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by **KLA2** » Sun May 29, 2011 2:48 am

The Boston Bruins are playing the Vancouver Canucks for the Stanley Cup. Best of seven games.

Should be some good hockey.

Wed, 1 Jun 2011 Bruins Canucks
5:00 PM CBC, NBC, RDS Tickets
Sat, 4 Jun 2011 Bruins Canucks
5:00 PM CBC, NBC, RDS Tickets
Mon, 6 Jun 2011 Canucks Bruins
5:00 PM CBC, RDS, VERSUS
Wed, 8 Jun 2011 Canucks Bruins
5:00 PM CBC, RDS, VERSUS
Fri, 10 Jun 2011 Bruins Canucks
5:00 PM CBC, NBC, RDS Tickets
Mon, 13 Jun 2011 Canucks Bruins
5:00 PM CBC, NBC, RDS
Wed, 15 Jun 2011 Bruins Canucks
5:00 PM CBC, NBC, RDS Tickets

http://canucks.nhl.com/club/schedule.htm

by **MM_Dandy** » Tue May 31, 2011 5:48 pm

Go Canucks!

by **KLA2** » Wed Jun 01, 2011 1:53 am

Thanks, MM_Dandy. Do you watch hockey?

Although I should support Vancouver, the Bruins are one of the original six (from the 60's) before expansion, so I feel an bond with them as well.

If my home team (the Leafs) are out of it, I am pretty much indifferent who wins. That does not diminish my appreciation of good hockey, however.

Hopefully it WILL be good hockey and not gladiatorial combat. :wink:

by **MM_Dandy** » Wed Jun 01, 2011 3:19 pm

Not so much. I'm an NBA fan, despite the NBA gangsta wannabe culture and attitude of "I, the team." I have cousins who lived in Calgary (later Vancouver) and Edmonton, who are big NHL fans, and they are backing the Canucks.

Plus, as a Lakers fan, my irrational dislike of the Celtics is very potent, so unless I have a stronger irrational dislike of their opponent (ie. Yankees), I generally root against any Boston team.

So, all in all, I'm following the NBA Finals more closely than the Stanley Cup Finals, but since the Lakers are out, I care less about who wins the Larry O'Brien trophy than the Stanley Cup.

by **MM_Dandy** » Wed Jun 01, 2011 3:22 pm

By the way, what is this world coming to where the NBA Finals get started before the Stanley Cup Finals?

by **KLA2** » Thu Jun 02, 2011 1:12 am

Yeah. I lived in the days (back in the '60's) when if the ice melted, hockey season was over. :lol:

by **Heid the Ba** » Thu Jun 09, 2011 7:55 am

Woohoo! Le Mans weekend, I will be in my chair in front of the tv for most of the period between 1500 Saturday and 1500 Sunday.

It looks like a repeat of last year where the Peugeots have better top end speed but reliability issues and the Audis are set up to go the distance and see what happens. Last years the Peugeots didn't make it but they should be sturdier this year; the two design philosophies make it an interesting race.

As always the car numbers are sequential from 1 upwards, apart from the Aston Martins which are 007 and 009. :D

by **KLA2** » Fri Jun 10, 2011 4:51 am

KLA2 wrote:The Boston Bruins are playing the Vancouver Canucks for the Stanley Cup. Best of seven games.

Should be some good hockey.

Wed, 1 Jun 2011 Bruins Canucks
5:00 PM CBC, NBC, RDS Tickets
Sat, 4 Jun 2011 Bruins Canucks
5:00 PM CBC, NBC, RDS Tickets
Mon, 6 Jun 2011 Canucks Bruins
5:00 PM CBC, RDS, VERSUS
Wed, 8 Jun 2011 Canucks Bruins
5:00 PM CBC, RDS, VERSUS
Fri, 10 Jun 2011 Bruins Canucks
5:00 PM CBC, NBC, RDS Tickets
Mon, 13 Jun 2011 Canucks Bruins
5:00 PM CBC, NBC, RDS
Wed, 15 Jun 2011 Bruins Canucks
5:00 PM CBC, NBC, RDS Tickets

http://canucks.nhl.com/club/schedule.htm

It's tied up 2 - 2, if anyone cares.

Should be good hockey to come. :)

by **Arneb** » Fri Jun 10, 2011 5:19 am

GO, Mavs!

by **Heid the Ba** » Fri Jun 10, 2011 8:28 am

AUDI on pole, this could be a long weekend for Peugeot. The Porches are also slow and losing in their class to BMWs, which they must hate.

by **Enzo** » Fri Jun 10, 2011 11:49 pm

Yessir, it is June, we just finished a stretch of afternoon temperatures in the 90s. Set a record for the date a few days ago. And they are playing hockey. Wonder why I cannot relate?

