All Entries Tagged With: "game 7"
GameDay: Can Bruins Avoid Collapse in Game 7 on Home Ice?
Teams: Toronto Maple Leafs at Boston Bruins Series: Series tied, 3-3. Location: TD Garden – Boston, MA Face-Off: 7:00 P.M. (EST) TV/Radio Info: NESN (Edwards, Brickley, Funayama) – 98.5 The Sports Hub (Goucher, Beers) Last Game: Boston 1, Toronto 2 Tonight’s Lineups (Subject To Change): BOSTON: Marchand–Bergeron–Seguin Lucic–Krejci–Horton Peverley–Kelly–Jagr Paille–Campbell–Thornton — Chara–Boychuk Seidenberg–McQuaid Redden–Hamilton — Rask Scratches– ….. Carl Soderberg, Kaspars Daugavins, Jay Pandolfo, Aaron [...]
Joel Ward The Hero As Caps Win Game Seven, Eliminate Defending Champion Bruins
BOSTON, Ma– They had been here before. They knew how to handle this situation. They had the experience. They had the talent. They had home-ice advantage. It simply wasn’t enough. For the first time in four seasons, the Boston Bruins were unable to advance past the first round of the playoffs, becoming the second straight [...]
GameDay: B’s And Caps Ready For Winner-Take-All Game 7 At The TD Garden
Just a quick hit to get you all ready for Game 7 tonight at the TD Garden. If you’d like my full write up on tonight’s pivotal match-up, you can read my “Five Predictions For Game 7″ piece. Series: Tied 3-3 Location: TD Garden Time: 7:30 P.M. (EST) TV/Radio Info: NBC Sports Network (Emrick, Olczyk, [...]
The Grandest Stage In All Of Sports: Five Predictions For Game 7
The two most notorious words in sports: Game Seven. The mere mention of the phrase is enough to kick-start the heart of hockey fans across the globe. It’s the most entertaining event in sports for fans with no vested interest in either team playing. But for people who have pledged their allegiance to either of [...]
A Historic Event Or Just A Nice Story?
Winning a Stanley Cup is the highest achievement for any NHL team. Coming back from a 0-3 deficit in the playoffs is a historic act as only three teams have done so. Tonight The Blackhawks could become part of NHL history. My take was the Hawks were going to lose Game 4. But once they [...]
Like a swift kick to the head: Season comes to end for Penguins
Game 7: Montreal 5 @ Pittsburgh 2 “It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart,” wrote the late Bart Giamatti, describing the latent disappointment that ensnares any long-time passionate baseball fan. Giamatti, a former commissioner of Major League Baseball, used these two sentences to lead off an essay detailing his obsession with the Boston Red Sox [...]
Remembering Game Sevens good and bad in Penguins’ history
While getting in the Game 7 mood over the last two nights, I looked up the playoff history of the Pittsburgh Penguins and noted eleven Game 7s all-time. Pittsburgh has a 7-4 record in those games but just 2-4 at Mellon Arena where they will host the Canadiens tonight. Surprisingly, I can vividly recall the [...]
How the Penguins can keep the dream alive tonight in Game 7
One game for all the marbles, as Penguins’ long-time radio voice Mike Lange would say. Tonight at 7 pm in Mellon Arena, the upstart Montreal Canadiens will try for a second straight unthinkable upset of an NHL powerhouse. After stunning Washington, the top team in the regular season in the opening round two weeks ago, [...]
Pens – Habs Game 7: The Biggest Game Since 1993
Join us LIVE tonight for yet another game 7 LIVE BLOG! Steven Hindle, Kamal Panesar, and a bunch of panelists! Just open this thread back up at 6:30PM EST for all the pre-game coverage! TCL Presents: Pens – Habs Game 7 *LIVE BLOG* ———————————– Not too long ago, the Montreal Canadiens were standing in the [...]
Keep believing in the Pens: lessons from senior year English class
Game 6: Pittsburgh 3 @ Montreal 4 “There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.” – George Orwell, 1984 The Pittsburgh Penguins were unsuccessful tonight in closing out the Eastern Conference semifinal against the Canadiens at Montreal as the home [...]
Game 7.
Our season either ends tonight, or continues. It’s the simplest equation in sports, win or go home. Obviously, tonight isn’t a typical game. It’s the kind of game that will end up being memorable, no matter what happens. Something will happen tonight that will go down in the memories of Detroit for years to come. [...]
