Miscellaneous Ramblings

Top Ten Hockey Bloopers

It’s almost time for hockey season again. As a warm up, here’s an interesting video of hockey bloopers. Canes are in there twice, once in a positive (handle that puck Ty… Handle it…) and once in a negative (poor Wallin).

My how it must be convenient to choose when you go to jail for DUI and leaving the scene…

While playing with Connor and God of War II fill the void until hockey season starts back again.  I was reminded today about divealanche.com.  A whole site dedicated to the hate and ridicule of the Colorado Avalanche.  Personally I inherited my hate for Roy from Scott and me being a closet Brodeur fan doesn’t help.   But the site is still funny… especially this part.

This is a great idea.

I am not sure many of these screaming fans would want their own boys becoming fighters, I would think they would want them to become more like the old Wendel Clark and Rick Tocchets of the world. Get rid of the instigator rule, and mandate ice time. This will make hockey a better game to watch, fights will still be prevalent.

They tried the instigator rule, it obviously hasn’t worked other than creating more cheap shots it’s high time to try something else.  This is as good an idea as I’ve heard.

So my batting average took a hit during the conference semi’s going a mean 2-4 (with 1 series called correctly on the number of games), but that was then, this is now.  On to the conference finals!

Eastern Conference

(1) Buffalo Sabres vs. (4) Ottawa Senators

    The conventional wisdom is that Buffalo hasn’t played up to their ability, except perhaps game 6 of the Rangers series.  They’ve been fairly content to play the other teams game and do it just better enough to win, or get down a couple of goals and turn on the Buffalo style and score a couple quick ones to win.  I don’t think that strategy will work against Ottawa.  Both teams are very deep, Ottawa’s stars stack up a little better against Buffalo.  Buffalo’s third and fourth lines are a little better than Ottawa’s.  Goaltending is a wash, though if Emery struggles for some reason (or heaven forbid is hurt) having Gerber in the cupboard is much better than having Ty Conklin waiting to give away the game.  This one comes down to 1 game.  Game 7, home Ice, in Buffalo.  Buffalo has been there in a game seven and had it gone the other way (no whining now…)  they won’t let it happen again.

       Sabres in Seven

Western Conference

(1) Detroit Red Wings vs. (2) Anaheim Ducks

    I’m riding the ducks here.  I’ve been spot on about them each series even down to the number of games (though I did think Minnesota would win at least 1).  Detroit, who I thought was a soft fluffy team in an easy division, showed me something against the sharks.  They are a tough tough team.  I think the loss of Schneider will hurt them more than they know even with Linstrom and Chelios back there.  In all honesty if this one goes to 7 games I think the Red Wings have the Edge purely because of home ice advantage.  That being said the Ducks realize this and will push more to steal a road split in the beginning.  Personally I think this one comes down to goaltending (cliché).  Hasek has been awesome, but his tendency to roam and handle the puck hasn’t bit the Red Wings yet, and I think at some point it will.  Giguire has been great and has a better defense in front of him.  Ducks have to stay out of the box plain and simple.

       Ducks in Six