Nothing beats NHL playoff hockey. This series is going to be brutal, too. These teams hate each other.
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Nothing beats NHL playoff hockey. This series is going to be brutal, too. These teams hate each other.
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KG
I’m a playoff hockey fan… don’t pay much attention to the regular season, other than finding out when I can grab my folks’ season tickets to the Ducks… but come playoff time, it’s a whole hell of a lot of fun. I’m sort of, kind of, trying to talk myself into it, rooting for the Coyotes… but really am just hoping for some good games from time to time.
arguingwithsignposts
The best thing about NHL hockey playoffs is every series is 7 games. It’s a war of attrition. The second best thing is the Coolest Trophy in Professional Sports, Lord Stanley’s Cup.
Schlemizel
The only time of the season when the NHL is worth watching. Not the first round since its still pretty much regular season attitude & play. Later rounds when they actually start focusing more on hockey & playing as if it mattered. Its a crime that there is so much talent can produce so few exciting games until April.
@arguingwithsignposts:
so true – the best trophy in sports. The entire history of the championship is on there and yet each player gets to have it, adding to the lore.
slag
Why turn on hockey when you can watch the even more pointless pissing matches here?
cathyx
I can honestly say that I think hockey is more exciting to watch than football. My family had season tickets to the Penguins growing up and that was when they were awful (and blue).
the Conster (f/k/a Cat Lady)
@arguingwithsignposts:
The coolest job in professional sports (outside of playing) is to be a Keeper of the Cup. Not sure what one has to do to be considered, but I wonder if they would consider middle aged women? I’m very discrete.
dollared
Playoff hockey is over. Boston College won the Frozen Four. What is this Pennsylvania hockey stuff your are watching?
Weaselone
I don’t necessarily think that’s the case when you’re talking about the Wings vs. Predators and Penguins vs. Flyers match-ups. These are strong, evenly matched teams that all have the talent necessary to win the cup. There’s not going to be any coasting.
Linnaeus
@cathyx:
That’s because it is.
dedc79
I was thinking there’d be a fight at the opening faceoff. I was wrong, but given how things are going so far, maybe Philly should’ve gone that route.
Polish the Guillotines
Sharks, baby! Time to bring it against the Blues. Forget about the regular season — it’s playoff time.
MikeBoyScout
Oh
The Pens are going
All the way
All the way
All the way
Oh
The Pens are going
All the way
All the way this year.
LET’S GO PENS!
Mr Stagger Lee
I am San Jose Sharks fan though I don’t expect them to do much, as long as Rangers, Bruins and the Red Wings don’t win the cup I am cool.
Mr Stagger Lee
It would be something if the Coyotes win then the next year or two they move to Seattle, just now the Thunder(Sonics) have the home advantage in the NBA. Of course this is a dream, the idiots in Seattle couldn’t poor piss out of their boots even if the instructions are on the heel.
Breezeblock
Devils fan here.
HATE both PA teams, both the Pengwhines and the Cryers. I’m hoping for lots of injuries.
I got my tix for Round 1 and 2 at The Rock.
arguingwithsignposts
@the Conster (f/k/a Cat Lady): They should have a female Keeper of the Holy Cup!
Tony the Wonderhorse
And watch Goon if you get the chance. It’s the best hockey film since Slap Shot.
That’s straight from the Horse’s mouth :-0
here’s the trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itXRNxErUwM
Spaghetti Lee
I hope none of the players smile oddly, that’s for damn sure.
Craigo
If Phoenix goes anywhere, it’s to Quebec.
Litlebritdifrnt
I just have to say that textsfromdog is just bloody brilliant. And, I have to add that the author is more than likely a Brit just because of the language used. “Postman” “wee on the bed” “RSPB” etc., needless to say it is some funny stuff.
Mary Jane Leach
The only thing better than a playoff hockey game is a multiple overtime one.
MikeJ
I think more sports should adopt the tradition of flinging molluscs about.
Breezeblock
@Mary Jane Leach:
Like. Ugh, but on school nights, it can be brutal on the fans too…
Yutsano
@Mr Stagger Lee: Nahgunna happen. No way King County shells out to replace Key Arena after the double stadium debacle. It was one of the reasons why we no longer have the Sonics. The fact that Clay Bennnett is a massive tool didn’t help.
Captain Goto
@MikeBoyScout: Somewhere Benny Benack is grinning.
