viking mama

After letting a few go - there it is! Carolina MUST win these special teams battles, to get their best scoring chances & back into this series.

BOB is playing the best hockey of his life!

Cross-checking & interference at the high-point on the ‘Canes missed by the zebras. This is going to escalate quickly. Just the way Bettman wants it.

OMG. Kelly Sutherland is out there! The too-slow old-school oft-biased league-ingratiated zebra who puts his whistle away…& then awaits all of the drama to misinterpret. Way to assign ‘em Bettman!

LAKings STLBlues Examples of league-worst to SCup Champions, in a single season. You can see why our ‘Nucks strove so hard last season & this to get there...‘cuz if your team’s strong at season’s end, entering the play-offs on a roll, anything is possible - yes! Did FLA activate LTIR players like TB did with their previous Cup-runs, to give themselves more depth & to circumvent restrictions? Is this how managing NHL teams prior to the play-offs is supposed to work for GMs, now?

Where would we be if we took MT instead of OJ? Getting past Vegas in the bubble…who knows?! Happy with our current coaching situation, now …but it’s just sad how many cast-always it has taken so far, to get here.

Posted in haste…lol. My Spidey senses must have known FLA would be taking this!

My heart…. my heart…this is exciting!! They want to end things early before settling in. Penalty?!! What?! You surprised me tonight, zebras?!! And - done! Panthers told to run off the ice quickly to avoid the potential call-back. Sigh. Tkachuk, you’re killing us here, as the “what if” player of these play-offs! Why are we surprised -it will be a long series. Let’s hope the ice is better in FLA!

LOL. I wonder if these folks pre-bought large quantities at the concessions tonight… or smuggled surplus refreshments in?

Montour/Barkov

Wow! This series is the true SCup Final! Can you imagine every game going to OT?!! Hell, don’t just imagine it, I think we should ALL bet on it!

Vancouver held their own vs Vegas & the Stars this year, I believe. Anyone want to fact-check that?

This game is too good! Who can type, except during time-outs, even then I’m dying to see all the replays!

Excuses…excuses…not an apology at all. Entering into the SC Final vs the BOG President’s team, with perennial Bruins fan Don Cherry there cheer-leading for Bruins style hockey, that was the time for a little counter-balance, or “Canada’s team” love from Ron. Not an iota!! HNIC prejudiced the country, casual hockey-fans & emboldened officials against 3rd/4th line un-drafted player who dared to be a regular point contributor & scorer on a 1st line with the Sedins. He had evolved well beyond being a super-pest to something far better & more. Ron in one pro-NHLOA swoop simply decided to maligne him & take him down. It became almost fashionable & acceptable to hate-on Alex Burrows, everywhere but in VanCity after that. Suddenly, the Canucks went from receiving the most PP in the league to far fewer, from one of the least penalized teams to one of the most! Go figure?! I believe there was an “Auger/McLean effect” taking place, until Auger was eventually called-out by other players/teams in similar unprofessional encounters….until Auger wasn’t so lauded or backed by his union bros or Ron, anymore. Ron needs to apologize for a whole lot more than failing to give Alex Burrows a little love on HNIC for a segment or two.

He believes he’s there to deliver name-droppings (however nice) & that spewing useless trivia will earn him an amazing cult-like following & similar to the loyalty of Don Cherry/fans in small-towns all across Canada. But, he’s wrong. I & others remember the Burrows character-assassination attempts of 2010. His voice has been more like noise to me, ever since. I have no respect for the desperation to stay relevant, especially sitting among panelists who have more interesting things to say, on most nights. Good-bye & good luck with the book tours & speaking engagements within retirement communities & legion halls, Ron. , Just, spare us the gut-chortling previews of that shtick…because on tv - in the time of Trump, even a little bit of narcissism plays too hard.

Du’oh! Gheeez! That’s a bouncy & tumbling puck out there. Slogging it around on that ice could be painful,..even before OT.

As a t-shirt? Not exactly what I had in mind, but it’s a pretty raw place to start, I guess….lol.

LOL. Is this a t-shirt, yet?

Don’t utter the names of Sundin & Messier in the same breath,…as they are very different human beings, with different motivations in life on & off the ice! As a player of viking heritage, and as an ambassador of the game the way it should be played - I don’t have an unkind word to say about Mats Sundin & neither do many other people, I’ll wager. Mark Messier, tho’? Just cue up the line & should you get a nickel for every gripe or complaint about his more notorious on/off-ice conduct, greed or narcissistic character here…well, you’ll become a very, very rich person, indeed!

Speaking of Luke Schenn,..sort of hoping a player & teammate like that, comes back to play in VanCity. Cheers to you, Luke!

The only margin I will draw here,…is that I do not “honour” the folks/players who subscribe to the belief that,… “if you’re not cheatin’ - you are not tryin’!” ^Tkachuk is in this group, but perhaps he’s corralled in this philosophy, an iota, since joining FLA. I don’t expect the “best of the best” players in the NHL to be soft or lack aggression - but I DO expect them to still respect their fellow union brothers as human beings & to play within the rules for the general honour & dignity of the game. If NOT, any scumbag can become an NHLer, especially when the “best athletes” of the world start choosing other leagues, or other sports, instead. Eliminating opposing players by deliberate attempts at injury or other despicable means, like: spearing, head-shots, slew-feet, kneeing, bogus dramatics, dangerous/deliberate flops, or the staging of unwarranted fights….I cannot get on board with, nor do I find it palatable to dole-out praise for perpetrators of that stuff. I’ll await witnessing the ‘Nucks hoisting the SCup by doing it the ‘right’ way - thank-you! And, this will be despite the NHL’s best mixed-messaging efforts…& their appointment of officiating crews who will misinterpret every itty-bitty event of on-ice drama with their very unique & suspect flair - of course!

Couldn’t be happier that Vegas got the W tonight. I’m all in for Vegas advancing past this round. I haven’t forgiven Seguin for dissing our Hall-of-Famers, especially after he was fortunate enough to win the SCup with BOS - in his rookie season. Not too classy. Seguin didn’t handle his early acclaim or SCup rewards all that well & Bruins management were compelled to move his partying ways along to new scenery…likely saving his career. Then he disrespects the Sedins on a sports-talk show with the assistance of his new DAL teammate, Jamie Benn. Par for the course of an anti-Canucks Gaglardi-group owned team, me thinks! In San Jose, “Juvenile Joe” Thornton actually lost his captaincy for unprofessional taunting antics during on-ice captains’ meetings & poorly conducted interviews with lady journalists, etc…but, similar behaviours are more acceptable of the DAL leadership group. Seguin, Benn & this Gaglardi group (hockey-gods permitting) can wait to hoist the SCup awhile longer… thanks!

Wow! Well no one challenged it - for good reason.

Oh dear. After the full-on fan-investment tonight. I really, really, really, wanted the home-team to win it. No controversy over the earlier dissallowed goal now, tho’,

Cuthbert is starting to sound squeaky all right.