Hey, The Finals Aren’t Over Afterall

by Brad Lee on May 29, 2008 3:06 PM CDT

By Brad Lee

So about that blog post we wrote yesterday about Chris Osgood should win the Conn Smythe trophy?
That puck should be around here some place. Maybe it's behind me.

Maybe we should have waited another game or two before making such a prognostication.
The fans cheering the guys in black wore white. Makes perfect sense.

Suddenly with a 3-2 win in Pittsburgh Wednesday night, we have an interesting Stanley Cup Final* again.

*When did they take the "s" off the end of Final? It's not one game, it's a series of games. It's the Finals. The NBA calls their last round of the playoffs the NBA Finals. Is this like the decision to call Toronto the Maple Leafs? What's next, the St. Louis Blue?

Finally that one kid wearing No. 87 for Pittsburgh will get some attention after scoring two goals. And more importantly, the Red Wings suddently don't look as invincible. For this series to live up to the hype, it really needs to go six games minimum. To do that, the Penguins have to hold serve and win at the Igloo Saturday night*.

*I can understand the league wanting the best ratings possible and also the contractual obligation to get CBC Saturday night broadcasts in Canada, but two days off in a series with no travel is silly. It's so much time off, the Red Wings actually flew home after the game Wednesday. One conspiracy theory is to give Chris Chelios a couple extra days in his coffin so that he can have all his black powers recharged to play in Game 4. He is undead afterall, right?

Our friends at Puck Daddy* are quick to remind that this one game success for Pittsburgh will be short-lived if the Penguins come out and suck Saturday night.

*Sorry for another Posterick (blame Joe Posnanski's blog), but Greg at Puck Daddy gave us a featured role on their live blog Wednesday night. They use a crazy new program that you have to see live to believe. Greg puts up pics and video that run real time that hijack the program for a few seconds but in a good way, the comments are real time mixed with the live blogging. It's insane but pretty cool. I can't highly recommend enough checking them out Saturday night if you're not out doing things besides watching hockey on TV. Game Time commenter Tim stopped by and had them rolling with some of the snarkiness you've come to expect around this place.

Feel free to chat up the Penguins, drop a few bombs on Detroit or whatever in the comments. Even though the Blues didn't make the playoffs, the Stanley Cup Final is still a fun time. Especially when Detroit isn't given the Cup without a fight.

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nothing chances in a playoff series until the home team losses, so sadly, it is still the wings, and will still be the wings even if the pens win this next game.

i’d certainly prefer that to not be the case, but dallas was the best d, and the best goalie, and the best coaching the red wings will face.

The pens got o. and the last time o won the playoffs, mario had retired zero times.

osgood could still be a goat, but the odds have to be so long on that by now a Zero dollar bet wwould win you ten dollars. still not many takers…

by Childhood Trauma on May 29, 2008 4:43 PM CDT reply actions

Well, first prediction worked so why not put out a sequel?

Pens win a close one by a score of 2-1.

by Poor College Student on May 29, 2008 9:34 PM CDT reply actions

I’m very Happy that Brooks & Dunn postponed at the VWA (Riverport) so I can stay home and watch hockey instead of pouring Beam & So-Co Lime all night! :)
I’m even going to postpone seeing Sex in the City until next week! :)
As a chick I believe we have all been told it is a requirement for the weekend, but I’m a rebel – Hockey First!
Hell – Burwell even wrote a pro-hockey column (probably a first) hope it doesn’t curse the Kid now!

by Diana on May 30, 2008 8:39 AM CDT reply actions

Diana, I almost thought Brad wrote that posting. I know he’s a big fan of Sex In The City.

(Just pullin’ your balls BL)

by Answer Man on May 30, 2008 9:10 AM CDT reply actions

no firday time wasters?!

siigh

and this week i had the 20 second waste of time:

http://cgi.ebay.com/OPS-TEST-ITEM-DO-NOT-BID-DO-NOT-CANCEL_W0QQitemZ237479800QQcategoryZ14111QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

oh check sellers general feedback (third tab on seller) not even allowed anymore. ahh the old days

and the greatest ever complete and usless waste of time!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ct8nZ6eTTiY

oh they changed the size limits so not the longest anymore.

by Childhood Trauma on May 30, 2008 12:44 PM CDT reply actions

The Yahoo! Puck Daddy live blog is certainly a trip. The way they can insert pics and vids was disconcerting at first, but was pretty cool. They do censor/edit a bit, so that was a con, but the crowd was pretty good, and the regular comments from the crowd definitely added to the game. I’m traveling to Rockford IL tonight for the weekend, so I’ll be taking in game 4 in the company of a long-time Detroit fan. I hope Pitt wins that one, particularly. I’ll be bringing my laptop with me, and we plan on drinking ourselves stupid, soooooo… either I’ll be extremely snarky, or I won’t be able to turn the damn thing on …. Assuming the former, I’ll be back at the Puck Daddy blog. Hope to see y’all there.

by Tim on May 30, 2008 12:47 PM CDT reply actions

Fuck Detroit!!, the only team that can bring down the big red machine, is the motherfuckin Blue Note!!!!

by bones on May 31, 2008 10:40 PM CDT reply actions

for the puck daddy set… that blog has a yahoo front page link. www.yahoo.com has four links and some video stuff (like all commercially driven home pages these daays) one links to the detroit octopus person. but not to the detroit verison, or an ap version, but straight to puck daddy (which is a yahoo blog so yahoo, of course, is patting itself on the wallet, but hey!!)

by Childhood Trauma on Jun 2, 2008 10:44 AM CDT reply actions