BiffFromCP

Oh suck it up princesses. The pp's were DEAD EVEN tonight....and how many 5-3 did you have in the first two games. Thought so. This was another tight game, another rockin' atmosphere at the Saddledome where I was in attendance and now it's back to your barn to see if you can re-assert your home dominance on the series. The officiating in the NHL is terrible. Get used to it. We didn't enjoy it in games 1 and 2 and felt it impacted the games....but we also recognized that we got outplayed and were beat by the better team on both nights. Now the shoe is on the other foot. We prefer it. You don't.

We boo Bertuzzi because he originally played in Vancouver (our second most intense rival behind Edmonton). We also boo him because, as was evidenced in the Moore incident, he is a big impulsive immature dork. Harsh....but there it is. We faced a good few years of Bertuzzi before the Moore incident and the hate was already on....the Moore thing is icing.

I haven't posted since before the series. After the complete garbage we played like in the first two, I wanted to wait until (and if) we could turn this into a series. I hear a lot of you talking about officiating. I was at the game, and didn't see it that way but, then, homer glasses were probably on. I can assure you, however, that many Flames fans felt EXACTLY the same way after being handed 10 minutes of penalties in the first 9 minutes of game 2. Isn't it sad the poor NHL officiating has to just be swallowed by NHL fans? At least the NBA suspends a ref who is obviously a clown and incompetent. It's frustrating that there is absolutely no accountability for NHL refs. I thought this game could have gone either way. I liked that the officials, for the most part, just let 'em play. I didn't see the hold on Hank some of you were mentioning, but I'd call it a missed call trade off for the elbow Cleary threw at Phaneuf. I know you have a thread dedicated to the hit and I haven't read it yet but I've watched piles of replay and Cleary sure looks like he led with the forearm / elbow. Anyways.....welcome to our 2007 playoff series. Sorry we were late.

tootoo stoned on the breakaway by Nabby. Intense.

Sharks just about end it with some early pressure.

OT about to start in Nashville. 4th goal maybe changed from Weber to Dumont with the deflection.

1-1 Stars / Cannots after 1.

Preds and Sharks going to extra time. Vancouver going back on the PP.

Scores. Nashville scores. Weber with under a minute to go.

Nashville pulls the goalie. 1 minute to go.

Nashville PP with 3 minutes to go.

Canucks going to a long 5-3. i hate the canucks. Have I mentioned this before?

5:45 to go.

Radulov with a beauty. 4-3 SJ.

Cool. My very first meaningless playoof bet this year. Yay. Let's say if Bertuzzi operates at a .5 pt / game level I give him a nice complimentary sentence. If it's a pt / game level he gets a whole gushing paragraph.