artie_fufkin wrote:

forsberg_us wrote:

"and nobody does it better than Quick"

If Quick can do it for one more game and one more series thereafter, I should win our fantasy hockey league.  Otherwise I'm looking at 4th place.

Well thank goodness. Knowing your fantasy team is still in contention alleviates all my frustration about the Bruins losing to the friggin' Canadiens.

Glad I could help.

So, who you got in the Eastern Conference Finals? 

Yeah. Unfortunately this playoff season has basically went less and less interesting to me every day.

Blues out. Go Colorado! They gone. Chicago beats Minnesota who I could have cheered for. In the east.... I don't care about the east.

I can't root for LA and rooting for Chicago is like making out with a relative to me.... It just seems very very wrong. I'm hoping Anaheim pulls through from the West. But my interest is nearly gone.

So we're down to the Kings v. Rangers.

Since I know Artie is interested, I'm holding a small lead in our fantasy league.  I'm probably certain to win if the series goes 7 games, and could hold on even if the Rangers win in 6.

Well, I watched game 7. I saw a lot of things that both of these teams do well that we just don't.

We're big mean hitters! No we're not. We hit their big mean hitters, but their hitters hit everyone. Hossa, Sharp, Kane, etc... They almost never get the freedom to run around with the puck like we gave Chicago. There's just no room there. Someone will step up and when that happens, the puck comes out. We couldn't get the puck away from Hossa with a crowbar and dynamite... I watched a defensive zone flip. Blues do this all the time... no big deal.. This one however came down right on top of a streaking winger... Hit him perfectly, and he had an excellent scoring chance. We don't have anyone that can be on the other end of a pass like that. I don't really know that I saw any soft goals.... There was always a reason it went in. Quick couldn't see it, a one hopper that skipped over pads (Sharps goal... that was insane), someone knocked a rebound out of mid air just below the crossbar... A partial block spelled disaster (this happened a few times). The Blues get to contend with all that too, and then there's simply shots that get by our goalies...

So over all I came out of that game realizing exactly what the Blues are still missing to truly be counted with LA or Chicago as a Western Conference power. We're getting better every year, but we're not there yet... And we need about five more Tarasenko/Schwartz/Oshie/Steen style forwards to be there. There's a balance to the razzle/dazzle and the grit that Chicago and LA are showcasing that is just so far beyond what we have still... But we're getting better each year (at least we were until we traded a first round pick away for no damned good reason)...

 "the Blues are the Cubs of the NHL."

Not really. The Cubs have won the World Series at least twice. The closest the Blues have gotten to the Stanley Cup is watching the team that's just beaten them skate around with it.

Last edited by artie_fufkin (6/04/2014 4:45 pm)

forsberg_us wrote:

The Cubs run of futility is at 105 years. The Blues are only at 47 years. Titles won before World War I don't really count.

 
That was more gracious than I expected. I was bracing for the "go fuck yourself" response. Which would have been deserved.

forsberg_us wrote:

artie_fufkin wrote:

forsberg_us wrote:

The Cubs run of futility is at 105 years. The Blues are only at 47 years. Titles won before World War I don't really count.

 
That was more gracious than I expected. I was bracing for the "go fuck yourself" response. Which would have been deserved.

I didn't want to give you the satisfaction.

Plus I'm in a good move. Just watched Bob blow thru an upperclassman left tackle and run down the QB from behind in his first practice in pads with the high school. He couldn't hit the QB, but he had him lined up if he could have.

 
A-S-U ... A-S-U ... A-S-U ...

forsberg_us wrote:

So we're down to the Kings v. Rangers.

Since I know Artie is interested, I'm holding a small lead in our fantasy league.  I'm probably certain to win if the series goes 7 games, and could hold on even if the Rangers win in 6.

Since I'm sure you're curious, I ended up winning the league by 31 points. That gives me 7 wins in 23 seasons.