[GT] St. Louis Blues @ Dallas Stars Game 7 (For Stars' 1st Round Draft Pick) 6:00 MT

[Cleveland Steam Whistle]

I agree, Bennett looked like a world beater in a very small handful of games last year. Me also hope it's an indication of long term potential once he finds his consistency.

Also agree it's far to early, but I don't think it's unfair to categorize the players after the early days as one showing more consistency and the other showing small dosages of brilliance.

[Blarg]

just an awful end to this series.Way to dash any hopes of getting that 1st rounder after the first period

[FireGilbert]

Well that sucked, not even close.

I blame Jay Feaster for not getting a conditional 2016 first rounder in the Bouwmeester trade

[djsFlames]

Oh eff off!

Stupid Blues.

[Jets4Life]

I'm so glad the Blues won. If any NHL franchise finally deserves to hoist the Stanley Cup, it's St.Louis. They are the Chicago Cubs of the NHL.

[Tsawwassen]

Originally Posted by TheScorpion

Remember that Flames-Hawks playoff game from 2009, everybody? When Calgary was leading 5-0 going into the 3rd, and ended up losing 6-5 in overtime?

Anything can happen, people.

And I hate Havlat.

Originally Posted by Ashasx

that wasn't a playoff game

Flames also weren't leading 5-0 into the third... it was 5-0 into the 2nd

Originally Posted by vennegoor of hesselink

Thanksgiving day if I recall

Yep, it was Thanksgiving on Monday, Oct. 12 and it was 5-1 heading into the 2nd period. Seabrook scored the GWG and Niemi took over in net for the Bhawks. http://flames.nhl.com/gamecenter/en/recap?id=2009020071

[Robbob]

I guess that is what you get when you cheer for a draft pick. Point taken hockey gods.

[Hockey_Ninja]

Congrats to St. Louis but man another first round pick would've been nice

[dammage79]

Jokipakka being such a breath of fresh air on the back end made losing the 1st an easy pill to swallow. If we didn't get Kevin the trade would be on par with what the minimalists were thinking Russell would net in return.

[Bar-Down]

Originally Posted by dammage79

Jokipakka being such a breath of fresh air on the back end made losing the 1st an easy pill to swallow. If we didn't get Kevin the trade would be on par with what the minimalists were thinking Russell would net in return.

For sure.

2nd rounder + Brett Pollock + Kevin is a fantastic return for Russell.

The 1st rounder would've just made it that much sweeter.

[polak]

That must have been one of the biggest choke jobs in a game 7 of all time?

That was embarrassingly bad.

[trackercowe]

Originally Posted by Robbob

I guess that is what you get when you cheer for a draft pick. Point taken hockey gods.

That is unless you're awarded 4 of them in a 6 year span. What do you think they were cheering for?

[jg13]

Originally Posted by polak

That must have been one of the biggest choke jobs in a game 7 of all time?

That was embarrassingly bad.

2002 Red Wings beat the Avs 7-0 in game 7.

[habernac]

Originally Posted by polak

That must have been one of the biggest choke jobs in a game 7 of all time?

That was embarrassingly bad.

I was at the Ducks/Flames one ten years ago. Can't remember the score offhand, but I've seem a better effort from my 7 year old daughter's awful soccer team.

[djsFlames]

Originally Posted by Jets4Life

I'm so glad the Blues won. If any NHL franchise finally deserves to hoist the Stanley Cup, it's St.Louis. They are the Chicago Cubs of the NHL.

They deserve nothing. Not until that cup is actually hoisted.

It's not like they've had a few trips to the finals to no avail. They've been early round chokers.

[CliffFletcher]

The Blues are just a better, deeper team. Their forward depth, in particular, is insane. I think beating the Hawks was the monkey off their back, and they'll go all the way now.

[Strange Brew]

Well that it is too bad. Guess I grade the return on Russell an A- instead of an A+. Still a very strong trade for BT, with a sharp guy on the other side.

For a 7 game series, it never really felt like Dallas was going to win. Kind of a weird series that way, for me.

[dino7c]

Originally Posted by habernac

I was at the Ducks/Flames one ten years ago. Can't remember the score offhand, but I've seem a better effort from my 7 year old daughter's awful soccer team.

as bad as that was it was only 3-0

[dino7c]

Originally Posted by CliffFletcher

The Blues are just a better, deeper team. Their forward depth, in particular, is insane. I think beating the Hawks was the monkey off their back, and they'll go all the way now.

Dallas has better forwards IMO...this series was lost between the pipes and the fact that Dallas had one of their top forwards miss the entire playoffs

even last night Dallas controlled long stretches of the game...they came out with chance after chance only to have their goal tender give up bad goal after bad goal

[habernac]

Originally Posted by dino7c

as bad as that was it was only 3-0

I've still never left a building more angry than from that game. It was like they were all still drunk from the night before, just a pitiful performance.