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Doktor Kosmos

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  1. Is it just me or is this year's Cup Finals more boring than usual? Just doesn't feel like there's good hockey being played.
  2. I'm honestly not that disappointed. They've come a long way and knocked off two very good teams on the way. They secured a place in the playoffs in their final game of the season, on the second-to-last day of the regular season. As the 8th seed, they eliminated the 1st seed in seven games after having been given not even a snowball's chance in hell - and they did so being down three games to one. They knocked off the reigning champions, again in seven games. Without their #1 defender and arguably their best player for the vast majority of the playoffs. They came closer than 27 other teams. How can I not be proud of this team? :hlogo:
  3. OK, just finished watching Watchmen. Sometimes I feel the less you know about a movie, the better, and this felt like one of those sometimes. Either many of the Marvel/DC superheroes never made their way to little ol' Sweden, or I just missed them. But it was refreshing not to know anything about what I was about to see. That said, I was a little confused as to who was who. I thought that could have been made a little more clear. The movie started out great tho. The title sequence was awesome and for the most part I think the feel you got from it held up. I think the violence was a little too graphic tho. About the music. They used a lot of dope songs, but sometimes I felt like the music didn't fit. All in all it was a good movie. Liked it.
  4. Keeping my fingers crossed. Me and a couple of buddies of mine did a similar thing a number of years ago. We were all involved in coaching the men's team for our floorball club, Rönnby IBK. Rönnby is the neighbourhood where the club was formed so that's where the name comes from, IBK stands for Innebandyklubb, i.e. Swedish for floorball club. So we made a cardboard sign and painted "IBK" on it in orange and black (the colours of the club), went to the hood in the middle of the night and hung our homemade sign under the roadsign that had Rönnby written on it. The cool thing is the next morning a friend of ours who coached another team on the club went past the sign on the way to an away game. He thought that was pretty bitchin'. As did we.
  5. Doesn't Crosby have 19 points BTW? 14 in the series against the Sens and 5 against us?
  6. Pics or it didn't happen is my thought.
  7. They are! It's not easy to pick just one.
  8. I think the Penguins' third and fourth liners are about on the same level as all the other teams in the league. Crosby and Malkin and to a lesser extent Gonchar and Fleury are the difference makers. All of those sucked tonight and overall in the series they didn't really accomplish much.
  9. 5-0 when facing elimination IMO.
  10. If someone had told me on the morning of Monday April 12 that the Habs were gonna knock off the Presidents Trophy winner and the defending Stanley Cup champions in consecutive 7-game series, I would not have believed them. :hlogo:
  11. Indeed. I wouldn't bet my life's savings on the Pens. :hlogo:
  12. GLORY GLORY TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR!!! <3<3<3 :wub:
  13. Regardless of how it ends (I think the Pens will win the series and I consider every Habs win a success in itself), although I'm sure everyone who's not a Habs fan (and even a bunch of us) agree that while it isn't pretty, they've won a number of games against (supposedly) better opposition teams in these playpoffs. They've outdone themselves, which is not something you can say for either the Pens or the Caps IMHO. So how can I not be thrilled with this season? Except for when my brother and I were in Montreal to see three games, I haven't had this much fun as Habs fan since 1993. So even if they lose this series, I am geniunly proud to be a Canadiens fan. Gionta, Cammalleri, Gomez, Gill, Moen and Moore have been real nice additions. Subban has stepped in and done a real good job replacing arguably the best player on the team; Andrei Markov. Halak, while maybe not on the same level as Brodeur or Roy and the like, what's impressed me the most about him is his way of finding a way to see the puck when the shot comes (which is key to making the saves of course) and how calm he is. I think in Game 1 of this series both he and the rest of the team were simply mentally and physically drained after the 7-game series against Washington. They just had too little time to muster the needed strenght to make it into a tought game for the Pens - and even then they only lost by a margin of two goals (not counting the empty netter). And they'de done a good job at keeping world-class offensive players off the scoresheet on regular basis. In other words: <3
  14. It wasn't prettty, the strategy involves a lot of "ifs" and "buts"... but gosh-darnit, they got the job done. Spank-effing-tacular! :hlogo:
  15. ...120 minutes away from the Champions League... COYS!
  16. The Hawks did a pretty decent Capitals impression. Niemi wasn't bad, he just didn't get any help. Brent Seabrook looked like Mike "Norris" Green. And Vancouver got some very timely goals. They were up 1-0 as the first was winding down. Canucks dump the puck in from center ice and with 18 seconds left CHI defenseman Brent Sopel gets the puck and throws it along the end boards behind Niemi's net. Hawks are cruising around and Kesler gets to the puck first, throws it on net, Niemi makes an easy save but directs the rebound right into the slot and Mason Raymond bangs home the rebound to make it 2-0 like 12 seceonds before the buzzer. In the second the Canucks puts the pressure on the Hawks deep in the CHI zone right away and create three solid chances before Henrik Sedin can put the fourth one behind Niemi. About halfway through the second Pat Kane gets called for holding the stick of a Canuck on the Vancouver blueline, two thirds of the ice away from Niemi's net. A minute into the PP Vancouver wins a draw, puck goes back to the D who puts it on net. Someone's there to create havoc in front of Niemi and Kyle Wellwood make Brent Seabrook look like Brent Seagreen and puts the puck in the net and basically the game out of hand for the Hawks. To rub some salt in the wounds, Michael Grabner scores the 5-0 goal after having been left all alone with Niemi, this following a failed pinch in the offensive zone by a Hawk defender who tried to keep the puck in the VAN zone. A Canucks counter attack follows, CHI players don't pick up Grabner and the goal is a fact. Hossa's contribution: 4 minutes in the penelty box. I think what might be the killer for Chicago is that I think they do sometimes look a little bit like the Caps of the west. Their goalies seem streaky, both Niemi and Huet can be unbeatable at times, only to allow cheap, garbage goals the next game. Personally I wouldn't feel comfortable having to depend on them. The Hawks defensive lines are better defensively than their Caps counterpart tho - however they didn't show that last night. Still a long way to go in this series tho, it is far from over. But Vancouver probably couldn't have asked for a better start. 5 different goal scorers BTW.
  17. The guy is a douchebag. He doesn't allow people from Pittsburgh to buy tickets to Caps games. He's been whining all season long on his blog. About the Caps not getting the credit they think they deserve, about the refs being against them, that it's all a conspiracy. That's just my opnion tho so take it for what it's worth.
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