NHL Mega-Mock Draft Reboot - Discussion / Draft Thread - PHASE FOURTEEN! Part One!

[GKJ]

I have a heartbreak moment, and with the Leighton goal off the table (which I was live for, it was in my end and I couldn’t see the puck go in), this one is still easy: it’s the Flyers/Lightning Game 7 in 2004. We won Game 6 here in overtime, and I thought that was it, convinced the veteran moxie we had would pull us through and we’d roll past Calgary. Done. Parade time. We had finally beaten the Devils, the Leafs probably should’ve been the best team left and we beat them after they loaded up. Wrote whole big long posts, told everyone I knew, ‘if they win game 6 they will win game 7’ is what I said. I think I was confident up until we got down 2-0. But that was the team, that was the year, the team was better than the 1997 or 2010 team, even in spite of the injuries. Ken Hitchcock has stated multiple times that was his greatest regret in coaching. Chips to the middle with the lockout looming.

That was a Saturday night and I was extremely lucky that I had put in for vacation at work the next week.

Game 6 was totally nuts though.

@DancingPanther

 

[Hurricane28]

Yeah. I saw the Sheeran pick and then immediately decided to forget he existed.

not a bad idea tbh

 

[Hurricane28]

The recasting category reminds me on how every DiCaprio movie Rewatchables, Bill Simmons always tries to replace him with Damon. Every time.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

No I took Ed Sheeran. @GKJ is up

That was a tremendous pick. He's a huge twat.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

I have a heartbreak moment, and with the Leighton goal off the table (which I was live for, it was in my end and I couldn’t see the puck go in), this one is still easy: it’s the Flyers/Lightning Game 7 in 2004. We won Game 6 here in overtime, and I thought that was it, convinced the veteran moxie we had would pull us through and we’d roll past Calgary. Done. Parade time. We had finally beaten the Devils, the Leafs probably should’ve been the best team left and we beat them after they loaded up. Wrote whole big long posts, told everyone I knew, ‘if they win game 6 they will win game 7’ is what I said. I think I was confident up until we got down 2-0. But that was the team, that was the year, the team was better than the 1997 or 2010 team, even in spite of the injuries. Ken Hitchcock has stated multiple times that was his greatest regret in coaching. Chips to the middle with the lockout looming.

That was a Saturday night and I was extremely lucky that I had put in for vacation at work the next week.

Game 6 was totally nuts though.

@DancingPanther

That was brutal.

 

[BiggE]

That was brutal.

That Was Brutal would be yet another great title for a book on the last decade of Flyers Hockey

 

[GKJ]

That was brutal.

I probably still would’ve picked it anyways. The Chicago loss wasn’t so much shocking as it was playing with house money. 2001 I was just straight up pissed off (we definitely beat Dallas too). 1997 against Detroit they were out of that series so fast. 2004 though was the one that got away.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

I probably still would’ve picked it anyways. The Chicago loss wasn’t so much shocking as it was playing with house money. 2001 I was just straight up pissed off (we definitely beat Dallas too). 1997 against Detroit they were out of that series so fast. 2004 though was the one that got away.

Yep. That one bothered me much worse than 2010.

 

[ajgoal]

I have a heartbreak moment, and with the Leighton goal off the table (which I was live for, it was in my end and I couldn’t see the puck go in), this one is still easy: it’s the Flyers/Lightning Game 7 in 2004. We won Game 6 here in overtime, and I thought that was it, convinced the veteran moxie we had would pull us through and we’d roll past Calgary. Done. Parade time. We had finally beaten the Devils, the Leafs probably should’ve been the best team left and we beat them after they loaded up. Wrote whole big long posts, told everyone I knew, ‘if they win game 6 they will win game 7’ is what I said. I think I was confident up until we got down 2-0. But that was the team, that was the year, the team was better than the 1997 or 2010 team, even in spite of the injuries. Ken Hitchcock has stated multiple times that was his greatest regret in coaching. Chips to the middle with the lockout looming.

That was a Saturday night and I was extremely lucky that I had put in for vacation at work the next week.

Game 6 was totally nuts though.

