I love the playoffs...

[Ð]

The Senators get to play hockey for another week and a half

[BironsGirl43]

I love the playoffs too...

All the underdogs have been playing well..

The home team is 1-7.. the road teams have been kicking butt..

Who said home ice advantage was important? hahaha..

[Ebenezer]

home ice is important when you get to game 7...and i always say that the team that wins game 2 seems to win the series more often than not...in fact i think some years back somebody did some research and found it was over 80%.

[BironsGirl43]

Yeah you're def. right about the home ice advantage in game 7.. that's true.. a good example would be LA/Col.. in the last two years.. home ice was key...

I was just pointing out that so far it's been all road teams.. :)

[northernbillfan]

There's more to home ice, than just being on your home ice.

There are the line changes, the nice comfy dressing room.....

And the OILERS are at Skyreach on Monday!!!!!!!!!!

[Ebenezer]

can anybody in the east beat NJ?

[Sabre Ally]

Re: I love the playoffs...

Originally posted by Ð
The Senators get to play hockey for another week and a half

Ally Doug

[Ð]

[pyrrhonist]

It can't get any better than this for the Ottawa/Toronto series.........Game 7!!

Originally posted by Ebenezer
can anybody in the east beat NJ?

As much as I hate the Flyers, at least we won't have to endure the Trap.

[Ð]

Ottawa's a trapping team, too. Montreal pretty much invented the trap. That's how they won all the stanley cups through the 70's 80's & 90's. They just didn't call it the trap back then.

[pyrrhonist]

Originally posted by Ð
Ottawa's a trapping team, too.

Ð,

Are you saying that Ottawa is going to get past the Leafs?

You are right, and I forgot about Ottawa being mostly a trapping team. I didn't think Montreal was a team that used the trap.....I thought they were just boring.

[Ð]

Boring = playoff success

You can only play shootout for so long.