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No question about the last bit, but my operative assumption is that the key to the series was to stagger the Caps so hard early that they couldn't really get back up. We almost did it; but they're up and waaay out of their corner now. Looked at on paper, we've done great. Psychologically, though, I really believe it's the next thing to over. These guys have the wind in their sails now. With that much size and skill, that's big, big trouble.
We can take the wind back out in front of the home crowd in the 1st period on Monday night though.
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Well guys, 2-0 would have been fantastic and we gave it our best effort tonight. I wasn't happy with the non-GI on the Caps 2nd goal, but what can you do.
Now in the past, a game like this would have crushed our team. We all saw it in 2002 after the Canes came back from 3-0 down to win 4-3 and take the series in 6. I truly believe this team is different and I'm excited to see how we respond. Remember, 1-1 was all we needed coming home, and we got that. Of course it is disappointing but we still have the upper hand here, we just need to come out and take control on Monday and Wednesday.
Knocked down but not out, we CAN still get the momentum back and win this thing.
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He was certainly better, just the way you put it I thought you were implying that Smith took a scrub like Davis and made him a star, but in retrospect that is likely not what you were saying.
Haha, CTV aired a segment about his new interest in curling during the olympics, great stuff.
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I think the Niners will be okay with Alex Smith. He pretty much made Vernon Davis a Pro-Bowlers last year.
I dunno about that, Davis was well on his way to busting out under Shaun Hill IMO. Smith certainly helped, but Davis always had the talent and Singletary has finally gotten him to mature.
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I will get excited when they win the series, I have witnessed too many playoff series turn on a dime over the past
30 years to get too satisfied with 1 win. So I will attempt to reign in the hyperbole.
I still bare the scars of 2002 and 2006 and a ton of previous series where the Habs lifted their foot of the pedal.
1996. Habs go into New York and take the first two. Leading 2-0 returning home they never hold the lead
in the series again. Rangers take 4 straight.
2002. Up 2 games to 1 and 3-0 in the 3rd period. 18 minutes aways from a 3-1 lead and a trip to the
Conference Finals. Result? Outscored 17-3 over the final 7 periods.
2006. Up 2 games to 0 heading home and leading 1-0 with 8 minutes remaining. A 3-0 series lead against the
eventual champs staring them in the face. Result? 4 straight losses.
2008. Up 3 games to 1 heading home to clinch an easy opening round win. Price has allowed only 4 goals
in his first 4 games. Result? The Bruins score 10 goals over the next 2 games and force a Game 7.
This happens every single season. Look at 1993 even. Trailing the Nords 2-0 and in OT in Game 3. Result?
11 straight wins and 16 win in the next 18 games.
The playoffs are like a heavyweight title fight and the Habs just won round one. Like Mike Tyson says, everybody
has a plan until they get punched in the face. Lets see how they react to the Caps landing a haymaker.
Don't forget that this team hung on for dear life for a playoff spot just 5 days ago.
The game 4 is the still the most gut wrenching defeat I have experienced as a sports fan.
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Could not sleep so I decided to make this:
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I'll say this, though: watch out for the Caps in Game Two!! They will bring it ALL to the table for that first period. I wouldn't be surprised if we get shelled something like 5-2. BUT if we can somehow hang on and win *that* one, then we can really start to contemplate the unimaginable.
It'll be interesting.
I agree but it is mission accomplished at this point for the Habs. We needed to win one and we did that. It would be spectacular if we could put the cherry on top and take both, but at the very least we have taken home advantage.
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There, I watched the first part of the third. Only hockey I've watched. Goal Caps. I see the hockey Gods have spoken. TV off. LOL
you were saying?
JAROMIR! JAROMIR! JAROMIR!
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Wow, what a fabulous end to the period and a great game from Cammalleri tonight, We have to be happy being tied after two, Caps will start to feel the pressure.
GO :hlogo: GO
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Too sloppy in our own zone but really not that bad of a period. The 1st was always going to be the challenging one, let's get it going in the 2nd!
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Gotta say, Molson's produces some pretty hideous swill.
Can't say I entirely disagree but ya gotta support the team.
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Nearly 20 degrees and sunny out, molson in the fridge, Habs beer glass chilling in the freezer, smells like the Playoffs!
GO HABS GO!
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I don't remember the last time I went here, so sorry if I've posted this before.Tuesday last week I recorded a very interesting documentary on a Swedish channel, and another interesting one yesterday. I wonder if they have a theme on wacky people or something cause it can't be a coincidence they're showing these docs one after the other.
The first one was Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man, about Tim Treadwell who spent 13 summers in Alaska interacting with bears. In 2003 he and his girlfriend were killed and partially eaten by a bear.
The other one was The King of Kong. This is about two people competing for the Donkey Kong high score. Billy Mitchell set a world record in 1982, now Steve Wiebe is trying to break that record. A fierce and bitter fight ensues. A must-see for gaming freaks and psychology majors everywhere.
Two different but in its own right very interesting documentaries that I would strongly recommend.
If you liked Grizzly man, check out Herzog's Encounters at the End of the World, all about Antarctica and the researchers who live there.
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I don't remember for sure when my bed time moved from 9 to 10, but I know for sure I didn't start staying up past 10 on school nights until halfway through high school. I probably could have stayed up later if I'd asked, but I loved sleep and hated mornings, haha. On weekends and in the summer, I didn't have to be in bed till 11. Even then, as long as I was in bed, I could stay up as long as I wanted reading.
