[lawrence97]

93/94 Playoffs

Hoping we avoid Hartford and Washington as played them a lot the past few post seasons. We have Buffallo in the new seeding system, so Washington and NY Islanders are 3rd and 4th seeds. in the west Detroit 1st, Calgary 2 Edmonton 3. This takes out the big matchs up in the 1st rounds, but it gives us variety which i massively prefer.

In another quirk of fate, we have yzerman go to Que, and Lemieux to Edm, we've also had the line Philadelphia would ahve had if they hadn't got Lindros. Forsberg is on a line in buffalo with Renberg and LeClair. Nylander and Arnott with Housley makes them dangerous, even for the 8th seed.

Rnd1: We have won all 3 games against Buffalo this year by an average of 9-3!Not quite as lopsided here but still a sweep. All other team progress as expected fairly easily, except Washington and Edmonton wo both escape in 7!

Rnd2: The BATTLE OF NEW YORK. Islanders had 109 points this season, Selanne 73 goals, and 154 points, Mogilny 53 and 131 Sundin 75 assists and 102 points. Tim Kerr, Shanahan Steen Bossy and Tkahcuk all getting 90-70 points. 450 goals this team scored. This should be a treat. Edmonton-Calgary is the other great series this round.

Islanders actually went 3-4-1 against me in Regular season, so this is anyones. However, first two games are 6-2 wins for us! then we score 6 again to their 5 to take a commanding 3-0 lead. They win the next one though 3-2 thanks to a latae Bossy goal. And anoter late goal by Mogilniy in game 5 takes it to ot, but 13 seconds later, Kovalev wins it for us and we take the series 4-1. Detroit thumps toronto, other series go to 7, and Washington and Calgary get through.

Rnd3: The ever dependable Washington - Rangers playoff series. think thats 4 or 5 in a row now. They have Fedorov Leetch and Stevens, a very differnt style from the goal power houses of the other teams. We however again beat them easily, and get back to the SC Final. Detroit-CAlgary are again in a tough match up. Calgary win game 5 in DEtroit 7-5 thanks to a double by Turgeon, and then knock Gretzky out of the playoffs with a 4-3 game 6 win! Its a repeat of last year!

Stanley Cup FInal. Calgary, armed with a top team. Similar to last year, they have depth everywhere. Bure Turgeon and Zubov their top threats. But Carson, Craven, Loob, Foote Straka and Chiasson give them such depth Thi is a team with Scott Walker Michael Peca and Steve Sullivan and Manny Legace still to come through. They end the season with 117 points and 420 goals. The two games this year went 5-5 and 5-1 to us.

Game 1: 5-2 Rangers win. Modano 2 goals, and Neely 1 pace the Rangers. Calgary had taken the lead through Quintal, but 4 straight in the 2nd does the damage. Richer Kovalev and Galley get the other goals.

Game2: 9-2 Ranges, another 4 goal second period does the damage, making the score 5-2, Zubov and Carson get their goals Richer gets 2, rest of the goals spread evenely amongst the team.

Game3: 4-1 win for Calgary, who finally show up! When the have Legace in goal they will probably best best team in league. But for now, Tabarraci, finally puts in a world class perfomrance saving 32/33 shots. Niedermayer had put us in the lead but Zubov and Bassen having a goal and an assists to turn it round. Bure gets his first goal on the finals. Stevens as well on an EN.

Game4:Flames tie the series with a 5-4 win. A very even game of 33 shots each. period 1, Chitaroni from Straka and Pierre Turgon make it 2-0 after 13 mins. Then 2 goals in 15 seconds from the workhorses Linden and Brind'Amout make it 2-2. Into the second period, no further goals, until the 15th mionute mark, where Bassen and Galley score within 90 seconds to give them a big 4-2 lead. Lidstrsom gets one back with 70 seconds to go, to give the Rangers momentum, The third period, that momentum is stopped instantly as off the opening face off, Stevens scores! Chitaroni takes a penalty and Richer bangs it home, leaving 12 minutes to find the equaliser, but it never comes. Can Calgary win one in NY? They'll have to if they want to win this!

Game5: 3-2 Flames, they do win, just like in the previous round, this one however, is a flames dominated game, Tabaracci makes 29 saves Richter 41. Loob and richer trade goals in the first, Chitaroni gives Calgary the lead in the second, before Modano ties it at 14:09. Then Carson from Stevens and Bure, win it at 19:52, in a period they out shoot us 20 to 7! This is the mirror image of the det series for calgary, lost the first 2 then win the next 3 with a home game to win it in 6!

Game 6: 5-2 Flames! Rangers play another awful game, out sho 14-9 14-5 and 20-11 in the three periods. Calgary take full advantage with Chitaroni and Turgeon in the first, Craven Zamuner and Carson in the 2ndm inbetween two neely goals, and no further goals in the third, which they dominated. A well deserved cup for hopefully an excellent opponent for the rest of the 90's.
Zubov top scored in the playoffs with 34, he had 4 assists abd 2 goals in the finals, he'll probably win Conn Smythe but it was a solid team performance that won it

Hart:Wayne Gretzky
Conn Smythe: Sergei Zubov
Calder Oleg Davydov (EDM)
Norris: Ruotsalainen his first
Vezina-Hextall(Was- not a suprise with their team)
Selke also went to Cgy with Zamuner