Blackhawks in 5? Kiss my arse.

[kexodusc]

Hey Swish is back - he was MIA after the game 2 loss...I feared the worst.

Philly played desperate and up to their potential last night. Chicago did not, and they deserved to lose. Being better on paper and showing up are 2 different things. We've seen Philly's A game so far....we still haven't seen Chicago's. And part of the reason for that is because Philly plays a tough, grinding style they haven't seen much of this year. Maybe the pressure's getting to the Hawks' stars.

If this goes 7 games, I figure the Flyers will win - they're made to grind it out - and high flying teams like the Hawks usually have trouble sustaining that style for long periods of time. But realistically, the series has been close and you see Chicago winning 1 of the next 2 games so they'll have a chance to avoid game 7.


The cliche holds true, you are never in trouble in a series until you lose a game on home ice. Both these goalies continue to impresse me. This is a better finals already than the last 2 IMO. Nice to see a changing of the guard, so to speak. Both of these teams are only going to get better over the next few years.

[Hyfi]

Philly is the better team overall but....

The Hawks do a few things really good:

1- They continue to just skate up behind an opposing player and take the puck away before being detected

2- When they fore check, they don't just pester and skate away like the Flyers have been doing, they stick to it like glue

3- They have mastered the long outlet pass to a seemingly always open man

4- when pounding it out in the offensive corners, the Fyers man at the point seems to always be too close to the boards and the puck continues to squirt out just on the center ice side of him where the Hawks are either positioned a bit better to get the puck at the boards or towards mid ice and or they have 2 players ready in that area

Overall no matter how sloppy both defenses are, they have been fun and exciting games to watch. I'm loving the fact that Buughfexpialidocious has gotten nothing but penalty minutes. Pronger appears to be getting away with murder cross checking him at the crease.

Go Flyers!!!!

[Rich-n-Texas]

Wednesday night's OT goal was... HUGE!
It really was..

That goal could be the momentum swing they need, and I'm looking forward to watching tonite's game.

Edit: YEAH!!! SCORE!!! 2 zip