you sure it was tie domi and not Troy Crosby?

Good season nothing to be ashamed of!

Although we swept you, let it be known that I do not think for one second that you are now an easy team to beat. You guys played some damn tough hockey, and I was surprised we did swept you. I expected 6 games, maybe even 7. Cam Ward was just off this series.

Honestly, I do look forward to playing you guys again someday, but it will never be like this again. I know next time your team will come out with the fire they showed in the first period and keep it going all game.

Congratulations to your fine franchise and the incredible run you guys made. You sure showed some cocky teams how to put their money where their mouth is.

Also, to Canes fans, I want you to know that I greatly appreciated your overall good sportsmanship and class. You are a million times better fans then Detroit’s fans are. See you next season.

With all due respect, I don’t think that any of the other 13 Eastern Conference teams would have had much success against this Penguins team firing on all cylinders like they are right now. You don’t get to the conference finals as a bad team. The ’Canes got swept, but to their credit, they were up against what seems to be an offensive juggernaut.

Great Season, Super-entertaining playoffs(we went from thinking we’d be playing Boston in round 2 to knowing it was Washington in 1:20), Good Series. I look forward to many more excellent matchups between the Staal Bros.

Canes are a great team that seemed to just run out of steam. Two series ending the way they did against both those teams will drain you emotionally and physically. By the time the Pens beat the caps, they were firing on all cylinders. Still I thought at least 6 games. Canes need a winger to aid staal, he seemed like he was playing by himself at times. I hope we meet the Canes again in the playoffs. You guys are classy fans.

Good series. I really thought the Canes played well enough to win game 1 but loss. The game 2 win then really seemed to give the Pens the momentum. The Canes had a great run. Those two game 7 victories were unbelieveable. It’s no surprise if they were drained for the conference finals.

Remember a month and a half ago or so when some of us thought maybe Anton Babchuck might have some tried value?

That was fun while it lasted.

I haven’t “blogged” that much until this year- especially about hockey. Now I feel like a shmuck (and deservedly so) for responding in the ways that I did to some of the comments from a few pens fans. A few of them really got me going- and I should be more responsible than that- I ended up being the proverbial butt on multiple occasions. I will not make that mistake again.

The pens fans/trolls that arrived at Bubbas website are obviously indicative of less than 1% of the pens fan base- from the comments that I have read tonight- it seems that the the other 99% of pensburgh fans are very nice and considerate people.

On that note, I would like to apologize if I irritated anyone during these playoffs from my comments- it had nothing to do with anything other than pure emotion and irritation about watching my team get creamed and hearing about it everyday on all media levels within the city that I live in- as a die hard Canes fan- this week really sucked!

Alternatively, Good luck Pens- y’all have one heck of a team- and I don’t ever want to play you guys again outside of the regular season…actually, I don’t want to play you in the regular season either!

On a final note- Thank you Bubba for having a wonderful place for me to blog with other Caniacs- I truly appreciate it.

It has been a great season, and the caniac fans are awesome people- next year- we are going to show up as a CATEGORY 5!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

GO CANES!!!!

For being miles above Washington and Philly fans. No ref whining, minimal namecalling, and classy players and coaches. You all have a good organization down there, enjoy it. We look forward to playing you again next year, during the season and after.

Oh, and I’ll sure miss the Canes Girls. We don’t even have football cheerleaders in Pittsburgh. But that’s because women who look like that aren’t as plentiful up here in Steel City as they are in Raleigh.

It was actually a good series depsite all the trash talking i did. The third periods were where things got out of hand really. Cam Ward needs some help from the D they can’t just stand there while Malkin and Crosby skate circles around them. No goalie will do good facing 40 shots a game.