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marchand

:rolleyes: chalkeater

lol

he holds the caps record for ot goals...easy pick. but i almost put nicky! if perrault was playing, i'd have chosen him-i like that little guy.


and i will derive no pleasure if i'm right about marchand.

and thank god fasting for karl alzner.

Congrats Dani and BT

oh my god. the old man still has it, doesn't he??? wow. way to go joel from knuble. how fitting for mike to help out there, after the rough period after hunter came in.
i wonder if the neighbors have called the cops!!!! i was yelling as soon as knuble got loose. jesus.

props to boston. what a series.

thanks math.
now, who will we play next? ny? nj? philly?

Hopefully the Blueshirts, but it all depends on who wins tomorrow. You could be looking at the 1-4 seeds all being out.

I just watched the replay again, and it could have very easily been ruled no goal because Knuble bumped Thomas.

considering the ref's work tonite, i'm surprised they didn't say no goal.

i gotta figure the rangers will win...but i'm not confident with that prediction. but goalies alone gives the edge to ny. they just seem to have tailed off since their best in late winter/early spring.

I feel good about there chances tomorrow, but they just don't score enough to blow teams out, so every game is a grind. I'm sure it will be another nail biter.

As far as the Devils go, I said it the other night, I have no idea how Florida is still in this series. I'm thinking NJ in a laugher tomorrow.

oh, if i had to put money on it, it would be on the (gasp) rangers. pains me so! :D

holtby-first rookie goalie to win g 7 in ot in 15 years. (who keeps track of all those stats? sometimes you see odd ones).


and the guys tonite talking the game...first i've heard suggested that dale hunter might not be back...

Dale Hunter
 

why not ? does he have something else to do. Bergeron misses open net, Caps win. They will roll vs. anyone they face next.

I have no idea how Florida is still in this series. I'm thinking NJ in a laugher tomorrow.[/quote]

..guts..i think panthers win it..

I've heard Dale Hunter apparently makes a ton of dough from his OHL team, and might want to stick to that. Why wouldn't he want to keep coaching the Capitals though?

Anyway, just have to comment on the rash of disgustingly racist tweets from B's fans circling about the interwebs last night. No excuse. It's freaking 2012. The Washington Post tweeted "Joel Ward puts Chocolate City through to the second round" for crying out loud. I shouldn't have to ask "is it racist" all Daniel Tosh-style about one of the more venerable newspapers in this country.

thanks Matt, stood up for the entire 3rd period and OT. Like they say, OT either ends swiftly or goes on forever.
they went into the series with NOTHING to lose, unlike any other post season they've been in for the past 5 seasons. they've always played GM7's at home and choked the majority of the time. I think people should give a LOT more credit to DH32. He put an amazing game plan together, that had one of the best players in the world sitting on the bench in the clutch.

aight brotha, we did out job, time for you to do yours. The only team i WANT to play would be FLA, but i'm sure that's statisically impossible. I guess i'm rooting for NJ and OTT?

if the Caps do play the Rags i'd be interested in coming up if the series goes past 4 games.... i'm off to L'ville on tuesday:eek:

-bt-

Do you ever freaking work? Jesus, you got the life.

Save your money for a track outing, ticket prices are ridiculous. That is if they should win tonight. Louisville, really? You really get around.

Call me, arriving Oaks morning.

that's too bad that some have to act that way. and yeah, dale does ok with his london knights. i hear he makes more from that than he ever did playing. knowing how tight polian was with his money, i can believe that.
i think dale's done ok with the team-but i can't help but wonder what kind of season it would have been had bruce stayed-altho that point is a moot one.

2011-2012 NHL playoff thread.
 

http://www.freakonomics.com/2008/07/...ty-in-america/

There should be a Pumpsie Green award given out annually; Beantown would win every year.

And no, booing Obama in Boston is not a leading indicator for how the election will go.

you got it, the crew is making the to Oaks this year as well. you know where we're at if we can't get together on friday

and yes matt and kev, i'm off to l'ville, been doing it for the past 12 years (minus 2005 where i was MADE to walk across the stage for graduation, fahk'n Giacaomo)

PREAKNESS???!!!???!!!???!!
trying to get mr. blaha up and ready for that one

-bt-

http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/470323.../?beginSlide=1


nice slideshow from nbc.

math, is there an issue with the lighting in that arena? seems to always be dark in there.

ottawa keeps playing like that in front of anderson and this game is going to get out of reach really quick.

fn panthers are turning into ***** cat dolls..

so, how many of you guys can do this?:

Attachment 1974

one question answered...rangers vs caps.

so, who plays philly?

panthers are done..

Asking the wrong guy, maybe it was just the feed you were watching. Or maybe I'm just use to it.
They did it again. They were seemed to be getting dominated, but here we are in ot.

As a hockey can I want to see the Devs win cause I want to see them play the Flyers. As a Rangers fan I want to see the Cats win cause I hate the whole Devils f.uckin organization.

Devs are through. That should be a great series against the Flyers.

The lighting always looks off at MSG, to confirm what Danzig was saying.

I think the camera positions are further back and that is why the lighting seems dim. The new arenas are more TV friendly and have better(closer) camera positions.

Joe Louis is a contemporary of MSG, and they don't seem to have the same problems. Cameras do, however, always miss action along the boards when fans are standing.

yeah, but there's shadows on the ice-just looks gloomy in there. i've even heard an announcer make the comment that you can hide in some spots on the ice! lol i'm sure he's exaggerating...


and slot, there are times i want to go smack a cameraman...they don't seem to follow the puck at times, and it drives me loony. i'm yelling 'it's over there'. yeah, they can't hear me.

Joe Louis was built for hockey and opened for in 1979. MSG opened in 1969 and was built for basketball and hockey amongst other things, big difference.

I'm going to go ahead and say arena construction changed a lot less betwixt 1969 and 1979 and 1979 and, say, the 2000's when most NHL arenas were constructed.

Dating myself here, but when I was a kid and we got cable for the first time, we got a lot of the Rangers games and I used to think it was the brightest arena I had seen on TV.

Looking back on it, the reason it seemed bright is because I was used to watching games from Olympia Stadium. That, was some dark TV watching.

anyone watch phx/nash last night? i saw that some think nashville is the team to beat in the west (i'd say st louis is) so that didn't get them off to a great start.

Watched into the 3rd period. Game started out pretty tentatively, but picked up steam throughout. As a closet Coyotes fan I'm not sure how they are doing it, but they are finding ways to win...that and Mike Smith playing out of his mind.. I thought Rinne wasn't particularly sharp last night. That being said, I still think Nashville is the team to beat the rest of the way. (With apologies to St. Louis, but none to the Rangers)