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CANUCKS WIN ROUND ONE! Very exciting! Some really good hockey (with the appropriate outcome). Alex Edler has been doing really well which makes me very happy (because he's a Swede, and only a year older than me, and had his breakout season the same year I became a fan - and he's a Defenceman. Defencemen are good). And Roberto had some stupidly awesome saves last night - his stats maybe aren't so great, but he's coming up big when it counts. The Sedins are using their freakish twin powers. Bernier is scoring the way he didn't all through the regular season (STEEEEEEVE!). And we keep coming from behind to win games in the third.
(Personally some straight up domination would be better for my nerves, but it's really nice to know that the team has the confidence and skill necessary to change the outcome of the game in the last 20 minutes - that's what separates the men from the boys.)
So now the 'Nucks have that in the bag round two is either going to be Chicago or the winner of the Detroit-Phoenix series. And everything's been so wide open this play-offs that I don't really want to speculate. Chicago is up 3-2 in their series vs Nashville and Wings-'Yotes is going to Game Seven.
I've been really shocked by how open the competition is this year. Only one series has finished in 5 games (I thought none had, but then I checked again - Flyers over New Jersey in five games. So it wasn't that no one had, it was that I just didn't care about the only series that did). The top seed teams in both the East and West lost their first games against their eighth seed counterparts. It's all kind of ridiculous. Usually there is at least one if not two series' that get decided with a clean sweep. But there were definitely moments that I thought Colorado would beat San Jose (admittedly the Sharks suck in the post season - I have no idea how the keep managing it, but they do. It makes me happy - take that Sharks!) - and that would have been an awesome upset.
So I'm feeling pretty good about hockey these days. What feels even better is knowing that this time next year I'll be in the same city (and more importantly the same time zone) as my team and I won't have to stay up late watching games. (Last night's game started at 9pm for me and I was excited! - I know I've got nothing on my friend's who are fans in Scotland, which is an eight hour time difference, but watching hockey late at night is balls however you slice it because you want to jump up and down and be excited, but you're also really tired.)
I need a good hockey icon...
Finally bothered to set up the footer for crossposting. I've been meaning to do that for a while, up the DW awareness if not the DW use.
(Personally some straight up domination would be better for my nerves, but it's really nice to know that the team has the confidence and skill necessary to change the outcome of the game in the last 20 minutes - that's what separates the men from the boys.)
So now the 'Nucks have that in the bag round two is either going to be Chicago or the winner of the Detroit-Phoenix series. And everything's been so wide open this play-offs that I don't really want to speculate. Chicago is up 3-2 in their series vs Nashville and Wings-'Yotes is going to Game Seven.
I've been really shocked by how open the competition is this year. Only one series has finished in 5 games (I thought none had, but then I checked again - Flyers over New Jersey in five games. So it wasn't that no one had, it was that I just didn't care about the only series that did). The top seed teams in both the East and West lost their first games against their eighth seed counterparts. It's all kind of ridiculous. Usually there is at least one if not two series' that get decided with a clean sweep. But there were definitely moments that I thought Colorado would beat San Jose (admittedly the Sharks suck in the post season - I have no idea how the keep managing it, but they do. It makes me happy - take that Sharks!) - and that would have been an awesome upset.
So I'm feeling pretty good about hockey these days. What feels even better is knowing that this time next year I'll be in the same city (and more importantly the same time zone) as my team and I won't have to stay up late watching games. (Last night's game started at 9pm for me and I was excited! - I know I've got nothing on my friend's who are fans in Scotland, which is an eight hour time difference, but watching hockey late at night is balls however you slice it because you want to jump up and down and be excited, but you're also really tired.)
I need a good hockey icon...
Finally bothered to set up the footer for crossposting. I've been meaning to do that for a while, up the DW awareness if not the DW use.
