I was surprised by the hate for the Pens on Twitter yesterday during and after the game. Nasty.
NHL playoffs start tonight!
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I was a big fan of hockey in the days before mandatory helmets and when fights were FIGHTS! Had season tickets for the Caps and loved every minute of it. Then I kinda slacked off for a few decades until recently. My boyfriend is a huge Penguins fan and we have been watching the series with the Broad Street Bullies. What a bunch of thugs. Loved watching their fans file out dejected yesterday. Go Pens!
At the risk of jinxing my Caps, they've done something very un-Washington like in their series against CBJ, coming back from the dead and taking a 3-2 lead after losing games 1 & 2 at home. Hope we can maintain the momentum and finish this off tonight.
Out of curiosity, I checked ticket prices for Game 6 in Columbus: You can get lower bowl, center ice tickets for less than $100. That's crazy. The lowest price ticket for Game 5 in Nashville was just north of $300.
I completely hate the NHL seeding system. Tampa should get Pitt and Washington should get the Bruins/Leafs winner (with home ice over Toronto).
The NHL has made a series of bad decisions to seemingly negate what is a very strong on-ice product. There's a reason hockey fans boo Gary Bettman at pretty much every opportunity.
Interestingly, this year only 1 first-round series will go 7 games.
Interestingly, this year only 1 first-round series will go 7 games.
Hagelin too. He’s a key piece of the PK unit, and is always capable of a SH goal (and he’s been contributing offensively at even strength lately too).
Should be another slugfest. That said, I have to wonder if the Caps will fold quickly if the Pens manage to win game 1 tonight. I know they lost the first two to Columbus, but the Pens must be in their heads to some extent, given recent history.
If the Pens don’t repeat, I really would like to see Ovi win the Cup...although Vegas winning would be amazing, and Winnipeg would be great too (although I have trouble picturing either of those happening).
If the Pens want a cheap convenient place to stay while in Washington, the Caps' heads are available.
An odd game between the Pens and Caps.
Both teams has tons of chances but couldn’t finish, in large part because the goalies were unreal. But then again, there’s no way Murray should let the second goal get by him.
Then Sid starts doing Sid things, and Mr. Playoffs, Jake Guentzel, gets revved up again, and the Caps are now in a tough spot mentally, maybe even more so when they realize the Pens just did that without Malkin and Hagelin, and that the Pens played lengthy stretches of poor hockey, and the Caps still couldn’t pull away.
Pens in 6.
Both teams has tons of chances but couldn’t finish, in large part because the goalies were unreal. But then again, there’s no way Murray should let the second goal get by him.
Then Sid starts doing Sid things, and Mr. Playoffs, Jake Guentzel, gets revved up again, and the Caps are now in a tough spot mentally, maybe even more so when they realize the Pens just did that without Malkin and Hagelin, and that the Pens played lengthy stretches of poor hockey, and the Caps still couldn’t pull away.
Pens in 6.
Living in Pittsburgh and being a Pens fan, I probably shouldn’t say this, but I kind of like Ovechkin, and if the Pens don’t win the Cup, I’d like to see Ovie get it.
I love the Caps. I love FSU Baseball. The pain this time of year is becoming unreasonable.
Pens got caught twice in line switches. Give the Caps a ton of credit.
I kinda like TB, but as a Caps fan I should be hoping for this series to go on as long as possible. I can rationalize either way.
Nice to see the Caps and their their fans end the "Curse of the Penguin." Now it's officially a rivalry. Bruin's season ends but I'm satisfied, they went way beyond everyone's expectations, have a solid core of youth and vets, and have some decent cap space to work with in the off season. Bolts are the real deal, impressed with their second line.
Kind of. The Browns won the championship their first year in the NFL, but they played in the AllAmerica Football Conderence before joining the NFL. As far as other real startups, the fastest expansion teams were the Milwaukee Bucks and the Arizona Diamondbacks which both won in their third season.
It is indeed a great feeling to best the Pens finally...and while being shorthanded, no less.
It's a great series win obviously, but the reward is now having to face arguably the fastest most-talented team in the league. Is there a tougher path to win a championship than having to navigate one's way through the Stanley Cup Playoffs?
