[OT-NHL] The Annual NHL Playoffs Thread: 2003

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Billy, lay off the Sedin sisters :D .
I so love whenever the Rangers lose.

Everyone knows that the cup winner will come out of the west, with a Vancouver/Detroit final. My predictions:
Standings:
1)Detroit
2)Dallas
3)Vancouver
4)St Louis
5)Colorado
6)Aneheim
7)Minnesota
8) Edmonton

Round 1)
Detroit over Edmonton in a long series
Dallas over Minnesota
Canucks over Ducks
St Louis over Colorado with Osgood pulling the series out of his a$$.
Round 2)
Detroit over the Blues
Canucks over Dallas (in my heart I believe)
Round 3)
Canucks over Detroit (easier series than Dallas)
Round 4) Canucks over boring trapping eastern conference team.


GO CANUCKS!
 
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Teflon Billy said:
This is the Canucks' year.

Bertuzzi, Naslund, Morrison, Jovonovski, Ohlund and Cloutier are the core.

But the role players (no, not that kind of role player) Linden, Klatt, Baron, Letowski, and May are top notch team guys.

Even the youngsters have come into their own: Cooke, Daniel Sedin, Reid, King, and Auld.

Our team's worst player is Henrik Sedin, and he's "Marginal", not "bad".

Canucks. Mark my words.

Henrik's undervalued. The real weak links are Letowski and Allen. And I happen to think Baron's one of the best defensive players in the league.

Whereever we got Reid from, I want two more. :-)

In the end, I hope anyone wins but the Devils, Leafs, and Stars. "Hold Time" hockey sucks. :-)

Scott Bennie
 

MulhorandSage said:


Henrik's undervalued. The real weak links are Letowski and Allen. And I happen to think Baron's one of the best defensive players in the league.

Disagree with you on Henrik, Scott; but couldn't agree more about Baron. I mean how many times in a game can one guy lay down in front of an opponent's slapshot?

Wherever we got Reid from, I want two more. :-)

You and me both. What a surprise Reid has been.

I'm watchnig the Canucks pound the snot out of Phoenix at the moment (Currently 5-1 in the 3rd) and Reid just seems to be everywhere.

In the end, I hope anyone wins but the Devils, Leafs, and Stars. "Hold Time" hockey sucks. :-)

Yeah...I'll say anyone but the Devils (Hold Time), The Rangers (Buying the Cup) or The Wings (just to spite Quickbeam ;)).
 

Nightfall said:
They almost did...but that was a while ago and I still shake my head at the fact the Flyers LOST the series after being up by two games. But you are right Wel, not sure this Flyers team has what it takes.

Of course that is one of the biggest reason I have no faith in them.

Of course, over the last few years they've repeatedly shown an inability to score in the playoffs.

They'll have to prove it to me
Welverin. still smarting from the Eagles loss months ago
 

Hoju said:
I so love whenever the Rangers lose.

Ooh. You had to hate that game on Saturday, then. :D This suspense is really just going to hurt even more when they don't actually make the playoffs, but being a glutton for punishment is what Rangers fans do best.

Teflon Billy said:

...The Rangers (Buying the Cup)...

That's New York Rangers to you, Sir.

Aww, now Billy...you know they're not the only team doing that. A few high-profile teams in the West are similarly guilty. They're just spending the most while getting the least return! :)

So...

Everything's locked up in the standings except for the Bs, the Blueshirts and the Fishsticks. And since the Devils bitchslapped the Isles this afternoon, and the Rangers play Atlanta tomorrow, Tuesday's clash may be one for the ages. This could be sports history in the making, folks...LET'S GO RANGERS!
 

Tom Cashel said:
...Aww, now Billy...you know they're not the only team doing that. A few high-profile teams in the West are similarly guilty. They're just spending the most while getting the least return! :)

Yes, guilty indeed, but not as guilty. Call it a class E Misdemeanor over her ein the west, While the NEW YORK Rangers are guilty of a class A Felony version :)

The Rangers are just the most hilarious offenders in their attempts to buy themselves another cup.

