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Saturday, April 27, 2002 - 04:20 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
The Sens are going to take it man, I can feel it! :-)

It meaning the Cup!!

Flint

Sunday, April 28, 2002 - 07:56 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Habs won! :)

From what I heard Theodore was standing on his head in the net. He really moved his game up several notches. :)

From what I have read the ONLY retaliation was kicking the Bruin's derrierre. There weren't very many penalties in the game. The Bruins commented on the discipline they Habs showed, which was nice to see. Both teams brought one enforcer to the game just in case, but benched him.

It would be great if they could end the series in Montreal.

If the Habs can't take the cup I would be happy to see the Senators or Leafs get it. :)

Go Habs!
Go Leafs!
Go Senators!

And in the World Hockey Championship, GO CANADA!!!

Cinnamongirl

Sunday, April 28, 2002 - 08:41 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Oh man, our Canucks lost the series to Detroit :(. They put up a decent fight but just couldn't do it. We have literally no playoff experience and the youngest team in the league that worked their @$$es off just to make the playoffs. (Best team in the league since Christmas :)). Well all I can say is Watch Out Next Year! cuz we'll be back.

What a hottie that Steve Yzerman is! :)


Go Sens, Leafs & Habs!!!!

Marysafan

Sunday, April 28, 2002 - 10:38 am EditMoveDeleteIP
The Vancouver Canucks played awesome. They were a force to be reckioned with and will be for many years to come. The Wings finally decided to start playing like the Champions they are. The "real" Dominic Hasek decided to show up finally....don't know who that other guy was but sure hope he is gone for the duration! LOL!

Congrats to the Cane's for taking care of those pesky Devils! I am VERY happy happy for Ottawa and also pleased for the Blues...

and always...GO WINGS!

Flint

Monday, April 29, 2002 - 03:22 am EditMoveDeleteIP
McLaren (not McClaren oops) only got suspended until the end of THIS series. Which means if it ends tonight it will be a 2 game suspension. If it goes to a game 7 he will have a whole 3 game suspension. That is whether the Bruins win or lose the series.

If the worst happens and they win, (worst if you are a Montreal fan), he will be back playing on the weekend. 3 games after potentially ending another players career, and definitely ending his season, deliberately. That is the most pathetic punishment I have heard of in a while.

C'est la vie.

Go Habs!!!

Xxlt

Monday, April 29, 2002 - 09:09 am EditMoveDeleteIP
kings!

this year is for ace and mark!

Marysafan

Monday, April 29, 2002 - 10:47 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Game Seven between Toronto and the NY Islanders is going to be something. Toronto without Sudin and the Islanders without Pecca. It is hard to see the Captains go down.

I expect game seven to be brutal. Neither of of these teams is giving up. Ozzie vs Cujo is a pretty good match-up. I look for a slam-fest. these guys play some very intense hockey.

Yes...Go Kings! Take down those Av's!

and of course...as always...GO WINGS!

Dahli

Monday, April 29, 2002 - 04:19 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
No Flint - I don't think it has much to do with me, as a matter of fact a more negative sight I have never seen than the coach of the habs screaming, neck cords popping while making the classy throat cutting motion .... or maybe that was just my perception...
The best 'retaliation' is win the series if they can

Flint

Monday, April 29, 2002 - 08:22 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Woo Hoo! Habs win!!!!! They eliminated the Bruins and will face the Carolina Hurricanes in the next round. :)

Go Habs Go!!!!

Flint

Monday, April 29, 2002 - 08:45 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Dahli it is called over reacting in the heat of the moment. Which is different than over reacting either way after the fact.

Mind you, the NHL has set new boundaries for stupidity in its punishment, so it shouldn't be a surprise that people don't react well when things happen.

When Dale Hunter cross checked Pierre Turgeon in the playoffs, after the whistle blew he was suspended for 21 or 22 games. Turgeon was playing the next game with no impairment. Compare that incident with recent rulings.

McLaren gets what amounts to a 3 game suspension for deliberately injuring someone, and putting them out for at least the rest of the season. Shayne Corson KICKED another player with his skates while the player was down on the ice during a fight and all he got was a 1 game suspension.

After what happened with Marty McSorley the League claimed it was going to put an end to things like that. Instead, since McSorley's indefinite, and rightly so, ban from hockey the leagues decisions have gotten weaker and weaker. When people are not punished properly for their offenses others will over react. That is also what leads to others taking things into their own hands and retaliating.

The same sort of reaction happens outside of sports. Especially when people see a criminal get off lightly, or completely for their crime. They scream, they threaten, and sometimes they take matters into their own hands. It doesn't make it right, but when people can't count on the system for justice that happens.

