Stanley Cup Finals
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FamilyGuy said:
FIGHTMAGNET said:
Canucks just scored
BOO YA !!
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Not a huge hockey fan, as I mentioned before a few times... even I jumped up off the couch and cheered at that goal! Sweet!
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Me niether, in fact wasn't even watching the game, but I'm DwnTwn Van. by the CBC building, could tell by the
ROAR !!
Not a particularly exciting game, with little flow and questionable calls. In the 3rd, it seemed like one bad bounce could cost a team the game.
Seems like the Canucks might want to consider stopping the puck and pulling it to their backhand instead of always going for the deflection (the deflection / redirect worked for Torres, but Thomas slid across to stop several others).
Puxin said:
Not a particularly exciting game, with little flow and questionable calls. In the 3rd, it seemed like one bad bounce could cost a team the game.
Seems like the Canucks might want to consider stopping the puck and pulling it to their backhand instead of always going for the deflection (the deflection / redirect worked for Torres, but Thomas slid across to stop several others).
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Lmao, you're from BC and saying all this? You sir need another beer, and need to go enjoy the win! I had to work, only caught the Third period, and it was VERY SURPRISINGLY ENTERTAINING! Less typing about the win, and more drinking and cheering for that VERY SWEET goal. That'll be all over the news stations tomorrow, not just for the importance, but for it's prettiness.
FamilyGuy said:
Puxin said:
Not a particularly exciting game, with little flow and questionable calls. In the 3rd, it seemed like one bad bounce could cost a team the game.
Seems like the Canucks might want to consider stopping the puck and pulling it to their backhand instead of always going for the deflection (the deflection / redirect worked for Torres, but Thomas slid across to stop several others).
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Lmao, you're from BC and saying all this? You sir need another beer, and need to go enjoy the win! I had to work, only caught the Third period, and it was VERY SURPRISINGLY ENTERTAINING! Less typing about the win, and more drinking and cheering for that VERY SWEET goal. That'll be all over the news stations tomorrow, not just for the importance, but for it's prettiness.
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Important isn't the same as exciting. I'm happy they won, but it wasn't a great game to watch (if you saw the whole game, you might be more inclined to agree).
After the early power plays I thought Van carried the play and just shut down the bruins with their speed and neutral zone play. The caused turn over after turn over and only Thomas kept the Bruins in the game later on. Luongo was huge early and tonight was one of the best games I have ever seen him play. So in position all night and rebounds either covered or cleared out of danger.
The winner was exactly what the Canucks had success with all night: speed, positioning and a neutral zone turnover that sent them in only this time Thomas couldn't save the Bruins.
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I hope Hmahuis ins't very hurt. Looked bad.
rocklobster said:
Just got back from the store.
Canucks Jerseys for the family - $443.26
5 Canucks window flags for my truck - $28.40
Canucks pajamas for the family - $136.92
Canucks drinking glasses - $22.36
Canucks colored face and body paint - $16.87
Being on the wagon when the Canucks bring home the cup - Priceless
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rocklobster said:
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Canucks fan is happy.
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Well played. :lol:
Puxin said:
FamilyGuy said:
Puxin said:
Not a particularly exciting game, with little flow and questionable calls. In the 3rd, it seemed like one bad bounce could cost a team the game.
Seems like the Canucks might want to consider stopping the puck and pulling it to their backhand instead of always going for the deflection (the deflection / redirect worked for Torres, but Thomas slid across to stop several others).
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Lmao, you're from BC and saying all this? You sir need another beer, and need to go enjoy the win! I had to work, only caught the Third period, and it was VERY SURPRISINGLY ENTERTAINING! Less typing about the win, and more drinking and cheering for that VERY SWEET goal. That'll be all over the news stations tomorrow, not just for the importance, but for it's prettiness.
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Important isn't the same as exciting. I'm happy they won, but it wasn't a great game to watch (if you saw the whole game, you might be more inclined to agree).
