Making case for Stanley Cup playoffs trumping NBA postseason

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• rock_knutne

  I don't watch the NBA at all so it's easy for me to say the NHL playoffs are better but I don't know if that article holds 100% true because the NBA gets much better ratings.
• SQ_Crazies

  

  Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm....no, not even close. And I'm a hockey fan.
  
  1st round, the advantage goes to hockey. After that, I don't even pay attention to it until the Cup games.
• hoops23

  

  I don't really care much for hockey. The Olympics had little affect on the overall sport, which I'm living proof of. I loved watching olympic hockey, but the NHL itself just doesn't do it for me..
  
  I love basketball though, so whatever.
• gorocks99

  

  It comes down to which sport you like better. Personally, I watch hockey just about every night this time of year. I'll flip to basketball every once in awhile. But, the NBA is a better marketed (and more popular) US product, so they get the nod when it comes to ratings and coverage.
• wes_mantooth

  

  Not a hockey fan, but the until the NHL gets off of VS....it is barely a major sport. Not a knock on the game...more of a knock on whoever decided to ink the deal with a network like that.
  
  I would probably at least watch a few games if it was on ESPN or a TBS-type of network. I have gone to several NHL games in the past couple of years, so the game is interesting enough to me to watch....just not on VS.
• Non

  

  NHL is better overall I'd say.
  
  The scores are low, 3-2, 4-3, so naturally more games are going to be close.
  
  Let's say you're watching a random NBA game and it's 21-10 then 30-17, 41-30. Those games are usually boring as hell unless they get close in the fourth quarter and it comes down to a few possessions.
• Non

  

  I will say that these NHL playoffs have been tremendous so far.
  
  A lot of even series and OT games and upsets.
  
  If you just went by what's happened so far it's a strong case for the NHL but it's not always this compelling.
• hoops23

  

  Non wrote: I will say that these NHL playoffs have been tremendous so far.
  
  A lot of even series and OT games and upsets.
  
  If you just went by what's happened so far it's a strong case for the NHL but it's not always this compelling.

  The NHL playoffs started?
  
  Seriously though, the NBA playoffs last year were AMAZING.
  
  This year, there have been a few good games in the 1st round, especially the surprising upsets by Utah and Portland on the road.
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  Last years NHL Playoffs were amazing as well.
  
  -Crosby and Ovechkin both having hat tricks in the same game
  
  -Anaheim and 8 seed upsetting San Jose the best team in the league
  
  -The Rangers forcing a game 7 against the Caps
  
  -Carolina upsetting New Jersey in 7
  
  -Carolina upsetting Boston in 7
  
  -Capitals vs. Pens in a thrilling 7 game series (nuff said)
  
  -Anaheim forcing a game 7 against Detroit (Detroit won)
  
  -Incredible 6 game series between the Hawks and Nucks
  
  -Malkin takes over the ECF
  
  -Detroit dominates Chicago in the WCF
  
  -Pens/Red Wings for the second year in a row
  
  -Pens win the Stanley Cup on the road in game 7
• thavoice

  "If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love was on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs even if they were coming in fuzzy"
  
  Robert Montgomery Knight.
• Non

  

  It's like 20-2 NHL in good games so far.
  
  I think people make too big of a deal about Versus. It's 2010. There are a lot of channels. Unless you're 85 years old, it doesn't take much to locate the channels above 10.
  
  I really can only speak for myself. I like all sports even basketball but when I watch an NBA game I usually have to flip back and forth through the first half. It's tough to watch 2 1/2 hours unless it's like those Bulls-Knicks games when it was so intense throughout.
• rock_knutne

  The_Crosby_Show wrote: -Pens win the Stanley Cup on the road in game 7

  The last 16 seconds of that game was incredible, Fleury making that incredible save on Lidstrom to win the Stanley Cup.
• DeyDurkie5

  

  I like both sports equally and love sports in general. I am an avid soccer fan and I think the World Cup is the greatest sports spectacle on this Earth. With that being said, nothing trumps the NHL playoffs for me.
• martyirish

  

  HOCKEY!!!!!
  The sport MEN play during basketball season.
  I guess that tells you how I feel.
  Oh yea
  LET'S GO PENS!!!