NHL and other ice hockey discussion

[deebakes]

game 1 goes into OT tied at 2 :woot:

[deebakes]

Kings take game one 3-2 in OT

[FBD]

you could have been watching all the games if you put effort into it :shrug:

too much travel. or pay ass rape cable fees. :lol:

[Teh One Who Knocks]

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[FBD]

:lol: @ even comparing basketball to hockey

[deebakes]

she's dreamy :cloud9:

[Godfather]

This year especially may be one of the best playoffs I can remember, not sure if anyone else feels the same way?

No hockey again tonight is depressing :( It almost seems like there should be a way to keep the momentum up during the final round though... even in the Conference Finals you basically have a game each night, so it's anti-climactic in the final round which shouldn't be the case!

[DemonGeminiX]

It's not like they're traveling in between games 1 and 2. There's no reason to take this much time off in between games.

[deebakes]

i am sure it comes down to money :shrug:

[FBD]

Man, it sucks when poor officiating changes the direction, momentum, and outcome of a game. Or should I ask how the NHL hires their refs, do the teams hire them directly?

2 easy goalie interference calls - one against the rangers got called, one against the kings...what, what interference? I didnt see shit?

Or the OT bullshit that setup the game winner....we fuggin watch the kings guy toss the puck out of the rink...ref? :hand: no that clearly hit the glass. :roll: ok, whatever, motherfucker.


Without the momentum change of the king's 3rd goal, the 4th never would have happened, and since the refs decided to give the kings one more favor and keep the rangers off a(nother) power play in OT...

That game was bullshit, the rangers were well on top of the entire game. Fuggin refs making me pick a team I want to win and shit.

[FBD]

ref said the puck already passed him? :roll: pfffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff fffffffff

http://video.nhl.com/videocenter/console?id=624156&catid=53


what I want to know is, why does the NHL not use any video replay to determine crucial game changing events

[deebakes]

they use to it confirm almost every goal :shrug:

[FBD]

:shrug: didnt seem to exist there...nor with the puck out of play...we got a "well, that was the call on the ice..."

[Teh One Who Knocks]

This year especially may be one of the best playoffs I can remember, not sure if anyone else feels the same way?

No hockey again tonight is depressing :( It almost seems like there should be a way to keep the momentum up during the final round though... even in the Conference Finals you basically have a game each night, so it's anti-climactic in the final round which shouldn't be the case!


It's not like they're traveling in between games 1 and 2. There's no reason to take this much time off in between games.

Every league pulls this bullshit now, drags out the finals as long as humanly possible. It's absolutely fucking stupid. It wasn't like this 20 years ago and that was back when there were no private jets for the teams and everyone had to fly commercial. And all the series were in the 2-2-1-1-1 format.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

http://i.imgur.com/fKFW32c.png

[Godfather]

Blowout tonight... This series is definitely the easiest LA has had.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

http://i.imgur.com/KCFH0bW.png

[FBD]

Blowout tonight... This series is definitely the easiest LA has had.
fo real, the rangers looked like they took a bus back from LA and just got off of it before game time

[DemonGeminiX]

The Rangers got one last night.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

I don't think this will be a replay of the '42 Leafs :hand:

[DemonGeminiX]

At the very least, it's not a sweep. I might hate the Rangers, but I'd like to see them put up a decent fight.

[FBD]

I have to admit, I've never seen the snow in the crease stop a puck before :lol:

I was happy they won....my brother was like but why....and I said, because that means MOAR HOCKEY!!!!!!!!!!

[DemonGeminiX]

The Kings win the Cup. It's over. Yay.

[RBP]

:unimpressed:

[Godfather]

Very convincing win by LA, just like the last time. Wasn't one of the teams I wanted to see win, but still fun to watch them lift the cup. They absolutely deserved it. Justin Williams deserved the Conn Smythe.

[FBD]

I think it was a given that LA was going to win this. But its sad and pathetic seeing the refs in LA try to assist them in any way possible. That bullshit hooking call where the Rangers scored shorthanded...yeah fluke backfire...follow that up with what's his name dragging his leg and ACTING! it out! and drawing a penalty, where the kings guy should have been the one with the penalty there for obstruction - even the commentators called the shit out of that one....and unfortunately that bullshit call led to a tied game. That other call where the main ref overruled the line judges where the puck went into the king's bench right before the end of regulation....both line judges with the better view on it said it went in the kings zone and should have been a faceoff there instead of bringing it outside the zone, with the game winding down...


So yyyyyeah....while the kings would have won anyway....we can give a nice big ASSIST to the fuckin LA refs :rolleyes: I hate nothing more in the sports world when games are ruined by poor or biased officiating. It really pisses me off. Wonder how much the center judge's friends had bet on the LA win last night :roll: I hate it when I have to yell at the tv.

[DemonGeminiX]

Hindsight is 20/20 and the game moves at a ridiculously fast pace. I'm sure the refs are doing the best that they can. Don't automatically assume that they're bought/stupid/biased in any way. These guys work for the NHL, not the NBA.

