On The Eve of the New Season: North of the Border Editio

[sweetcell]

the last 2 minutes of last night's game, with the sens running on desperation, looked good.  but a team can't keep that up for the other 58 minutes (if only because emery was pulled for part of that time).  
 
 the game wasn't particularly interesting to watch... game 1 had me on the edge of my seat, good plays going both directions.  i expect more interesting hockey than tha, ottawa just didn't play like a team that belonged in the finals (save for emery, who i still feel is a better goalie than giggy).
 
 i'm hoping that the home-ice advantage will ensure that game 3 is closer to #1 than #2.

[ratioci nation]

Originally posted by sweetcell:
  (save for emery, who i still feel is a better goalie than giggy).

put down the pipe

[vansmack]

Originally posted by pdx pollard:
  put down the pipe

Agreed.  What does JS have to do to get the Canadians to show him some love?

[sonickteam2]

Originally posted by vansmack:
   

Originally posted by pdx pollard:
  put down the pipe

Agreed.  What does JS have to do to get the Canadians to show him some love? [/b]

perhaps play for a Canadian team?

[sonickteam2]

Originally posted by vansmack:
   You can't take it to them, especially if you play in the sissy Eastern Conference.

is that like the sissy National League?

[vansmack]

Originally posted by le sonick:
  perhaps play for a Canadian team?

Like the 2004 Gold Medal winning Team Canada in the World Championships?

[vansmack]

Originally posted by le sonick:
  is that like the sissy National League?

Worse.  It's more like the American League where girls running the bases yell "mine" behind a third baseman catching a pop-up.

[sweetcell]

Originally posted by vansmack:
 What does JS have to do to get the Canadians to show him some love?

i never said giguere isn't a great goalie - he most certainly is.  check out my post-game comments for both games of the finals, in both i stated that he played great.  i just happen to think that emery has put in the superior performance to date in this series - this is, in part, a function of the number and quality of shots he's faced (and giguere hasn't).  i guess that was my fault for not inlcuding "... in this series so far" in my assessment.

[sweetcell]

Originally posted by vansmack:
   You can't take it to them, especially if you play in the sissy Eastern Conference.

the eastern conference has won the last 3 cups, so let's not hate on it too much  

[sonickteam2]

Originally posted by vansmack:
   

Originally posted by le sonick:
  perhaps play for a Canadian team?

Like the 2004 Gold Medal winning Team Canada in the World Championships? [/b]

what, he played 2 games? besides, wasnt Heatley the MVP of that tournament?  so even then, Canadians would be rooting for Ottawa first and foremost.  it would be most ridiculous of you to question why Canadians were putting down Giguere at a time like this...dont take it so personally    
 
 i was all about Giguere when he came on the scene, now i'm all about the ...... well now i'm just all about the 36-16 Boston Red Sox. hehe.

[sonickteam2]

Originally posted by vansmack:
   

Originally posted by le sonick:
  is that like the sissy National League?

Worse.  It's more like the American League where girls running the bases yell "mine" behind a third baseman catching a pop-up. [/b]

do we have enough plays for ESPN to make a top 10 Dirty A-Rod plays yet??  i've got the Bronson Arroyo ball slap, the slide into Dustin Pedroia last week....thats 3, i am sure there are plenty more.

[sweetcell]

d'oh.  remember how i was looking for a hockey bar?  i should have known that the  Canadian embassy in DC would have the answer:
 
 News from the Canadian Embassy
 
 Hockey: The Stanley Cup
 The Embassy proudly flies the Ottawa Senators flag on game days during the Stanley Cup final. To see a listing of Stanley Cup viewing events across the United States, click  here.
 
   <img src="http://geo.international.gc.ca/can-am/washington/images/sensflagonroof.jpg" alt=" - " />

[Frank Gallagher]

....so I finally get to see a game on NBC last night. What in God's name has happened to the game over the last couple of years that I've been gone??? "Embelishment aka diving." There was more of that shit last night than there is in San Siro. Were's all the Dale Hunters and Rod Langways gone? Replaced by Ms Jagr and the like I suppose.
 
 I really would like the Sens to win it but it's not looking good at this point.

[vansmack]

Originally posted by Roadbike Mankie:
 "Embelishment aka diving."  

Between that and Alfredsson's late second period shot, I'd be embarrassed to be a Sens fan today.  That's no way to win a hockey game, and it was clear from the start of the series that the referees were going to call a penalty any time an Anaheim player so much as sneezed on a Sen (the exception being anytime Pronger cheap shots somebody, apparently), but to so blatantly take advantage of the situation the way the Sens did from the drop of the puck showed a real lack of integrity on their part.  They don't deserve to win a hockey game playing that way.

[sonickteam2]

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