Arclite
Off topic, but here’s the best article I have seen debunking “Tax breaks on the rich create jobs.”
the Conster (f/k/a Cat Lady)
@Tony the Wonderhorse:
Love the little girl’s face at the end.
My best friend for forever’s brother was “Dr. Hook” McCracken in Slap Shot – I just saw him this past weekend, and he said random people still want to pick fights with him. He’s 64 now.
Mnemosyne
So apparently all of our whining about ebooks being too expensive brought some results.
I heartily approve of this expenditure of government time and money, especially if it means I can get my goddamned knitting books on my Kindle for the same as (or less than?) the paperback price.
Narcissus
the Daily Dish underbloggers are seriously shit
Gozer
Go Flyers. They are indeed my favourite squadron!
Schlemizel
If you have not heard Warren Zevon’s tribute to the NHL you are missing something:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-CYJf2o7ZQ
General Stuck
Reds pulled one out against the Cards today, to not get swept in the first series between the two. Hockey Smockey.
Captain Goto
@efgoldman: Yeah, those whiny bitches are just the suck…
Oh, wait.
Steve
I have loved the Red Wings ever since I was a little kid and everyone called them the Dead Things. Very tough first-round series against the talented Predators. Fingers crossed!
Cromagnon
Baseball, soccer, hockey… Its like watching paint dry and just as exciting
arguingwithsignposts
@Schlemizel: If you are trying to get me to declare my love for you … it is working. Mr. Zevon ftw!
El Cid
@Tony the Wonderhorse: Getting ready to watch it. Looks good.
Unrelated: Line from BBC’s comedy news commentary show “10 O’Clock Live” with the brilliant David Mitchell (of Mitchell & Webb) and more.
“Police have been responding to charges of racism within the department. While they say investigations are continuing, they do report that they’re looking for a black man in his 20’s.”
schrodinger's cat
Since this is the Church of Tunch, can we has Tunch photo plz, we miss the great floofy one.
Kathy
Grew up in Detroit area, live in Philly. Root for both teams unless they are playing each other (then I root for Detroit.) Listening to Philly sports radio the last couple weeks, I can tell you that hate is far too gentle of a word. It is approaching Detroit-Colorado territory.
I also went to college in Nashville and my friends from Michigan were always disgusted by the fact that Southerners couldn’t even pronounce hockey correctly. No city should get a team if they cannot pronounce the name of the sport.
Old Dan and Little Ann
No Sabres. Go Pens. I love hockey thanks to the numerous teams I completely and utterly loathe. The Flyers being one of them.
Soldier Boy
And for the love of sodding FSM, can the Kings please find a few people who can play this game? We’ve been waiting for a Cup for better than 40 years! We are the Chicago Cubs of Hockey.
Redshift
I’m a Capitals fan, so this is a “root for injuries” situation for me.
Since the Caps have tanked in the playoffs the years when they’ve been on top of the league, I’m hoping that their roller-coaster performance in the regular season means they’ll do great this year.
geg6
@Captain Goto:
Yeah, those whiny no talent bitchez, both Lemieux and his team. They suck. No way they’d ever win if it wasn’t their whining. That’s how it works in hockey. You can win Stanley Cups and scoring titles and other trophies if the quality of your whine is such that it overwhelms the vastly more talented and manly men with stiff upper lips on all the opposing teams. That’s the only reason Lemieux is a legend on the ice and in the owner’s box and the Pens have their names engraved on the Stanley Cup.
Hewer of Wood, Drawer of Water
I’d love to see a Vancouver-Ottawa final, if for no other reason than to piss off the Toronto media. To hear some of the idiots here speak, you’d think that the Leafs had actually won something after they invented colour photography
Amir Khalid
@Steve:
Does the ice hockey team have any connection to the famous bootmakers?
ellie
GO RED WINGS!
burnspbesq
Why is hockey intruding on lacrosse season?
lamh35
Serious question…can a broken nose be healed with no bruising in 45 days???
burnspbesq
@Hewer of Wood, Drawer of Water:
Ottawa has the minor matter of having to deal with the Rangers in the first round.
A re-do of the 1994 final wouldn’t be bad, as long as the outcome is the same.
JenJen
@General Stuck: Reds love can easily exist alongside hockey love. I love baseball, but I’m a hockey girl to the core and it just doesn’t get any better than the Stanley Cup playoffs.
