Howe Conference - Rd 1- Game 2 Scores

[Cheese]

13 WILD 5 PREDATORS 3
14 JACKETS 3 OILERS 2 (OT)
15 AVALANCHE 0 DUCKS 4
16 FLAMES 5 COYOTES 6 (OT)

[Abstract]

lol ouch

[Radically Red]

Well Atleast one of my tickets won.

Wild fight back vs the Preds in a Big way.
Jackets bite the Oil in OT.

Every series in the Howe is all tied up now.

[Superfraggle]

wow. Avs lost this time, but two other major upsets. The Howe is turning out to be much more interesting than I first thought it would be.

edit: every losing team also lost a player to injury...interesting. If Thornton's out for long, I don't see the Avs repeating their game one feat

[HalifaxDrunk]

Ducks come back strong in game 2. Game story will come later (when I get home).

[JiriHrdina]

Woot!

Wild come back to post a huge win. Game report later.

Good to see former Wild Yannik Tremblay notch the OT winner for the Desert Dogs too.

[Sample00]

The Calgary Sun

April 6, 2005

Flames lose in O/T

Yotes 6 Flames 5

Flames lose in over time today and cant even take a single point from the game.

Flames missing superstar Jarome Iginla came up short when Tremblay potted the winner in overtime against Brent Johnson. Why Khabibulin was replaced with less than 3 minutes to go in the game is anybody's guess but alas Johnson couldnt finish the job.

Flames went 2/6 on the PP which is an added bonus and they were once again equal to the task on the PK going 0/3. Turgeon was hurt in the game with no details as of yet but it seems that the Yotes are going to goon the Flames in this series.

Looks like the series is gonna be a long one but with it shifting back now to the wonderful confines of the Saddledome the Flames should bounce back with a strong effort. At least we hope so.

Green hat winner for this game is Ethan Moreau who potted a goal and an assist in only 15 minutes of ice time. The Flames stars need to step it up a notch if they are going to take this series from the Yotes.

The Red Mile was in full swing again last night as the Yotes wives, girlfriends and boyfriends decided that they need to flash the Flames fans in an effort to distract them from the game. "Girls gone wild" crew was in attendance and is scheduled to have a video release sometime in July.

Game Stars
none to speak of....

[Mango]

Cosmo team wins!

[FlamesFanFromBC]

Impressive bunch of games.

[flambers]

Great games but look at those injuries.........

Sergei Fedorov injured at 02:13 of the 2nd Period

Tom Poti injured at 00:33 of the 1st Period

Joe Thornton injured at 03:22 of the 3rd Period

Pierre Turgeon injured at 08:13 of the 3rd Period

[JiriHrdina]

Tables Turned

Wild Get the Edge in Net in Game 2 Win.


Thus far the Minnesota Wild-Nashville Predator series has been a series all about goaltending.

In Game 1 the Wild did a reasonable job of limiting the Nashville shots, however lost the game thanks to a poor effort to Tomas Vokoun.

In Game 2 it was “The Dominator’s” turn to let his team down.

The veteran netminder was simply not sharp letting in 5 goals on 23 shots in the 5-3 Minnesota win. Meanwhile Tomas Vokoun rebounded with a 34 save effort to pick up the win.

GM and Head Coach Grant Farhall was happy with the win but felt the team was lucky.

“On the whole we played better in Game 1 but our netminding let us down. Tonight Tomas stole one for us and we benefited from a uncharacteristic bad game from Hasek. He’s a great goalie though so we will have to be that much better in game 3 because we know he will be.”

David Legwand paced the Wild with 1 goal in 3 points. Filip Kuba chipped in 2 goals including a short handed tally. Murray Baron and Mark Bell had the other Wild goals. The Wild lost the services of Bell in the 2nd period after he checked Federov into the boards. On the play Federov turned his body as Bell approached and went hard into the glass. Federov is listed as day to day. Bell was tossed from the game but will be back for game 3.


Game Notes
- Rookie Jason Spezza is struggling to find his legs in the post season going –2 in the 2nd game with a mere 1 shot on goal.
- Mark Bell led them team with 6 hits in spite of getting tossed from the game.
- Chris Phillips and Dmitri Kalinin led the team with 4 shots a piece on net.

[Thunderball]

Score one for the bad guys!

