Tonight could be the night. The Devils are 60 minutes away from taking a little trip to to the rockies.
That is where I was for the last four days with no radio, no T.V. and no newspapers to distract from the awe inspiring beauty that is the Canadian Rockies. I see that the playoffs and this polite little hockey thread have gone on without me.
So the Pens are getting their asses whupped in major fashion. Who woulda thunk it?
Is Brodeur that good or do the Pens just suck like no one else?
I am hoping that Lemieux and Jagr get that big monkey off their backs and I mean soon, like tonight.
Tonight could be the night. The Devils are 60 minutes away from taking a little trip to to the rockies.
That is where I was for the last four days with no radio, no T.V. and no newspapers to distract from the awe inspiring beauty that is the Canadian Rockies. I see that the playoffs and this polite little hockey thread have gone on without me.
So the Pens are getting their asses whupped in major fashion. Who woulda thunk it?
Is Brodeur that good or do the Pens just suck like no one else?
I am hoping that Lemieux and Jagr get that big monkey off their backs and I mean soon, like tonight.
Well, to be honest, Feynn, Brodeur had nothing to do with it. The Devil’s defense did.
But don’t you all get too ecstatic just yet. I’ve put in a call to a Mister Jack Chick, who is none to happy about New Jersey’s mascot. Expect he and his followers to have burned Jersey to the ground by morning.
Ahhhhhhh, who am I kidding.
Still, it was a helluva run, and Falcon, I don’t think that your pet team gained anything by having the people who stomped THEM get stomped themselves. But hey, if you need further convincing, I’m sure the boys’ll be willing to give your team an ass-whupping next year…
Ah, the smell of sour grapes permeates the thread. Pens fans could be nasty and say something like “Oh damn, we still only have two more Cups than Washington…which means we have two.” Or perhaps “Oh damn, we still have one fewer Cups than Chicago…though at least we won ours after the Kennedy Administration.” But of course we have too much class to say anything like that.
I care not at all who wins the Cup now–my only interest is that it goes seven games, preferably with overtime in all seven. But my official prediction is New Jersey in six…and my unofficial qualifier is that I’m not sure it’ll take Devils that many games.
So it’s the Avs and the Devils in the final. It should be one hell of a series and maybe even fair that the best team from the east faces off with the best team from the west on Saturday night to begin that fight for that holy of holies, the Stanley Cup.
The odds on either team to win seem pretty even to me and even with Forsberg out of the lineup the Avs will be a force to be reckoned with.
It will be a great series to watch although I didn’t want to see either of these teams playing. Any team I was cheering for lost, can I pick them or what?
As soon as I decide who to cheer for you’ll know that that team hasn’t got a hope in hell of winning.
Will it be the Devils or Avs? Who is willing to pay me to NOT cheer for their team?
Yes, this is going to be one hell of a series. Being a fan first and formost of the game itself, I dont think you could ask for a better match up. Even being an Avs fan, I would love to see this series go 7 games. So I guess the big questions are if Roy can stay hot, and can the Devils D stay tough…
I’m an Avs fan, absoul. New Jersey worries me, they have a hell of a team and are the defending champions. The Avs have Roy, however, and he can do just about anything. So, I’ll take the Avs in 7.
wow, who would have guessed that game 1 would have gone the way it did. I listened to it over the net and I was shocked. hopefully I can catch the replay tonight on ESPN, but I am sure the rest of the games are not going to be like this…
LOL, never mind. For some reason, I thought that New Jersey might actually bring a hockey team to the NHL Championship Series. If I’d known that they were going to field the 1952 Angolian Couples Figure Skating team, I never would have predicted that this would go to 7 games.
You know, Roy is an awe inspiring goalie, but I think that I could have shut out the Devils tonight. Thank God for Pierre Lacroix.
Sometime after the start of the second period I just dozed off, imagine my surprise this morning when I see that the Avs handed out an ass whupping of monumental proportions.
Beat them like a rented mule they did.
Roy is simply great during the regular season but come playoff time he becomes a wall. He will tie Drydens consecutive playoff win record if they win game two.
Looks like it’s either going to be one hell of a series or a total thrashing of the Devils at the hands of Sakic and the rest of the Avs if Jersey can’t figure out how to get that little rubber disc past the greatest goalie on earth.
5-0? They scored after I turned the game off in disgust? Well fuck.
Oh, and since this is the Pit, I need to say something. YES, I understand Patrick Boroque has been in the league for 20 gazillion seasons and hasn’t won a Stanley Cup. However, I don’t need to hear this EVERY FUCKING MINUTE! Jesus. Shut up about it already.
