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Inside the craziest 193 seconds in Game 7 history...'04 1st round recalled
Cruickshank teams up with Thomas Drance for a very compelling read.
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Shean Donovan, Flames forward: Near the end of the regular season Darryl Sutter had a sticker on the board and he said, “The team we want to play the most is under this sheet.” He unveiled it at the end of the season and it was Vancouver.
He said, “This is who we want to play!” The Darryl Sutter mind games. Nobody looked under the thing — I’m sure it had nothing under it the whole time. It worked for us.
Jovanovski: You look at the two buildings going nuts every game — typical Canadian cities. It had that feel right from the get-go that it was going to be a wild series.
Martin Gelinas, “Eliminator”: That series was physical to the point where now you’d look at it (like), “Well, maybe that’s a little bit too much.”
April 19, 2004: The teams gather at General Motors Place. Game 7. Winner takes all.
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Jovanovski: That game was scoreless after one, had a bit of scoring in the second and then opened up. It became the Cookie and Iginla show!
Cooke: You use the term in junior hockey a lot, but he was a man against boys. Jarome was so skilled, so physical. When he played, and especially in the early 2000s, mid-2000s, he was just a dominant power forward. He fought, he scored, made pretty shots, blocked shots. There wasn’t anything he didn’t do. That whole playoff run he was lights out.
Conroy: You’re watching all those cross-checks on Warrener, thinking, “One, two, three …” How many times is he going to cross-check him in the head?
Jovanovski: How many whacks am I going to give my good buddy Rhett Warrener before the referee calls a penalty?
Conroy: Today, the first cross-check is a penalty.
Morrison: I remember skating by Iggy and I chop his stick out of his hands! He throws his hands up in the air and skates up ice, steps in his stick and he falls!
Conroy: You’re like, “Where did the stick on the ice come from?” You didn’t know what was going on. The whistle didn’t blow for the jersey and then he falls over the stick? I mean, it was like a comedy of errors.
Iginla: Seeing that, it was, “Oh my God! Oh my God!”
Morrison: It’s a surreal moment. Like, “This did not just happen.”
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Morrison: When I went to Calgary I got to know Conroy and we talked about the series and how everything unfolded. He said something interesting to me that I’d never known until I went to Calgary.
He said, “You remember when you guys scored that goal?” I’m like, “Of course I do.” He said, “####ing Matt Cooke, we ####ing hated him!” After he scored that goal when you guys were skating back to your bench, he skated by our bench and chirped all of our guys all the way down. We came into the locker room, ‘#### that guy, let’s ####ing win this!’”
Cooke: That’s a detail I don’t remember. Possibly? It isn’t 100 percent out of character.
If I did, I ate crow hard. That’s for sure.
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Auld: It was bang, bang, bang, but I still remember swatting at that rebound. I don’t know that I’ve ever felt closer to saving a goal. And it was just air.
I remember swinging my arm at it, thinking I was going to catch it and it goes in.
Gelinas: I took a swipe at it and I’d like to tell you that it was hard into the net. But it wasn’t.
Donovan: I remember coming in the room and looking at the TV. Hockey Night in Canada was showing footage from the Red Mile. Everybody was like, “Let’s get going. Let’s get out of here. Let’s get back home.”
i had just started a new job as that series was begining - at the work function i won a flames jersey sign by gelinas.
after being a casual flames fan, i really grew to like this team with that game 6 (i think) where the flames went down 3 or 4 nothing and came back to force overtime.
that was such a fun time, as i recall everytime the flames lost you knew there was anotehr game in a day or two and then after that game 7 in tampa and the ride was over.....
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There was a small amount of activity on the Red Mile after that game, but it didn’t really get going until the Saturday afternoon game in the Detroit series.
I am still angry that a penalty wasn't called on the jersey throw. Probably the single biggest reason I hate the Canucks with a passion.
In the end though, it's an even greater memory with the OT goal by 23.
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I was so distraught when Vancouver scored that goal. I am ashamed to admit now that when that happened I did not think the Flames could win that game. I remember going to bed with the intention of not watching the OT period, but my anxiety got the better of me, and I turned the bedroom TV on in time to see the puck drop.
Thank God it was short. The relief was practically overwhelming.
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I am still angry that a penalty wasn't called on the jersey throw. Probably the single biggest reason I hate the Canucks with a passion.
In the end though, it's an even greater memory with the OT goal by 23.
Yeah, that is insane to me how there wasn't a Delay of Game penalty called. It sort of looks like the puck hits the jersey as well? Or am I wrong there?
I watched this game with a bunch of buddies. Most thought we'd lose in OT. I reminded them that we had a PP coming up in OT and we needed to score on it or we would lose.
Auld makes an interesting point that I never knew/noticed -- right when the ref bends down to pick up the jersey is when Morrison slashes Iggy's stick out of his hands. If that doesn't happen exactly how it did happen, there's a good chance the tying goal never materializes.
The hockey gods were definitely pulling some strings that night...
Auld makes an interesting point that I never knew/noticed -- right when the ref bends down to pick up the jersey is when Morrison slashes Iggy's stick out of his hands. If that doesn't happen exactly how it did happen, there's a good chance the tying goal never materializes.
The hockey gods were definitely pulling some strings that night...
LOL, after watching that first video of the Flames and Canucks in the final minutes of that game, I noticed there a woman sitting right behind Crawford with a huge rack (2:24-2:47). Seems like Crawford's got quite a few of those sitting behind him during playoff series wherever he goes. I recall chanting during that series, "CBC" - Cougar Behind Crawford!
Great takes in that article from both sides. I'm not sure if I'll ever go through the emotions I went through in the 2004 run again even if the Flames go all the way. I was in my 20s living in another province which got me even more invested in the team, I wasn't old enough yet where I had kids in my life and I was in post secondary which was my only real commitment. Every goal against was like a punch to the gut and every win felt like I had won the lottery. What a run!
Yeah I was also pretty upset when the tying goal went in. After living through the early 90s game 7 losses I fully expected another one.
Iginla was the difference maker breaking the first round curse. The three game 7 goals were Jarome at his best. The first was a snipe off the rush, the second dominating in front of the net, and the third taking control on the boards and taking it to the net. What a game from an amazing player!
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