Creasemonkey

3-2 Ottawa. Holy crap Ottawa is on fire. (Although it was a 5 on 3 goal)

End of the 1st, 2-1 Buffalo. Lets see what genius the Versus staff will lay on us about the WCF's. Their lead in earlier had the headline "What went wrong for Ducks?" Ugh.

Agreed. They've been coasting along, IMO. Hardly playing to their ability until tonight. Be interesting to see if they can keep it up the whole game, for that matter the whole rest of the series. 2-1. Nice goal by Alfredsson. Shaping up to be quite a game.

Apparently Buffalo had a goal disallowed early, too, but I missed that. Buffalo on the PP again. Sabres looking better than they have all postseason.

Damn fine win tonight. Hardest fought playoff game yet, and we came out on top. 7 to go!

Well, that certainly sucks. 13 seconds boys, 13 seconds.

Both of our goals tonight somewhat fluky, but I'll sure as hell take them.

Thornton looked like he could have gotten an instigator on that one. His gloves came off long before Markov's. Ducks looking mighty cheap here.

Glad I'm not crazy. Seems confirmed that the officiating is absolute s*** tonight. That 5 on 3 kill was stellar. Their best first period of the playoffs, no doubt. Lets see more of this in the second (without the bulls*** calls).

Would we have retired his number if he finished his career here? Likely not. Would I, for selfish reasons, have preferred he retired a Wing? Sure. Something about donning the jersey of somebody that opted to play elsewhere makes me uncomfortable (and I almost bought one of the official fight strap Shanahan jerseys too) but I'm hardly mad at the guy. He was one of my favorite Red Wings, no doubt, but they can't all live and die Detroit like Yzerman. The Rangers are his fifth team, but when he hangs them up he'll have played more games as a Wing than he did for any other team, and that isn't so bad. We can all hope that Datsyuk, Zetterberg, Kronwall, (and if he realizes his potential, Howard) all retire Wings, but how many of us expect all of them to? We'd be lucky if one or two do. Extremely lucky. So I won't get too upset with Shanny for not sticking with the fourth team he'd played for, even though he was here for almost a decade and won three cups here. He did his part for those cups, the Yzerman tackle of '02 is probably my favorite "dynasty era" memory, and I'd rather be thankful for that than bitter that he didn't retire here.

Hockey's 60 minutes +. Plenty of game left, and the lead is cut to one. Sabres appear to be awake now, should be a great game.

I quote divealanche.com here: Being told that Barry Melrose has picked your team to win the Stanley Cup is like being told that your puppy has been fed to alligators. Or like hearing that your team has hired Mike Keanan or signed Theo Fleury. Your season is toast.

#1 Star: Hasek #2 Star: Sammy #3 Star: Chelios Nice shutout! (Now we can say it.)

Oooooh! There's a pus in the shark tank!

Flip almost sealed the deal right there!

These announcers better not utter that word they always do about this time when there's still a goose egg on the board.

Good kill. Malts shoulda seen that poke check coming though.

Push on the chest? More like the neck, dips***.

5 on 5, let's get another one here, Sammy!

We DO NOT mention the word that describes the other team scoring no goals until the game is OVER.

Bounces really going our way tonight. Doesn't seem to happen that often either. We're lucky to be up by 2 halfway through. Seem to be picking up our play now, which is good. I think I speak for everybody when I say KEEP YOUR ASS IN THE NET, HASEK!!!

Anybody else not getting this in HD? I'm watching in Las Vegas on the NBCHD channel but it's not in HD.

Buffalo got robbed on that goal. It was an awesome display of athleticism by Lundqvist, sure, but there's no doubt that it crossed the line. Buffalo gets hosed again! They gotta be running out of room for bumper stickers by now. (Wide right, no goal, and now goal.)

We'll get at least one out west. Looks good for two if we can play better defensively for 60 minutes+, but the offense showed more promise today and I'd say that makes us good for at least one(one of them is going to overtime too, I'd bet).