Wild/Wolves win......

[Hype*]

Minnesota sports fans needed a night like last night, what 2 great games!!!...

KG putting up HUGE numbers and Troy Hudson thought he was good for a night...And the Wild upset Colorado now on to Van-ville...

what a night...

[Mr. Grouchface]

i would love to see t-hud be more consistent like he was last night... he needs to stay in control more too. the man has got some mean handles though.

[cliff snotes]

finally a minnesota team that makes it out of the first round, were taking the canucks now

[Diggla]

Tonite at 10:00-10:30-i hope im some where w/a tv screen preferably a big one so i dont miss the Wolves whup some ass

[Diggla]

O my god that was intense

[Chantal]

Well, I give the wild an A for Effort tonight... I wonder what would have happened if those two didn't run into eachother.

[Diggla]

They get this win today and it's ova 4 the lakers

[Hollywood]

KG cant handle the pressure.

[elray]

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Hollywood:
KG cant handle the pressure.<hr></blockquote>

obviously you dont watch much basketball when KG is averaging 35-15-6 in the playoffs v.s the 3 time world champs in handleing the pressure just fine.

[Hollywood]

nah didnt you see that shit he said yesterday, he sounded so stupid and no he cant handle the pressure when it comes down to it.

[Hype*]

your stupid...
what do you know about pressure and being on a basketball court in a big game with millions of people watching. Do you even play or watch basketball?...The man is putting up great playoff numbers. Just cuz Wally is playing with his head up his ass and Rasho cant stay in the game for shit, dosnt mean that KG cant handle pressure. Garnett is the reason why we are in the playoffs. And thanks the basketball gods for Hudson's play so far this series.

[Diggla]

They were so close yesterday.

KG and Troy Hud are the key players in this playoff game and i cant wait till the next game to see what flip has up his sleeve

[cliff snotes]

wild won hockey anybody

[Passing Glimpse]

I think that it's so funny that I started a stanley cup topic and no one posts under it.(You do realize that's that the Wild are trying to win)

I also find it funny how most of you were hatin on me about one and a half months ago about Hockey and how it sucks. Funny how things change.

Enjoy the games I know that I am.

[Diggla]

I hate hockey until i start watchin it then im only viewing it cuz i want ta see a fight break out.

It also feels great to see my hometown sports succeed in something other than baseball

[Diggla]

Tonites the nite that some kind of magic has to take place cause we got a hockey and a basketball game jumpin off and i demand that both teams win.

Who's w/me on this one?

[Passing Glimpse]

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Try-D:
I hate hockey until i start watchin it then im only viewing it cuz i want ta see a fight break out.

It also feels great to see my hometown sports succeed in something other than baseball<hr></blockquote>

Don't deny the fact that you like it. I remember watching a game with you, you deep down really like it.

[Poop]

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Christina:


Don't deny the fact that you like it. I remember watching a game with you, you deep down really like it.<hr></blockquote>

TRY-DENIAL IS A HYPOCRIT

[Hollywood]

thats why they call him Try

[Passing Glimpse]

Hockey









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Posted on Tue, Apr. 29, 2003

Eye for an eye
BY BRIAN MURPHY
Pioneer Press







Well, that didn't take long, eh?

After only two games, the feuds that had injected the nascent Vancouver-Minnesota rivalry with doses of regular-season venom have exploded in the playoffs.

The chaos at the end of the Wild's 3-2 victory Sunday night at GM Place in Vancouver was the byproduct of a frenetic conclusion to an emotionally charged game. But it also was a salvo by the Canucks to establish a tone for Game 3 of the Western Conference semifinals tonight at the Xcel Energy Center.

With the series tied 1-1, nobody on either team expects anarchy, but the game promises to be something more than a pedestrian affair. Somebody somewhere is likely to exact some street justice in response to the bitterness that boiled over in the final moments Sunday.

With seven seconds remaining, Willie Mitchell and Trevor Linden scuffled and were sent to their respective dressing rooms with roughing penalties.

As the Wild celebrated their victory after the final horn, Vancouver's chief antagonist, Matt Cooke, tomahawked Matt Johnson on the ankle, felling the rugged winger to the ice. Brad Brown and Todd Bertuzzi traded punches in front of the benches. Mitchell resurfaced during the celebration and tangled with Ed Jovanovski.

Officials dished out 54 minutes in penalties and five misconducts at the 20-minute mark of the third period, including a game misconduct to Mitchell — the man at the epicenter of the quake.

During a scramble in front of Dwayne Roloson in the final minute, the Canucks said referees Mike McGeough and Dean Warren missed Mitchell closing his hand on the puck in the crease, an infraction that warranted a Canucks penalty shot.

It certainly did not lighten their mood as the Wild skated off their ice with a win. Given the raucous history between the teams, the shenanigans that followed were not all that shocking.

"When you have a pile of guys on the ice, something's going to happen," Brown said. "A guy gets punched, throws a punch back. It makes for a good series.

"It wasn't that unexpected. Both games came down to the last second. All their top guys were on the ice trying to score a goal. The frustration carried over until after the game."

For the second consecutive game, the decision came down to the last frenzied moments. The Wild were 1.2 seconds away from swiping Game 1 until Cooke's tying goal forced overtime, where Trent Klatt stole it back to bag the Canucks at least one home victory.

"I'm sure for them getting beat by us, it's got to be frustrating a bit," Wild coach Jacques Lemaire said. "They had a few chances at the end to score. That adds up. When you get there, get close, and you don't score and you're upset, things like that could happen."

Cooke said, "Obviously, we were frustrated. Maybe it sent a little message. That's all."

So how much bad blood will spill into tonight? No one in either dressing room would swallow that hook Monday. Proper service was paid with a stiff upper lip.

"It's time to refocus, reload and try to win the game," Brown said. "We can't worry about Game 2. That will just hurt us."

Just don't expect anyone to back down if provoked.

"Nobody's going to bluff anybody now," Sergei Zholtok said. "Nobody's going to give an inch to anybody. It's just a battle, a lot of emotions, people playing hockey who want to win."

Timid starts have proved costly for the Canucks, who twice fell behind by two goals early in the third period and had to play catch up. In the first round against Colorado, the Wild rarely played with the lead.

"When a team tries to press the other way, we get turnovers and go the other way, that's what our hockey team is known for," Mitchell said. "If we put ourselves in that position, we usually fare pretty well."

The leads have allowed the Wild to dictate the play more against Vancouver, but they have had to bear the full brunt of the Canucks' forechecking pressure in the third period.

Vancouver has outshot the Wild 70-39 overall and 28-14 in third periods and overtime, where the Canucks and their top line of Bertuzzi, Markus Naslund and Brendan Morrison have found that extra gear.

Unlike the Avs, who relied on 1½ lines for all of their offense, Vancouver rolls out two others that attack and pound the boards as well as anyone. In practice Monday, the Wild worked on getting the puck out of their zone faster.

"Their three lines are the best working team in the NHL," Lemaire said. "It's a team that forechecks well. They cover the boards well. That gives us a little tough time to get the puck quickly out of our end."

Regardless of bloodshed or vengeance, the accelerator should remain jammed tonight.

"It's playoff hockey," Cliff Ronning said. "It's rough. It's fast. It's great."


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[Passing Glimpse]

You know it! 5-1.