The Random Hockey Thoughts Thread

[dave]

Bring on Boston....although they're "woo!" goal song is almost as flamboyantly gay as Chicago's goal song.

I think the Flyers are gonna win that series, but their goaltending makes it such a dice roll. The Flyers need to finally solve that issue in the off-season.

 

[NAHSTE]

Rumor has it that Atlanta, not PHX, is moving to winnnipeg.

As an Atlanta fan, I wouldn't even care. I'd rather them leave at this point so I can move on to a real hockey team. Wide open to bandwagon suggestions.

 

[JOHNNYTHECLOWN]

Saturday in Philly... READY SET GOOOOO!

 

[killgod]

Sharks open on Friday night...can't wait.

 

[wingsfan77]

I think the Flyers are gonna win that series, but their goaltending makes it such a dice roll. The Flyers need to finally solve that issue in the off-season.

Yeah....that's not going to happen....the fans want it every off-season and how many straight years has it been an issue?

 

[KnightNoles]

Fawkin Penguins.... :smh:

 

[PP]

I went to the Bs game last night. Never heard the place so loud. Up 2-0 I was miserable. I was miserable when the game was tied. Even when it was all over I felt more relieved than happy. Oh and fk the refs and Suban. Stupid Habs and their diving. NHL needs to implement fines for this shit.

 

[Ravin]

It looked great on Montreal on the dive. Game 7 and you're pulling that bullshit. Looks good on him now.

But Boston needs to do something to beat the Flyers. The first two games of this series Boston lost, Montreal didn't win, and if you do that aginst the Flyers, you'll find yourself out of the playoffs quickly. But that being said, Boston is 3-0-1 against the Flyers this season.

 

[PP]

It looked great on Montreal on the dive. Game 7 and you're pulling that bullshit. Looks good on him now.

But Boston needs to do something to beat the Flyers. The first two games of this series Boston lost, Montreal didn't win, and if you do that aginst the Flyers, you'll find yourself out of the playoffs quickly. But that being said, Boston is 3-0-1 against the Flyers this season.

The Bruins play matches up better vs a team like the Flyers than it does the Smurfs.

 

[leaffan]

LOL @ CBC.

They start the coverage of that stupid wedding in 5 hours and at this point still are not 100% sure on what they are going to do if tonights game goes into multiple OTs.

 

[wingsfan77]

Keep showing the game....why the F do this many people care about this stupid F'ing wedding?

 

[Ravin]

CBC is the same group who got the political debate moved up to the second week of the election because of the NHL playoffs. So this doesn't surprise me. Although what does it say when Wedding > Hockey > Politics.

 

[PP]

Yeah, my hearing just came back to full strength this morning. My voice is still a little coarse, my hand still hurts from when I was purposefully banging it on my seat, and I can still taste the 3 or 4 Murphy's I had after the game at McGann's...



Easily the best game I've ever been too. I even had some drunk college hottie groping me and slapping my ass during the game. It was pure euphoria when they won. AWESOMENESS...

Yeah I had a few drunk ones too in my section. Some asian with shortest skirt and her bruins shirt tied up to expose more skin. Best game I have ever been too.

 

[killgod]

http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=561485

career is over. just sayin.

 

[leaffan]

http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=561485

career is over. just sayin.

Except the doctor says he expects a full recovery...

It still bothers me to this day that while watching that NHL 24/7 thing when they went to the dressing room after he was hit he clearly was out of it and there was no training staff or even anything from the coach about it. I guess the new nhl rules now would of prevented that but still.

 

[killgod]

I'm just a hater.

P.S. Career is srsly over.

 

[wingsfan77]

Gotta love this Pronger conversation, Tim Pannachio is a douche:

To set the scene, Pronger purposely ignored a question from Panaccio during the media scrum just prior to this exchange.

Pronger: (To me as Tim's walking over) Here comes Tim. Watch this.

Tim: You didn't answer my question.

Pronger: You had a question?

Tim: Yeah, and you didn't answer it.

Pronger: Let's hear it.

Tim: Are you surprised that Boston didn't score a single power play goal in the (first round of the) playoffs.

Pronger: Am I surprised?

Tim: Yeah. That's almost unheard of.

Me: It is. It's never happened.

Pronger: There you go. There's always a first for everything. There's always firsts. They scored three overtime-winning goals. That in itself makes up for all the power play stuff.

Tim: Given your power play has struggled almost as much as theirs...

Pronger: (cutting Tim off) Wow, how many did we get?

Tim: How many did you get?

Me: You got five.

Pronger: (dripping with sarcasm) Oh, We got five. Ohhhhh.

Tim: Big difference.

Pronger: Oh? Zero and five, that's close isn't it?

Tim: You were seven percent.

Pronger: Is that what it was?

Tim: Yeah.

Pronger: Are you sure?

Tim: Yeah.

Me: Actually it was 14 percent.

Pronger: (to Me) Thank you. (to Tim) Get your stats right and then come back and talk to me.

Tim: You think this is a series where the power play is going to make the difference?

Pronger: (to Me) What was our power play percentage?

Me: Fourteen.

Pronger: Ohhhhh. O.K.

Tim: It was seven before you came back and then it went to 14.

Pronger: Ohhhh. O.K. Well, 14 and seven aren't the same Tim.

Tim: It's double.

Pronger: (surprised that Tim's math is so good, he raises his eyebrows) Ahhhh....

(general laughter from the audience of the rest of the media and Flyers staff present).

Pronger: Double? So, make sure you have your stats correct before you ask a question. Because it's very misleading.

Tim: It was seven before it became 14 percent.

Pronger: You see, but that's not a question. You're trying to make a statement Tim with your question and it doesn't work that way.

Me: (To Tim) You want help?

Tim: (ignoring me) Are you going to see this as a difference in the series, these two teams that can't seem to score power play goals? Whoever gets the most is probably going to win this.

Pronger: You're still not getting it Tim. I still don't understand the question.

Me: (Finally coming to the rescue) How important will special teams be in this series?

Pronger: Special teams are always important. Whether you look at the negatives like Tim, or look at the positives accomplished, penalty kill and power play are always essential to winning in the playoffs and this series is going to be no different.

Me: (to Tim) Happy?

Tim: (Grumbles a response kind of like yeah)

Pronger: You're better than that Tim! You're better than that.

(At this point I turned off my recorder... there was another few seconds of back and forth between them before Pronger walked off, feeling victorious).

 

[killgod]

this game is fuckin great. two great teams just playing hard.

bit pissed the ref gives offsetting minors to pavelski (snow shower) and howard (2 punches to pavelski's face), wtf is up with that.

san jose has been the better team, just gotta find a way to bury one.

 

[Tailback U]

Great game. San Jose outplayed Detroit in pretty much every facet of the game. Just a great all around effort from everyone.

Some really cheesy calls (Pavelski's snowshower and Heatley's interference) early on but the Sharks seemed to get the calls late in the 3rd and in OT.

Well deserved win. On to the next one.

Good amount of Detroit fans at the arena tonight, which is common. They are loud when Detroit is up and playing well but then got real quiet when San Jose seemed to be generating chance after chance even though the Wings had the lead. They're usually pretty well mannered and smarter than most hockey fans at the tank, though.

 

[wingsfan77]

Here's one of the things I dislike most about the NHL, while SJ was on their 4-minute PP in OT one of the announcers said "Well now you have to look for a call to be made against you since you just had 4 minutes of PP time."

No, bullshit, you can't make calls to "even" things out, there should only be penalties called when there are actually penalties, that's ridiculous.