[FBD]

didnt seem to be a problem when they werent in LA :shrug:

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Hindsight is 20/20 and the game moves at a ridiculously fast pace. I'm sure the refs are doing the best that they can. Don't automatically assume that they're bought/stupid/biased in any way. These guys work for the NHL, not the NBA.

:agreed:

In the fastest team sport on the planet, the NHL refs are head and shoulders above every other officiating staff in the world of sports.

[DemonGeminiX]

Not a big deal perhaps, but the Phoenix Coyotes are changing their name to the Arizona Coyotes in order to be all inclusive of the state of Arizona.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Dominik Hasek, Mike Modano, Peter Forsberg and Rob Blake are all going into the HoF this year.

[DemonGeminiX]

Dominik Hasek, Mike Modano, Peter Forsberg and Rob Blake are all going into the HoF this year.

Jesus, I'm getting old. :(

[deebakes]

me too :(

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Bruins just lost Iginla to the Avs :wha:

[Godfather]

Bruins just lost Iginla to the Avs :wha:

But you root for the Avs too right!? They're going to be sick this year.

Canucks signed Miller for 3yrs, $6 mil per... not a huge fan of this. But we have 3 highly anticipated young goalies who might just need that time to develop...

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Yeah, I like the Avs too, but I'm surprised the B's let a 30 goal scorer go like that. They weren't exactly an offensive juggernaut, they are more of a defensive minded team.

[Godfather]

I wonder why they did, he was a great fit there I thought. He put up big numbers, had the grit that fits the Bruins style. Maybe just making way for the younger guys?

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Plus I dunno what the Avs are thinking, they traded Parentau for Briere (who is 5 years older and a 4th liner with Montreal) and they just lost Paul Stastny

[Godfather]

Plus I dunno what the Avs are thinking, they traded Parentau for Briere (who is 5 years older and a 4th liner with Montreal) and they just lost Paul Stastny

I think Nathan McKinnon, Duchene, Landesgog and O'Reilly are going to keep getting better at such a rate that it will all be okay! Briere is so clutch in the playoffs too, while PA didn't do much.

[samarchepas]

Plus I dunno what the Avs are thinking, they traded Parentau for Briere (who is 5 years older and a 4th liner with Montreal) and they just lost Paul Stastny

Brière is still a top 6 forward, he played on the 4th line because of a slow start and had issues with the coach (As far as I can tell, Parenteau had the same issues with Roy)

[Teh One Who Knocks]

With swapping Paranteau for Briere and Stastny for Iginla, the Avs just got a lot older....not exactly what you want to do in this league.

[DemonGeminiX]

:-s

Reduce the salary?

[Godfather]

I'm happy the nucks signed Vrbatta. Solid top 6 forward. We're still not a cup contender but it'll be an entertaining year.

It's just a relief to see a few free agents come out way. I'm not used to us given that our last GM Gillis was universally hated by the rest of the league...

[Teh One Who Knocks]

:-s

Reduce the salary?

If that was the case, maybe, but the Avs went from being in the bottom third of the league in salary, to number 12

[FBD]

Not a big deal perhaps, but the Phoenix Coyotes are changing their name to the Arizona Coyotes in order to be all inclusive of the state of Arizona.

do the citizens of glendale still get to pick up the tab?

[DemonGeminiX]

Hartnell traded for RJ Umberger?!? Are you freakin' kidding me?!?

:huh:

[Godfather]

:lol: Wasn't that last month? Yeah it was a weird one... Harnell was almost the face of that team. Going to be a different look.

[Godfather]

Only one month till hockey!!!

I'm really excited to cheer for the revamped canucks, as well as Avs and Habs! Bring it on

[Godfather]

FUCK. HBO announced they won't produce a third season for 24/7 leading up to the Winter Classic... there were so many players I wanted to see this year too between Chicago and Washington. That was the best part of the WC. :(


The NHL still says they'll do something, but I doubt it'll be as all-access and uncensored.

[Godfather]

Pre season hockey is back and it is glorious.

[DemonGeminiX]

Pat Quinn died.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/longtime-nhl-coach-pat-quinn-dies-at-71/ar-BBfCk1f

:rip:

[Teh One Who Knocks]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBbWjSG9fLM


The Lehigh Valley Phantoms found the back of the net three times in 21 seconds in last night's 5-3 win over Binghamton, but that might not even be the most impressive part: the three goals all came in the first 36 seconds of the game. This is why you should be in your seats by puck drop.

A rough night for goalie Andrew Hammond, who was pulled after stopping zero of the three shots he faced. Which was maybe a good move to preserve his mental well-being, but I feel like giving up three goals in 21 seconds requires a true team effort.