Jackets impress in overtime win... force brooms back into closet where they belong!

[Sylvanfan]

JACKETS HAVE OILERS SINGING THE BLUES
Last minute tallies rally Jackets to surprise win

Anyone knows that one trait that separates the elite from the average is the ability to finish things off. Getting the job completely finished, the last 20% of a task. The people or teams that can do successfully accomplish that trait are the people who live the good life on our continent. Today the Oilers were given a hard reminder just how hard it is to finish off that final part of the job. Last minute goals cost the Oilers todays game, and as a result the Oilers find themselves in a serious battle that many didn't expect as the two teams head to Columbus for game 3.

On the heels of Monday's 5-0 drubbing of the Jackets the Oilers fired out of the starting blocks staking themselves to a 2-0 lead just over 8 minutes into the game. The start was a bit strange though as Tom Poti was lost for the game only 33 seconds in when he was sitting on the bench and was hit in the head with an errant clearing attempt. But that didn't phase the Oilers as they opened the scoring 1:45 into the game. Brian Leetch's seeing eye slapshot found it's way through a maze of legs and past Kiprusoff to give the Oilers the lead. Radek Dvorak made it 2-0 when he fired home a Gary Roberts feed and the place was rocking and Columbus looked in trouble. But Mikka Kiprusoff robbed Mike Knuble 20 seconds later on a breakaway, and the Jackets settled down. The game was going as planned until late in the second when the Oilers got themselves in some serious penalty trouble with minors by Gary Roberts and Brian Leetch leaving the Oilers two men short for the last 2 minutes of the frame. The Jackets pounced on the oppurtunity and Steve Staios was able to blast home a one timer to put the Jackets down only one with 40 seconds left in the frame after several great chances had been thwarted by Broduer. Mikka Kiprusoff gave the Jackets some great goaltending early on in the third and it proved crucial. With only 14 seconds left in the third Eric Cole was able to bang home a rebound on a mad scramble to send the game to overtime. The Jackets hadn't generated much of anything in the third until the final minute when they were able to pull Kiprusoff and barage Broduer with 5 shots in the final minute with the last one finding it's way over the goal line.

Obviously shaken the Oilers looked an unconfident bunch in overtime as the Jackets easily carried the play. After minor penalties had been assesed to Scott Mellanby and Jan Bulis it was the speedster duo of Martin Gelinas and John Madden that took advantage of a bad pivot by Brian Leetch and broke in on a two on one. Madden faked the shot and slid a perfect pass to Gelinas who leaned into one and directed it at the Oiler net. Broduer got a piece of it, but not enough to keep it from trickling over the line and into the net sending the Jacket bench into Euphoria and the crowd of 16 into silence.

[Fire]

Well Hasek crapped the bed and Vokoun came up huge to take game 2 over the Predators.

To make matters worse Fedorov went down with an injury. Todd Marchant will have to step up his game.

Suchy was a -3 in the contest.

:crap:

[HalifaxDrunk]

Special teams and special goaltending.

The Anaheim Ducks used both to even their first-round playoff series with Colorado on Wednesday night, beating the Avalanche 4-0 in Game 2. Roberto Luongo made 25 saves for his first ever playoff win & shutout. Patrick Elias sparked the Ducks Power Play unit with 2 goals and Dean McAmmond showed why GM Drunk acquired him at the trade deadline with a goal and an assist.

The Ducks, winning a home playoff game for the first time ever, scored two goals in the second period. Their power play, silenced in the first game, also came alive scoring twice while the penalty kill continue to baffle the Avalanche sending the capacity Duck crowd home happy.

The series resumes Friday with Game 3 at Colorado.

Shaking the rookie nerves Joffrey Lupul notched his 1st post season goal. Brendan Witt cleared the puck out of the Ducks' zone and Lupul then took a pass from Jeremy Roenick before burying the puck past Colorado goalie Roman Turek.
"JR made a great play, I got the puck in the slot and just shot it,'' said Lupul. "It feels good to score and get the team going.''

Patrick Elias broke out a 3 point night with 2 goals and an assist.
"We've worked hard at our overall game this year and I think we have a team
that's prepared for the playoffs,'' he said. ``Tonight, our preparation and focus
was good, and we stuck to our game for 60 minutes and it paid off.''

