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thats why im getting a bolland or seabrook jersey I'm getting really crabby about this. This city's sports fans weren't just disinterested, they were openly hostile to hockey for years. They should get off my lawn! and they'll be the first fans to boo antti niemi the first time he has a bad game next season. or wonder why toews isn't scoring 120 points. or why byfluglien isn't on a 40 goal pace. Cubs fans jump on new players when they don't immediately perform. Hell, everybody was bailing on the Cutler bandwagon after the first game last year. It's about a large, passionate sports market. Not bandwagoning. i hate all those people too. the same people who will probably start booing castro soon.

i remember being outside of the st pete times forum after the lightning won the cup in game 7 and seeing a group of about 6 or 7 teenage girls walk by..... every single one of them wearing a brand new brad richards jersey. one of them also was holding a fake stanley cup she made out of aluminum foil. die hard fans for sure.

thats why im getting a bolland or seabrook jersey I'm getting really crabby about this. This city's sports fans weren't just disinterested, they were openly hostile to hockey for years. They should get off my lawn! and they'll be the first fans to boo antti niemi the first time he has a bad game next season. or wonder why toews isn't scoring 120 points. or why byfluglien isn't on a 40 goal pace.

right now i'm actually glad i don't live near chicago. bandwagon fans piss me off like you wouldn't believe. i live near tampa, so i saw it with the lightning in 04, and the rays a couple years ago. just disgusting.

thats why im getting a bolland or seabrook jersey

Ozney, Oney, and Ozzie Jr. i didn't believe you until i looked it up. jesus

good times in chicago this summer

finally finished watching the replay of the game. i didn't notice when i watched it live, but holy [expletive] is scott hartnell the biggest diver ever. dives on seabrook's "elbow", dives on keith's "slash". dude was flopping all over the place. just wanted to point that out, since i knew there was a reason i hated that guy. plus he has a perm.

definitely burish but it would be funny if it was niemi or somebody like that who did it Well and there were tons of people in that locker room that normally wouldn't be...family members and such. but it's much funnier if you imagine it was a player

definitely burish but it would be funny if it was niemi or somebody like that who did it

let them be bitter. i love it. and yeah, losing versteeg, ladd, and sopel is going to make us terrrribbbllleee

wtf. he looks mid 30's

There aren't many Hispanic "Darrells" well he did play somebody named doogie

wtf even happened to johnsson? i knew he was hurt, but never knew what happened and was too lazy to ever look it up despite him being gone for months

apprently that dude has played characters named tuco, paco (twice), rico, and balco.

that's why i assumed he was just sulleying it when he flipped out after games 3 and 4

dvr'd the replay of the game from 4 AM on NHLN and watching the whole thing. i'm glad edzo finally stopped biting his tongue when they called that EMBARRASSING penalty on hossa.that's the one word i kept saying when that happened live. just an embarrassing call. it was pretty disgusting how the refs clearly wanted to play a factor in the game. i don't mean in favor of philly, but just in general. the 2nd call on pronger was pathetic too. it's game 6 of the stanley cup finals. stop trying to impact the game you morons.

it's tuco!!

What if we don't win the draft lottery to get Kane? What if we don't lose the draft lottery to get stuck with Barker instead of Ovechkin or Malkin? Here's a fantastic one: What if Niemi doesn't beat out Crawford on the last day of exhibition season? sports are weird. it seems like it takes a perfect storm to win a championship, yet each sport has one team do it every single year.

i was just watching the highlights of game 2 of the canucks series. that 5-3 goal to make it 2-0 early was definitely the low point of the playoffs. we looked DONE, and not in a "im too close to this team so i overreact when anything negative happens" way. they really looked finished.

keith is a magician on the blue line, but i dont know what happened to him in terms of controlling the puck in our zone. it was a season long thing and never reallt corrected itself. i don't remember him doing it the previous season, but holy crap did that guy make a ridiculous amount of atrocious turnovers this season. still a badass though. one of the most fluid d-men i've ever watched

The heart of it was that dexter thought that the March swoon was a sign of something fundamentally flawed with the team and that we'd crash and burn in the playoffs, especially without a new goalie. it was more than march though. they were decidedly average for a stretch of at least 2 months. in that stretch they were barely over .500, and had a goal differential of close to even. now that i look back on it, it was probably mostly what my brother kept claiming to be the problem at the time. they seemed to be coasting and lost the intensity. they're a young team, got off to a ridiculous start, and everybody was crowning them as champs. i think it even carried into the postseason just a bit in that nashville series. it wasn't until game 2 or 3 of the canucks series where i saw that fire and swagger come back. so maybe it was good that we ended up playing vancouver. it probably fired us up. it certainly fired byfuglien up. it makes you wonder about sooo many little things. what if we beat detroit on the final day of the regular season and get the 1 seed? everything would be different. what if we had gotten a goalie at the deadline? maybe that goalie sucks during the playoffs and we don't win anything. what if philadelphia loses the shootout to NY on the last day of the regular season and miss the playoffs? maybe we're playing washington or pittsburgh instead.

On a dramatic, overtime game winner by the face of the franchise, to cap off an epic six-game series of high-scoring, one-goal games. :yahoo: after nearly being eliminated in the first round by a 7 seed, if not for a SH goal with seconds remaining and then an additional 4 minutes of PK in OT (if we go down 3-2 in that series, then the odds are that nashville would have won) and after being embarrassed in game 1 of the second series, followed by going down 2-0 immediately in game 2. seriously, i always forget about that. we looked COMPLETELY done when we went down 2-0 in game 2 of the vancouver series. i remember that's when i was watchin an online deef and could hear the announcers talking to each other during commercial breaks, saying stuff like "they are completely paralyzed", "they cant skate", and "i cant believe how lost they look" and then they went 12-3

basically about whether or not our 2-3 month sucktitude in the second half of the season was more than just a slump

and then milbury ruined it by being a dick