[DemonGeminiX]

The Phantoms are coached by Terry Murray.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Agence France Presse


http://i.imgur.com/se3vVQP.jpg

St. Louis (AFP) - Martin Brodeur, the National Hockey League's all-time win leader among goaltenders, will retire Thursday and join the St. Louis Blues' front office, the NHL club announced Tuesday.

The 42-year-old Canadian will hang up his skates after 21 seasons with the New Jersey Devils and seven games this season for the Blues, who have hired him for a hockey operations management role, Blues general manager Doug Armstrong said on the team website.

Brodeur went 3-3 with a 2.87-goals against average and 89.9 save percentage while St. Louis netminder Brian Elliott was injured in December and January.

Brodeur won three Stanley Cup crowns with the Devils -- in 1995, 2000 and 2003 -- as well as helping backstop Canada to Olympic gold in 2002 and 2010.

He finishes his career with 691 victories in 1,266 games, including 125 shutouts. All three of those totals are NHL all-time records. Brodeur also captured the Vezina Trophy as the NHL's top goaltender in a season in 2003, 2004, 2007 and 2008.

"Congratulations on a storied career and thanks for letting us share in it," the Blues posted on their website on a photo of Brodeur waving to the crowd.

Brodeur's final career shutout came in a Blues uniform, when he blanked the Colorado Avalanche on December 29.

He was not re-signed by the Devils after last season and was a free agent seeking one more chance in the NHL when the Blues came calling after Elliott was hurt in late November.

[DemonGeminiX]

Thanks for the years of service, dude.

[FBD]

The Lehigh Valley Phantoms found the back of the net three times in 21 seconds in last night's 5-3 win over Binghamton, but that might not even be the most impressive part: the three goals all came in the first 36 seconds of the game. This is why you should be in your seats by puck drop.

A rough night for goalie Andrew Hammond, who was pulled after stopping zero of the three shots he faced. Which was maybe a good move to preserve his mental well-being, but I feel like giving up three goals in 21 seconds requires a true team effort.

:haha: what was hammond huffing gas before he went out on the ice? :lol:

[Teh One Who Knocks]

An NHL without either Brodeur or Roy in the crease....seems so weird.

[FBD]

http://www.goaliesarchive.com/

[DemonGeminiX]

An NHL without either Brodeur or Roy in the crease....seems so weird.

Yeah. Who's the great legend gonna be now?

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Yeah. Who's the great legend gonna be now?

Quite honestly, I don't see anyone even close to their talent level that is currently playing in the NHL.

[DemonGeminiX]

Where's GF when you need him? He could probably name a few.



We're getting old, Lance. :lol:

[Teh One Who Knocks]

I doubt GF would posit that any current goalie in the NHL is anywhere close to the level of Brodeur or Roy.



I know :sad2:

[FBD]

So cute seeing my 4 year old niece fly around on skates, pushing that plastic garbage can :lol:

and its awesome watching my 11 year old nephew pull some nhl type shit and score 9 goals in a tournament final

[FBD]

been catching the local high school games on cptv while at the garage lately....shit, gage is only in 4th grade :lol: he's got quite a ways to grow up yet :lol:

when do the playoffs and crap start....not that any of them will actually appear on the tv until its like half of the stanley cup :roll:

[DemonGeminiX]

The Stanley Cup playoffs have begun.

[FBD]

oh nice, is that shit on broadcast, or will I raise my fist and curse? :willie:

[FBD]

:willie:

[Teh One Who Knocks]

The Stanley Cup playoffs have begun.

No dog in the hunt, no care :yawn:

[DemonGeminiX]

5 Canadian teams made it in this year. Where's GF and Sam?

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Both been MIA for awhile :missing:

[FBD]

teams :lol: its fkn hockey, it glorious no matter who's playing. although the kids do get a bit tedious at times :lol:

[deebakes]

go wild :woot:

[FBD]

havent caught too many games, but watched the caps and islanders last night, but went home when it went to OT. then backstrom scores when his cover dropped his stick. I havent recalled seeing so many dropped sticks as I saw last night in that game, there was like at least a half dozen. and then those 3 pentalties right in a row on the caps, second of which was a totally clean hit to me. weird stuff. the one hit that wasnt on the replays by ovechkin was awesome.

[RBP]

I fell asleep during the 3rd period. 8:45 puck drop. :| then 3 OT's. Glad I went to bed.

Go Hawks!

[deebakes]

i went to bed after the 1st OT :lol:

[RBP]

Well, the hawks chocked, but still up 3-2. In more important news...

Aspen Rae is a hawks fan? :faint: :wank: :drool:

http://i.imgur.com/IU1gXjO.jpg

[Teh One Who Knocks]

No Bruins, no Avalanche, no care :yawn:

[RBP]

:loser:

[FBD]

care stops when the cup get hoisted

[deebakes]

No Bruins, no Avalanche, no care :yawn:

:haha:

[DemonGeminiX]

:haha:

The Penguins are out. Rangers beat them 4 games to 1.

[deebakes]

:rip: crosby

[DemonGeminiX]

Calgary takes out Vancouver, 4 games to 2.

