Stanley Cup Playoffs - Page 7

Thrillhouse · #91 04-25-2002, 08:48 PM

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Originally posted by gphi2k
Sorry, but the comment about Canadians BURNING american flags is BULLSH*T. Total bull. I live in Toronto and have COUNTLESS friends who partied on Yonge Street that night. There was no flag burning. A hell of a lot of beer drinking maybe, but not flag burning.

And I think Americans placing a Canadian flag on the floor of the locker room as 'incentive' to win the game in the Olympics is hardly what I'd call good gamesmenship. I'd LOVE to see what would have happened if was the Canadians who had the American flag on the ground. Anyone remember the accidental upsidedown flag incident??? Maybe the 'rumours' that flags were burned her stemmed from the fact that Candians were peeved(right fully so) about the flag on the floor incident. But I can tell you beyond a shadow of a doubt that we did not burn American flags.

Booing another country's national anthem is just plain rude. ESPECIALLY given the fact that just TWO days prior to the boofest there was that little 'accident' in Afganistan. We'd hope our American friends would be a bit nicer to us given the situation. Granted, I don't think any time is ever appropriate to be booing a nation. I don't think anything justifies that.

I'm sorry for the rant, but it is completely untrue that Candians burned U.S. flags after the gold medal game. Needed to set the records straight....

The question remains, which team booed the other countries anthem first? The game in vancouver vs the red wings or the pistons game.

Thrillhouse · #92 04-25-2002, 08:49 PM

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Originally posted by chscrew144
Dude, I saw some burn.... I live like 2 blocks from yonge st and my self have countless friends... they weren;t huge flags but decent sized ones maybe a foot across like the type u can buy outside the ROM so i dunno where you were that night but i was definitely there.

An account from someone who was there.

Lil_G · #93 04-25-2002, 10:15 PM

...back to the topic at hand...
i'm feeling these playoffs are the ugliest in recent years. Not sure what's going on with the other games but in Moreal i saw the dirtiest elbow on Zednik, coming from a no-talent goon in McLaren. He's their best player and will probably miss the series now. If any of the fliers go after ottawa stars if they lose tommorrow night there's gonna be hell to pay -
end communication.

LeslieAGD · #94 04-25-2002, 10:21 PM

One word: Gorgeous!!!

I was really glad to see Hasek get a shut-out and only a little disappointed that Fedorov didn't get a hat trick. If we continue to play this way on Saturday, it'll be off to St. Louis!

Siobhan · #95 04-26-2002, 12:21 PM

Well that sucked - oh well - the Canucks have proven that when they are faced with a do or die situation, they do. Coming down the stretch they HAD to win every game they played to make the playoffs and they did, so I hope they do so again. If they don't, oh well, we did better than last year and they are still an awesome team!

One positive from last night's game though was that finally for the 1st time since I've been following the Canucks (12 years now) we have a good back up goalie - I actually prefer Skudra to Cloutier - and he has the coolest goalie's mask

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Despite everything, tomorrow is another day...

Towel Power

Lil_G · #96 04-26-2002, 03:05 PM

http://www.tsn.ca/NHL/readstory.asp?Story_ID=2319336

....i'll be watching that next game...btw, 3 hours and counting, yeahhh yeah.

Lil_G · #97 04-26-2002, 10:28 PM

Game over MothaF$&@*#%!!!

Keep on crying Bobby Clarke, your big paroll ain't gonna help in you getting canned...

we are dominating, plain and simple -
WHO's NEXT?

chscrew144 · #98 04-26-2002, 10:34 PM

go sens!

Lil_G · #99 04-26-2002, 10:37 PM

man oh man, i gotta get some tickets to next round...i went to a playoff game back in the day when alfie got a hat trick vs the devils...it's insane.

Siobhan · #**100** 04-27-2002, 12:34 PM

Awesome - Ottawa wins

WingNut · #**101** 04-27-2002, 10:32 PM

WINGS WIN!!! YEAH!!

Star Turtle · #**102** 04-27-2002, 10:42 PM

damn it, my devils lost!!!

how in the world? i mean come on!!! ugh - that's what we get i suppose for trading arnott and mckay (i'm still pretty hung up on that)

anyway ~ my hockey season is over now ~ g*luck to anyone else's teams!

LeslieAGD · #**103** 04-27-2002, 10:57 PM

Yeah Wings!

The Hull hat trick was a wonderful end to that series!

I don't really have a preference as to playing St. Louis or LA...I certainly don't want Colorado to win, but the time difference to LA stinks. Oh well, I guess we're used to it after playing Vancouver and it would be nice to pay LA back for last year.

The commentators said that the last time Scotty Bowman had a team come back and win from a 2-0 deficit, they won the cup (Pittsburg, '92). Hopefully that's a good omen.

WingNut · #**104** 04-27-2002, 11:11 PM

I would like to see Detroit play LA for a couple reasons. I think it would be better than going up against a goaltender (Johnson) who had many shut outs in the first round and plus Detroit would get to deal out some revenge for last year. I think they would have more of a motivation against LA.

Thrillhouse · #**105** 04-28-2002, 11:22 AM

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Originally posted by WingNut
I would like to see Detroit play LA for a couple reasons. I think it would be better than going up against a goaltender (Johnson) who had many shut outs in the first round and plus Detroit would get to deal out some revenge for last year. I think they would have more of a motivation against LA.

Plus playing LA would be easier than the blues so it would keep people like you on the bandwagon for another year.