2010 Stanley Cup Playoffs Thread

[chuckywang]

has there ever been a 7 vs 8 conference final matchup in the NBA or NHL?

No, only a couple of 8 seeds made it out of the first round in the NBA and they all lost in the second round.

 

the knicks made the finals as an 8 seed

 

Hmm, must have forgot about that. I just remember the Nuggets and Warriors.

[Magnetic Curses]

has there ever been a 7 vs 8 conference final matchup in the NBA or NHL?

No, only a couple of 8 seeds made it out of the first round in the NBA and they all lost in the second round.

 

the knicks made the finals as an 8 seed

 

Hmm, must have forgot about that. I just remember the Nuggets and Warriors.

 

it was in the lockout-shortened year, so it may have been easy to forget.

[bcl412]

Pretty sweet comeback. I'm rooting for Montreal because I want an original 6 finals match up but I have nothing against Philly.

[hawkeyecub]

i want no part of either of those teams in the cup finals

 

Bring on Philly. Montreal is scary because of Halak and their shot-blocking at times along with Cammalleri looking like a stud.

[hawkeyecub]

Truffle : Flyers season = erik : Cubs games

[sneakypower]

wow, epic bitch fit in this thread, even by truffle's standards

[RedFlash]

Talk about rough, the Bruins fans on HFBoards.com are roasting everybody from the owner to just about the towel boy. They want player A,B,C,D,E, etc, gone, but the one person they gree on that should be gone is their head coach.

 

With that said there are a few Bruins fans that are jumping on the Hawks bangwagon. Some are doing it because of they respect the Hawks talent level, but others are mostly doing it out of spite of the other EC teams. One guy even went on to say, "if chicago keeps playing like they did they breeze to the cup".

[Careless]

gotta be considered one of the biggest chokes in sports history, doesn't it?

What would come between it and Red Sox/Yankees 2004?

 

not sure. blowing a 3-0 series lead AND a 3-0 game 7 lead (at home) has to put it right up there.

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Game four in the baseball series was basically the Blackhawks game 5 against the Preds if the Preds had been up 3-0 and lost the next three. The odds were ridiculously stacked against the Red Sox when they won game 4

[chuckywang]

I just bet with my friend 4:1 that the Stanley Cup champs come out of the West. Good bet or no?

[Hairyducked Idiot]

I just bet with my friend 4:1 that the Stanley Cup champs come out of the West. Good bet or no?

 

No. 2:1 I might take. But 4:1 is way too much.

[TruffleShuffle]

I was hoping to see a truffle post since they came back. He probably stopped watching the game and is doing something else and has no idea.

 

i did know what was going on but i turned the game off after lucic scored his second goal. had some work-related e-mails to send and then needed a shower before going out, and by the time i was done all of that the game was tied.

 

the flyers lost games 1, 2 and 3 (watched all of every game), won game 4 (watched parts of it) then won games 5 and 6 (didn't watch either - game 5 i was sleeping before work, game 6 was blacked out and i had to be at home). since the flyers kept playing bad when i had the tv on i turned it off. turned it on after 3-3 and the flyers had an awful PP followed by lots of boston pressure and them hitting the post once. turned it back off immediately.

 

still having a hard time getting excited about the flyers since leighton is lousy and our problem in the playoffs for the last 20 years has been goaltending (plus carter is still out), but even making it this far is pretty cool.

[TruffleShuffle]

wow, epic bitch fit in this thread, even by truffle's standards

 

update on the stanley cup favorite red wings please

[Careless]

[hockey quasi-noob question] Why was game 6 blacked out?

[UMFan83]

still having a hard time getting excited about the flyers since leighton is lousy and our problem in the playoffs for the last 20 years has been goaltending (plus carter is still out), but even making it this far is pretty cool.

 

Home ice advantage and getting to face the 8th seed isn't enough to get you excited. That Halak kid has looked damn good, but this is still a bottom rung playoff team we're talking about here. The Canadiens have been ridiculously outplayed in the playoffs, it's honestly a miracle that they are still playing. While I'd make Montreal the slight favorite, it would not be very crazy to see the Flyers get to the Cup Finals. Of course they will be waxed by the Sharks or Hawks but whatever.

[17 Seconds]

still having a hard time getting excited about the flyers since leighton is lousy and our problem in the playoffs for the last 20 years has been goaltending (plus carter is still out), but even making it this far is pretty cool.

