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In the post Dead Puck era, 2007 Ducks/Sens is one of only two Cup Finals to not go 6-7 games
(The other one- Rangers/Kings 2014- is more well remembered given 3 games went to overtime, 2 of them double overtime, and how much time in that series the Rangers held a lead despite the outcome.)
Sandwiched between a stretch of 7 game Cup Final (2003-2004-2006) and the Pittsburgh/Detroit back to backs of 2008-2009, the wildly entertaining Chicago/Philly 2010 Cup Final and the hard to forget BOS/VAN series..... this one obviously is not mentioned amidst that stretch.
One reason perhaps is because it was one of only 5 Cup Finals since 2000 to not have any overtime games.
We hear how the Ducks dominated this series and their checking line and Pronger/Niedermayer tandem shut down Spezza and Heatley (Alfredsson was the one guy for Ott scoring this series), but it should be noted 3 of the Ducks' wins (games 1-2-4) were by one goal- not exactly 1995/1997 in terms of a lopsided Cup Final scoring wise.
Only game 5 was lopsided on the scoreboard- and that of course was the Chris Phillips own goal, but even that was a one goal game late in the 2nd period until ANA pulled away for 3 unanswered goals (the first by Francois Beauchemin, who just announced his retirement).
I know that Cup Final gets panned as one of the worst of the past few decades (Got lower ratings than Unhappily Ever After, this was when Versus/NBCSN was just starting out its run) and is viewed as perhaps the worst Cup Final in the 20 years since our last Cup Final sweep (ie 1999-present), but are we sure it was as one-sided as I have heard at times on HFBoards?
What are your recollections of this somewhat forgotten Cup Final, a rare short series in an era of long and drawn out Cup showdowns?
(The other one- Rangers/Kings 2014- is more well remembered given 3 games went to overtime, 2 of them double overtime, and how much time in that series the Rangers held a lead despite the outcome.)
Sandwiched between a stretch of 7 game Cup Final (2003-2004-2006) and the Pittsburgh/Detroit back to backs of 2008-2009, the wildly entertaining Chicago/Philly 2010 Cup Final and the hard to forget BOS/VAN series..... this one obviously is not mentioned amidst that stretch.
One reason perhaps is because it was one of only 5 Cup Finals since 2000 to not have any overtime games.
We hear how the Ducks dominated this series and their checking line and Pronger/Niedermayer tandem shut down Spezza and Heatley (Alfredsson was the one guy for Ott scoring this series), but it should be noted 3 of the Ducks' wins (games 1-2-4) were by one goal- not exactly 1995/1997 in terms of a lopsided Cup Final scoring wise.
Only game 5 was lopsided on the scoreboard- and that of course was the Chris Phillips own goal, but even that was a one goal game late in the 2nd period until ANA pulled away for 3 unanswered goals (the first by Francois Beauchemin, who just announced his retirement).
I know that Cup Final gets panned as one of the worst of the past few decades (Got lower ratings than Unhappily Ever After, this was when Versus/NBCSN was just starting out its run) and is viewed as perhaps the worst Cup Final in the 20 years since our last Cup Final sweep (ie 1999-present), but are we sure it was as one-sided as I have heard at times on HFBoards?
What are your recollections of this somewhat forgotten Cup Final, a rare short series in an era of long and drawn out Cup showdowns?