What a game between Edmonton and Detroit tonight!!!

[Pitts]

What back and forth action! Edmonton scores with 1 minute left to take the lead!

[the wicked child]

What an awesome game... and an equally awesome result. The 3rd period alone showed why playoff hockey is the best bar none. Now if the Pens could find their way back...

[Sigwolf]

What a meltdown by Legace in the third... allows four goals on eight shots. Granted he was hung out to dry on a couple, but all he had to do was come up with one big save to at least give his team a chance in OT.

[Hockeynut!]

Detroit fans are going nuts. They want Holland and the coaches gone.

It's almost like reading the Pens board.

[Guido]

great game, great series. Edmonton stayed strong throughout, from game 1 to game 6. I liked them from the start of the series, especially horcoff. there's going to be some great matchups in the later rounds, in both conferences. exciting playoff hockey, everyone that misses it is truly deprived.

[Pitts]

What a meltdown by Legace in the third... allows four goals on eight shots. Granted he was hung out to dry on a couple, but all he had to do was come up with one big save to at least give his team a chance in OT.

He looked truly dejected on that last goal by Edmonton. I LOVED it!

[wondermoose]

I had to go through hell to find a TV with OLN tonight. I live in rural central PA where comcast isn't available, and you need to get digital cable or dish to get OLN, which not many people have that I know are back from college yet. My friend and I went to a Damon's, Applebee's, two places in town, and then finally went over to our friend's house that is still at college to ask his parents if we could watch the game on their TV, who were happy to oblige. Missed the first period, thought the game was going to be terrible after the second, and was so pleasantly surprised by the third. Go Edmonton!!!!

[jmh470]

Serious choke-job by Detroit. They had no business losing this series.

[penny lane]

great game, great series. Edmonton stayed strong throughout, from game 1 to game 6. I liked them from the start of the series, especially horcoff. there's going to be some great matchups in the later rounds, in both conferences. exciting playoff hockey, everyone that misses it is truly deprived.

hey we saw shawn horcoff score a hat trick in pgh this year. C Pronger
picked good time to play better.


when Pittsburgh gets back to the play-offs , I want a gold-rush ,
streamers, confetti, roasting of Rendell photos...I want all that
pomp & fun that goes with hockey play-offs.

Go Habitants & Ducks!

[Mad City Mike]

Detroit fans are going nuts. They want Holland and the coaches gone.

It's almost like reading the Pens board.

I hope they fire Holland so the Pens can hire him .

[Bowser]

Mike Illitch would be making a HUGE mistake if he fired Holland.

I expect major changes in personnel and on the bench in Detroit. They fired Dave Lewis because of early plaoff failures and Mike Babcock was outcoached by Craig MacTavish...not good.

Detroit is a machine in the regular season but come playoff time against good quick teams, they are stuck in quicksand. Chelios looked like an old man in this series, he should hang em up alongside Yzerman.

Pavel Datsyuk is gaining a reputation in the playoffs and it ain't good.

[Hockeynut!]

Detroit has choked in the playoffs every season since Bowman left. Part of that has to reflect back onto the GM.

I'm not saying it's Holland's fault, but compiling a team that just can't get the job done in the post-season is something he catches a lot of flack for from Wings fans. Many of them don't feel he's much better than Bobby Clarke.

[schreibdog]

If only Calgary can win their series against Anaheim, they'll get to play Edmonton in the next round. Those two teams are always fun to watch play each other.

[saveourpens]

Poor Legace...the look on Manny's face almost made me want to cry...

[freq019]

I think there was too much disparity between the stars on that team and the next level down and the fact that they didn't get a starting goalie in the off season wasn't a good decision.

I wonder if holland wishes he had taken that Datysuk for Thornton trade now?

[Mad City Mike]

I wonder if holland wishes he had taken that Datysuk for Thornton trade now?

Datsyuk is one of the most pathetic playoff performers in hockey when you compare to regular season stats.

Regular season: 81 G, 160 A in 284 games

Playoffs: 3 G, 12 A in 42 games.

He is a choking dog, without a doubt.

[Draftnik]

Kevin Lowe rules.


As far as I know, five of his last seven trades acquired these players: Roloson, Spacek, Peca, Pronger and Samsonov. Hell, even bringing in Tarnstrom was a good move because it meant that Ulanov would be nowhere near the ice ever again.

sigh

I wish the pens had a GM like that.

Mac T rules as well. What do you think of the Oil abandoning their 2 man forecheck puck possession game? They went to the trap and played a Wild like system that gave up many more shots, but cut down on bonafide scoring chances. The strategy worked and boosted Rollie the goalie back to numbers he saw in his Wild heyday. It seems kind of sacrilegious though for the last anti-trap holdout to sell out.