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Yeah, they looked so much better than the bs. tuukka let in a soft goal in the first. it was a nice pass by malkin, but tuukka def should've gotten his pad over. he gave up a goal on a blast from Malkin in the third from a weird angle...usually those are saves. other than that he made a lot of nice saves on malkin and Crosby. was very surprised to see the bs steal that game last night |
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Malkin's shot was perfectly placed and was a god damn rocket, can't fault Tuukka there i'll take the loss last night, games like that happen. as long as the Pens keep playing that way, i don't see anyone in the metro being able to keep up with them, even with how well the NY teams and Caps are playing |
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It's mid-season, so how about some mid-season awards? If the season were to end today and you got to pick individual award winners, who would give hardware to?
For me: Vezina: Rinne, Fleury, Price Adams: Trotz, Laviolette, Capuano Calder: Forsberg, Ekblad, Gaudreau Norris: Giordano, Weber, Boychuk Hart: Voracek, Nash, Rinne Explain yourself! Vezina: A lot of potential hardware for the Preds. Rinne, along with Laviolette and his system, are the two biggest reasons for the team's success. They play fantastic team defense which benefits Rinne. But he's solid all around. I hated leaving BOBROVSKY off the list, but had to for now. Adams: Really, give this to anyone of those three and I'd be happy. But I just love the patience that Capuano has displayed and how, after a lot of pieces changed in the off-season for the Isles, he was able to continue and even accelerate the team's upward progression. Calder: Here's where my defenseman bias shows. Forsberg is wowing the league. But for Ekblad to come in and do what he's doing as a rookie DEFENSEMAN on a team like the PANTHERS is nothing short of awesome. He looks comfortable at both ends of the rink, doing what usually takes 3-ish seasons for an average defenseman to do. Norris: Giordano has come out of nowhere to lead all defensemen in points and still play responsibly for a team that has had ups and downs. He's leading by example. Of course, I wouldn't mutter if Weber finally won. Also, love what Boychuk has done on the Isles this year. He's blossomed getting out of Chara's shadow. Hart: Toughest one. Voracek has been awesome to watch have a phenomenal year. Nash will be my most unpopular choice probably, but he's showing that two-way excellence that we knew he had the potential for. But Rinne... that guy has just been phenomenal. |
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yeah it was a rocket, but at that angle it's not a goal tuukka should be giving up. bruins really needed that win last night. gotta make a run and get like 16 points in the next 10 games so they aren't on the bubble for the next couple months. |
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B's are a very interesting team this year, kinda scary to have them under the radar |
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they keep saying here that the bruins have had scouts at every CBJ game for the past month.
I don't know who they would be looking at though. maybe atkinson or calvert? |
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RIP to JP Parise, long time nhler/Islander who scored the OT winner 11 seconds in to knock out the Rangers to give the Islanders their first ever playoff series victory in 1975 as well as Zach's dad.
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i had to watch the last bruins/jackets game on NESN because i was in boston over Christmas and their announcers bitched and complained about the cannon almost the entire broadcast. |
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of course they did score 6 times so there were a lot of explosions
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:lol knew that's where you were going with that one.
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all-star weekend is coming up bud |
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of course CBJ fucked up my tickets to the skills competition though, such a well run franchise :lol |
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Just thought I would use this time to thank the Vancouver Canucks for letting Alain Vigneault go. Best thing the happen to the NY Rangers in 20 years! Man I love this team!
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If that happens, I will personally pick him up from the airport once Berube gets canned. |
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Rinne Lavy Ekblad (I met him!!!!!) Giordano Voracek |
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God dammit Rangers. Just lose already.
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Okay now I am really excited!!! Rangers get some revenge! Man this team is hot right now! Loving every second of it!!
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Rangers really are so good right now. Steam rolled over the Kings. I haven't watched much of the Rangers this year, honestly haven't watched much hockey at all (compared to other years). Man, they are a fast team now.
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I watch him and I still can't believe he's only 18. |
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Need to get back on track vs the Devils. 2 game losing streak is not good. |
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I gotta put Lavy as the coach of the year. Capuano is close but I look at the Preds and what they used to do offensively and look now. On pace for most points for a season in their history, and 06 and 07 were pretty dang good years for them.
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^ For sure. Like I said, I think either of my three nominees would be more than worthy of receiving. All deserve it. Throw AV onto that list as well.
