NHL Playoffs thread - Pick the Winners

[snoopy369]

Doubt you'll move up in the standings with those picks

[Sava]

Doubt you'll move up in the standings with those picks

DONT TEMPT FATE

[snoopy369]

I tempted fate already by watching the game at a bar with my friend yesterday (my first Hawks game on TV this season). He stood up to go to the bathroom, had just entered the bar from the patio, when the Wings' goal went in. After that he was tied to his chair...

[Sava]

I tempted fate already by watching the game at a bar with my friend yesterday (my first Hawks game on TV this season). He stood up to go to the bathroom, had just entered the bar from the patio, when the Wings' goal went in. After that he was tied to his chair...

I blame you for the third period no-goal call.

[snoopy369]

The worst part about that was that we were watching on a TV that apparently was on a delay compared to other TVs on the street. It was only a few seconds, but we heard a bunch of screaming and then saw the goal; and then the screaming suddenly stopped. That let us know that there was a delay, though, so when the OT goal happened it wasn't nearly the surprise it should've been. Moral of the story: don't watch in the patio of a bar with other bars nearby.

[notyoueither]

Chi in 7
Pit in 7

[Supr49er]

Pit in 7
CHI in 7

[snoopy369]

Still need Demonbinder, Kontiki, Sparrowhawk to post how many games they think PIT and CHI will win in

[Guynemer]

I'm coming for you, Guy.

You and me as usual. It is a wonder why any of these other mendicants even bothers to compete.

[-Jrabbit]

You'll notice that I don't. But dammit, I'm a mendiCAN!!

Watched over at Ming's last night. Hockey in HD = Good times.

SO glad we won so that Chicago rioters wouldn't have to kill that ref (Walkom) who waved off the goal. Entanglements like that -- double-roughing, well away from the action -- have been common no-calls in this series, so it was an odd time to call it. But it was clearly a second or two before the goal, so what can you do? A whistle's a whistle.

[snoopy369]

You can wave off the whistle and allow the goal.

[Sava]

That ref was the same guy who decided the Raffi Torres hit on Hossa didn't deserve a penalty.

[snoopy369]

Oh, so he's the Joey Crawford of the NHL, or the Angel Hernandez, or whatnot.

[-Jrabbit]

You can wave off the whistle and allow the goal.

Huh. So why didn't they? (Oops, my hockey naivete is showing... Oh well.)
That altercation had absolutely no bearing on the Hjalmarsson goal.

BTW, Zetterberg is freakin' awesome. I was afraid he was going to win the game for Detroit, just all on his own through force of will.

[Sava]

That ref is the former head of officiating for the NHL. The other guy on the ice is the junior of the two. He wasn't about to try and overrule his old boss.

He'll hopefully just get a poor rating for that game and be kept out of the last two rounds of the playoffs. That's really all you can do at this point. The Hawks still won, so it's a bit irrelevant. Moving forward, the NHL should tweak things a bit so that kind of thing can't happen again.