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Ex-NHLer Radovan Somik beat HC Vitkovice Steel goaltender Stepanek less than a minute into overtime to lift Eaton HC Pardubice, led by 45-year-old Dominik Hasek, to a sweep for the Czech Extraliga championship title. Hasek stopped a penalty shot with three minutes left in regulation to keep his teams deficit at 2-1 before former Oiler Ales Pisa tied the game with 80 seconds left. Dominik allowed only five goals in the four game series, including a pivotal 1-0 shutout in game 2. Pardubice set a new record by winning 12 straight games in the playoffs after losing the first game of the first round 3-1. Hasek tore his adductor muscle in the regular season and missed two months before returning to play every minute in the playoffs including several back to back night games. Pardubice finished second in league standing in the regular campaign, Hasek lowered his regular season GAA of 2.26 to 1.66 in the playoffs and stopped 94% of his shots faced . Dominik also won titles with Pardubice in 1987 and 1989.

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a. Dominator Clothing doesn’t exist anymore b. they went straight from winning the title on the road to a championship celebration at 11pm in the Town Square so, am gonna go with “not using title to promote clothing line”

Linder I'm not sure D EVER got the girls, I mean he's been married to Alena for like 15 years or whatever it is, there WAS that '98 encounter where Linda Evangelista wanted to meet him at the Rangers game (per Sam Rosen, you know, when the Sabres played the Rangers and shut them out in like 6 of 7 games or something?!) but beyond that, I mean, Dom, not the typical ladies man (I mean, excluding YOU:>)

Nice1 Loo. Did they show any of the games on that webcast link (was it hokej.cz.tv or something?) I gave you? I never made the effort to catch any...youtube is about as far as I go... p.s. I told you he'd dig out his old TPS pads, I took all the Brock bead tubes, remember? haha What a player, unreal.

How would you like to be on a team that rode in THIS bus? lol Apparently it was an optional morning photoshoot...

The question now is will Hasek, clearly at the top of his game, be invited to play at the World Championships after Vokoun's inactivity and the Czechs underwhelming Olympics?

Agreed Roy's Canadiens in '93 drew some damn lucky teams (avoiding top seed Boston, avoiding defending champ Pittsburgh, avoiding Toronto), Gretzky probably deserved the Conn Smythe but Roy could easily have deserved it as well. That said, the Habs were not "all that" in the regular season, c'mon... That said, I wish they'd retire Draper's shirt, that guy has worn the Wings on his sleeve if any player has...

Hasek's not retired yet, dude.

The real laugh-out-loud moment is how the league decided to retire number 99 from every team...

Osgood sucks, the end.

Their are some f'ing midnite tokers in this thread, sheesh!

Most of you guys are tough winners, I hate the Ducks more than any team, hold the Red Wings as one of my favs but try to imagine your reaction if that was the winning goal to eliminate Detroit. I was instantly reminded of the goal in 2007 where Neidermayer pushed Hasek into the net and they counted it, I think it was the tying goal in Game 2 or something. I'm glad the Ducks can feel the disappointment to lose that way. Still, you don't like to see games decided that way. And the gift powerplays (that resulted in a goal for each team) were dumb too.

Round 2 Template: DET/ANA 4-2 VAN/CHI 4-2 BOS/CAR 4-2 WSH/PIT 4-1

btw the Caps are boring to watch I'd have preferred the Rangers advance, the Capitals' players are just so blah, Ovechkin annoys me now, they are missing fire. That was apparent in the final game against the Rangers, they seemed poised to just let it go just like last year. I disagree that the Caps are like the Pens last year, the Capitals made the playoffs as well last year if you will recall. Both teams are young but Pittsburgh was and is still deeper and stronger, and they have the will and hunger after coming so close last year.

I can see no way of Washington winning this series. Kunitz, Crosby, Malkin, Guerin, Satan etc. have too much firepower for Varly and Ovechkin et al were anemic against New York. 11 shots through two periods in a game seven? Pit has this series in the bag.

Brodeur ******* sucks, I didn't stop laughing for 10 minutes, that ******* ham. Take off your blinders NHL fans.

It's funny how everyone here is saying "lose Marleau and Lemieux", Marleau, the guy who scored the game winning goal in both Sharks wins, and Lemieux, the guy who played 7 minutes in one game of the whole series. They need to lose Nabokov. He's good but not good enough. Take a look at his overall career and you'll see that. Just a change would be great for them, just to look back there and see a different face. And Brian Boucher is not it either. Trading Thornton wouldn't be the end of the world because the return on him would be excellent. The Tampa Lightning sure seem to want to run Lecavalier out of town, that guy is top 5 centers in the league, what a replacement he'd be.

Note that Giguere won the Cup after the pad sizing changes. And won a Conn Smythe before despite losing. The guy is one of the greatest Quebec goalies ever, probably #3 after Roy/Brodeur. Everybody's pads are that size nowadays, get over it. You can't fall back on "Well Brodeur wears small pads", yes, the only one.

Oh Jesus, not him. Oh no. The Wings need to win if only to give that guy some grief.

Keenan happened to Kipper. Don't be fooled, Kiprusoff was pulled in two of the seven games last year against San Jo and was inconsistent all year this year. You can't used the "tired" excuse early in the year, can you? I can only conclude it must be mental and connected with Mike Keenan who at times is at odds with goalies. Remember how he ran Curtis Joseph out of St. Louis? Joseph resembled Kiprusoff in '95, very inconsistent and they lost in the first round to the Canuckleheads if I remember. Some goalies like Fuhr/Richter flourished under Keenan but others faltered. Kiprusoff is an immense talent but there's no explaining why he is so inconsistent beyond Mike, Kip looked was so pissed after being pulled the other night, Keenan has a real mental impact on his goalies. Of course kudos to him for stopping Hasek from going back to the Czech Republic in '92.

btw what was the last time a goalie from a non-playoff team was a finalist for top goalie? You used to be able to lead the league in save percentage not make the playoffs and barely get a vote.

Everybody is saying, oh, where would Columbus be without Mason? I believe the trophy you're all looking for is the Hart. Using your criteria Kiprusoff should win Vezina. McElhinney 0-9? Yeah.

Cock-fighting. And the movie 'Shoot Em Up'