@DancingPanther

I was at Game 3. I had pretty much just literally gotten back from the sandbox, and I can't remember if I flew home on leave that day or the day before, but the first "fun" thing I did was pick up a ticket to that game. I don't usually talk to people I don't know, but the guy in front of me started asking me about me being at the game, and bought me a beer. Later on, he knocked out a Lightning fan and got thrown out of the game. What a letdown that game was over either of the other two home games that series I could have gone to.

 

[GKJ]

I was at Game 3. I had pretty much just literally gotten back from the sandbox, and I can't remember if I flew home on leave that day or the day before, but the first "fun" thing I did was pick up a ticket to that game. I don't usually talk to people I don't know, but the guy in front of me started asking me about me being at the game, and bought me a beer. Later on, he knocked out a Lightning fan and got thrown out of the game. What a letdown that game was over either of the other two home games that series I could have gone to.

I had an opportunity to get into game 6 but my friend couldn’t do it and I didn’t have money since I was still a kid basically. I had went to game 2 against the leafs.

 

[ajgoal]

I had an opportunity to get into game 6 but my friend couldn’t do it and I didn’t have money since I was still a kid basically. I had went to game 2 against the leafs.

What's funny is I don't remember watching Game 7. I was getting together with some friends and so listened to the end of game 6 - I distinctly remember that. But game 7? I have no idea what I was doing at the time. Probably something family related, but

 

[GKJ]

What's funny is I don't remember watching Game 7. I was getting together with some friends and so listened to the end of game 6 - I distinctly remember that. But game 7? I have no idea what I was doing at the time. Probably something family related, but

Game 6 I was tasked with calling updates into work (I worked at a supermarket at the time). Maybe not every moment but both games are in my head pretty vividly. A lot of that playoff run is frankly.

 

[Hurricane28]

I was only 7 but Game 6 was the loudest I think I've ever heard the arena. Still to this day.

 

[Striiker]

It’s crazy that you guys spend time listening to music when in the same chunk of time you could be watching clips like this, which even include music too.

 

[mja]

It’s crazy that you guys spend time listening to music when in the same chunk of time you could be watching clips like this, which even include music too.

The f*** I just watch?

 

[Striiker]

The f*** I just watch?

Don’t you dare

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

What's funny is I don't remember watching Game 7. I was getting together with some friends and so listened to the end of game 6 - I distinctly remember that. But game 7? I have no idea what I was doing at the time. Probably something family related, but

I don’t remember where I was for game 6 but I remember watching game 7 in my dad’s basement by myself. I didn’t come upstairs for a while.

 

[BiggE]

Yep. That one bothered me much worse than 2010.

Yup, 2004 sucked, but it’s not the one that hurt me the most.

 

[BiggE]

I don’t remember where I was for game 6 but I remember watching game 7 in my dad’s basement by myself. I didn’t come upstairs for a while.

Ditto for me in 87.

 

[Rebels57]

I have very vivid memories of both Game 6 and Game 7 of 2004.

The only things i'll share about Game 7...

Prior to the game my friend Jeff and I went to 5:00 mass at Church in Flyers jerseys to pray for a Win. I havent been back to church other than for weddings and funerals since

After the game my group of friends and I went to a bowling alley to drink and bowl. We were all between 17-20 so this was one of our favorite places we could get away with drinking. I spent half the night in the parking lot throwing empty beer bottles against the side wall of the alley.

 

[mja]

Don’t you dare

Or what, sport? You're going to steal my soul?

 

[Hurricane28]

I think I have the name for my spite band.

Im gonna go "Fletcher & Scott" as the band name, playing off of Hall and Oates or Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young

Because those two guys have killed my love for hockey. f*** them.

 

[Hurricane28]

We could probably keep Crosby in there and add Hextall. "Crosby, Scott, Fletcher & Hextall".

Nah. I like the first one better. Keep it simple

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

Where did @DancingPanther go?

 

[DancingPanther]

Sports heartbreak: sitting on the runway after landing back at home after Italy watching that stupid ball bounce 49 times before bouncing through the rim with my brother on my phone.

Sixers/Raptors. And to make matters worse, Tripod loves to update all of us on Toronto every f***ing game. No one wants f***ing raptors updates