Game two followed the same gritty, hard-hitting play of game one. And the pace was set early when Nik Antropov crashed Colorado defenseman Kyle Mclaren hard into the boards twice on one shift.
“I had to give my return to action a test, I was injured in the last game of the
season but tonight showed I an back to 100%.”

Colorado’s Joe Thornton left the game 3:22 into the third period during a strange
incident. Thornton was checked over the boards into the Ducks bench by Barrett
Jackman, when Joe got up he was clipped in the head by an empty water bottle
tossed by profession bottle t**ser Jeremy Roenick. JR was giving the empty to a
trainer to fill when poor Joe got his head in the way. Thornton is listed as day-to
day.

In some uplifting news Roberto Luongo gave away Camero # 2 today.
Today’s car was won by new Ducks fan Sandra Prusina. Sandra drove away in the vintage 1980 Camero Iroc Z-28, she was also awarded with a free Cosmo-Ducky (that is a Cosmopolitan served in a collectable Anaheim Ducks Playoff Glass) .
Below is the Z-28 Sandra drove home in.

[Mango]

Originally posted by HalifaxDrunk@Apr 6 2005, 04:23 PM
In some uplifting news Roberto Luongo gave away Camero # 2 today.
Today’s car was won by new Ducks fan Sandra Prusina. Sandra drove away in the vintage 1980 Camero Iroc Z-28, she was also awarded with a free Cosmo-Ducky (that is a Cosmopolitan served in a collectable Anaheim Ducks Playoff Glass) .

WOHOO!!!!

GO DUCKS!!!

I now own a car older than I am

* for bad spelling.

[Nehkara]

COYOTES COME OUT ON TOP IN GAME 2

Associated Press

PHOENIX -- The Coyotes evened their first round playoff series with the Calgary Flames at 1 game each today. Mike Johnson definitely lead the way for the Coyotes as he had 1 goal, 3 points, +4, 12 PIMS and knocked Pierre Turgeon out of the game.

Goalies do not appear to be a factor early in this series as both starting goalies ended up on the bench by the end of regulation time.

The Coyotes opened the scoring when Michal Handzus took a pass from Danius Zubrus and fired a wrist shot into the top right hand corner of the net. That was followed up quickly by a goal by Mike Johnson, who also took a pass from Zubrus but then took a hard shot off the post that then hit Khabibulin and slowly rolled over the line. The Coyotes were up 2-0 over the Flames after the 1st period.

In the second period the Coyotes had a breakdown. The Flames scored three goals in the period to the Coyotes one and after the second, the teams were tied 3-3. Tkachuk scored the Coyotes' only goal of the period.

The third period was busy. The teams traded goals back and forth twice with Tkachuk and Simon scoring for the Coyotes. Biron and Khabibulin were replaced with Toskala and Johnson respectively during the third period. The teams then proceeded to overtime with the game tied at 5-5.

Only a single overtime period was required as with less than 4 minutes to play in OT1, Radim Vrbata passed the puck out of corner, across the slot to a pinching Yannick Tremblay who blasted a rocket past Johnson to give the Coyotes the win.

The Coyotes special teams performed poorly again. PK was 4/6. PP was 0/5.

Game Stars

1 - Mike Johnson
2 - Michal Handzus
3 - Dainius Zubrus

[Beerfund]

Originally posted by Mango+Apr 6 2005, 11:24 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Mango @ Apr 6 2005, 11:24 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-HalifaxDrunk@Apr 6 2005, 04:23 PM
In some uplifting news Roberto Luongo gave away Camero # 2 today.
Today’s car was won by new Ducks fan Sandra Prusina. Sandra drove away in the vintage 1980 Camero Iroc Z-28, she was also awarded with a free Cosmo-Ducky (that is a Cosmopolitan served in a collectable Anaheim Ducks Playoff Glass) .

WOHOO!!!!

GO DUCKS!!!

I now only a car older than I am [/b][/quote]
:baby:

[Mango]

Originally posted by Beerfund+Apr 6 2005, 04:42 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Beerfund @ Apr 6 2005, 04:42 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>

WOHOO!!!!

GO DUCKS!!!

I now only a car older than I am

:baby: [/b][/quote]
;_;

[Mccree]

Go Wild and GO Phoniex