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PeterDewar
04-05-2001, 07:25 PM
What is everyone's all time favorite playoff series or just a playoff game?
Mine would have to be Colorado and Florida, Triple OT 0-0 tie and Roy makes I believe 57 or 67 saves that game as Colorado wins the cup that night. Great game, proud to say I watched it all :)
lmanchur.
04-05-2001, 09:18 PM
Originally posted by PeterDewar
Mine would have to be Colorado and Florida, Triple OT 0-0 tie and Roy makes I believe 57 or 67 saves that game as Colorado wins the cup that night. Great game, proud to say I watched it all :) ...definitely a remarkable game!!!.... again, like most double-or-more-overtime games, the game winning goal was a slap shot from the blue line from Uwe Krupp, if anyone's keeping track!
...I don't really have a "favorite" all-time playoff... a memorable one would be the '99 finals... I *STILL* think that goal should not have counted... terrible (non)call... there WAS a web site, NoGoal.com, that kept arguing that fact that the goal should not have counted... then the year after the Sabres had ANOTHER non goal, this time to Philly (remember that goal (by LeClair?) that went THROUGH the net!?... not IN the net!?....).
I guess my most memorable series/game, though, after re-thinking the question, is the Quarter Finals of the 1996 playoffs.... the last year of the Winnipeg Jets. Nikolia Khabibulin made 51 saves in 2-1 in Detroit in Game #4 (or was it #3?) to send the series back to Winnipeg... the Jets lost Game #6 to lose the series 4-2, but at least they left on home ice... Don Cherry and Don Wittman BOTH said that the Winnipeg Arena with the annual playoff "white-out," was the loudest of ANY NHL arena ALL-TIME... topping even the old Chicago Stadium... that was something... I still remember that Teppo Numminen scored the last ever Jets goal... Kris King was the captain at the time... those were the days....
Many broadcasters would refer to that series in the year 1997 (when the Wings won their first of back-2-back Cups) and in that same year of 1996, that the series versus the Jets was one of the most difficult they faced en route to the cup......
Game 4 Colorado-Florida in '96 or Game 4 last year Pittsburgh-Philadelphia. Both are what I love about hockey: multi-overtime wars.
lmanchur.
05-27-2001, 07:38 PM
Originally posted by Ross in Big D
...Game 4 last year Pittsburgh-Philadelphia. Both are what I love about hockey: multi-overtime wars. Was that the 6-overtime game??.... like, an equivilant of three, three-period games!?... I think that game ended like 1:00 or 2:00 AM local time.. I actually don't think I saw ANY of that game because the Oilers or something were playing that I was more interested in, and after that was over I went to bed!... ha! :)
Yeah, it was. I got too tired after the 2nd overtime.
rezag
05-27-2001, 10:37 PM
Being a Montreal fan I must say that my favorite game has to be game 2 of the finals in '93
Montreal was one down with a few minutes to go and Demers decided to have McSorley's stick measured, it payed off Desjardins scored on the PP and the game went into overtime where Desjardins completed his hat trick to tie the series 1-1 going into LA.
The same year's first round with Quebec was also great
I'd have to say that the greatest playoff game in my mind was Game 7 of the Kings vs Maple Leafs in '93. That whole series was awesome but that game just sticks in my mind....
lmanchur.
06-09-2001, 09:41 AM
Originally posted by icas
I'd have to say that the greatest playoff game in my mind was Game 7 of the Kings vs Maple Leafs in '93. That whole series was awesome but that game just sticks in my mind.... That's the one Gretzky usually picks out as his "best game ever," right??
Originally posted by SC-Lee
That's the one Gretzky usually picks out as his "best game ever," right??
Yup it is
lmanchur.
06-10-2001, 12:24 AM
...I think Game Seven of the 2001 Stanley Cup Finals, and the whole series in general this season finale, will go down as one of the best... maybe not all-time, but definitly in recent memory.
Opinions?
Originally posted by SC-Lee
...I think Game Seven of the 2001 Stanley Cup Finals, and the whole series in general this season finale, will go down as one of the best... maybe not all-time, but definitly in recent memory.
Opinions?
It was a good series, but I would discount it from being one of the best since the games generally weren't close...
rezag
06-10-2001, 11:24 AM
Me too. I wouldn't call this years finals the best because it lacked several 'stories'
On paper the teams that were the best in regular season made it so there was no real surprise factor.
Not many close games. I would go furthur and say that sometimes the goalie/defensive performance was actually disappointing and not all of it was because of good opposing offence.
GO HABS GO
lmanchur.
06-10-2001, 11:49 AM
True... (both of you)
...thinking back, I guess only Game 3 (where Bourque scored the winner) and Game 7 were the only close ones... the 3-1 NJD win in Game 5 was full of sloppy, sloppy mistakes by the Avs... Game 1 and Game 6 were blowouts.... Game 2 was dominated by NJD, too...
...however, the series was ssssooooo unpredictable.. that is what will make it special.. it was really anyone's series going into Games one through seven... no team was better than the other, and every game, something unpredictable happened.
...Don Cherry said it best -- the first six games were sloppy, but Game Seven was greatly played, greatly reffed... "this is the way hockey is suspose to be played!"
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