Seattle & Victoria Vacation

seanramblings posted 4/17/2008 from seanramblings.blogspot.com [flag]

While on vacation last week in Seattle and Victoria, British Columbia, I received the Globe and Mail, "Canada’s National Newspaper," in our Victoria hotel room, which included predictions by the paper’s hockey experts. Roy MacGregor deserves credit for predicting that the Ottawa Senators would defeat the Pittsburgh Penguins in seven games. Wonderful selection! [link]

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Game 4 - Penguins 3, Senators 1; Get out the brooms

Confluence of the Three Rivers posted 4/17/2008 from mvn.com

Give the Ottawa Senators credit, they threw everything but the Canadian kitchen sink at the Penguins tonight. The Sens may have only had 22 shots on net, but they were around the net all night long with numerous scoring opportunities, whether the official scorer gave them credit for all of them or not.

Penguins Complete Sweep, Advance to Round 2

NHLPens posted 4/17/2008 from nhlpens.com

The Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Ottawa Senators 3-1 on Wednesday night to complete a 4-game series sweep and became the first team to advance to round two of the 2008 Stanley Cup Playoffs. For the Penguins it was sweet redemption for last year’s early exit in in the first round of the playoffs courtesy of these same Ottawa Senators. This season, a more experienced, complete and confident ...

It's Not The Fall That Hurts. It's The Sudden Stop At The End

Four Habs Fans found this 4/17/2008 on fiveforsmiting.blogspot.com

Anyone who didn’t realize by the end of December that this was exactly how this season was going to end was either blindly optimistic or hopelessly naïve. One thing is certain, those folks haven’t been watching very closely. We never got ...

The Senators' senator

FanHouse found this 4/17/2008 on mirtle.blogspot.com

Well, that didn't work, did it? Note how he wears his chinstrap like a hockey player, which is why the helmet's rocking around like Marty Brodeur's and pulling the mike away from his face. And I love that he has his script written on his shield. ...

Amended Penguins poll is up

Confluence of the Three Rivers posted 4/17/2008 from mvn.com

Thanks to all 340 of you that voted in the last Penguins poll, asking how far you thought the Pens would go in the playoffs, or if perhaps you didn’t think they’d make the playoffs at all (all four of you). Here’s how the voting ended up;

Penguins top Senators 3-1 and complete series sweep
Evgeni Malkin and Jarko Ruutu scored second-period goals, leading the Pittsburgh Penguins to a 3-1 win over the Ottawa Senators on Wednesday night to complete a four-game sweep of their first-round series.

SPORTS SHORTS
NHL PLAYOFFS: Penguins sweep Evgeni Malkin and Jarko Ruutu scored second-period goals, leading the Penguins to a 3-1 win over the Senators last night in Ottawa to complete a four-game sweep of their first-round series. Pittsburgh became the first...

Pens pen Sens' end
OTTAWA - The Pittsburgh Penguins were on the happy side of the traditional handshake line at the end of this year's playoff series with the Ottawa Senators. Evgeni...

NHL Capsules
OTTAWA (AP) -Evgeni Malkin and Jarko Ruutu scored second-period goals, leading the Pittsburgh Penguins to a 3-1 win over the Ottawa Senators on Wednesday night to complete a four-game sweep of their first-round series. Sidney Crosby scored into ...

Ottawa Senators' latest playoff disappointment stings even harder
OTTAWA - Wade Redden has been around through all of the Senators' playoff highs and even more lows, and it wasn't lost on him that Wednesday night's defeat to the Pittsburgh Penguins was likely his last in an Ottawa uniform. "That's somethin...