[RBP]

Hawks :woot:

[Teh One Who Knocks]

http://i.imgur.com/Parxrkz.jpg

[deebakes]

wild :woot:

[DemonGeminiX]

The Capitals finish off the Isles. I'm slightly disappointed.

[DemonGeminiX]

Red Wings and Lightning go to a game 7, tomorrow night.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

The Capitals finish off the Isles. I'm slightly disappointed.

Me too, I was hoping for a game 8 :sad2:

[DemonGeminiX]

The Lightning send the Red Wings home packing. Round 1 is done.

[deebakes]

no game 8 :sad2:

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Agence France Presse


http://i.imgur.com/OVKns9Q.jpg

Prague (AFP) - Canada and the USA are the only teams with a perfect record at the ice hockey world championships after winning their third games in the group stage on Monday.

The USA went top of Group B, played in the eastern city of Ostrava, after beating defending champions Russia 4-2.

Los Angeles Kings forward Trevor Lewis put the US team 1-0 ahead in the sixth minute.

Russian defenceman Anton Belov levelled the score early in the second period but Boston defenceman Torey Krug scored a second US goal three minutes later.

Arizona forward Marc Arcobello, who swapped teams in the NHL three times this season, raised the score to 3-1 in the 52nd minute.

Sergei Plotnikov narrowed the goal difference four minutes before the end but New York Islanders forward Brock Nelson then found an empty net nine seconds before the siren to round off the score as Russia had pulled Columbus Blue Jackets goalie Sergei Bobrovski.

"Undoubtedly those guys are going to get their chances, their opportunities," said Krug.

"You can't stop all of them but we did a pretty good job of keeping that number down."

"We did well at realising when we had to calm the game down, get the puck out of the zone."

In Group A, played in Prague, Canada beat the Czech Republic 6-3 a day after humiliating Germany 10-0.

Edmonton forward Jordan Eberle scored four minutes into the game and his NHL teammate Taylor Hall added another on 19 minutes, but the Czechs narrowed the lead through Arizona wing Martin Erat before the first intermission.

The home fans went frantic as Martin Zatovic put the Czechs level in the 36th minute, but their joy was short-lived as Philadelphia forward Sean Couturier handed the star-packed Canadian team a lead two minutes later.

Dallas Stars young gun Tyler Seguin and Pittsburgh Penguins star Sidney Crosby scored power-play goals in the last period.

Former St Louis Blues forward Vladimir Sobotka narrowed the difference, only for Los Angeles forward Tyler Toffoli to round off the score a minute before the final siren.

In the first Group A game of the day, Boston forward Loui Eriksson scored a hat-trick as Sweden thrashed underdogs Latvia 8-1.

Joel Lundqvist, playing for Frolunda in the Swedish league, had a goal and an assist while Arizona defenceman Oliver Ekman-Larsson assisted twice.

In the evening game in Group B, Finland beat Norway 5-0.

Finland forward Joonas Kemppainen scored twice and added an assist and defenceman Esa Lindell had a goal and two assists while Nashville goalie Pekka Rinne stopped 20 shots for his second shutout of the tournament.

[deebakes]

be nice if the fucking wild could play hockey sometime soon :x

[RBP]

be nice if the fucking wild could play hockey sometime soon :x
I'll send them all participation ribbons.

:razz:

[deebakes]

:fbd: that's the only logical explanation... fucking obama has this shit rigged :x

[RBP]

:fbd: that's the only logical explanation... fucking obama has this shit rigged :x
That Jew Banker Janet Yellen did call Minnesota "the land of 10000 cesspools". :-k

[deebakes]

the only cesspool here is iowa :shrug:

[RBP]

:sweep:

:-k

[deebakes]

probably :(

[deebakes]

fuck you kanye :x

[DemonGeminiX]

:empathy:

[Teh One Who Knocks]

The Minnesota Mild :giggle:

[RBP]

what happened to the sweep smilie? :sad2:

[Teh One Who Knocks]

We never had one

[RBP]

:sad2:

[deebakes]

The Minnesota Mild :giggle:

what about the colorado or boston no playoffs? :-k

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Why go if you aren't going to win? :hand:

[deebakes]

:fbd:

[DemonGeminiX]

The Flyers hired a head coach with absolutely no experience in the NHL, playing or coaching, or any pro or semi-pro league. He coached in college and that's it. His college team did make the frozen four consistently, but...

[deebakes]

you're welcome then :lol:

[RBP]

Wow, lame game...and then the 3rd period (plus) happened. The Ducks got 3 goals in 37 seconds and lost in double overtime.

nothing says fuck you quite like that. :lol:

#GoHawks

[DemonGeminiX]

I was cheering for the Ducks.

:dunno:

[RBP]

I was cheering for the Ducks.

:dunno:


Awww, poor DGX. :empathy:

JK. :fu:

:dance:

[DemonGeminiX]

I'm really cheering for the Ducks now.

