Devils are HEAVILY outshooting Florida. Hmm...

OT Winner:

FLA: Weiss
NJ: Parise

Dear NJ Devils and Maaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrtttttttttyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

Pretend you're the Rangers and it's OT.

xoxoxoxo,
Rags Fan

Gird your loins, we've got bonus hockey!

Something to watching during the intermission: Animaniacs - "A Hard Day's Warner"

FLA only has 13 shots???!!!!!

/cue Major League 1 godamn hit

Primitive Screwhead: Damn my feed is way behind.

The boat sinks.
The Germans and Japanese lose.
Neil Armstrong.
The wall comes down.
Don't drive with Dany Heatley.
The Panthers make the playoffs.

Commentators admonishing the devils made lol

FightDirector: Frozen_Puck: It will be a well deserved rest for him. He's had a hell of a career!

No kidding. I still come down on the "Roy" side of the "Brodeur v Roy" debate for best "money" goalie, but that's not to diminish the amazing career Marty has had. He's not a #2 goalie, he's #1a to Roy's #1.

Roy was amazing. I'm a Habs fan, but I didn't start watching hockey and become a fan until after he was out of town, so all I know about Roy is his career as an Av and old videos/YouTube clips I can watch of him in Montreal. I'd agree with you on the "money" goalie comment. Not taking anything away from Marty (he's amazing!), but he did play behind a very stalwart defense for much of his career.

mootmah: The Shoveller: Primitive Screwhead: Damn my feed is way behind.

The boat sinks.
The Germans and Japanese lose.
Neil Armstrong.
The wall comes down.
Don't drive with Dany Heatley.
The Panthers make the playoffs.

Rosebud is the sled

DODGERS WIN THE PENNANT!!

msupf:
Rat delay ticker was great.

Roy was a good goalie, far from badass. Got opened up by two goalies nearly a foot shorter than him, and threw such a hissy fit that a team had no choice but to trade him. Definitely not badass

As his sons coach, Roy told his son to go beat the shiat out of a goalie (i think)
who didn't wanna fight

That IS bad ass

The reason Florida barely has any shots...



They're playing with the wrong puck!

mootmah: The Shoveller: Primitive Screwhead: Damn my feed is way behind.

The boat sinks.
The Germans and Japanese lose.
Neil Armstrong.
The wall comes down.
Don't drive with Dany Heatley.
The Panthers make the playoffs.

Rosebud is the sled

Vader is Lukes father

I had to leave to start dinner, only to find we have bonus hockey coming up, when I'll still be tied up in the kitchen.

All of you should come over and help me.

msupf: FightDirector

Yet another reason why Patrick Roy was an insane badass (dropping the puck during a Statue of Liberty save on occasion notwithstanding).

Rat delay ticker was great.

Roy was a good goalie, far from badass. Got opened up by two goalies nearly a foot shorter than him, and threw such a hissy fit that a team had no choice but to trade him. Definitely not badass

I'd argue that from '96-2001 there wasn't a better overall goalie. The only possible contender is Marty, and I addressed that above. Hasek was better in stretches, but never had the "big game" cred that Roy or Marty did.

And if we're gonna get technical, he got whomped on in the first Red Wings matchup with Vernon only AFTER Shannahan (lol) hit Roy with a flying cross-body block and injured Roy (shoulder). Fighting with an injured shoulder is somewhat difficult, and I can't help but chuckle (in retrospect) that it was Shanny throwing that hit on a goaltender...especially in light of the hit on Mike Smith by Shaw and the suspension resulting from that.

/Montreal treated him like shiat; I don't blame him for demanding a trade. His tantrum in response to the Habs treatment isn't a negative in my book.

Igor Jakovsky: mootmah: The Shoveller: Primitive Screwhead: Damn my feed is way behind.

The boat sinks.
The Germans and Japanese lose.
Neil Armstrong.
The wall comes down.
Don't drive with Dany Heatley.
The Panthers make the playoffs.

Rosebud is the sled

Vader is Lukes father

Its bad I LOLd @ "Don't drive with Dany Heatley

Last 5 OT games have ended within 5 minutes? Wow, that surprises me. I know they usually end early or go forever, but surprised they've been consistently ending so quickly lately.

The Shoveller: Primitive Screwhead: Damn my feed is way behind.

The boat sinks.
The Germans and Japanese lose.
Neil Armstrong.
The wall comes down.
Don't drive with Dany Heatley.
The Panthers make the playoffs.

. . . dammit, it only just occurred to me that this is a game played on a damn ice rink, and that Florida's first-round opponent are called the Devils and they play in friggin' New Jersey. So many jokes gone begging . . .

MugzyBrown: Flyers/Pens series

And give Pens/Flyers fans ulcers and liver damage.

IS BAD GAME NO BECAUSE BONUS HOCKEYTIMES

I haven't been watching due to being at work so this is as blind a guess as you'll ever get but...

