JayJ79 wrote:I think Pitt should consider switching to Vokoun between the pipes. Fleury has just let in too many bad goals. (of course, it would also help if they played better defense and stopped turning the puck over in their own zone)
Same as last year in the first round series against the Flyers. Something is wrong in Pittsburgh.
JayJ79 wrote:I think Pitt should consider switching to Vokoun between the pipes. Fleury has just let in too many bad goals. (of course, it would also help if they played better defense and stopped turning the puck over in their own zone)
Same as last year in the first round series against the Flyers. Something is wrong in Pittsburgh.
perhaps. I dunno. But Vokoun seemed to have the better success against the Islanders this regular season as well. Dunno why he didn't get the start, unless there were injury issues.
anyway, I guess they announced this afternoon that Vokoun would be starting tommorrow anyway.
First round ends tonight....Leafs-Bruins and Rangers-Caps. I'll be pulling for Boston and NY in those, I think. A really great first round. Still sticking with my Kings-Pens prediction.
I didn't expect your red wings to come out and have a flat performance (other than Howard, who stood on his head). I thought the momentum from Game 7 would have carried over (I'm glad it didn't). I don't like all the damn time off inbetween games. They should be playing tonight, not tomorrow. I hate 2 games off inbetween games in the same city. Makes no sense. Why drag it out? My wife already hates my playoff beard
I didn't expect your red wings to come out and have a flat performance (other than Howard, who stood on his head). I thought the momentum from Game 7 would have carried over (I'm glad it didn't). I don't like all the damn time off inbetween games. They should be playing tonight, not tomorrow. I hate 2 games off inbetween games in the same city. Makes no sense. Why drag it out? My wife already hates my playoff beard
Agreed. NHL does it better than the NBA (in terms of days off between games) but there are a couple of times where there are 2 days between games though most are 1 day. There have been a couple of times with no days between games (see NYR-Caps Game 6 - 7 where they also needed to travel to DC from NYC)
bodoyle wrote:Yea, I don't get it, but as long as my Hawks continue to win, I will be ok with it
Were you a Hawks fan before or after they got Jonathan Toews and Patrick Kane?
I wasn't much of a hockey fan in general b/c, growing up in Chicago and Bill Wirtz owning the Hawks meant they were almost never on tv. He thought televising games would make fewer people come to the games. I also heard recently - not sure if they were joking or not - that he didn't want to win the Cup b/c that was expensive. I knew some players growing up listening to a few games on the radio, Roenick, Belfour, Chelios, Daze, heard about Savard etc, but I was never/rarely able to watch them (when they were on tv, it was cable, and we didn't have that until I was in high school). I follow them much more now, since after Old Man Wirtz died. I remember the day he passed away, I felt bad/sad for his family, but I was happy as a Chicago sports fan who only really followed hockey come Playoff time. What Rocky Wirtz has done is nothing short of incredible. I was not sure what two years Toews and Kane were drafted, and I saw it was 06 and 07. I guess my answer is no, since it wasn't possible to watch the Hawks before then.
rkwittem wrote:
Were you a Hawks fan before or after they got Jonathan Toews and Patrick Kane?
I wasn't much of a hockey fan in general b/c, growing up in Chicago and Bill Wirtz owning the Hawks meant they were almost never on tv. He thought televising games would make fewer people come to the games. I also heard recently - not sure if they were joking or not - that he didn't want to win the Cup b/c that was expensive. I knew some players growing up listening to a few games on the radio, Roenick, Belfour, Chelios, Daze, heard about Savard etc, but I was never/rarely able to watch them (when they were on tv, it was cable, and we didn't have that until I was in high school). I follow them much more now, since after Old Man Wirtz died. I remember the day he passed away, I felt bad/sad for his family, but I was happy as a Chicago sports fan who only really followed hockey come Playoff time. What Rocky Wirtz has done is nothing short of incredible. I was not sure what two years Toews and Kane were drafted, and I saw it was 06 and 07. I guess my answer is no, since it wasn't possible to watch the Hawks before then.
I was lucky to grow up in Northern North Dakota. Hockey night in Canada had the Hawks with Hull and Mikita. Still remember the Canadien's beating them in the Finals a couple times in the early 70's.
