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NHL Playoffs 2017 [OT] 100 Years of Playoff Salt
- Thread starter CreeperBlocks
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Gunstar Ikari
Unconfirmed Member
8:00 pm is as good as you're going to get for games being played on the west coast.
The 8:30 pm starts were stupid because both teams were in the Central time zone.
Calamari41
41 > 38
Well you guys need to clap harder if you want to beat the preds.
Is such a thing even possible?
And maybe cheer louder to.
Yes it i-- Nah, it's not. My hands hurts.
BigJonsson
Member
Yay no more 10:00 games
...what?
SmackCrackleNPop
Member
The result of this game is quite satisfactory.
They may have been weakened a bit by their close series with their capitals. Not sure if crosby and some of the other players on the penguins will be able to handle the senators at this point. The senators mostly came out of their series with the rangers with little to no bruises or major injuries if I recall.
excelsiorlef
Member
Too good not to share...
Also hihi Pens fan since like 1990, lurker here because I talk hockey mostly with a bunch of Pens fans that made their own board after the Official Penguins board went to shit.
I say this just so I don't look like a bandwagooner or something.
Fate_Shirou
Member
excelsiorlef
Member
I'll cross check you so hard in the face in a good old fashioned hockey play that you'll find yourself jumping through barber shop windows...
Sorry about the Oilers
fucking Ducks ><Lmao I'm not an Oilers fan😂😂😂I'll cross check you so hard in the face in a good old fashioned hockey play that you'll find yourself jumping through barber shop windows...
Sorry about the Oilers
excelsiorlef
Member
Well then...
Hurray for your team advancing or sorry about your team being eliminated whichever applies (unless it's a team I hate
)My team won a top 3 pick in this year's draft, that's all I will sayWell then...
Hurray for your team advancing or sorry about your team being eliminated whichever applies (unless it's a team I hate
It's safe here. But you will still get called for being a bandwagoner from time to time. I've been a fan since March 1991 and still get called either a fair weather fan or a bandwagoner. Just roll with it as an occupational hazard.
excelsiorlef
Member
I was about 6 when I became a Pens fan... think it was mid 90-91 season
Don't worry, we only call Alucard a bandwagonner because he only shows up for the playoffs. As a cool person from WrassleGAF you already have some pre-established respect
we're all penguins now, quackquack
How and when kids become fans is totally arbitrary. I've told this story before but my family moved to a new townhouse, and I found myself in a new school where EVERYONE was into hockey. Before that, I went to a school where the culture of hockey fandom simply didn't exist among nine-year-olds. Just so happened that my neighbour was also a hockey fan and a Penguins fan. He told me about Mario Lemieux, I watched some games, and became a fan. Just so happened that the first two years I was a Pens fan, they won the Cup. Ridiculously lucky way to become a fan of a team.
I've been a card carrying member of NHL GAF for over fifteen years and used to post here all the time. Priorities change when you get married and have kids, friend.
A Serious Man
Member
I have taken a perverse, some might even say immoral pleasure from eliminating the Caps and likely closing their window. It's just too delicious.
I'm just razzing you. I became a Habs fan at 6 in 1989, just in time to watch them lose a Cup to Calgary lol. That's why 1993 is special to me. I was 10 when the Habs won that Cup, so it was a pretty integral moment in my childhood. Still have a Kirk Muller jersey somewhere.
MultiJhonny
Banned
You fucking Flyera fan
What the fuck do you have against them, you fucking demons fan?
I remember that year very well. It was the year the Pens were supposed to steamroll to their third straight Stanley Cup and went on a 17-game winning streak in the regular season. (Think it was 17) It was also the year I experienced my first crushing experience as a fan...the Pens losing to the Islanders in game 7 of the second round. Fuck David Volek. I remember Habs management being happy that they were getting the Islanders and not the Penguins in the conference finals. Ya'll should be thankful for David fucking Volek that year. Who knows how a Pens/Habs conference would have gone back then? But yeah, totally crushing year. Man. Patrick Roy was something else, though.
CreeperBlocks
Banned
I knew there was a reason I wore my Anaheim Ducks T-shirt for pyjamas last night.
I caused this.
I caused this.
You're wrong, I caused this
excelsiorlef
Member
Volek in 93 and Fitzgerald in 96... Uggggggggggh
Funny thought that Fitzgerald won his first and only cup as an assistant coach with the Pens in 09.... weird how things happen.
I only became a fan of hockey and the Leafs because I was watching TV with my dad and something about Dave Keon flashed across the screen. I spent the next few years watching the team in blue and white as much as I could looking for the guy with my name. Just so happened the Gilmour years coincided with this and I became a fan.
It wasn't until many years later I learned Dave Keon hadn't played for decades at that point.
excelsiorlef
Member
I'm pretty sure I became a Pens fans because I watched a random game as a kid and they won... pretty sure I hate the Bruins because they were the team the Pens beat and I as a kid hated them for "having" Pittsburgh's colours XD
Now I just hate the Bruins because fuck Marchand.
On paper those Pens would have crushed the Habs in the ECF and as such, the Isles did us a favor. Then the Habs handled the Isles easily 4-1.
But it's hard to say how that series would have shaken out. On paper the Pens were better, but that was also a heck of a Habs team that was so resilient and clutch (10-0 in OT....just insane), and Roy was at his peak. Would have been close.
Your name is Dave Keon?!
You're forgetting their Ancient Greek roots.
The only thing as corny as Penguins fans.
I think we can all agree that any of the 3 teams that isn't the Pens winning the Cup is acceptable. Pens just won it last year, have won it twice in the last 7 years, and been in the final in 3 of the past 8 years.
Order of preference of Cup winners:
1. Nashville for Subban
2. Ducks
3. Sens
4. Pens
Who will actually win:
Pens
Order of preference of Cup winners:
1. Nashville for Subban
2. Ducks
3. Sens
4. Pens
Who will actually win:
Pens
excelsiorlef
Member
I think we can all agree that any of the 3 teams that isn't the Pens winning the Cup is acceptable. Pens just won it last year, have won it twice in the last 7 years, and been in the final in 3 of the past 8 years.
Order of preference of Cup winners:
1. Nashville for Subban
2. Ducks
3. Sens
4. Pens
Who will actually win:
Pens
Nah fuck the Ducks if it's not the Pens let it be someone completely new. I mean I'm originally from Ottawa so let it be them if not the Pens but if Nashville dats cool too... in short just fuck the Ducks
excelsiorlef
Member
Nah Caps tried that on Crosby and still lost... Pens can just run up the score when Karlsson ain't there, no need to stoop to Trotz tactics.
Yeah I am sure the Bruins and Rangers weren't as smart as you Colo and didn't think of that before.
Did you go to the Thierrien school of hockey coaching?
Calamari41
41 > 38
What kind of monster could hate the Anaheim Ducks, America's Sweethearts?
Stats are stats