FLA- Upshall (have to go with an ex-Coyote)
NJ- Parise

msupf: Frozen_Puck: FightDirector: Frozen_Puck: It will be a well deserved rest for him. He's had a hell of a career!

No kidding. I still come down on the "Roy" side of the "Brodeur v Roy" debate for best "money" goalie, but that's not to diminish the amazing career Marty has had. He's not a #2 goalie, he's #1a to Roy's #1.

Roy was amazing. I'm a Habs fan, but I didn't start watching hockey and become a fan until after he was out of town, so all I know about Roy is his career as an Av and old videos/YouTube clips I can watch of him in Montreal. I'd agree with you on the "money" goalie comment. Not taking anything away from Marty (he's amazing!), but he did play behind a very stalwart defense for much of his career.

So did Roy with the Avs.

Roy had more offensive support, though, and a more aggressive system on ice in front of him.

Yeah, I do remember a very solid D (Bourque, Blake, Foote) in front of Roy the year they beat the Devils. That was one hell of a team. Sakic, Forsberg, Hedjunk, Drury, Tanguay... damn.

msupf: No, that's just insane and a sore ass. Roy has screws loose, and has had for years. That's just another example of it.

He can't hear you, because he's got his two Stanley Cup rings plugging his ears.

/that really is one of the weirdest "comebacks" in the history of, ever...

msupf: ontariolightning: msupf:
Rat delay ticker was great.

Roy was a good goalie, far from badass. Got opened up by two goalies nearly a foot shorter than him, and threw such a hissy fit that a team had no choice but to trade him. Definitely not badass

As his sons coach, Roy told his son to go beat the shiat out of a goalie (i think)
who didn't wanna fight

That IS bad ass

No, that's just insane and a sore ass. Roy has screws loose, and has had for years. That's just another example of it.


Roy is terminal lung cancer away from turning into Walter White
that is how bad ass he is

Bonus Game On!

Game on

Bonus hockey time!

Yay, local MA ambulance chaser ads here. *rolls eyes*

msupf:
So did Roy with the Avs.

Roy had more offensive support, though, and a more aggressive system on ice in front of him.

Roy had a good-to-great defense with the Avs, but it was nothing as good as the Devils during the mid-to-late 90s. The Devils WERE the archtypical "defensive team".

I'd put Roy as a combination of the best of Grant Fuhr and Brodeur - whe his team played good D, he was amazing. When his team played run-n-gun, he could elevate his game to the next level and just steal a game he had no business winning. Fuhr had trouble with the first, but his Oilers team scored so much it didn't matter (see also: Chris Osgood, 1998-2002). Broduer never really had to deal with the second part; this Devils team, with Parise and Kovy, is the closest to a "run-n-gun" team he's EVER played for.

Roy could deal with both, which is why I rank him where I do.

Just so long as he doesn't have to make a Statue of Liberty save. Or really have to hear what Jeremy Roenick is saying.

I remember that Pit/Wash game.

Ha, 2 games on April 24th among 5 longest games in NHL history. Interesting stat, yet meaningless like most stats.

Hey, I remember that Dallas-Anaheim game. That was fantastic! I stayed up to watch the whole thing, was dead tired the next day!

2wolves: a -ahem- certain intensity.

No doubt my friend. No DOUBT

Killer Cars: msupf: No, that's just insane and a sore ass. Roy has screws loose, and has had for years. That's just another example of it.

He can't hear you, because he's got his two Stanley Cup rings plugging his ears.

/that really is one of the weirdest "comebacks" in the history of, ever...

I can't let a discussion of Patrick Roy weirdness go without this video.

IMDWalrus: Brodeur never did this.

I remember that! That wasn't the Game 7 where the Wings lit them up and won 7-0 was it?

paj: Bonus Game On!

Yay!

(Good conversation, ya'll. Thanks for making the intermission go quick.)

And again...

FightDirector: So what's the over/under on THIS game being the one game in all the 1st round matchups be the one that has an OT lasting more than about 5 minutes?

Also, I just found out that the thing my laptop is sitting on as I type this was carved by a convicted murderer. It was sent to my mom as a gift and she thought she burned it. She cackled like a madman when I told her that it was still around and was being put to good use.

Hard for me to even do this, but im going

NJ - Elias
FLA - Upshall

desertgeek: Killer Cars: msupf: No, that's just insane and a sore ass. Roy has screws loose, and has had for years. That's just another example of it.

He can't hear you, because he's got his two Stanley Cup rings plugging his ears.

/that really is one of the weirdest "comebacks" in the history of, ever...

I can't let a discussion of Patrick Roy weirdness go without this video.

Whoa, never saw that. WTF made Roy react so crazy?

Btw, miss those Phoenix jerseys. LOVED them! Am I in the minority there? Oh well, don't care.