The Official NHL Playoffs Thread

[Wes Mantooth]

one of the most spectacular plays so far in the first round...
Willie Mitchell save in game 4 ( video clip here ).

[stealthcow]

I've been very impressed with willie mitchells play.

[Wires]

[censored]. Back to Dallas.

[g-bebe]

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[censored]. Back to Dallas.

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Damn it. That was a stupid penalty to take. Didn't even need that second defender to catch up on the bad change. [censored].

For teams up 3-1 in best of 7 series', it's something like 92.6% of the teams leading 3-1 have won the series (something like 130/145). I know Vancouver is one of those teams to have lost before... was against the Wild a couple years back, I think. I almost swear they've done it against the Blues, as well. They must win this series... MUUUUUSTTT!!

[Hopey]

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Okay, here goes:

1 Buffalo vs 8 New York Islanders -- Buffalo in 4
2 New Jersey vs 7 Tampa Bay -- NJ in 5
3 Atlanta vs 6 New York Rangers -- NYR in 6
4 Ottawa vs 5 Pittsburgh -- Ottawa in 6

WEST

1 Detroit vs 8 Calgary Detroit in 6
2 Anaheim vs 7 Minnesota Anaheim in 7
3 Vancouver vs 6 Dallas Vancouver in 7
4 Nashville vs 5 San Jose SJ in 6

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I may have been off a bit in the number of games, but all of my predictions for series winners still look good. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

I'm praying that Detroit takes the next two. I don't want that Flames guy to come back to gloat. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

[baumer]

I'm pretty sure the Penguins lost because they only had two people that were hitting Ottawa. George Laraque should have been on the ice in the 2nd period when things got a lot more physical.

It's too bad they didn't put up more of a fight. Once they failed to score on all their chances in the 1st period, Ottawa just started playing harder. The answer was on the bench all along.

George Laraque is way underrated.

[Hopey]

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I'm pretty sure the Penguins lost because they only had two people that were hitting Ottawa. George Laraque should have been on the ice in the 2nd period when things got a lot more physical.

It's too bad they didn't put up more of a fight. Once they failed to score on all their chances in the 1st period, Ottawa just started playing harder. The answer was on the bench all along.

George Laraque is way underrated.

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The Penguins lost because they didn't have enough depth -- especially at defence. They had one good scoring line, and one decent defensive pairing. All Ottawa had to do was shut down the Pens' top line. For the most part, they did so. The only time they weren't successful at shutting down Crosby/Malkin/Roberts was for 15 minutes in the third period in game 2.

The Sens got scoring from all 4 of their lines. That was the difference. The Pens defence wasn't deep enough to shut down all 4 of Ottawa's lines.

[TruFloridaGator]

Devils are going down tonight!

[WayAbvPar]

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Canucks' PP makes me cry

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FYP. Dallas gets more chances on their PP than they do.

[DonkeyKongSr]

So, who's ready for the Ducks? My nizzle Snoop Dogg is in the hizzy.