Watching The Playoffs When Your Team's Not In It

[Nasty_Magician]

How to Watch the NHL Playoffs When Your Team Misses the Cut - The Triangle Blog - Grantland

I found this pretty amusing and accurate.

 

[Eddie_Shack]

Watching your team in the playoffs is like a crack addiction. It feels so good, but it hurts so bad, and it makes you feel like shit but you can't stop.

Watching other teams is awesome. It sucks, because your boys aren't playing, but it's all the fun and action of NHL playoff hockey without any of the heartburn. It's like unprotected casual sex with an anonymous partner who's already pregnant, so you know you can't knock them up.

 

[Slimpikins]

Watching your team in the playoffs is like a crack addiction. It feels so good, but it hurts so bad, and it makes you feel like shit but you can't stop.

Watching other teams is awesome. It sucks, because your boys aren't playing, but it's all the fun and action of NHL playoff hockey without any of the heartburn. It's like unprotected casual sex with an anonymous partner who's already pregnant, so you know you can't knock them up.

Pregnant but not showing right? Otherwise it's just kind of gross, like the NBA playoffs.

 

[BlueandWhiteForever]

After seven years, you learn to accept it.

 

[dash]

And yes, there are worse fates than watching an NHL playoff that doesn't include your team. You could be studying for finals, or getting a root canal, or watching the NBA.

Zing!

 

[RangersReds03]

After seven years, you learn to accept it.

I've been there my friend.

 

[mattola]

whenever my team is out of the playoffs I pray for 2 things

1. that its really great hockey
2. that the team that wins the Stanley Cup is one that has won it before. Im sad to see others teams win it before mine. Yes Im that bitter


and not even religious...

 

[pixburgher66]

But at least those fans get to be part of the ride. Playoff hockey is misery, sure, but it’s the very best kind of misery. Meanwhile, the rest of us have to fake it, pretending to be enjoying the show while secretly trying to figure out whether any of the remaining teams could actually win the Stanley Cup without making us want to slam our fingers in a car door.


God, that's so true.

 

[elocomotive]

Team being out of playoffs = more time for cone-ing

 

[Eddie_Shack]

Team being out of playoffs = more time for cone-ing

Cone-ing 2012?

 

[elocomotive]

Cone-ing 2012?

I know. The devastation this has wrought on suburban fast food restaurants is awful and in the dozens of dollars.

Getting back to the topic, for me, it depends on the year. Some years, I really enjoy watching some of the series and especially the Finals. Some years, I won't even watch hockey after the Caps are out. I've said it many times, but I'm a fan of the Caps first, and a fan of hockey second.

 

[pixburgher66]

I know. The devastation this has wrought on suburban fast food restaurants is awful and in the dozens of dollars.

Getting back to the topic, for me, it depends on the year. Some years, I really enjoy watching some of the series and especially the Finals. Some years, I won't even watch hockey after the Caps are out. I've said it many times, but I'm a fan of the Caps first, and a fan of hockey second.

I think it depends on when your team is knocked out...if it's the first round, I won't watch regularly until CF time, if it's second I'll probably snap out of it by SCF, but if it's CF? Yeah, not watching...

 

[elocomotive]

I think it depends on when your team is knocked out...if it's the first round, I won't watch regularly until CF time, if it's second I'll probably snap out of it by SCF, but if it's CF? Yeah, not watching...

If your team gets knocked out in the conference finals? What does that mean? I'm not familiar with that.

Yeah, I'm the same way, P66. I need a break before I can enjoy it.

 

[pixburgher66]

If your team gets knocked out in the conference finals? What does that mean? I'm not familiar with that.

Yeah, I'm the same way, P66. I need a break before I can enjoy it.

It was funny, the day after the Pens were eliminated another game was on TV, and we switched off the DVD and it was on the screen...my roomie LEAPED to turn it off. I just laughed and said "It's okay you know...I can watch the sport still."

 

[DaBoltsNIsles]

My team hasn't been in the playoffs since 2007 so this has become the norm.

I enjoy watching the Flyers play because most of my family are Flyers fans. When they lose it can be tough.

 

[Ties5o11]

Cone-ing 2012?

Kony-ing? As in using children as solidires you sick !@#$

 

[oaknightshockey1]

Kony-ing? As in using children as solidires you sick !@#$

i really thought that this was a discussion board where i would not have to see anything related to that....

 

[dboy97]

And yes, there are worse fates than watching an NHL playoff that doesn't include your team. You could be 1. studying for finals, 2. or getting a root canal, 3. or watching the NBA.

Zing!

I'll take 7 of the first ones, 3 of the second, before any of the third.

 

[grayghost668]

once the Pens are out the playoffs are just filler I watch very little,the NBA,fuck that,I'll watch some MLB the truth is I'm just waiting on the NFL season to kickoff