NHL Playoffs Thread

[a500lbgorilla]

Never shall I allow a consensus pick be my own team. - John 3:16

[Penneywize]

Feels weird rooting for the penguins but srsly fuck the senators

[surviva316]

Jesus = God
God's Chosen Team = The Jews
Therefore: whensoever the Jews are a consensus favorite, God will pick against them.

God is infallible.
Therefore, whenever God picks a team to lose, they will lose.

Therefore, whenever the Jews are a consensus favorite, they will be crushed.

This may be the most prophetic passage in the entire Bible.

[Penneywize]

I feel like there is a severe logic fail in that post, surviva.

[surviva316]

That's exactly what a holocaust denier would say. You might argue that it's something that a lot of people would say, but it's definitely something a holocaust denier would say.

[surviva316]

So anyway, hockey and stuff. I left the bar when it was still OT in the BOS/NYR game. Whatever happened there?

[Penneywize]

Boston dominated the fuck outta that OT. I think they got one with about 4-5 minutes left in the first OT. So BOS leads 1-0.

I've always hated the bruins. I can't help but root for NYR in this one. What the fuck will it take for Rick Nash to stop being a professional waste of space in the playoffs? He should be embarrassed.

[a500lbgorilla]

Penney, all this hate that you carry around with you is uneconomical.

Readjusting my predict: Sens in 6. Cyndy Crybaby = solved.

[a500lbgorilla]

Penney, all this hate that you carry around with you is uneconomical.

Readjusting my predict: Sens in 6. Cyndy Crybaby = solved.

Lukie said I had a passive aggressive style to me. I see that now.

[surviva316]

I did see the powerplay where Boston spent approximately 120 out of 120 seconds in the Rangers' zone.

[Penneywize]

I'm completely underwhelmed by the performance of the Blackhawks in their series. Detroit barely made the playoffs, and needed help to do so. It's an old team with little in the way of young and exciting prospects, and with no Nick Lidstrom the defence is kind of weak by NHL playoff standards. What they do have is post-season experience and know-how, and of course the incomparable Pavel Datsyuk.

Still, this is a beatable team, and if Chicago goes down 2-1 as seems to be the case, I feel it's a pretty great deception on their part. Where is the team that set the NHL-record winning streak this season?

[STILL_mkd]

Pittsburgh Penguins will win this Stanley Cup

[Penneywize]

Yay Blackhawks!

Okay, so I went 3/4 in the second round.

Here are my conference finals predictions:

West:
CHI vs LA: CHI in 6

East:
PIT vs BOS: PIT in 7

I'm not going to be one of those dicks who then goes on to predict the cup final just because he thinks he has the conferences figured out. At this point, I favour Chicago though.

[BankItDrew]

3/4 in round 2, 1 perfect.

Pit in 5
Chi in 7

[JL]

The four teams left are also the four previous Stanley Cup winners.

Each match up is going to be so close. This will be a very good Conference finals.

PIT > BOS in 7 games

LAK > CHI in 6 games

[Penneywize]

Shocking that the three of us are writing off the Bruins here.

[JL]

I'll change mine to Boston in 7 just to be different.

Honestly, I think both of these series are coin flips. It's going to be very entertaining!

[Penneywize]

Nah, it's okay, fuck the Bruins!

And Bigred isn't here to make fun of me for when I turn out to be wrong. So there!

[kiwiMark]

[Penneywize]

Aw thanks Kiwi, stepping up for Bigred like that.

[a500lbgorilla]

Scored tickets to the game tomorrow.

Can't wait to watch Boston wreck it!

BOSTON STRONG!

[Pascal]

PENGUINSSSSSSSSS

[JL]

LOL Penguins!

Release the FLOWER

[Penneywize]

Scored tickets to the game tomorrow.

Can't wait to watch Boston wreck it!

BOSTON STRONG!

Is this one of your reverse jinxes again or are you also filling in for Bigred?

[a500lbgorilla]

Is this one of your reverse jinxes again or are you also filling in for Bigred?

Just because Pittsburgh is the local team I grew up with doesn't mean I see everything through the black and yellow shades of a Pensfanatic.

I'm wearing the far superior black and yellow shades of a realist, Boston in 5.

[a500lbgorilla]

LOL Penguins!

Release the FLOWER

And 1 shot later, there were calls to go with the empty net lol

[BankItDrew]

Do you think Fleury will be invited to Sochi?

[JL]

I'm sure someone will give him tickets to go watch.

[Penneywize]

As it stands now, if it were up to me, my Sochi invites would be:

Corey Crawford
Craig Anderson
Carey Price

possibly James Reimer instead of Price, depending on how things shake out.

And decide who would start based on next season's stats (who's hottest) and their performance in the round robin (each should get one start).

USA is so much easier. Jonathan Quick, hands down. If Tim Thomas is playing, give him an invite. Ryan Miller shouldn't even be invited; his spot goes to Cory Schneider.

[Penneywize]

What the fuck, Penguins??!

[BankItDrew]

Pit in 5

LOLOLOLOLOL

[surviva316]

Location: Losing Prop Bets

[JL]

Pittsburgh has Boston right where they want them. Boston is good at blowing 3-0 leads.

[a500lbgorilla]

Pens'll win tonight and game 5, take it to a game 6 so each team gets 3 at home where Boston'll take it. The fix is in. Blow up a couple of bombs in Boston and they get to auto-raise the cup.

Same thing happened with New Orleans after that hurricane and with the 'Patriots' after 9/11.

[boost]

Two thirds of Chicago burnt to the ground. Two thirds of the entire city. We're not gonna throw the cup out of sympathy for a pressure cooker and a little shrapnel going boom in some overgrown college town.

[Penneywize]

Hawks in 6, make it happen boys! F Boston.

[BankItDrew]

hawks in 7
f beantown

[JL]

Bruins in 6

...

F the Hawkz

[JL]

But nah I am actually cheering for the Hawks. I just think Boston will win.

[Penneywize]

What an epic Game 1.

Triple. Fucking. Overtime. This, after Chicago was down 3-1 in the 3rd period...

This series is going to be special.

http://youtu.be/rnc79-vz3HI

[Penneywize]

Ha! Gayyyyyyyyyyy



Here's a gif of a Boston player continuing his shift for 50 seconds AFTER BREAKING HIS FUCKING LEG blocking a 95+ mph shot.

[Pascal]

holy fuck that is some gif

[Penneywize]

This is the best Stanley Cup Final in years. I'm trying to think of the next best one, and nothing really is coming to mind...

[boost]

2010.

[Penneywize]

Haha yeah probably; though Philly had Mike fuckin' Leighton in nets that year. I mean how good a final could it have been?

[Penneywize]

Hawks in 6, make it happen boys! F Boston.

Yeeeeeah boyeeeeeee

Fucking awesome. Shaw's reaction to getting a puck in the face?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI5qTF0Q1I8

He fucking gets stitched up and plays the rest of the game.

[Penneywize]

Come on people! This is fucking legendary!




EDIT: Just found this: