NHL Playoffs

[Melanie]

Is your team in? Mine is - ALL IN!

Let's go BOLTS!!! So excited. Beat those Pens!

[JPL]

For the first time in 15 years I have no horse in the race I have no idea what to do with myself

[Strmchsr]

Sorry Mel. I'm a life-long Pens fan. I like the Bolts, but it's Pens all the way for me!

[WDWfanatic742]

For the first time in 15 years I have no horse in the race I have no idea what to do with myself

Go with my Ducks. Least they are in it this year. I have NO idea who they are playing against, but we'll still win it all

[Melanie]

Go with my Ducks. Least they are in it this year. I have NO idea who they are playing against, but we'll still win it all

Uh, they are playing the Predators David. Just gotta ask - how can you not know who your team is playing? And why aren't you a 'Stinkin' Panthers' fan? Man, we hate the Stinkin' Panthers!

[brownie]

Mine's in!

[WDWfanatic742]

They are literally a continent away, I NEVER get to see them play so I can't always catch up on what is going on with them. I used to be really into hockey a few years ago but it lowered as they weren't doing so good after they got rid of some of my favorite players like Giguere and others...

We had Panthers tickets for a few years where we'd go every game. I can't say that I'm a fan of them, but it was nice going every once in awhile. Hockey games are SO much better in person than TV, the one and only sport I can say that definitively.

[brownie]

Hockey games are SO much better in person than TV, the one and only sport I can say that definitively.

I'll take my hockey however I can get it. Baseball, on the other hand, has to be watched in person. I don't care for watching it on tv.

[Donald A]

Is your team in? Mine is - ALL IN!

Let's go BOLTS!!! So excited. Beat those Pens!

Diehard Pens fan here (even growing the playoff beard), but I think Tampa Bay will prevail. Stamkos and St. Louis are hot. I tend to think goaltending may be the difference. The Pens defense is the best in years and if Fleury can shutdown Tampa Bay that could be big. Of course there is also the Crosby factor. Will he come back? My hunch is not in this series. He is not even practicing with contact yet.

[WDWfanatic742]

I'll take my hockey however I can get it. Baseball, on the other hand, has to be watched in person. I don't care for watching it on tv.

Down here watching baseball live is a good place to sleep for three hours. There are like ten other people with you in the stadium...yet they are building a brand new stadium for a team that trades all of their good players and keeps a ten million dollar payroll year after year...which is why they have hardly any fans. Blows my mind...

[Maleficent's Dad]

Let's Go Rangers!!!
(Hey, one good year in the past 70 is better than none!)

[Ian]

Flyers are in, but I have no clue what to make of their chances. They were arguably one of the hottest teams in the NHL for the first like 3/4 of the season and then they just went in the tank.

Can they crank it up for the playoffs? No clue ... odds are against them, though. Top seeds haven't fared well in recent years when it comes to the NHL playoffs.

I think I'm leaning towards a first round upset.

[Melanie]

Stamkos and St. Louis are hot.

Correction, Vinny LeCavalier and Marty are hot. Stammer, not so much. Talk about an epic breakdown. 40 or so goals at the All-Star break, finishes with 45. Definitely in a major funk! But then again, he's Steven Stamkos and he is incredible regardless.

My hubby thinks Crosby will be back this series, but if he isn't even practicing with contact yet, then yeah, that's doubtful. Surely Pens fans will all make a big deal of the Hedman hit, even though that wasn't even the big one. It just did him in when he probably shouldn't have been out there to begin with.

So, first intermission and no score. Fluery had an awesome save!

[Melanie]

Round 1 - Pens.

[jrfromfla]

Let's Go Rangers!!!
(Hey, one good year in the past 70 is better than none!)

A Ranger fan living in South Florida.
So close last night, anything can happen.

LET'S GO RANGERS!!!!!!

[Melanie]

So the reports are Marty St. Louis had a double root canal on two of his front teeth after the game last night after a pretty blatant no-call. That game was ugly! No mercy.

[kaylamag]

Pittsburgh Penguins!!!!!

[BraddyB]

So the reports are Marty St. Louis had a double root canal on two of his front teeth after the game last night after a pretty blatant no-call. That game was ugly! No mercy.

Thats because Fleury was pretty sweet in goal last night !!!!!!!

There were lots of no calls last night, went both ways.

The earliest I think Sid may appear would be a game 6 situation. I dont't know why, I see the videos of him practicing and he is flying on the ice and he didnt lose a step in puck handling.

Let's Go Pens !!!!!

[Mickey'sGirl]

.... seeing as I live in Toronto .... ... again ...

[Ian]

For this series and this series alone, I'm a Lightning fan. I cannot stand Crosby and the Penguins and really want to see them lose just about every game they play (unless it's against the Devils or the Rangers, of course ).

So go Lightning! For now ....