With a win today in Game 6 at Madison Square Garden, the Buffalo Sabres would advance to the Eastern Conference Finals, where they would face the Ottawa Senators — the team Buffalo defeated in the semis last year, the team the Sabres famously brawled with back in February of this year, the team Buffalo fans love to hate.
The Sens knocked out the New Jersey Devils in five games, wrapping up the series last night, and they’re looking pretty fearsome. But I’m glad they won; getting to the Cup finals without having to play Ottawa would have cheapened it, somehow. Just like the Red Sox needed to go through the Yankees, the Sabres need to go through the Senators.
First, though, they need to finish off the Rangers… and it would be very advisable to do so tonight, instead of waiting until Game 7 in Buffalo on Tuesday, because that way they won’t head into the Senators series exhausted from a seven-game marathon series, while the Sens have been resting up. No doubt Ottawa will be rooting for New York tonight. (As will the NBC commentators, but that’s another story altogether.)
Game time is 2:00 PM. It’s on NBC. Box score will be here. Bfloblog open thread here.
LET’S GO, BUFF-A-LO!!
UPDATE: It’s 4-2 at the start of the third period. All four Buffalo goals were in the second. Here are Rick Jeanneret’s calls of all four:
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Categories: NHL Hockey
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May 6th, 2007 at 1:33:14 pm
Maybe you want Ottawa. I find them rather scary and far too Canadian for my taste. ;)
May 6th, 2007 at 4:23:55 pm
Dude, like it or not, you want Ottawa too, unless you want to lose to the Rangers.
May 6th, 2007 at 8:57:10 pm
Do you two ever do things like, “Hey, did you check out my response to your comment on the Ottawa post?”
Reminds me of how my roommate and I used to talk over AIM in the same room.
May 6th, 2007 at 10:46:43 pm
Yes, all the time.
And my roommate and I used to do that, too. Hi, David. :)