Oilers or Hurricanes?

Considering, in my opinion, that professional hockey has no place below the Mason-Dixon line, I'm pulling for the Oilers. As far as I'm concerned, the Hurricanes are still the Hartford Whalers in bad uniforms on a 10-year road stretch.

Great line!

:patriot:

Oh . . .wait . . . :blush:

i'm split between rooting for edmonton because then we'd have been beaten by the champs, or rooting against them because, well, they're edmonton :D

Someone give me a reason to root for either of them.

better than they have all year long to get there!

all in good fun of course;)

We are stealing the national pastime of canada. And we are doing it for fun and profit. So I must root for Edmonton. Let them hoist the cup.

Southern hockey

Underdog factor. Not that the Hurricanes were picked to even make the playoffs before the year started.

This is 2 finals appearances in 4 actual years for the Canes though, so I don't know about any of that Whale talk.

hockey in North Carolina to sustain the team. At least, that is what I heard.

standing room only........

GO CANES!!!!!!!!!




Edit to add: I've got tickets to tonights game! :bounce: :bounce:

and 5 (IF necessary).......

WOOOO-HOOOOOOOO

:woohoo:

:D

for all those loyal band-wagoners. Yeah, Raleigh, NC... Hockeytown, USA!!!! :sarcasm:

after game 7 with Buffalo.

Except for the tickets that Ticketmaster had "held back" - and released sometime last night - it was sold out for seats - though I hear there are still a handful of $250 standing room only spots left.

We've been Caniacs since they got here.

Hey - you can :sarcasm: all you want - WE'RE going to the STANLEY CUP! (for the 2nd time in 3 seasons.)

Canes win the 1st one.

OMG - what a game. It was a very lackluster 1st period. (and the ref'ing totally sucked. as usual.) The 2nd period was "ok" but still nothing to get really excited about.

But the 3rd period! Non-stop bedlam. The decible meter was registering 126.. incredible. Incroyable.

Awesome, baby.

GO CANES!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm told Roloson is out for the series. :o

Even so, I hope it stays exciting and is dragged out to 7 games - I dread having to wait 3 months for hockey to begin again.

You should go to Wednesday nights game too, should be plenty of tickets left.

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- but with Roloson out I'm wondering if it'll take that long!

I'm sorry the guy's hurt. I hate that to happen to anyone. But man - they should have been giving their backup goalies *some* playing time, doncha think?

I seriously doubt there'll be any tickets left. (Except the ones the NHL "holds back" for some unknown reason.) There's no way we can afford to go to two more games - heck we couldn't afford the ones we got - but hubby's all - "but HONEY - it's the Stanley Cup!" Poor baby didn't get to go after all - he was on a plane and didn't get to see the game anyways. :(

Oh well. The boys and I had fun! Fun! FUN!!!!

Woooo - Hooo!!!

he didn't have to be so aggressive, so it wasn't a cheese play.

Ticket prices are ridiculous aren't they... I can only imagine.

and as much as I'd love to win the Cup - I hate that they've lost their "good goalie" - because now people will say that's the *only reason* we won (if we do.) Of course, this could give their rookie goalies the boost they need to get it in gear. I've seen it happen before.

Adversity gives your team that little je ne sais quois (sp? - I can't remember anymore - too many languages!)

I am SO relieved, however, that NO ONE can *say* that our guy deliberately took their goalie out - it was clearly Bergeron's play that caused the injury.

The nose bleed tickets are about 10 times what we usually pay. :(

They always do in the finals. If they don't use all of them, they will release those they don't use to the public the day of the game. The Canes are holding a few also for anyone who wants to put a deposit down on next season's season tickets. Those they don't sell by that method they will release also. Otherwise, the series is sold out except for standing room only.

Because the Hurricanes unfairly kicked my Devils' butts :evilgrin:.

...geeze, since Stephen Harper was in high school.

Oilers, baby!

stereotypes. They're on a roll. Anyway, sorry about Roloson. If my Canes win, it seems it will take away from it a bit.

...geeze, since Stephen Harper was in high school.

Oilers, baby!

Sorry, but I hate Edmonton.

This is a terrible playoff, IMHO; I'm a bluejackets fan first, so that's out. I'm also a Red Wings fan so that's out, too. Then I rooted for the Sabres, but, again, that's out.

It just seems like an anticlimactic Stanley Cup, but we'll see.

Either way, that was a GREAT game last night.

percent. :hi:

it annoys me that nobody outside that arena cares about hockey - and I'm not dissing Southerners. They're not into hockey. So why are they there? :mad:

I'm not dissing Southern Californians, but why are the Kings there?

same goes for the Ducks.

Let's see how enthusiastic the fans in Raleigh-Durham are when the Canes hit a slump.

turning a profit. I'm a season ticket holder and have been through good and bad. My nephew plays here in Raleigh and is on a traveling squad that plays across north America. Hockey has a foothold here. Surf's up.;-)

And there you have it.

