It's Hockey Season!!

“GO DEVILS!”

“I'm guessing that Geobeet doesn't like Marty anymore.”

“$%*@ the Devils!

I was so close to liking them, too! Okay, I did like them for one period.”

“Smarty!!!! Yea, Devils!!!

Darn Colorado lost in OT!”

“Hopefully by tomorrow night the Devils will be back in my good graces. I certainly hope that's the case.”

“Ha Ha Ha!! Let's hope not.”

“Montreal Canadiens lost in double overtime. :o( That's about wraps up the season for them...down 3 games to 1 for the Big Bad Bruins.”

“Ya gotta have faith Stanlee! Don't quit on them now!”

“Don't want to quit on them....but gotta face reality. Bruins big...Habs small. Habs are fast....Bruins are not slow.”

“Lightning will strike again tonight. Guaranteed or your money back.”

“Okay Tango and lumberzac, I'm starting to really like the Devils now. One more game and I will really like them a lot.”

“Hey Geo remember 2000”

“I watched most of the game, had to leave to go to work. And I'll miss all of Friday's game. That sucks!

Hope Scott Stephens plays next game.”

“I missed the game. Today was/is my grandmothers birthday.”

“You missed the game because of Grammie's birthday...You better get your priorities straight!!! You are sentenced to 10 full rink suicides! (Happy B-day Grammie)


Just kidding. Devils' looked flat tonight.”

“Lightning win again!!! Every game this series has ended with a 3-0 score. Advantage Bolts, leading the series 3-1.

Sweet!”

“Cool, I guess. (Pat on the head to me)LOL”

“LOL! Yes, big pat on the head.”

“Sure rub it in ya bastards.”

“Blame Tango. She's the one who said "Go Devils!" They're taking her advice and going.”

“Not nice, Geo! Go to the next round! And while you're at it pound the Flyers!”

“Missed the game...but the Habs pounded the Bruins 5 to 1. Go Habs!!!”

“Stupid! Most 'hitmen' that people can get in touch with are undercover cops!

Bolts into OT!”

“MARTIN ST. LOUIS is the man!!”

“DAMN! The Islanders season is over.
:(”

“LIGHTNING STRIKE! St. Louis is da man!”

“Darn Darn Darn. Well onto the Av's. Boooooooo Wings.”

“Well at least they didn't get swept. I don't know who to root for now.”

“How about the Lightning?”

“By the way how are those Penguins doing anyway?”

“Penguins, what penguins...they weren't in the formula :o(.

I BELIEVE!!!! Habs played strong tonight...beating the Bruins 5 to 2...2 empty netters. Last game for the match-up on Monday....I can't wait.

Too bad the Devils are gone. Hoping it would've been a 7 game series.”

“They didn't make it to the play offs as a matter of fact this year they finished last in the league. But wait till next year they will be back to kick butt and forget about taking names.

Mario Lemieux will be back and we get the second pick in the draft and we have some really great players coming back that now have NHL experience. The team was really playing great the last 25% of the season. It was great.

So if the lock out doesn't happen the Pens are gonna rock!”

“Ummm, I really like the Devils now.”

“Well I guess the Flyers had to beat them at least once in a playoff series.”

“You just wait GEO!!!”

“Leafs and Sens double OT”

“The Senators deserved to win that game....they way overplayed the Maple Leafs. If it weren't for Toronto's goalie Ed Belfour...the score would have been 5 or 6 to 2 for the Sens.”

“My prediction is that the winner of that series will go to the finals.”

“Devils
coach Burns has colon cancer

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) - Pat Burns vows to battle colon cancer with the same intensity that helped the New Jersey Devils win the Stanley Cup last season.

The coach will begin treatment immediately, he announced Sunday, a day after his team was eliminated from the playoffs.

"For those who know me well, I've never backed down from any fight," Burns said.

"And I'm not going to back down from this one."

Burns, 52, said his status with the Devils will be determined in six to eight weeks, when the treatment ends. He will have treatment five days a week, beginning this week.

Burns spoke to reporters at Continental Airlines Arena, with his wife and Devils general manager Lou Lamoriello nearby. Burns read from a prepared statement and did not answer questions.

"The last month or so I have not been feeling well," he said. "There were signs that something was not right, but I was reluctant to do anything because the playoffs were coming up."

A three-time NHL Coach of the Year, Burns led the Devils to their third Stanley Cup title in nine years last season, his first with the team.

New Jersey lost to Philadelphia 3-1 Saturday, ending their best-of-seven first-round series after five games.

"I wasn't the coach I should have been the last couple of weeks, but I had a lot of things on my mind so it was understandable," he said.

Burns insisted on coaching the Devils against the Flyers, although he said treatment would have prevented him from coaching if New Jersey had advanced to the second round.

"He was trying to get the team ready 100 percent, just like he always does," defenseman Scott Niedermayer said. "We didn't notice anything until he didn't come to a couple of morning skates. Then we knew he wasn't feeling well."

Burns missed two practices last week.

Devils captain Scott Stevens described the reaction of the Devils to Burns' illness as "shock and depression."

"This definitely puts everything in perspective," Stevens said. "Hopefully he'll fight through this. He's a tough guy."

Burns also coached Montreal, Toronto and Boston for a total of 13 seasons.

"He was great with me. He was very supportive and always helping me," said Boston's Andrew Raycroft, who played briefly for Burns. "That's unbelievable. It's too bad and I wish him the best, and I'm sure he'll fight through."

Before joining the Devils, Burns hadn't coached since being let go by the Bruins only eight games into the 2000-01 season. There was talk it would be tough for him to find a job because teams sought younger coaches with new ideas, new systems and no reluctance to try new things.

But Burns, a former policeman from Hull, Quebec, with a self-proclaimed inability to smile, meshed well with the Devils.

Burns' record with the Devils is 89-53-22, and 17-12 in the playoffs. He is 501-367-151 overall.”

“Sorry to hear that. I hope he recovers fully. Life is more important than the game. He's a tough competitor, so he'll have some fight in him.”

“I can't believe it...the Canadiens beat the Bruins 2 to nothing, in Boston no less...to take that series 4 games to 3.

Have to admit...the Bruins outplayed the Habs....they just couldn't get the puck behind goalie Jose Theodore.

The Bruin fans must be furious with their team....losing the series while at one point leading the series 3 games to 1.”

“I'm torn. Philadelphia vs. Toronto. I don't like ether team. Is it possible for both to loose? If I have to choose I guess I’ll go with Philly, because I dislike Toronto just a bit more.”

“Oh come on lumberzac, you just like the Flutters because they've been so good to the Debits all those years.”

“I'm going with Toronto, they have Alexi Kovalev.”

“Tango is at least consistent. She sticks with the lunks when other women go for the hunks.

Jeremy Roenick and John Leclair ain't good enough.”

“I might be mistaken....but isn't Alexi Kovalev a Habs player?”

“Flyers beat the Devils, now we can roll over and play dead!”

“Whoa, stanlee nailed Tango 'tween the optics!

How does it feel Tango?

Are you coming to Ithaca stanlee? You can join me in Tango's burritos.”

“First of all, what the heck is a hab?

You're right, I was wrong...Kovy plays for the Canadiens.

Geo, I like Simon Gagne, Jeremy is a whiner, and I like Desjardins. So there!”