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Previewing The Flyers-Penguins
The Deadspin NHL Playoff Previews are brought to you the five wealthiest people in the world known as the MYFO Pentaverate. They blog from a secret country mansion known as the Meadows. Beware their wee beady eyes and those smug looks on their faces. Today, Hextall454 breaks down the Eastern Conference Finals.
In the days of Old-Time Hockey, a shiny silver trophy was all the reason you needed to win a playoff series. Times were simpler. Helmets were optional. TV coverage was...well, about the same as it is today. But the point is the players of yesterday didn't need an emotional X factor to help lift them past their Eastern Conference Final opponent. The media didn't have a storyline to shove through our eye sockets just to make the game more interesting. Now I'm not saying that the Flyers or the Penguins will have said factors to bank on for their Best-of-7. But if ESPN were to accidentally cover ice hockey this week, this is what they'd say:
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Rocky Statue: Target Of Penguin Terrorist Plot?
You may remember just a week ago that during the Montreal Canadiens/Flyers playoff series, some amped-up Habs fans decided desecration of the Rocky statue would be a good way to show team spirit and ward off an inevitable early round exit. Didn't work. More »
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Yo, Canadian
Apparently some hopped-up Habs fans thought they would take their trash-talking and intimidation techniques to new heights by desecrating the fabled Rocky statue just before one of the Canadiens and Flyers games. The culprit is this pig-masked individual, who appears to be part of some wacky Canadian morning radio show. More »
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Previewing The Stars-Sharks
Deadspin's NHL Conference Semifinal Series Previews are being brought to you by Melt Your Face Off, where hockey is the official religion but all the editors are atheists. MYFO's Weed Against Speed breaks down the Dallas/San Jose series.
Larry Hagman and Burt Bacharach. The last time these two were names were associated together was when they were caught snorting blow out of Joyce DeWitt's asscrack at the Playboy Mansion in 1981. Oh, to be a fly on the wall that night.
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Fire Up the Car-B-Q, Montreal: The Flyers Are On Deck
Deadspin's NHL Conference Semifinal Series Previews are being brought to you by Melt Your Face Off, where hockey is the official religion but all the editors are atheists. MYFO's LeNoceur breaks down the Montreal/Philadelphia series.
If this turtle has two faces, then this series has four. Which teams are going to show up on a given night? Will it be the Candiens team that blitzed Boston 5-0 in Game 7, and scored seemingly at will in four games of that series, or the one that struggled to put anything past Tim Thomas in the other 3? Will it be the Carey Price that had consecutive games of giving up 5 goals, or the one that had two shutouts?
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NHL Playoff Preview: The Threes Meet the Sixes
NHL Closer writer Greg Wyshynski previews the 2008 Stanley Cup Finals right up until they drop what is commonly referred to as "the puck." More »
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Broad Street Bullies, Bunnies And Booze
Since tedious analysis is the stuff of "power rankings," each Monday NHL Closer writer Greg Wyshynski uses a form of universal expression: Success in terms of beer. Before we get to an endorsement in the Hottest Ice Girls election, welcome to The Brewmeister Ratings...
Winner No. 1: Philadelphia Flyers. Sure, they still hold onto a lead late in the game with the buttery sausage fingers of a Jose Mesa. And yeah, Coach John Stevens probably should have been fired by now, if only for keeping Closer favorite Steve Downie in the press box lately.
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Alright. Now that all of those fucking Closers are out of the way, I'm going to go run over to Potbelly and grab myself a Wrecked and watch a little Flyers/Rangers and finally enjoy a little wake-and-bake activity. I'll be back in about 30 minutes with some of the other stuff. More »
Lunch Break With Judas Priest
Alright. Now that all of those fucking Closers are out of the way, I'm going to go run over to Potbelly and grab myself a Wrecked and watch a little Flyers/Rangers and finally enjoy a little wake-and-bake activity. I'll be back in about 30 minutes with some of the other stuff. More »
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Zambonis On Fire!
We are proud to welcome famed hockey journalist James Mirtle to the post of NHL Closer writer this week.
Hotter Than a Flaming Cheesesteak. The Flyers didn't play last night, but that doesn't stop Philadelphia from topping The Closer for two reasons: (1) Riley Cote became the fifth member of his team suspended this season (meaning the Flyers filled their 'free donut' punch card), and more important, (2) a zamboni caught fire in suburban Aston. (And, no, I don't mean a member of "North America's all-hockey band!!!!" although that would be good, too, if set to Hockey Monkey.) Shudder.
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Cote's a mess. Three stars to the guys at Illegal Curve for sending along this good ol' fashioned donnybrook matching the Flyers' Riley Cote versus the Devils' Arron Asham. According to YouTube, it's the second time in less than a month that the two have questioned each other's manhood. (Cote asked the more difficult questions in the first one.) Here's to hoping tinfoil makes an appearance in the inevitable rubber match.
Cote's A Killer!
Cote's a mess. Three stars to the guys at Illegal Curve for sending along this good ol' fashioned donnybrook matching the Flyers' Riley Cote versus the Devils' Arron Asham. According to YouTube, it's the second time in less than a month that the two have questioned each other's manhood. (Cote asked the more difficult questions in the first one.) Here's to hoping tinfoil makes an appearance in the inevitable rubber match.
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Put Your Faith In The Philadelphia Flyers
The Philadelphia Flyers have split their first two games of the season, and are generally not considered a serious Stanley Cup contender. But worry not: They totally get along as a team. They even do team-building exercises. More »
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Flyers Spectators Almost As Comical As Team Itself
As we mentioned at the top, we're Flyers fans. It's a classy organization* with a rich history and a sense of pride in its traditions. Then, you know, there's this: More »
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They're Still Scraping Bits Of Umberger Off The Ice
A day after being absolutely trucked by Sabres defenseman Brian Campbell in Game One of the Flyers/Sabres series last night, R.J. Umberger is apparently fine. Flyers coach Ken Hitchcock says Umberger is "good to go," which is just difficult to believe after watching this: More »
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As Wayne Gretzky heads to the Olympics, where the scandals are less about bookies and more about the illegality of baldness prevention medicines, it's clear, no matter your thoughts on gambling, the fella is having one of the worst weeks of his life. And so much of it centers around Janet Jones, a woman who has never been particularly popular with Canadians and certainly won't improve if they don't win the gold medal next week.
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Janet Jones: Hockey's Yoko?
As Wayne Gretzky heads to the Olympics, where the scandals are less about bookies and more about the illegality of baldness prevention medicines, it's clear, no matter your thoughts on gambling, the fella is having one of the worst weeks of his life. And so much of it centers around Janet Jones, a woman who has never been particularly popular with Canadians and certainly won't improve if they don't win the gold medal next week.
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Investigating The Unabookie
All kinds of updates today in the scandal that, to swipe Off Wing Opinion's term, is the "Unabookie" scandal. (So named because the NHL's investigator is the same guy who nailed the Unabomber.) More »
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Look Out Below, NHL
This, above, is the dopily named "Operation Slapshot" — it's the flowchart New Jersey authorities have used to describe the connections involved in the Rick Tocchet charges — and it's about to turn everything in the NHL upside down. More »
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