Canucks Playoff Hockey - courtesy of the NHL
The NHL playoffs officially began today, and the Vancouver Canucks are in it. Their first series start with the Dallas Stars, a solid hockey franchise from Texas.
I’m not a hockey nerd in the sense of knowing the stats of all the players etc. like some of my friends, but I sure do get into the atmosphere of it when the games are on, especially the playoffs. I am usually OK with missing regular season games and often I never even keep track of when they are, but playoff season is a whole different story.
To non-hockey watching friends (especially some female friends who will not sit with me while I glue my eyes to the TV) I’m pretty much a write-off for as long as the Canucks are in the playoffs. The further they go the happier I will be, as I lose efficiency to a certain degree and don`t see some friends for a while.
It’s worth it - that’s all I’ll say.
Although, I do feel proud at the degree of control I had this time. While I can never miss the 3rd period (the 3rd is the last period in a hockey game, unless it goes to overtime), I can live with missing the first two. Today, I went to Blenz Cafe with my laptop to work there with their free wireless internet, and stayed there without a TV until the game was almost done.
Of course, when I got home to watch the last period, the game tied up at 4-4, and it went to overtime. In NHL playoffs, the overtime goes on until there is a goal to win it - it never goes to shoot-outs. Each overtime period is 20 minutes long - just like regular periods, and the longest NHL game ever went to 6 overtimes - or 9 periods in total. That was nearly 180 minutes of pure play, three times the length of a regular hockey game and twice as long as a World Cup soccer match.
Now it’s at overtime #3, so on the 6th period, and I’m watching period #4 for the night - longer than a regular game as it is, although I intended to watch a little of it so I can get more work… they say you can expect anything to happen in the playoffs and I’m feeling the effect of it for sure. The freaking game started at 7PM and after all the periods and the breaks we’re at 11:30 PM. Can we let this end? I refuse to go to bed before this ends. And neither will the crowd watching the game at GM place.
I didn’t expect this much action on game #1 of the playoff series.
You can’t consider yourself a real Canucks fan if you go to bed before the game is over. I don’t care what you have to do the next morning or how late it is…it doesn’t matter what it is, the Canucks are more important.
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! What a great game.
I whole heartedly agree. I watched til the end and I had to muffle my cheers with my pillow so I don’t wake my roommate up (who has to work early).
It’s almost 2 now as I wrap up the night - I’m still getting up at 8!
Yeah what a great great great great game. Luongo rules.
Ok Jeff, you can’t compare with my Sabres! Willing to make a wager?
Oohhhhhhh
I used to have a Sabres jersey. Well, it was my buddy drew’s thing that somehow trickled into my posession and then he found it-reclaimed it when he was over last time.
Sabres are a great team - I like them. But I’m still vouching for my guys!
Let’s have a wager - loser writes a blog review for the other guy, and provides a blog-roll link for 1 month? Depending on which team gets further??
Uh oh 3 and 3! The only 1st round game to go all 7 games. Nervous yet?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Yeah I’m too scared to watch the game so I’m not watching it right now.. the 1st period is over now.. grrr.
Hey Jeff,
I need your help! I’m going to attempt to set a Guinness World Record and I need as much help promoting as possible.
The record I’m going to try and set is the longest blog comment string ever. For more details you can see the post here: World Record Attempt
YES!!!! VICTORY IS MINE! Any Ottawa fans out there want some of this?
Darn i was hoping you’d forgotten about this but yeah.
Darn darn darn.
Blog review for Jay Geiger Coming up this week!