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A2K Should Support Chicago For The Stanley Cup

 
 
tsarstepan
 
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Reply Tue 1 Jun, 2010 04:47 am
@wandeljw,
I got this power broom attachment to help with the stubborn yet so obvious need for a sweeping of those dusty Flyers.
http://www.stevenchalmers.com/Gravely/Allied1990/6_MB_PowerBroom.gif
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panzade
 
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Reply Tue 1 Jun, 2010 06:51 am
Magnanimous in defeat, panzade marvels at the perfect strategy of throwing a fourth unit former Flyer at the Philly defense 20 seconds after Hossa scores.
Eager's rising shot hog tied Leighton and the Flyers.
Kudos to Quenneville
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djjd62
 
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Reply Tue 1 Jun, 2010 08:10 am
2 more games until chicago wins the cup, and the CBC can get back to their regularly scheduled programming
Rockhead
 
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Reply Wed 2 Jun, 2010 12:31 pm
hmmmmm...

from yahoo.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/news?slug=ap-stanleycup

PHILADELPHIA (AP)"Chris Pronger has become a puck pickpocket.

Long one of the NHL’s foremost agitators, the Flyers defenseman has bucked hockey etiquette by swiping the game puck at the end of each of Chicago’s first two wins in the Stanley Cup final. Like a game ball awarded to the star of the football game, a championship game puck usually winds up somewhere in the winning team’s souvenir case.

Well, unless Pronger is involved.

Pronger riled up the Blackhawks at the end of Game 2 when he used his stick to whip a stray rally towel in Ben Eager’s face. Eager had skated over to yap at Pronger about his puck thievery.

While the Blackhawks brushed off talk Tuesday of tossed towels and pilfered pucks, the Flyers found it all in good fun.

“He seems to be disturbing a lot of people around him. And we’re a team that disturbs a lot of people,” Flyers center Danny Briere said. “I guess he fits right in.”

The Flyers need a reason to smile"and a souvenir puck earned, not swiped. Trailing 2-0 to Chicago entering Game 3 of the Stanley Cup final on Wednesday, the Flyers spent their off day working on strategy to somehow beat the Blackhawks.

“We did not talk about who is going to steal the puck in Game 3. None of that,” Flyers coach Peter Laviolette said.

The Flyers have Stanley Cup history working against them.

Only two team teams in 33 tries have ever won the first two games at home and lost the series. Only four teams in the Stanley Cup finals have rallied from a 2-0 series hole to win it all.

Two notes to remember.

The Penguins did it last year, beating Detroit on the road in Game 7 after trailing the series 3-2.

And, the Flyers already came back from a 3-0 series deficit in this postseason. They stunned the Bruins in the Eastern Conference semifinals and became the first NHL team in 35 years to pull off that type of comeback.

This is not the time for the Flyers to be discouraged.

“The situation we’ve put ourselves in demands desperation now,” Briere said.

Not even moving the series to Philadelphia and its notoriously hostile home crowd for Wednesday night’s Game 3 should intimidate the Blackhawks. They’re as at ease on the road as at home this postseason with a sparkling 7-1 away record.

But the Flyers have the same record at home during this run.

The Flyers have to be agitated they’ve shut down stars Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews and have no wins for their effort.

At some point this postseason, it would have seemed preposterous the Blackhawks would have more wins in the Stanley Cup final than the duo have points combined.

Yet, that’s the reality for Chicago after winning the first two games at home.

Toews and Kane have been noticeably missing on the scoresheet. Not a point, not an assist.

Goalie Antti Niemi and a roll call list of scorers have put the Blackhawks ahead of the Philadelphia Flyers 2-0, but Toews and Kane have yet to play a major role in helping Chicago try to win the Stanley Cup for the first time since 1961.

“It’s not always the top line that gets it done as far as goal scoring,” Chicago coach Joel Quenneville said. “By committee, by team, there’s a lot of different areas. Defense can even complement scoring as well.”

True, but having the pair take over a game or two in hostile Philadelphia can ease some of the offensive burden of others not used to being counted on to score. Kane scored 30 goals and had 88 points this season. Toews had 25 goals and 68 points in leading the Blackhawks’ revival from one-time doormat to the second-best record in the Western Conference.

