2013 -14 NHL and assorted hockey stuff

[Mike Schwartz]

Would have liked a game 7 Hawks/Wild

Hawks have had the good fortune in recent years to get the right bounce at critical moments for game/series ending goals.

[Jazzmoose]

I'm still having a hard time believing the Bruins got beat. And beat soundly. Amazing.

[Mike Schwartz]

Stanley Cup opponents to be decided today.

Rangers awaiting the winner of Kings/Blackhawks game 7 today.

3rd consecutive 7th game for L.A.

I believe I heard that the 21 games played thus far ties a record for most games played prior to playing for the cup.

NHL game 7's rarely disappoint....

20 years ago [ last time the Rangers skated the cup ] I was out here in Cali preparing to move here and watched them win at a sports bar with many many other NY transplants celebrating.

On the trip home watched the Knicks loose game 7 of the NBA playoffs in an airport awaiting a flight change.

Edited June 3, 2014 by Mike Schwartz

[ejp626]

Lot of fluky stuff going on in that game, with Chicago getting two more bad bounces than the Kings. Definitely a disappointing outcome, but really both teams deserved to move on.

I guess Game 2 is the one that Chicago really did give away, and had they won that one, we would have been looking at a totally different story.

On paper, I would say either the Blackhawks or the Kings should be able to handle the Rangers fairly easily, but both teams looked completely drained by the third period, and I don't know how fast the Kings can bounce back.

[GA Russell]

Across the street from me is a bar owned by a former Hurricanes player named Boots Bataglia. The bar is known as Raleigh's hockey headquarters, and I'm confident that it will be crowded and noisy for the Stanley Cup finals.

[Mike Schwartz]

Disappointing [to me] the Rangers couldn't have taken 1 game.

Kings are uncanny in that it absolutely make no difference to them when they get down a couple of goals and keep playing at a high level and come back time after time.

I can't remember another team having this ability so many times in the playoffs.

[Jazzmoose]

They looked like they were playing as badly as the first two games against the Sharks, yet the Rangers couldn't capitalize. I don't see their chances getting any better.

That second game was awesome, though!

[Mike Schwartz]

  On 6/9/2014 at 5:23 PM, Jazzmoose said:

They looked like they were playing as badly as the first two games against the Sharks, yet the Rangers couldn't capitalize. I don't see their chances getting any better.

That second game was awesome, though!

Kings the only team in playoff history to win 3 consecutive playoff games down by multiple goals.

[Mike Schwartz]

Brutal down 3-0....makes the Sharks collapse even harder to take

They had beaten the Rangers both times they played and had the Kings done like dinner but folded like a cheap suit.

[Mike Schwartz]

woulda couda shouda........no sweep obviously but had the Rangers taken one of the first 2 games in L.A., a much closer series than the results thus far.

Kings went up 3-0 to the Devils 2012 to see NJ take games 4 & 5 before the clincher.

Edited June 12, 2014 by Mike Schwartz

[ejp626]

I really can't see this going past 5, but maybe the Rangers get a lucky bounce or two and push the series to 6 games.

The Kings really seem to have the hockey gods on their side, particularly in Game 7 against the Blackhawks.

[GA Russell]

I see that the television broadcast of the game is here:

http://stream.nbcsports.com/nhl/?pid=38&referrer=http://stream.nbcsports.com/liveextra/

[Jazzmoose]

What a game...I'm exhausted!

[Indestructible!]

Great run by the Kings, some amazing games in each of the series they played. Maybe the most mentally tough team I've seen in a long, long time.

As a Flames fan, I'm happy to see Sutter get his second Cup. I'm even more ecstatic that Regehr finally got to hoist the Cup!