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every blue jackets fan should want letang on the ice as much as possible

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Actively rooting against Pens. Heads need to roll.

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these 2 things can be mutually exclusive

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True but if the Pens get to the conference finals would they fire/trade anyone? Doubt it.

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its never old news. I've always liked Chicago, but that was just plain dirty.

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yea, unless they get to the cup finals and put on a good showing, disco is most likely gone

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Mason out for Game 3 as well.

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you guys are fine.

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They should have fired Disco after Game 2. I've never seen a dumber team with a lead.

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no argument here

the most frustrating part is that they have all the pieces, right there...and waste that shit away

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We need to take away the East-West passes in our zone. Emery is terrible moving laterally, really slow because of his hip. Flyers did a better job in Game 2 of stopping those kinds of passes, but its impossible to do, especially on the powerplay because of the man advantage.

I'm just terrified that Rick Nash wakes up. Every single shift, he looks like a man possessed.

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Flyers also need to stop letting Emery face over 30 shots. But they should be fine, they are playing better and hopefully come out quick with the home crowd behind them

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I haven't watched until the playoffs. I don't think it's a Cup team because of a lack of forward depth, but it's also not a team that should still be blowing big playoff leads.

This regime and a lot of players have gotten too many chances and offered nothing but excuses.

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They got some black guy out there goalie'in

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yep, wasting malkin, crosby, fleury and letang in their primes

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Fleury is not being wasted he's part of the reason the others talents are being wasted as of late

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uh, no

the pens could've had brodeur in his prime in 2011 and 2012 and still lost

it's a team wide problem, everyone is accountable

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Fleury was awful and combining that with awful play by others is deflating to any thoughts of a comeback in any game

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my point exactly, it's a team wide problem

fleury is no more responsible than the captain, the blue-liners, the coach, malkin, letang etc...

pointing the finger at fleury is the lazy, easy thing to do when in reality it goes much deeper than that

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Toews on trash talking after Backes hit:

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ok jonathan

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Series over. Q is a good coach, but this is moronic. Zus is done. He should not be in the NHL. Bickell has been invisible.

This series is depressing. Losing to the Blues is one thing. But blowing late leads makes it even worse. And then they simply come out totally flat in OT.

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call me crazy but i still don't think the hit on backes was that bad.

he didn't lead with the elbow or elevate.

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but he targeted the head and left his feet...

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just watched again... he does leave his feet. still if backes isn't so leaned over we're just calling that a good hard sholder check. we can't really know if he was targeting the head or not, as chris pointed out he's been a very clean player in his career, it's hard to believe he would do that.

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yea, i guess i should've used the Shannahan phrase that the head was the "priciple point of contact"

plus you should never leave your feet, even on a shoulder to shoulder hit

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agree on all accounts, just think 3 playoff games is too much.

that's like a 15 game regular season suspension

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i honestly don't even care about the length of suspensions anymore as long as they become consistent and fair

3 games for seabrook but only $5000 for lucic makes no sense to me

both were equally dirty IMO

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I can't remember and can't watch the clip right this second but wasn't Backes position pretty consisted through his turning and he was pretty low before Seabrook came in with the charge. I could be wrong and misremembering the hit

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Honestly I would lean towards Lucic being dirtier. It's easy with how fast the game is to make a bad hit without intention, but a nut shot like his was so intentional. He should have gotten at least a game