I have never had much problem with the non-goal call. There are, however, two things that bug me much more in the Tampa Bay series.
1. The 5 on 3 power play for the full 2 minutes in game 4, and the final score ending up 1-0 simply because of the two penalty calls.
2. The overtime goal is a direct result of Jason Cullimore (I think) kicking his legs out and tripping Chris Simon before he could get the puck out of the zone. This caused a turn over at the blue line, St. Louis puts home the rebound. Kipper actually almost saves this shot but it hits him and deflects up, but not high enough to get over the net.
3. IIRC, Marcus Nilson hit the cross bar in O/T in Game 6.
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I still believe that if the 04-05 season was played, without rule changes, the Flames would have had another deep run. Possibly in another finals.
Any idea who were UFA's that year? I know we ended up losing a number of players the following year, but I have no idea whether their contracts were up after 03/04 or 04/05...
Any idea who were UFA's that year? I know we ended up losing a number of players the following year, but I have no idea whether their contracts were up after 03/04 or 04/05...
These were our only UFAs following the 2003-2004 season:
Craig Conroy, (III) - signed with LA (he was instructed to take the most money he could get prior to the lockout kicking in by his agent I believe)
Dave Lowry, (III) - retired
Dean McAmmond, (III) - signed with St Louis after the lockout
Kryzstoff Oliwa, (III) - signed with New Jersey (only played 3 games)
Had the 04/05 season taken place we likely would have been able to recruit a UFA or 2 to join us to replace Conroy and McAmmond in particular. Of course we signed Darren McCarty, Roman Hamrlik, and Tony Amonte before the 05/06 season, traded for Langkow and Huselius, and brought in Phaneuf as a rookie and a brief appearance for 22 year old Mark Giordano...
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I remember driving 8 hrs from my farm to calgary to watch game 7 on the red mile and the roller coaster of highs to lows was indescribable. Being a die hard riders fan and being in calgary for the 08 grey cup that was nothing compared to the 04 cup loss
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What made this whole thing worse was having to endure the lockout the year after, then having the 2005-06 team, which looked built for the playoffs, completely crap the bed against Anaheim in game seven, at home, in the first round.
Still pissed at Huseluis for hitting the crossbar late in game 6
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1. The 5 on 3 power play for the full 2 minutes in game 4, and the final score ending up 1-0 simply because of the two penalty calls.
#### man. The amount of butthurt I still carry over this one thing from the run, you have no idea.
####ing Kerry Fraser & Brad Watson just handed them the game as far as I'm concerned. No ####ing wonder he got pulled from the next game. What a joke of a referee.
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Still pissed at Huseluis for hitting the crossbar late in game 6
That would've been my first BOA playoff series experience if Juice just got it an inch lower. Would've saved ourselves from sweating at the concept of Oilers winning a cup.
I was at that game as well as most of the other home games. I was in grade 12 and finally had enough money from part time jobs to go to the games. But of all the moments, when that second goal went in, I have never heard something so loud. It was sheer pandemonium in there. Just awesome.
That was inches...inches away from ending it, and we'd all be getting off at the re-named Marcus Nilson/Stampede Station 10 years later, to go to games.
I was sitting on the goal line, that split second of a confused goalie looking for the puck, the whistle not yet blown, just waiting for that to drop behind, as Khabibulin had no idea. The ABC commentators (Davidson) was shocked it didn't.
Outside of the Gelinas goal (IMO, it went in, barely, but no actual proof...the Sun cover picture 1-1000th of a second later may have confirmed it), that was the best chance to win the Cup.
Donovan got hurt that game, and he was a big loss for Game 7. Game 7 never looked like it was in the cards from the drop of the puck, of course the save on Leopold with 5 mins to go was the final nail there.
Meh, we won the following game to regain the series lead and it didn't look like we were going to score on Khabibulin in Game 4 no matter what. We then had 2 games to win the Cup.
Our kiss of death was delivered when Jason Cullimore tackled Shean Donovan's knee and fell on it, tearing his MCL. If we had Donovan in the lineup for Games 6 or 7, I'm positive we would have won.
This this this this this!! That had me furious!
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Yes, I would say the Donovan injury was the straw that broke the camels back for Calgary, which in hindsight was so unfortunate because he was playing so well.
Regarding what I meant with Niemenen was that it changed some of the momentum the team had in at the time that could have altered the look of the series. It was imperative for Calgary that they finish the series as soon as possible because of the extent of their injury situation. Yeah, they won the game he was suspended for, but I think it really changed the momentum of the series.
I knew that they had to win it in Game 6 if they were going to win it at all. I posted it in another thread, that was the most heartbreaking part. Game 7 was a sloshed out drunkfest for this guy; extinguish emotions with Wildcat Forte.
