NHL Hockey thread

[Valmy]

I just cannot seem to get into it this year. I have tried to watch a couple Caps games but it is just not getting into my blood as usual. Maybe it is the inevitability of it all. I cannot even delude myself into thinking this might be the year anymore.

[Barrister]

I just cannot seem to get into it this year. I have tried to watch a couple Caps games but it is just not getting into my blood as usual. Maybe it is the inevitability of it all. I cannot even delude myself into thinking this might be the year anymore.

Why not?  Caps are having a good year, have already guaranteed themselves a playoff spot.  Barry Trotz has them playing extremely well.  Plus of course once you get into the playoffs you never know what might happen.

YOUR Winnipeg Jets now sit with 94 points, and in the 2nd wildcard position.  Three games left - St Louis, Colorado, and Calgary.  With them being only one point up on Calgary that final game looks to be huge...

[Valmy]

Plus of course once you get into the playoffs you never know what might happen.

Well that's the thing...I do kind of know.

[Barrister]

Plus of course once you get into the playoffs you never know what might happen.

Well that's the thing...I do kind of know.

Not under Trotz you don't.

[Barrister]

Holy shit - Jets pull off back to back shut out wins against Minnesota and St Louis.   

With the Kings losing to the Oilers the Jets have to win one of either of their next two games against Colorado and the Flames to guarantee themselves a spot in the playoffs.

[PRC]

Flames will beat the Kings on Thursday and the Jets in the last game.  Jets will have to do it against Colorado.

[Barrister]

Flames will beat the Kings on Thursday and the Jets in the last game.  Jets will have to do it against Colorado.

If the Flames beat the Kings, that ends matters.  The Kings are out.

Which is almost too bad - I had plans to go watch the game with my brother-in-law on Saturday (who is a huge Flames fan).  Wouldn't be as much fun if the game is meaningless.

Not that I care as long as the Jets are in the playoffs...   Here comes the Whiteout...

[crazy canuck]

Yesterday I was in a meeting with a client and they mentioned the great game on Monday night.  We went on talking about it for a few minutes when it became obvious to both of us that they were not talking about the most important game that night - the NCAA final - but some game related to trying to make the NHL playoffs.

[Grey Fox]

While the NCAA final was a great game. It was not important.

[Barrister]

Yesterday I was in a meeting with a client and they mentioned the great game on Monday night.  We went on talking about it for a few minutes when it became obvious to both of us that they were not talking about the most important game that night - the NCAA final - but some game related to trying to make the NHL playoffs.

Presumably the Canucks - Kings game which went to a shootout.  Hell I even mentioned that game several posts ago, as I watched it once Jets-Wild was over.

And remember the significance of the Jets making the playoffs (which they haven't done quite yet) - this will be the first NHL playoff game in Winnipeg in nineteen years.  The Jets 1.0 went out in the playoffs - losing 4 game to 2 against Detroit.  Making it back into the playoffs is the last, final step in the "return of the Jets" saga.

[Barrister]

While the NCAA final was a great game. It was not important.

So did Kentucky win that game or what?

[Grey Fox]

No, the great evil of UK was defeated in the Semi-Final.

Sadly the Champions of Man, Wisconsin was defeated by the greatest of evil, Duke.

[Jaron]

Kings are out! Flames and Jets in!

Sharks though... Oh well. That team has some soul searching to do.

[Grey Fox]

Congrats Atlanta, both your franchises clinched playoffs spots on the same night!

[Barrister]

Last night was a good night.