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BTW, Nucks didn't lose in regulation this year to either the Sharks or Wings.

How about a 12" dildo up your ass...black dildo.

You actually bring up a great point. No other team travels as many KM as the Nucks. Sure it would be nice to take a "bus ride down the road" to SJ, but during a long series the lengthy flights would favour the Nucks over the Wings...the Nucks are used to it. Wings are really and Eastern team...

In all reality both SJ/Wings are a team I want the Nucks to face...and a team I wanted them to avoid....

Doesn't really matter though. Winning the cup isnt supose to be easy.

Regardless of who we face...

GO NUCKS GO!!!

Holy motherfuck. Wings are going the distance.

bout f'n time you got involved with the playoffs...

I am honestly still not sure who I would prefer...

SJ has Thorton and Heatly, both great regular season performers, but come playoffs have showed nothing.

Wings are banged up up with weaker goalie.

I just cant decide.

I know I hope TB beats Boston as TB plays more to the Nucks style...just not anywhere near as good.

Even if the Wings beat Sj... Despite the Nucks reputation they CAN play a physical game, the can grind and wear down the Wings. Higgins and Lapierre are looking like brilliant deadline pickups.

They can also play a shootout style that the Sharks like...

It's going to be tough...but the Nucks can still do it.

I have been a life long fan, and I have never been more optimistic than I am now.

the 94 series I was more excited for sure, as the Nucks were the underdogs. This is the best Nucks team in its 40 year existence.

Hell...I will even go on the say this is best Canadian team EVER.

With all due respect to past legends...they wouldn't even compare to stars of today.

Daniel Sedin, Hank Sedin, Ryan Fucking Kesler, Alex Burrows, Christian Ehrhoff, Kevin Bieksa, Alex Edler, Sami Salo, Mikhail Samuelsson, Cody Hodgson.

Thats out front, In back you have a world class goalie AND a gold medal winning goalie.

So yeah, I would be inclined to agree with you KKlown

Wait, what? No. San Jose was on their heels the entire time in that game, getting badly out shot and out played. They played terrible and there were numerous times Niemi bailed them out. How do you explain being out shot 32-13 in the first two periods

They withstood every Detroit attack for the 1st two periods since it was expected Detroit would play very tough at home.

SJ already showed from the 1st faceoff it was willing to play for an "ugly" or cheap win by letting Detroit use up a lot of energy for their first goal.

I'd assume the plan would have been for SJ to then take advantage of a tired Detroit and score what could have been the series ending goal at 1-0 but either they got soft or lazy and let Detroit back into the game at 1-1 and eventually collapsed again.

SJ was lucky the score was as close as it was.

BTW, I just want to see Kevin Beiksa snapshow on somebody. I know fights don't happen in the playoff, but I love that guy and he's a beast.

Glass vs Lucic would be awesome :)

Salo Erhoff and Beaker are all UFA agents this summer.

If the Nucks can only get 1, I hope its Kevin.

Erhoff is probably a better choice...but Beaker is a Nuck, he would look silly in any other jersey. Plus he is more likely to buy into the same mentality that the Sedin's, Burrows and Kesler have all bought into...you have to sign for less than value if you want to play on a consistently competitive team. All of those players signed contracts at a lower value than they could have got elsewhere.

I hope Ballard can be traded. He's not a bad Dman, he just doesn't fit into the Nucks system, and he makes too much money to be a #6 Dman.

Salo...hard to tell with him. He gets hurt way too often, but if he can be signed for less than 1million, it would be great to keep him. I think some team will take a chance on him like the Kings did with Willie Mitchell and offer him a contract the Nucks can't match.

Rypien would be better...

He'd drop Lucic...

Report from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:

Since shutting it down April 20 due to a setback, Sidney Crosby still has not resumed working out.



Ugh.

ESPN had a nice stat that doesn't look good for San Jose.

Detroit's roster has about 77 games worth of Game 7 experience while most of SJ players barely have any. Not sure if they meant 77 combined at this stage of the playoffs or overall.

Bieksa is an awful fighter.

BTW HOW ABOUT MY RUSSIANS?!?!?!?!!!!!

Great game tonight. Too bad Bertuzzi and Cleary got hurt, this could have been a different game.

Bring on the Sharks!

He's not known for his fighting skills but calling him awful isn't even close.

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YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

lol he got knocked out by Tom Kostopolous who had either lost or drawn in over 40 straight fights. Bieksa is not a good fighter at all.

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Derek Boogaard was found dead at the age of 28. Wow. So sad. No word on cause of death

Who killed the Boogie Man?

Nothing has been released yet. I'm guessing something with his heart since he was such a big guy. Somebody found him dead in his apartment.

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He is definitely a hard nosed player, not the best fighter but that's not all he is.

I think the Canucks will not sign Salo next year, Ballard ends up in the minors (i like him and love his hip checks), and Beiksa and Erhoff get resigned for like $4m each.

Damn, RIP Boogie Man.

I sure as hell hope it isn't concussion related or the American sports media is going to have a field day with this.

RIP Boogaard

This sounds bad, but I pray to God is was his heart and not substance or concussion related because that'll be the end of fighting.

Wow, only 28. Its always crazy to think someone that is as "Big and Bad" as the Boogie man was can just be gone like that. You think of him as a man of steel. Too young to die.

It's a weird thing with enforcers they are prone to dying young and substance abuse problems :Boogs, Probert, Kordic, McGrattan, Debrusk, Gatez to name a few off the top of my head.

Sorry, but I'm gonna have to disagree. I hope it IS the end of fighting. I watch hockey to see guys try to put a piece of frozen rubber into a net. If I wanted that other stuff, I'd watch boxing or UFC.

Ugh. You are definitley in the minority. The fans love it, the players love it. It should never leave.

:-\ 5-2 loss to Tampa Bay.

Bruins (mostly the D and Thomas in the 1st) were horrible and "flat" against the Lightning. Only good part was Seguin nice goal in the 1st and getting the defender to trip up during the move.

I thought the 8 days off would have hurt the fast-paced style of the Lightning more than the Bruins but then Tampa scored 3 goals in under 90 seconds while the Bruins were sloppy to start the game.

Don't blame the D and Thomas, blame the fact Krejci is the only guy on the team who is really good at face-offs and he wasnt tonight.

Bergeron missing is a HUGE loss for them.