NHL Playoffs, Round 2!

[Agathon]

Belfour has been excellent these playoffs and the Leafs were unlucky not to take it to Game 7. Them's just the facts, I don't know what you have been watching. Belfour also had an excellent season; far better than he needed to prove otherwise to those who say he's finished.

We know who weren't playoff calibre teams this year, Nashville, St. Louis, and the Islanders.

I think you might be right about the Flames going to the final. I wouldn't discount it. But look what happened to the other underdogs that have done the same recently: Florida, Anaheim, and Carolina. When it came to the crunch, all their hard work wasn't enough. While in the first three rounds you might face teams that can be beaten this way, it tends to winnow out those who can't. By the time you get to the final it comes down to experience and skill because you can't even get to the final without busting a gut.

That's what happens in the NHL. You need some reason as to why the game has magically changed this year.

[Agathon]

I don't know why you can't accept the facts. This is just the way sport is. The big guys almost always win. It's a bit like life really.

The only other competition that is like the NHL playoffs is the English FA Cup. The same thing happens there - occasionally some unlikely team will make the final after having knocked off a few giants, but they almost always lose to the big guys. I can only think of one occasion in 30 years that this hasn't happened.

[Asher]

I don't know what facts you're talking about -- the fact is, the Flames surprised all of the "serious" folks twice in a row, there's no reason they can't do it again.

The fact is, Calgary is in the top four -- which is definitely something to be proud of, and they do have what it takes to knock out any of the other three teams.

Those are the facts, which "facts" are you talking about?

[joncha]

I'm not gonna wade into the asher-agathon love fest. I just wanted to get a post in before we hit 500.

[Agathon]

The facts that you have spent the thread studiously ignoring, of course.

[Asher]

Originally posted by Agathon
The facts that you have spent the thread studiously ignoring, of course.

The ones you can't even mention.

As a philosopher, I have doubts you even know what facts are.

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[Agathon]

Grow up.

You are the dreamer here. I'm not going to waste more time pointing out the obvious.

Someone close this thread.

[Asher]

Oh come on, you're the ranting about the facts, but there are no facts in predictions, moron.

[Zylka]

how assertive

Originally posted by Agathon

Someone close this thread.

oh my, on HIS COMMAND!!

w@nker

[Lawrence of Arabia]

You guys had Kipper as your THIRD goaltender, so this argument doesn't even fly. The Shark's management is incompetent, which is why they won't win the cup.

he deserved to be there - nabokov and toskala were better.

[Fake Boris]

Zylka, do you realize that going around the censor just 3 posts before a mod will come and close the thread is the best way to be banned again?

You like it, right?

[Asher]

Originally posted by Lawrence of Arabia
he deserved to be there - nabokov and toskala were better.

See, it's thinking like this which is why the Sharks can't win -- they're clearly not all with it.

[Agathon]

Re: how assertive

Originally posted by Zylka


oh my, on HIS COMMAND!!

w@nker

Cause it's got above 500 posts, mastermind.

[Ben Kenobi]

And so Calgary is the only Canadian team still alive...


GO FLAMES!!!

And the LAFFS go down.

That's the price you pay for dissing the "Nucks when they went to the Stanley Cup.

37 years and counting!

[Tingkai]

Diss the Canucks? What's the point in doing that? It would be like dissing the guy that no one ever notices; you know the type of guy who you finally notice five hours after he arrives.

Canadians either love or hate the Leafs, but the Canucks? Does anyone outside of BC really pay attention to them? When the Canucks crashed out of the first round, did anyone really care? Nope.