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Post by International Hockey Club on Apr 26, 2012 14:14:30 GMT -5
I'm interested in seeing if Vegas comes out rusty from having so long off or really strong from the rest.
Fortunes to the final four of NLHS.
Quebec and Kitchener's second time, while the Legion-Wranglers series is actually the two fifth-place teams from last year's conferences (Wranglers, then known as the Macon Whoopee, missed on the last day because of the Herbalists' 6-2 win that day over Toronto, now Cambridge). Legion, then the Burlington Beasts, missed after a stretch of losing 12 in a row and 18 of 20.
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Post by northstar74 on Apr 26, 2012 16:08:22 GMT -5
Dang... was hoping to win but I gonna tip my hat off to the Philadelphia Legion for a great series.. now to get set somehow for the draft and get my team in shape a bit more for next season and shoot for the sky once again.. good luck all the way and I will be watching to see who is the NLHS champions!!!
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Post by vegasgm on Apr 26, 2012 16:10:46 GMT -5
..yawn.. huh? next round? it's about time. now to avenge the missed presidents trophy and take out the Legion!
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Post by International Hockey Club on Apr 26, 2012 16:34:13 GMT -5
Dang... was hoping to win but I gonna tip my hat off to the Philadelphia Legion for a great series.. now to get set somehow for the draft and get my team in shape a bit more for next season and shoot for the sky once again.. good luck all the way and I will be watching to see who is the NLHS champions!!! I'm sure Ryan tipped his hat to you because you gave the Legion all they could handle and more. I admit that that lineup isn't the greatest (other than Kesler, Burrows, and MAYBE Lucic up front, and Chara on D) but with the re-rates for Vrbata and probably Gagner, you should have a solid team next year!
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Post by northstar74 on Apr 26, 2012 20:02:02 GMT -5
Dang... was hoping to win but I gonna tip my hat off to the Philadelphia Legion for a great series.. now to get set somehow for the draft and get my team in shape a bit more for next season and shoot for the sky once again.. good luck all the way and I will be watching to see who is the NLHS champions!!! I'm sure Ryan tipped his hat to you because you gave the Legion all they could handle and more. I admit that that lineup isn't the greatest (other than Kesler, Burrows, and MAYBE Lucic up front, and Chara on D) but with the re-rates for Vrbata and probably Gagner, you should have a solid team next year! True.. I hope it works for me but will have to think about who to get to upgrade some more.. hmmm but still, it was a great effort on my team's part to do some damage and it almost worked to the point lol ..
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Post by Ryan on Apr 26, 2012 20:43:42 GMT -5
I really expected a Legion sweep, the Mutiny were a great surprise this season. A good lesson on a GM who stays active and makes the necessary tweaks to the lineup on a daily basis. It can take a lower end roster and come out with upper end results. As for the Wranglers, I'm afraid Jake just might get his revenge. It was a close enough regular season finish, and Ward is insane in the playoffs, I'm going to predict he will be the difference in this one. Yeah, really going out on a limb with that one
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Post by Ryan on Apr 27, 2012 14:32:30 GMT -5
Legion ride 42 saves by Pekka Rinne and win a close one 6-5 on the road to open the conference finals. Consider me to be very pleased.
Home ice paid off in that one I think. I could see the home team win all 7 games in this series.
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Post by International Hockey Club on Apr 27, 2012 14:40:08 GMT -5
Also, Herbalists win the first multi-OT game of the playoffs over the Nords. Fun trivia: Nordiques have played in all three multi-OT games in NLHS playoff history (lost to Citadels 2-1, beat Mariners 3-2, lost to Herbalists 4-3).
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Post by habsfanatical on Apr 27, 2012 14:40:52 GMT -5
Holy heart attack city in the opening game of the Canadian Conference Finals, 2OT 4-3 win for the Herbalists with 44 saves from Price. I knew it was going to be close but that's cutting it abit too close lol.
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Post by International Hockey Club on Apr 27, 2012 16:03:15 GMT -5
Just finished working on the remaining regular season banners.
Legion banner is a bit plain, but I was going to try to model it like the striping on the jersey...if the damn thing fit the banner size
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Post by habsfanatical on Apr 27, 2012 16:20:31 GMT -5
Herbalists love the design of their banner!
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Post by northstar74 on Apr 27, 2012 16:25:20 GMT -5
I really expected a Legion sweep, the Mutiny were a great surprise this season. A good lesson on a GM who stays active and makes the necessary tweaks to the lineup on a daily basis. It can take a lower end roster and come out with upper end results. Well I have tried my best to tweak my lineups with some things that did work and some things that did not work for me so I had to think of something else to make it work right.. so far it was fun for me to do it and true, I did lapse a few times in not sending in my lineups as I have forgotten to do a few times *way too busy with other work and school and should have planned my time off good enough but oh well lesson learnt!* Hope I can do the same for next season and looking forward to something better for me and my team...
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Post by International Hockey Club on Apr 29, 2012 11:22:56 GMT -5
Legion and Herbalists win in OT, now headed on the road needing two wins to make the finals -knocks wood-
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Post by vegasgm on Apr 29, 2012 15:00:00 GMT -5
spoke too soon maybe but now we head out to the desert and i'm going to expect a 2-2 series when we're in philly again.
also really dig the banners, thanks Justin!
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Post by Ryan on Apr 29, 2012 16:01:10 GMT -5
today's game was so close though, two OT's... I'm really hoping for a split in Vegas, but you just might get your wish of a tied series.
Two interesting notes for me, I just feel like this is the Legion's year so it's funny that we're playing Vegas who we made the first big deal of the season with. And if both 2-0 leads hold up we'll play the Herbalists in the finals who I picked up some pretty good Wingers from over the summer and throughout the season.
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