Still PUMPED SO BAD for tonight's game even though it may be our last. Cannot be disappointed with how this postseason has turned out, even though the performance in this series has not been good. So many awesome memories in two phenomenal series that I'm sure we'll still be talking about them many years from now.

LET'S GO ?CANES

5/26/2009 11:05:42 AM

Yeah, you'd have to be one shitty fan to be disappointed with how this post season turned out for the Canes. This team was in the pits before the trade deadline, and to go from that to the Eastern Conference Finals, taking out the #1 seed along the way is pretty awesome. They've been a lot of fun to watch over the past couple months and are the only team I root for that regularly overachieves.

No shame in losing to the Penguins, even if it's a sweep. They have, quite possibly, the 2 best players in the world on their team and they are playing like it in this series. If the Canes lose tonight, I for one will be rooting for Marion Hossa to lose to his former team in the finals

5/26/2009 11:11:44 AM

uh why isn't this shit sold out yet

5/26/2009 11:14:42 AM

i will be there in section 106, don't blame me!

5/26/2009 11:28:55 AM

^^ people are off the bandwagon. definitely saw a lot less vanity plates and car flags over the weekend. if we steal a win or 2 they'll be back on.

5/26/2009 11:52:04 AM

PUMPED

5/26/2009 11:55:37 AM

AS

5/26/2009 12:26:34 PM

SHIT

5/26/2009 12:29:03 PM

WOOOO

5/26/2009 12:32:46 PM

5/26/2009 12:35:30 PM

Dont stop believing :-)

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[Edited on May 26, 2009 at 12:46 PM. Reason : .]

5/26/2009 12:45:04 PM

Quote :

"No shame in losing to the Penguins, even if it's a sweep"

i disagree. i can take losing (i guess), but getting swept is embarrassing. especially when you've got someone of staal's caliber. it just sucks that crosby and malkin are playing like they're supposed to, while our star is having flashbacks to his peewee days

5/26/2009 12:45:49 PM

http://www.bostonherald.com/sports/hockey/other_nhl/view/2009_05_24_Home_where_the_dart_is:_Inexplicably__Ward_target_of_N_C__neighbors__barbs/srvc=home&position=also

Quote :

"Aaron Ward has a difficult time understanding how he became the villain for the fans of the Carolina Hurricanes. The Bruins [team stats] defenseman makes his home in Cary, N.C., just a few minutes drive from the Hurricanes’ RBC Center, and has always been the region’s biggest booster. But he was a trifle taken aback by the local reaction after he got sucker-punched by Carolina’s Scott Walker in Game 5 of their Eastern Conference semifinal series. “The fan base there was wrapped up in me being Public Enemy No. 1,” Ward said last week. “I don’t get it. I was the one who got belted in the face. I was surprised when I got to Carolina by the level of animosity directed at me. I got back to Boston and I sat up with my wife until 3 a.m. trying to convey to her the level of animosity in Raleigh. She didn’t believe it. I said, ‘I’m dead serious; I’m going to go back to Raleigh and they hate me.’ “I was in my car driving guys to the rink. People are calling into the radio to talk about me and the guys are looking at me going, ‘You live in this town?’ I’m going to be laying very low down there.” Ward was especially miffed when a Carolina reporter asked him about skating, as usual, with ’Canes players this summer at the team’s practice rink - which struck him as an unnecessary invitation for fans to show up and cause trouble. “I felt like saying to the guy, ‘What are your trying to do, hero?’ ” he said. “I was a little shaken up by that.”"

5/26/2009 1:07:34 PM

^Wow really? I had already forgotten about that incident. Hmm this Aaron Ward sure likes to cry a lot.

5/26/2009 3:29:02 PM

methinks he heard a handful of people making comments, and generalized that for the whole city

5/26/2009 3:32:06 PM

I was at the game Saturday night. A my roomate drank a 5th of 100 proof during 3 hours of tailgating. During the game he got up and dissapeard for a while. Come to find out later that he had been trying to sneak into luxury boxes and was kicked out of two. He also at some point fell and gashed open his chin. His girlfriend had to come pick him up from police and take him to the hospital for stitches. His name is AdamJ if anyone wants to give him a hard time.

5/26/2009 3:32:22 PM

what an idiot

5/26/2009 3:42:03 PM

My boss just handed me a ticket to the game tonight! Section 111 Row H

5/26/2009 3:54:00 PM

Let's get one.