Winning is all that matters to Kane and Toews. If it means they go scoreless in the finals and still get to hoist the Stanley Cup, they’ll make that trade any day.

The punchless pair were nowhere to be found on Tuesday, taking a day off from talking about their slump with the media.

Kane hasn’t scored in six straight games. Toews in four straight.

Yes, both players would like to start scoring. But their absence in the goal column hasn’t affected the Blackhawks in the win column. Chicago has won seven straight games in the playoffs and 10 of 11.

“They do so much more for us than put pucks in the net,” Chicago forward Patrick Sharp said. “It doesn’t concern us. We’ve said all playoffs long, we don’t care who scores the goals as long as we get the wins. We have four lines that can contribute offensively and that’s why we’re here.”
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wandeljw
 
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Reply Wed 2 Jun, 2010 06:59 pm
Philadelphia leading 1 - 0 after first period. Click here for the nhl.com real-time scoreboard:

http://live.nhl.com/ice/realtime.htm?id=2009030413
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wandeljw
 
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Reply Wed 2 Jun, 2010 10:27 pm
Philadelphia wins game three, but Chicago still leads series 2 - 1.
Region Philbis
 
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Reply Thu 3 Jun, 2010 03:26 am
@wandeljw,

is it me (or my tv settings), or did the flyers uni's look more orange than usual?

http://i.cdn.turner.com/si/2010/writers/brian_cazeneuve/06/02/hawks.flyers.game3/flyers-game-3-front-ap-2.jpg
farmerman
 
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Reply Thu 3 Jun, 2010 03:55 am
@Region Philbis,
That was the reflection from the stands. It was a sea of ornage. (If I was Irish, Ida been creeped out)
Region Philbis
 
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Reply Thu 3 Jun, 2010 04:00 am
@farmerman,

this is the shade of red i remember from my yoot...

http://www.freewebs.com/philadelphiaautos/Clarke%20&%20Parent%208x10.jpg
tsarstepan
 
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Reply Thu 3 Jun, 2010 04:16 am
@Region Philbis,
I think they wash their jersey's in Velveeta cheese.
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farmerman
 
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Reply Thu 3 Jun, 2010 04:48 am
@Region Philbis,
when they added the "yellow gun" in the better Tv's you could start seeing all sorts of color variations that were hidden peviously
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wandeljw
 
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Reply Fri 4 Jun, 2010 06:40 pm
NHL.com real-time scoreboard available at this link:

http://live.nhl.com/ice/realtime.htm?id=2009030414
panzade
 
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Reply Fri 4 Jun, 2010 07:06 pm
@wandeljw,
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooal!
wandeljw
 
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Reply Fri 4 Jun, 2010 07:11 pm
@panzade,
Here is another link (for panzade only):
http://able2know.org/topic/71230-2#post-4006652
panzade
 
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Reply Fri 4 Jun, 2010 07:19 pm
@wandeljw,
hee. Tell Gus I'm playing the rink organ at the Stanley Cup
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wandeljw
 
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Reply Fri 4 Jun, 2010 09:06 pm
Philadelphia wins game four. Series tied 2-2.
farmerman
 
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Reply Fri 4 Jun, 2010 09:21 pm
@wandeljw,
now we have a series.
Whatever the outcome, its been a good one. These guys must be totally spent.
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farmerman
 
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Reply Fri 4 Jun, 2010 09:24 pm
@djjd62,
Quote:
2 more games until chicago wins the cup, and the CBC can get back to their regularly scheduled programming
See what being a smart ass gets ya. You got us mad.
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panzade
 
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Reply Sun 6 Jun, 2010 06:17 pm
It's gut-check time at the MAD house.

Pronger,
strap in those cojones and make them 'Hawks pay!!
wandeljw
 
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Reply Sun 6 Jun, 2010 06:33 pm
@panzade,
Here is the real-time scoreboard from NHL.com:
http://live.nhl.com/ice/realtime.htm?id=2009030415
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