Small world. As far as the Canes go, they aren't in financial trouble. However, management doesn't always make the best decisions, especially the massive price escalation from the first two rounds to the second two rounds. While we expect them to escalate round to round, they tripled. That's greed for you.

I'll start watching the NHL again when they bring back the Norris division and Wales conference, etc, etc...

:)

Seriously I'm still a hockey fan in theory but just haven't followed it in years for a few reasons, the last expansion and reorganization in NBA style did contribute a bit to that lack of effort on my part to keep up.

And no it's not just naive nostalgia that's not my style (I supported building a new Boston Garden for example) but there is something to be said about tradition and culture when it comes to the NHL. Not everything needs to be mass marketed to be good...but then I guess that's anti-capitalist of me. :)

:D

DEAL WITH IT.

Go Canes!

of Northern aggression. Go 'Canes!:toast: :yourock: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn:

Rod Brind'Amour gladly accepted on behalf of the Hurricanes organization.

I thought the goalie was supposed to be in front of the net.

the trapezoid.

hockey fans are hockey fans whether they hail from Thunder Bay or Tampa Bay.

My team needs to make some trades this summer. I hope Shanahan is one they trade away.

Age?

haven't paid much attention to him this season though, i'm assuming he didn't do to well?

on that 'displaced Hartford Whalers' thing (hell, i still sometimes think of Dallas as Minnesota and Colorado as Quebec)....that being said, i could NEVER pull for any team from the state of North Carolina

Like we care. No amount of insults can take away the Cup if we win it.

over Buffalo.

Like the Dallas Stars used to be Minnesota. Many other examples. Anyway, I believe the day we won the Eastern Conference championship was the first day of hurricane season (for real).

Though I think Gordie Howe played for them in the early to mid 80's. I think he was near 60 at the time!

They were the only major professional team that CT has had.

at a somewhat advanced age, but I think he was there mainly for drawing in fans given his somewhat legendary status. I'm sorry Hartford lost them, but I hear they have another team, just not at the NHL level. I'm happy they are here though. Our family has seen alot of memorable hockey moments.

they'll be a riot in Edmonton.

If the Oilers win, they'll be a riot in Edmonton.

Hmmm...:dilemma:

of "what if the Flyers had kept that player?"s. But I can't really root for Edmonton, so I guess I'm neutral.

Brind'Amour and Williams and Recchi for old times sake. Besides, you're in the east.

I actually have to be attached to the players to avoid the old Philadelphia "what if."

cup run?

he was a jerk around the penguins locker room, and was jealous of all the attention #87 was getting. it's not like recchi was putting up comparable numbers, so i didn't want to hear him complain.

I'd have to go with oilers. Yeah, hurricanes can bring destruction, but it is localized and on a relatively small scale. Oilers, on the other hand, destroy the entire planet.

In other words, YAY FOR HURRICANES, BOO FOR OILERS!!!1

'Cause that's the state I'm moving to this summer.

more good democrats.:bounce: :toast: :pals: :yourock: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :patriot: :patriot: :patriot: :patriot:

'Cause thats where I'm moving to whenever my house gets sold.

I miss him in Philly.

Any questions?

Go CANES!

Kinda fun having hockey to unite all of us triangle folks who normally can't sit down and watch a game together w/o having people rooting rabidly for their respective teams! :hi:

If Edmonton can rebound and drag this out it would be great, the thought of having to wait 3 months for hockey to start again is too frightening to think about. However, if tonight's game is any indication, forget about it. Great game for the Canes though. :shrug:

for three periods this time. I knew the team was mad about how they played in game one. They stayed in Edmonton's passing lanes all night. Also, the Oilers were out of position nearly the whole game. They were overskating plays and other times, someone would move to cover the point while they were on defense leaving the slot open which the Canes exploited. This was easier to sit through. Commissioner Bettman was sitting one row down to my left. Also, Chris Berman was at the game, Kid Rock was there, Steve Smith of the Panthers, and a few others that escape me at the moment.

Go Canes! We're two away now.

Now there's some good company. :sarcasm:


I'm just busting chops :silly:

I know what you mean. Just mentioning names that were present. You can't always choose who shows up.;-)

between a SWEEP -

and the fact that we have Game 5 tickets.


Of course, if Edmonton doesn't play any better than they did last night - I don't think we'll have to worry about Game 5.

Go OILERS!

It's not Florida.

We get "so much snow" - the entire place just shuts down when we get it.

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really get GOING after last night's dismal performance. :(

Heck, it was a hockey clinic put on by the Canes. Even the announcers - who don't like the Hurricanes - said the Canes played just about a perfect game in every aspect - and that the Oilers played perfectly awful.