Posted on 04/15/2014 8:23:59 AM PDT by airborne
EASTERN CONFERENCE - ROUND 1 MATCH-UPS
BOSTON BRUINS (1) vs DETROIT REDWINGS (4)
TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING (2) vs MONTREAL CANADIENS (3)
PITTSBURGH PENGUINS (1) vs COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS (4)
NEW YORK RANGERS (2) vs PHILADELPHIA FLYERS (3)
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WESTERN CONFERENCE - ROUND 1 MATCH-UPS
COLORADO AVALANCHE (1) vs MINNESOTA WILD (4)
ST. LOUIS BLUES (2) vs CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS (3)
ANAHEIM DUCKS (1) vs DALLAS STARS (4)
SAN JOSE SHARKS (2) vs LOS ANGELES KINGS (3)
Congrats Bruins. You stymied the Wings offence and Rask was awesome in goal. As usual, I’ll root for the team that beats mine until they lose, etc. My prediction now is the Pens will watch the Sharks (aka the Wings clones) hoist The Cup.
I was going to send you a message but thought it was like crowing,so I thought better of it.
Thanks for the congrats and on to the next series.
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Blue Jackets' F Jenner is in perfect position at the post to poke in a PP goal & open the scoring in the first Period of Game 5 in Pittsburgh.
Columbus leads 1-0 at the 1st Intermission over the Pens, with the winner taking a 3-2 Series advantage back to Ohio next week.
You know he kept seeing that when he was trying to sleep.
Hope you’re wrong.
The Pens look better this last period, but they need to get one behind Bob.
Pittsburgh's Jussi Jokinen backhands the puck into the open net behind a beleaguered Blue Jackets G Bobrovsky in the third Period
to put the Pens ahead 2-1 to stay, winning by a 3-1 margin and bringing on an Elimination Game 6 in Columbus on Monday night.
Have to say it, the Referees gave the Avalanche that game, the player Coyle was flagrantly held on the open net and the Avs goal was offside though that might not have been the fault of the ref checking offsides, he couldn’t see it but that holding was obvious.
Absolute Thievery, I hope they complain to the League Office about that, that is ridiculous officiating. So I’ve heard it happens in ice hockey sometimes. That was as bad as when Seattle was given that game vs. Green Bay in football a few years ago.
Colorado tying goal clearly offside but perhaps as happens in soccer, the referee's view was obstructed. And just seconds earlier, the Wild player was held like crazy.
They have to regroup. Hard knocks happen. Still, very poor officiating.
SATURDAYS RESULTS
BOSTON - 4 DETROIT - 2 (Boston wins series 4-1)
http://www.nhl.com/gamecenter/en/recap?id=2013030115&navid=sb:recap
PITTSBURGH - 3 COLUMBUS - 1 (Pittsburgh leads series 3-2)
http://www.nhl.com/gamecenter/en/recap?id=2013030135&navid=sb:recap
COLORADO - 4 MINNESOTA - 3 (OT) (Colorado leads series 3-2)
http://www.nhl.com/gamecenter/en/recap?id=2013030155&navid=sb:recap
LOS ANGELES - 3 SAN JOSE - 0 (San Jose leads series 3-2)
http://www.nhl.com/gamecenter/en/recap?id=2013030185&navid=sb:recap
SUNDAYS GAMES
PHILADELPHIA @ NEW YORK - 12 NOON (Series tied 2-2)
http://www.nhl.com/gamecenter/en/preview?id=2013030145&navid=sb:preview
ST. LOUIS @ CHICAGO - 3 PM (Chicago leads series 3-2)
http://www.nhl.com/gamecenter/en/preview?id=2013030166&navid=sb:preview
ANAHEIM @ DALLAS - 8 PM (Anaheim leads series 3-2)
http://www.nhl.com/gamecenter/en/preview?id=2013030176&navid=sb:preview
Those are the kind of plays that will drive a fan absolutely bat guano crazy...I just don’t see how the ref is too obstructed to not see the Av player well beyond the blue line...
