[PST] Second Round: Anaheim (1st pacific) vs Edmonton (2nd pacific)

[FlamesFan?101]

If you're a hockey fan, you'd want to see the world's best player as much as possible regardless of who they play for. Sucks that he plays for rival, but McDavid is a historic player. Be thankful you're alive to witness greatness, this is like witnessing Gretzky/Orr/Lemieux back in their day.

[Oil Stain]

Originally Posted by dash_pinched

Mark Spector@SportsnetSpec

Bieksa on Kesler: "Like a 2nd brother to me. Sometimes you want to kill him, and sometimes he wants to kill me. I'll always have his back."

The d-bag twins.

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by FlamesFan?101

If you're a hockey fan, you'd want to see the world's best player as much as possible regardless of who they play for. Sucks that he plays for rival, but McDavid is a historic player. Be thankful you're alive to witness greatness, this is like witnessing Gretzky/Orr/Lemieux back in their day.

Seriously.

Gross

Puke worthy post.

When I want to watch the best player in the world, I'll turn on a Pittsburgh game.

If I want to watch an Olympic diving competition, I'll watch McDavid.

[Textcritic]

Originally Posted by FlamesFan?101

If you're a hockey fan, you'd want to see the world's best player as much as possible regardless of who they play for. Sucks that he plays for rival, but McDavid is a historic player. Be thankful you're alive to witness greatness, this is like witnessing Gretzky/Orr/Lemieux back in their day.

Bull crap. There will ALWAYS be players as good as McDebutante playing in the NHL—there always has been. In just my lifetime I have watched Lafleur, Gretzky, Lemieux, Sakic, Forsberg, Jagr, Bure, Ovechkin, Datsyuk and Crosby. Why should I care about "being alive" to see him play?

[calgaryblood]

Originally Posted by FlamesFan?101

If you're a hockey fan, you'd want to see the world's best player as much as possible regardless of who they play for. Sucks that he plays for rival, but McDavid is a historic player. Be thankful you're alive to witness greatness, this is like witnessing Gretzky/Orr/Lemieux back in their day.

Wait, you're still pretending to be a Flames fan? That's cute.

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by FlamesFan?101

If you're a hockey fan, you'd want to see the world's best player as much as possible regardless of who they play for. Sucks that he plays for rival, but McDavid is a historic player. Be thankful you're alive to witness greatness, this is like witnessing Gretzky/Orr/Lemieux back in their day.

If you're not a troll whose life is really so meaningless you have to be here doing this, then you should read this, actually:

Obsessing Over Someone You Love but Cant Have

[PepsiFree]

but also kudos to getting a reaction every time you post, must feel goodman

[sun]

Originally Posted by Tinordi

Anaheim's biggest fan for the next two weeks.

Weren't you lifetime banned? Begged the mods to let you back in or what? Pathetic. Oh well, it was nice while it lasted.

[Weitz]

Anyone know about Sportsnet Play by play people? Can't seem to find it.

Edit: NVM Found it

Play-by-play: Jim Hughson; Game Analyst: Craig Simpson; Reporter: Scott Oake

God I hate Craig Simpson

[Ducay]

FlamesFan?101
Lifetime Suspension

Finally. Just a troll who didn't try to hide it

[MissTeeks]

Looks like the Ducks have all their defensemen back for the series:

[MoneyGuy]

Duck L'Orange!

[dino7c]

Maybe I'm just being a Oilers hater but

They beat the worst playoff team down the stretch (and got some breaks to do it) and two of SJ best players were at maybe 60%

They lost a game 7-0 for Christ sake

If they don't raise their game big time I just don't see it against the Ducks

[Sylvanfan]

I find that the Edmonton media seems to think that the Oilers have a huge advantage in goal with Cam Talbot over John Gibson. They're talking about how Talbot will steal the series and put up such better numbers in the first round if you take away his game 4 his numbers are so much better than Gibson. Yet if you take Gibson's game 3 numbers away...what do his stats look like?

Talbot has had a good season and is a big reason why the Oilers are in round two. But John Gibson isn't some plug who's below average at the position.

The one thing that I'll have a passing interest in is how the Oilers respond to the Ducks mantra of creating animosity. The Ducks like to cause stuff, and the Flames certainly got dragged into it. The Sharks don't play anything like this. So it will be interesting to see how the tenderness enjoys getting nuggies from a cranky fart like Getzlaf and how much McDavid enjoys the smell of Keslers glove.

[Mass_nerder]

Hopefully getting their defence healthy makes a difference on the series! They did fine without them against us, because we didn't do a great job forcing the issue, but it might be a big boost this time around.
What scares me is that whoever comes out of this round seems likely to beat Blues/Nashville fairly easily. Here's to hoping they really beat each other up all series!

[Robo]

Ugh i hate both these teams and i hate Craig Simpson

[Weitz]

Originally Posted by dino7c

Maybe I'm just being a Oilers hater but

They beat the worst playoff team down the stretch (and got some breaks to do it) and two of SJ best players were at maybe 60%

They lost a game 7-0 for Christ sake

If they don't raise their game big time I just don't see it against the Ducks

I don't think you can say Couture was 60%. That is a reach. Don't really know how Thornton played with that injury.

The last Ducks loss was against the Oilers. They have played them well and won the season series.

What breaks did they get in beating the Sharks?

[Since1984]

Originally Posted by Robo

Ugh i hate both these teams and i hate Craig Simpson

Don't watch? I'm sure there is a ton of non-profit orgs that would love to have you volunteer.

Also Ducks in 6

[Weitz]

Originally Posted by Sylvanfan

I find that the Edmonton media seems to think that the Oilers have a huge advantage in goal with Cam Talbot over John Gibson. They're talking about how Talbot will steal the series and put up such better numbers in the first round if you take away his game 4 his numbers are so much better than Gibson. Yet if you take Gibson's game 3 numbers away...what do his stats look like?

Talbot has had a good season and is a big reason why the Oilers are in round two. But John Gibson isn't some plug who's below average at the position.

The one thing that I'll have a passing interest in is how the Oilers respond to the Ducks mantra of creating animosity. The Ducks like to cause stuff, and the Flames certainly got dragged into it. The Sharks don't play anything like this. So it will be interesting to see how the tenderness enjoys getting nuggies from a cranky fart like Getzlaf and how much McDavid enjoys the smell of Keslers glove.

Its not just Edmonton media giving them the edge in goal. Almost everyone is. But its pretty close, Gibson is very good goalie.

There are lots of little stories leading into this series.

The last 2 games against Anaheim McDavid had his way with the Kesler line, so much so that Carlyle started to use the Getzlaf line midway through the second game.

RNH was able to effectively shut down the Pavelski/Burns combo. Can he do it to the Getzlaf line?

[Robo]

Originally Posted by Since1984

Don't watch? I'm sure there is a ton of non-profit orgs that would love to have you volunteer.

Also Ducks in 6

Its still hockey i just can't bring myself to cheer for either team and I'm already coaching u6 soccer so i can't really volunteer any more of my time