Kicking off the pre-finals banter - the quest for The Cup continues Monday night!
1 posted on
06/02/2006 9:20:12 AM PDT by
Hat-Trick
To: airborne; SZonian; retrokitten; hollywood; Alberta's Child; 6323cd; Betis70; ColoCdn; k2afe; ...
Hockey Ping!
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A young(er) Mike Commodore
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2 posted on
06/02/2006 9:21:53 AM PDT by
Hat-Trick
(Do you trust a government that cannot trust you with guns?)
To: Hat-Trick
I was pulling for the Sabres, too bad. Now it's GO OIL!
3 posted on
06/02/2006 9:23:10 AM PDT by
citizen
(Yo W! Read my lips: No Amnistia by any name! And the White House has a fence around it!)
To: Hat-Trick
Go Oilers!
7 posted on
06/02/2006 9:26:12 AM PDT by
cowboyway
(My heroes have always been cowboys.)
To: Hat-Trick
A NC PINGO PUCKO from a native NC Grand National fan. (#21 - 'The Silver Fox')
8 posted on
06/02/2006 9:26:14 AM PDT by
RSmithOpt
(Liberalism: Highway to Hell)
To: Hat-Trick
I'm rooting for Carolina. They're my 2nd favorite team after the Minnesota Wild.
I've liked 'em ever since they moved to Carolina. Don't know why. Just do.
I watched all the play-off games in '02 when they made it to the Stanley Cup finals.
I hope they do better this time! GO 'CANES!
To: Hat-Trick
Hopefully the upcoming series won't be an anti-climax to the Eastern Conference series -- that was worthy of a Stanley Cup Finals. Despite the adversity of losing their top four defensemen and key forward Tim Connolly, Buffalo showed a lot of heart in extending the series against a technically better team in Carolina.
Actually, it was the "Hillary Curse" that did the Sabres in ... (word to the wise, never let Her Thighness mention she roots for your team ;)
15 posted on
06/02/2006 10:07:08 AM PDT by
mikrofon
(Bring back the Blue & Gold!)
To: Hat-Trick
I was pulling for the Sharks, until they were beaten by the Oilers. Hard to choose between the Oil and the Canes,
both are fast skating clubs, thought Oilers have more
grit and Canes more leavened by veterans.
Brind'Amour and Recchi are both in the twilight of their
careers and a Cup would cap them nicely. Also, Peter
Laviolette has done a great job keeping the Canes in the hunt all season. OTOH Craig McTavishs' Oilers benefitted by a brilliant set of trades at the deadline and a late season win streak that placed them barely into eighth place in
the West. I think it will go Oilers, in six.
Looking forward to a hard fought series.
17 posted on
06/02/2006 10:18:18 AM PDT by
rahbert
To: Hat-Trick
What's with the Stanley Cup being played in June? Use to be the NHL Stanley Cup play-offs were over by mid-April, at the latest. If the Stanley Cup games are extended out all seven games this year it won't wrap up 'til mid-June ... which is ridiculous. Another few years down the road and the interval between when hockey wraps up for one season and pre-season games begin for the next ... will be down to about six weeks.
20 posted on
06/02/2006 10:29:56 AM PDT by
BluH2o
To: Hat-Trick
How bad are gasoline prices going to be if the Hurricanes beat the Oilers?
Let's have Canada win one.
SD
To: Hat-Trick
Go Oil!!!
(at least this way the Cup goes to the team that embarrassed mine!!)
31 posted on
06/02/2006 12:22:21 PM PDT by
MikefromOhio
(aka MikeinIraq - WTFO)
To: Hat-Trick
My question is...
If Rush Limbaugh applied the Environmentalist Wacko approach to picking a winner who would it be?
Oil is obviously evil, allowing companies to make money while destroying the earth.
However, Hurricanes are obviously racist... otherwise they would have never set out to destroy the chocolate city of New Orleans.
What to do...
36 posted on
06/02/2006 1:16:04 PM PDT by
rwilson99
(Too soon... to forget. See United 93)
To: Hat-Trick; airborne; SZonian; retrokitten; hollywood; Alberta's Child; 6323cd; Betis70; ColoCdn; ...
Is this the official NHL live thread? You tell me - eh?
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43 posted on
06/17/2006 5:46:00 PM PDT by
Libloather
(They can't privatize Social Security but they can find a way to give it to illegal aliens...)
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