Calgary and Vancouver hockeyfans checkin

[sparkey]

Alright its Calgary vs Vancouver first round. All Calgary and Vancouver fans Check in so we can find out how many fans are on here. Lets make this a little forum so we can chat about the series!!!

[King Asoka]

I think its gonna be a good series. I have tix to game game 7 of the series, so the flames better hold up till then so i can watch the nucks take em down at home!

[99blackalero]

im going for calgary cause my buddy plays for them

[sparkey]

Hey 99 which player?

[99blackalero]

matt lombardi

[sparkey]

Cool, he's been playing well lately.

[nex]

i got tickets for saturday and tuesdays game

[99blackalero]

sweet ...i cant wait to go to playoff games...the crowd is absolutely nuts here...especially since it will be ottawa vs. toronto

[Baracuda96]

I want to see Vancouver do well even with Bertuzzi missing, it will show how strong the team is - even without him... mind you, both Calgary and Vancouver deserve to win.. they have both had played good hockey this season.

May the best team win...

i'm more focussed on the T.O and Ottawa series... Go Leafs Go!

[b-spot]

Originally posted by 99blackalero@Apr 5 2004, 07:12 PM
matt lombardi
Sherif Lobo!!!!

GO FLAMES!!!

I have my tickets all the way up to the cup final. Hopefully i'll need them.

[mlcroy20]

I'm pulling for my two favorite teams to be in the stanley cup finals....
Vancouver and Philadelphia

[sparkey]

To the cup final? I didnt think they would be issuing those yet!
dddddrrrrroooooolllllll

[Naich]

.... friendly American checking in....

LETS GO DEVILS!!!!!

[99blackalero]

HEY....stop jacking our threads nick, make your own...lol

[Daytona]

Here's something you Calgary fans might find interesting from my friend Ron who runs a sports gambling forum http://www.postingforum.com:


The 2004 Stanley Cup Playoffs

By Ron Raymond

With the exception of the Nashville vs. Detroit series, every other series is a coin flip and anybody can win on any teams home ice. In this new era of hockey, home ice means absolutely nothing, as today’s game is so defensively wound, you need a shoe horn these days to get through the neutral zone!

When approaching the Stanley Cup playoffs, you can throw offensive statistics right out the window, because they mean absolutely nothing in the playoffs, as it’s all about defense and goaltending. In fact, 3 of the biggest categories I check before the playoffs are teams goals against on 5 on 5 situations, 1 goal games wins and goaltending. If you look back at last years stats of teams who had the most 1 goal game wins, you just have to look at both Stanley Cup finalist, New Jersey and Anaheim. Both teams had 24 one goal game wins and both teams had hot goaltenders in the playoffs. Which brings us to this season.

I can’t believe we don’t have one 50-goal scorer this year and one of the top 3 scorers in the league is in the playoffs, Jarome Iginla in Calgary. In fact, Calgary is my choice this year to win the Stanley Cup, as they’ve had 20 one goal games wins and have a hot goaltender in Kiprusoff. Plus, they’ve allowed the least 5 on 5 goals against with Boston with 105.

Here’s my recap of Round 1:

New York Islanders vs. Tampa Bay
Selection: Tampa Bay in 7 games.
Keys to selection: My first reaction was to take the Islanders, as they’ve owned the Lightning in head to head series, but the Lighting have some talented young guns and they are very tough in front of that rowdy home crowd. New York has some good gritty players like Peca and Asham, but they just don’t have the goaltending to get them to the next round.

Montreal vs. Boston
Selection: Boston in 6 games
Keys to selection: Montreal will have the advantage in goal, but the Bruins have the bigger defenseman to pound the smaller Habs forward. Boston has 22 one goal games wins this season, second most to St.Louis, but they are unproven in nets. I think the Bruins will get by to the next round, but they’ll meet Brodeur and if my predictions are bang on and that’s just too much of a task for Raycroft and the Bruins to handle. If Boston should go far in the playoffs, don’t be surprised if they do it on 5 on 5 situations, as they had the least goals against with Calgary in those situations and only allowed 105 goals against.

New Jersey vs. Philadelphia
Selection: New Jersey in 6 games
Keys to selection: The Flyers remind me of the Atlanta Braves, they do well in regular season and until they have a first class goaltender like a Martin Brodeur, I don’t see this unit going anywhere. Bobby Clarke has stated many times, there’s Brodeur and then there’s everybody else in nets in this league and if he’s thinking this way, they’ve already lost. My only concern with New Jersey is the lack of 20 goal scorers, they only had 2 this season, so guys like Friesen, Lagenbrunner and Gomez need to pick it up, but when you have the Brodeur factor, you have that wiggle room.

