omggggggg
r these people talkin' about hockey???
~runs to learn what the sport is all about *L*~
~hugs MEOW on the way out~ [img]graemlins/heart.gif[/img]
come on over...and show up naked... [img]wink.gif[/img]
omggggggg
r these people talkin' about hockey???
~runs to learn what the sport is all about *L*~
~hugs MEOW on the way out~ [img]graemlins/heart.gif[/img]
lmfao EVO u dont wanna see me naked it would scare ya....hell it scares ME *L*
ughhhh off to bed i go *G* [img]graemlins/heart.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/angel.gif[/img]
<font color="#509BA4" size="1">[ May 11, 2004 08:58 PM: Message edited by: Kassy ]</font>
yes if your gonna pick a team.....
bruins.....
whatever ya do.....
not the leafs [img]eek.gif[/img]
<font size="4" face="Tempus Sans ITC, Verdana, Arial">Girl...you need to learn about your Bruins!!! they are one of the original 6!!! *L*r these people talkin' about hockey???
~runs to learn what the sport is all about *L*~
~hugs MEOW on the way out~
Sharks stunk it up BAD tonight... [img]graemlins/gulp.gif[/img] #&@!&
tampa bay lightning win.....
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - When John Tortorella became their coach midway through the 2000-01 season, the Tampa Bay Lightning were a joke of a franchise, arguably the worst in American pro sports.
They won an average of once every three games, playing in an arena that often held bigger crowds for Arena Football games than their own - and that wasn't the worst of it. What worried Tortorella was he didn't sense any real commitment to turning things around, not even from some of his top players.
My how that changed, and in a hurry. Now the Lightning are the Stanley Cup champions, thanks to a 2-1 victory Monday over Calgary in a finals Game 7 that completed one of the swiftest turnarounds in NHL history.
Maybe when Tortorella breaks it all down, that will be the most meaningful aspect of a totally unpredictable championship. The team that once was satisfied to take the easy way out persevered while becoming only the second team in 33 years to overcame a 3-2 deficit in the finals.
"To do it in three years, to get to where we're at today, who is kidding who?" Tortorella said. "That wasn't in the plan."
(AP) Tampa Bay Lightning Ruslan Fedotenko, center, is surrounded by teammates Vicent Lecavalier, Cory...
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The Lightning, who had won only one playoff series in their history until this season, got two goals from Ruslan Fedotenko and a standout goaltending effort from Nikolai Khabibulin to win the first Stanley Cup in the franchise's mostly miserable 12-year history.
"We were in last place for four years, now we are winners," said Vincent Lecavalier, who set up Fedotenko's decisive goal in the second period. "It's unbelievable. It's great."
The Lightning needed to win Game 6 in Calgary on Saturday just to force a Game 7. They did, a 3-2 overtime decision that broke the hearts of thousands upon thousands of fans who gathered to celebrate Canada's first Stanley Cup championship since 1993.
In Game 7, Fedotenko scored in each of the first two periods before the Flames came on with a rush after Craig Conroy scored midway through the third period. Finally, though, time ran out on one of the most unexpected NHL playoff runs in years.
The sixth-seeded Flames, who missed the playoffs the previous seven seasons, took out division champions Vancouver, Detroit and San Jose and came within a goal of eliminating another in the finals.
(AP) Tampa Bay Lightning captain Dave Andreychuck kisses the Stanley Cup after beating the Calgary...
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"In the end, we ran out of gas," coach Darryl Sutter said.
Especially star Jarome Iginla, the dominant player for much of the series. He was almost invisible while being held without a shot Monday as the Lightning concentrated on shutting down the Flames' one game-altering player.
Calgary also was without injured forward Shean Donovan, who missed the final two games, and top defenseman Robyn Regehr was bothered by an ankle injury that clearly affected his play.
Still, Conroy said, the difference in the series was the Flames' inability to finish the job at home Saturday, when the Cup seemingly was theirs. Calgary would have been the lowest-seeded team to win a Stanley Cup under the present eight-team seeding format and only the second to win a four-round playoffs without having home-ice advantage in any series.
"That's the most disappointing thing," he said. "We had two chances, one at home, and we didn't get it done."
(AP) Calgary Flames captain Jarome Iginla watches the Tampa Bay Lightning celebrate their 2-1 to win of...
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Midway through this season, it didn't seem the Lightning would, either. After getting off to a 7-0-1 start, the Lightning floundered were only a game above .500 at the holidays before finishing strong.
Brad Richards, chosen as the playoffs MVP, epitomized the turnaround. He had only four goals by Christmas before finishing with 26 goals and 79 points, then had a record seven game-winning goals among his 12 postseason goals.
"It seemed like all of our top players went in a slump. I thought the world was falling apart. But I went home for Christmas for the first time in six or seven years ... it was only for 24 hours, but it made me realize how fortunate I am to be in the NHL."
Lightning captain Dave Andreychuk does, too. After playing 22 seasons without a championship - just as Ray Bourque did in 2001 - he was finally handed the Stanley Cup for the first time.
His first thought when he lifted it?
(AP) Tampa Bay Lightning fans celebrate outside the St. Pete Times arena after the Lightning defeated...
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"Not falling, not dropping it," he said, laughing.
Not a chance. ^
Notes:
Lightning owner Bill Davidson can pull off a previously unseen single-season sweep of the NBA and NHL titles. His Detroit Pistons lead the Lakers 1-0 in the NBA Finals. ... Khabibulin's best save during the Flames' surge came against Jordan Leopold with the net nearly wide open. ... Home teams are 11-2 in finals Game 7s and 10-1 since 1950, with only the 1971 Montreal Canadiens winning on the road in the last 54 years. ... The Lightning missed the playoffs for six straight seasons before making them last season, when Stanley Cup champion New Jersey eliminated them in the conference semifinals. ... The Flames would have been the first Stanley Cup champion with a losing home record (5-7). ... The Lightning also ended their record 13-game streak of alternating winning and losing.
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i think one of those lil guys is foad ...hehahaaa
in my opinion, the Flames had that game won in game six with the goal the blind claim wasn't a goal...sure was on my tv....and the penalties were far from being called fairly...my opinion of course.... [img]graemlins/hmmm.gif[/img]
I watched the Tampa players thank their families back home in Canada..... [img]graemlins/whatever.gif[/img]
I do have to say I agree with red....
it was a goal on my tv too....
but hey shit happens......
just glad the cup stayed south of the border [img]wink.gif[/img]
...south of the border, north of the border...I liked Calgary cuz they were the underdogs...I'm a big fan of the underdog...I heard somewhere during that series, that 19 of the players on Tampa were Canadians and 15 on the Calgary team were...in any case...shit did happen...still don't mean I gotta be happy bout it though, and someone very near and dear to me, tells me that that makes me a whiner [img]wink.gif[/img]
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