sweep from the finals. Definetely not rooting for any of the remaining Western Confrence teams or Pittsburgh. Wouldn’t have a problem with Toronto or Buffalo winning.)
The Pens win!!!
I love seeing the Dominator getting taught how to play by a rookie.
Just wanted to taunt all you other losers! 
And once again, Mario is the best player on the planet, bar none.
What a beautiful sunny morning here in Alberta’s capital.
The first thing I do when I turn on this beast is pop over to Yahoo and read the news. To what did my wondering eyes appear but the score from last nights Leafs (2) - Devils (0) game.
Joseph looks like he has locked the door and thrown away the key by posting his third shutout in a row. Thats over 256 minutes without anyone putting one through the pipes to score on the Leafs and gives him a .58 goals against in the playoffs and a .981 save percentage. Fucking amazing.
And then there’s Mario and the boys in Buffalo handing the Sabres a 3-0 whupping. The Dominator got himself dominated last night while the rookie Hedberg stopped everything the Sabres threw at him.
Go Leafs! Go Pens!
It’s not quite as good as cheering for the Oilers but watching the Devils and Sabres lose warms the cockles of my heart.
Damn that sounds sexy, doesn’t it Airman?
Poor Buffalo, if last night is any indication…they should start buying their tickets to Hawaii now.
Doesn’t mean I’m rooting for the Pens…just accepting fate.
And by the by…nice to see Jagr bleeding last night. That’s when you know it’s a hockey game 
jarbaby
Just another, gratuitous, pile-on, “me too” post to taunt all the loser Buffalo fans.
Dominator, indeed. Ha! 
Minor nitpick. CuJo has 3 shutouts for the playoffs. He had 2 in a row in games 1 & 2 vs Ottawa, but the Sens did score 3 goals in the last 2 games of the series. That being said, Cujo is playing extremely well. Being in Dallas, I know what he is capable of. In fact, he is the reason that the Oilers have been picked to beat the Stars in each of the last 4 years. Note to sports writers: Joseph no longer plays in Edmonton!!
I’ll stick with my pick of the Leaves in 7. Carolina exposed flaws in the Devils (Just as the Canucks did in the Avs) the Leafs are better able to capitalize on them. Getting held to 6 shots in game 6 against the Devils last year was the best thing that happened to the Leafs, it forced them to make the additions they did.
Ah yes, Buffalo fans. First it was “no-goal” and then it was “the phantom goal”. What excuse will it be to cover their downfall this year?
I think there is perhaps a fine line between a conversation about the the past performance of one’s favorite teams, which naturally often becomes quite heated but is, in essense, a manifestation of the great enthusiasm and respect one has for the sport itself, and a personal accusation of poor sportsmanship, which I consider to be quite possibly the most vile insult one human being can hurl at another. Since this is the internet, and it is very easy to assume a tone that in fact wasn’t present, I’m going to go on from here as if Adam Yax’s comment was made in the spirit of the former rather than the latter.
What excuse shall we use this year? Every year, this is a big debate in the secret society of Sabres fans. Right now, I’m going with placing quite a bit of blame on Hasek himself. In what is clearly the twilight of his career (and his twilight is considerably better than many players’ peaks), he consistantly breaks down when he realizes that his reputation is not quite enough to actually stop the shots on the ice. Goals #1 and #2 in Thursday’s game were nothing to comment on, but after #2 he pretty much bought the farm when he allowed goal #3.
I don’t mean to take anything away from Hedberg, who did play a good game, but one thing that astonished me was the fact that a good percentage of Buffalo’s scoring opportunities were defeated by the Sabres themselves. Our passing game has got to be the worst of the play-off teams.
I was mulling over whether or not to include a scathing critique of Kalinin, but since his mind-bogglingly stupid performance didn’t directly impact any of Thursday’s goals, I think I shall hold that in reserve. I swear, if he fanned the ice any more, Buffalo would be called on a delay of game penalty while the arena had to re-freeze the rink.
As of now, I don’t have any problems with the officiating in this series, but I’ll be sure to let you know if I do.
Oh, and among ourselves, no one really thinks the phantom goal was an excuse for anything. We just like to savour the irony of it all.
