ooooooh snap! bromance, good call on gettin this goin! i hadnt posted in a while and since last season there were only a few of us die hards and a few stragglers, i didnt get it goin this year. glad to see you're taking charge! :D
as far as the playoffs go, they've been bittersweet for me thus far. i REALLY wanted minnesota to beat the avs cause i hate the avs. not to mention i'd like to see adam foote get hosed for hosing us. he knew full well that he was offering way more than the jackets were willing to pay all the while making arrangements to be in calgary (or vancouver... i forget) to play the same night it was announced he'd be traded. his house was already on the market and he had a private jet waiting at the airport. its one thing to leave, but to play us like fools was a shameful move on his part. i hope he doesnt get the satisfaction of winning another cup.
im glad the wings beat nashville also because i cant stand them either. not to mention tootoo's a biatch as well.
i'd like to see the habs beat the bruins, but they've been playing with a lack of urgency the last couple games. with saku not in the line up and their golden boys not being their golden boys, they havent shown much to give the city of montreal something to be optimistic about. if they can pull it together for tomorrow's game, i have full confidence in them making it to the finals.
san jose and calgary. im for the sharkies 100%! i had a couple sharks on my fantasy team this year and for that reason watched more sharks games than any other team (maybe even more sharks games than jackets games, but that's partially because FSN always shows the cavs instead of the jackets when the two are playing simultaneously). im a huge HUGE fan of good goaltending and obviously nabokov has been a fucking BEAST this year. he was on my fantasy team too (along with pascal leclaire, what a tandem!). i also had brian campbell, craig rivet, and milan michalek... all of which helped me out largely. not to mention drew ramenda and randy hahn (the sharks tv play by play) are my favorites in the nhl and i wouldnt mind listening to them throughout the playoffs. i still think they've going all the way to the finals and i said prior to the end of the season that they'll likely win it all. their defense is so solid and their offensive lines work well together. throw on top of that (in my opinion) the best goaltender in the league and you're not lookin too shabby. :D
pens downing the sens in 4 was alright cause the sens turned out to be a farce. they dont have much depth offensively past their top line. also ray emery's a complete shit head. they started out way too good to be true and obviously it turned out to be that way. what a failure this season turned out to be for them. not to mention, sidney crosby, evgeni malkin, marian hossa, jordan staal, marc-andre fleury... they're an exciting team to watch. if the habs dont make it to the finals, i wouldnt mind watching the pens. they certainly have enough weapons to dominate. btw... keiths31, if you read this you know i still like ya, i've become semi-biased towards the eastern conference teams. hehe.
rangers and devils. i had no particular preference there. i cant stand sean avery, and man was he tooling around on brodeur lol. i do like lundqvist though so i suppose if i had to say it, im happier that NYR won than had NJ.
ducks and stars. i actually thought the ducks would be putting up more of a fight than they have. i realize that had selanne and neidermayer not come back halfway through the season, they'd have been a complete bust anyways, but man... this is a whole lot of shitting on the ice happening by the defending stanley cup champions.
capitals and flyers. the nhl would benefit by ovechkin remaining in the playoffs :D. i'd MUCH rather watch the caps win this series. i cant stand briere... he pretty much ruins it for me when it comes to the flyers. ovechkin, ovechkin, ovechkin. i could have just said that. i really like cristobal huet also. i feel bad for him because as soon as the habs dished him off to washington you could tell he felt betrayed. he had no interest in going to the caps. im just glad to see him do so well there. between him and ovechkin and the caps earlier in the season naming boudreau the coach... they've turned this team around. im glad to have seen them pull through to make it to the playoffs.
the first round has been pretty good so far and hopefully the remainder of the playoffs matches it. i'd still say habs vs. sharks in the finals, but should the montreal get eliminated, i would love to see the pens play the sharks. that series would be absolutely brilliant!
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