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One More Reminder That The Playoffs Suck

by IwoCPO on 05/27/07 at 07:46 PM ET
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Having a nifty holiday weekend.  Looking forward to going into DC tomorrow and actually visiting the memorials of some fallen heroes.  It is, after all, Memorial Day, in case some of us have forgotten that.

But that’s not my point tonite.  Nope.  As stated, the weekend was going well until an A2Y reader sent met this article...and now I wouldn’t mind throwing up in mass quantities.  Overall, it’s not a bad read.  But a few lines stick out that make me curdle.

Here’s one:
Ross McKeon

When Scott Niedermayer hoists the Stanley Cup following Game 5 a week from Wednesday night, it will culminate what was almost predestined with the events of last July 3.

Don’t like Niedermayer that much.  Not at all.  Good player, not up to Lidstrom’s level of course, but good.  But I certainly hold no fondness for him after we saw a little whine, and a lot of stickwork.

But that’s not the real clincher that this article’s a full-on vomit inducer. 

Anaheim will be the first team in the Pacific time zone to win the Cup since it was awarded to the Victoria Cougars of the Western Hockey League for their 1925 conquest of the Montreal Canadiens.

California will boast an NHL champion for the first time.

It’s not that I dislike Anaheim, necessarily.  I despise Perry and Pronger disgusts me.  Not so much for his role in defeating the Wings, but in how he left Edmonton the year before.  But, they’re not the real issue here.  The core of it goes back to The Kick To The Groin and that Fluttering Puck From The Gates Of Hell.  Anaheim played well enough to win, but did they deserve it?  One week later and I still can’t get past that game-tying goal. 

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Okay, two things:

1.  “...a bushel of riches...” for Pronger?  Whatever.

2.  What the frack is a “shinny silver challis?” How can you misspell simple words so close together and call yourself a professional writer?  Maybe “chalice” is a somewhat uncommon word, but “shiny” can even be spelled by a chimp pounding on a typewriter.  Oy vey.

(Enjoy the trip to DC.  I haven’t seen the Vietnam Vets memorial yet, but my parents were really struck by it--more so because they didn’t find the names of some of my Dad’s friends that he lost touch with since then.)

Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 05/27/07 at 07:14 PM ET

Ironically, that last pacific coast team to win the cup, the Victoria Cougars in 1926 were sold by the Pacific Coast Hockey League to the National Hockey League and placed in Detroit.  They opened the 1926-27 season as the Detroit Cougars (even though they played in Windsor) and the rest is history.

Bonus fact:  That Stanley Cup victory in 1926 is not recognized by the NHL as one of Detroit’s ten championships, even though it was the same franchise and same group of players who were located to Detroit.

Posted by John the Red Wings Fan from East Lansing, MI on 05/27/07 at 07:31 PM ET

Fluttering puck over Doms shoulder...the memory and the thought of it still hurts. I will root against the lucky ducks. Losing made Cheli so sick he wanted to vomit. I can relate.

Posted by jpoke on 05/27/07 at 07:54 PM ET

Bonus fact:  That Stanley Cup victory in 1926 is not recognized by the NHL as one of Detroit’s ten championships, even though it was the same franchise and same group of players who were located to Detroit.

I hate to nit-pick (okay, not really) but that’s not entirely true.

The Detroit NHL franchise was never in Victoria.  The players for the original Detroit Cougars were transferred from the Victoria Cougars because the Detroit team bought their rights as the WHL closed shop.  The players from the Portland Rosebuds were bought by the Chicago Black Hawks.

Same players, not the same franchise.  Similar to how the Montreal Canadiens have been around in various forms since 1909 but the franchise has only existed since 1917, when the NHL was formed and the first franchises were issued.

Posted by Clark on 05/27/07 at 08:33 PM ET

Ah ha...I stand corrected.

Clearly I am bitter about the fact the NHL isn’t throwing Stanley Cups at the Red Wings left and right.  haha.

Posted by John the Red Wings Fan from East Lansing, MI on 05/27/07 at 08:53 PM ET

He’s delusional if he thinks the Ducks will win this series in 5 games.

Has he watched Ottawa play at all in the post-season? This team reminds me of the Wings in 1997–hungry and determined after a series of playoff disappointments. Sens in 6 (and I think I’m being generous here)

Posted by Arthur2sheds from Toronto on 05/28/07 at 03:47 PM ET

The players from the Portland Rosebuds were bought by the Chicago Black Hawks.

I’m just laughing that a hockey team was ever called the “Rosebuds.” Probably the only case where pink uniforms could have arguably been appropriate.

Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 05/29/07 at 09:02 AM ET

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