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He had a better D-line in front of him last year, due to literally every defense man being injured at one point this season. That being said, his wife was pregnant this season and had "complications" so I think that wore on him mentally. She went to Florida to be with her family so that didn't help either. The baby was born at the end of March so he had some staggering traveling hours, which caused him to play some bad games. I really think they should have just rested him or let him be in Florida for a few days. Our backup goalie, Sanford, is good... the entire point of getting him was so if Luongo couldn't play we wouldn't be totally screwed. But down the stretch when the man was under considerable mental stress, they made him play, and he had to be pulled twice in two nights... ugh.

That said, there were times he looked spectacular this season. Like when Crosby came to Vancouver for the first time and got an over-time penalty shot and Bobby Lou totally stopped him. Or when Luongo got a franchise record of three consecutive shut outs.

And yeah, there's rumours about the coach and team members not getting along with him, which wouldn't surprise me. The big rumour I've heard was that during a game against Edmonton, there was a lot of fighting towards the end and Linden, the classy dude he is, refused to fight so coach Vigneault made him a healthy scratch continuously after that. All the players look up to me and probably commands more respect then Alain Vigneault. However I don't think that's why he wasn't performing as well as last season.

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Yeah I wouldn't be surprised if there was some sort of division in the locker room, I don't know. The Canucks need a new captain, new coach, and now a new GM. This could be good though.

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Nice win for the Rangers tonight. Playoff hockey is so much better than regular hockey.

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Nice win for the Rangers tonight. Playoff hockey is so much better than regular hockey.

 

if you have sopcast, you can watch games from the IIHF World Championship. International hockey is so much better than the NHL.

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awesome sweep by the Pens, and thanks to sopcast, I didn't miss a thing.

Ain't that great? I'm dissapointed I didn't find out about it until at the end of the season (round these parts almost every playoff game is on either CBC or TSN) but I'm stoked to never have to buy a shitty PPV again.

if you have sopcast, you can watch games from the IIHF World Championship. International hockey is so much better than the NHL.

You have no idea how pumped I am for the World Championship. Someone should start a thread for it come closer to May.

 

If I were to bet on any of these series being a sweep it wouldn't have been Senators vs Penguins it would have been Red Wings vs Predators but that's turning out to be a pretty interesting series.

Anyways, the thought of a Penguin vs Canadien series has me drooling.

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Sopcast is a p2p thing, I don't fully understand how it works but you can stream live tv onto your lap top. That way, say your in Massachusetts and you want to watch the Anaheim Ducks vs Dallas Stars but ESPN are a bunch of tools and Versus isn't showing it you can watch it using the power of the internet!

There's pretty much nothing you can't pirate on the internet these days.

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Im a huge Canadians fan and have hade "this is the year feelings" since I saw Carey Price frist game to much syncranisty its gonna happen.

Panther, I think you're a pretty cool dude.

 

So now that Boston is gone, who are all you Boston folks rooting for?

OK maaayyybeeee I spoke prematurely but that was during the first period, Montreal was in the lead, looking great, and Carey Price made a BREATH TAKING save. What happened tonight? Well he's a 20 year old rookie playing in the finals, he's allowed to have one bad game, just as long as it's in a series like this one. He made that one mistake and it seemed to throw him off for the rest of the game.

Montreal in 6.

Flyers (:() in 7.

Red Wings in 6.

Avalanche in 7.

Rangers in 5.

Sharks in 7*.

Stars in 5.

 

Those are my predictions. I really think the flames could pull this around or they could choke... they're probably the hardest team to predict in the league. It's strange since they have the second best leader in the league (after Burnaby Joe, of course). So, what's everyone else's predictions? I say predictions not "what would you like to see happen".

It's too bad Ovechkin plays for the Capitals, I'd love to see him on one of the more traditional American markets like New York, Detroit or Chicago (or better yet, Vancouver).

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