I can't root for Pat Fucking Maroon to have his name on the Cup three years in a row.Go Tampa. Isles-Habs will be boring as shit.
this guy gets itGo Tampa. Isles-Habs will be boring as shit.
Imagine being told that I should WANT them to win, since they're the last team based in Canada left.Honestly hate watching them be happy.
They will be poutineng soonHonestly hate watching them be happy.
I'll have to record all the pre- and post-game stuff from TVA for you, complete with a panel of Dave Morrissette, Max Lapierre, and Guillaume Latendresse.This is an awful year
I'll probably catch Game 7 tomorrow night and that will be it. As others have mentioned, Isles-Habs is going to transport this league back to the late 90s but I'm kinda okay with that because A) I won't be watching, and B) this league deserves such a sucky Final after all the bullshit they've let go these playoffs. If it's Tampa instead, I definitely won't be watching because a team I despise is going to be winning it all.I'm done watching for the year. Just tell me who wins the Cup . . . sometime in October or November, maybe.
You mean you didn't like his strategy of flipping a coin each morning for who to start the last 3 games?I have to say that DeBoer has always struck me as Bruce Boudreau level coach. Gets great results in the regular season but shits his pants in the playoffs. That Game 5 decision is beyond bewildering.
As much as the goalie selection was bewildering, what got me was the lack of focus and intensity the Knights had in every game. Invariably they’d get their shit together for a period, usually late, but many of their players didn’t seem to care until it was too late.I have to say that DeBoer has always struck me as Bruce Boudreau level coach. Gets great results in the regular season but shits his pants in the playoffs. That Game 5 decision is beyond bewildering.
The problem is, you really can’t leave aside the officiating. It swung the series. Along with Carlo getting hurt and Rask playing injured. You need injury luck, puck luck, and officiating to go your way to win playoff series and the Bruins got none of those.I'm mad at the Bruins actually. The Islanders are a toilet scum team and the Bruins couldn't get past them (leaving aside the officiating). Had they won it would have been glorious to be maybe looking at a final against the Habs. But here we are instead. I'll probably not watch more than highlights.
Also, screw Tampa. When did they get the right to take all our good things? At this rate I assume they'll soon have an NBA franchise winning the championship behind Tatum's MVP performance while American discovers that USF is the world's greatest university.
This.I'll probably catch Game 7 tomorrow night and that will be it. As others have mentioned, Isles-Habs is going to transport this league back to the late 90s but I'm kinda okay with that because A) I won't be watching, and B) this league deserves such a sucky Final after all the bullshit they've let go these playoffs. If it's Tampa instead, I definitely won't be watching because a team I despise is going to be winning it all.
The revisionist history of Nassau is nauseating. I'm a Hofstra alum and lived in the area for 8 years. We used to walk up and get $5 tickets whenever we wanted in the 2000's. It's a glorified high school gym. It smells bad. The seats are aluminum. The game presentation sucks and their are better concession stands at my high school foot ball stadium. Nassau is a loathsome, terrible, characterless building thats legacy is so old that people under 50 have no memory of it at all. Let's stop talking about the "historic barn." It was a cookie cutter piece of shit built in an era of cookie cutter pieces of shit and it sits in the middle of a giant parking lot nestled between the Meadowbook parkway and Hempstead Turnpike. It sucks. Not everything that is going away needs to be looked at with nostalgia. It's going away because it sucks.This.
I'll watch tonight just because, but I'm done watching regardless of who wins.
Fuck the Islanders and that shithole they play in disguised as an NHL arena.
And fuck Tampa; I don't want to live in a sports world where that broken toilet of a city with their bandwagon fans who care more about the early bird special at Sizzlers is the hub of the sports universe.
And my feelings towards the Canadiens has been made clear more than once.
Regarding the first bolded, I hadn't even thought of that. What a series that would've been.I'm mad at the Bruins actually. The Islanders are a toilet scum team and the Bruins couldn't get past them (leaving aside the officiating). Had they won it would have been glorious to be maybe looking at a final against the Habs. But here we are instead. I'll probably not watch more than highlights.
Also, screw Tampa. When did they get the right to take all our good things? At this rate I assume they'll soon have an NBA franchise winning the championship behind Tatum's MVP performance while American discovers that USF is the world's greatest university.
Bonguer was a Sharks fan.Of course I prerequisite as a Habs fan (maybe the only one here? Feel like spaceman's bong or someone else before was) but they really did dominate that series. You can dislike how they play but to me the vegas forwards showed up as much as they got shot down in the D zone. It's a Canadiens team that's playing tighter than I've ever seen. Idk if it's sustainable but they're playing well.
