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Satan with this usual up by 4 goal. You know it is over when Satan scores.

 

This games stinks :thumbdown:

 

edit: My bad, was staal with satan assist. Game still sucks tho.

 

Knocking Satan... that dog don't bark in this series. He's been very solid.

 

Caps doing their best impression of the Sabres. Quite uncanny.

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Knocking Satan... that dog don't bark in this series. He's been very solid.

 

Caps doing their best impression of the Sabres. Quite uncanny.

 

 

I forget the caps coach's name, but I don't like his style. I like him and his attitude, but against the pens he seemed to abandon defense for an all out offensive push even in the 1st two overtimes. It was painfully obvious it wasn't working, but he stuck to it. The caps D has been a complete cluster this series, and it really showed the pens are the better team. Way too many cap turnovers coming out of the D zone.

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Caps net has had more rubber in it tonight than a Geneseo sorority girl.

 

Geneseo? Seriously? Never would have guessed.

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The Caps have hardly shown up for this entire series. I'm surprised it's made it to seven, and I was gunning for the Caps (any team but Crosby's).

 

However, I have to admit I like the Pens system against the Caps - the Pens have 4 men going deep into their zone to cover D, while the Caps are more traditional. This has led to a lot of Cap traffic in the Pens' zone being shut down. It doesn't help the Caps have lost their legs, even the Great 8 seems to have been floating a bit too much this series.

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I forget the caps coach's name, but I don't like his style. I like him and his attitude, but against the pens he seemed to abandon defense for an all out offensive push even in the 1st two overtimes. It was painfully obvious it wasn't working, but he stuck to it. The caps D has been a complete cluster this series, and it really showed the pens are the better team. Way too many cap turnovers coming out of the D zone.

 

Bruce Boudreau. More information here. (I couldn't help it, sorry!) He's been pretty good for that team, but he's a bit of a "player's coach." This game, though, is freaking horrible, and coaching absolutely has to be part of the reason why the game is freaking horrible.

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Caps net has had more rubber in it tonight than a Geneseo sorority girl.

 

 

Hey I went to Geneseo and so did my wife, woot? :unsure:

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Hey I went to Geneseo and so did my wife, woot? :unsure:

 

I just picked an arbitrary college that actually parties hard. I take out my jealousy in the form of slander. :bag:

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I just saw a guy in the crowd at the caps game wearing an old Sabres home white jersey.

 

SDS is that youuu??? :beer:

 

haha yeah I saw that too. I was at a bar in and once that appeared everyone was like "look! Sabres jersey!" lol

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I couldn't watch the Pens/Caps game, but just the general consensus on here was enough. Oh, well. At least I get to rub it into my in-laws, especially my sister-in-law's husband. He is a diehard Caps fan and turned almost everyone in her family into Caps fans (except for my wife, because I turned her into a Sabres fan B-) ).

 

They said it was impossible but now I believe that it's true: Penguins can fly!!!

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:thumbsup:

 

....for tonight only though, then I root for the Pens-Wings re-match that I predicted prior to the season.

 

I almost never root for the Detroit Red Wings, but tonight I will. I just hate no class teams like the Ducks who are just so dirty. Anyone who saw the end of the game 6 knows what I mean. Their tactic of going after Detroit's best players after the game was bad and I hope the Wings go crazy on them tonight.

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I almost never root for the Detroit Red Wings, but tonight I will. I just hate no class teams like the Ducks who are just so dirty. Anyone who saw the end of the game 6 knows what I mean. Their tactic of going after Detroit's best players after the game was bad and I hope the Wings go crazy on them tonight.

 

I guess rooting isn't the right word for it. I derive no pleasure from any other team winning the cup. I just want other teams fan bases to suffer along with us for as long as possible. Quoting my earlier post and updating it.

 

Under the doctrine of misery loves company I don't root for teams that haven't yet won a cup. After that I go by when they last won the cup. So here is my rooting order based on that criteria with one exception. The 2006 Hurricans were the luckiest cup winners ever and I have to live among these clueless bandwagon fans. They would be #3 on my list of teams to root for, but I will not root for them under any circumstances. Instead I will group them with the teams that have never won.

 

Detroit 2008

Anaheim 2007

Carolina 2006

New Jersey 2004

NYR 1994

Montreal 1993

Pittsburgh 1992

Calgary 1989

Philly 1975

Boston 1972

Chicago 1961

Carolina / Washington / Columbus / Vancouver / St. Louis

 

So the winner of the Wings/ Ducks game tonight will be the team I want to see win. I might have to suspend adhering to this strict criteria in the event of a Bruins - Blackhawks final though. Although Boston won the cup more recently, it was over 30 years ago and my general disdain for all teams in mass-hole country would have to take precedence and force me to get behind the Blackhawks.

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Boston v. Carolina is not on TV tonight? From a WNY perspective it doesn't appear to be on Vs. or CBC(HNiC). :angry:

 

It's on center ice. However, if you watch Versus tonight, right after the Wings/Ducks game (assuming theres no OT) they will air the rest of the Bruins/Canes game, which at that point, should be the entire 3rd period. So not a bad deal. But i'll be at the bar watching both with a few beers.

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It's on center ice. However, if you watch Versus tonight, right after the Wings/Ducks game (assuming theres no OT) they will air the rest of the Bruins/Canes game, which at that point, should be the entire 3rd period. So not a bad deal. But i'll be at the bar watching both with a few beers.

 

Blue--right. Vanek--hoping they put on the third on CBC or VS!

 

Ducks are cooked.

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Yay Detroit! I hate the Ducks, classless they are. Detroit plays an honest game and did last year in the playoffs, too. Chicago vs. Detroit ought to be a good series. I'll be rootin' for Detroit again.

 

Let's see if Boston can take this series after climbing back into it. They're the better team to take on the Penguins, whom I hate, too. So, if the Pens are going to lose, then I must root for Boston although I don't like Chara.

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Yay Detroit! I hate the Ducks, classless they are. Detroit plays an honest game and did last year in the playoffs, too. Chicago vs. Detroit ought to be a good series. I'll be rootin' for Detroit again.

 

Let's see if Boston can take this series after climbing back into it. They're the better team to take on the Penguins, whom I hate, too. So, if the Pens are going to lose, then I must root for Boston although I don't like Chara.

I almost spit out my Jack and Coke reading this. Detroit's D hooks and holds more than New Jersey's and gets called even less. Last year they kept talking about how the Pens couldn't get to loose pucks in front of Detroit's net. When they showed the replays it looked like detroit was using pitchforks holding them back. I won't even get into the goalie interference. They're a good team, but the refs definitely tilt the ice in their favor.

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I almost spit out my Jack and Coke reading this. Detroit's D hooks and holds more than New Jersey's and gets called even less. Last year they kept talking about how the Pens couldn't get to loose pucks in front of Detroit's net. When they showed the replays it looked like detroit was using pitchforks holding them back. I won't even get into the goalie interference. They're a good team, but the refs definitely tilt the ice in their favor.

 

I know, I'm anti-conspiracy theory, and so this response will be discounted, but: is it anything other than a case of the good team gets the good calls (in ALL sports)? Especially when you cite the series against the darling Pens?

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