What appeared to an intriguing match up for Sioux fan’s. A virtual can’t lose series from the beginning. True hockey fans were not cheated as in fact it did end up being a very good series to watch, well I suppose if you’re a Hurricanes fan. From the other side of the coin, if you are a Devils Fan the series didn’t live up to the billing. The series included Fighting Sioux hockey players Mike Commodore on the Carolina Hurricanes. On the Devils Zach Parise and David Hale.
Fan favorite Mike Commodore and Parise seemed to be joined at the hip at times during the series as big Mike made the going tough for Zach Parise. Mike Commodore also was glued to Brian Gionta as he seemed to be on the ice every time Gionta came off the Devils bench.
In the end the New Jersey Devils were manhandled by the faster skating Hurricanes. Goaltending was important in the series and Rookie Cam Ward continued his brilliance has he has won 7 of 9 games he has started.
Ice Chipping
This is For Gopher fans (more specifically my brother’s buddy Bert; but also add the other rodent fans who seem to have no sense of reality when it comes to seeing things outside of the maroon and gold goggles) that have been chirping about how great pretty boy Thomas Vanek is and how he is so much better than Zach Parise. Hey Vanek is so valuable that he was a healthy scratch for games two and three. I think we must look at the playoff numbers and compare the two players: Zach Parise never missed a game during the 2006 playoffs, Thomas Vanek was a healthy scratch 2 out of the 5 games that the Sabres played against the Sens. Zach had one goal and two assists in 9 games compared to Vanek’s 1 goal in 8 games. ach played on numberous lines and played on the power play. Vanek did not. I guess we can say that Parise > Vanek. I know this is a little pre-mature since Zach season is over and the Sabres have at least on more round against the Carolina Hurricanes.
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