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I cant see anyone willing to take on his deal. We had to offer more than anyone else was willing to pay to get him in the first place.
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I think they were gassed, the long break is going to do them good. They were gassed, and I was thinking about that this morning. Last year guys like Toews, Kane, Keith, Seabrook played a ton more hockey. Regular season, Olympics and all the way through the playoffs. At any time during that series with Philly (or any time during the playoffs at all) was it as obvious that they were out of steam as it was last night? What's that go back to? Conditioning. And it reminds me of those really honest quotes Keith gave a few weeks ago about how he wasn't as focused last summer and during the season. Basically admitting to a Cup hangover. Did he not work as hard to prepare himself for the long season? It's easy for me to say from my couch, but I think it's a fair question. They were crazy gassed in OT of game 6 too. I think looking back on it next year its probably a good thing they got knocked out when they did. They will really benefit from this rest. I have no doubts several players suffered from a "cup hangover" this year. You would see spurts when the Hawks looked like the team they were last year and other times when they looked like they should be competing for last place with Edmonton. There is no way this team loses in regulation at home to Edmonton twice in a 2 week period if they are focused and flying on all cylanders.
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Agreed. That's the game I lament in that series. Not as much game 7. Although it would have been nice to score more than 3 points over the last 10 minutes of the 2nd quarter. We had a ~12 point 4th quarter lead and blew it. Then Rondo "defending" by slapping Miller upside the head on an open layup attempt and him missing the front end. Ugh.
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It may hurt now, but when you look back on the series in 5 years, you'll realize how awesome it was. I doubt it.... I don't exactly look at the Bulls-Celtics series fondly. A few good memories but mostly bad ones. If I do enjoy it, it won't be because we went from 3-0 to 3-3. It will because it was an ejoyable series with enjoyable moments. I don't really care if they went from 3-0 to 3-3 if they didn't finish it. I cant really articulate what I am trying to say. Mostly that going from 3-0 to 3-3 means nothing. No one remembers when the Mavericks blew a 3-0 lead about 8-9 years ago. Hell I cant even remember what team they blew the 3-0 lead to. Anyways, they won in game 7 and now no one talks about it.
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My final word on this as I need to goto bed. The Vancouver Canucks did everything they possibly could to choke away the season. They pretty much handed the game to us despite dominating it. What we didn't count on was having an even bigger choker playing for us. I promise I'll get over bashing Campoli eventually. Here's to a mostly crappy, sometimes exciting, ultimately depressing title defense.
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Sucks to be on the losing end of 2 of the best recent playoff series in 2 sports. To steal from Sulley: only my teams... lol The thing is, how many times in your life will you see your favorite NHL team(or sports team) come back and take the number one overall seed or team in the regular season to a Game 7 after being down 3-0? Yes, the loss may sting now, but the fact that the Blackhawks were able to get to a Game 7 was entertaining to watch. That's what makes it hurt. I know the Hawks weren't going to win the title. I know they had no business even being in this series. The comeback to game 7 means nothing without the final win IMO. Now it's just, Vancouver had 4 chances to close out us and they did on the 4th try. Meh, again I'll try to rationalize it tomorrow. Certainly getting the series to 3-3 was better than them finishing off the sweep, albeit more painful in the end.
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Yeah that is the kind of rationality I'll save for tomorrow. Can't bring myself to think like that right now.
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Sucks to be on the losing end of 2 of the best recent playoff series in 2 sports. To steal from Sulley: only my teams... lol
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Crawford and Campoli are trending worldwide on twitter right now.
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I know... I mean I have the Bulls but I know that feeling. You have to go from extremely engaged in sports to nothing. It's a weird feeling because there's just nothing going on. I know once the Bulls season is over, I can't see myself getting into the Cubs at all, so it will probably be a huge sports lull until September if the Bears are playing
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Twitter search for "Campoli" is uncovering a lot of Senators fans talking about how mch they hated him when he was in Ottawa for that exact same crap he just did. Seriously its so fitting our biggest issue defensively this season ended our season. Learn how to clear the puck next year defense.
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I think Vancouver has a shot to win the Cup now that they exorcised their Blackhawk demons.
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All through the OT, I was thinking how I was going to take it if they lost. I honestly didn't know. Taking it pretty hard right now. Mostly because of the PP we had and the sharp play. I started to raise my hands when he shot that because I assumed it was in. I'm gonna have nightmares about that.
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Holy [expletive] Campoli, I didnt even realize how bad that turnover was. [expletive] you and leave my team immediately.
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Congrats Vancouver, you choked 99.99% of the way to a vastly inferior team.
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We had been making awful turnovers in our defensive zone all night, I kept waiting for one to burn us. They tried 3 different times to clear it and couldn't just before that. Really shitty way to end a great series
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Fitting that a turnover in our own zone ends the season..
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The Hawks PP is the worst I've ever seen at getting the puck into their zone during a PP
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OMG i thought it was over. What a [expletive] huge save for Lu. You can tell the fans are nervous...they didn't even chant "Luuuuu" after that
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PP!!! Lets do it!!!!! We're due!!!!
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Here we go.......
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Corey Crawford can have sex with my girlfriend if he wants to. As of right now he's gotta be the number 1 star of the game. We got absolutely dominated, and we are one bad bounce from winning. Think about it, Corey Crawford had to stop a penalty shot, had a couple of instance where he was just getting peppered, then had to fight off a PP just to get here. Amzing.
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I think we're gonna take this. For one, we were slowly starting to get some good chances the later part of the 3rd (pre goal). And two, the Canucks pressure is back with them and its real. Luongo is one bad reaction away from forever living in infamy in Vancouver.
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That's Canucks hockey!
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I kinda just want to get this to OT so I can relax
