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U-TI-CA! Puck drop comin' up. Still have high hopes despite the news that Virtanen will still be out of the Comets' line-up due to illness.

Yes, conspiracies and corruptions within high-level sporting organizations happen. Wishing that some of the biggest power-brokers in the NHL will become as accountable and be just as knocked back/down as some of these FIFA officials are about to become. Stop the powerful manipulations of the inner sanctums! More justice for the whistle-blowers...oh - just make it so!

Utica-fans should be chantin'...."All we are sayin' is give us a ref". Zebras are game-managing a&calling-up a stinker at the Aud tonight. Just beat 'em ALL! Go Comets Go!

Comets carrying the play,..but need a good ol' seeing-eye puck from the D to get thru and score.

Okay folks, combine our mental energies for the Comets to get their 1st goal of this game,....and GO!

3-2 Comets heading into the 3rd & Gauncer with 2 goals for Utica after sitting-out the previous 2 play-off games....for whatever reasons. Is he proving he's got gamer-status likeTeam President Linden once did? Heroics during a pretty big eiimination game in the play-offs...is a great start!

So, is the post-mortem over yet? Cheer-up everyone! Look to the future.... U-ti-ca! U-ti-ca! U-ti-ca!

12 hrs later,...not feeling any better. Tomorrow - I can give it up to the boys for their efforts and the increased entertainment factor,...but for now....I mope.

Sighhh,..let's all get over the post-mortum quickly, and look to the future. U-ti-ca! U-ti-ca! U-ti-ca!

We learned today that Ryan Miller is no answer. If things need to be perfect with him to play well...that's not happening or any guarantee. Lack should have been given the hand-over. Go with a kid now,..mentor at the bench. Too many chairs stacked against the boys in these play-offs. Never under-estimate the 'Burkie-factor" - all things won't be equal when he's involved. Too many injuries too early in this series,t hey werent goin' to go anywhere far,

And to make y'all feel better,..the teen-burger is only 3$ for a limited time only @ A&W! Du'ohhhh, burgerssss....

Virtanen will only be as effective as the officials allow him to be. Ferland has been enabled this series,..Kenins has not,..it's as simple as that. The enabling stops when/if CGY plays another King-pin's team. And - if ya didnt already know - VanCity aint that.,..sorry 'Nucks-fans.

What's up Squamish? The town's been ground-zero for disasters this week. Careful..things happen in 3's.

Weise up to more play-off heroics in OTT...and makin' Torts look more of a fool each and everyday he continues to play in the league. Atta boy!

LOL@ Hartley & Treliving trying to paint Lack & Hamhuis as villians,...in the same way the eastern-media-propaganda machine tried to maligne & villify the Sedins as whiners and divers in BOS....to gain some edge with the officials & justify their own misdeeds. Burke's a master-manipulator within the league, and mentoring 'em well. Lack and Hamhuis should take solace that this time around fewer hockey-fans are being so easily duped.

Just heard Hartley tryin' to compare Lack's demeanor to that of Billy Smith?! "That's his game".he says,.like the affably mild-mannered Eddie Lack is anything close to some notoriously fiesty hatchet-man in net, who was one of the meanest SOB 's between the pipes?! Hartley deploying outlandish propaganda...so drama-queen, farcical! Anyone not watchin' this game may be duped. Sound familiar people? Burke & his coach following a predictable template....

Go Canucks Go! PQ's shamrock's are flyin! I believe!!!!!

I hope Vrbata loves being a Canuck,.. as much as Canucks-fans love his goal production.& heads-up play. Vrbatman should be a forever Canuck!

CLB just beat-up CHI. DAL was whooped by EDM. Canucks aren't the only team losing to the firnge teams or bottom-feeders at this time of the year.

Could only listen to this game,..man - I gotta see it. But - tell me ,..is this new thing of the 'nucks coming back at teams after getting down early,..more heartening than worrisome? I love these come-back kids,...they rival CGY in that. But, there is somethin' to be said for getting out to a lead and then being able to sustaini it, too!

AV continuing to do for the Rangers what he used to do here in VAN.,...he's still a helluva coach. He'll quietly get 'em that President's Trophy.

Shaw and Richards score goals for CHI vs ARI, that Burrows & Kassian could not for VAN vs LA. Pucks found on the door-step need to be potted-in. Sticks on the ice, eyes on the puck and ignore the distractions. Better luck and net presense vs the Leafs, pleaze.

Starting to doze as MacLean goes-off on another one of his tangent's name-dropping and spewing more of his pointless trivia. He has only so much time to do an intro, then ignores his co-host & the crowd assembled around him,..to motor-mouth that! Do ya think the CBC is aware that Ron's ego expands exponentially, every season?

Weise is now a 1st-liner on the Canadiens wth Pacioretty and Desharnais. LOL...Tortorella must be sooooo peeved.

How does NHL.com not properly hype Eddie Lack's series of break-way stops in OT, last game? It was epic for any NHL goalie to perform that way. Lack remains under-estimated & deserves more of this league's respect.