Around the League 44: The Three Thousand Mile Final

[raynman]

Oilers fan in peace. Thank you for McLovin! He's an enigma, but we'll take whatever goals he gets us.

Never seen a player cover both ends of the “WTF did I just see?” spectrum so well. I enjoyed watching him on the Canes, hopefully he can get you another in game 7.

 

[CandyCanes]

I’ve been on this earth for 11,173 days today and I have never been alive for a Canadian team to win a Stanley Cup. I’m soaking it in that today might be the last day of that peacefulness. Truly a sad day.

 

[Canes]

Never seen a player cover both ends of the “WTF did I just see?” spectrum so well. I enjoyed watching him on the Canes, hopefully he can get you another in game 7.

Now he just needs another vicious dirtiest hit in the history of the sport like the one on Oshie

 

[Blueline Bomber]

You know who really have it bad? Flames fans. They're watching Bennett and Tkachuk choke against their rival team in the SCFs, while waiting for a draft and FA that can't begin to fix the issues that team is dealing with.

 

[Svechhammer]

Edm was the better team in game one, and in these three games. I don’t see Florida choking, I see Edm figuring them out and showing why they’re here. They’ve taken these games. Good for them.

On one hand, I agree Edmonton is just better.

On the other hand, f*** it, if Florida loses the next game I'm calling him Tkachoke the rest of his career

 

[3CanesInTheBox]

Oilers fan in peace. Thank you for McLovin! He's an enigma, but we'll take whatever goals he gets us.

Immensely happy for Foegdaddy. Makes me want you guys to win even more so he will be cemented in Stanley Cup history.

 

[Bub]

Edmonton has looked totally relaxed since the start of Game 4. Florida definitely looks like they're choking on the moment, and you can see them deflate every time Edmonton scores first, like they're just waiting for it to happen. I just hope for a good Game 7, a la Game 5, whoever wins. (Although, can't they both lose? No?)

 

[bleedgreen]

McGroarty and Winni no longer speaking. I hate being old school sometimes, and I do want guys to have rights but this batch of US kids is starting to come off poorly if it’s similar to the Gauthier situation. Earn your place in the league and choose where you want to go when it’s time.

If that’s what it is. I don’t know the details really so I’ll wait to hear more about it. You have to doubt it’s about performance bonuses or something seemingly minor.

Immensely happy for Foegdaddy. Makes me want you guys to win even more so he will be cemented in Stanley Cup history.

I loved it when he scored his first in front of his Mom, and his role in the three best friends anyone could ever really have.

 

[AD Skinner]

That 19 team was just so awesome. Not just ending the drought but so many great personalities with foegele svechnikov and hamilton and their three amigos thing, Williams and the storm surge and all that, mrazek’s antics and interviews, just a ton of character

 

[Francis10]

Never seen a player cover both ends of the “WTF did I just see?” spectrum so well. I enjoyed watching him on the Canes, hopefully he can get you another in game 7.

Perfectly sums up Foegle. Million dollar legs and 10 cent hands/brain. Haha. But I love the kid. Happy for him to have some success.

 

[SvechneJerk]

Congrats to our HF Flyer brethren. If only he could bring Nikishin over with him.

 

[Lempo]

The previous guy that Flyers were trying to bring over ended up spending a year on Novaya Zemlya instead...

 

[Justicebork]

I hate seeing good things happen to eastern conference teams. I hate even the idea of seeing good things happening to eastern conference teams.

I mean, Bedard to Chicago instead of CBJ was a huge win in my book. Not just for us, but for society.

 

[HisIceness]

I'm still pissed the Coyotes passed on drafting him.

 

[Blueline Bomber]

Tonight's the night. Either outcome: Very funny for everyone except Oilers and Cats fans.

 

[HisIceness]

The trophy either lives in Edmonton or South Florida for a year starting tonight.

 

[Unsustainable]

Best of 1 series

 

[WreckingCrew]

The trophy either lives in Edmonton or South Florida for a year starting tonight.

Probably less than a year considering SCF usually end in like early June and not almost f***ing July

 

[Blueline Bomber]

PMo, that's a hell of a spin at exactly the wrong time.

 

[SlavinAway]

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PMo, that's a hell of a spin at exactly the wrong time.

Well given the extremely small number of ways to put a positive spin on their situation this doesn't seem so bad to me.

 

[bleedgreen]

And if Florida wins it in double ot no one will care that it took till game 7. It’ll be viewed as a great series and Florida has a cup.

More interesting to me is if Edm wins, and what people always say about cup winners and the moves they make. All moves become justified because all moves played a role in winning the cup.

Therefore signing Nurse to his contract is a justified move! No such thing as an overpaid player or a bad trade on a team that won the cup. I’ll be pulling up a chair with some popcorn for that debate.

 

[Lempo]

I was expecting the Florida cats were only playing with their prey and taking Game 7 like an exhibition game, but apparently they are planning to make it more interesting.

 

[htdoc]

It's funny how quickly things can change.

At the time of Nurse deal, the agent caught the Edmonton management in total fear and projecting nurse was going to be their #1 cornerstone after one semi decent year of production because they had no one else on the roster or in the pipeline after Klefbom career gets cut short...

Very short time gap in between where they land Eckholm who is a perfect Oiler with a family that wants to be in the cold weather of Edmonton. Then Bouchard makes a huge step in development this season and realllly rounds out his game compared to where he was a year ago... suddenly you are looking at that Nurse deal and fave palming yourself over and over and over again asking what the heck were we thinking?

 

[To Be Determined]

i'm trying to come up with an answer to "what would be the funniest outcome tonight?"

I'm thinking Florida winning something like 9-1 is the answer. either that or florida going up 3-0, then edmonton storms back to win 4-3. and 4-3.

 

[Big Daddy Cane]

Edmonton blowing a 3-0 lead in the game.