2010 NHL Playoff Prediction and Discussion thread [WARNING: Alec Inside]

[youseinthehouse]

Flyers in:

[Djie]

Hawks in 6

Conn Smythe: Toews

[RWG]

REMEMBER TO PICK THE CONN SMYTHE WINNER!!

Chicago Blackhawks in 7 games

Conn Smythe: Jonathon Toews

[Ngamer]

It's all over in the Semis!

Conference Finals

(7.) Philadelphia Flyers defeat (8.) Montreal Canadiens in 5 games

(2.) Chicago Blackhawks defeat (1.) San Jose Sharks in 4 games

The means the battle for King Staley's Cup will be between

(2.) Chicago Blackhawks vs (7.) Philadelphia Flyers

Make those decisions!  Also pick who will be voted the "most valuable hokeyer" for the final series!

[Infected Mind]

Hawks in 6

Conn Smythe: Toews

seems like a safe bet

[Jack]

*sigh*

Flyers in 7

Let's go with Pronger for Conn Smythe. I would, however, like to say Hossa, because he's the only reason I'm picking the other team.

[Comet]

Hawks in 5
Antti Niemi MVP

[wheatrich]

good news  playing a team that had to win a shootout just to make the playoffs

bad news  a loss would really suck as not only would it be against a team that is only ok (though they're healthy now)  but you're going to have youse celebrating and we just can't have that in this forum.

hold please one time!

[wishiwasfamous]

Injuns lose in 6

[youseinthehouse]

I guess I acted so off-the-wall that wheat is blocking October '08 out of his memory!

My prediction post also contains my Conn Smythe pred, btw.

[wheatrich]

I guess I acted so off-the-wall that wheat is blocking October '08 out of his memory!

My prediction post also contains my Conn Smythe pred, btw.

ugh the cubs like the phillies had really good teams that year but baseball and hockey have pretty big variance.  I'll take the hawks here then lebron + phil jackson to the bulls for another dynasty run...  and then certain gm's getting fired in football and baseball.  That would make a very very fine year.

when do the finals start? 

[TheFlash]

Hawks 6

Goal guy for Hawks

[RWG]

Well I just wagered my entire life savings of $9.15 to win $20.40 on the Flyers to win the Stanley Cup so I guess I am officially on...

GO FLYERS GO GO FLYERS GO GO FLYERS GO GO FLYERS GO

GO FLYERS GO GO FLYERS GO GO FLYERS GO GO FLYERS GO

GO FLYERS GO GO FLYERS GO GO FLYERS GO GO FLYERS GO

GO FLYERS GO GO FLYERS GO GO FLYERS GO GO FLYERS GO

[Thiradell]

Hawks in 4

John Madden for the Conn Smythe.

[Ngamer]

Ng's Perfect Pred

Philly in 7.  Pronger takes the Connie.

[youseinthehouse]

ugh the cubs like the phillies had really good teams that year

I remember being most afraid of the Cubs before those playoffs started.  Phillies got super lucky LAD luckbox'd the best-of-five.

when do the finals start? 

Saturday night!

I'm trying my damnedest to attend a SCF game.  Stubhub prices are ridiculous, but I (and some friends) signed up for the buy-direct Lotto which will be drawn tomorrow.  If anyone wants to sign up for the lotto and come with me, go for it dude!

[wheatrich]

can't make saturday night (edit  take that back if I had tickets I'd ditch them for that) but I can't believe I haven't looked.  My brother went to sharks hawks game 4 and there's no way I shouldn't at least look into going to a cup game.   prices though

stubhub is often ridiculously priced  so I'm not surprised.

edit--might be cheaper to fly to philly and go see a game there lol.

(it's not but standing room only is 300-350, last row is 450-500 or so, and I think everything else is out of my price range  though I guess If I'd ever splurge  this and a bears game this year (if I'm around) [pretty sure jimbo owes me a packers game as well] are pretty much a must.)

edit2--missed the lottery  definitely would've signed up for that and just said fuck it to everything else and went

[Infil]

Philly in 4

Claude Giroux for Conn Smythe

[wheatrich]

[youseinthehouse]

Carter could use a wake-up call.

Typical 2010-Playoffs Blackhawks.  Get viciously outplayed for large stretches of the game, have Niemi steal.  Rinse, repeat.

Come the fuck on.

[wheatrich]

[youseinthehouse]

Ouch.  Now it's Hawks 1, Pronger 32,054.

There isn't enough memory in all the Elite's computers combined to hold the frames of the anigifs showing all of his utter domination.

That said, Pronger might have played his worst game as a Flyer (worst of career?!) in game 5.  Don't count on that happening again soon.

Look for my playoff beard on TV @ game 6, y'all.  Flyers win and I have a great time.  Flyers lose and I get to see the Stanley Cup presentation-- not a bad consolation prize.  Either way, I get to cheer the Flyers off in their final home game of their breathtaking, largely unexpected (by people other than me, ofc), highly entertaining playoff run.

[wheatrich]

yep his utter domination resulting in a -5 in game 5.

[wheatrich]

I didn't think chicago could possibly out top Philly in a lack of class regarding this series battle.  This was actually in the Tribune though.   I do think it's pretty dumb to do but it's got to be posted in this topic.