Ottawa vs. Toronto
Selection: Toronto in 7 games
Keys to selection: Same thing as the Brodeur situation, the Senators are mentally blocked on thinking they can’t beat the Leafs and their record in 1 goal games this season was a horrible 9 and 11 for a winning percentage of .346. I think when they let Magnuss Ardvedsson go to Vancouver this year, they lost their best defensive forward and it bit them in the butt all season on the PK. Belfour is by far the more consistent goaltender and Lalime is just not ready to make that next step in the goaltending ranks. I think it’s an early exit for the Senators and Martin and Lalime will be both gone in the off-season.

Nashville vs. Detroit
Selection: Detroit in 5 games
Keys to selection: I was going to make a bold prediction on Nashville to beat Detroit, but Dave Lewis learned his lesson last year and with 1 season under his belt as a head coach, I can assure you an early exit will not happen again!

St.Louis vs. San Jose
Selection : St.Louis in 7 games
Keys to selection: At first glance, I had San Jose penciled in to win this series, but when I started to look into the categories such as 1 goal game wins and realized St.Louis has been involved in 24 one goal game wins this season. In fact, 24 one goal game wins is the most this year by any team in the league, and I realized this could have an impact for them in the playoffs, as 1-goal games are just like playoff games in reality. However, I don’t think they have the goaltending to make it to the Stanley Cup, but I do see them winning the first 2 rounds

Calgary vs. Vancouver
Selection: Calgary in 5 games
Keys to selection: The only thing I wish Calgary had more of was 2 more 20 goals scorers, but I still feel they have the best team in the Western Conference to win the Stanley Cup. Kiprusoff is having a Vezina type season, something like Giguere had last season and they have allowed the least 5 on 5 goals against with 105 along with Boston. Plus, they’ve been involved in 20 one goal games wins this season and could have a few soft first two round matchup series against Vancouver who have no goaltending and Dallas who can’t win on the road. Flames are my pick to win the Stanley Cup!

Dallas vs. Colorado
Selection: Dallas in 7 games
Keys to selection: Dallas will win this series because of goaltending and they’ll need to find ways to win on the road if they intend to go deep into the playoffs. Turco has 10 shutouts this season and Colorado have too many finesse players and not enough sand paper type players to grind out tough wins in those ugly tough hitting games. Plus, as much as Lacroix did go out and get Salo at the trade deadline, it won’t be enough for him to get to the next round. Sorry Pete, but Ray Bourque won’t save you this year!

In a nutshell, when you have a regular season with no 50-goal scorers, that’s all you need to know what type of playoff you are going to see the next few months. Plus, the team who gets the best goaltending and the most 5 on 5 goals for will go deep into the playoffs.

Final Four Selections:
Western Conference Finals: St.Louis vs. Calgary
Eastern Conference Finals: Toronto vs. New Jersey

Stanley Cup Finals
Calgary vs. New Jersey:

Calgary wins in 6 games

Enjoy the playoff folks!

Ron Raymond

[sparkey]

Hey daytona, I like your thinkin!!!!!!! Now hopefully your predictions come true!

[havik]

That was a friend of his, not Daytona.

I agree mostly with the posting. Calgary has the potential to be the Anahiem and Minnesota of a year ago (or Carolina a year earlier).

As of this post: Calgary 2, Vancouver 2

Should be a great series.

[King Asoka]

WOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO CANUCKS WIN GAME 1!!!!!

5-3 Canucks

This is going to be a good series boys!!!


GO CANUCKS GO!!!!!

[sparkey]

Whoops, guess I should read the "whole post" Lol. Well we flames fans lost the first one. Reffing was bad both ways, flames looked nervous, kipper will rebound. Game two should be a little better.

GO FLAMES GO!!!

[b-spot]

Could be an exciting series to watch if this keeps up.. very physical/fast. Hopefully my boys come out hard friday. No.. not like that you sick f*cks.

[Cyber Knight]

Dammit, Flames gotta stay outta the box, they were kickin ass last night at full strength.

[99blackalero]

it was a good game...both teams had lot of penalties..but vancouver took advantage more

[sparkey]

What a game 2! Tense. Good game from both sides. Gonna be a great series.

[King Asoka]

definatly a welled played game on both isdes. I think Kipper was the difference last night. He was on his game!

[b-spot]

This series is definately the most entertaining hockey so far in the playoffs.. CANT WAIT TO BE THERE TOMORROW!!!!!!! WOOOOO!!!!

