Went to game 2 of the Stanley Cup finals. One of the neatest things about the game was being there to see all the season ending contests, that at all the regular season games you hear "Win a chance to see the Stanley Cup finals..." and I was there to see all that! Really cool. The dude for the Nextel Challenge, where you win $250,000 if you score against Olag Kolzig, the dude scored against him and won the money... that was cool as hell...

 

The game itself... sweeeeeeeeeeeet... EVERY play, EVERY hit, EVERY odd-man rush, EVERY play... the fans were rabid and into it. The stadium was very loud. THAT is the way to watch a hockey game.

 

Tampa was attacking the crap out of Calgary. They started the game hitting everything in site which opened the ice for them by the time the third period rolled around. They were able to pick their spots on the ice and create their own space and lanes to the front of the net, which made it 4-0 by the middle of the third period.

 

That's when all hell broke loose. Couple of fights, couple of viscious hits, couple of scrums after the final horn, with Andre Roy chomping at the bit to go kick some ass... don't know if you caught it on the telecast, but after the game was over, the linesmen held him back from the fracass, he reaches around to pull apart his tiedown so he could go beat the crap out of someone. Him and Ignilia were REALLY jawing. It will be interesting to see if anything comes of that.

 

It was awesome to finally see a Stanley Cup finals game after being a fan for over 20 years. You've got to be there to understand it, but that was one of the best games I've ever been to in any sport, period. And I've been to the NBA finals too.

 

So game three tonight... should be interesting!

I liked Ference beating the crap out of Stillman

I liked Ference beating the crap out of Stillman

yea, he did too. Stillman didn't want to go because he knew he was going to get his ass beat.

So who does Andre Roy fight in his first shift?