[RWG]

Congratz

[TheFlash]

Here were all my preds. I think I did pretty well.

[ ]Caps 5
[ ]Devils 5
[Y]Bruins 7
[X]Pengins 6
[Y]Sharks 5
[Y]Blackhawks 4
[X]Canucks 6
[X]Red Wings 7
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[ ]Pengins 6
[Y]Flyers 6
[Y]Sharks 6
[X] Blackhawks 6
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[ ]Sharks 6
[Y]Flyers 6
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[X]Hawks 6

X = Picked right winner and number of games
Y = Picked right winner only

TOTALS: 6 Ys and 5 Xs so 6*3 + 5*5 = 18 + 25 = 43 points for Thingy. Surely this is a top-5 result! A total of 11/15 matches picked correctly.

Goal guy for Hawks

[Comet]

That was probably the most disappointing end to a final I've ever seen. I mean the goal went in but no one knew it...losing that initial reaction kind of took away from the moment.

[TheFlash]

Youse

[]Caps 4
[X]Flyers 5
[]Sabres 5
[X]Pens 6
[]Sharks 4
[X]Hawks 6
[Y]Nucks 7
[]Yotes 7

[Y]Sharks 6
[X]Hawks 6
[]Brew 7
[]Pens 4


[Y]Flyers 6
[]Sharks 7

[]Flyers 6

3 Ys and 4 Xs = 3*3 + 4*5 = 9 + 20 = 29 points for Youse. Someone else can do the rest of the scores.

[wheatrich]

WE DID IT!!!! WE HAVE CLIMBED THE MOUNTAIN!!!! Nearly 50 years in the making, the whole Chicago doesn't have the ace goalie thing, the whole Marian Hossa can't win one, the whole Joel Quenneville can't win one, now it's history. We'll have cap problems, but if we dump Huet we shouldn't have to make too many sacrifices. Greatest day in my life and I have had several. I will be at the Stanley Cup Parade and Blackhawks Convention. Win or lose, I'm forever a Blackhawk

First, there's no mountain climbing in hockey.  Second you can't have multiple greatest days in your life.  You've only got one at this point and that's not it.
Third (and not just thiradell), win or lose you're forever a hawk is a lie and we all know from chat you're a bandwagon fan.  I'm saying it--you're a farce.

ok, now that that's out out of the way.



and the HAWKS HAVE IT  WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[youseinthehouse]

Congratulations to the 2010 Blackhawks.  You truly were the best team in the NHL.

The Stanley Cup is incredibly shiny in person.  It is the shiniest thing I've ever seen.  You may have think you noticed that before on TV.  Trust me, you haven't.  Also, that was the craziest sporting event I've ever been to.  Also, that was the loudest thing I've ever heard (after Hartnell's [2nd] goal)*.  I was basically screaming my lungs out for five minutes (barely a voice in my throat today).  Multiply that by >20K.

Damn it so much.

*Kind of remarkable I have to annotate which of Hartnell's goals I'm talking about.

[wheatrich]

both of hartnell's goals were flukes

 



hmmm not sure how that last one got in there

[youseinthehouse]

Yes, just use the word fluky to describe every gritty crease-parking, traffic-generating shot ever successfully taken.  It's totally luck every time that tactic results in a goal.  That's why no Real Teams (TM) ever try to employ that tactic.  They only score really beautiful goals such as randomly throwing the puck at the net from the boards near the goal line.  *rolleyes*

PS - Why couldn't you do that in the Olympics, Kane, you fuckface (Oh yeah, Luongo's not Leighton).  Also, why aren't you Flyers property?  Oh yeah, Gary Bettman & his lottery.  Instantiated... why?  Oh yeah, because the Penguins tanked to get Mario.  One of the many countless reasons to hate Pittsburgh forever and ever and ever.  That said, I'm still high on JVR and look forward to his play after another season or two of development.

See the rookie seasons of:
Simon Gagne GP 80 G 20 A 28 P 48
Mike Richards GP 79 G 11 A 23 P 34
Jeff Carter GP 81 G 23 A 19 P 42
Steven Stamkos GP 79 G 23 A 23 P 46
Eric Staal GP 81 G 11 A 20 P 31
Rick Nash GP 74 G 17 A 22 P 39
Vincent Lecavalier GP 82 G 13 A 15 P 28
JVR GP 73 G 15 A 19 P 34

[wheatrich]

#1 Not literally, but you're too stupid to understand my point

#2 Show me where it's written down where I can't have multiple greatest moments of my life.

#3 I followed this team before the lockout. Not a bandwagon fan.

I'll say it- you can suck my dick before during and after the cows come home.
  

#2--the dictionary specifically the word greatest.

#1--someone who doesn't know what the word greatest means can't call other people stupid.  (and it takes hours to understand your point as evidenced by the chatroom trying to figure out one of your jokes--that doesn't often correlate to the person you're talking to being stupid

#3--this is a lie.  Not only did you prove that in that single sentence but also YOU TURNED ONE OF THE STANLEY CUP GAMES OFF.  YOU CAN'T BE CONSIDERED A FAN AND DO THIS SO STOP CLAIMING THAT YOU ARE. 

