Eklund
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Joined: 09.15.2005
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XxHarounXx
Toronto Maple Leafs |
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Location: Sam Gagner dealt to Toronto for Gardiner+ - Cloutier, ON Joined: 06.30.2010
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and now time to read the blog |
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Boston, Toronto, Ottawa, Washington, NYR, NYI, PIttsburgh (not in that order) all have a shot |
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XxHarounXx
Toronto Maple Leafs |
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Location: Sam Gagner dealt to Toronto for Gardiner+ - Cloutier, ON Joined: 06.30.2010
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BOSS_TWEED
Season Ticket Holder Philadelphia Flyers |
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Location: S. Jersey Joined: 11.07.2006
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Agreed Ek! The Pens have neither the defense nor the goaltending to win a cup. They could get there though. |
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BigDre
Edmonton Oilers |
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Location: The only thing we win is a trophy for our captain who attends gay pride parades- Lahey, AB Joined: 01.09.2012
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The Islanders look like the Oil of '06. |
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spatso
Ottawa Senators |
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Location: jensen beach, FL Joined: 02.19.2007
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If the Senators take out the Pens, it will be a short and incredibly physical series.
Pittsburg is built for regular season. They have not done very much in playoffs for a bunch of years. Islanders will give them a good game tonight. If Islanders win tonight, Tavares and Co. will finish the job in game 7. |
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Deadmau55
Los Angeles Kings |
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Location: CA Joined: 06.07.2011
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Yes. Any team from the East can win the cup. Any team from the west can win the cup. I thought we had this figured out already? |
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The Islanders look like the Oil of '06. - BigDre
Lol |
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Agreed Ek! The Pens have neither the defense nor the goaltending to win a cup. They could get there though. - BOSS_TWEED
You wish you had our problems. |
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flamminghead
Calgary Flames |
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Location: As good as they are in the off, AB Joined: 09.02.2009
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I like the Capitals to win. |
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Beatle_john
Vancouver Canucks |
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Location: Corner of Kirk Maclean's Toe and Robert Reichel's face. Joined: 01.09.2006
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So this is where it has come to....
How screwed up the nhl ( no longer capitalized) is....
3 Hart candidates --- never mind 1 missed 1/3 of the season, never mind another took 1/3rd of the season off and never mind the third only barely scraped into the top 8 --- all from the east....
And now there is no Eastern contender?
That's a fine howdy-dooo.
How much more is Kane, how much more did he lead to his team to success, how much more can Chicago take these eastern teams, put a dress on them, call them Shirley and take them out to a nice light meal followed by wine and then play some 'high sticking'?
The NHL has a special quality of stupid this year. |
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oilersrule66
Edmonton Oilers |
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Location: Welcome to the next oilers dyn Joined: 01.26.2013
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Finally, i'm not alone in thinking this |
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oilersrule66
Edmonton Oilers |
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Location: Welcome to the next oilers dyn Joined: 01.26.2013
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Boston, Toronto, Ottawa, Washington, NYR, NYI, PIttsburgh (not in that order) all have a shot - forbetterorWORSE
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BOSS_TWEED
Season Ticket Holder Philadelphia Flyers |
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Location: S. Jersey Joined: 11.07.2006
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I like the Capitals to win. - flamminghead
Just calling them as I see them. |
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Ben37
Pittsburgh Penguins |
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Location: One of the Most Respected Hockeybuzz Posters, AB Joined: 04.07.2010
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Caseydiggz
Chicago Blackhawks |
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Location: Not Chicago, IL Joined: 03.07.2012
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So this is where it has come to....
How screwed up the nhl ( no longer capitalized) is....
3 Hart candidates --- never mind 1 missed 1/3 of the season, never mind another took 1/3rd of the season off and never mind the third only barely scraped into the top 8 --- all from the east....
And now there is no Eastern contender?
That's a fine howdy-dooo.
How much more is Kane, how much more did he lead to his team to success, how much more can Chicago take these eastern teams, put a dress on them, call them Shirley and take them out to a nice light meal followed by wine and then play some 'high sticking'?
The NHL has a special quality of stupid this year. - Beatle_john
Couldn't have said it better myself. East coast bias is shown in bright neon lights |
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Zupes
San Jose Sharks |
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Location: Los Angeles, CA Joined: 09.02.2012
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Ottawa, especially if Spezza comes back and performs well. |
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trolleytracks
Ottawa Senators |
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Location: Apparently I troll every blog , ON Joined: 02.23.2012
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You'd pick Corey Crawford and Ray Emery over the Penguins offense? That's laughable. No Western team has had to deal with Malkin-Crosby this year. The best tandem in the West is Kane-Toews, so Chicago hasn't even come close to playing anyone with Pittsburgh's talent. With consistent goaltending the Pens will roll over anyone. |
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cranktheradio
Pittsburgh Penguins |
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Location: Greensburg, PA Joined: 07.02.2011
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Pointless. Every team left can run into a series where there are weaknesses exposed. Predicting the playoffs is next to impossible. Teams can change the way they look from series to series. The Islanders, with the terrible goaltending so far, could run hot the rest of the way and win it. The Kings and Chicago can hit a series where they barely pull it off and next thing you know everyone starts doubting them. Playoffs.. anything can happen. |
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keaner17
New York Islanders |
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Location: Prepared for the worst Joined: 07.12.2007
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Annnnnnd here's your sour grapes because the Flyers aren't in the playoffs blog. |
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rollpards19
Chicago Blackhawks |
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Location: Where ever doesn't get me hit, IL Joined: 05.03.2012
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You'd pick Corey Crawford and Ray Emery over the Penguins offense? That's laughable. No Western team has had to deal with Malkin-Crosby this year. The best tandem in the West is Kane-Toews, so Chicago hasn't even come close to playing anyone with Pittsburgh's talent. With consistent goaltending the Pens will roll over anyone. - trolleytracks
Pittsburgh hasn't seen anything close to Chicago's team defense and puck possession. |
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Shocking, coming from a flyers fan. EK will take any opportunity to take a shot at the pens.
Any team can win. One could argue that is better to be challenged in the first round rather than coast through the round against a horrible team and then sit for a week. |
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Flyfreaky
Philadelphia Flyers |
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Joined: 07.20.2011
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Annnnnnd here's your sour grapes because the Flyers aren't in the playoffs blog. - keaner17
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Fan101
New York Islanders |
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Location: United States, NY Joined: 07.08.2007
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Although it is hard to repeat, that is with a short summer layoff, but the shortened season will make the Kings and Quick into favorites now that they are finished with round 1.
Besides Quick, the West has great goaltending in Niemi, Howard and ANA etc.
The West teams did not do the trade deadline makeovers that NYR and PITT did.
In the East I would give to anyone with the goaltending right now, BOS, OTT, NYR or WAS to make it to the finals. |
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