 

The Canadiens have been ridiculously outplayed in the playoffs

 

i wouldn't go that far. against washington yes. but against pittsburgh i thought they held their own and didn't just rely on halak. from the games i saw, they skated pretty well against the pens.

 

they're a dangerous team.

[TruffleShuffle]

the part about possibly winning the eastern conference championship is exciting, but i've seen that before. what i'd like is for one of my teams to win a league championship since none of them have done it since 1983, and this year's flyers team isn't good enough. i'll enjoy the ride but i still have to be realistic about what they can accomplish.

[TruffleShuffle]

oh and lol @ mark recchi:

 

That's a terrible call. In a 3-3 series in a Game 7, you don't make that call. It was a terrible call. Terrible judgment [on the linesman's] part.

 

apparently because it's game 7 you ignore the rules of hockey and allow one team to play with an extra player on the ice. come on mark, that's one of the few penalties that they HAVE to call in these types of games (along with high sticking, which gave the B's their first two goals).

[NewUserName]

oh and lol @ mark recchi:

 

That's a terrible call. In a 3-3 series in a Game 7, you don't make that call. It was a terrible call. Terrible judgment [on the linesman's] part.

 

apparently because it's game 7 you ignore the rules of hockey and allow one team to play with an extra player on the ice. come on mark, that's one of the few penalties that they HAVE to call in these types of games (along with high sticking, which gave the B's their first two goals).

 

I would like to see the NHL call too many men on the ice at all times...they allow way to much leeway at times that leaves room for question in situations like the game last night. I remember how frustrating delay of game penalties were before they just started to call all pucks over the glass from the defensive zone. Now the only question is did it hit something on the way.

 

I think the NHL would benefit from actually calling too many men on the ice at all times. It would probably put a huge dent in the trap style of play and it would take subjectivity away from officials.

[Drew Doughty]

the habs were dangerous against pittsburgh and washington because of weak defense and average goaltending. cammalleri and gionta are elite finishers (cammy esp., even though i don't like him). philly's defense is MUCH MUCH MUCH better than either of pittsburgh's or washington's. the goaltending is probably even at worse.

 

the habs have had exactly 3 players doing anything offensively so far in the playoffs and one of them is a 20 year old rookie defensemen. i don't want to say they don't have a shot or something like that because i've said it twice and they've won both, but i think philly is a much better team.

[hawkeyecub]

Here's a hockey question I've been wondering for a while. Can someone explain to me why scoring was so much higher in the 80's than it is now with the post-lockout rule changes? Is it just better goalies or better goalie equipment? Is there still that much more trapping than there was?

[Derwood]

seed-wise, is this the worst Eastern Conference Final ever? Or at least in a long time?

[Drew Doughty]

Here's a hockey question I've been wondering for a while. Can someone explain to me why scoring was so much higher in the 80's than it is now with the post-lockout rule changes? Is it just better goalies or better goalie equipment? Is there still that much more trapping than there was?

 

well it's better goalies and better defensemen now. the game always goes through cycles -- just look at baseball. scoring was way down in the nhl in the late 90's/2000's from where it is now.

[TruffleShuffle]

Here's a hockey question I've been wondering for a while. Can someone explain to me why scoring was so much higher in the 80's than it is now with the post-lockout rule changes? Is it just better goalies or better goalie equipment? Is there still that much more trapping than there was?

 

i think better goalie technique and better goalie equipment have a lot to do with it. watching classic hockey games from the 70s and 80s, giving up a goal on unscreened shot from the top of the circles was not considered a softie back then. now it is. the area of open net to shoot at looks much larger 20-30 years ago than today.

[sweetpeteman]

seed-wise, is this the worst Eastern Conference Final ever? Or at least in a long time?

 

 

Considering that its the 7 and 8 seed, and therefore automatically the worst (seed-wise) possible, yes.

[Magnetic Curses]

Here's a hockey question I've been wondering for a while. Can someone explain to me why scoring was so much higher in the 80's than it is now with the post-lockout rule changes? Is it just better goalies or better goalie equipment? Is there still that much more trapping than there was?

 

i think better goalie technique and better goalie equipment have a lot to do with it. watching classic hockey games from the 70s and 80s, giving up a goal on unscreened shot from the top of the circles was not considered a softie back then. now it is. the area of open net to shoot at looks much larger 20-30 years ago than today.

 

yeah, pretty much the rise of the butterfly technique and giant pads.