Re-visiting Game 7 of the 2004 Finals (Gelinas, Conroy & Sarich)

[Jiri Hrdina]

Originally Posted by AC

Yeah, no post in OT vs Tampa but Nieminen hit the post in double OT Game 6 vs Vancouver.

Yes that’s the one
He cut across the middle and had Hedberg moving the wrong way...ping!
And then Morrison ended it

[jayswin]

If there's a traumatic post you think you're remembering it may be Huselius in game 6 against the Ducks in game 6 in 2006.

[CalgaryFan1988]

I honestly had nightmares, as I'm sure many here had, for months after the SCF in '04. It was probably just one of those (because I literally would have bet money it was real and that it was Simon). I couldn't imagine being one of the players.

[locsofblu]

What a great run that was. I was 10 when we won the cup but that team will always have a special place in my heart.

[activeStick]

Nemo was close to the top of my list of favorite players during that run. Consistent energy, skating hard and hitting every shift.

[Dion]

[Jaybo]

It's a weird analogy but I always thought of the 2004 Stanley Cup Final as mirroring the original 1978 "Superman" movie with Christopher Reeves.

Not to diminish any of the other players on either team but I felt like we had our lone "Superman" - Jarome Iginla - while the Lightning had three super-villains - Lecavalier, St. Louis and Richards as General Zod, Ursa and Non.

Except the Stanley Cup Final wasn't a movie and our lone superhero wasn't able to overcome three equally skilled opponents.

[GioforPM]

Originally Posted by Jaybo

It's a weird analogy but I always thought of the 2004 Stanley Cup Final as mirroring the original 1978 "Superman" movie with Christopher Reeves.

Not to diminish any of the other players on either team but I felt like we had our lone "Superman" - Jarome Iginla - while the Lightning had three super-villains - Lecavalier, St. Louis and Richards as General Zod, Ursa and Non.

Except the Stanley Cup Final wasn't a movie and our lone superhero wasn't able to overcome three equally skilled opponents.

There was that Kipper guy.

[Jaybo]

Originally Posted by GioforPM

There was that Kipper guy.

I knew somebody was going to say that!

Yes, definitely two superstars on our team but I was thinking more in terms of 3 superstars up front versus 1 on our team battling each other in the corners, in front of the net and, in the memorable case of Iginla and LeCavalier, one-on-one with their fists!

(Now I'm going to try to figure out how to make an even more tortured analogy where Kipper is the Lois Lane of this analogy - hard-nosed, determined, independent!) :-)

[VANFLAMESFAN]

Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina

Yes that’s the one
He cut across the middle and had Hedberg moving the wrong way...ping!
And then Morrison ended it

Alex Auld played in Game 5/6/7.

Hedberg played in most of Game 2 after Cloutier went down with an early injury. Hedberg then played all of game 3 and played poorly in Game 4 and made way for Auld for the rest of the series.

[Cecil Terwilliger]

Originally Posted by GioforPM

There was that Kipper guy.

He’s Lois Lane. Or Jimmy Olsen.

[VANFLAMESFAN]

Originally Posted by Dion

I'll always be pissed off that there was no review on this. You don't review a play like that in 30 seconds or less and that's how long that stoppage in play was. I don't believe any NHL official who said they looked at it and determined it wasn't in. They didn't look at it, plain and simple.

If they had reviewed it and called it no goal, I could get over that.

I will never get over the fact that it wasn't looked at properly.

[cam_wmh]

I can't watch this re-visit. Still hurts.

[Plett Me Tell You]

Me in 2004 - "This won't hurt forever will it?"

Hurt in 2020 - "Hold my heroin beer"

[djsFlames]

Wish we had 60 fps slo mo tech back then.

The side angle it looks in, top angle is impossible to tell.