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first five minutes and the last 20 were incredible.
it's f---ing hockey, stanley cup finals. i can't believe some 'fans' actually have the gall to sit back and say "it was a competitive game on the biggest stage in hockey, a duel between the two best goalies in the league, but it coulda been more exciting."
bs, puxin. bs.
grapplethis said:
first five minutes and the last 20 were incredible.
it's f**king hockey, stanley cup finals. i can't believe some 'fans' actually have the gall to sit back and say "it was a competitive game on the biggest stage in hockey, a duel between the two best goalies in the league, but it coulda been more exciting."
bs, puxin. bs.
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There's a pretty big overlap between the parts you found incredible and the parts where the refs weren't calling penalties. After the first few minutes, until the start of the third, only half the game was played 5 on 5. The 13 penalties (including at least 2 questionable ones) in the first and second periods interrupted the flow and detracted from the excitement.
Puxin said:
Did Elliot Friedman just say Boston is 6-0 when leading after 3 periods?????
Quick and painless OT.
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They
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perfect but the Canucks are the best 3rd period team in the league. They showed it again tonight!
Burrows scores 11 seconds in to OT....incredible character from the boys again and again!!!!
time for some personal backpatting.
grapplethis said:
2) milan lucic, a top line winger for the bruins, is a vancouver kid, and played his junior hockey for the WHL's Vancouver Giants (and won a few trophies that i'm kind of unclear on the meaning of). he'll return home for his first finals ever.
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chipped in tonight, but has been more or less awol.
3) the sedin twins. we knew they could play in the regular season. this year, they've shown they can get it done. can they carry this over to the biggest stage in the sport? when they're on their game (and when sidney crosby is injured), they're the two best forwards in the league.
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dominated the third period tonight.
5) which tim thomas will we see? he's a guy who plays and lives on the edge (he fought a bear once or something, or survived a bear mauling, something ridiculous), so he can on one night be one of the top 3 tenders in the league, and on the next night play like he's a backup. if boston doesn't get the former in every game, they will lose the series. they don't have the kind of offence that can keep up with the canucks if they're giving up 4 goals in a game.
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he hasn't been giving up four goals per game, but on the game winner tonight AND in game one, thomas' over-aggressive style spelled his doom. he was way out of his crease after hansen in game one, and he came too far out to challenge burrow's first attempt tonight.
6) Patrice Bergeron is one of the league's most underrated players. when he's healthy though, he's one of the best two way forwards in the sport. if boston is to keep pace with the canucks, bergeron's line needs to keep contributing (and if the krejci-lucic-horton line STOPS scoring, boston's straight up screwed)
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all i remember him doing so far is getting bit.
7) Zdeno Chara and the boston defence are the best at what they do in the game. the canucks haven't had to deal with such a gritty and big (SJ was big, but not as gritty) defensive corps in the playoffs, and rarely saw a defence like this in the regular season. chara should see himself on the ice against the twins a bunch, and given that they aren't terribly fast, chara's size and incredible stick-checking ability could possibly put the twins off their game
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chara and seidenberg have done a good job against both of vancouver's top lines, and chara has been all over the place on offence. tonight, they weren't on the ice against the top line in OT.
8) ryan kesler and alex burrows both seem to find themselves scoring big goals in big games. both are guys that came up in the system, guys who started off as gritty, defensive forwards (burrows was a mother****er to such a degree that it makes his current self look like a nun) who blossomed into 30+ goal scorers seemingly over the course of one off-season. you take that gritty mindset that came from playing that role and you add in deft scoring touch, you have the makings for clutch scorers. i can't think of anyone on boston like either one of them.
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my pride and joy of this analysis. On all 4 of the canuck's goals, burrows or kesler have and either a goal or an assist. and burrows was the best player on the canucks tonight.
10) no matter which way this series goes, there will be a riot in vancouver. i think that's pretty interesting, in a human interest sort of angle.
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it's still gonna happen.