:nana:

[RBP]

it's on. :x

[RBP]

Wow was that a pathetic first period by the Hawks. One shot on goal? Really?

[RBP]

Guess it was 3 but still. Then a complete reversal in the 2nd with the Hawks dominating. Crazy game.

[DemonGeminiX]

Go Ducks!!!

:cheerlead:

[DemonGeminiX]

:nervous:

[DemonGeminiX]

:lol:

Damn, that Toews kid is pretty good.

[RBP]

Wow! What a 3rd! To OT we go!

[RBP]

:lol:

Damn, that Toews kid is pretty good.
:lol:

[RBP]

Jesus. Fuck. :x

[RBP]

That regulation finish then you come out flat in OT. :|

[DemonGeminiX]

DUCKS!!!!

:cheerlead:

:lol:

[RBP]

http://i.imgur.com/WQ4tuFz.gif

[DemonGeminiX]

This game's a slaughter. Stick a fork in Tampa Bay. On to game 7.

[deebakes]

i suppose the rangers will win game 7 again :shrug:

[DemonGeminiX]

The west finals have been way more entertaining.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

i suppose the rangers will win game 7 again :shrug:


Lundqvist is working on a NHL-record streak of six straight wins in Game 7 situations. To put that into some perspective, only two other goalies, the legendary pair of Patrick Roy and Martin Brodeur, can say that they have so many as six Game 7 wins in their careers.

And it’s not like Lundqvist is simply doing an average job in those games while getting stellar offensive support. He has not allowed more than one goal in any of the six contests, making 179 saves on 184 shots for a 0.84 goals-against average. Then there’s this stat, just to support the theory that the goalie’s Game 7 prowess has quasi-supernatural qualities:

http://i.imgur.com/B6kJ5wF.png

Of course, we’re past May 13 now, but we’re not done counting the ways in which Lundqvist figures to be nearly impossible to beat in Friday’s Game 7 in New York. He is 10-0 in his past 10 elimination games at Madison Square Garden, allowing less than a goal per game in those contests.

I wouldn't bet against them in a game 7, especially at home :lol:

[DemonGeminiX]

And there will be a game 7 in Anaheim.

[RBP]

:woot:

That was a fun game to watch...

[DemonGeminiX]

That game 7 sucked. The Lightning punched through.


So I guess they'll be facing the Ducks next week...

:shifty:

#GoDucks

[RBP]

You can watch a real game tomorrow.

Also... :nutkick:

[DemonGeminiX]

:dance:

[deebakes]

surprised the rangers didn't make it :shrug:

[deebakes]

the nhl is going to make sure one of the original six makes it to the stanley cup, so i am sure the blackhawks will be the beneficiary tomorrow :idk:

[deebakes]

nice try anaheim :empathy:

[DemonGeminiX]

the nhl is going to make sure one of the original six makes it to the stanley cup, so i am sure the blackhawks will be the beneficiary tomorrow :idk:

What makes you say that?

:-k

[deebakes]

the ratings for an anaheim-tampa bay series would be horseshit and the nhl wants to get some of those fat stacks of cash :fbd:

[DemonGeminiX]

We'll see what happens. We're not talkin' about the NBA here.

[RBP]

:fbd:

[RBP]

Let's get ready to rummmbbbbllleeeeeeeee.......

[DemonGeminiX]

:cheerlead: Go Ducks!!! :cheerlead:

[DemonGeminiX]

Jinx on Chicago! Jinx on Chicago!! Jinx on Chicago!!!

[DemonGeminiX]

Damn it. It's not working. :no:

[DemonGeminiX]

:|

[DemonGeminiX]

:meh: ...



:-k



























:cheerlead: Go Lightning!!!! :cheerlead:

[RBP]

suck it, ducks!

:dance:

[RBP]

suck it, DGX!

:dance:

[deebakes]

not surprised, the fix was in :shrug:

[DemonGeminiX]

The Lightning won't let me down. :tup:

[RBP]

not surprised, the fix was in :shrug:

suck it, Dee!

:dance:

[RBP]

The Lightning won't let me down. :tup:

Wager?

[DemonGeminiX]

No, because then they'll definitely lose. I always have bad luck when it comes to betting.

[RBP]

No, because then they'll definitely lose. I always have bad luck when it comes to betting.

All I heard was 'blah blah blah, wah wah wah, I'm a pussy"

:dance:

[DemonGeminiX]

:lol:

Whatever.

[deebakes]

suck it, Dee!

:dance:

i wish i had an extremely corrupt government that could pay off the nhl so that my team would be able to continue in the playoffs :roll:

[RBP]

i wish i had an extremely corrupt government that could pay off the nhl so that my team would be able to continue in the playoffs :roll:

this isn't mother Russia. :lol:

[DemonGeminiX]

It's Chiraq. :tup:

[RBP]

It's Chiraq. :tup:

:lol: and I hope they pop a cap into Tampa. :tup:

[DemonGeminiX]

Go Lightning!!!! :cheerlead:

[DemonGeminiX]

:roll:

[RBP]

:roll:

:dance:

:woot:

:fu:

[DemonGeminiX]

:hand:

They cheated.