Like it or not, McLaren WILL be a marked man the first game the Habs and Bruins play next year. Corson will be a marked man the next game he plays. This will be done to send a message to others that if you hurt one of "ours" we will hurt one of "yours". That is what happens when their is no proper punishment.

Looking at the discipline Montreal showed the game after McLaren's assault maybe that won't happen. However, unless the League starts giving out proper and consistent punishments I wouldn't hold my breath.

That is just ...

My 2 cents.

Flint

Monday, April 29, 2002 - 08:50 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Team Canada beat Italy 5-0 at the World Championships. :)

Kitty

Monday, April 29, 2002 - 08:55 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
What's with the booing of the visiting team's National Anthem?

Flint

Monday, April 29, 2002 - 09:01 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Is it Carolina or Ottawa that Montreal faces?

Gail

Tuesday, April 30, 2002 - 04:01 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Go Avs!!

Cinnamongirl

Tuesday, April 30, 2002 - 08:24 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Booing of National Anthem....... Why do we have the National Anthem at hockey games? It just seams so weird to me to see each team made up of a mixture of different nationalities yet they have one anthem, Canadian or American. What about the Russian players, the Swedes, Czechs, etc... I say leave the anthem for the Olympics when it really means something.

Way to go Montreal!! :)

Xxlt

Tuesday, April 30, 2002 - 09:06 am EditMoveDeleteIP
crow is good deep fried......

without much effort......

go Wings........

Admin

Tuesday, April 30, 2002 - 09:17 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Ottawa will face off against the winner of tonights game from what I understand. So that's either Toronto or NY Islanders.

Although I should root for a Canadian team, I must cheer for NY tonight. If Ottawa plays against TO, I want us to win, so they might as well just get the boot tonight and get it over with!

Xxlt

Tuesday, April 30, 2002 - 11:53 am EditMoveDeleteIP
the playing of the nat'l. anthem started during ww II before baseball games, the other sports picked it up later....even during the olympics there are americans w/dual citizenship playing for their 'homelands' so they stand under a different flag and anthem......booing during the anthem, any anthem, is relative to the size
of the fan's cranial vault. the louder the boo the smaller the brain.

Wink

Tuesday, April 30, 2002 - 11:55 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Well put Xxlt. The boobirds are bozo city no matter which country. Go

Enbwife

Tuesday, April 30, 2002 - 01:06 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Congrats Flint on the Habs win last night. It was a wicked game! I'm with Admin on wanting Ottawa to play NY, although many here at work think Ottawa could easily take Toronto this year! Looks like we have tickets for Game 6 should it go that far! Should be an awesome game tonight! :)

Zeyna

Tuesday, April 30, 2002 - 07:04 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Leafs win 4:2 and andvance to the next round

I'll have to eliminate Ottawa from my "cheer for" list, so Go Habs, Go Leafs!!!

Flint

Tuesday, April 30, 2002 - 08:25 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Canadiens vs Carolina Go Habs!!!!

Leafs vs Senators Go ummm ummm

Colorado vs San Jose Go Roy!! I mean colorado!

Saint Louis vs Detroit Go ummm don't really care.

Fans boing the anthem. Stupidity mainly. It started last Sunday at a Pistons-Raptors game. The US fans booed the Canadian Anthem. At the Vancouver game that night Canadians booed the US. It spilled over into NY because 2 Islanders were injured and put out of the game by Leafs with no penalty to the Leafs.

I like seeing the anthem played. Both are played because there used to ONLY be Canadian and US players. Now it is tradition, one I like. We destroy enough traditions, it won't hurt anyone to be quiet and show respect for a few minutes by listening.

Go Habs Go!!!!!!!!!

Flint

Tuesday, April 30, 2002 - 08:31 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Canada beat the US 2-1 at the World Hockey Championships!!! We are 3-0 now. :)

Marysafan

Wednesday, May 01, 2002 - 09:03 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Okay...we are ready for round two.

In the West, all the top seeds advanced:

1 Detroit vs 4 St Louis.....GO WINGS!

2 Colorado vs 3 San Jose...GO SHARKS!

In the East, we have a WHOLE differnt scenario:

3 Carolina VS Montreal....GO HABS

4 Toronto VS Ottawa...GO LEAFS (I have this thing for CUJO...sorry SENS fans.)

Xxlt

Wednesday, May 01, 2002 - 09:25 am EditMoveDeleteIP
sharks! jets! (oops, thought this was west side story.....) wings!