I can remember watching games where the player with the puck is heading into the zone and his wingers are with him and not watching...assuming he’s going in and then the puck handler stops or turns around...oops!
If you’re a fan of the Minnesota Wild, the biggest complaint you should be making is that Zach Parise — with his $98M contract — didn’t put a puck in the net until the third period of Game 5 in this series.
Rangers' D Mark Stahl fires a knuckler through a screen by teammate Marty St. Louis past Flyers G Mason to give them a 1-0 lead
over Philadelphia in the 1st intermission of Game 5 at Madison Square Garden in New York. The Series is square at 2 games apiece.
True, the Wild needed to clear the puck in overtime as well, that has been a problem for them too in their losses. The Wild might be able to win Monday night sending the series to seven games, I think the Wild can win that game. The Avs goaltender has been outstanding.
One of my other favorites are the Blues but with the Blackhawks winning 3 straight, I don’t see the Blues winning today meaning that series will probably end today in Chicago even though all of those games but one has gone to OT.
Not that I'd hold that against him. Nobody plays harder than that guy, but I've said for a long time that he's too small for his style of play and he wears down over the course of a long season. It seems like these Olympic years are worse than others, and I think maybe he doesn't do himself any favors when he adds to the grind of a long season by playing an extra 6-8 games in the Olympics.
Those Wild have one young player in particular who I would dearly love to have on my Devils, though. Mikael Granlund would be a perfect fit for this team.
All the Boston newspapers and radio yap-shows are crowing that this is the best Bruins team in years but if I was on that team, I would not be so sanguine and would ignore the press clippings for the time being.
I'm old enough to remember the Bruins teams from the 1969-1974 run when they were arguably the best team in hockey. That 1970-71 season was probably the best hockey team ever assembled but they did not win the Cup that year because they were just partying too hard (they won it in 1970 and 1972).
Their partying ways from that era are not all apocryphal either. These players got absolutely hammered after games during those times. Remember they had characters like Phil Esposito, Wayne Cashman and Derek Sanderson on those teams. How could they not party hard?
My father at the time worked for Butler Aviation which chartered some of the planes they flew on and he got to go to bars with them from time to time. One one occasion, Wayne Cashman was picked up for drunk driving and when he got to the jailhouse, he used his one phone call to order in chinese food and he ordered enough to share it with the guards and his cellmates. Back in those days, a drunk driver basically got a night in jail (to sober up) and paid a fine the next day. It's hard to imagine that but that's how drunk driving was treated in those days.
In fact, a few years later, when I was 17 and had my license, my buddies and I split a case of beer in a Stop & Shop parking lot. We stupidly tossed the empties under the car so when I backed out, I ran them over and a flat. Though I didn't know it until I got on the highway and had to pull over. Sure enough, as I'm changing the tire, a cop pulls up to see what is happening and pokes his flashlight into the car to see my "buddies", who were still in the car laughing their heads off with about a half case of beers and open containers everywhere.
He simply tells them all to step out and proceeds to confiscate the rest of the beer. He simply tells me that the "party is over" and to finish changing the tire so I can take them and myself straight home. Now remember, I'm 17 years old and I don't think any of my friends were 18 either (which was the drinking age in those days).
Times were sure different back then.
Anyway, those Bruins are, as I said, going to have to take it up a notch or two if they are to get past those Montreal Canadians.
Thanks for that story, that’s a very famous team, John McKenzie, Gary Cheevers. Ed Westfall I think. And of course, #4.
http://www.hockey-reference.com/teams/BOS/1971.html
Of course, when I was a kid, these stats were in the Sporting News and Hockey News, little thick fat books with all the stats.
Patrick Sharp of Chicago blocks a Blues shot, then avoids a likely Penalty shot by sliding the puck under a sprawling Ryan Miller
to make the score 3-1 in Game Six, as the Blackhawks pull away in the 3rd Period to win 5-1 over St. Louis and take the Series.
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