[RBP]

clearly puck in net illusions!

[DemonGeminiX]

It's a conspiracy, man.

[-(

[RBP]

yes, the "better team won tonight" conspiracy. :x thanks, Obama!

[DemonGeminiX]

[-(

"Better team", pfft.

[RBP]

It reminded me of an old joke.

An old bull (Hawks) and a young bull (Lightning) are sitting on top of a hill looking at the cows.

first period: young bull: let's run down and fuck a cow!!!!

Third period: old bull: No, son, let's walk down and fuck 'em all.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

:roll:

Well, easy to see the fix is in on this one

[RBP]

you guys are just trying to get under my skin. :hand:

[DemonGeminiX]

So what the hell did the NHL do? Schedule the Stanley Cup Finals around the bullshit NBA Finals?

[RBP]

So what the hell did the NHL do? Schedule the Stanley Cup Finals around the bullshit NBA Finals?

I am not sure why they went with 2 days off here. Maybe just for a Saturday game.

[deebakes]

no game today :x

[RBP]

60 minutes to puck drop. Here we go Hawks. Time to kick some ass.

:cheerlead:

[deebakes]

or lose, either way :idk:

[DemonGeminiX]

:cheers:

[RBP]

:meh:

Crawford let one through that shouldn't have been a goal, but otherwise just a good game.

[DemonGeminiX]

I'm gonna operate under the assumption that my cheering for the team brings the team bad luck and they lose, since that seems to be the trend this year. So I'm not going to cheer for Tampa. I'm gonna cheer for Chicago instead.

:demon:

[RBP]

I'm gonna operate under the assumption that my cheering for the team brings the team bad luck and they lose, since that seems to be the trend this year. So I'm not going to cheer for Tampa. I'm gonna cheer for Chicago instead.

:demon:

You can't then celebrate the Blackhawks victory. :nono:

[DemonGeminiX]

There won't be a Blackhawks victory.

#revengefor2010

:demon:

[RBP]

There won't be a Blackhawks victory.

#revengefor2010

:demon:

http://i.imgur.com/itmnNxO.png

[deebakes]

http://i60.tinypic.com/aema0y.gif

[DemonGeminiX]

http://i.imgur.com/itmnNxO.png


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEfpoUuKFOY

[RBP]

fuck :x

[deebakes]

bummer, i was rooting for the hawks too 8-[

[RBP]

bummer, i was rooting for the hawks too 8-[

lying whore :lol:

[DemonGeminiX]

Oh darn. 8-[

[RBP]

2-2. Game on, boys. Now it gets interesting.

[DemonGeminiX]

Yep, best of 3 now. You think it'll go 7?

:-k

[RBP]

I do, yes. I am already plotting how to get out of a business dinner that night.

[DemonGeminiX]

:lol:

Good luck.

[RBP]

I may slash my own tires. :lol:

[deebakes]

:rofl:

[RBP]

RAWR!!! :cheerlead:

[RBP]

I got out of the meeting!!! :woot:

because I need to provide coverage for customer service issues. :giggle:

Now let's not need it. Time for a white people riot in Chicago!! :cheerlead:

[DemonGeminiX]

Time for a white people riot in Chicago!! :cheerlead:

A white people riot? What's that? Breaking a beer bottle by throwing it in a trash can then apologizing profusely for it for the next 3 hours?

[deebakes]

yay :|

[DemonGeminiX]

No kidding.

[RBP]

:fu:

:cheerlead:

[RBP]

http://i.imgur.com/TWjg55t.jpg

[RBP]

http://i.imgur.com/di38YBs.jpg?1

[DemonGeminiX]

:yawn:

[DemonGeminiX]

:lol:

Sorry, man.

[RBP]

I understand. It's easy for you to be smug when the Philly sports scene is so awesome right now.

:dance:

[DemonGeminiX]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWdd6_ZxX8c

[Teh One Who Knocks]

So, the fix was in I guess after all

[RBP]

So, the fix was in I guess after all

:slap:

Can't kill my buzz. :dance:

[Teh One Who Knocks]

1908

[RBP]

Wrong thread. :slap:

Also, 7 games over 500. :dance:

[Teh One Who Knocks]

I'm pretty sure they don't award the World Series title based on how many games over .500 you are on June 16th :-k

[DemonGeminiX]

3 times in the past 6 years. It's time to unload all of those hefty contracts and let those good players go play for someone else.

[RBP]

I'm pretty sure they don't award the World Series title based on how many games over .500 you are on June 16th :-k
They have a good shot at a wild card.

[RBP]

3 times in the past 6 years. It's time to unload all of those hefty contracts and let those good players go play for someone else.
The core will stay and I hear the farm system is loaded from good scouting.

