the problem is that i don't have any money to buy a new digital camera. so i may have to do some ebay fundraising. i dunno.
i love trent and all, but right now i'm kind of bitter at how much i spent on tickets and how much i've yet to spend on travel costs. i dunno. whatever.
like, right now i'm living on such a tight budget it's ridiculous. spending 5 dollars is a big decision. i look forward to actually getting a full-time job and having cash to do stuff with!!!
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moving on, the ducks eliminated the sharks tonight. the sharks barely put up a fight. so that means i got my wish and now the ducks and red wings will meet in round two. guess what that means? i've got to come up with money to buy a ticket to go see this! i haven't decided if i want to go to game 3 or 4. too bad i can't wait to see how the series is going. obviously, i'd like to see the wings win. i feel like the visiting team has the best chance of winning game 4. why? because if the home team is going to win at home at all, it'll probably be the game when they return home and get that boost from the home crowd. so since games 1 and 2 are in detroit (and i'm hoping the ducks lose both), i'm already assuming the ducks will win game 3 back in anaheim. i dunno. decisions, decisions.
everyone's raving about how hiller (ducks young goalie) played in the first round. and yeah, he made some pretty good saves. but i don't think the majority of the saves he made were difficult. yeah, the sharks got a lot of shots on net, but A LOT of them were bad shots. the sharks only looked dangerous for one game (game 5), and then that was only for about a period and a half. but when the sharks were on their game, anaheim obviously looked really bad. i'm curious to see how anaheim will respond playing against a REAL team. i've already said it, but thornton was invisible most of the series, as were marleau and setoguchi and all the other forwards for the sharks. now all of a sudden the ducks are coming face to face with datsyuk, zetterberg and franzen. and HILLER is coming face to face with (or butt to face, rather) with holmstrom. should be a very different series.
hiller (hopefully) when the fury of the red wings is unleashed upon him:
when it comes to forwards, yeah, the ducks have a talent in ryan, getzlaf and perry. but i don't think there's any argument that the wings have better forwards. when it comes to defense, it's probably a draw. ducks have neidermeyer (or is it niedermeyer, i can never remember), pronger and beauchemin. wings have lidstrom. and rafalski. and kronwall. pronger is a sunovabitch, but he's an awesome, big meanie of a defenseman. i dunno. whatever. so obviously the question lies in goaltending.
like i said, hiller was great in round 1. but he's never been in the playoffs before and in my opinion, he's still a huge question mark. will he come up as big with ZETTERBERG and HOSSA peppering him with shots? if you combined the scariness all of san jose's attack throughout the first round, it wouldn't even compare to what detroit can bring in just one period of play. if i were a goalie i would imagine playing against detroit's forwards would be my idea of a nightmare. let's see how hiller does. as for the back-up situation, the ducks have giguere. yes, he had a rough season, but giguere knows how to win and has "stepped it up" in the playoffs before. it ain't a shabby option. and honestly, i won't be surprised to see him at some point in this series.
now with detroit, it's totally opposite. osgood's in goal, and he's a major playoff veteran with a ton of wins and a few cups. he had a fairly awful regular season and there was a lot of doubt as to whether he could be as solid as detroit would need him to be in the postseason. he was excellent in the first 3 games against the blue jackets. but once again, i've gotta say, aside from rick nash (and i guess umberger), he didn't really face that many prolific goal scorers. he didn't face no getzlafs, selannes or bobby ryans. and after the first three games, people (including me) were breathing sighs of relief and saying that he's a veteran and of course he knows how to win in the postseason. BUT in game 4 we saw ozzy yield some baaaaad goals. i'm not sure on the score, but i THINK it was 6-5. 5 goals is a lot, kids. was that just a fluky game or is regular-season osgood still around? we'll see. and for their back-up situation: conklin. he was certainly capable in the regular season, but i'm not familiar with his postseason record. i can only assume if detroit wanted to keep him around, he must be good. BUT i still think giguere's the better back-up goalie.
WOW i just wrote an essay. okay i'm done now.
ps- why am i addicted to gifs?
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