Starting with the Ottawa Senators fans and team, it is good to see a Canadian team in the finals. The finals will be worth watching to see if the Cup will go to a Canadian team. I would like to see the finals with Detroit versus Ottawa just so I get to see in my lifetime a Canadian team fight for the trophy with the Red Wings. If it is Anaheim then Senators all the way.
About game five so the Ducks won. And I read that this is a seven game series. We have known that but Ducks fans seem to think the series was won then. That the Red Wings have nothing left. But there is some good defense being played by the Red Wings right now in the second period. It will be interesting to see the Wings come back to Detroit in game 7 if they win tonight. Right now the Ducks are ahead by one goal. A short handed shot from Pronger deflected off Rob Niedermayer. Hasek and Gigeure have played to the highest level of skill that has been demanded from each goalie. The Wings did this against Kiprussoff and Nabokov and won. Yes in six. But if the Wings win this series it will have through three rounds in these playoffs of getting past three amazing goalkeepers. If the Ducks win the same can be said of Hasek when so many people wrote him off for the bus to the old folks home instead round three game six against the Ducks.
Dominik Hasek has gone against Jerome Iginla, Joe Thornton and Jonathon Cheechoo, Teemu Selanne now will he have the chance to keep Daniel Alfredson out of the goals scored column. Time will tell. Some team will be playing golf. Now it is 2-0. It looks like the only thing preventing the answer here is time and plenty of hockey left to be played.
If I had to pick a player from Anaheim to be MVP it would be J S Giguere for Detroit Dan Cleary or Dominik Hasek.
The game of hockey is intense, it is a game that is not about finesse all the time. It is about second chances and detmerination and the fight to win welcome back DMAC #25!
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