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Around the League 2013-14 Part VIII

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Jesus, is that Expos board blowing up.

VITRIOLIC.

And that is when they were tied. :laugh:
 
Bandit said:
you had one job Montreal. Useless sacks of ****. Kings have to win tomorrow since there's no way the ECF is going past 6.
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Yeah, to me it was all about extending the series. Here is to hoping that the Expos can find a way to win in NY in game 6, because I do believe they will win in game 5.

Interesting how Tokarsky basically outplayed

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but still found a way to lose. Of course, giving up breakaways and turning the puck over 40 times a game helps that a lot.
 
Ron said:
It's amazing the lack of respect you have for elite goalies.

Truly amazing.
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Thank you. :) he's so elite that he has a habit of choking in playoffs... Elitely lol. Man I don't give a ****.
 
TonySCV said:
The biggest advantage they'll have is rest if they can wrap it up in 5 games. They've played 18 already.
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Then the Kings are forced to make this a short series, which I doubt will happen...but one can hope.

Tomorrow night's game is huge, just as Saturday's was.
 
Ron said:
Then the Kings are forced to make this a short series, which I doubt will happen...but one can hope.

Tomorrow night's game is huge, just as Saturday's was.
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Agreed... A short series will certainly help the Kings, but that's a TALL order vs. Chicago.

Funny that no team who has played game 7's in rounds 1 and 2 has ever made it to the SCF (much less won), now there's a chance for two teams to do it. (Boston played game 7s in rounds 1, 3 and 4 in 2011.)

Either West team will have home ice if the Rangers do advance IIRC.
 
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TonySCV said:
Agreed... A short series will certainly help the Kings, but that's a TALL order vs. Chicago.

Funny that no team who has played 2 game 7's has ever made it to the SCF (much less won), now there's a chance for two teams to do it.

Either West team will have home ice if the Rangers do advance IIRC.
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Boston in 2011
 
DaBadGuy7 said:
Boston in 2011
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How could I forget. That was an epic run. They played 25 games that year (3 7-game series and one sweep to PHI) en route to the cup. I'll edit my post to clarify rounds 1 and 2. Boston swept Philly in round 2, but their other 3 rounds went 7.
 
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Okay, so for anyone that is interested...because I keep forgetting what the "H" stands for on the team logo...here are answers where questions have not been asked. :)

Why are they called "the Habs?"

In 1924, Madison Square Garden owner Tex Rickard was falsely told by someone that the "H" stood for "habitant", a French word that in those days was used to denote the farmers of Quebec.

Rickard was told that the French players on the team came from the farms and that they were therefore "habitants" or "habs". At the time, the Canadiens were recognized as the French team of Montreal as opposed to the Montreal Maroons, the English team.

On a side note, the Montreal logo of the C wrapped around the H stands for Club de Hockey Canadien. In 1917, at the founding of the NHL, the Canadiens changed their name to that from the previous Club Athletique Canadien.
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http://www.nhl.com/nhlhq/trivia.html

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And, one always wonders who is responsible for updating a website. On the Canadiens own website, they have a category called "opponents." I naturally clicked on the Kings logo (which was the crown, so you know where this is going), and found this gem:

The Los Angeles Kings arrived in the NHL as part of the league’s first wave of expansion in 1967. Success has been hard to come by for Kings over the years, as attested to by their lone division title in 1990-91. In 24 postseason appearances, Los Angeles has only gotten past the first round 12 times.

The Canadiens and Kings first squared off in Los Angeles on November 19, 1967, with the Canadiens falling 4-2.

Montreal and Los Angeles, who has yet to capture a Stanley Cup, have met just once in the playoffs, in 1993. The Canadiens topped the Kings in five games in the Cup Finals, earning their 24th championship in franchise history.
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http://ourhistory.canadiens.com/opponent/Los-Angeles-Kings
 
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