Part of not caring about my "early" bed time came from me knowing how much of a tool I was in the morning, even with 8-9 hours of sleep. Even through high school, I was immune to alarm clocks and pretty had to be shaken awake, haha. I was quite relieved when I got to college when I finally was able to wake up to an alarm on my own.
I've never actually seen an entire Super Bowl. Even when I started going to bed late enough to see the end, I'd fall asleep during halftime or the long commercials and miss big stretches of the game. Then senior year I skipped most of the first half to support my high school's hockey team senior night. Then in college I was too lazy to go to church in the mornings on Sunday and would go at 6 PM and miss the 1st quarter. Now, I just intentionally miss the beginning of the game, just so I can continue to say I've never seen a whole Super Bowl, haha.
Haha, fair enough. I never quite had the discipline, when my bedtime was lifted I was quickly a nightowl. I do remember making deals in order to stay up late when the Vikes were on in primetime though. And when I was really young I was only allowed to watch the first period of the Habs game even on Saturday night!
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I would LOVE that! The NFL (and NCAA also) has screwed over young and working class viewers for years by airing games at night on "school nights." They play college football all year on Saturday afternoons - why play the championship game on a weeknight? 95% of NFL games are played on Sunday afternoons - why play play the biggest game of the season at night? I was in high school before I got to see the end of the Super Bowl for the first time and college when I got to see the end of the BCS title game (which starts 2 hours after even the Super Bowl - on a weeknight). Play both games on a weekend at 4 PM Eastern. Then it's not starting at 10 AM on the West Coast and East Coast viewers don't have to lose sleep to see the end.
I'll jump in for a second, you really couldn't stay up past 1030 until high school? Even just for the Super Bowl? I used to not be able to stay up until midnight for MNF before high school but I even thought that was strict...
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Yeah you can definitely get it, they also have RDSHD as well.
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Just Cable? No Satellite? If you are just going Cable then I don't know if you have options beyond Rogers. I'm not a big fan but you can get all of those channels rather easily with a digital box.
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Oh sweet irony.
The irony might be the thread you made a month ago about how Montreal was voted a top 3 organization by the players
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I'd like to point out that most other teams suffered major injuries this season as well. One may only wonder, for instance, how a team like Carolina would have done had they been more healthy to start the year.
If I was quitting the team because of 'franco vs anglo' stuff, I would have done that years ago. The politics that surround this team make 95% of the fan-base downright painful and seriously affects the overall performance of the club. I'm not watching because we backed in and I don't feel they truly earned it based on the most important stretch of the season - the final weeks. When a team has its back to the wall, you hope it brings out the best in everyone. Well, as usual these days: (Almost) Epic Fail.
No. I will cheer for a team that WANTS it. Not a team that backs in and fumbles their way to ecstasy (with sincere apologies to Sarah McLachlan). Show me evidence that this team truly deserved it when they were basically healthy in the final weeks yet played some of their worst hockey of the season and I'm on board. I can't find that evidence. What was it, one win in their last eight including one of the weakest schedules of all the playoff contending teams?
I agree with a lot of what you've written but I've never understood the "we don't deserve to be in the playoffs" argument.
Does a team like Toronto, that played well over the last two months, deserve to make it ahead of us? There is a reason that games in October matter as much as games in March and April. We deserve to be in the playoffs because we finished in the top 8 in the Eastern Conference. Period.
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I've never been to a playoff game.
It obviously would be at about twice the cost, but you should be able to find tickets on stubhub in the 100-130 range. I went to a Habs/Flyers game for about 150 two years ago, i found it was well worth the money even though it was the beginning of the end for us.
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I managed to get the Fan pack for Game 4.
Two zone Molson ex, 2 jerseys and 2 tickets to the Habs hall of fame for 270 all in.
I thought it was a pretty good deal, I was looking to get a new Habs jersey anyhow.
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On the other hand, how many predicted this team was going to finish 14th or something like that in the conference. We've exceeded the expectations of a great number of posters here. Just goes to show that nothing is ever good enough in Montreal.
Now, don't get me wrong, I'm just as irritated as everyone else, but it sometimes pays to step back and have a look at the bigger picture, including how you felt months earlier. How many believed the Habs had no chance to make the playoffs this season? Be honest with yourselves and at least admit that, despite the frustration, they are actually performing somewhat above those expectations.
I thought we were done when Markov went out, as I'm sure most people did. I guess in retrospect, I am surprised we control our own destiny on the final weekend.
If I remember correctly, it wasn't good news when that happened a couple of weeks ago...Edit: Bulldogs lost 4-3 in a SO, Habs lost 3-2 in OT each back on March 20th.
That would be good enough tonight!
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Some of you guys take all the fun out of hockey.
This is what it is all about, Habs/Leafs, Saturday night, cold beer, high stakes.
Let's kick their ass.
*Fires up NHL94 to get the good vibes going*
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Modern Family is my new favourite show this season. Similar to you, I haven't been this excited about a comedy since 30 Rock aired its first season.
As for Dexter, I assume you're ranking Season 3 last place?
Yeah I rank it 4,2,1,3. Not that 3 was that bad though, it was still Dexter haha.
Habs @ Washington: GAME 2
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I don't see how the psychological battle is lost. Do you really think the Caps feel that good about their current situation? If we take game 3 with solid D and some timely scoring, don't you think the Caps are going to be just a little frustrated that this pesky eighth seed won't go away?
I'm sure the Habs are a little down right now but like I said before, this team is mentally tough. We fought through a multitude of injuries this season and we can fight through a blown lead in the 3rd.