My Habs had a disastrous season, so Go Pens, Go Wings, and Go Any Team Playing The Bruins, even if that team is the Caps.
burnspbesq
@lamh35:
I’ve never broken my nose, but every other bone I’ve ever broken the swelling was gone in two weeks or less.
But Cole is the authority on fractures around here.
Breezeblock
@geg6:
You forgot to mention purposely tanking their season to draft both Super Mario Brother and Crysby.
So there’s that.
burnspbesq
@ellie:
Got your octopus ready?
Hewer of Wood, Drawer of Water
@efgoldman: The Cubs are at least lovable losers – the Leafs are losers, but definitely not lovable
smintheus
@efgoldman: My feelings exactly. Matt Cooke should be barred from the game. Instead, all we hear this year from the NHL is how he’s transformed his game and has become a glorious example for one and all. Ugh.
geg6
@lamh35:
Don’t know (never broke my nose) but I do know that the film of Zimmerman at the police station the night of the murder shows very clearly that he never had a broken nose. I may have never broken my own, but I’ve seen noses be broken and seen people in the aftermath of breaking a nose, ranging from minutes after to days after. And there is copious bleeding that usually has to be packed to stop in the near term, and massive swelling and bruising (usualy with two black eyes) that form up very quickly in the aftermath. Most EMTs would want take a person with a broken nose to the ER for packing and splinting. Without medical treatment, the swelling and bruising would manifest itself rather quickly, especially as I did not observe any ice packs being applied to Zimmerman’s face, which would seem to me to be the minimum standard of care if the person has refused to go to the ER.
Meanwhile, please, please, please, let’s wrap up Game 1, Pens! And can I just say that I love me some Flower.
smintheus
@Hewer of Wood, Drawer of Water: Love the Leafs when the Bruins are chewing them up.
MikeJ
@lamh35: Sure. When I broke mine playing football at Mizzou[1] the doc just told me to stay off it for a few weeks. Swollen for a few days, and probably not actually healed after that for a while, but nobody could tell.
This is not true for every break in every nose.
[1] co-ed flag football, but hey.
Omnes Omnibus
Blackhawks. So there.
geg6
@efgoldman:
And that negates what Lemieux and the Pens have done exactly how? The teams have different styles and only one is the true legitimate way to play but the other is just for posers? I don’t get your point. Are you telling me that the only legitimate way to win at hockey is to have no stars and no exceptional talent or specialists on your team?
I must ask…have you ever really watched hockey?
Hewer of Wood, Drawer of Water
@Kathy: If the Coyotes move to Quebec, you’d see a whole new level of hate. The Habs/Nordiques games (especially the playoff series) were amazingly vicious.
Roxie
Potvin Sucks!
smintheus
@Hewer of Wood, Drawer of Water: Quebec deserves a team; Phoenix does not.
smintheus
I’m gritting my teeth saying this, but c’mon Flyers!
smintheus
And just like that, the Flyers tie it all up. Another huge comeback.
JenJen
Well, we definitely have ourselves a game in Pittsburgh tonight!
Soldier Boy
@efgoldman
We’re at least part of the Next Six, and we’ve never had a Cup win in our entire franchise history, ever. At least the Leafs have a bundle to look back on. But I can see your point; 10 Cup wins in 1941-67, then nothing for 50 years? Whahappan?
burnspbesq
@Roxie:
Thank you for that.
smintheus
First game goes to overtime; sweet. Hope they wear each other out.
JenJen
First game, first overtime! FREE HOCKEY!
smintheus
@Soldier Boy: I think St. Louis has a better claim. They went to 3 Stanley Cup Finals in a row, and lost every single game they played – 12 straight losses. They’re due.
JenJen
@Soldier Boy: A friend of mine is fond of saying “The Leafs will win the Cup the same year I have sex with Mila Kunis.”
burnspbesq
@smintheus:
“Quebec deserves a team”
Is there any reason to believe that a metropolitan area with a population of barely more than 750K will support a new team any better than it supported the Nords? The Colorado Avalanche didn’t come into being because Marcel Aubut liked Coors.
S. cerevisiae
I’m going for the Blues. I got to see them back in the 90’s with Brett Hull (GO BULLDOGS!) in the old arena and I still have the mug. I’m a Wild fan now but it will be a couple of years until the kids are ready – remember the name Granlund.
