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SoonerStormchaser
5/20/2008, 06:45 AM
:pop:

Boomer.....
5/20/2008, 10:11 AM
Penguins in 5. They are looking really tough.

SteelCitySooner
5/20/2008, 10:24 AM
Pens in 6.. Toughest challenge either team has yet seen. But I think the Pens will be too much. Crosby, Hossa, Malkin, Staal, Malone.. lots of offensive firepower Detroit has to stop. Plus Pens' D is better than most people think.

GrapevineSooner
5/20/2008, 01:04 PM
Detroit has a lot of offensive firepower to stop as well.

And they won the President's Trophy.

SteelCitySooner
5/20/2008, 03:31 PM
Yes, Detroit does have very explosive offensive talent -- though they are known more for their defensive game.

The only thing I am sure of...it's going to be a hell of an exciting series! I think if Pen's win it, it has to be in 6. I am not confident Pen's can win a game 7 on at the Joe.

SoonerStormchaser
5/20/2008, 03:32 PM
While I think the Western Conference is far tougher than the East, I still gotta take the youth and fire of the Pens over the gritty toughness of the Wings.

Pens in 7

HoserSooner
5/23/2008, 03:06 PM
If Gary Robert's dresses/is healthy, this sucker is over before it heads back to Pittsburg for Game 6.

SteelCitySooner
5/23/2008, 03:43 PM
>- The chief export of Gary Roberts is pain.
>
>- There is no theory of evolution. Just a list of animals Gary Roberts
>allows to live.
>
>- Gary Roberts is the reason why Waldo is hiding.
>
>- Gary Roberts invented black. In fact, he invented the entire spectrum
>of visible light. Except pink.
>
>- When Gary Roberts is in a crowded area, he doesn't walk around people.
>He walks through them.
>
>- If Gary Roberts were a calendar, every month would be named
>Garytober, and every day he'd kick your ***.
>
>- What's known as UFC, or Ultimate Fighting Championship, doesn't use
>it's full name, which happens to be "Ultimate Fighting Championship,
>Non-Gary-Roberts-Division."
>
>- When Gary Roberts falls in water, he doesn't get wet. Water gets Gary
>Roberts.
>
>- Gary Roberts did not go the prom. He put the prom on his back and
>took it to the girl.
>
>- Gary Roberts CAN believe it's not butter.
>
>- The grass is always greener on the other side. That is, unless Gary
>Roberts has been on the other side. In that case, the grass is most
>likely the color of blood and tears.
>
>- Wilt Chamberlain once claimed to have slept with over 20,000 women
>during his career. Gary Roberts calls this "Wednesday".
>
>- Gary Roberts ordered a Big Mac at Burger King. And he got one.
>
>- Gary Roberts can slam a revolving door.
>
>- Gary Roberts does not heal, he regenerates.
>
>- Gary Roberts does not think he is tough. Tough thinks it is Gary Roberts.
>
>- Gary Roberts does not shoot the puck. The puck seeks to escape Gary
>as fast as possible to the relative safety of the net.
>
>- Gary Roberts does not get into fights. Players headbutt Garys fists
>in hopes that some of his greatness will rub off on them.
>
>- Gary Roberts does not have a gym membership. The gym has a Gary
>Roberts membership.
>
>- Georges Laraque named his fists Gary and Roberts.
>
>- Every day, Gary Roberts meditates for one hour. This is the only time
>the rest of the NHL can relax.

:D

SoonerStormchaser
5/23/2008, 03:45 PM
Heh
You can buy an octopus next week at Wholey's Fish Market in Pittsburgh -- unless you're wearing Detroit Red Wings gear or otherwise let slip that you're visiting from Michigan for the game.

Red Wings fans take their octopus-throwing tradition seriously, as Joe Louis Arena building operations manager Al Sobotka shows during this year's Stanley Cup playoffs.

Red Wings fans, known for their traditional octopus toss during the Stanley Cup playoffs, are welcome to buy any fish in the store, Dan Wholey, who owns the market, told the Detroit Free Press. But he won't sell them an octopus.

You see, Wholey does not want to see the Red Wings fans' tradition of flinging the eight-legged sea creatures carried out at Mellon Arena when the Pittsburgh Penguins host the Stanley Cup finals games 3 and 4 on Wednesday and May 30.

The Stanley Cup finals begin Saturday in Detroit, with Game 2 on Monday.

"I have the utmost respect for all the people of Detroit," Wholey said, according to the report. "They are great citizens and great hockey fans, just like I am. But I'm a Penguins fan first and foremost and I want to see the Penguins win, period."

If that means checking ID and listening for customers with Midwestern accents, that's what he's willing to do.

"Anyone who comes in here with a Red Wings jersey, they're allowed to buy anything in the store, just not the octopus," he said.

The Detroit octopus-throwing tradition started in the 1950s, to symbolize the eight wins needed at the time to win the Stanley Cup.

mfosterftw
6/6/2008, 01:07 PM
So who were the other four that had the Wings in six? :D

Scott D
6/6/2008, 01:55 PM
I admit to it not being me. I abstained from voting in this poll due to superstition :)

GrapevineSooner
6/6/2008, 02:34 PM
I think I might have.

Can't remember though.

Bone
6/6/2008, 03:28 PM
Suck in 1.