Confidence Poll: Stanley Cup Edition
by Ben Rothenberg on Jun 6, 2010 11:39 AM EDT
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PrintThroughout the season, we here at Broad Street Hockey have kept our finger right where it belongs--on the pulse of Flyers fans like yourself.
With that in mind, let's quantify the confidence about the rest of the 2009-10 season, a campaign which will contain, at most, three more games.
Make your pick in the poll below, and explain your premonition in the comments below.
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I was waiting for a more appropriate post to ask this question and this feels like a good one…
We all know how superstitious hockey players and their fans can be… I’m no different. I’ve got a playoff beard going right now but unfortunately, I start work at my summer coop (Required by my college paid internship basically for those who don’t know) on monday and am expected to be well… groomed.
My question… shave today before the game and treat it as a mini-series… or wait till tonight and shave afterward…
Shave before the game. I shaved before Game 7 against Boston and I haven’t looked back.
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by Travis Hughes on Jun 6, 2010 12:30 PM EDT up reply actions
I shaved after Game 3 with Boston to change it up (being down 0-3 and all). Needless to say, my current beard is 10-4.
Flyers, the only Philly team that matters
Don’t you mean 10-3?
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by Travis Hughes on Jun 6, 2010 5:01 PM EDT up reply actions
Trim it back.
Go Go Gadget Gagne
What if Broad Street Didn't Fight Back? History HAS been made. 5-7-10
5-8-10...the day the Purdue Boilermakers basketball team won the 2011 NCAA Championship!!
cant just trim it back since I saw them last before the playoffs clean shaven so it’s not like they don’t know I have a beard unfortunately…
What’s wrong with a well trimmed beard? What are they nazi’s?
Go Go Gadget Gagne
What if Broad Street Didn't Fight Back? History HAS been made. 5-7-10
5-8-10...the day the Purdue Boilermakers basketball team won the 2011 NCAA Championship!!
Just playing it safe… most companies have the mindset that since I’m a college kid, there’s not need for a full beard
Why do college kids need beards less than non-college people?
An Ohio fan of the Philadelphia Flyers, Carolina Panthers, Oakland A's, and Philadelphia 76ers. Strange? Yes. Very.
by chillicothe20 on Jun 6, 2010 5:22 PM EDT up reply actions
Shave whenever you feel comfortable. Either the Flyers will play well and win or play poorly and lose. The hairs on your face will not help them either way…
"Game 7's are tough... It's a game that's made for men and our guys proved to be men today." -Laviolette
by PatterPoet95 on Jun 6, 2010 12:50 PM EDT up reply actions
I've come up
with a rule that you can shave between series. A little shaving before 3 gamer seems safe.
I’m such a superstitious fan that I don’t even vote in polls like this… I’m too scared I might jinx the Flyers. But I hope that the majority of people who voted, are right.
I love the Lightning AND the Flyers... go ahead, preach me!
Haha, I’m right with you. I voted in confidence polls all year but I’m not going anywhere near the “Vote” button this time
by DragonGirl0583 on Jun 6, 2010 5:10 PM EDT up reply actions
I picked the Flyers in 6, but...
…it could just as easily be the Blackhawks in 7. I like the Flyers to win game 5 for a couple of reasons.
First, the Blackhawks are a young team that has consistently been told how great they are in general and how much better they are than the Flyers in particular. As a general rule I think that spells doom for a lot of young teams. It’s one of the main reasons there are so many upsets in college basketball & football; young players have a tendency to believe their own press. Whether that’s true of the Blackhawks, we’ll see…
Secondly, the Blackhawks have had a more trouble at home than on the road. Given point #1, they might be there to be taken tonight if the Flyers can jump out to a 2 goal lead (though no lead is safe against them). You hafta believe that the Flyers are going to take one of these games on the road with the way they’ve been playing, and I like their chances in game 5 a helluva lot more than in game 7.
Third, if the Flyers were so fortunate as to win tonight, it would mean that the Flyers are really on top of their game, and I don’t think the ’Hawks would be able to deny them in game 6.
That being said, if the ‘Hawks rebound tonight I think it’s probably enough to carry them through to the end. Not that the Flyers are out of it if they lose. It’s just that it becomes very unlikely.
Honestly, I’m just leaning towards the Flyers now because this damned series has been too epic to predict.
394–129–3
Am I the only one afraid to vote for fear of a jinx?
Go Go Gadget Gagne
What if Broad Street Didn't Fight Back? History HAS been made. 5-7-10
5-8-10...the day the Purdue Boilermakers basketball team won the 2011 NCAA Championship!!
If Ritchie can touch the Prince of Wales trophy, then you can vote in this poll.
394–129–3
by mushdamma on Jun 6, 2010 12:36 PM EDT up reply actions 4 recs
Agreed.
GO FLYERS!!!!
#1 Flyers fan in England (originally from Southeastern PA)
by Orange and Black Forever on Jun 6, 2010 12:48 PM EDT up reply actions
No you’re not. See my earlier comment. ;)
I love the Lightning AND the Flyers... go ahead, preach me!
Flip a coin
I don’t have a real strong conviction one way or another who wins. There’s very little that separates these two teams, either is just as capable of winning a road game as the other, and either is just as capable of pulling off a run of two games or more.
I guess Flyers in 7, for the hell of it.
This Poll Needed...
Flyers in 5 (I don’t care, it’s happening!)
The Islanders went from Marty McInnis and a 2nd Overall pick to Jesse Joensuu.
Flyers in 6. I think this team could beat the Nazis, Zombies and Aliens if we were ever threatened by them. Seriously, Barack wouldn’t be calling for the army, he’d be calling for the Orange and Black to defeat the forces of evil.
A team made up mostly of French (Canadians) beating German Nazis? Surely you must be joking…
by CTFlyer on Jun 6, 2010 2:50 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Flyers in 6
Consistently have gotten better in each series- bravo Lavi
Chicago confidence is wobbling- note hectic line shuffling
Balanced scoring and consistent defense
Destiny
Game 5 is the Key
If the flyers win this game tonight, can you even imagine what Game 6 would be like??? The Cup in the building only one win away… that would be an extremely tough spot for the Hawks and I do not think our boys would be denied.
200% focus needs to be on making that scenario a reality with a victory tonight.
ALL HANDS ON DECK
Just to let you know
Im cheering for you guys.
"But yeah…like CC…I harbour no ill will." - VancityDan
by Chuckles Canuckles on Jun 6, 2010 4:17 PM EDT reply actions
Flyers in 7
We’ve only beaten one team four straight this postseason, and that was making history. Hard to see us winning 5 AND 6. We obviously need to win one of them, so we can win 7 to clinch.
An Ohio fan of the Philadelphia Flyers, Carolina Panthers, Oakland A's, and Philadelphia 76ers. Strange? Yes. Very.
In a perfect Chicago hatin world
The Blackhawks lose in OT in game 7 at home so all 22,000 can stare slack jawed as the Flyers hoist the cup on Chicago ice.
But I smell an epic Chicago implosion with the Flyers taking game 5 today in Chicago and then clinching on home ice. Unfortunately this will allow Chicago fans to just click off their big screens and hurl them out the winder. No in person experience of coming yet again, that close.
Cubbie fan you’re about to get some company.
Time to add some more staff to the suicide hotlines in The Windy City.
Just a chew toy for the hockey gods
Hawks in 7
Because I voted during the second intermission of Game 5.
Prove me wrong, children! Prove me wrong.
Do you see what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps?
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