I heard a story from my manager tonight about a guy visiting Glendale watching sports fans paying the seven bucks to get into the Phoenix game, loading up on the promo food and then leaving to go watch the NFL ( or is it the baseball stadium?) next door, carrying armloads of swag.
Honestly, Bettman and his expansions haven't really amounted to much, not counting Minnesota and Columbus. Atlanta, Nashville, and Tampa all come to mind.
edit: also, TSN released a pretty interesting poll on the dirtiest players in the league
double edit: I realize Tampa has been around longer than Gary, my bad
Luongo looked human in the third period of the series opener. And Vancouver fans have an annoying habit of doing that every game. Credit Chicago, however. Not all of the goals against were completely his fault. Like the short handed go-ahead goal for the Hawks. I can see a coach pissing his pants when you lose the lead, with a shorty, in the second round of the playoffs.
Chippy game, though.
5-3 may be my best opening round prediction total in the four plus years I've been here.
I totally missed both games tonight, but the highlights were mighty interesting.
Good on Carolina. New Jersey irks me so much because, much like their evil Western counterparts Detroit, of the fact that they're such well run organizations when it comes to pretty much, well everything. I guess I find it tiresome seeing both teams in the playoffs each year, in spite of them both being totally deserving of it.
The second round match ups look pretty interesting as well:
Carolina at Boston : Don't know if it's the old school Whalers fan in me that wants to root for the 'Canes, but I'm still picking Boston in five. Hope I'm wrong. Chara is amazingly incredible.
Pittsburgh at Washington: This is going to be a crazy good series to watch. Ovechkin vs Malkin. Crosby versus everyone else. Pittsburgh has the edge in experience, but aside from that I can see this being pretty even. Coin toss says...Pens in seven.
Anaheim at Detroit: Don't really care who wins this series, so I'll say Ducks in six. I get the feeling whoever wins this one goes to the finals. Although my prediction for Pronger getting suspended didn't happen, it'd be cool if it happened this round.
Chcago at Vancouver: A couple of late season extremely chippy games between these two have me excited to tune in. Chicago will come out strong, but I see the Canucks winning in seven. In Mats I trust. Next year will be the 'Hawks time to shine.
I stopped watching Monday night halfway through and just finished the last episode.
Nathan's dialouge at the end of the episode was bad. Like really bad.
From the previews for next week it looks like someone is not going to be around for season four. Unless I'm pretty wowed by the finale, I'm not sure I'll be.