The Stanley Cup Playoffs

Even the Ducks, should they win tonight, could take a mini-vacation.

 

I saw that - definite heartbreaking material.

One more season to cheer for Ottawa. Go Sens. Go Neiler.

 

Scott Burnside's profile on Henrik Zetterberg who Detroit picked in the 7th round. Wow.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/playoffs2007/columns/story?columnist=burnside_scott&id=2878210

At the 1999 draft, 209 players were selected before the Red Wings chose Zetterberg. What does that mean? By the time the seventh round of the NHL draft rolls around, the stands are empty and those still on hand are often asleep. Teams sometimes pick players in the seventh round because they feel sorry for them sitting in the stands. Any drama is gone because so few of these players will have any impact in the NHL.

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So, how did this happen?

Holland was frank -- there was a little bit of luck involved, plus more than a little hockey acumen provided by European scout Hakan Andersson and assistant GM Jim Nill. Andersson first stumbled on the shifty, undersized Zetterberg at a tournament in Northern Finland. Zetterberg was still in his teens, and Andersson was looking at another player, one Nill graciously declines to identify.

"But there was this little Zetterberg guy who always seems to have the puck," Nill recalled Monday.

 

Conveniently delayed so as not to affect NBC's ratings during the "May sweeps." :

The NHL is to American networks as Kevin Bacon was to the Omegas - "Thank you sir, may I have another?!"

 

Get ready for Ottawa-Anaheim, kids. Ducks up 3-0 after 2.

 

From the looks of Wings faces on the bench, they have officially conceded.

Ducks-Senators, game on!

 

That Todd Bertuzzi experiment worked out really well, eh??

 

Can't stand Detroit, but sure don't want to see Pronger win. Go Sens!

 

Doesn't look like you'll have to worry about Detroit...

 

Ain't that a bitch.

They fucked themselves in OT and get knocked the fuck out in the Conference finals.

Hello Ottawa and Anaheim. Goodbye ratings!!

 

Don't you have to say hello before you can say goodbye?

Only team that could have substantially boosted finals ratings in these playoffs is Buffalo. But they're still gonna suck, no matter who plays.

 

Well, it was a battle down to the wire.

Props to the Wings, they never gave up.

Giguere may be the clumbsiest goalie in the league. He moves around his net like a fat ten year old who got stuck in net because he was the last picked in a road hockey game.

But boy, can the guy stop the puck. He's technically perfect--and a lightning fast glove hand doesn't hurt.