NHL Playoffs 2014

[Enigmatic_Decay]

GO KINGS GO!

[ABWorsham4]

Dallas Stars come back!

[Gargantua]

Canucks!! :D

….

D:

:(

[LHoffman]

No love for Chicago right now, hope St. Louis takes them down tonight.

[Young Grasshopper]

Montreal Canadiens going for a TB sweep… awesome! GO HABS GO!

[Young Grasshopper]

HABS COMPLETE THE SWEEP…. YA BABY YA!

BRING ON THE BRUINS!

AAAAAHHHHHH… or Detroit  :|

[ABWorsham4]

Stars need to win and make this series best of 3.

[LHoffman]

@Young:

BRING ON THE BRUINS!

More than likely I would think.

I was at the game last night and it really should have been like 4 or 5-0. Boston played solidly, but not in totally dominating fashion. Detroit handed them that win with terribly sloppy play and too few shots taken. Boston did a great job at blocking shots, clogging the middle of the ice and limiting Detroit to perimeter shots (when they actually decided to shoot).

[Young Grasshopper]

@LHoffman:

@Young:

BRING ON THE BRUINS!

More than likely I would think.

I was at the game last night and it really should have been like 4 or 5-0. Boston played solidly, but not in totally dominating fashion. Detroit handed them that win with terribly sloppy play and too few shots taken. Boston did a great job at blocking shots, clogging the middle of the ice and limiting Detroit to perimeter shots (when they actually decided to shoot).

Big props for seeking out playoff tickets, and obtaining playoff tickets…. I would do the same for a playoff game in Montreal, but I only have $40,000 equity on my house.

[LHoffman]

@Young:

Big props for seeking out playoff tickets, and obtaining playoff tickets…. I would do the same for a playoff game in Montreal, but I only have $40,000 equity on my house.

While I have bought Wings playoff tickets in the past, I very fortunately was able to go for free through some business connections.

I understand that even regular season tickets in Montreal are very steeply priced. I cannot imagine what playoff tickets cost. You can get Red Wings playoff tickets at a pretty reasonable rate if you want. Plus you live in Toronto, so that makes it even harder… How far is Montreal from Toronto, like 3 hrs driving or something? That would be like me driving to Chicago to watch a game. Not outrageous, but it is nice to only live 45 min from Detroit.

[CWO Marc]

@LHoffman:

How far is Montreal from Toronto, like 3 hrs driving or something?

More like 5 or 6.  I don’t drive, but I’ve done Montreal-to-Toronto a few times by Via Rail train and that usually takes about 5 hours.

I’ve been to precisely one Canadiens game in my entire life, which sounds sacrilegious for a Montrealer – but by my own standards that’s huge because I have no interest in sports of any kind.  Hockey is in fact the only sport that I understand and for which I can feel any sort of interest when I watch it…which is almost never, except when I happen to hear that it’s playoff time and the Habs are doing well and that some crucial game is coming up.  That was the case on the 22nd, so I briefly checked on the game a couple of times during the evening.  The second time I happened to tune in during the last three minutes of the third period, so I stayed with it and thus got to see the series-winning goal that came in the last minute of play, which was nice.  Out of curiosity, I turned off the sound on my TV to check whether I could hear any whooping and hollering coming through my walls from other apartments in my building.  (Answer: definitely yes.)

[LHoffman]

@CWO:

@LHoffman:

How far is Montreal from Toronto, like 3 hrs driving or something?

More like 5 or 6.  I don’t drive, but I’ve done Montreal-to-Toronto a few times by Via Rail train and that usually takes about 5 hours.

Makes sense. Not sure what I was thinking with 3 hrs. It is about 100 miles farther than Chicago-Toledo.

@CWO:

Out of curiosity, I turned off the sound on my TV to check whether I could hear any whooping and hollering coming through my walls from other apartments in my building.  (Answer: definitely yes.)

That’s cool. We don’t have that here in the US.

[CWO Marc]

@LHoffman:

@CWO:

Out of curiosity, I turned off the sound on my TV to check whether I could hear any whooping and hollering coming through my walls from other apartments in my building.  (Answer: definitely yes.)

That’s cool. We don’t have that here in the US.

And that was just in an apartment building, so you can just imagine what the reaction would have been like in a downtown sports bar.  Hockey is the closest thing there is in Quebec to a state religion.

[Young Grasshopper]

Toronto playoff tickets are much worst, there’s a reason why the Maple Leafs are the richest team in the league and it has nothing to do with winning. There’s only one thing you need to know about the contrast of hockey ticket pricing between Montreal and Toronto, when you’re watching games in each city… count the number of children under 12 yrs old sitting in good seats at the Bell Center vs. the ACC…

…and there you have it.

[Young Grasshopper]

That was the one Detroit needed… now all they can do is prolong the series by winning at least one more in Boston.

[LHoffman]

@Young:

That was the one Detroit needed… now all they can do is prolong the series by winning at least one more in Boston.

A shame because they played so well…

[Young Grasshopper]

@LHoffman:

@Young:

That was the one Detroit needed… now all they can do is prolong the series by winning at least one more in Boston.

A shame because they played so well…

I know, but trust me… you don’t want anything to do with Montreal this year anyways.

[General 6 Stars]

He He He He

[axis_roll]

Go Blackhawks!

That’s the way to repeat St. Louis playoff history and beat them four straight after looking the first two.

Colorado (assuming they win) should be another great series.  Probably much less hitting!

[Young Grasshopper]

Blame it on Miller…. why not?