Should be a good battle between the Kings and Devils may the best team win and I hope it goes 7 games so we can have just a little more hockey.
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Should be a good battle between the Kings and Devils may the best team win and I hope it goes 7 games so we can have just a little more hockey.
Resident Hockey Fanatic
Im dreading the 5 day layoff with no hockey. I can't even think about what to do the day after the cup is won. It's always a time of silence at my house.
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I enjoyed game 1 from a hockey fanatic's point of view. Small mistakes made by both teams that will be corrected by game 2. I think were in for a great series. What an amazing pass by one of my favorite players Justin Williamson to Kopitar for that winning goal. Brodeur was amazing and made you forget he is an old man. Those saves in the 2nd and third period were something else. I know the loss stings a bit Sean but i still feel that overall Jersey played a better game one.
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Quick was amazing in game 2 and the flat out only reason the Kings won. Jersey outplayed the Kings in every other part of the game. Tough loss last night as i really thought the Devils were going to pull it out. It's not over, but game 3 is a big one.
The other day I was talking to someone after Game 1 and I said the Devils remind me of the '96 Yankees. They've got a good veteran presence, great role players and some up and coming superstar type rookies. Nobody expected much out of them and here they are playing for the championship. After watching this team all year, the Devils are not out of it yet. They are totally capable or rattling off 3 or 4 wins in a row. In 96 the Yankees went down 0-2 to the far superior Braves and came back and won the next 4. I'm not saying that will happen but it wouldn't phase me if it did. The last two games could have easily gone the other way and the series could be 2-0 Devils or 1-1 tied but it's not. The Kings got the breaks in overtime and they're up. They lost two heartbreaking games and there's no getting around that but sometimes, that can make a team stronger (go ask the 2001 Diamondbacks) The way the Devils win this series now is go win 2 in a row in LA (it'll be the first time the home team lost in the first 4 games) and make sure LA looses at least 1 on the road. The Devils are a great road team too so I wouldn't count them out yet. 3-0 is a mountain but 2-0 is a hill to get over. Game 5 is paramount for NJ tomorrow night.
One other thing. I do not get why this series started when it did. Wednesday was way too late to start play and then to play Game 2 on Saturday is too long a lay off between game. Yet when the teams have to travel across the country they only get one day. As the series goes on the momentum build but just look at the 1st 10 minutes of Game 1 and you can see the NHL sucked all the juice out before it got going. Too much anticipation is sometimes just as bad as none at all.
"Many Shubs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Sloar that day I can tell you."
Well..tonight could be it for the NHL and Game 4 up here as gotten 0 attention. Since the Rags were eliminated the only talk you here of hockey on sports radio is during the updates that basically just tell you what time the game stars. The Devils need to pull off a miracle on ice type comback which has only been done once sixty years ago. Do I think it's gonna happen...no but if there's a team that can rattle 4 wins in a row againts the Kings, it be the Devils. What really gets me is that the difference of this series is really 2 (maybe 3 goals) The two most obvious is the OT Goal in Game 1 and the OT Goal and Game 2. If the Devils get either of those, it's a different series. The other one that sticks out is the first goal of Game 3. All year long those plays are blown dead because of intent to blow the whistle and I watched incredulously as LA was allowed to hack and hack and hack long after the puck was covered under Brodeur's pad until he was pushed out of the way and the puck slid into the net. The only thing blown there, was the call. Sure the Devils lost that game 4-0 but that first goal was a huge momentum shifter in that game and it shouldn't have been. The Devils have never lead in the series though and I thought that was a key during the Rags series, a key for game 3 and it's certainly key for tonight. If the Devils can get one tonight then they live to fight another day and you never know what could happen going the other way. I wached it in 2004 when the Yankees went up 3-0 and lost in 7. It wasn't that the Red Sox out played them, it was that from the 7th inning of Game 4 on, every single break went against NY. So it could happen, but the Devils gotta score and they gotta score first. Marty has done all he can but 2 goals in 3 games of the Stanley Cup Finals is not gonna get it done. LA laid an egg against Phoenix when they had a chance to shut the door in that series too and if it wasn't for some really terrible officiating, would have blown Game 5 so while the series looks all but over right now, that 4th win is sometimes the hardest to get.
Last edited by spacecaps; Jun 6, '12 at 4:16 PM.
"Many Shubs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Sloar that day I can tell you."
Phantom call on Clarkson was crap. 12 minutes left in the game and they call a penalty on him for creating a breeze.
I thought the pipe should have gotten the second star tonight. It blocked two key shots in the game.
Kovy got a goal. Empty net or not that's gotta be great for his confidence. He'll have tow days to heal up now and be ready for Game 5.
Who knows, maybe the Devils build off of this and make something of a series now. The Kings sure looked deflated at the end of the game. LA has gone up 3-0 four times this playoff run and laid an egg when they had a chance to sweep the series three times now. I hope this time it bites them in the rump. One game at a time...one game at a time.....
"Many Shubs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Sloar that day I can tell you."
Resident Hockey Fanatic
Great hard hitting game tonight. The Clarkson call was a load of crap. Glad the devils didn't let it kill their drive. So happy we will have at least one more game.
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I need to post again cause i don't like that post count sitting there. So you owe it to yourself Sean to buy my Conan as a reward for the Devils winning.
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What an amazing game 5 tonight and the best one of the series so far. Jersey will have their work cup out for them on Monday as the Kings will come out on fire for sure on home ice.
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