5/26/2009 4:04:39 PM

fuck getting one, let's get two or three if any.

If they're going to win it, not in pittsburgh

5/26/2009 4:09:05 PM

WOOOO just got a deal on craigslist. Ticket overload on there, folks jumping the bandwagon I guess

PUMPED AS SHIT

5/26/2009 4:11:37 PM

So ready for tonight, sadly tailgating will be at a minimum with the rain and all, but I will be loud and proud in the RBC.

I have one of those small airhorns, do you think it'll get taken away if someone has it in their purse and they don't see it? If not I'm going crazy with it due to all of the Penguins fans who were in my section last game. I don't care if I'm mute tomorrow as it's a travel day for me, so hopefully my efforts won't be in vain.

5/26/2009 4:12:11 PM

^Just have your wife/gf put it in an inside purse pocket that zips up. They never check those

5/26/2009 4:20:34 PM

I expect to see a lot of empty seats and obnoxious Penguins fans. Hopefully we make their experience tonight a miserable one.

5/26/2009 4:23:09 PM

one more time, lets go canes!

5/26/2009 4:51:33 PM

I am going to view this game tonight.

5/26/2009 4:58:02 PM

supposedly if you watch the game tonight you'll see the zamboni pass dale earnhardt jr

5/26/2009 4:59:27 PM

Ill admit I chose a date tonight over watching the game once we went down 3-0. I figure worst case we lose and I dont have to watch us get swept at home. Best case we win and I have 3 more chances to watch us win

5/26/2009 4:59:30 PM

i feel like i havent watched hockey in a week

5/26/2009 5:00:17 PM

Tonight, we stay with 'em, and we shut them down because we can!

Tonight, we are the greatest hockey team in the world.

5/26/2009 5:08:11 PM

^^ thats the feeling i have too

5/26/2009 5:22:01 PM

dumb question, but I haven't parked there during the playoffs, except for round 1 - is the horse lot free/not for the ECF?

5/26/2009 5:24:09 PM

tailgate shooting lot is free

5/26/2009 5:25:17 PM

WOOOOOOOO just got called off work tonight. Let's do this!!!

5/26/2009 5:27:06 PM

THIS

IS

YOUR TIME

5/26/2009 5:31:46 PM

Hopefully tonight we can do something resembling anything. I can see that TrollTwista is already chomping at the bit for the Canes to be officially done so he can berate hockey and its legitimacy in NC.

5/26/2009 5:41:20 PM

head out to the RBC soon..

LETS GO CANES

5/26/2009 5:44:18 PM

i take offense at that^^

the team is legit (as is noted by its playoff victories). what deserves bashing is all the numbskulls at work, school, in my HOA with their fair weather fan flags and vanity plates. also their belief that rick flair is either the coach or the person in the stormy costume.

that being said, we all know that i could never pull for the hurricanes, but damn, for once, just come out and admit that you don't follow hockey until greg fischel starts talking about it on wral.

5/26/2009 5:49:56 PM

SECTION 106 ROW M. SEE YOU THERE!!!!

5/26/2009 5:55:26 PM

my beard is not ready to surrender

CANES!

5/26/2009 6:07:04 PM

Forwards gotta get back so that the D can do their jobs.

Cam was fantastic in Game 3, but he has to be positively Roy-like tonight.

5/26/2009 6:10:47 PM

any feed for this yet?

PERHAPS: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/MOVIES-AND-NHL

5/26/2009 6:49:33 PM

Quote :

"but damn, for once, just come out and admit that you don't follow hockey until greg fischel starts talking about it on wral."

Please tell me, for your sake, that you aren't referring to me. I will admit to worshiping Greg Fischel but for weather rather than hockey.

5/26/2009 7:14:10 PM

LETS GO HARTFORD!

what channel is the game on?

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5/26/2009 7:25:21 PM

Let's go Canes!!

5/26/2009 7:35:49 PM

lets do this

5/26/2009 7:40:55 PM

"Let's get er done" Really? Really Mr. TV announcer? Do we really say that?

5/26/2009 7:41:18 PM

WELCOME BACK STAAL

5/26/2009 7:43:17 PM

THERE HE IS

5/26/2009 7:43:19 PM

He came today!!

5/26/2009 7:43:58 PM