SA Footy

Pittsburgh Penguins are the first team through to the second round with a sweep over last years Stanley Cup finalist Ottawa Senators.
Current 1st Round Series.
Montreal Canadiens lead Boston Bruins 3 game to 1
Philadelphia Flyers lead Washington Capitals 2-1
New York Rangers lead New jersey Devils 3-1
Detroit Red Wings & Nashville Predators 2 all
San Jose Sharks & Calgary Falmes 2 all
Minnesota Wild & Colorado Avalanche 2 all
Dallas Stars lead last years champion Anaheim Ducks 2-1

I have no idea who is good... so.... go NY Rangers!

Go the penguins

Rangers for me. Hmmm, notice the old nemesis Montreal are in.

Does anyone know if this is on Foxtel? So far we've caught a few highlights during the season and that's been by accident when we've stumbled across it.

MagicKiwi wrote:Rangers for me. Hmmm, notice the old nemesis Montreal are in.

Does anyone know if this is on Foxtel? So far we've caught a few highlights during the season and that's been by accident when we've stumbled across it.

Foxsports are showing games on same day delay and they are trimmed down to a concise 90 minutes.

Todays Games
Boston 5 Montreal 1- Canadiens lead 3-2
Philadelphia 4 Washington 3 double OT - Flyers lead 3-1
San Jose 4 Calgary 3 - Sharks lead 3-2
Colorado 3 Minnesota 2 Avalanche lead 3-2
Dallas 3 Anaheim 1 - Stars lead 3-1

Games played this morning/afternoon.

Detroit 3 Nashville 0 - Red Wings win series 4-2.
Dallas 4 Anaheim 1 - Dallas wins 4-2
Calgary 2 San Jose 0- Series tied @ 3.

Montreal finish off Boston 5-0 to win series 4-3
Washington take it to Game 7 with a 4-2 win over the Flyers.

I was in Montreal over a week ago after they won a play-off and it was crazy in the streets. Apparently yesterday after their win to get to the 2nd round of teh play-offs it turned into a complete riot in the streets. 16 cars were torched!
Imagine if they lost!

Sharks beat the Flames 5 - 2 last night. entertaining last term, flames played without goalie for about 4 minutes.

Shirtfront wrote:Sharks beat the Flames 5 - 2 last night. entertaining last term, flames played without goalie for about 4 minutes.

Teams do that when they are a goal or two down as it gives them an extra attacker(skater). This occurs in the final 1-2 minutes of the game and the reasoning behind it is that with the extra skater (6 skaters opposed to 5 and a goalie) it gives the trailing team a better chance to get a goal or two.
They're not going get that goal playing five-on-five hockey so they have nothing to lose if they look losing anyway.

Matchup for the Conference Semi Finals are.
Eastern Conference;
Montreal Canadiens v Philadelphia Flyers & Pittsburgh Penguins v New York Rangers.
Western Conference;
Detroit Red Wings v Colorado Avalanche & San Jose Sharks v Dallas Stars.

Game 1s - Conference Semi Finals
Montreal d Philadelphia 4-3 OT
Pittsburgh d New York Rangers 5-4
Detroit d Colorado 4-3
Dallas d San Jose 3-2 OT

Game 2s
Philadelphia d Montreal 4-2, series tied @ 1
Detroit crush,destroy,murder,spiflicate Colorado 5-1, lead 2-0

More Game 2s
Pittsburgh 2 NYR 0 - Penguins lead series 2-0
Dallas 5 San Jose 2 - Dallas leads series 2-0

Philadelphia beat Montreal 3-2 in today's only game
Flyers lead series 2-1

This morning's games.
Pittsburgh Penguins 5 d New York Rangers 3. Penguins lead series 3-0
Detroit Red Wings 4 d Colorado Avalanche 3. Red Wings lead series 3-0
Dallas Stars 2 d San Jose Sharks 1 in OT. Stars lead series 3-0.

Surprisingly one-sided series.

Methinks the Rangers are stuffed....

MagicKiwi wrote:Methinks the Rangers are stuffed....

The 1942 Toronto Maple Leafs and 1975 New York Islanders are the
only NHL teams to come back from a 3-0 deficit to win the series.
The stats don't look good for your Ranger boys MK.

Today's games.
Philadelphia 4 d Montreal 2. Flyers lead 3-1
San Jose 2 d Dallas 1. Dallas leads 3-1

Detroit knockout Colorado 8-2 and complete the sweep.
Philly kick out the Canadiens 6-4 in Game 5.

Rangers get a win 66 3-1

Pittsburgh knock out the Rangers 3-2 in OT to win series 4-1.
Sorry MK.
Dallas beat San Jose 2-1 in Quadruple OT to win 4-2.

Conference Championships
East; Pittsburgh v Philadelphia
West; Detroit v Dallas