# The Stanley Cup Playoff - Oh Yes!!!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 11, 2001, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stanley-cup-playoff-oh-yes/61597 "2001-04-11T14:06:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![absoul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc8723/32.png) [@absoul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/absoul)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2001, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stanley-cup-playoff-oh-yes/61597/61 "2001-04-15T23:28:07Z")
I hate to do this **Falcon** but… Go Penguins! What’s is this curse thinger you had mentioned?? Could it possibly be the fact that The Caps have lost to the Penguins 5 out of 6 times in the playoffs since 92? 🙂 **LeSang** has given me new found appreciation for smilies. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![MysterEcks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@MysterEcks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysterEcks)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2001, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stanley-cup-playoff-oh-yes/61597/62 "2001-04-16T00:07:19Z")
**rttgirl** said: > [@](#): > > but the coolest person in the world is from Pittsburgh, so I’ve got to support his team. Actually, I’m well east of Pittsburgh, but thanks for rooting for my team. 😃 Go Pens, go Sabres, go Wings (in that order). ---
**Author:** ![Lockz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Lockz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lockz)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2001, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stanley-cup-playoff-oh-yes/61597/63 "2001-04-16T15:46:11Z")
Another Sens fan here. At first I predicted Sens in six, but NO! those Leafs are somehow making an upset! GO SENS GO! ---
**Author:** ![rttgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@rttgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rttgirl)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2001, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stanley-cup-playoff-oh-yes/61597/64 "2001-04-16T16:09:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by adam yax \* > **Looks like the Wings have suffered a serious setback** What setback? Is a 4-0 rout a setback? 🙂 …of course, I blame myself for the Wings’ loss last night - couldn’t handle the 11:30pm start time, what with being sick and all. I know, I know, what kind of fan **am** I? I still say Wings in 5. Oh, and **MysterEcks** –if you root for the Pens, you’re automatically cool, whether you live there or not! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Sang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ee7513/32.png) [@Le\_Sang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Sang)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2001, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stanley-cup-playoff-oh-yes/61597/65 "2001-04-17T02:12:18Z")
Woooohooooo! Pens are now 2 and 1 🙂 \ Let’s go Pens! Let’s go Pens! 🙂 Le Sang [sub][sup]with apologies to **Falcon** [/sub][/sup] ---
**Author:** ![Falcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/49beb7/32.png) [@Falcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Falcon)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2001, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stanley-cup-playoff-oh-yes/61597/66 "2001-04-17T02:45:40Z")
LeSang: ☹ 😛 Hrmpf. I STILL say… C-A-P-S, CAPS CAPS CAPS!!! ---
**Author:** ![Falcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/49beb7/32.png) [@Falcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Falcon)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2001, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stanley-cup-playoff-oh-yes/61597/67 "2001-04-19T14:27:32Z")
I say again: Curse?? WHAT curse??? WOO! Caps score 4 goals to win, last one in OT! Series 2-2, and we’re back to DC! LET’S GO CAPS! ---
**Author:** ![Tygr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df788c/32.png) [@Tygr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tygr)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2001, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stanley-cup-playoff-oh-yes/61597/68 "2001-04-19T14:34:36Z")
Can I come up there and learn how to play that **“Prison Riot Hockey”** like the Devils apparently play? Or is that just the best strategy your guys could come up with - don’t try to play well, just put the opposing team in the hospital one-by-one until ya win by default? 😛 Sincerely, A ticked-off 'Canes fan (one of thousands) ---
**Author:** ![SoMoMom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@SoMoMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoMoMom)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2001, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stanley-cup-playoff-oh-yes/61597/69 "2001-04-19T20:26:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by hightechburrito \* > So you think that you can shake Buster with that stupid crap? Just wait till Pronger comes back to the tank. \*\* Well, that was just so scary. Booing when he had the puck. I don’t know how he stood that. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![donnie\_rotten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/71e660/32.png) [@donnie\_rotten](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/donnie_rotten)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2001, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stanley-cup-playoff-oh-yes/61597/70 "2001-04-19T21:25:06Z")
Uhhhh… Ummmm… Anyone here think Toronto in FOUR? WTF? Oh well… **GOLF, SENS, GOLF!** ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2001, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stanley-cup-playoff-oh-yes/61597/71 "2001-04-19T21:32:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tygr \* > Can I come up there and learn how to play that **“Prison Riot Hockey”** like the Devils apparently play? Hey **Tygr** One word: “Waaah!” 🙂 Yer just jealous because we know how to do it. It’s the perfect move too - Go after key leadership or team centers of gravity, and pick them guys off! This will reduce your team into the cold quivering children they are. So . . . Lets go **Devils!!** Tripler Just $0.02. Keep the change. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tof](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@The\_Tof](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tof)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2001, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stanley-cup-playoff-oh-yes/61597/72 "2001-04-20T01:30:15Z")
