OT : NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs

I would hope my Knights make another run, however, I don't think they get out of the second round. Defense has been pretty sketchy this year.

Preds Fan here, but I don't think it will be their year. Even with dropping game 1, I'm still thinking Lightning.

Nice to finally be back after 10 years, although it will most likely be a short run.

Go Canes!

havent seen the duck boats parading in boston for a couple months....here we go BRUINS...here we go

Though I'm not a Caps fan, in my Bracket Challenge I have them and Calgary in the final, with the Caps winning again.

Gotta hand it to Columbus, they are certainly taking Tampa behind the woodshed this series.

CBJ is blowing my mind - even Tortorella seems shocked - GO JACKETS !! Plus Buckeye football spring game is today. After a long crap winter, life is good here in Columbus.

Granted I am pretty new to hockey, but Mark Stone had the best game I have ever seen tonight.

a blast from the past, old time hock between the 6. i miss the blood in the ice

On April 2, 1969, 50 years ago, Toronto and Boston also were playing in a Stanley Cup series. The Bruins, just coming into a kind if dynasty after 40 years of futility, were shredding the Leafs, 6-0, on their way to a 10-1 final score, in the first game of the series. With 18:03 left in the second period, Boston star Bobby Orr, who was passing through hockey demigod status on his way to full-blown hockey divinity, wound up for a rush along the right boards. A rookie defenseman named Pat Quinn lined Orr up and laid him out, cold, with a sledgehammer of an elbow.

The old Boston Garden went completely insane. The league’s director of officials was in attendance and is said to have whispered a silent prayer for Orr to get up, lest nobody get out of the building alive. On his way to the penalty box, Quinn was surrounded by angry fans and even got in a scuffle with a Boston cop. He broke a pane of the ringside glass and showered fans with shrapnel. Finally, they rousted Quinn to the locker room and when he came out—God knowers why—for the third period, he got hit in the head with a bus driver’s change maker. The Bruins, however, decided to run the score up as best they could and, ultimately, that enraged the Maple Leafs even more than the Garden fans had. In the third period, Maple Leaf Forbes Kennedy, playing in what would be his last NHL game, went completely, utterly berserk.

First, he went after goalie Gerry Cheevers. The crowd, still in meltdown over the Quinn hit, responded by showering Kennedy with beer and god knows what else. Kennedy proceeded to skate to the Boston bench and attempt to fight the entire roster. He was swinging at anything that moved. Unfortunately, one thing that was moving at the time was a linesman named George Ashley, whom Kennedy flattened. Just when things were calming down, Kennedy and Boston’s John McKenzie began an outright brawlThe upshot was that Forbes Kennedy, in his last game, set an NHL record that may never be matched: eight penalties called at once, including four minor penalties, two fighting majors, a 10-minute misconduct, and a game misconduct. (Later, he would be fined $1000 for jacking up Ashley.) After the game, Quinn walked into a Boston pub to get some beers for the team and somehow came out alive. Meanwhile, as Orr was leaving the hospital, a man came out of the shadows and offered to “take care” of Pat Quinn. Orr declined the button man’s offer, saying he’d take care of that himself. It’s hard to imagine what would happen to Quinn or Kennedy in these more enlightened times. The NHL might have to build a dungeon.

My canes looked good. Sux to lose Andrei, but you drop gloves with a guy like Ovi that never fights you might not like what you get. Great playoffs so far. Holy crap Tampa Bay.

Gotta hand it to Columbus, they took control in Game 1 and never looked back. Sad day here in the Bay Area with everyone just in disbelief. Playoff hockey is crazy

Stone was a huge pick up. His line right now is one od'd the best in the league and should be for a couple more years.

thank you toronto, thankyou for the memories

Toronto Maple Leafs. The Toronto Maple Leafs drafted Rask in the first round, 21st overall, in the 2005 NHL Entry Draft. However, before playing a regular season game for Toronto, he was traded to the Boston Bruins

let's go Canes!!

boston smells blood and its at home, the fans like blood