Month: May 2023

Florida and Seattle Win First

FLA 4 – TOR 2, The Maple Leafs suffer a bloody loss at home in the opening game of the second round as the Panthers claw their way to a victory, quite literally as Mr. O’Reilly’s head wound will attest to.

Toronto needs to score, bottom line, no if, ands, or buts about it as Florida’s netminder Mr. Bobrovsky is playing at the top of his game so the big guns for Toronto need to find the twine.

SEA 5 – DAL 4 OT, In the first game between Dallas and Seattle in the first period they combined for six goals on 23 SOG with the Kraken taking a two-goal lead, incredibly the Stars’ Mr. Pavelski scores all four of his team’s goals in a valiant effort.

The Kraken outshot and nearly outhit the Stars by a 3-to-1 ratio, all nine goals scored in the game were even strength as both goaltenders played well beneath their usual save percentage.

New Jersey and Edmonton hit the road in an attempt to duplicate the opening road victories from last night as the Hurricanes and Knights defend home ice.

Second Schmid Shutout

NJD 4 – NYR 0, The New Jersey Devils earned home-ice advantage for the opening round and the seven-game series with the New York Rangers was everything fans could hope for as one team for three games crushes the other offensively while the other team for three games suffocates the other defensively.

Game Seven went to HC Ruff and his overall defensive style supported by two shutouts from an AHL/NHL starter/backup goaltender, a defenseman referred to as the “old man”, Mr. Hughes and Mr. Hischier racking up points and the Rangers scoring twice in four of the games.  

Tonight’s opening of the Conference Semi-Finals highlights a strong offensive Toronto team hosting the current surprise of the playoffs in Florida a team that stunned the “greatest regular season NHL team in history”.

The Stars at night are big and bright, (clap, clap, clap) deep in the heart of Texas, or so they sing as Seattle visits Dallas tonight to open the second round as the Conference’s second-seeded team hosts the top Western wild card team.

The Bruins and Avalanche are excused

Nothing is etched into ice forever and the greatest team in NHL regular season history just got bounced in the first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs by the second-seeded wild card team from their Conference.

When the number one team in the entire NHL won game four and took a 3-1 series lead in the opening round of the playoffs only the most maniacal fan could believe that Florida would win three straight and eliminate Boston.

With Boston and Colorado both dropping the puck and not advancing we now for the first time in years have a Stanley Cup that is literally up for grabs, fans and players from each team remaining now have a legitimate reason to believe they can win.

Scoring twice and having one called back for being offsides was not enough Avalanche offense to defeat the two goals that did count for the Kraken and the Panthers literally 60 seconds from elimination tie the game in the third period then win it in overtime.

FLA 4 – BOS 3 OT and SEA 2 – COL 1

One series remains and Game Seven is tonight at eight in New Jersey as the Rangers must win on the road to advance, who will be in the net for the Devils, and can the top guns in New York score five goals?