Featured TwitPic: Magic dispel Celtics, force Game 7

You can't get to Game 7 without Game 6. And for the Magic, who are 0-5 as a franchise when facing elimination, they needed all the tricks they could get to live another day.

Despite some unprecedented finger-pointing after a Game 5 defeat, the wizardry of Dwight Howard's 23 points and 22 rebounds pushed the series back to Boston after a 83-75 Game 6 victory, per ESPN.com.

After Rashard Lewis' driving layup that bumped the Magic's lead to 5, 72-67, with 6:34 left to play in the 4th quarter, @haleyFNdennis snapped this TwitPic during the ensuing timeout:

"Magic up by 5 with 6:34 left in the 4th! This game is out of control! I'm so fired up! I love these games."

Game 7 will be Sunday night at 7pm. Buckle up!

Featured TwitPic: Magic dispel Celtics, force Game 7

A Hurricane Blows Through Boston

Is there anything more compelling in sports that Game 7's? Hockey fans are fortunate to be handed two do-or-die games Thursday night. First, Detroit dispatched of those pesky Anaheim Ducks to advance to the Western Conference Finals. A few hours after that game ended, the Carolina Hurricanes knocked off the Boston Bruins 3-2 in overtime.

Carolina has now won four straight Game 7's and six straight playoff series. How's that for resilience?

Boston's a city of winners these days, so you have to believe the Bruins are sick of watching the Celtics and Red Sox flash championship rings around Kendall Square. They'll have to endure it for at least one more summer.

Next up for Carolina are Sidney Crosby and the Pittsburgh Penguins.

The Tweets are blowing in not only about this Hurricane on ice but about a bad night in Beantown:

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   mike_little #hurricanes can't believe i just yelled at a hockey game. woke up the house. 15 May 2009 from PeopleBrowsr
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   englishinvader The silence in Boston is deafening. Woop. #hurricanes 15 May 2009 from Seesmic Desktop
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   HockeyTweeter Not a good night in Boston: Red Sox = fail; Celtics = fail; Bruins = fail; Revolution = dnp. #canes #hurricanes #bruins #nhl #stanleycup 15 May 2009 from web
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   macknuttie Not that cool to be in Boston for the first time and have the Red Sox, Celtics and Bruins lose in the same night. Sorry Boston! 15 May 2009 from txt

Sure, Carolina is a nice story, but there is nothing more entertaining that despondent Boston sports fans. As the above Tweet noted, first the Celtics, then the Red Sox, now the Bruins, all losers in one night. Safe to say there are a few teary-eyed seaman crying in their Samuel Adams somewhere in the South End tonight:

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   JoeSaccomanno WTF!?!??! THE BRUINS LOST!!! 15 May 2009 from txt
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   AnnMarieBP Ouch...painful finish for the Bruins...well, at least 'Boston' is still a great band! ;) 15 May 2009 from TweetDeck
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   gfmorris The Bruins always break my heart. 15 May 2009 from Twitterrific
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   iandrinkwater For those looking for company on the Tobin bridge, I'm the guy screaming "I thought you wanted it" in his underwear. #bruins 15 May 2009 from web

A Hurricane Blows Through Boston

Penguins advance with blowout win over Capitals in Game 7

Home ice and Alexander Ovechkin be damned, the Pittsburgh Penguins and Sidney Crosby are taking their ice capades to another East Coast city.

The Penguins ran out to a 5-0 lead over the Washington Capitals in the second period on the way to a 6-2 victory, per ESPN, advancing to the Eastern Conference Finals against the winner of the Boston Bruins- Carolina Hurricanes series (also heading to a Game 7).

Crosby scored the first goal for the Pens, and was followed just by eight seconds later by Craig Adams.

Bill Guerin, Kris Letang, and Jordan Staal were the other goal-scorers. Crosby scored again in the third period, eliminating any thoughts of a Washington comeback.

Steel City Twitterers enjoyed the surprising outcome:

1. 
   chrislovett To some #Caps fans - This is what you deserve for your hate and jealousy of Sidney Crosby. (via @penschat) 14 May 2009 from Tweetie
2. 
   Chris__Fink oh, hello Washington Senator. what's that? u're choking? on your own teeth that the pittsburgh penguins kicked down your throat. aw. pity 14 May 2009 from web
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   hellohahanarf This Pittsburgh Penguins hockey game just might be the thing to help make me feel like not crying. GO PENS! 14 May 2009 from TwitterBerry
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   swiftyjim Hockey's big chance to get back on the radar and it's Penguins 5, Caps 0. Doh! 14 May 2009 from web
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   blue182skies @ChiBlackhawks Whatever it is that has happened to the Caps, I am thoroughly enjoying it! GO PENS! =) 14 May 2009 from twhirl
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   pmazur Penguins killing the Craps in the playoffs...it's just like the old days 14 May 2009 from web

Ovechkin scored a goal as did Brooks Laich, but Caps fans had nothing cheer about:

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   tmccool Ovechkin is a sad russian 14 May 2009 from txt
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   Rhodes21 I'm confused, I see Ovechkin but I thought the season finale of The Biggest Loser was last night?!?! 14 May 2009 from web
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   kweennikki If the caps lose tonight i think Ovechkin is gonna throw a molotov cocktail in the locker room and kill his whole team 14 May 2009 from txt
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   carldunniii If anyone has seen the Real Washington Capitals please send them to the Verizon Center!!! #washcaps 14 May 2009 from Tweetie
5. 
   Truth_About_It I don't think Osama Bin Laden could have scripted are more disastrous start to this Washington Capitals - Pitt Penguins hockey game. 14 May 2009 from web

One Tweeter captured this shot of Ovechkin during the second period:

(Twitpic by @tylerabramfitch)

Penguins advance with blowout win over Capitals in Game 7