(to alec--you literally said in that sentence that before they sucked you were a fan  but not until this recent run--come on!)

#4--When do cows ever leave home?

#5--only gay people want their dicks sucked by other men.   I'm sure there's plenty of men that'll help you with this where yo u live.

[youseinthehouse]

Anyway, some more thoughts because I have about thirty billion at this point.

Backreading this topic now...   Plus/Minus is the most overrated statistic in hockey.  And everyone should know that.  Pronger's Fenwick & Corsi for game 5 still weren't good.  But that point was already conceded.

My only regret is that we didn't lose to a team with a true fan base.  Just like last season.  And the year before.  99% Toews, Kane, Hossa jerseys.  One Hull.  And one woman wearing Brouwer... I'm guessing wifey.

Also at the game, I made really weird eye contact with Ray Ferraro, twice.  They were facing the other direction, doing their wrap up show or whatever as I was leaving.  It kind of snuck up on me and caught me by surprise, because I was looking the other direction for a while.  Anyway, I was looking to see who was in the show.  He turned around and caught me gawking as I walked, and then I walked around this huge pillar/staircase thing, which took about 3-5 seconds to pass.  I kept trying to look at their little booth, and I noticed him STILL looking directly at me, having "followed" my pace around the pillar.  It was kinda cool.  Then he looked away first, booyah!

This whole situation really sucks for my girlfriend.  She grew up in Chicago but never cared about the Hawks (who did?) as the Bulls ruled her day (she loved Ron Harper above all others, even MJ).  Since living out east she has been a Flyers fan for the past 4 years.  Now her family and friends are really giving her a ton of crap even though none of them ever even watched a game until this spring!  Ouch.  Whereas if she'd never met me, she'd probably be on the Hawks bandwagon right now and enjoying life to the fullest.  Sorry, babe!

Finally, this feeling really reminds me a lot of the '09 World Series.  Up against a better, but seemingly beatable team.  In other words, the upset was there for the taking, but my team fell just a little short.

[Thiradell]

Ron Harper lol

[youseinthehouse]

lol class.



BTW, I find it hilarious when any city claims moral high ground over Philly.  Every city has its fair share of drunk morons attending sporting events.  Stereotype is retarded and proof positive that other cities are jealous of Philly sports passion.

[wheatrich]

I certainly hope you weren't taking my posts seriously youse.

[youseinthehouse]

No, just the perception in general.  I have heard some really uptight fans complain about how we were booing during the trophy presentations.  The reality is that Bettman was getting booed, not the Hawks.  Bettman gets booed anywhere and everywhere  When Toews got the Conn Smythe, what was probably being booed was the choice.  IMO Keith, Seabrook, Niemi, Briere, and Pronger all were more deserving of that trophy.  Most Flyers fans stuck around and acted respectfully.  Many of us offered congratulations to the Blackhawks fans as we left.  But, you won't hear that on any major media outlets.  We're all just bad dudes out this way looking to get into fights and throw up on people.

[octoinky]

Alec - "hawks make history" until nobody remembers who won 2 years from now
Looked pretty crazy on TV when the Flyers tied it up.  Always rooting for a game 7 though

[TheFlash]

Djie:
[Y]Habs in 6
[Y]Flyers in 6
[]Sabres in 5
[X]Penguins in 6
[Y]Sharks in 5
[X]Hawks in 6
[X]Canucks in 6
[Y]Wings in 6

[X]Habs in 7
[Y]Flyers in 6
[Y]Sharks in 6
[]Canucks in 6

[]Habs in 6
[Y]Hawks in 6

[X]Hawks in 6

Conn Smythe: Toews

7 Ys AND 5 Xs = 7*3 + 5*5 = 21 + 25 = 46 points for Djie.  Since he is the current leader it is his responsibility to finish filling in preds until we find another leader.

[wheatrich]

lol at complaining of standard bettman booing.  Some people just give you a hard time youse.

[RWG]

Final Standings!

Shade 27+11+3+15 = 56
AlexA 21+10+0+15 = 46
Goose 15+08+3+13 = 39
JackW 16+08+5+00 = 29
Infil 12+11+3+00 = 26
Comet 15+08+3+03 = 29


Thing 24+11+3+15 = 53
Youse 21+08+3+00 = 32
Comer 17+00+0+00 = 17
AlecB 14+03+3+03 = 23
Third 22+13+0+03 = 38
Wiffy 16+05+0+00 = 21
Octoy 22+05+0+03 = 30
Drag1 21+00+0+00 = 21
Ngamr 19+03+0+00 = 22
BCutz 00+06+0+00 = 06

Team Canada's Top 5 = 199

Team USA's Top 5 = 176

Congratulations to Team Canada for winning for the third consecutive year, and to Shade for winning the individual prediction contest!

[TheFlash]

Why did all the Team USA people stop scoring in the later rounds :S  Giving 15 points for the last series is silly.

[RWG]

10 points for Conn Smythe winner.

[Djie]

Team Canada unbeatable!

[waldo1988]

congrats to the hawks