I dunno, I usually like CBC, but in this series they are basically rooting for ottawa. I don't necessarily blame them, as they are the canadian team, but it is a national broadcast, they should really try a little harder to not be homers.
Thanks for the "congrats"...i know you like the devils so you like defense....but we gave up an entire year of hockey so that the NHL could get fixed....and that game was the absolute epitome of the new NHL. The whole point of the rule changes were to allow a team to come back in the last minute of a playoff game, instead of letting the team who is up by 1 trap the other team to death and win a 2-1 snoozer. These two teams and this style of play is the future of the NHL, this is what people want to see.
Round 2 (Conference Semi-Final) Matchups:
Eastern Conference
1 Ottawa vs 4 Buffalo Buffalo in 7
2 Carolina vs 3 New Jersey New Jersey in 5
Western Conference
5 San Jose vs 8 Edmonton San Jose in 6
6 Anaheim vs 7 Colorado Colorado in 7
Its called the Lowsmand Trophy, and its awarded to Mr. Irrelevant every year: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowsman_Trophy
This trohpy is only 1 'w' away from our starting QB....
Grier has been one of the best Sabres in the playoffs so far. He doesn't show up on the scoresheet much, but has been all over the flyers, hitting, grinding, penalty killing, etc. I think him getting the 3rd star as as much for his play yesterday as it was for his play in the whole series.
I wasn't all that impressed. I actually like Emerick's voice as an announcer, but the color guy talked way too much, so he couldn't announce the action. At one point in the game, they were babbling on about how much the Canadian dollar is worth, instead of calling the action on the ice.
Oh, and Cammie Granato still doesn't have "it" to be a TV personality. I thought she was better yesterday than she was during the olympics, but she still wasn't very entertaining.
He will not be suspended for the hit. I haven't seen his hit on Wellwood, but many people said it was very similar to the one on Vanek...the only difference is that Vanek didn't get hurt.
I remember the Earl of Bud...we used to split seasons tix in the reds, and he danced right across from us. I was too young then to be buying beers....its too bad he isn't still around (or at least isn't doing his dance). Come to think of it, its too bad that we aren't playing at the Aud anymore, that was such a great barn :-(
Yeah, it was kinda sick actually. Look at the way his arm doesn't move as he falls....I'm pretty sure he was unconcious long before he ever hit the ice.
Campbell isn't that big a guy, but when he lines someone up, he can really lower the boom. Even though I hate the flyers, I hope that guy is OK....thats the kind of hit that can end careers.
Well, to answer my own question, McFaddens does not have OLN, so the game won't be shown there tonight. But, the games on Monday and Wednesday will be shown there, so I hope to see some of you there next week!
Thats kinda surprising....I remember going to Bandits games when they first started, and the place was packed. However, I went to one 3 or 4 years ago, and there was hardly anyone there.
Good to see they are getting crowds there again though. I wonder if the Sabres' success has anything to do with that (getting people excited to go out to the arena)
Does anyone know if McFadden's managed to get OLN in time for the Sabres game tonight? I had been planning on going, but an email went out to NYCBBB yesterday saying that they might not have the game tonight...Can somebody post here if they hear otherwise?
Eastern Conference
1 Ottawa vs 8 Tampa Bay - Ottawa in 4
2 Carolina vs 7 Montreal - Carolina in 4
3 New Jersey vs 6 NY Rangers - New Jersey in 7
4 Buffalo vs 5 Philadelphia - Buffalo in 5
Western Conference
1 Detroit vs 8 Edmonton - Detroit in 6
2 Dallas vs 7 Colorado - Dallas in 6
3 Calgary vs 6 Anaheim - Calgary in 7
4 Nashville vs 5 San Jose - San Jose in 5
He's mentioned pretty much every time anyone talks about candidates for coach of the year. There are a few others who usually get mentioned (Laviolette, Renney), but in pretty much every other case you can point to one player or a group of players that is brining that team along...there is no way to argue that Lindy isn't a huge part of the Sabres success this year. I think Lindy will probably win it.
The last 5 weeks of the season, there is no sunday night game scheduled....they are going to bump one of the sunday afternoon games up to sunday night, based on the matchup. Granted, I'm sure the Bills won't be an exciting prime time game, but you never know....
Yeah, i was just gonna mention, that, its great, our last 4 home games are against warm weather teams....that could help, as I don't see us having a strong start to the season, but if the chemistry is there, we could finish strong....