halobob

I hate the Sharks more too.  I have no real hatred for the Kings since we have yet to meet them in the playoffs.  I easily hate Sharks, Wings, Preds more than I hate the Kings.  Pens really put a beat down on Ottawa last night...I don't see anyone stopping them in the east.  Quick was a ****ing beast last night, looks like he is in playoff mode again.  I think its gonna be a Pens Kings final.

What did the interviews say was wrong with Perry and Ryan?

Lack of hustle and desire to win.

Fasth had abdominal injury and was only 80%...makes sense as to why Hiller got all the games now.

Tix are cheap for tonight's game.  If I wasnt still so bummed from game 7 I'd head on up to Staples for this.

The Caps really showed up to play yesterday...not what I was expecting out of this game.  I thought it was gonna be 1-0 or 2-1.

What a comeback, must have been so amazing to be a Boston fan in that building.  If only the Ducks were able to pull off a similar comeback I would've been such a happy halobob.

Beauch is a ****ing beast!  Amazing he could play on a Torn ACL.  As for Bonino, I think a lot of the team plays pick up soccer before games as a little warm up.  Murray also vowed team won't be back as is...I think this spells the end of Bobby Ryan in Anaheim.  Will be interesting to see what we can get for him.  If we do trade him it will be new jersey time for me...likely going with Etem if he gets his lower number by the start of next season.

A few things that really bothered me last night.

 

1. Why in God's name were Palmieri and Etem not on the ice more? The two best players in this damn series and both of them only got 12 and 15 minutes on the ice. Yet, the worst player of the series (Perry) still got his 23 minutes.

 

2. Hiller. I think it was a mistake not at least entertaining the idea of putting Fasth in the net for a game. Hiller looked awful in game 6 and 7. Some really bad goals given up.

 

3. Perry/Ryan- Both of them were HORRIBLE. For 1 shift in the game last night I saw Perry show actual effort. Ryan just lollygagged it on the ice too. Not what we need from our "top line"

 

4. I would have liked to have seen Vatanen in the game over Sbisa or Allen. Idc if hes a rookie. We needed fresh legs out there and he couldn't possibly be any worse than that 3rd D line.

 

Also, from looking at the TOI sheet, Winnik got hosed of a lot of time too. He was one of the best players in the series (even though he didn't show up on the point sheet) He was giving it his all out there and definitely deserved more than 8 ****ing minutes on the ice.

1- Etem and Palmieri should have definitely gotten more ice time.  Hopefully they work hard this summer and they become part of a etem-bonino-palmieri 2nd line.  

3- I think Bobby is traded this off season, his heart is clearly not in Anaheim.

4- Sbisa was ****ing awful in these playoffs, wouldn't have minded seeing Vatanen in for him at all.

Such a depressing 1st round loss...I was planning on having 2 rounds minimum of playoff hockey.  The Ducks were doing such a good job of keeping my mind of how shitty the Angels season is going.  Now the Angels need to get it in gear or its gonna be one looooooooong summer.

on tv last night it sounded like it about 50/50. red wings fans can be very annoying and very vocal. i think in the playoffs kings fans can out-yell them at staples.

 

hopefully we'll get a chance to kick their butts.

Sounded 50/50 cuz the Ducks sucked last night.  Was same amount of Wings fans as games 1 and 5 but the Ducks fans were much more engaged in those games.

USA USA USA!!!

Bummer that we don't get to play you.

Why wasn't the Honda center filled with ducks fans? It sounded like an angels - Red Sox game in there.

It was 80/20 Ducks to Red Wings I'd say...Ducks didn't give the fans too much to cheer about.  Didn't stop me from yelling the whole game and having no voice this morning.

Also if it happens to be Kings vs. Red Wings in the WCF I'm sure it will be much of the same at Staples if the Kings play a flat game like the Ducks did last night.

bruce has won playoff series before. 

ducks didnt deserve to move on. they should have obliterated that team. 

I agree with this, no reason the Ducks should have lost this series.  They were by far the better team for the Wings for most of this season, too bad they were not the better team these last 7 games.  I really wanted to see a Ducks Kings match up in the playoffs, especially with the Dodger Stadium game coming up next year. 

The shorthanded goal was the killer in game 7.  If Getzy puts away the goal earlier in the power play when he was open in the slot its a completely different game as the Ducks were getting their legs under them at this point only to have the shorty take the life out of the Ducks and the Honda Center.  Only thing I can take away from being there is I may have seen the last game Teemu will every play, unfortunately he didn't look very good, oh well.

Woooooo what a great victory! Ducks and Kings one win away from the first playoff freeway faceoff!

It's all right, I have a feeling we will still get to see the clincher at Honda Center in this series.

http://www.usctrojans.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/leonard_williams_808356.html

Several all american list in 2012.

UCLA goes 9-5 beats USC by 10 and they're back

2013 season cant come soon enough lol

Yeah, I hope its not like the:

Matt Barkley is coming back and USC is preseason #1

2012 season cant come soon enough lol

Very disappointing to see the Ducks on their heels for a majority of the game.  Things better change quickly for game 5 as this is now a must win for the Ducks!

I expect Souray to comeback and play very well after being benched last game.  Definitely sucks for Lydman, what solid D he had been playing for the last month.  U get ur tix for Wednesday yet Cory?

just picked up tickets for tonight. ready to go!

 

GKG!!!

Well played Tank, huge game for you guys tonight!

I am with Tank.  Seating will be really far away from the rink.

Kind of like 300 level seating at staples?  I wont be missing this one, hopefully we meet in the playoffs this year and it will make this game even bigger!

What an enjoyable watch game 3 was.  Hopefully we can win tonight and close it out Wednesday in Anaheim!

I was surprised to see Souray being the odd man out...I assumed it would be Allen or Lovejoy.  Either way Ducks must win tonight!

Labor participation rate lowest since 1979.

 

Folks who have given up looking for work are not counted in the unemployment rate.

Exactly.

Yup Nate, great game this morning.  Henrik really kept the Rangers in the game.  Unfortuantely the only game I am going to get to watch live as I have to go to a wedding shortly.  I'll be pulling the old turn the phone off again and recording the Ducks game and either watching it super sloppy when I get back tonight or super hungover in the morning.

I'm gonna go ahead and hop on the Bob Marley train on this one and suggest either Jamming or Stir it Up for the 7th inning stretch song.

Most amazing part of this story is that the Indians used to be able to pull over 24K in attendance on a Tuesday night.