at El Casa Móvil De Pennington...
Wings 1, Ducks 0. Six minutes in on a disputed goal... that stands. Yes!
Update, three minutes later: Ducks score. Tie game. Dang.
And 34 seconds later... Ducks score again. On the power play. Ooh. Lotsa hockey left, as they say.
Update: Samuelsson scores at about the 14 minute mark on an odd man rush... tie game. It's up and back hockey... good stuff.
(Last) Update: Ducks score early in the second, lead 3-2. I'm gonna concentrate on the game and not the blog. The Wings are sure missing Rafalski... lotsa defensive mistakes.
Penultimate Update: End of the first OT (after Detroit ties it up early in the third)... still tied. This might be too much excitement for an old man. "Be still, my beating heart" doesn't quite cover it. I need to make sure the aspirin bottle is handy...
Another Penultimate Update: End of 2OT. They've played 100 minutes of hockey (just over four hours, in real time) at The Joe, or one and two thirds complete games. When will this end? More importantly... how will this end? These guys just have to be exhausted...
The End: Ducks score about a minute and half into the third OT. Series tied. And now we'll get to Not-So-Happy Hour and (metaphorically) cry in our beer.
Wings 1, Ducks 0. Six minutes in on a disputed goal... that stands. Yes!Update, three minutes later: Ducks score. Tie game. Dang.
And 34 seconds later... Ducks score again. On the power play. Ooh. Lotsa hockey left, as they say.
Update: Samuelsson scores at about the 14 minute mark on an odd man rush... tie game. It's up and back hockey... good stuff.
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Penultimate Update: End of the first OT (after Detroit ties it up early in the third)... still tied. This might be too much excitement for an old man. "Be still, my beating heart" doesn't quite cover it. I need to make sure the aspirin bottle is handy...
Another Penultimate Update: End of 2OT. They've played 100 minutes of hockey (just over four hours, in real time) at The Joe, or one and two thirds complete games. When will this end? More importantly... how will this end? These guys just have to be exhausted...
The End: Ducks score about a minute and half into the third OT. Series tied. And now we'll get to Not-So-Happy Hour and (metaphorically) cry in our beer.
shaping up to be a doozy
ReplyDeleteThat it IS!
ReplyDeleteOh boy - HUGE momentum shift. And a PP now. Ouch.
ReplyDeleteYeah... the Wings have owned the third period of most games... historically. I'm hopin' that holds. We're lookin' MUCH better now.
ReplyDeleteWe just watched the game at work Buck... sorry! They played hard, and gave it a good go. Sux to have it come down to the wire like that. B's aren't doing to good right now... misery loves company...
ReplyDeleteI'll just pull up a chair next to yours and ~clink~ toast your Wings if you'll console me if the B's don't pull their act together!
Alison: I watched the B's game... sorry about that. There seemed to be a lot of similarities in the two games, which is to say both the B's and Wings pretty much dominated except where it mattered: on the scoreboard. Now it's "best of five" for both teams.
ReplyDeleteSee ya in the Finals! ;-)
Sounds like a real nail-biter! Sorry that it did not turn out the way you wanted.
ReplyDeleteLou: "Nail-biter" doesn't BEGIN to describe it!! But... as my Ol Man used to say: "Ya can't win em ALL." Now it's best of five, as I told Alison.
ReplyDeleteit's GOLF SEASON at our house!
ReplyDeletenanc: Lotsa folks hitting the links around here, too. I'm not one of 'em, though. I have enough frustration in my life without adding to it, LOL!
ReplyDeleteThere is nothing so nerve-frying, for a sports fan, as OT hockey in the playoffs. Sorry you came out on the wrong end of that one, Buck, but I still think the Wings take it to the next round.
ReplyDeleteAgreed, Jim. It's the sudden-death aspect, innit? Your heart is in your mouth with every shot, every save... on BOTH sides of the equation!
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