I have to admit that I didn't see the whole game, but based on the highlights the Pens D did Fleury no favors last night.

not sure i will be able to watch the caps today. apparently the station here is going to show a local telethon instead, but we're hoping it's not the case. satellite radio as a back-up, but i will not be happy if i can't watch!

The Pens D has been brutal, but he's leaving rebounds in awful places (Jagr's goal was particularly dreadful) and he is out of position an awful lot of the time, even on shots not getting to the net.

yay, troy! finally, after about 100 minutes of trying, we score on tim.

NICKY!!!!!!!!!

i got in the shower while tony was raising hell with nbc in monroe. the telethon was over, but they didn't change to the game.
i came out, he'd paused it as they finally put it on. backstrom, so glad he's back from his concussion.


1-1, going home.

Lots of physical violent games last night. Next week should be very interesting.

cory schneider anyone?

-bt-

LOVE IT!!!!

glad to see Brian Boyle have to pay the piper as well

SJ/STL was old time hockey at the end of the game :)

-bt-

saw a very blatant elbow to the head.

Blackhawks..Score Game 1 to tie with 14 secs and score Game 2 to tie with 5.1 secs..livin' on the edge. Back home tied at 1. Coyote fans loud but I'm not sure they really know what's going on?

Shittsburgh is a bunch of sore losing pu$$ies!! I love it!

asham is a punk. can't stand that guy.

wow, neal just made those two pay. should have gone for a simple poke check, rather than trying to crunch him. oops

The officiating in the NHL right now is a disgrace. Talk about losing control of a game? These guys are clueless.

i blame bylsma. he should never have left neal out there after that hit. and then neal promptly goes after giroux. i guess he figured he's not going to play the next game after leaving his feet and taking out couterier?

what a mess, will they ever start play again?

ought to be a heck of a game wed.....

I think the Neal hit on Couterier was an accident. Not the one on Giroux, though.

It would be a better game Wednesday if Pittsburgh holds goaltender tryouts between now and then. Fleury was a sieve today.

i don't think it was.

To my eye, they were 2 guys going in opposite directions, I thought Neal jumped up to try and avoid the contact, when he realized he couldn't he braced himself and appeared to deliver the blow. That's how I saw it.

Rumor has it a certain trainer who is regular on this board was in attendence today. Could be starting in net for the pens on wed. Will be a BIG upgrade. :D

133 minutes in penalties handed down in the game today. 62 just for the last bit-guess they wanted to outdo their last regular season match-up. i think they did!

lol

i wonder if he can skate??

Both games sold out,they know whats going on.Blackbirds have gotten very lucky in the end.Not sure Blackbird fans know how lucky they have been. They could be 0-2 going home. Hope the series is as good in Chicago as it was in Phoenix.

“I know Marc-Andre Fleury will be the guy in the net in our next four games,” Bylsma told reporters after Sunday’s 8-4 loss.

He was soon after strait-jacketed and taken in for drug testing and subsequent observations, correct? :D

:p

i'm figuring he's just looking ahead to next season. fleury is on quite the streak...he's now 0-6 in his last six playoff games.

but maybe insanity is contagious? i was wondering if crosby had suffered permanent brain damage when he decided to grab hartnell late in the third. he's lucky he only bled a little.

heckuva game tho in fla. i can't stand brodeur and love seeing people score on him. and he's lucky on that one in the third, puck made it by him but just sat in the paint. brodeur just glad one of his guys got to it first.

1 minute left.

I lost all respect for Sid today. My friends used to rib me bc i always told them their hatred for 87 was misplaced and that hockey needs him. No more.

Onward and upwards (for us)!!

wow. flash! man, i wish he was still with the caps.

i've never cared for him. and he gets so much attention because he's from north america rather than being a russian...

i don't care for the flyers. but man i've enjoyed seeing them pummel pitt. and i know i wouldn't enjoy it if the roles were reversed.

congrats to fla, who finally gets a playoff win. been a while.


now, vancouver/kings. will taking luongo out of the net be the difference?

Not very well

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/201...=si_topstories


from si, on the pens/flyers wwe match-up.

apparently, in this series, they're more worried about how quickly you can drop your gloves.

enjoy the game?

Chris Phillps made the same hit on Callahan about 5-10 minutes earlier

Not only the officiating. What the f.uck is Shannahan thinking? 3 games for Haglin, really? Shea Weber slams Zetterberg head in to the glass like he was George the Animal Steel and he only got a 2500 dollar fine. Phillps elbows Callahan, doesn't even get a hearing. Carkner pretty much jumps Boyle and only gets a game. Waiting to see what Shaw gets for running in to Mike Smith. Maybe it will be the death penalty (for the record that was another bulls.hit call).

Sid's an absolute douche.

For Shanahan to be basically saying that Hagelin's accidental elbow was FAR WORSE than Carkner's pre-meditated attack on a defenseless opponent, is DEPLORABLE. Taking into consideration injury is what makes these rulings so patently biased. The actions can be the same or worse, but if they LUCKILY don't cause injury, Shanahan lets it slide?
He says Hagelin's spotless record was taken into consideration? What does he get if he's a repeat offender, 15 games?
So the Rangers dress John Scott tonight, send him after Spezza, and hope one of Ottawas better players jumps in so both can be thrown out, just like what happened Saturday? Carkner, when he dresses, which is infrequently, might play 6 minutes. That one game suspension really hurts the Senators.:rolleyes:

once again, lack of consistency. one thing i don't like is they seem to consider whether the victim of the blow(s) suffered serious injury. what does that matter? the intent is to injure. if some are able to escape serious injury, why should the offender get less time? carkners punishment is a laughable joke. webers, as well.
i wonder what asham will get after his bs behavior yesterday?

smith will get games-and i don't think there was intent at all in that case. but they're protecting goalies these days like they do qb's in the nfl. look at how many goalie interference calls there are these days, it's hilarious.

and the refs are inconsistent as well. holtby gets a 2 minute minor for hitting a bruin the other day, thomas gets nothing for hitting backstrom in the face. but the elbow's seem to be flying right now, and that needs to stop. i'm all for big hits, but there's no need for that crap. neal better get something for going after giroux yesterday. he obviously targeted the guys' head, and got it. and i still think his hit on couterier was intentional, that guy has been sid and gino's cross to bear thus far this series.

and yeah, crosby is a douche. what's up with him sticking the guys glove away from him yesterday? he's like a five year old out there. but then, i think the coach is setting a bad example, the C is following right along, and the whole team is imploding.

Seth, I thought the exact same thing. I could understand sitting him for one game. Three games is insane.


Here are the two hits, one guys doesn't even get a hearing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2py9pRx7l14


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE5Nz2efcW8

might want to factor in Hagelin hit daniel alfredsson, arguably the sens best player, and it was a clear head shot

carkner, drops boyle....... a 3rd line guy

i think james neal should be getting a call as well, just my two cents on that though

-bt-

Listened to Shannahan this morning and the fact that there was an injury was a major factor in his decision. The biggest issues I have is that he says the Phillps hit and the Haglin hit aren't comperable to each other. Obviously I think that is garbage. And Hags only got 3 games because it was his first offense. So if he had a past with the home office, was he looking at like 5 games?

For the record, they are saying thatAlfreddsson did suffer a concusion, but he is a game time decision tonight.

As far as Carkner goes, he's a 6th defenseman that wasn't going to see a lot of time, going after a Rangers player that does log a lot of time. I would think that Carkner also has some sort of past issues with the league office. So I'm not sure how he only gets 1 game for a pre meditated attack.

I think Sergei Bobrovsky might be the only player that is safe not to get a call from the league in that series.