Vansmack-CP

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does that imply that if the sharks win, they play on thursday, otherwise they play on saturday?

Is any loss considered a choke? or only if they don't show up at all

I can't really disagree with anything you have said. I was just pointing out some of the things voters tend to think about. As I said before, Lidstrom is the hands down winnner. Phaneuf has a long way to go before he wins one, generally needing to improve his consistency - somthing that lidstrom has managed to do year in and out for the past decade.

I think he is hillarious at times, but you have to admit that the quality of commentary his decreased SUBSTANTIALLY over the recent years.

grapes has been brutal for the last decade. Half of what he says is garbage that he comes with after watching a 30 second highlight clip.

Ok. Because I am a huge homer, I will just point out a few things about Phaneuf. He had more goals than lidstrom, which is a big number for defenceman. Calgary plays in a much tougher division. Calgary scored 226 goals while the wings 252. Phaneuf also has a much more dominate physical play, although it is easily arguable the lidstrom is better defensively. But I still think lidstrom wins by a landslide.

Hey Wings Fans, I was here last year at this time.... I attended all of the flames losses in your building. I am obviously hoping that the wings play the flames in round 2 But I am actually slightly surprised about the sentiments of this board. After your total domination of the Flames last year, I would have thought wings fans would drool over the opportunity to play us again. Granted we are a much different team than last year. I still am hoping the flames win tonight, especially since I live so close to Detroit and could continue to make the trip down. Hopefully I will have the opportunity to visit this board for another playoff series. It's always a fun place to talk hockey, and the fans on this board are generally fairly civil

I've got to admit, I don't think wings fans could have written a better ending to this series.

this was discussed in an earlier thread and she is a bigger flames fan than me, some tears were shed tonight.

he was called up tonight, well actually he was left in omaha.

without kipper the flames would be the oilers

what ticks me off about playfair is that he just doesn't seem to care. Never displays any emotion... some people would say having a coach with a level head is a good thing, but its nice to see some passion displayed every once in a while.

nothing personal, but i think you have a severly warped understanding of revenue sharing. The flames are in the top 15 in league revenue and therefore are not eligible tor receive any money from other teams. Go preach to the panthers and the blues.

This was a very hard loss to swallow, but I think tonights game was an accurate display of the entire series. Simply put the flames just did not match up well against the wings. The wings were much superier in almost all aspects of the game. I have gained a lot of respect for wing fans, not only from this board, but also the large number I met while in attendance to the three games in Detroit. I am very sorry the there was some controversial play by my team that caused some tempers to rise but hopefully that is all behind us now. I wish you all the best in the coming rounds and I will continue to stop by here. Here's hoping to a quick recovery from holmstrom, he is an animal and a very important player for your team. Freak accidents like that are always tough to see. Best of luck in round two Vansmack

No they don't call everything right, but I am sure this was received the league and nothing further has come. I think they side with me. We can debate whether the hit was low or not all night, but what we cannot debate is that langkow reacted to the hit the way he did because he thought it was low.

I may not have been clear in my previous post, I don't think what he did was right. He should have received a penatly for his actions, but a suspension? come on. He retaliated for a low hit, it is as simple as that.

Proof? He was given two mintues for what he did. Therefore the ref clearly does not agree with you. So just because this is a wings board doesn't make you right. A low hit is a low hit, langkow snapped and punched him in the face. Im not defending his actions, saying they were right, but it clearly did not warrant a suspsension. Call it watergate if you want, but your not really making a convincing argument. Further, you don't need to get personal, its childish and trivial

if he wasn't submarined, he wouldn't have had to sucker punch him. He should have received a penalty, but not a suspension.

Glad to hear that you and your family is ok. It must have been a terrifying moment for you. Best wishes to a speedy recovery.

and the exact opposite for the first two games. Maybe there really is an advantage to play at home

I feel like the reffing has been brutal since the lockout. I have always had high hopes that they would stop making brutal calls come playoffs, but it just hasn't happened.

isnt it rumored that zidane is going to play for the galaxy as well? I would love to see another headbutt

you try and make it sound like a bad thing Personally I usually start drinking an hour or two before game time, so it just means I have to start at 1 instead of 5. No biggy for me.

McGeough reffed tonight in NYR, so it would have been unlikely for him to ref in calgary. I am really glad about watson and McCauley reffing tommorow, I thought they did a good job in Dallas yesterday.