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great to see these young teams built through drafts winning.

Could you imagine... you're 22 and on top of the entire hockey world.
 
Congrats Blackhawks!

Unbelievable historic moment in sports.

Poor Philly fans...dead silent, like someone just pick-pocketed their winning Powerball ticket and they're all still searching their pockets! 😀

This could be the first time a major professional team just won the championship but is too tepid to celebrate, lol. (for a few seconds anyways)
 
At that angle, there must have been 6" at the most for the goalie to guard, yet he let it thru. An incredible shot, and a 'horrifying' brain fart on the goalie's part that will unfortunately leave himself kicking his own @ss for a very long time.

Fortunately it doesn't look like Philly fans have called him Bill Buckner yet (and he doesn't deserve to be imo), but it was a really bad mistake.
 
I wonder how Philly Fan feels about being the team that has broken decades long dry runs to two different teams in the Finals; Detroit and Chicago.
 
Sentrosi2121 said:
I wonder how Philly Fan feels about being the team that has broken decades long dry runs to two different teams in the Finals; Detroit and Chicago.
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Yeah, they must be fucking heartbroken to have beaten the Caps and Pens, win the east and put up a damn good fight in the series. 🙄
 
jjsole said:
At that angle, there must have been 6" at the most for the goalie to guard, yet he let it thru. An incredible shot, and a 'horrifying' brain fart on the goalie's part that will unfortunately leave himself kicking his own @ss for a very long time.

Fortunately it doesn't look like Philly fans have called him Bill Buckner yet (and he doesn't deserve to be imo), but it was a really bad mistake.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM-liaIazeU

It looked like he tried to lay down on it? Lame. But we all knew that Leights was slow on the 5 hole. A shame it had to end with such a soft goal, even Chicago expected him to save it.
 
Sentrosi2121 said:
I wonder how Philly Fan feels about being the team that has broken decades long dry runs to two different teams in the Finals; Detroit and Chicago.
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They probably don't care who they lost to, it just sucks to win only one major sport national championship in more than 25 years 😉

1983 76ers
1975 Flyers
1960 Eagles
2008 Phillies (before that, 1980)

Especially the Eagles, who have been consistently good for so long, only to fall short every year. Four straight conference championship games, one Super Bowl, no trophy.

There was talk of the Flyers being one of the greatest underdog champions ever (don't talk about that until it happens!), but they were no 2007-2008 New York Giants. 😉
 
Sentrosi2121 said:
I wonder how Philly Fan feels about being the team that has broken decades long dry runs to two different teams in the Finals; Detroit and Chicago.
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Um, the Phillies just had a massive parade 2 years ago and went to the World Series last year and the Cup Finals this year. We're not exactly hurting for excitement or euphoria.
http://myteamrivals.typepad.com/.a/6a00e5513d181b883401287692b5a7970c-800wi

The Flyers coming back 0-3 in the series and 0-3 in Game 7 was the greatest comeback in playoff history for all of North American sports. It is all but guaranteed that you will never see such a feat for the rest of your life.
 
mugs said:
There was talk of the Flyers being one of the greatest underdog champions ever (don't talk about that until it happens!), but they were no 2007-2008 New York Giants. 😉
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It could easily be argued that the 12-4 Hawks who sweeped SJ (2nd best in NHL) were just as dominant as the Patriots on their run to the SB. They were the 3rd best playing the 20th best Flyers who got in the playoffs on a lucky penalty shot.

RE: Super Bowl XLII, the Giants had already scored 35 on the Pats and only lost by 3 on the last day of the season. Whoopdefcking do:
New England won, 38–35, by overcoming a 12-point deficit in the third quarter, the largest deficit they had faced all season.
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NY already proved they could compete with New England and they didn't have to do it in a best of 7 series. Flyers vs Boston was a much tougher feat and if Philly beat Chicago it would have had to do it 4 times instead of 1. Now tell us which would have been the greater victory? 😛

The XLII Giants had as much of a chance of beating the Patriots 4 out of 7 times as the Flyers vs Chicago this year. Except in football, you only have to do it once even if you're the inferior team.
 
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SP33Demon said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM-liaIazeU

It looked like he tried to lay down on it? Lame. But we all knew that Leights was slow on the 5 hole. A shame it had to end with such a soft goal, even Chicago expected him to save it.
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Yep, because he was way too slow or lazy getting in position for the puck being on his right side like that, so his attempt to block it was awkward.

That corner of the net should have been blocked already by the right side of his body.

/edit: watching it again, the goalie wasn't that far out of position, just not nearly as tight in position as he should have been.
 
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SP33Demon said:
The Flyers coming back 0-3 in the series and 0-3 in Game 7 was the greatest comeback in playoff history for all of North American sports. It is all but guaranteed that you will never see such a feat for the rest of your life.
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Second 0-3 comeback in 6 years for N.A. sports.

2004 Boston Red Sox.
 
FallenHero said:
Do you actually understand why Roenick was crying?
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Because it was one of the teams that he once played for 10 years ago? A team that he admittedly dislikes because of the way they got rid of him? A stupid reason to cry IMO.

He also played for the Flyers, so I guess he was going to cry no matter what
 
Flipped Gazelle said:
Second 0-3 comeback in 6 years for N.A. sports.

2004 Boston Red Sox.
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And the Red Sox were down 1 run in the bottom of the 9th inning, 3 outs away from elimination of the playoffs, batting against the greatest post-season closer in mlb history, before tying the game and going into extra innings, eventually winning the game and the next 3 advance to the world series (and then win that.)

This was the greatest post-season comeback in major sports history imo.
 
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haha seriously

but I know how it goes when its your team

they still talk about Illinois Arizona on ESPN sometimes and its by far my favorite huge comeback of 'recent' memory
 
Kev said:
Because it was one of the teams that he once played for 10 years ago? A team that he admittedly dislikes because of the way they got rid of him? A stupid reason to cry IMO.

He also played for the Flyers, so I guess he was going to cry no matter what
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Is this really the only way you can think of to get under Hawks fan's skins? lol
 
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