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Take Two
Posted on 16 May 2012 by Mika Oehling.
Stop me if you've heard this one before: the two teams cycle back and forth, furiously, changing places, scurrying around, the crowd is tense, but no shots are getting through- it's the nightmare which is the Eastern Conference playoffs. That's the way this one started, but thankfully, not the way it ended. The first period was more of the same old between the New York Rangers and the New Jerse...
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King of his Castle
Posted on 14 May 2012 by Mika Oehling.
All hail King Henrik for New York, because he was the reason that the Rangers took game 1 of their Eastern Conference Final 3-0. It may seem counter-intuitive to consider a 3-0 score to be mainly a goaltender's victory, but this was a hard won shut out for Lundqvist, who faced immense pressure from a much better New Jersey squad who deserved to win. Tired from two consecutive game 7 series with...
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History Repeats Itself
Posted on 12 May 2012 by Mika Oehling.
Deja vu? The New York Rangers pushed their post-season to 7 games and clinched it with a 2-1 win at home. It's a common story line for the Rangers, who have kept most of their games to low-scoring, close affairs and who have won every game 7 series with a 2-1 score under outspoken coach Torterella. New York kept to its systems, made good use of their line match ups and managed to play a clean, ...
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Series Capped
Posted on 9 May 2012 by Mika Oehling.
The Washington Capitals didn't just stave off the end of their season at the hands of the New York Rangers, they came roaring back for a 2-1 win to force a game 7 in New York on Saturday night. It should be pointed out, though, in defense of Braden Holtby, who was a superstar for his team in this clutch game, that this should have been a shutout. Late in the third period, Holtby was literally r...
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Must Be A Devil
Posted on 8 May 2012 by Mika Oehling.
So goes the game, so goes the series. The New Jersey Devils beat the Philadelphia Flyers 3-1 in a series where they were up 3-1 and they were getting all the little details right. Brodeur was playing like Brodeur, the team was disciplined and avoided penalties, they forechecked hard and they launched fast and furious offensive rushes at every chance they got. Philadelphia was sloppy, undiscipli...
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Washington Staaled
Posted on 7 May 2012 by Mika Oehling.
There is no such thing as a comfortable margin in a playoff game. Even 7 seconds is not enough to lock down a win, as the New York Rangers scored within 7 seconds of the final buzzer to tie the game and force overtime. Marc Staal got the winning goal in overtime and now the Rangers take a 3-2 lead in the series over the Washington Capitals. Joel Ward was the team hero for helping lift the Caps ...
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No Catching ZZZs in Jersey
Posted on 6 May 2012 by Mika Oehling.
The Philadelphia Flyers may be guilty of napping in Newark as they let one go with a 4-2 loss against the New Jersey Devils. New Jersey is now within one victory of eliminating the Flyers and moving on to the next round to face either New York or Washington and it could happen as early as Tuesday night. Try as they might, the three Z's of New Jersey took them to task: Zubrus, Zidlicky and Zajac...
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Return from the Dead
Posted on 5 May 2012 by Mika Oehling.
It's cinco de mayo and if you're going to stay inside on a gorgeous May day, it better be for a very good reason. If that reason is watching the Washington Capitals tie up their second round series 2-2 against the New York Rangers with a 3-2 win at home, that's a pretty darn good reason. Today's celebration is about celebrating the return of the dead, and after playing 2 games in 1 with a tripl...
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Picking up the Pace in the East
Posted on 3 May 2012 by Mika Oehling.
The Eastern Conference Semi-Finals are starting to take flight and the four teams left are in it for the long haul- literally. The New York Rangers and Washington Capitals slugged it out in triple overtime, exhausting themselves and their respective fanbases into the wee hours of the morning. The last time a game in the playoffs went into triple overtime was a very memorable 2010 game between t...
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Woe Canada?
Posted on 1 May 2012 by Mika Oehling.
The question is being asked and it's causing minor annoyance and outright rage: why are there no Canadian teams left in the NHL playoffs? With the second round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs already underway and the last two Canadian teams making an exit, the question is popping up and causing more than one aggravating Twitter stream or Canadian identity crisis. The question is wrong. There really...
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A Beautiful Season
Posted on 27 Apr 2012 by Mika Oehling.
The end of the season for the Ottawa Senators felt like the end of a long, meaningful relationship. It was the kind of bittersweet ending from a series of circumstances which left us asking what could have been and if only. Completely unexpectedly, the team for which nobody in the league had any real expectations, emerged as a true contender. It was a Cinderella story with an abrupt ending. The...
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Team A-Son
Posted on 26 Apr 2012 by Mika Oehling.
There never has been a lucky seven for Ottawa and that record still stands as Ottawa lost their final game of the 2011-2012 season against the New York Rangers in a tense 2-1 game. A heartbreaking loss made all the worse by only two things: 1) the fact that Ottawa couldn't buy a goal against Lundqvist despite charging the New York zone for what felt like the entire third period and 2) the fac...
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Christopher Rowe said: Perhaps the Red Sox are the AL Phillies... loads of talent, some injuries, large p...
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Christopher Rowe said: By the power of Cerrano...let's hope you are right
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