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Open Post- Game 1 Of The Eastern Conference Final

05/18/2023 at 8:01pm EDT

SYF

It's 6:30 PM here in Vegas and it's a balmy 97 deg F.

SYF

MTkachuk and his mouthguard oral fixation.

Ewww...

SYF

Saw that one happening a mile away.

Tied at 1-apiece.

SYF

That's already two lead changes in the game already.  We were told it was gonna be a fun series.

bigfrog

2-1 Cats after two periods. They are doing well as long as no more Pittsburgh 5 on 3's are called against them.

Cigar-Nurse

Howdy all. Just in to see the tying goal by the Caines. 

Thats one of the things I miss. The games from CBC from across the river. 

SYF

"Let's Get Nuts!"  Eh???

What's wrong with your nuts?

Cigar-Nurse

Kind of amazing that the final 4 teams are south of the Mason-Dixon Line with the Caines the northern most team. 

StargateSG1Cigar-Nurse

You should check out some Canadian sites and how many there think it's a Gary's conspiracy to not let

Canadian teams to win the Cup and that all those 4 remaining teams are somehow beneath them and undeserving compared to Canada. 

PaulCigar-Nurse

Check your bearings CN, Ron MacLean said Vegas tonight and I actually heard the same a few days ago.

Cigar-NursePaul

Just looked up the latitude lines and Raleigh is less than 1 degree more north. 

PaulCigar-Nurse

Thanks, going to ask for a challenge on this one.  I would have thought Raleigh too.

SYFPaul

latlong.net.

Raleigh, NC:  35.779591 lat, -78.638176 long

Las Vegas, NV:  36.169941 lat, -115.139832 long

Paul

14 shots for Canes in the 3rd, Panthers have 1.

SYFPaul

It's not even close, but the game in the third feels like it's about 60% in FLA's end of the ice.

SYF

And we go to OT:  the greatest spectacle in team sports.

Cigar-NurseSYF

This is what makes it the best sport on the planet. 

SYF

I step away for a little while and we have our first drama - a no-goal in OT.  

Can't get more intense than that.

SYF

This is beautiful.  Second OT coming up.

Gonna be sniffing an awful lot of smelling salts.

SYF

Neither keeper giving up any  chance for a reebie.  They're both just smothering the pucks and stopping play.

SYF

Monster toe save by Andersen on Montour just two feet in front of him.

SYF

Both keepers are getting bigger and bigger in the net for both teams.  An epic game.

Paul

The latest I stayed up for a hockey game was Wings/Ducks game.  Shanny scored in 2ot and I looked at the time, 1:42am.  This one may beat it.

SYFPaul

The Larionov 3OT was my longest, Boss.

Never thought in the 40+ years I've been watching hockey that I'd see a 4OT game. 

PaulSYF

4ot is very rare but the longest was in 1936 when Mud Bruneteau scored the winning goal at 16:30 of the sixth overtime in Detroit.  He was a rookie and playing in his first playoff game.

SYFPaul

Yeah, I was just looking at that:  nearly 168 minutes of hockey.

Saw a tweet that said, If someone wins tonight, can they make it  be a 2-0 series?

Yes, I lol'd in my belly.

dca

It's about 10 mins to 2am and I am going to have to give up on a classic even if it is not finished or goes to 5OT...10 mins left on my viewing....kinda ridiculous for two eastern time zone teams....


dca

goal Florida on a mental mistake with 12.7 sec left in 4OT

Brent Burns lazy clear turnover by Slavin

SYF

It's FLA in 4OT.  And it had to be a Tkachuk.  

Wow.  What a great game.  An amazing game.

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