[OT-NHL] The Annual NHL Playoffs Thread: 2003
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Broken Fang
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Well the Wild made it through period 1...looked much like the last two games. Vancouver better not go down a goal or they are going to be in deep trouble!
I want to see history tonight...no team has ever come back being down three games in back-to-back series. The Wild, with a win, will do so. Might as well see some NHL history making tonight. Plus, now that the Avs are gone, it makes for my Western conf. match up!!
I want to see history tonight...no team has ever come back being down three games in back-to-back series. The Wild, with a win, will do so. Might as well see some NHL history making tonight. Plus, now that the Avs are gone, it makes for my Western conf. match up!!
Broken Fang
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Well they did it. 4-2 is the final and we have the Wild and the Ducks playing in the Western Conf. finals.
Minnesota outscores the Canucks 16 - 5 in the final three games of the conference semis. Tht's one heck of a time to find your offense. I went to the kitchen in the 2nd period to make some chocolate milk up. I hear two goals while I am away and the crowd is loud, so I know who it is scoring. I figure game over. Two goals in a minute and one second. Oh, wait, Wild scores one with some time left in the second. Then wham! I'm just speechless. Ducks vs. Wild. I wish I had a time machine. I would score so muh cash in Vegas betting on this... Anyone know how to find betting odds on the internet? I wonder what the odds were and what the payoff on say, $1,000 US of the Wild making it to the Conference finals? Then the ducks. Unreal. I love this game! BTW, my predictions for the conference finals are that I would guess wrong, so I'm simply going to sit back and enjoy me some hockey. 
Teflon Billy
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Open letter to the Vancouver Canucks
No more.
No more hoping and praying that this team will be able to avoid routinely killing itself every time it looks like something has turned around.
Naslund as a shoe in for the Scoring title this year? Blown in the final days possible.
A good placing in the playoffs? Botched at the last moment.
3-1 series lead over the Wild? Why not follow that with two complete blowouts and a absolute inability to protect a two goal lead?
I can list more of this crap if need be.
The absolute worst thing about this is that there is no mystery at all to Canucks success. None. Every time your team plays a hard hitting, check-finishing, go-to-the-net style of game, you succeed. Whenever you step away from that model you fail.
Tonight, when it counted, you stepped away from that model.
It is plain, unadulterated agony to watch your team and be able to say (with about a 30 second window of accuracy) "oh god, they're blowing it". I'm sure you will see when you watch the tapes what it looks like: the punishing checks stop. The hits stop and suddenly your team is running around in their own end, chasing the puck and double teaming such stellar NHL luminaries as Sergei Zholtok. Double teaming one guy and leaving another open to put the puck in the net.
Bertuzzi, Naslund and Morrison managed to nearly equal the points of Marion Gaborik.
Congratulations guys! Top line in the NHL!
It's pathetic. It's pathetic to watch and it's a pathetic to be a fan of this idiocy.
So I'm haning up my "C is for Choke" jersey and calling it.
Adios.
No more.
No more hoping and praying that this team will be able to avoid routinely killing itself every time it looks like something has turned around.
Naslund as a shoe in for the Scoring title this year? Blown in the final days possible.
A good placing in the playoffs? Botched at the last moment.
3-1 series lead over the Wild? Why not follow that with two complete blowouts and a absolute inability to protect a two goal lead?
I can list more of this crap if need be.
The absolute worst thing about this is that there is no mystery at all to Canucks success. None. Every time your team plays a hard hitting, check-finishing, go-to-the-net style of game, you succeed. Whenever you step away from that model you fail.
Tonight, when it counted, you stepped away from that model.
It is plain, unadulterated agony to watch your team and be able to say (with about a 30 second window of accuracy) "oh god, they're blowing it". I'm sure you will see when you watch the tapes what it looks like: the punishing checks stop. The hits stop and suddenly your team is running around in their own end, chasing the puck and double teaming such stellar NHL luminaries as Sergei Zholtok. Double teaming one guy and leaving another open to put the puck in the net.
Bertuzzi, Naslund and Morrison managed to nearly equal the points of Marion Gaborik.
Congratulations guys! Top line in the NHL!
It's pathetic. It's pathetic to watch and it's a pathetic to be a fan of this idiocy.
So I'm haning up my "C is for Choke" jersey and calling it.
Adios.
Broken Fang
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I know how you feel TB...watched it happen to my Avs...Sacic, Foresberg, Roy. The three of them make more money than the whole Wild team! Blah...at least I got the Western Conf. final I wanted. Might as well be for the underdog now!
MulhorandSage
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I'm not quite as heartbroken as Billy, but still upset. We let the emotion after the fluke goal get to us, and Clouts played soft in the third. Shoulda been ours. It wasn't.
Minnesota played well, and showed tons of heart and skill in coming from behind 3-1. Good luck hunting Ducks. Go Sens.
Scott Bennie
Minnesota played well, and showed tons of heart and skill in coming from behind 3-1. Good luck hunting Ducks. Go Sens.
Scott Bennie
Wow. The Wild vs the Ducks. That is very strange. But I am pleased as I look at my Ducks puck my brother got me for my birthday.
So who is the underdog now? I guess it would be the Ducks since they are number 7 and the Wild number 6. So that means home ice for the Wild. That isn't good. They are now what 2-4 at home? Ouch. Not to mention the Ducks are 4-1 on the road this postseason. But heck if you go by stats neither of these teams should be here right now. So to heck with the all the stats.
GO DUCKS!
So who is the underdog now? I guess it would be the Ducks since they are number 7 and the Wild number 6. So that means home ice for the Wild. That isn't good. They are now what 2-4 at home? Ouch. Not to mention the Ducks are 4-1 on the road this postseason. But heck if you go by stats neither of these teams should be here right now. So to heck with the all the stats.
GO DUCKS!
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