[DemonGeminiX]

I gotta hand it to you RBP, for all the things Chi-town gets wrong, it certainly does seem that they've got their hockey in good standing. We'll see how the baseball falls out in September/October.

But y'all still suck. :nana:

[deebakes]

i hate watching toews and kane on the ice at the same time, it seems almost like they are playing a different game than everyone else :shrug:

[RBP]

i hate watching toews and kane on the ice at the same time, it seems almost like they are playing a different game than everyone else :shrug:

In a bad way, or in a "damn those guys are good" way?

[RBP]

http://i.imgur.com/1cW48bc.jpg

[Teh One Who Knocks]

By Allen Muir - Sports Illustrated


http://i.imgur.com/9qrdkM4.jpg

Safe to say that Al Arbour, who passed away on Friday morning at 82 after a battle with Parkinson’s Disease and dementia, will be universally eulogized as the legendary coach who guided the New York Islanders to four consecutive Stanley Cups.

Fair enough. After all, behind the bench is where Alger made his name in the game.

He earned his spot in the Hockey Hall of Fame back in 1996 as a leader of men. A winner of 19 consecutive playoff series, a mark that hasn’t been equaled since and never will be, and second all time in both wins (782) and games coached (1,607). He racked up 1,500 of them behind the Islanders bench (a single-franchise record), a nice round figure he achieved when Ted Nolan, who was coaching the Isles at the time, noticed that Al had retired in 1994 at 1,499 and invited him back for one more kick at the can. Arbour agreed to the one-game stint and on Nov. 3, 2007 he led New York to a 3–2 win over the Penguins.

Arbour earned his longevity via the coaching acumen he absorbed along the way from men like Scotty Bowman and Joe Crozier and Punch Imlach. He was a brilliant defensive tactician who also knew how to rev up an offense. But Arbour’s hallmark as a coach was his decency. That’s not to say he was soft, but he recognized there was a person underneath the sweater.

“I think Al was the greatest coach of all time in that he balanced the winning with a personal touch,” former Islander Chico Resch said in a 2011 interview. “I think those factors have become more important than ever.

“When you are dealing with modern-day athletes who are used to not being told no, given a tremendous amount and not being severely disciplined you really have to do it with a personal touch and tact. Al was always the best at that. And he could do it in a way that he never left the person he was doing it with embarrassed. They always say Scotty Bowman and Al were the greatest and I’d pick Al just because of his personal touch.”

“He was the best coach I ever played for,” Ray Ferraro told NHL.com. “Al had the best feel for what the player needed or could handle—kick in the [rear] or pat on the back ... he knew which [to use].”

Among his brilliant touches were putting an egg in the pants of a player he felt needed to be more physical, the message being the player would surely come out of a corner with the egg uncracked. He also left plates of dog biscuits in the lockers of players he felt were playing, well, like dogs.

“Al could really get on you,” recalled Denis Potvin, the Islanders’ Hall of Fame defenseman who drew the coach's ire early in his career while Arbour was molding him into the team’s captain. “He’d say, ‘Potvin, I know you skate like you have a piano on your back, but don’t stop to play the thing.’ Not much you can say to that.”

Before turning the Islanders into a dynasty, Arbour worked wonders in his first gig with the expansion St. Louis Blues, as Mark Mulvoy chronicled in a 1972 feature for SI. Normally mild mannered, after being hired by the Blues for the second time, replacing Sid Abel, he got into a fracas with fans in Philadelphia while pursuing a ref he thought had been favoring the Flyers.

As defenseman Bob Plager recalled, “When Al chased after [referee John] Ashley, it was the first time all year someone had stood up for us. It brought us together. Now we were ready to stand up for ourselves and be counted. It really was what I’d call the making of a hockey team.”

But before he became a coaching legend, Arbour was just another guy trying to earn his place in the NHL. There won’t be much attention paid to that today, and maybe that’s understandable considering that he scored only 12 career goals and 70 points over 626 games split between Detroit, Chicago, Toronto and St. Louis. But the way Arbour played the game informed the man he became as a coach.

Don Cherry, who won the Calder Cup with Arbour as part of the 1964-65 Rochester Americans, once described him as a player who never got the recognition he deserved. “He was smart as a whip. He really knew the game.”

“He was the kind of guy who didn’t have great stats but teams always traded for him just before the playoffs,” Plager wrote in his book, Tales From The Blues Bench.

In today’s game Arbour would have been a valuable commodity, a defensive defenseman who could be counted on to make the right play under pressure. But back then, with just six teams and fewer than 40 jobs to be had, he was a journeyman who spent almost as much time riding the buses as he did enjoying the good life in the NHL. He wasn’t particularly skilled, and he carried the stigma of being the only guy in the league who wore glasses on the ice (hence his bookish nickname "Radar” that was bestowed upon him by Jack Adams, his coach with Detroit, who called him a “blind-eyed, CinemaScope, radar, sonuvabitch”). But Arbour was strong and steady, always in position and as fearless as anyone in the game. Fans and teammates would marvel at his willingness to block shots while wearing those glasses.