Not that basketball finals make much more sense this time of year.

by **Heid the Ba** » Sat Jun 11, 2011 9:05 pm

Grim old day for AUDI, two big ones for their cars but both drivers seem ok.

Disclosure: Alan McNish is a friend of a friend and I knew his dad 25 years ago. He'll be sore tomorrow.

There have been a number of safety car incidents, with engine managemnent systems the AUDIs and Peugeots convert a 3.7 V6 turbo diesel into a 600cc V2 turbo diesel when behind the safety car and get 45 mpg. In full on mode they are pulling 200 mph.

BMW still rocking it and beating the Porsches.

by **Heid the Ba** » Mon Jun 13, 2011 8:12 am

The McNish crash the more I watch it the less reckless it looks.

20 years ago they would have been hosing him off the wall rather than him walking away.

AUDI won despite Peugeot drivers' appaling blocking.

by **Arneb** » Mon Jun 13, 2011 10:57 am

Vorsprung durch Technik :D

After 13 years, dirk Nowitzki finally wins the NBA Championship with his team, former laughingstock of the League, the Dallas Mavericks. My hat is off.

by **MM_Dandy** » Mon Jun 13, 2011 4:25 pm

My hat as well. Dirk and Jason Terry delivered in the endgames, but the Mavs played the excellent series they had to give them those opportunities.

And it wasn't just a long time coming for Dirk, either. Not only was this the first career ring for everyone on the Mavs' roster, many of the players have been playing in the NBA for a decade or more: Jason Kidd (38 years old, 17th NBA season), Peja Stojakovich (just turned 34, 13th season), Jason Terry (33, 12th season), Shawn Marion (33, 12th season), Brian Cardinal (34, 11th season), Brendan Haywood (31, 11th season), DeShawn Stevenson (30, 11th season), and Tyson Chandler (29, 10th season).

by **Lianachan** » Tue Jun 14, 2011 9:23 am

Not really a team sport, but Andy Murray is still British.

by **Arneb** » Sat Jun 18, 2011 6:30 pm

Good days for German oddballs in Ur-American sports: Nowitzki, the first German (I predict: Only Germam, for a very long time) to win the NBA; now Dennis Seidenberg becomes the second (after Uwe Krupp) German to win the Stanley Cup. Nice way to fill The Days Without Football.

by **Heid the Ba** » Mon Jun 27, 2011 9:47 am

Germany 2-1 Canada at the Womens' World Cup. I didn't see the game but watched most of the France - Nigeria game.

We'll draw a veil over the USA - Mexico game in the Gold Cup.

by **Heid the Ba** » Mon Jun 27, 2011 9:49 am

Arneb wrote:Nice way to fill The Days Without Football.

There is plenty of football, just very little of it involves adult males. :D

For amusement try to find the goal the Canadian goalie scored against Eng-ger-lund at the U17 WC.

by **Arneb** » Mon Jun 27, 2011 3:00 pm

Heid the Ba' wrote:
Arneb wrote:Nice way to fill The Days Without Football.

There is plenty of football, just very little of it involves adult males. :D

For amusement try to find the goal the Canadian goalie scored against Eng-ger-lund at the U17 WC.

Very true.
The goal was awesome.

The Germany win over Canada was an interesting game. A difficult beginning for the Germans, then the weight was lifted when they scored their 1-0. Later, when Canada started to gain traction late in the first half, 2-0: Couldn't be better. It started to look like one of those walk-in-the-park wins in the second half, when Germany squandered roughly a hundred chances and Canada looked really tired. Then suddenly, BANG, there was the lucky punch free kick by the Canucks, leaving Germany REALLY uncomfortable. With a bit more class on the side of the Canadians, it might have become a nail-biter. Our girls pulled through, nonetheless.

by **Lianachan** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 8:07 am

Heid the Ba' wrote:For amusement try to find the goal the Canadian goalie scored against Eng-ger-lund at the U17 WC.

Saw that. Jolly well played, that man. Doesn't look like he intended it, but a goal's a goal.

I've not seen any of the women's world cup yet. You can insert your own jokes about shirt swapping, and hoping there's no penalties as nobody can kick the ball hard enough to reach the net from the spot.

by **Heid the Ba** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 11:12 am

Slightly unfair, but there are elements of that and the keeping is generally woeful.

by **Lianachan** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 12:12 pm

Heid the Ba' wrote:Slightly unfair, but there are elements of that and the keeping is generally woeful.

I know, aye. I was laying out the stereotype. Women's fit'ba's generally pretty decent.

by **Heid the Ba** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 12:25 pm

And usually played without the diving and theatrics of the men's game.

by **Heid the Ba** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 2:11 pm

There is a failed drugs test at the Women's WC, the one similarity with the men's game is that it will be written off as an unfortunate mis-understanding and a three month ban will follow rather than the "compulsory" two years. Then it will never be mentioned again.

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