Hockey fans anyone?

[?{RiP}? Vapor]

Screw the Leafs!! GO WINGS!!!  

[Grifter]

Well, the Wings owned everything in that game but the final score.  They played great and doubled the Av's up on shots again (sweet short hander by Federov though).  But, Whaaa was a wall again.  Oh well...  back to Detroit with home ice again.

[?{RiP}? Vapor]

Yeah, I don't like Ava. at all. I was rooting for the Devils, my home team, but somehow shitty Carolina beat 'em. DEATH TO CAROLINA!! I really would like to see the Wings win it...

[KotA_NukeRain/Diff Comp]

No one seems to like the Avalanche with me.

Anyways good to see the Avalanche tied up the series even while playing like shit.  I don't think Detroit can take us because we will start playing decently soon.

It also seems Toronto won't go quietly.
GO AVS ON MONDAY!

-Nuke

[Bondo at friends computer]

Nuke, you aren't the only Avs fan here, if you'd read the last few pages you'd see that me and Grift have been spatting about it for days.  He just can't accept that the Avs are a better team that even when playing bad can win half the games they play against the Wings.

[Bondo]

GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[jn.loudnotes]

Perhaps next year you will give Carolina the benefit of the doubt before they beat you?

STANLEY CUP FINALS IN RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and that's all I have to say....

[Grifter]

First, sorry for mod'ing your post Loud, but all those !!!'s were screwing up the script and not letting another post in (one of those weird perl things).

Yes, Carolina made it to the finals and congrats are in order.  I actually bet on them in my hockey pool, but I wanted Toronto because of both being closer and seeing Detroit and Toronto in the Finals would be very, very cool to me (big fan of first six teams I am).

The Wings and Av's are turning out to be all that was expected of them.  Game 7 on Friday night... now the question is should I blow the big bucks for a ticket for Friday... or gamble and wait for the finals.

[Brain]

i think the question becomes do you have faith in your team... act accordingly

[PsYcO aSsAsSiN]

well, Hasek and the wings blanked the avs at the Pepsi Center...Game 7 in Hockeytown!

As for Carolina...they managed to win even though the "BBC Line" wasn't producing. They are overloked and could surprise a few people but I still think the Western Conference champ will win Lord Stanley's Cup.

[Grifter]

Actually Brain, it's a bit more complicated than that to me....

Yes, I'll assume that the Wings are going to win (that wasn't the real gamble).  The real gamble is finding a ticket to the Finals and how much more it will cost.

First, Game 7 in Detroit is likely to be the best game of the playoffs all year.  As many people have said, this may be the game for the cup.

Second, since the Wings will have Home Ice for the cup, will they sweep, which game do I try to get tickets for?  No offense, but spending a few hundred per seat isn't something I'll do more then once to see the Wings and Carolina.  Wings and Leafs was a different matter.

I'll probably just head downtown tomorrow and see what I can find... if I find a "bargin" (tickets less then 4x face value) then I'll probably jump on them.  If not, I'm only 15 mins from home, and there are plenty of sports bars in between.

[†FiRE Infection]

I think the winner of the avs and redwings is the winner of the stanly cup

[?{RiP}? Vapor]

Awww.... sucks for Toranto... I was hoping to see them in the Stanley Cup with the Wings. However, that was a nice goal Sundin had with 28.1 seconds left in the game to send it into over time. Damn Carolina.

Go Wings Go!!

[PsYcO aSsAsSiN]

Game 7 slaughter in Detroit...wow.

Wings vs Canes for the cup

[Grifter]

Ahhh... where to start.

Well, first things first.... YEEEEEEEHAAAAAA!!!

Ok, had to get that out of my system.  Man, was this a great series to watch (not always comfortable to be a fan, but great freaking hockey!!).  Yes, I did go to the game tonight... yes, I paid way too much for 4th row upper bowl tickets.... yes, I lost my voice chanting "we want roy"... hehe.

Even Bondo has to admit that the Wings earned this conference title.  They played great clean hockey (as did the Av's).  They Wings have always been the hardest team on Roy (even back when he was at Montreal  What was that... 11 goals they scored on him that last game?)

I'm looking forward to the Cup Finals and getting my picture taken with it once again as it finds it's way back here to Hockeytown.

Now Bondo, I hope that you now look at your previous statements about playoff success and give the Wings their due... they have now gone to the Cup finals 4 times in the last decade... soon to drink from the cup for a third time in the last decade.  If that doesn't meet your criteria for playoff success, then it's a moving target and you are without hope.  Even I'll admit that the Av's are the second best team in that same time period....

[|MP|Nomad]

Well Grift, I must say congrats on the game, I wanted the wings to win.....you know I am not a Wings fan but I did pick them in my hockey pool and I did lose last series with the leafs   I hope the Wings take the Canes in a nice sweep, Oh! WAIT!! then I would lose my pool, no! I hope the take em in 6, but I would love to see the sweep, just to stick it to Irbve dammit!!! I am crying right now, wishing it would have been a LEAFS vs WINGS final, that would have been a beautiful series, I know you (Grift) wanted to see that too, but I guess there is always next year!! (GOD I HATE SAYING THAT)

Nomad
ps. o btw, there is a bright side to all this........the World Cup has started WooT!!!!   FORZZA AZZURRI-GO ITALY GO....


You following the Cup or goin for any Country Grift??

[PsYcO aSsAsSiN]

the World Cup has started WooT!!!!

lmao @ France

[Grifter]

I follow World Cup when it's Rugby, not Soccor...

I like the real man's sport =P.  Then I pull for the All Blacks!  Damn those Springbucks.  And the US team sucks, they never make it to the World Cup.

[Bondo]

Yes, I'm a big futbol fan (soccer? what were you thinking you mongrels), not quite big enough to wake up at 5:30 this morning to watch this game live but enough that I'll be watching US and England games live.

I'll accept that this game put the Red Wings ahead for now as the best team.  I will still cling to my argument that they wouldn't have won if they didn't just buy up free agents.  Outside of their yearly deadline trade, the Avs get pretty much everyone else through the draft.  And if we count farm teams (go Hershey Bears) then the Avs stomp on the Red Wings.  Now if only the Avs would dump Roy (by this I of course I mean have him retire) and make Abischer the starter.

[Grifter]

Bondo, how many Av's were drafted by the Av's?  Not traded for, but actually drafted by the Av's?

Because Yzerman, Federov, Lindstrom, Draper, Williams, Holmstrom, McCarty, Maltby, Dandenault, Fischer... and now Zetterberg (who had a great olympics and was drafted by the Wings) has been signed....  The three guys you are referring to didn't win that series... hell, Yzerman and Federov were probably the two most pivitol players on the ice for Detroit... playing it well at both ends.  McCarty and Holmstrom another pair...  And yes, I think that Osgood would have won in goal and played just as well as Hassick... Osgood did get his name on the cup twice before with Detroit.

And there were plenty of others that were drafted and lost to free agency along the way (Osgood, Koslov)

But you also have to look at it from the other direction.  Players like Hull and Chellios really wanted to come to Detroit and used free agency to do it.  What, Detroit is supposed to turn them down?  Are you saying that the Av's would have turned down either guy that wanted to come over to them??

But if that's your silver lining for the Av's than you hang onto it.  

BTW, the best defensman in Wings history (and the most under-rated in the NHL) was at the game last night... yes, the Vladinator was there.  One of the most inspiring thing for the Wings to have seen.  It was a crime that this man never won the Norris Trophy.  Ah, if the Wing hadn't lost him to that damn drunk limo driver, they would have had another cup in there.  We've struggled at D ever since then, until this year (and we are still not as good).