[Purple&Black]

Okay, I'm not really a Vancouver or Calgary fan. But since I've been an Avalanche fan since before they were in Denver, I'm totally anti-Vancouver (I hated them for years before the Bertuzzi-Moore incident). So, a Calgary fan by default...for now at least. :)

So to that end...99, b-spot, sparkey...you've got one good cheer for your boys from me. Especially after the 4-0 pounding tonight! :thumbsup:

BTW, I don't really see Calgary being the Wild or Ducks of this year. Remember before the regular season was done and everybody was saying that they didn't want to be the #3 seed and have to play Calgary? Good defense, good goalie, team with nothing to lose = scary first round series for any Cup contender. Don't get me wrong...the Flames are great, I just don't think that they'll surprise anyone like Minnesota and Anaheim did. Everybody knows how good the Flames are. They just might not be able to do anything about it.

Go Nashville! (I absolutely HATE the Red Wings too...)

[sparkey]

Awsome! 4 zip! Never thought that would happen but it will be a big boost for the flames! Welcome aboard Purple!

[King Asoka]

yeah, calgary really outworked Vancouver all game. Game 5 will be one hell of a match.

Go Canucks Go

[b-spot]

That was the most fun I've ever had at a hockey game.. tailgate party before with a bbq and a street hockey game, and the victory cruise down 17th ave after. It was NUTS!! even the cops were honking!

[99blackalero]

a little pre-mature to have a victory cruise dont u think B? i remember the real victory cruise in edmonton when they won the cups

[b-spot]

^Naw man, you've got to have fun with it while it lasts. The parties here are INSANE right now! You'd think we were in the cup finals if you showed up here. Tonnes of fun driving around and honking after wins...

[Cyber Knight]

I'm goin to watch the game at Schank's tonight, should be crazy there.

[b-spot]

Go early.. like 40 minutes ago. Its been filling up by 4-430 most nights.

[King Asoka]

GO CANCUKS GO!

[Cyber Knight]

We got there about an hour before the game (7:30), just as they started to make people line up outside. We got in after about 5 mins and had to sit on folding chairs on the minigolf green but it was a good spot, and a table freed up after the first period. It was awesome, everyone was crazy, it was the next best thing to goin to the game. That 30' screen is rediculously huge :thumbsup:

[Redog]

Well whoever wins, they're playing the Sharks in Round 2

[Purple&Black]

Originally posted by Redog@Apr 16 2004, 06:27 PM
Well whoever wins, they're playing the Sharks in Round 2
Not after the Avs throw the smack down on the Stars on Saturday. They re-seed after the first round, so if Calgary and Detroit both win, then Detroit plays the Flames, since they're the lowest remaining seed and then San Jose and Colorado. If Vancouver wins (ick!) then the seeds remain 1-2-3-4 and Detroit plays Colorado and Vancouver plays San Jose.

That's half of the reason that I'm going for the Flames. First half is just to kick Canuck butt cuz I hate them. The second is so that Aebischer gets another round of playoff experience before they play Detroit in the conference finals. Assuming all goes well, of course. :)

Actually, now that I think about it, Colorado-Dallas doesn't matter. If Vancouver wins, they play San Jose. If Calgary wins, they'd have to play Detroit if Detroit wins or the Colorado-Dallas winner if Nashville beats Detroit.

[King Asoka]

OH Baby, what a goal by Morison!!!!


Ill be in the 5th row behind the canucks bench right on the tunnel at game 7!!!!

Oh Yeah!

GO CANCUKS GO!

[sparkey]

Hell of a game, had me on the edge of my seat!!! Hopefully game 7 will be as intense!

[havik]

bah, triple overtime and now there's a game seven. I'm not really cheering for one team over another but I would've liked to have seen calgary pull off the comeback.

[King Asoka]

yeah, that game last night had everybody on the tip of their seat. Im sure tomorrow night will be the most intense game of the series!

[99blackalero]

last nights game had to be the sickest playoff game off the first round...too bad dalgary couldnt pull it off

[Purple&Black]

Yeah that was awesome even in a loss. I first turned it on when I got home from work, 11 minutes into the 2nd period, 4-0 Vancouver. Eww... Good time to turn it on, though. :)

One of the announcers said that Calgary said that if there was going to be a game 7, they wanted to make sure that the Canucks knew they had just played in a game 6. I think they got that across.

Kiprusoff ain't gonna have two bad games in a row. Calgary ought to take it tomorrow night.

[Purple&Black]

What...y'all didn't believe me? Just saw the Game 7 OT winner!

Thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou...

Okay...now howzaboutchall knock off the Red Wings?

[sparkey]

Yeeeeeehhhhhhhhaaaaaaaawwwww Round two here we come!

[havik]

I wanted Calgary to win, the second round will be easier for the Red Wings now....


jk, that series should be intense as well.

[King Asoka]

well played calgary.

[99blackalero]

awesome game last night...huge game for iggy...im just glad there wasnt three OT's