Official NHL playoffs thread.

[oogabooga]

And Blake deflects past some open net into the net...ting. Damnit.

 

[oogabooga]

THIS GAME IS OMGWTFBBQ AMAZING. Both teams are just playing out of their minds right now.

 

[sandorski]

Another team eliminated.

 

[oogabooga]

SHARKS WIN! SHARKS WIN!

This game was outa control in the third and second. Both teams were absolutely out of control. Both goaltenders made some absolutely incredible saves.

Thornton actually came up in the clutch!

 

[Train]

meh. Not the way I wanted to go out, but oh well.

 

[Kaervak]

To Detroit:



LLLLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSSSSSEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Quiksilver]

Meh, I'm more than a little confused about why the hell bertuzzi was on the ice for that last minute or so; guy can't win a puck battle to save his life.

Anyway see ya next year.

WCF should be interesting; Chicago VS SJ (Yes, I'm already counting Canucks out.)

 

[GoSharks]

To Detroit:



LLLLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSSSSSEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!

Classy.

 

[JohnAn2112]

SHARKS WIN! SHARKS WIN!

This game was outa control in the third and second. Both teams were absolutely out of control. Both goaltenders made some absolutely incredible saves.

Thornton actually came up in the clutch!

Thornton, Marleau, and Nabby all came up big. This will help them shake the "choker" labels off. I was almost in tears tonight when the buzzer went off in the third.

 

[Dominato3r]

Sharks: please harvest on Kanes mullet if he gets to you guys. I 'nucks lose I'm jumping onto the shark bandwagon.

 

[oogabooga]

I thought this was pretty funny - the picture and the comments on it:
http://www.stlouisgametime.com/2010/5/8/1464241/thank-you-san-jose-sharks-crush

It was a pretty good series. The 4-1 doesn't nearly reflect how close some of these games were.

When the sharks showed up and the wings didn't, we had the first period of game 1.
When the wings showed up and the sharks didn't, well we got game 4.

When both teams played with each other and on par - we have all the 1 goal games. The sharks got lucky on bounces / opportunities and well yea.

The officiating was terrible terrible terrible. I'll admit that Detroit was on the sucking end of more of the calls, but it wasn't tin-foil conspiracy bad.

Classy.

I'm guessing that the number of posts made by that guy in this thread before that one is... zero.

Thornton, Marleau, and Nabby all came up big. This will help them shake the "choker" labels off. I was almost in tears tonight when the buzzer went off in the third.

The last 1.5 minutes had me on my feet. The 6 on 4 at the end had me damn near jumping. Watching them clear out of the zone I had a huge shit eating grin on my face. It was great to watch

My friend in the bay area who hates hockey tuned into the game to watch, and says he even liked it a little.

 

[oogabooga]

And for the lazy - from the article:

In honor of the Sharks' win, we give you a photo of their newest fan. It's not often that you can pinpoint the exact moment that a guy leaps off of one bandwagon straight onto the awaiting deck of another bandwagon, but we did it tonight.

I wonder if this dude threw his red jersey in the trash and then stopped off at the Sharks' pro shoppe to pick up his new Heatley 15 jersey before heading home to see how 'his Yankees' did tonight.

 

[Via]

A part of me would rather have the Hawks face the Sharks than the Wnngs.

The Wings seem to get inside the Hawk's collective heads.

Now I get my wish; we'll see what happens.

edit - IF the Hawks don't implode against the 'nucks.

 

[Dominato3r]

I didnt know marleau was french

know hopefully the Hans can troll the pens and I can see a Boston/ Montreal conference final

 

[GoSharks]

I didnt know marleau was french

He isn't.
The uninformed love to give his name a French pronunciation, but that is actually wrong.

 

[Dominato3r]

He isn't.
The uninformed love to give his name a French pronunciation, but that is actually wrong.

At the olympics they pronounced it mah - r - low. In the post game interview it seemed like he had a french accent.

 

[Slew Foot]

I thought that even if you were shooting if you nailed a guy in the head it was a high stick?

 

[sandorski]

I thought that even if you were shooting if you nailed a guy in the head it was a high stick?

Nope.

 

[eldorado99]

That was a lot of blood!

 

[Slew Foot]

Interesting... well, at any rate, I hope Salo had all the kids he wanted. Ouch

 

[Dominato3r]

Seabrook just saved his team a 4th goal, otherwise Kesler would have scored on that shorthanded break.

 

[eldorado99]

Come on guys, just hold on for 3:30 more!

 

[eldorado99]

I want to see an empty netter in this one.

Sweet! It happened!

 

[sandorski]

Woot! Victory!!

 

[KeithTalent]

Woot indeed. Great stuff. :thumbsup:

KT