Leino!!!! On to Philly for game 7. Doesn't get much better does it, Bill?

Crud! Its game time for real on Tuesday Flagg. Really good game though yesterday.

This series has been great. Only one decided by more than 1 goal (and that was an empty-netter). Two 1-0 shutouts courtesy Ryan Miller. Two overtime wins (one by each team). And they're developing a history of dislike.

In other words, this is HOCKEY! :rock

Fuck. Flyers killed us the first period. Then the 2nd too.

This game is actually boring. Fun, but boring. Sorry 10K, the Sabres played well, but I think this is it.

On to Round 2 ....

Son of a bitch. Good series flagg. The thing that really sucks about the sabres not getting to the 2nd round is that its even further until they play hockey again.

Gerbe is one scrappy bastard too.

Good luck in round two. Please kill ovechkin.

Better hope the Flyers goalies get their shit together in round 2 though

Yeah, P. No more "let's have a sucky first period then swap goaltenders." Boucher better be consistent ... assuming Laviolette will stick with him against the Bruins.

Every time they swapped goaltenders though it kind of gave a kick to their off and def.

Well, that was fugly. :(

Didn't get chance to watch it. Wanted the gnt frying trbtcg2

Wow, The Flyers and the Caps got sweeped second round.

Coyotes signed another one year deal to stay in Arizona too. :( No Jets yet Achimp

My only reason for watching the playoffs now is to see the Redwings lose. :(

:lol I hear that. Going to root for the lightning now myself.

Go Sharks!

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sport...rticle2029179/

An agreement to sell the National Hockey League’s Atlanta Thrashers to a Winnipeg group which plans to relocate the franchise to the Manitoba capital is done.

Sources confirmed tonight that preparations are being made for an announcement Tuesday, confirming the sale and transfer of the Thrashers to True North Sports and Entertainment, which owns and operates the Manitoba Moose of the American Hockey League and the MTS Centre arena, which would become the NHL team’s new home.

Gary Bettman, the commissioner of the National Hockey League, is expected to travel to Winnipeg to make the news official.

The announcement would end months of speculation about whether one of the NHL’s financially-troubled American sunbelt teams might move north, filling the void left when the Winnipeg Jets packed up and left for Phoenix in 1996, where they became the Coyotes.

Much of the talk this spring had centred on that failing franchise, which was bought by the league after being placed in bankruptcy by its former owner Jerry Moyes in 2009.

But sources in Winnipeg suggest that the Thrashers had in fact been the primary target of potential owners Mark Chipman and David Thomson all along, and that some months back, the NHL board of governors quietly approved the sale and transfer of the team, pending the negotiation of a purchase agreement between Atlanta Spirit LLC, the Thrashers’ owners, and True North.

In the meantime, no potential owner materialized who was prepared to keep the team in Georgia, and local governments there showed no interest in propping up the Thrashers.

“There seems to be a consensus there is going to be a team in Winnpeg,” former major league pitcher Tom Glavine, who had tried unsuccessfully to find new ownership for the hockey team in Atlanta, acknowledged last week. ““The question is who, and unfortunately the bullseye seems to be on the Thrashers’ back.”

When it appeared this spring that the Coyotes might also be in play, after a deal to sell the team to Matthew Hulsizer underwritten by a municipal bond issue fell apart in the face of political opposition from the Goldwater Institute, the Winnipeg group sought to take advantage of what suddenly seemed a buyers’ market, with two teams available and no other potential owners or relocations sites on the horizon.

After the City of Glendale agreed to cover $25-million of the Coyotes losses for the 2011-2012 season, and the NHL opted to operate the club in Arizona for at least one more year, True North’s full focus returned to Atlanta, and a deal was hammered out this week.

Even before those final negotiations took place, the potential Winnipeg owners concluded an agreement with the Manitoba government which will allow revenues from a sports bar with slot machine to be used for improvements to the arena, and to be used towards the debt service on the building.

That’s consistent with what Manitoba premier Greg Selinger told reporters earlier this week, when he said that the provincial government had no interest in subsidizing an NHL team, but that the province had financially supported the renovation of the MTS Centre in the past, and would continue to be willing to do so.

Some other news outlets are claiming that this is false and that there is no final deal yet.

I read about that this morning. I also read somewhere that the owner of the globe news that it was leaked through is also one of the people trying to buy the thrashers and bring them to winnipeg. So that kind of makes sense. Feel kind of bad for the people who actually want to keep the thrashers in atlanta, hate seeing a team move elsewhere but I'm glad that the jets might be back.

People in Atlanta just don't care about hockey. I read in some article where they interviewed one of the "fans" there and this guy said something like "Atlanta is a hockey town; people may not like the Thrashers, but they still like hockey so the team should stay."

WTF?

San José had a nice run, but it looks like Vancouver has the better team.

I still can't decide who to root for in the finals ... probably either Tampa or if Boston wins, the Canucks.

I can't root for Vancouver, I am still in stitches about how long it has been since a Canadian team has won the cup and would hate for the laughs to end

Nope. Can't root for the Bruins. Won't. Sorry Geggy.

Thrashers are being bought by winipeg. Officially anounced now.

The city has gone crazy with the news. There have been spontaneous parties everywhere. They closed Portage & Main (Winnipeg's busiest intersection... it's world famous in Canada) for a few hours for street hockey games in the middle of the day. Cars are honking at people wearing Jets jerseys.

I skipped out of work for a bit today with a whole bunch of my coworkers to watch the announcement live. There were several thousand people gathered at the place I was at, all chanting "GO JETS GO," and there were a bunch of other locations around the city with just as many people. There was a big party at the Forks (our big Downtown park area) for most of the day with bands and lots and lots of beer.

I also snapped a really blurry picture of Gary Bettman with all of the other members of the ownership group and the NHL brass as they were walking through the arena. Bettman is not as short as he looks on TV.