Game Five is exactly five hours away. I've waited until now to talk about it for fear of jinxing it.
This is the sixth time Detroit has been to the Stanley Cup finals in the last fourteen years...four times, they've won it easily. Tonight is the closest thing to a "must-win" they've faced since Game Three in New Jersey in 1995...which they lost en route to being swept by the Devils. Finally, they're being pressured. Now to see how they'll respond.
Make no mistake, The Penguins aren't gonna break them. But if they can bend them just enough, when they drive that Cup up into the Igloo on Tuesday night, it'll be the home team with a chance to hoist it.
Go Pens.
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I am seriously in pain right now. Close to tears. I want to break Hossa's legs....
3 minutes left. Down by 5 goals. And we're shorthanded. Let's take this show back to the Igloo and even it for for Game 7. An outing this shitty can only result in 2 games of stellar play from the beloved Pens. Flower had a tough night...along with about 20 other Penguins. Game 6 to prove our "Mettle"...just like the Stillers! Let's Go Pens!!
wow... that was shocking...
I have to say, it's a little eerie - you wait until exactly 5 hours before the game starts to avoid jinxing it and they lose 5-0.
Hopefully the Pens will win game 6!
Oh great, now it's MY fault.
"I am seriously in pain right now. Close to tears. I want to break Hossa's legs...."
as classy as talbot's slash to datsyuk's foot (when the puck was 8 feet away).
guys, you're better than that, i believe it. don't go out like chumps. come and play and let the best team win.
oh, and hossa? he spent what, 20 games with you guys and you're screaming traitor? that's ridiculous. sour grapes at him thinking another team could win it. that's really all there is too it.
Marian Hossa might be a good hockey player, but he's a pathetic cunt of a man. In the ultimate team sport, he's the ultimate me guy. I want to win a Stanley Cup, but I know that I will never get the job done if it's all resting on my shoulders. So I will jump on whatever bandwagon I need to to make sure it happens.
Also, Adam, I think you make a little too little of the team paradigm. If you've ever been part of a team (even at work, etc.), you know what I'm talking about. I played in an inline hockey league league a few years ago with a couple friends and a bunch more strangers...we started out really shitty, then managed to win a few games going into the playoffs and eventually won the league. We played maybe 26 games total over three months, but I still keep in contact with probably half those guys, and when we were playing, I would've gone to the wall for any one of 'em. You don't turn your back on that and join the very team that just beat you unless you're a selfish, gutless piece of shit with no heart. I'd take one Sidney Crosby over a whole team of Marian Hossas any day of the week, cause Sid's a teammate, and Marian's just a me-first, team-second bitch. I can't wait for the day you realize this.
I know it's considered bad luck to wish ill on someone, but I once read an interview with Drew Carey where said he wished John Elway would get cancer of the dick...and he went on to host the Price is Right! Just sayin'.
Adam.
Agreed...I hate to be a sore loser...but the Pens haven't lost yet! I can't fucking stand Hossa for all the reasons Robert listed. It's the same reason hockey is the greatest team sport of all sports. Play is constant, dynamic, moving, everyone MUST be on the same page all the time. Seems to me the Steelers probably aren't the most TALENTED team in the NFL...but they won the Superbowl due to TEAMWORK (i.e. recievers blocking and hitting like linebackers). Pens are a team that you pull for because they bleed for each other. That said...I would still love to see Hossa break a leg. :P
I'm a Kings fan and I'm rooting for the Penguins. Go Penguins! You can do it!
hossa is a hired gun and his ethics were tossed out the window when he jumped ship after the playoffs last year. it might be different if he had simply gone to the highest bidder or had been traded but he took less money just to be with the team he deemed most likely to win. wanting to win is good when there are 20 guys pulling in the same direction. hossa is trying to get his ring by standing on the shoulders of giants. in hockey, that makes you a punk, selfish, and a worthless teammate
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