Echolalia

"No, but he loves you. We all love you." (I'll vote 5-stars into the rating of the person who identifies this reference first)

http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=414429 San Jose is looking to nip this recent poor play in the butt.

I'm still worried about them, should we meet in the playoffs. But hopefully we can retain the top spot and just wait for the winner of a physically demanding Calgary-San Jose 7 game series and pick off the winner. Not to take away anything from the other teams, but a cup run that could feature any of the Central scratching for a playoff spot, followed potentially by the Flames, followed potentially by the Sharks, followed by the East Con. Champs sounds like the most difficult possible path to the cup.

I think it was appropriate to bump this considering San Jose got behind the 8-ball early last night, made a feverish comeback, and blew it with 30 seconds left in the game. They'll have to win both of their games in hand to retain the lead, now.

The first thing that popped into my mind was whether Babs was planning on resting some guys in the home stretch.

you gotta be kidding me

Will you lose already??

Aflac! You've been missed here!

I'm looking at the standings right now and although the Wings and Sharks are the only teams to officially clinch at this point, I think its a safe bet that Chicago is a shoe-in as well. Columbus has been playing phenomenal and are currently sitting atop the logjam at 6th place, with no team capable of overtaking them with any games-in-hand. Nashville is right behind Columbus for 7th, although right now Dallas can overtake them with their only game-in-hand, so at the very least, Nashville needs to win one more game than Dallas (or one more OT loss). Otherwise they're sitting pretty. St. Louis is an interesting case, because they're currently in 10th place, but 1 win will jump them 2 spots to 8th place, tentatively right behind Nashville. What's so interesting about this is the two teams that St. Louis can potentially jump they have an opportunity to beat (Edmonton tonight, and Dallas on April 4th). So despite being in 10th place, they statistically have more of their fate in their own hands than Nashville does (oh, and if St. Louis does beats Dallas on the 4th, that could very well be the game that Nashville can use to get ahead). So although we definitely won't know for sure until the last game of the season, the chances of all 5 teams in the Central making the playoffs doesn't sound far-fetched in the least. Especially with how hot these three teams have been playing. By the way, has every team from a division ever made the playoffs before?

At least Lebda won't be a defensive liability Anyways, I really like what Ericcson's been bringing to the table. Anyone see him totally rub Nash out of the play vs. the Preds, while Nash was trying to drive to the net? The kid did it like it was nothing.

Edmonton has been playing horribly lately (3-2-5), and besides against the Wings, the Blues have only dropped 1 of their past 10. They're playing with more hunger than any other team right now. If I can, I'll be watching the Blues/Oilers game tonight. I would also love a 1st round Wings/Blues series.

What was the achievement that he had a couple weeks ago?

What has me excited is the fact that the Wings versed two teams fighting for a playoff spot (Ie playoff hockey) and won convincingly both times on consecutive nights, both times with Osgood playing like Osgood, and the Wings defense playing stingy, and the offense exploding as we expected it to when Holland inked Hossa.

Better get to the Cafe early. That place is wild even during a regular season game.

Has to have one of the greatest attitudes in all of sports.

Why did it go to a commercial after the icing? Isn't that rule supposed to be taken away next year?

LA had a pretty "awkward" situation tonight in totally blowing a 2 on 0 breakaway for the win and took themselves out of the play before even getting a shot off.

hahahaha I can't believe I actually laughed out loud

That happened to a guy on my team freshman year, as well as once in Bantam, but never to me. I'm actually kind of surprised you never hear of this happening in the NHL, because from my experience, this definitely doesn't seem to be an oddity anywhere else.

San Jose wins 4-1

The more I see Ericcson the more I know I'm going to love him. That's the second shot that hit Osgood's left leg without him knowing where the puck was before. That's living right if ever I've heard of it.

Osgood is really scaring me with these lazy repositionings after making a stop

Yeah Ozzie beat that guy down

I'm suprised he got that shot off.

The Blues deserve a chance.