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Summary: Totally Sweet DVD
Review: Game 7 IN IT'S ENTIRETY. Nuff Said.Other than that there's an awesome documentary about the Bolts. From how they began, to where they are now - Stanly Cup Champs. Shows some post-game 7 locker room action as well as some of the parade. An interview with Marty (which is quite eerie since it was done before the Cup and makes several references to it) and a couple of bios Richards and the Conn Smythe. I can admit it, I cried when they won the Cup and I got sorta misty eyed watching this thing. Definately worth it. Get it, you'll be glad you did. My father is a huge Islanders fan and he is pretty jealous they didnt have something like this when his team won a few Cups.
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Summary: Good Compilation, But Want More Highlights, Less Music
Review: I don't like to sound immodest, or like I'm bragging, but I know more about ice hockey than most people. I proved it this year and about 2 years ago when i told all my hockey fan acquaintances to "watch this team-they're gonna be good".
One of the advantages of having digital satellite TV and the NHL Center Ice package, is being able to watch games from all over the league, and I hooked onto the Bolts about three years ago when they were still lousy. But I saw a couple of games they played against the Islanders (of all teams), with whom they had a nasty bottom-of-the-barrel rivalry at the time, and for some reason a "Bolt" out of the blue told me that this was a team to watch. St. Louis was just coming into his own (and suffered a broken leg that year to end his season.) I knew their coach Tortorella from when he was an assistant with the Rangers, and had been impressed with him when he had a very brief (4 games) stint as an interim coach at the end of one year and lit into the fat cat Rangers for quitting cold on him, the rest of the coaching staff, the previous coach and the fans. After one particular interview, in which he made the harshest comments I've ever heard any coach make about his own team, I said to myself "This guy is gonna be a good coach". I've watched just about all their games the last three years and could see them coming and coming.
At the beginning of last year, when just sitting around talking hockey, a couple of folks asked me who I thought was gonna win the cup, I said "Tampa Bay--if they stay healthy and get the goaltending". This sounds like hindsight, but I said it and meant it, though the other experts I was talking to thought I was crazy.
The finals this year were hard fought, but until the last two games, they weren't great hockey. Before the series, everyone thought the hockey would be high flying, fast skating stuff, but Calgary cheesed out and clutched and grabbed and tripped and held and played tough but yellow-- until the last two games when they seemed to get a little gassed and the Bolts were able to play their game. Of course they won both games--by scores closer than they should have been. But winning is what counts.
This DVD is valuable because it contains the entire broadcast of the last game, and that's the reason I bought it. All the other stuff is nice but extraneous. I guess music videos are a necessary evil in current sports highlights packages, but I find them very annoying. Of course with the miracle of DVD technology, you can easily skip them, which is what I reccomend. Otherwise a good buy for us hockey fans--especially since taped highlights may be the only hockey we see this year.
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Summary: My Stanley Cup Champions!
Review: It is always good to know what you are talking about when watching hockey! In the 7 years being a season ticket holder for the Bolts, I have watched some awful teams. In the last 3 years they started looking different on the ice. This DVD provides what I have seen for those past years. The togetherness, the work ethic to do the job asked of them. Everytime ANY of this team was/is interviewed, they say the exact same thing about working as a team, about skating hard and believing in each other. These boys got the same book and were on the same page the entire season. The extra stuff shows the things we knew were going on but were afraid to ask.
This team had fun this year and because it was fun they learned to win and move on to the next game if they lost. I still get chills hearing the radio call, hearing the announcers at the end of the game on the TV highlights and watching this video. It was AWESOME to be there and is still very cool! (no pun intended)
Lillis: NO ONE can know the real truth about that goal. Camera angles on that one were not great and definitely not conclusive.
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Summary: Decent!
Review: The DVD is a good one....BUT THE FLAMES SHOULD HAVE WON THE CUP IN GAME 6! THE PUCK CROSSED THE LINE AND THEY SHOULD HAVE WON THAT GAME! THE LIGHTINING GOT HANDED THE CUP BY THE NHL OFFICES IN TORONTO BY NOT REVIEWING THAT!
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Summary: game 7 saved this dvd
Review: the finals this year were awesome and i was excited about the dvd but when i actually got it and watched it, i was a bit disappointed. the biggest reason this dvd wasn't a waste of my money is because the dvd has the entire 7th game of the stanley cup finals on it and game 7 was just amazing. this dvd isn't really worth the full price.
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Summary: Believe in miracles
Review: The most underrated professional sport in America today, this DVD shows just how much heart, soul, blood, sweat, and tears players put into hockey. This DVD, showing the Cinderella-esque run that the Tampa Bay Lightning made on their road to Stanley Cup victory, shows just that. Any NHL or Lightning fan will remember how just a few years ago the Lightning were the laughing stock of the entire NHL. For a few years straight they were the worst team in the league, and instead of going over budget and signing big name players (they couldn't if they wanted to however, since not much cash had been put into the team) they built their championship foundation through the draft and trades like historic teams such as the Colorado Avalanche and New Jersey Devils had done in years past. Martin St. Louis. Brad Richards. Vincent Lecavalier. Dave Andreychuk. Nikolai Khabibulen. These are just a few players who catapaulted the Lightning to success during the regular season, and managed to topple over the Calgary Flames in their dramatic Game seven victory. This DVD is an absolute must own for Lightning fans or NHL fans in general, and it's about the only NHL action we fans will be seeing for a while with the Lockout in full effect, and a sad uncertainty whether or not the NHL will ever be again.
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Summary: Lightnin DVD
Review: This DVD is awesome. Anyone who followed the Stanley Cup Playoffs would not be dissapointed with the coverage NHL productions did on this DVD. IT has a full broadcast of Game 7 on it as well as interviews with Martin St. Louis and Brad Richards and a full bio on the lightnings season and Playoff run. Buy it while u can cause it shows why the lightning are the STANLEY CUP CHAMPIONS :).
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