What in the world happens to the Senators in the playoffs. It’s like they completely forget how to play!!! I don’t have a favorite for the playoff’s. But I do have a LEAST favorite. coDETROITugh. I don’t live in an NHL city, so I find out who has players from the Major Junior team in town and root for their teams. (There are lots this year. FYI Major Junior is high level hockey aged 16-20. Fun stuff) So this year… I get to root for… Buffalo-- because they drafted one of the guys who’s on our team this year. (Remember the name Paul Gaustad Buffalo fans. And remember in three years that you heard it here first.) Washington has Konawalchuk and Zednik. But I’ll go with Pittsburgh because Andy Ferrence rules! Nobody in Carolina/New Jersey. And I can no longer root for Hossa on the Senators. \ Out west, Brendan Morrow from Dallas, baby! (Josh Green was on the same team as Morrow for a bit. But Green moved up to LA.) Nobody in San Jose/St. Louis. Then my personal favorite, DEADMARSH BABY! GO KINGS! Actually I just like watching good hockey. And thought I’d take this time to brag about how good my Jr. Hockey team does at churning out quality NHL Players. 🙂 The NHL Playoff’s are the greatest in the world! This sport kicks ass! ---
**Author:** ![soulmurk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@soulmurk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/soulmurk)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2001, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stanley-cup-playoff-oh-yes/61597/73 "2001-04-20T01:55:17Z")
Gotta love it when someone gripes that a hockey team is being too physical. Isn’t the physical nature of the game what helps make it the last true sport? Don’t teams go out of their way to draft big tough players so they can dominate physically? Let’s go Dev-ils! /clap clap clapclapclap ---
**Author:** ![Kaz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaz)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2001, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stanley-cup-playoff-oh-yes/61597/74 "2001-04-20T02:03:19Z")
WoooHoooo! another Wings fan checkin in here! You all can heem and haugh all you want about your little Minnesota town or what not, or you Candaians, but you all know, deep down in your hearts that Detroit is where it’s at! It’s 2-2, but im confident in the origional prediction that was posted, wings in 6! ---
**Author:** ![HalberMensch242](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecb155/32.png) [@HalberMensch242](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HalberMensch242)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2001, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stanley-cup-playoff-oh-yes/61597/75 "2001-04-20T03:46:19Z")
Woo Woo Salvador scores!!! I have a new found respect for french canadiens, especially ones whose names start with Pierre and end with Turgeon. Good luck in game 6 guppies, you’ll need it… Let’s go Blues!!! Noooolan…noooollaaaaan ---
**Author:** ![hightechburrito](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f6c823/32.png) [@hightechburrito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hightechburrito)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2001, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stanley-cup-playoff-oh-yes/61597/76 "2001-04-20T06:29:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SoMoMom \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by hightechburrito \* > > So you think that you can shake Buster with that stupid crap? Just wait till Pronger comes back to the tank. \*\* > > Well, that was just so scary. Booing when he had the puck. I don’t know how he stood that. :rolleyes: \*\* I seem to recall Pronger taking 5 penalties on Tuesday. The only problem was that the Sharks didn’t score on any of the resulting power plays. But still, you have to admit that Pronger just about lost it. ---
**Author:** ![Timchik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c0e974/32.png) [@Timchik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Timchik)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2001, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stanley-cup-playoff-oh-yes/61597/77 "2001-04-20T09:05:29Z")
ahem… I take back my previous post. I have been chastised for my woeful lack of faith in the blue-and-white (but then, 99.9999% of Toronto fans were probably in the same position). So I’d just like to say: **GO LEEEEEEEEEEAFS GO! There is no god but CuJo, and Sundin is his prophet.** (apologies to any Muslims out there) :):):):)🙂 Next up: revenge on the Devils for making us look like such wussies last spring. ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Sang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ee7513/32.png) [@Le\_Sang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Sang)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2001, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stanley-cup-playoff-oh-yes/61597/78 "2001-04-24T03:03:28Z")
[sub]_Note to Falcon: I will be in DC in a week so you can hit me for this one if you want to 😉_[/sub] > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Falcon \* > Curse?? WHAT curse??? **That** curse, Falc, that one. I can’t lie about smiling right now 🙂 Le Sang, resident psychotic maniac and Pens fan ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2001, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stanley-cup-playoff-oh-yes/61597/79 "2001-04-24T03:26:56Z")
Hell yes. I think I am going to drive to da burgh just so I can give Straka a big’ol smooch on the lips. Bring on Buffalo! ---
**Author:** ![delphica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2001, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stanley-cup-playoff-oh-yes/61597/80 "2001-04-24T03:41:02Z")
Buffalo is ready for ya, let me tell you. 8-0, baby. Eight to zero. Did I mention eight to ZERO? There is nothing like blowout, shutout hockey to end a playoff round. Let’s go Buffalo! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stanley-cup-playoff-oh-yes/61597.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stanley-cup-playoff-oh-yes/61597.md?page=5)