We’ll see what happens this afternoon.
delphica said:
That would be the “Andrew Ference mostly whiffs on the shot but it bounces into the net off James Patrick’s ass” goal.
After recovering from the brain aneurysm I had on the comfort of my very own couch, my only thought was that we should incorporate the James Patrick Ass Shot into our strategy for next year. I can see it now “That’s the seventh goal this year for James Patrick’s Ass! Buffalo now leads 1 - 0, with the only goal of the game scored by James Patrick’s Ass, with an assist by Varada!” Maybe we should give James Patrick’s Ass its own player number, and make him wear it proudly displayed across his rear end.
Unfortunately, despite the stellar potential of James Patrick’s Ass, we’re seriously hurting without Zhitnik and McKee.
Personally, I thought Patrick should have been given an…ass-ist.
<<<waits for the groaning to die down>>>
delphica said:
Not to mention Richard Smehlik.
I must admit that I’m a little conflicted by this series–the Sabres are my second-favorite team. I wanted the Pens to beat them; I did notwant the Pens to kill them.
(But McKee provides the answer to the question some people brought up before. Why don’t opposing players really lay into Mario? 'Cause it can hurt.)
Kovalev should be suspended for a game for that cheap shot elbow, but he won’t.
Not in the least. Zhitnik was watching the puck, not Kovalev, and therefore didn’t see the check coming when he should have. If you get blindsided, you’re gonna get knocked on your ass, it’s that simple. The hit was perfectly fair, and I think that if it was cheap, Kovalev’s already paid the price. After all, he’s going to have a price no his head for the rest of the series.
Now, if you’ll excuse me…<goes off to continue celebrating>
That’s bullshit, yes Zhitnik was skating through the middle while looking at the puck, but that doesn’t give a player carte blanche to make an illegal and vicious hit. Kovalev gave Zhitnik a shot with his elbow up right in his jaw. Perfectly illegal and cheap. Kovalev isn’t that kind of player, I know, but it was bullshit hit and he should be suspended for it.
Forearm, maybe, but no elbow. Look, he hit with his arms and pushed straight forward, not up into the face. Just because Zhitnik had his head down at the level of Kovalev’s arms is his own problem. He could have easily led with his stick if you want something dirty. That was a clean hit against somebody who had taken numerous “cheap” (but not illegal) shots in the series. And in any case, it was hitting the ice that gave him the concussion, not the check itself.
That McKee hit on Mario was my favorite hockey moment this year. line up Mario and smash your own face into the ice. Beautiful.
How about that St. Louis game/Dallas game? I turned it on somewhere in the middle to see them cleaning up blood. Now THAT’S hockey.
Let me point out that Hedberg has now passed up CuJo in goals against average and save percentage thanks to the Leafs’ 6-5 loss.
Jesus H. Christ on a fucking stick. To be honest, I don’t really care if you think that what I said is poor sportsmanship. It is, in fact, no worse than being the sore losers that the Sabres have been for the last two playoffs. Gracious losers say, “we lost to a better team”. Bad losers blame the officals or the ice conditions, anything but themselves.
BTW, this is The Pit. If you are looking for sportmanship in posts, try to find a “Care Bears” message board.
There’s a Care Bears message board? Wow! Can someone get me the url?
So Jersey takes game three in OT. It looks like it is going to be a good series with Brodeur and Cujo manning the pipes as well as they are. Last nights game was a spectators dream with great action, lots of chances, and outstanding goaltending.
Jagr is supposed to be back for tonights game as far as I know so the Penguins will be at full strength.
I just have to notice that this thread is running the risk of being moved if all this politeness continues. Wouldn’t that be fucking amazing?
Go Leafs! (You don’t know how much it hurts me to say that).
I know Feynn.
Come on over here…let’s have a Labatt Blue and cry a little bit. It’ll be fun.
and just to keep this pittish…PITTSBURGH PENGUINS BURN IN HELL!!!
jarbaby
Penguins burn in hell?
Ummm…
That would be Sabres wouldn’t it?
The Blue sounds good anyways although a Big Rock Pale Ale would be my first choice.
Beer and the playoffs… mmmmmm !