Thank you, you're right. It's on the tip of my tongue but can't quite remember who I'm thinking of.Bonguer was a Sharks fan.
It's tepidly route for the lightning and chalk it up to inevitability or root for a natural disaster. Never the Islanders and never ever EVER the habs.A Bruins fan must root for the Lightning. Habs, never and the Islanders are New York and they've already won four cups.
The early coping mechanisms in this discussion are really something. Hopefully the Isles win this whole thing to preserve sanity.If the Habs win the cup, this might be the most fraudulent championship ever.
The Islanders played actual competition if they get to the finals. If they can knock off Tampa, they earned their trip. But if you think they are going to be allowed to play against Montreal in the finals the way that they played against Pittsburgh, Boston, and Tampa then you haven’t been watching this league and how they operate long enough. And just to be clear, I’m not saying the fix is in, or they are rooting for the teams in Canada or anything. It’s that they really don’t want the officials calling anything in the playoffs. That’s pretty evident over the last few years. The only time they do anything is when the media and public opinion in Canada is all over the league and they fe like they have to start calling things. Then they inevitably go overboard the other way.The early coping mechanisms in this discussion are really something. Hopefully the Isles win this whole thing to preserve sanity.
FFS. They'll riot over ANYTHING up there.Who's on Civic duty tonight?
View: https://twitter.com/SPVM/status/1408262630993694724?s=20
The crowd around the Bell Centre is throwing stuff at the cops.
Haha gotcha, thanks!No, thats just me being a dick. Spaceman’s Bong always claimed to be a die hard fan of both the Sharks and the Habs, which I found a bit too convenient at times, so I’d push buttons about it. He probably was the Habs fan you were thinking of.
You can only play who the schedule tells you to play. Plus they beat a presumably good Toronto team and a very good Vegas team. There's nothing fraudulent about that given the weirdness of playing a full season in the midst of a pandemic.The Islanders played actual competition if they get to the finals. If they can knock off Tampa, they earned their trip. But if you think they are going to be allowed to play against Montreal in the finals the way that they played against Pittsburgh, Boston, and Tampa then you haven’t been watching this league and how they operate long enough. And just to be clear, I’m not saying the fix is in, or they are rooting for the teams in Canada or anything. It’s that they really don’t want the officials calling anything in the playoffs. That’s pretty evident over the last few years. The only time they do anything is when the media and public opinion in Canada is all over the league and they fe like they have to start calling things. Then they inevitably go overboard the other way.
This post is just another example of why I enjoy this forum so much, I copied it and sent it to a customer of mine who's an Islanders fan, he's been breaking my balls non stop since game 6 vs the Bruins.The revisionist history of Nassau is nauseating. I'm a Hofstra alum and lived in the area for 8 years. We used to walk up and get $5 tickets whenever we wanted in the 2000's. It's a glorified high school gym. It smells bad. The seats are aluminum. The game presentation sucks and their are better concession stands at my high school foot ball stadium. Nassau is a loathsome, terrible, characterless building thats legacy is so old that people under 50 have no memory of it at all. Let's stop talking about the "historic barn." It was a cookie cutter piece of shit built in an era of cookie cutter pieces of shit and it sits in the middle of a giant parking lot nestled between the Meadowbook parkway and Hempstead Turnpike. It sucks. Not everything that is going away needs to be looked at with nostalgia. It's going away because it sucks.
I probably have too many feelings about this narrative ha.
I'm bracing myself for them winning on a fluke goal after they kill two or three Tampa players along the way; how many players is that headhunter Clusterfuck going to check head/face first into the glass? Who was the goon that tried to push Stamkos' face through the glass at the end of the period the other night too BTW, another call the refs missed.I’m hoping Tampa wins tonight and smokes them in 4 games. But I know what’s going to happen with this fucking league. The Islanders are going to win in OT on some fluke goal after Tampa gets like 3 top guys concussed on hits that didn’t get called.
Just wanted to say I love this post.The revisionist history of Nassau is nauseating. I'm a Hofstra alum and lived in the area for 8 years. We used to walk up and get $5 tickets whenever we wanted in the 2000's. It's a glorified high school gym. It smells bad. The seats are aluminum. The game presentation sucks and their are better concession stands at my high school foot ball stadium. Nassau is a loathsome, terrible, characterless building thats legacy is so old that people under 50 have no memory of it at all. Let's stop talking about the "historic barn." It was a cookie cutter piece of shit built in an era of cookie cutter pieces of shit and it sits in the middle of a giant parking lot nestled between the Meadowbook parkway and Hempstead Turnpike. It sucks. Not everything that is going away needs to be looked at with nostalgia. It's going away because it sucks.
I probably have too many feelings about this narrative ha.