And he was a winner. He helped Detroit, Chicago and Toronto to Stanley Cup championships before getting another shot at the NHL at 35 when expansion created six teams’ worth of new opportunities. He was coaxed out of retirement two weeks into the 1967-68 season and was named the captain of the expansion St. Louis Blues where he thrived under Bowman. “He had the ability to dig deeper when he had to, to make himself go harder when he was hurting or when the team needed him,” Bowman said. “That’s toughness.”

But even the toughest among us can only battle for so long.

Rest in peace, Al.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Great start to the NHL season, the Bruins got beat bad in their first game (and home opener) and the Avalanche blew a 4-1 lead and lost 5-4 in their first game of the season :woot:

[DemonGeminiX]

We dropped our opener in OT against the Lightning, but at least we got a point out of the deal.

[deebakes]

Great start to the NHL season, the Bruins got beat bad in their first game (and home opener) and the Avalanche blew a 4-1 lead and lost 5-4 in their first game of the season :woot:

to the wild :woot:

[Teh One Who Knocks]

to the wild :woot:

:slap:

[deebakes]

:haha:

[Teh One Who Knocks]

It's a long season [-(

[deebakes]

for you :lol:

[Godfather]

http://i.imgur.com/1cW48bc.jpg

If I was playing NHL on Xbox and these fuckers won three times I'd hit the damn reset button 'cus it has to be a glitch :lol:

[RBP]

If I was playing NHL on Xbox and these fuckers won three times I'd hit the damn reset button 'cus it has to be a glitch :lol:

Godfather! :woot:

Very nice to see you on! You've been missed.

[Godfather]

Thanks bud!! Hope you're doing well.

So... thoughts on Patty Kane's whole ordeal/accusations this summer? :lol:

[deebakes]

the glove didn't fit :shrug:

[Godfather]

Allstar game today :roll: Bring back normal hockey please.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

I dunno why they keep tweaking the format of the all star game :|

[Godfather]

I'm not entirely sure. It's pretty obvious that the All Star game isn't for regular fans. It's a corporate schmooze-fest, and perhaps also an attempt to get casual viewers more invested.

... To their credit, I have to admit it was by FAR the best All Star game in years. 5 on 5 with no hitting, checking or shot blocking was a joke. At least this new format of 3 on 3 looked like the overtime 3 on 3 that we're getting used to. They were actually clearing trying out there for most of the games which was a first. And the John Scott thing was kind of a feel-good story-line.

I have a feeling given the buzz and success, we might see this format for a few years in a row now... although the 4 teams of each division was silly. I'm not sure there's any pride in playing for 'Team Metropolitan Division' :lol:

[Teh One Who Knocks]

At least this new format of 3 on 3 looked like the overtime 3 on 3 that we're getting used to.

:hand:

Maybe that you're getting used to :nono: There was nothing wrong with playing a 5 minute OT period of 5 on 5 hockey that may or may not have ended in a tie. Hockey is already an exciting sport, there is no need to add extra artificial theatrics/dramatics to it [-(

[Godfather]

McDavid had a 5 point night... kid is unbelievable. More exciting to watch than Sid IMO.

I wonder if he can win a Calder with only 40 games or so... doubt it.

[DemonGeminiX]

Boom! The Flyers made the playoffs! :woot:

[Godfather]

Aaaand Detroit extended a 25 year playoff streak. Unbelievable. You can't buy a sports culture like that.

[DemonGeminiX]

It's so weird seeing Detroit in the Eastern Conference.

[DemonGeminiX]

And no Canadian team made the playoffs this year. That's like sacrilege or something.

[RBP]

And no Canadian team made the playoffs this year. That's like sacrilege or something.

I heard they are very concerned about ratings and ad revenue as a result.

[deebakes]

its just too bad that canada sucks :shrug:

[Godfather]

That Wings line brawl tonight was awesome :lol:

First round of the playoffs is better than Christmas.... 3-4 awesome games a day. Tis the season :mrgreen:

[Godfather]

And no Canadian team made the playoffs this year. That's like sacrilege or something.

Canadian franchises are all in a sad state of affairs... not even sure how you explain that. My theory is that they're all too top heavy with upper management but that's a pretty vague statement. It's just weird.

[DemonGeminiX]

I guess I should just be happy that the Flyers made the playoffs.

[deebakes]

wild down 0-2 :(

[Teh One Who Knocks]

No Bruins, no Avalanche, no care

[DemonGeminiX]

Wow. 6 - 1. Yeah, I think we're looking at a sweep here.

:sad2:

[Godfather]

:(

Really rooting for the Flyers to turn it around cus I love G and hate Ovie

[DemonGeminiX]

I'm sorry bro, but I really don't think it's gonna happen.