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Well Round 3 of the Stanley Cup playoffs is over and at least I got 50% of this round right, meaning I'm still at .500 for the whole playoff series.  The next series is make or break for me.  Hopefully there will be a better final than the two anti-climatic series we saw in this round. There were no players who were especially bad in the previous round so I'll skip ...

The youngest captain in the league, Jonathan Toews, showed the San Jose Sharks leadership their team lacked by performing at his best in virtually every game this postseason. He has scored a point in 13 straight games after getting an assist Sunday afternoon. It did not have to be like this. The Sharks out-performed the Blackhawks in most statistics, but were out-scored 13-7. There is a pattern of the Sharks being out-played ...

It is now set: the Chicago Blackhawks will face the Philadelphia Flyers in the Stanley Cup Finals. What a matchup! Back in September, this was a believable pair of teams for the Finals. While the Blackhawks have stayed at or around the top of the Western Conference the entire season, it wasn't until the final day of the regular season in a shootout that the Flyer made the playoffs after a ...

With the Stanley Cup Finals set for the 2010 season, it has come down to the Chicago Blackhawks of the Western Conference and the Philadelphia Flyers in the East. Both teams have not visited Lord Stanley's Finals since the 1990's (Chicago in1992 and Philadephia in 1997), and have not won the prestigious Cup in much longer—1961 and 1975 respectively. Both hockey clubs would love to end these streaks for their respective cities, ...

The Philadelphia Flyers have ended the improbable run of the Montreal Canadiens to advance to the 2010 Stanley Cup Finals against the Chicago Blackhawks. In a game five that I thought certain was going to bring about a game six in Montreal, the Habs simply looked out of gas. They had their fir share of chances on journeyman net minder Michael Leighton but in the end could only solve him twice. The ...

Montreal 2 Philadelphia 4 (Wachovia Centre) Flyers win the series 4-1. “Although we've come to the end of the road, still I can't let you go, it's unnatural, you belong to me, I belong to you.” There are many different types of reactions to what happened tonight. There were tears, a good deal of anger, and disbelief. Some ...

A dance-a-thon had 16 competitors in April and now, the dance floor is cleared and the last two standing are left to decide who will hoist Lord Stanley's Cup—the Western Conference's Chicago Blackhawks or the Eastern Conference's Philadelphia Flyers.   Chicago Blackhawks Chicago was the second seed in the Western Conference and the third-best team in the league so most thought that this young squad will be a hard team to beat.  So ...

Well, here we are. The Stanley Cup Finals have been determined; it's the Chicago Blackhawks of the western conference, versus the Philadelphia Flyers of the eastern conference.   Chicago's Road To The Finals The Blackhawks entered the NHL playoffs as one of the heavy favorites to win the Stanley Cup. The No. 2 seed, matched with the No. 7 seeded Nashville Predators, it certainly did not begin as planned. They fell to Nashville in game ...

After making easy work of the Canadiens in five games for the Eastern Conference Title, you’d think the Flyers would be rolling on as real contenders for the Cup. But the Blackhawks did them one better, sweeping the powerhouse San Jose Sharks in the West. Everyone is picking Chicago to win this series with ease because they made such an example of teams like Vancouver and San Jose, and the Flyers ...

Only a minute into the game, it looked like the Habs were ready to fight for their lives as they scored their first goal.  But it didn’t take them long to fight a little too hard. The Canadiens’ Jaroslav Halak was a bit too aggressive when trying to keep the Flyers from scoring soon after the Habs’ goal.  Mike Richards broke away from Halak’s defense and put himself in a one ...