The sheer amount of money they have spent in a effort to sign every player of merit in the NHL (and having done that, still can't reliably be counted upon to beat the league's jobber teams) is a topic of near constant amusement to my peer group.

We admired the New York Rangers of 1994; they beat our Canucks in the Stanley Cup finals--fair and square--in a hard fought test of skill and grit. Messier's "guarateeing a win" near the end of the series (and personally delivering it) is the stuff of legend in these parts.

New York's current roster of underperforming big-ticket hired guns should make weapon-grade Rangers like Brian Leetch and Mike Richter grit their teeth every time they are forced to take the ice.

Everything's locked up in the standings except for the Bs, the Blueshirts and the Fishsticks. And since the Devils bitchslapped the Isles this afternoon, and the Rangers play Atlanta tomorrow, Tuesday's clash may be one for the ages. This could be sports history in the making, folks...LET'S GO RANGERS!

Well, good luck to you and your team Tom. Fans like you make a franchise. Anyone can support a winning team on their (virtually guaranteed) run for the cup, True Believers in weaker years deserve to wear the team's jersey.

I would love for the Canucks to meet the Rangers in the finals.

Guess why :)
 
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Blues fans?

Blues fans, really, 243 pen mins in the game???? 13 game misconducts? that was between both teams but really. the bulk of those penalties were dumb. thats going to cost them in the playoffs again.

Paragon
 

Welverin said:


Of course that is one of the biggest reason I have no faith in them.

Of course, over the last few years they've repeatedly shown an inability to score in the playoffs.

They'll have to prove it to me
Welverin. still smarting from the Eagles loss months ago

Good thing I don't pick winners in Football.

But yeah they do seem to lose scoring when it counts (in the playoffs) But maybe with Amonte (a clutch guy even at almost 40.) and Roenick playing some more than decent hockey, might just squeak into the Cup Finals. In any case I just want NJ to lose two games. Just two. Think then the Flyers might have a shot at the second seed at least.

(Ottawa's going to roll the 8th seed, without too much doubt.)

My picks for winning their first rounds in the West:

Detroit in 5
Dallas (in much longer series than people think cause those Wild guys have something. Heart.) Saying 6 or go the distance and 7.
Vancouver in 5 (giving the ducks a little hope to shine)
Colorado in 6.

(Osgood might have done it...but he's still seems shaky to me)


East:

Ottawa in 4 (only if they get the Isles or the Rangers.)
(This is more of hope) Bruins in 7. (if the Devils hold on to the division top spot) Otherwise Flyers in 6
Tampa in 6.
NJ in 6 (don't care much for the Leafs even though I despise the devils) (if they lose 1st in the division) Otherwise Flyers in 7.
 

Nightfall said:

(Ottawa's going to roll the 8th seed, without too much doubt.)

That would be unprecendented.

from http://nhl.com/hockeyu/history/teams/ottawa.html

A measure of respectability finally arrived in 1996-97, as the Senators flirted with a .500 record, and made the playoffs on the final night of the season. The Senators had secured seventh place in the Eastern Conference on a goal by defenseman Steve Duchesne that snapped a scoreless deadlock with the Buffalo Sabres with just over a minute remaining in the final game of the year. The Sabres would get their revenge in the playoffs, bouncing the Senators in seven games.

The highlight of Ottawa's short playoff history came the next season, when the Senators upended the heavily favored New Jersey Devils, four games to two, in the Conference quarterfinals only to lose a four games to one series to the Washington Capitals. The playoffs again beckoned last season, but the Sabres were there again to blank the Senators in four straight.

If they play the Isles, you're right. Against the Rangers, it'll be more difficult. The Sens swept the Rangers in the season series, but this is a new season...playoff season. Dig it.
 
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Hey, where's all the Detroit fans we had last year?

My prediction is Detroit for the west, but beyond that I'm hesitant to predict since I'm pretty out of touch with the eastern half of the hockey continent this year. If anything, I think Detroit has a better chance this year than they did last year.
 

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