NHL Playoffs 2016 Thread

[kham]

Solid work by San Jose, and a lot of mediocre play by St Louis, results in a 3-0 San Jose win. No knucklehead stuff. San Jose leads the series now 2-1

[kham]

Tonight's Game:

Pittsburgh @ Tampa Bay 2000

[kham]

After going out to a 4-0 Zebra-assisted lead, Tampa barely clings to a 4-3 win to even the series. If it wasnt for douchebaggery AGAIN by the fucking retard brigade, this would have been a Pittsburgh win. The bigger news, is that Fleury came back for the entire third period, and was pretty damn good. So the only question is who plays in net next. Me, its a no-brainer. Fleury

[kham]

Tonight's Game:

St Louis @ San Jose 1915

[kham]

St Louis wins 6-3 in a rather sloppy mess of a game. It had been 4-0 in the third, so... make of that as you will. San Jose basically, did what I always call the classic Game 4 mistake: Up 2-1 in the series, at home, probably feeling pretty cocky. You Get SLOPPY. And the other team, which knows fucking well to go down 3-1 in the series is a death sentence, is pretty up for the game. And they get to even things up. Back to St Louis for game five , tied

[kham]

Pitt lets Tampa off the hook; despite being up 2-0 and then 3-2, they fell into the trap that every team gets into. Laying back and trying to just play the clock. It never works. Trust me, after watching the Leafs for 40 year (especially in the Dark Times of the 80s..) its FAIL
Early goal in OT and Tampa takes the win

Tampa up 3-2 now

[kham]

6-3 final for San Jose tonight; a lot closer really, 2 empty net goals are meaningless numbers. St Louis might have won this but not for undisciplined retardation, starting a fight in corner and ignoring your own guy at point getting a clean shot and scoring. It's split seconds, sure, but the whistle wouldnt have gone unless you , dumbass , hadn't dropped the gloves in the offensive zone while you had the puck. I think I mention something about that to kids in pee wee hockey

[kham]

Pittsburgh wins 5-2. It wasn't that good for Tampa. One of their goals was literally an own goal by Pitt, tipped in by Kessel. But superhuman play by Crosby (1 v 5 to steal puck and score, what turned out to be the game winner) Kessel had one to atone , and a awesome breakaway goal by Rust to close it out. Empty net as well, but thats embroidery

Game Seven for all the marbles now

[kham]

San Jose wins 5-2 to take the series 4-2 and advance to the Stanley Cup final. For an elimination game, St Louis looked like they were better off doing their fucking emails. Not scoring your first goal before just over 5 minutes to go in the game tends to make anything else just a fucking waste of time. And playing lets-pretend you had a chance? Piss off. You should have played that way in the first period. Any further whining from them tastes like candy

[kham]

YOU LOSE BITCHES
Despite multiple assists, including playing defence for Tampa, the fucking Zebras fail
Pittsburgh wins the game 2-1 and the series 4-3. The score close but the game wasn't as much. They outshot and outhustled Tampa all night. The stupid retard moment of the night, had to be having fucking Stamkos dress AND play. Now, Don Cherry addressed this: if he is ok to play, what the hell was different 2 days ago?? Plus, recovering from a blood clot? OK. That is BAD. And I aint speaking fucking hypothetically. You are on serious blood thinners for a while, and ideally if you can take it, get switched to newer, safer ones. Which you on for the rest of your life. And the serious ones? A shaving cut can be bad. Like, not stopping bleeding bad. If Stamkos had got cut bad, it could have been fatal. Pretty dumb move

And if anyone deserves to go, it's this guy

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Blamed for everything in Toronto, this year has been the definition of redemption
Nice work Phil. Now, get some more