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Thursday, CBC, Sportsnet, MSNBC at 7:00 p.m. Tagline: "Music City vs. River City" Storyline: Game 7, 'nuff said. Quote: “It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going" - Brian Tracy Quote #2: “There is no tomorrow! There is no tomorrow!" - Apollo Creed Fun facts: Nashville is still 0-8 when losing the first game of a series (I'll keep throwing this one out as long as I have to)........Winnipeg has played 2 prior game 7's in their NHL history dating back to 1.0 days; both times they lost after having never trailed in the series up to that point....... There have been 60 playoff games played in the last 5 years on 2 days' rest, the team that lost the game prior to the 2 days off won the next game 40 times (courtesy CBC, not independently fact-checked).......Since the introduction of the 7 game series for all rounds of the playoffs, no team has ever won the Stanley Cup without winning at least one overtime game, the closest any team got was the 2000 New Jersey Devils, who did not play an overtime game until they lost game 5 of the Finals against Dallas in extra time, and then they won the Cup in double overtime of game 6....the last team to win the Cup without winning (or even playing) in OT were the 1983 New York Islanders.......Andrei Vasilevsky (52) and Connor Hellebuyck (51) have joined the 50+ wins club this year (counting regular season and playoff games), there has never been a year when 3 goalies have all reached that mark - Pekka Rinne is at 49 wins right now (Brayden Holtby is the one other goalie with a shot to hit that mark - the Caps would need to win the Stanley Cup with him winning all the games for him to hit 50 on the nose).....Since the creation of the NHL in 1918, the #1 and #2 teams overall in the regular season have played a game 7 in the playoffs only 7 times (or 8, if you ignore the tiebreaker system the NHL has in place, see below), the underdog has won the 7th game only once: 1938: Boston (1) over New York Rangers (2) in the semi-finals (in double OT on a Mel Hill goal - his 3rd OT goal of the series) in the first ever game 7 in NHL history 1941: Boston (1) over Toronto (2) in the semi-finals 1954: Detroit (1) over Montreal (2) in the Cup final in OT (the second of only two game 7 OT winners in Cup finals history - 1950 being the first - as Tony Lestwick deflects a shot off of Doug Harvey's glove and into the net, making it the second-most infamous own goal by a defenseman in NHL playoff history - thanks Steve Smith) 1955: Detroit (1) over Montreal (2) in the Cup final again 1987: Edmonton (1) over Philadelphia (2) in the Cup final 1994: New York Rangers (1) over New Jersey (2) in the Conference Finals (In double OT - Matteau! Matteau! Matteau!) 2017: Pittsburgh (2) over Washington (1) in the Division Finals Special case - 2001: Colorado (1) over New Jersey (2 - technically 3rd because they had the same number of points as Detroit but fewer wins) in the Cup Final (Bourque finally wins one)

"YOLO"

Jon Keen: . @BCLions coach Wally Buono says he's "going to be more reckless...try even harder to win," in his last season as Lions HC. Says "what are they going to do fire me?" Adding it would only start his retirement earlier. #CFL Ummm, if I was a BC fan I might not know how to interpret this . . .

Some of us have actual jobs and are more concerned with paying bills than the outcome of a random hockey game, but I'll get right on that for you, my Highness.

Why the change of heart?

Oh thats crappy. The site got imported to a new database and it looks like the forums ids were changed. You will have to go back to the base URL (www.morningbigblue.com ) and navigate to the forums and re-bookmark them.

Because I've been so focused on Hockey, slipped my mind we have Durant in the fold. Eagerly curious to see what he brings to our team this year.

I think a lot of the Maurice-should-be-fired talk is gone and well should be. We see his influence in how the Jets play. But it definitely relies on having a big, fast, skilled team executing that style. When they dont, and especially when the opposing team is "winning", the Jets seem to never make in-game adjustments. They stick to their plan, no matter what. So hopefully, they can execute at a high level and not get down against the Preds tomorrow.

They couldnt make a crisp pass at all and Nashville were much more physical and attacked the puck after our dump ins way more aggressively. It was not Maurice or line up changes...it looked like a nervous team playing hesitant.

Buckley's going to med school, per the article. Doesn't sound like sneaky roster management. Congrats to Buckley on his med school admission and all the best to him in his next act. Winning a couple Hec Creightons while doing pre-med in university, that's a pretty serious accomplishment, deserves respect.

not sure why it didn't work for me. EDIT - now it's working!

Took you long enough.

The good old Get-ladium! Had a great soundsystem for a small room back in the 90's. And nice cheap drinks on the weekends.

May Game 7 be the last ******* time we see that stuping ******* catfish

Everything goes back to Trump not releasing his tax returns, he knows releasing them would tell everybody his real worth and where his money comes from.

It's all about execution. I don't mind the story but am hoping for more.

On the topic of upgrading sites, anybody else notice riderfans has been down for several days now?

I was getting the same thing on Chrome. I went directly to: Https://WWW.MORNINGBIGBLUE.COM and got in. Had to log on again and change my bookmarks before they worked again.

well that doesn't even sound like a remotely interesting story.

As per Brian Munz No Little, Trouba or Enstrom during today’s #NHLJets practice. Lines:Connor-Scheifele-WheelerEhlers-Stastny-LaineCopp-Lowry-ArmiaPerreault-Roslovic-TanevPoolman-MorrisseyMorrow-ByfuglienChiarot-MyersKulikov rotating through #wpgwhiteout #stanleycup

so is everyone so down-hearted after that game six that no one is going to start a thread for Game 7?

The wrong kid died!

Pretty sure this game is going to be unreal: Absolutely unreal.

I thought the same until actually seeing its horrifying visage. In actuality, Simmons created this demon based on Inuit mythology, which is heavily rooted in shamanism and reverence of animals. So, the Tuunbaq's appearance fits those parameters. Monday's episode really set the tone for how frightening a creature it is, IMO. It seems pretty much invincible.

I actually thought it was just a really large polar bear at first.

Whoops posted from the wrong link. Here it is:

I was gobsmacked with the timing and the method they used to dispose of Franklin, I figured it was just a Tony Soprano dream sequence.....fook no.

People wanted to run Maurice out of town after last season......they have had a great season under his direction this year and are battling against a good team with a huge amount of playoff experience. They are now going into a game 7. If it was an easy job all the arm chair coaches here would be in the NHL. I guess you now all think Pittsburg should run their coach out of town now.

Rambo 5 is coming! filming this fall.

Once Trump scraps the emissions standards and rolls back the fuel efficiency targets to pre-1974 we'll be able to stretch out our legs once again in one of these beauties.

I agree 100% - get a real MLB that plays like a MLB and let our safety play like a safety instead of covering up for a weak MLB - and the entire D backfield will look better.

Open hand slaps instead?

Any Canadian OL in that data base?

Obvious troll is painfully obvious

Stefan LeFors left arm was crucial to winning that East Final.

Nice try, Mike.

Mike Kelly sounds good to me! The players that he and "the database" brought in were the main reason they went to the Grey Cup a few years later.

Add in Lapolice and what he can teach Simonise and you never know...this kid has the ability to be a star....its a roll of the dice and i give Walters credit for taking that risk....

So discard the fact he fought back, ran away and had to be subdued gotcha. *finger guns*

I'll take a late October Grey Cup please and thank you