Notice given
 

The Flyers have beaten the Devils in the first round of the NHL playoffs, and thus it is safe to watch them again.

I cheated and watched today. There was a feeling of domination.

There was the sight of the winning goal being scored by Markov with assists by Zhamnov and Malakov, marking perhaps the first time in Flyers history that points were scored by players whose surnames end in "-ov". For Flyer fans, perhaps a true revolution at hand.

I am cautiously optimistic.

Unless Montreal comes back to win their series, the Bruins are next. That could be a hell of a series.

vewy intewesting.:) If Philly/ Bruins, I'll pull for the bears. If Montreal...I'll pull for the Flyers...yes indeed. (Habs are in the running for some cheap Oscars. Boo )

Wait a minnit... I forgot about the reseeding stuff. Philly and Montreal wouldnt meet, itd be Toronto or Ottawa. I need a chart.

If the Habs win Monday night, the Flyers will face the winner of the Sens/Leafs series. If Boston wins, the Flyers head to FleetCenter.

TB will take on either the Canadians (if they beat Boston) or Ottawa/Toronto (if Boston wins).

Make sense? :)

I just like seeing you in type again.:)

*bows*

Habs win!

Bring on one of those bastard Ontario teams!

Calgary won! Thats pretty fucking cool.

Notice given part 2 - one of the most entertaining overtimes ever ended with a total beaut by hero Roenick, a guy whose face had to be reconstructed this season, and the Fly-boys advance to the semis, and at this point I have to ask vsp whether this represents enough to show the team is real. And worthy of attention.

FLYERS BABY!!!
 

Yeah the bolts may have beaten the Flyers all four times this year, but the playoff's are a WHOLE new animal....besides VERY few if any of the lightning have playoff experience and they have never gotten this far in the playoffs. I would say with their talent matched against the flyers grit & experience.....EVEN!

I call Flyers in 7.....then the cup in 6!!! (or seven if it's the sharks)

:rattat: take that maple leafs!!!

The Fly-Boys, being a Philly team, will suddenly suck ass a the worst possible moment.

I don't dislike the Flyers, mind you, I've just lived near Philadelphia long enough to understand the dynamic.

My 8th grade math teacher taught us coordinate plotting by having us generate a "graph" that when you connected the dots in the specified order was the Flyer's logo.

Who knows....
 

but it beats not making the playoffs at all.....NEVER understood the dynamic of that arguement......

Like people saying about the Eagles losing Three straight NFC championship games......would rather they got there and lost then be 3-13 again...anyone disagree????


:rattat: :finger: Take that maple leafs!!!

this was emailed to me with the subject " Free Leaf Blower!"

now, I have always wanted one of those, and free IS in my price range, so i rushed to open the attachment.......

Wasn't that guy.....
 

the orginal lead singer of Triumph??

I am VERY afraid to findout were you got that from....

Some things are better left unsaid :vomit:


Take that Devils....:shotgun: ......take that Leafs...:rattat:

And here's to ALL my new friends in Tampa....:finger:


Later!!!:joint:

"Lay it on the line..." *sign of the beast in the air*

There is wisdom here.

Of course, the Flyers may well repay my renunciation of them this year by winning the f'ing Cup, which I will find it hard to draw any joy from.

So, uh, how 'bout them Flyers?

*duck*

It was a tough series. Both teams played well, but the better team won in the end.

And now, we have Calgary vs. Tampa Bay--two teams that might not even exist in the fall. Should be a good series...a great series, actually.

I tried last year to watch the playoffs and failed miserably, so I'll make a stronger attempt this year with the championship.

Football proves easier, and more pleasurable, to watch on television for some reason. In hockey, how does anyone know where that puck is in all that mess of sticks and people? I have no idea how the cameraman manages to track it.

Why did I give up on the Flyers organization? At least partially because Bob Clarke had a history of giving up on prospects too soon and trading them away for bags of pucks and used jockstraps. (Cechmanek's ouster was the last straw; the Oates - Ouellet trade was the initial catalyst.)

Who scored a boatload of goals in the last two series, including BOTH goals for the Lightning in the clinching Game 7? Former Phantom Ruslan Fedotenko.

I am oddly amused by this.

(Not ripping on Joni Pitkanen -- he's got the tools to be a good defenseman. He's also European, which means that he'll last about two seasons with the Flyers before Clarke trades him for a mucker & grinder.)

Not that I'm saying Clarke is a genius or anything, but in 4 seasons as a pro, two with the flyers & two with the bolts, Fedetenko has scored 69 goals.....his 12 in the playoffs are 20% of what he has scored in his career.

So a guy who never scored more then 17 goals for you and was third lining it??? Yeah trading him for the fourth pick in the draft..no matter WHAT he did in the playoffs was just good sense.

SO yeah, he got his name on the cup and the flyers are at home...but as I have said, there are a LOT of great players never to have their name on the cup...Roenick, Marcel Dionne, Dale Hawerchuk, etc.....and may no-names who DID get it on there to boot....

Ya just gotta keep the faith or stop watching OR worst of ALL become a front runner and go buy a devils or lightning jersey!

Later :rattat:

Frontrunner? Hardly. My NHL fandom went with Cechmanek to the Kings.

What I found highly ironic was that the Flyers have had one critical flaw in the playoffs for years -- they can't score goals in the postseason. They trade one of their younger guys away (as is their modus operandi), the other team gives him a chance on a top line, and he becomes a playoff scoring machine, helping to eliminate his old team AND scoring the Cup-winner. Now, THAT'S the Philly curse in action. ;)

I haven't had faith in Clarke since the days of the Lindros soap opera. When he goes, I'll be back.

NO.....
 

I didn't call you a frontrunner, I said it was an option.....and unless chechmanek pulls a Khabibulin and actually wins something in the playoffs, which was the 'bulin walls' knock.....then he is just another OK euro-goalie......I'll never think he's the man, ESPECIALLY at 33......Esche was and will be the answer.

Some nay-sayer here in Phila. have them comparing him to Boucher, great run then done. point is, every game was new for boucher then, he got called up that season. Esche is a vet with a lot more games under his belt. He didn't lose that series, Amonte, Zhamnov, LeClair lost that series, the line 'invisible' I called them, and until late in ther series I said the same thing about gagne.

I think they'll be back, but in what form after the labor agreement, who knows.....if Philadelphia sports is REALLY cursed then I'll have to live & die by said curse. Or go to Haiti and have a voodoo priest lift the curse.....my soul isn't that improtant anyway:D


Later :rattat: