Official 2008 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs Thread

[Themanofbat]

My picks have been sent...

 

[NewYorkSpider]

I guess I'll post my picks.

Red Wings in 7

1. Red Wings 2. Penguins 3. Penguins 4. Red Wings 5. Red Wings 6. Penguins 7. Red Wings

I hope we get a game 7. I'd love for it to come down to overtime. Those are the memorable games.

 

[Themanofbat]

Four of your picks are different than mine, which means a potential for 8 points on me, and if the Red Wings win in 7, you can take the lead and win this thing.

 

[Stevens25]

 

[VanillaLando]

What a bunch of bunk! NO WAY is Sindey the Indiana Jones character! Chris Chelios should be Indy or Niklas Lidstrom. This is bunk!!!

 

[Immortalfire]

Marian Hossa.

 

[Themanofbat]

When do we get to see everybody's picks...

Game time in about 35 minutes...

 

[NewYorkSpider]

I'll post them right now. I didn't recieve a couple of picks from some people.

 

[NewYorkSpider]

vs

NewYorkSpider - 1. Red Wings 2. Penguins 3. Penguins 4. Red Wings 5. Red Wings 6. Penguins 7. Red Wings
Psycho Symbiote - 1. Penguins 2. Penguins 3. Red Wings 4. Red Wings 5. Penguins 6. Red Wings 7. Penguins
Fran - 1. Red Wings 2. Red Wings 3. Penguins 4. Penguins 5. Red Wings 6. Penguins 7. Red wings
Themanofbat - 1. Penguins 2. Red Wings 3. Penguins 4. Penguins 5. Red Wings 6. Penguins
slinger - 1. Red Wings 2. Penguins 3. Red Wings 4. Penguins 5. Red Wings 6.Penguins 7. Red Wings
QueerMike - 1. Penguins 2. Red Wings 3. Red Wings 4. Red Wings 5. Red Wings
Immortalfire - 1. Penguins 2. Red Wings 3. Red Wings 4. Penguins 5. Penguins 6. Penguins
Showtime - 1. Red Wings 2. Penguins 3. Penguins 4. Red Wings 5. Red Wings 6. Red Wings

 

[Alex The Great]

So it Begins

 

[kane9321]

goaie interference..oh bs....the nhl will do anything to let crosby and these pes win..its a joke

 

[POWdER-man]

The pens are playing ****ty....

 

[NewYorkSpider]

NHL Playoff Pool Standings:

1. Themanofbat - 106 Points
2. Showtime - 98 Points
... NewYorkSpider - 98 Points
4. QueerMike - 96 Points
5. Victor Creed - 87 Points
6. Fran - 86 Points
7. slinger - 82 Points
8. Immortalfire - 78 Points
9. Psycho Symbiote - 74 Points
10. Poeman - 73 Points

 

[Assassin]

I have a feeling this will be in 6 games, detroit barley ever wins a series at home.

 

[Victor Creed]

Damn, my laptop ac adapter finally came in yesterday so I have my internet back. Missed getting my picks in but im sure Detroit will win in 5.

 

[Yurka]

Goddamnit Pens, come on.

 

[NewYorkSpider]

NHL Playoff Pool Standings:

1. Themanofbat - 108 Points
2. Showtime - 98 Points
... NewYorkSpider - 98 Points
... QueerMike - 98 Points
5. Fran - 88 Points
6. Victor Creed - 87
7. slinger - 82 Points
8. Immortalfire - 80 Points
9. Psycho Symbiote - 74 Points
10. Poeman - 73 Points

 

[Shifty]

All those classes Osgood took at Hasek's summer clinic for goalie diving have really paid off.

Still what the hell happened to the Penguins?

 

[NewYorkSpider]

I like the story that Scott Burnside put up at ESPN.com.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/playoffs2008/columns/story?columnist=burnside_scott&id=3412111

It looks like the Penguins are taking the same road at the '83 Oilers as well as other teams.

 

[NewYorkSpider]

Does anyone find it funny that the NBC sideline reporter stands right between the two teams and says what the other team is going to do. I mean it doesn't look like there's a sheet of glass between the teams benches. There's only a gap. You'd think the player sitting the closest would tell the coach the other teams strategy? This of course if the noise of the fans is down while he's talking.

edit: nevermind. It looks like there's a sheet of glass in between.

 

[Alex The Great]

Penguins

 

[VanillaLando]

I just saw that interview at the end of the first with Crosby and there is now way he's 'The Next One.' He looks like a dirtbag with his pornstar mustache. I'm not judging guys but Gretzky never looked like a dirtbag.

 

[NewYorkSpider]

NHL Playoff Pool Standings:

1. Themanofbat - 110 Points
2. Showtime - 100 Points
... NewYorkSpider - 100 Points
4. QueerMike - 98 Points
5. Fran - 90 Points
6. Victor Creed - 87 Points
7. slinger - 82 Points
8. Immortalfire - 80 Points
9. Psycho Symbiote - 74 Points
10. Poeman - 73 Points

 

[Shifty]

Vancouver Canucks defenceman Luc Bourdon has been killed in a motorcycle accident in northern New Brunswick. He was 21.

Bourdon, a promising young defenceman who played his junior hockey with the Moncton Wildcats, Cape Breton Screaming Eagles and Val d'Or Foreurs of the QMJHL, split his first pro season in 2007-08 between Vancouver and the American Hockey League's Manitoba Moose.

He scored two goals and was a plus-7 in 27 games with the Canucks last season.

The Shippagan, New Brunswick native was drafted 10th overall by the Canucks in 2005 and was among the last pre-season cuts at training camp just a few months later. He was an integral part of Brent Sutter's gold medal-winning squad in the 2006 World Junior Hockey Championship and ended the season with Ted Nolan's Moncton Wildcats in the Memorial Cup.

After a nine-game stint with the Canucks the following season, he was returned to the QMJHL and helped lead Canada win its third straight gold medal at the world juniors.

http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=239196&lid=headline&lpos=topStory_main

 

[Immortalfire]

Geesh, how sad.