2008 Stanley Cup Playoffs

[Mr66]

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

[Westsider]

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

[schimma]

Go the penguins

[MagicKiwi]

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.

[Mr66]

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

[Mr66]

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.

[Mr66]

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.

[Mic]

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!

[Shirtfront]

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

[Mr66]

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.

[Mr66]

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

[Mr66]

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

[Mr66]

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

[Mr66]

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

[Mr66]

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.

[MagicKiwi]

Methinks the Rangers are stuffed....

[Mr66]

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

[Mr66]

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

[MagicKiwi]

Rangers get a win 66 3-1

[Mr66]

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