Roxie
Nice Ending.
smintheus
@burnspbesq: Phoenix doesn’t support the Coyotes; games are half empty.
Old Dan and Little Ann
Way to throw game one in the shitter. Bollocks!
smintheus
Woo Hooooooooo! Humiliation for the Pens!
Face
Losing a 3 goal lead @ home in the playoffs is unfreakin beleivable. Dayum
handy
@Soldier Boy:
Even your younger cousins down south, named after a Disney kid’s movie, have won more Cups than you guys. That must suck.
Yutsano
Ugh. I’m gonna have to talk the work Dawg off the ledge now. Damn yinzer boys.
Hewer of Wood, Drawer of Water
@burnspbesq: There’s no question that there would be a very rabid fan base. The prospective owner is supposedly Pierre-Karl Peladeau who controls Quebecor, a very large media company up here. They (along with the province) have already announced support for a new arena in Quebec City which probably wouldn’t have happened without some sort of understanding with the NHL. This could just be a vanity project for Peladeau, but he’s got the money to do it
Soldier Boy
@handy
Yes, yes it does. It burns us, My Precious…
Fcuking Ducks….stupid pink stadium….Johnny-come-lately ding-dong Disney franchise….and they win a Cup before the Kings? Graaa!
Marcellus Shale, Public Dick
fuck the flyers.
Marcellus Shale, Public Dick
fuck the flyers.
Marcellus Shale, Public Dick
fuck the flyers.
handy
@Soldier Boy:
U mad bro?
Caladan
LOL, Suck on it Cole. :P Go Flyers!!!!!!!!!!!!!
double nickel
I’ve been a Flyers fan since before Clarke broke Kharlamov’s ankle.
Soldier Boy
@handy: I’m not bitter, not at all. I just wouldn’t mind if the Ducks were moved to say….Alert, or Tuktoyaktuk. Or Mars.
It would also be fine if they just never won a Cup again.
4jkb4ia
The Vancouver announcers are saying that the first Flyers goal was a foot and a half offside.
(I told my husband that the Red Wings were on–he spent the first 21 years of his life in Detroit–and he was vastly uninterested. So we watched the Knicks, which was a must-win game, which none of these three are.)
(Carmelo Anthony had a very nice block in the last 2 minutes. I saw it with my own eyes.)
4jkb4ia
I do not have the confidence to cheer for the Blues. Let them get out of the first round first.
JenJen
Luongo is so clutch. #shitpeopleneversayabouthockey
burnspbesq
@Hewer of Wood, Drawer of Water:
History suggests otherwise, but I suppose it’s a possibility.
If Quebec City gets a team after the way the NHL fucked Hamilton, there ought to be a Parliamentary inquiry.
Thor Heyerdahl
@4jkb4ia: Flyers offside…payback for the offside Nystrom overtime goal that won the cup for the Islanders in 1980.
(Neither Islanders nor Flyers fan…so meh).
Big E
………..Flyers win………….
…………………………. ;-) …………………………………
dearolddad
Yo John!, I really like visiting your website but….FLYERS!
Frapalinger
@Narcissus:
tell me about it! it’s not like those clowns have a high standard to meet. all they really have to do is link to some blog post where another blogger has linked to another post that itself is a response to some lame op-ed/column or irrelevant news story. Somehow they can’t even do that as well as sullivan. at least young fucking conner isn’t there anymore, even though its sad to see so much wignut welfare handed out at the atlantic.
Frapalinger
@4jkb4ia:
indeed, Briere was offside, but the Pens third goal came off of a play where icing was mysteriously waved off, and Crosby and co. dived to get 3 power plays before the flyers got a single one, so the refs aren’t what determined this game. the flyers outworked the penguins after the first period. great comeback.
Tank Supplies
Tem que ser um cara muito macho mesmo pra interpretar o Kratos, vai ser muita responsabilidade, os fãs do game vão ser muito exigentes. Acho o Nathan Jones melhor ele é mais enérgico, mais bruto em cena, iria representar bem, já o Dominic Purcell é mais tranquilão, os outros escolhidos estão ótimo, se lançarem um filme do God vai ter que ser uma superprodução, eu vejo que teria que ser maior ou semelhante ao o Senhor dos Anéis em efeitos especiais e grandeza, pois a história do God Of War é uma das mais impressionantes nos mundos dos games, seria um desperdício se fizessem só mais um filme meia boca!