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Sorry to break it to you but what Detroit did in the first round was not some fluke. TB got shut down by the Wings and really should have lost the series if the Wings didn't screw up game 4 with 8 minutes left. They've done it to Crosby and Malkin, they've done it to Getzlaf, Perry and Ryan, they've done it to Toews and Kane. What players are the common theme here...

Ahahahahaha. Suck it Habs. The only part that hurts is it should have been us.

Shanahan also was an A that brought in about forty goals a season. There is a difference between a tough power forward and just a plain idiot. Shanahan was the former. Lucic is the latter.

This should have been Detroit.

I just think it's funny how all the "Go Habs" posts have just stopped appearing on my Facebook timeline

Lol bolts 5-0 since Coopers temper tantrum Welcome to the new NHL where crying gets results

I can't believe the NHL would let this team from Florida knock off two original 6 teams. I guess only the NBA and NFL care about ratings.

Aubry with the empty netter... Griffins win Game 1 5-3

So not in McGrattan or Lilja's league?

I'm lookin for naked bathing happy. Give me a minute... I am glad they gave the ducks a loss.

Repeated blows to the head can cause addiction problems, and depression...So your biggest factor is caused by blows to the head, which does need to be studied more, but they're finding out a lot quicker than they expected, especially with all the brains they're being donated that have cte. So its all the same homes.

Another year, another MTL/CHI cup final scare averted. Everyone should've seen this coming. The team in front of Price STINKS, there's a reason he's up for the Hart trophy.

They can think what they want. Sure they made the second round, but the Wings have been more impressive these playoffs than the Habs by far. They almost chocked against the Sens for god sakes.

Yeah, guys that were pretty much only fighters just didn't have a spot left roster and cap wise. Guys like McCarty who would fight, but also contributed offensively just seem so few and far between now days. I know I don't watch alot of other teams but I can't really think of anybody.

What a chokejob by the Canadiens. That should silence their arrogant fanbase.

Pulkky with the hattie! 4-3 Griffs with 2:46 left!

Can't both teams lose?

Yeah I thought both those guys were s***bags too. I almost had a stroke when we signed Cheli... Doesn't negate the fact that I wouldn't even want us to touch Lucic's toxic ass with Gary Bettman's dick.

What so we can have two disappointing Staffords in Detroit?

I bet she smokes cloves and listens to nothing but obscure 80s hair metal bands... *looks at thread title* in Sweden

The NHL isnt toning down on this because fans are "turned off". They are toning down on it because of research on head trauma, and lawsuits from former players. You can also make the same argument the other way: "I don't care if some people are turned off by the lack of physicality or fights because if they are guess what ? Watch something else that's the beauty of choice".

I know it doesn't matter, but I really wish my road jerseys were still home jerseys. What a senseless change.

The series goes to 7 games. The first 6 are 1-0. All goals are scored when the puck bounces off someone standing in front of the net pointing a finger at an opposing player and whining about something. By game 7, they have all learned to stand and cry without pointing. In the intermission before the 7th overtime of a 0-0 game, Steve Yzerman visits the locker room and asks to speak to Filppula. He has brought with him a medium who looks deeply into Flip's dreamy... blue... ey........... Oh, sorry. But. Those eyes... She asks him to recall a previous life. She sees the colour red. He blinks. He stares at Yzerman. He sees the Cup Rings on Yzerman's hand. Where has he seen that before? Then it comes to him! The heart of a Bolt remembers! It is transformed into the heart of a Wing! And what happened next? Well, in Whoville, they say, that Filppula's balls grew three sizes that day! He skates onto the ice, wins the face-off, takes the puck himself, skates between the Canadiens players who are crying about an unfair puck drop. He scores, winning the series for the Lightning. A breathless Cooper asks him, "How did you do it?" Filppula proudly replies, "I'm a Red Wing! I cheated." Then they go on to get blown away in the next series and we all live happily ever after. The end.

There are whiners, and then there is Claude Julien...King of the Whiners.