Stanley Cup Playoffs first-round schedule

NHL website ^ | 8/9/2020 | NHL staff

[major_gaff]

I believe it...be thankful that they didn’t become the Arizona Coyotes. :~)

[major_gaff]

Upper Darby, eh?...My wife is from Lansdowne...Prendie girl. I lived in
Glenolden and went to Interboro HS...Let's Go Bucs!

[airborne]

In case you are interested - Tampa Bay Lightning vs. Columbus Blue Jackets just went to the locker rooms tied at 2-2 after playing FIVE periods of hockey.

NBCSN is carrying the game.

Triple Over Time is coming up next!

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Hockey Ping!

(let me know if you want on or off the ping list)

[DoodleBob]

Hextall was a hate him/love him guy, a sort of Dave Schultz in the crease. I wonder if some of it was that he effectively replaced the late (and loved) Pelle Lindbergh...I was at a 5-0 shutout of Lindbergh's and the Spectrum crowed modified the "Bern-eee" chant to become "Pell-eee".

You can file this under "unconfirmed but from a reputable source hearsay." In the late 1980s I was working near Philadelphia. A colleague told me about a customer call he made to a junk yard (it's a long story). The junk yard owner motioned to my colleague to come look at a wreck. The owner said it was Lindbergh's Porsche...

The owner showed my collegue the ignition, and said it was in the off position. The word on the street was that Pelle's girlfriend got scared with his drunk driving, and turned off the ignition. She thought that would only turn off the engine but didn't know it would also cause the steering wheel to lock up. If true, then the skid marks weren't simply a reflection of a drunk Pelle losing control (though the 0.24 BAL didn't help) but because he couldn't steer away from the wall.

Just now, as I was searching for a picture of Pelle's Porsche, I found this story that is almost, word-for-word, what my colleague said almost 30 years ago.

[airborne]

Wow! Pelle was going to be a great goalie. A terrible loss for hockey.

[Major Matt Mason]

Genesee Cream Ale - The Green Death. And of course, the after-effects of said brew were labeled Genny Screamers.

[rfp1234]

The Tortorella Bowl.

May the best team win.

[DoodleBob]

5th OT. Playoff hockey. Nuthin like it.

Tampa Bay has 25 more shots on goal than Columbus and has been pretty relentless...if TB loses this one, I predict they'll deflate and lose the series.

[certrtwngnut]

I vowed to not watch hockey but my brother said to me you’ve been watching for over 50 years. You are 80 years old enjoy yourself. So I turned on the Lightning Bull Jacket game at the start of overtime and am glad I did. Hockey is in my blood and I think that I will keep watching. It was great.

[certrtwngnut]

The Yankees were and always will be the three rings of Ballantine Beer. Purity/Body/Flavor. And I don’t even drink beer.

[airborne]

It was an old fashioned test of wills.

There’s nothing quite like playoff overtime hockey!

As far as watching or not - if people stopped supporting all the liberal businesses and sports, nobody would be on FreeRepublic because all the internet providers have supported the liberals.

Hockey is doing much much less than the other sports. And its likely in part because they’re afraid for their families safety while they’re locked in the bubble.

[airborne]

Columbus will be better able to come back from this loss.

Tampa would not have been able to come back from a loss.

Not after being swept last year.

[Yaelle]

Geez. 5 OTs! Record shots stopped, shots taken. They should almost give 2 wins to the lightning and one to the CBJ.

[Yaelle]

I have the lightning folding again in round 1, but now I am concerned.

[Impy]

Pentuple OT?!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Damn, sorry I missed it.

[major_gaff]

I was stationed at NAS Whidbey Island in Puget Sound when I saw that Pelle had died in the USA Today at the PX
news stand, so I wasn't there for it. I had been in the Marines for a couple of years at that point so the last Flyers
goalie that I had seen down at the Spectrum was Bob Froese...From what I had seen Lindbergh had great
potential...Such a waste

[glennaro]

As you correctly noted, “they’re afraid” ... that’s for sure! (Sure builds optimism and confidence in a society, doesn’t it?)

[airborne]

It was historic!

[airborne]

Columbus can come back from a loss like that. They have Torts for a coach.

Tampa Bay wouldn’t have been able to recover from a loss. Not after being swept last year.

[airborne]

Hart is a good goalie. Maybe great. Time will tell.

After decades of Philly doing a “rent-a-goalie” approach they might have a bona-fide star.