I know we're not supposed to do this here, but i can't stand stupidity, ignorance and hypocrisy and blind homers... Buff, dude, you need to stop beleiving every word out of Lindy's mouth. Every team is gonna goon when they're getting pounded in a 7-game series. Credit Buffalo, they handled game two perfectly by scoring more. As for Being "stabbed", even Dumont says it wasn't how Gauthier hit him, it was just bad luck where he hit him... previous surgery. Lindy has a different take, but like i said, that's Lindy being Lindy. He's a saint, never would have a dirty player on his team, blah, blah, blah. And as for the crowd, go back to game one, remember Campbell's hit on Umberger? Gorgeous hit... Deserves a cheer, but remember how the crowd cheered and cheered and kept cheering even while Umberger sat on the ice doing a Howdy Doody impersonation? Nope, you probably don't. But i bet you remember a skate in the crease. Sabres in 5.
...Deserves a cheer, but remember how the crowd cheered and cheered and kept cheering even while Umberger sat on the ice doing a Howdy Doody impersonation? To be fair, SummersEve, they kept cheering because a brawl started at the other end immediately afterward, and just because Umberger didn't get up immediately didn't mean he was actually hurt. Remember, this is Buffalo we're talking about. They remember Clint Malarchuk. Once they realized Umberger was actually hurt, they got behind him and gave him a good hand as he was helped off. Buffalo fans are not that kind of vulture. (If the jerseys and cities were switched, you know things would be different.)
To be fair, SummersEve, they kept cheering because a brawl started at the other end immediately afterward, and just because Umberger didn't get up immediately didn't mean he was actually hurt. Chico, i don't mean to say [all] Buffalo fans are vultures.... Or at least any more than the rest of us... And even Campbell said the replay and the re-replay and the re-re-replay were classless. And fans were cheering while it was pretty obvious he was in another dimension. I would have cheered that hit too, but i can't stand fanboy pounding his virtuous chest touting his wonderful classy fans and his wonderful classy coach and his pure team who would never play dirty (Barnaby) or cheer like idiots unlike those nasty Philadelphians. It's playoff hockey. We're all idiots.
How are we supposed to know he was hurt right away? If we knew that we wouldn't have cheered. But there are two differences, the Philly fans cheer on cheap shots when sabres fans cheer on good clean hits. Thats a big difference right there. And I don't agree with Lindy on everything hes wrong most of the time and does overreact this is my own opinion on a rival most in Buffalo have hated over the years not just me. At least here in Buffalo we have 4 lines of players that can score not 1. Hey at least Buffalo has won something in the last what 30 years? There is no website all about why Philly sucks. Oh and we're not all idiots. The fans that cheer injuries on like Philly, those are you're idiots of playoff hockey. Like I said Sabres in 5.
my link didnt post right so the link for the website i described is below. www.phillysucks.com
Holy homer, dude. Relax. Saying "at least my team has four good lines" is not really much of a counterargument.
There is no website all about why Philly sucks. Uh... Of course. The fans that cheer injuries on like Philly, those are you're idiots of playoff hockey. Oh, yeah... Right. How silly of me. this is my own opinion on a rival most in Buffalo have hated over the years not just me. Absolutely brilliant. I'm speechless.
I hate the Flyers too, but dammit Buffaloians (Buffaloans?) get a big head quick. Be honest - you're as surprised by this team's success as the rest of us. Better wait and see if they're not an aberration before you start gloating. And how can they beat a New Jersey or Ottawa? I think you're a one round wonder. (thankfully, I also hate the Flyers.)
...get a big head quick... and people say Cherry doesn't know what he is talking about.
Thursday night's favorite rookie - Ryan Getzlaf. Holy crap, can this guy play! I didn't watch the whole game, but Getzlaf was impressive.
Getzlaf did look impressive. He has some definite speed and beat the Kipper clean. Not a lot of guys can say that.
Well, the cat's out of the bag for next year's fantasy league. I had him lined up as a sleeper pick.
I guess we aren't the only ones who noticed.
"My friends better be cheering for me," said Getzlaf, unaware of the whereabouts of the puck commemorating his milestone moment. Yeah, because if he had any friends on the team, they would have got that puck for him. (joking) It is a shame he doesn't have that puck though.
This is not the first story I've seen where a rookie's playoff first puck hasn't been saved for posterity, apparently for reasons of keeping the focus on the team. Which I can understand, but is still kind of a bummer. Let the kid have his puck.
After all, you can only score your first playoff goal once. Scott Gomez wasted no time grabbing the puck for Zach Parise on Wednesday. Yeah Zack! Speaking of the Devils, the ever so pessimistic Stan Fischler reminds us it takes four wins to win a series.
