So. Conference finals are a thing that happened.

Ugh.

Go, Rangers?

IDE... On the upside, once again, I'll be getting a lot more sleep than if all of the games were being played in reasonable time zones. I hold out expectations neither that I will be watching West Coast games nor will the Rangers actually be winning.

*sigh*

So, when's Draft

Blackhawks v. Kings - Because I still don't care about the Kings and I've stuck by the Blackhawks all season. And because if the Kings make it to the finals, I'm so not staying up late enough to watch the West Coast games. Some of us have to work in the morning.

Canadiens v. Rangers - Not holding out much hope that they can pull it off without ( Read more... )

Okay, so round two has already started by now too.

Blackhawks v. Wild - Because the Blackhawks can keep it together and I still can't name a single Wild player without having to think very, very hard about it first.

Ducks v. Kings - Yes, I know LA is already up by two. I still like the Ducks better.

Bruins v. Canadiens - Because the Habs ( Read more... )

How is it that time of year again already? So playoffs have already started.

Western Conference

Avalanche v. Wild - I so do not care about Minnesota. How awesome (and hilarious) would it be for Patrick Roy to win the Cup his first year as head coach? Landeskog is proving he deserves that C and Nate MacKinnon is just a joy to watch. Go, baby ( Read more... )

So yeah. It's been a while. Washington and Philly have been randomly awesome/awful all season long. I never can tell from one week to the next where on earth either of them will be in the standings. Luongo finally got to go home to Florida and it seems to be agreeing with him. Miller finally got out of Buffalo and it also seems to be agreeing ( Read more... )

Because apparently this is what it takes to get me to post again after a four-month absence... Ridiculous Chicago Blackhawks advertisements. I don't even know what it was for. Some car rental place, maybe? (eta: BMO Harris Bank: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR1Wi1rx2e0Read more... )

Again, no surprises here. Well, except one might reasonably expect that the Penguins would be putting up more of a fight against the Bruins. Not that we're complaining. We are rooting against Pittsburgh more than we are rooting for Boston, but the results are amusing nonetheless ( Read more... )

So round two is happening already. With not many surprises. To nobody's amazement, Washington could not get it together long enough to get out of the first round. Ditto Montreal imploding (I love them, but okay, not actually shocked). At least they didn't get swept like Vancouver, which continues their streak of being abominable in the playoffs ( Read more... )

So Washington is in and the Flyers are couch-surfing for the summer already. I don't even... Fine. Okay, I can live with that this year, I suppose. At least the Jets are out too. (Petty? Me? Well, yeah.)

East:
Pens v. Islanders - IDK. Tavares is the only Islander I can name. (How is he still only 22?) We'll go Pens, because... yeah. But I'm ( Read more... )

Gotta love that southeastern division - where a mere 42 points puts Washington at the top and catapults them into the third slot in the conference. At least Ovechkin seems to have his act together at the moment. Who knew that he and Semin would actually do better separately than together? Philly continues to disappoint, but I guess you can't have