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Carlyle for Adams?
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1st place clap clap 1st place.
Tavares carries us tonight into first place. Big win. We didn't play but an elite talent can carry teams to wins he did so tonight. Check the highlights if you can. Very few in the world make those plays. Onto the Jackets. |
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Worst game by the Hawks all season. By far. Awful effort by basically everyone not #19, #20, or #2. Really, really bad.
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10. The Oilers have 10 wins this season. They've looked better of late, but who really gives a damn at this point? |
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Nice to see Bob locked up for the Jackets. Not good for the East but good for them.
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How have we not talked about the all star jerseys yet? Yikes. They look like those jerseys you get when you create a team in EA sports.
Anyone like them? http://3.cdn.nhle.com/nhl/images/upl...-unveil-DL.jpg |
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Those are awful
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They are pretty cool if you like high-lighters. |
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:lol Nick Backstrom didn't make the all star game :lol
He STILL hasn't made one. Unreal. |
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Well that could be the Wings season.
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Also Tim, how is Howard? What happened? All I heard was him and a stretcher today.
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NY Rangers sweep California!! Easily the hottest team in the NHL!! So pumped about how well they are playing right now! Proving it against the west too! NY has several games at hand on everyone too! Let's see ESPN not move them up in the power ranking now haha!
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I'm here to officially complain about the all-star game picks. Hank had been amazing and got passed over...
NY never gets credit. |
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Howie had the MRI at noon and they should know this evening what's up. My guess, 2 months or end of year for him.
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Bob - . 2.80gaa. .915sv%. 1so. Fleury - . 2.16gaa. .925sv%. 6so. Roberto - 2.23gaa. .926sv%. 2so. Pekka -. 1.98gaa. .930sv%. 3so. Price - . 2.20gaa. .927sv%. 2so. Howard - . 2.08gaa. .921sv%. 2so. Hank- 2.26gaaa, .918sv% 5so not going to include wins as it is more of a team stat. |
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^ I mean Fleury is leading the league in shutouts. He should be there too.
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No real update on Howie. Had MRI, now ultrasound tomorrow.
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Watching the Selanne retirement ceremony.
Happy I was able to see his last game in person. |
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Should be lots of hype in NY the next 36 hours leading to a much anticipated meeting of the Islanders/rag$. Can't wait. |
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I know the Icelanders have not been good for a long time...so let me bring you up to date. Unless the Rangers or Icelanders make the eastern conference finals, there will be no mention of it on NY radio or TV. They won't be fully covered unless one of these teams makes the Stanley cup finals. Because you know...the worst Knicks team in history, mediocre Nets, shitty Jets, non-playoffs Giants, same old Mets, elderly Yankees and any College sport they can find is far better than mentioning hockey. |
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they got booed when they showed them at nationwide saturday night :lol i think they were trying to play off the original CBJ sweaters that had the neon stick, however, those too were awful. |
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He then went on to talk about Melo and awful Knicks for about 45 minutes. |
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its a double edged sword for me.
one of the things that makes hockey so great is it hasn't been ruined by the media. it's such a pure sport where guys play for their cities and for their teammates, a lot of that is due to the fact that these guys egos haven't been pumped up by the ESPN's of the world. |
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To make matters worse, when we clinched the east I was in North Platte Nebraska traveling to Colorado haha. It was a war to even get the game turned on in the bar. After the game was over I was just that weird guy celebrating by my self.... |
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I know I've already brought up the Backstrom a star snub, but I'm gonna do it again.
This is (one of the many reasons) why I like this guy so much. This guy (and maybe someone can fact check me here but I'm pretty sure I'm right) has more assists than anyone except Crosby and Joe Thornton over the past 6 years or so (in fact he might have more than Crosby since Sid was hurt for a long time), he has 535 points in 536 career games, he has more freaking points than THE OTHER GUY THAT MADE IT FROM HIS OWN TEAM, is clearly a top 5-10 player in the league (even though he still isn't thought of as such), and when he was asked how he felt about being left off the ASG roster again, he says with a chuckle "eh no big deal I guess, just means I get to spend a weekend on vacation with my girlfriend and our baby". Could he whine about it? Absolutely. Would his whining be warranted? Absolutely. But not Mr. 100% Classy All The Time. "But I know there's a lot of good hockey players in this league and it's usually one player per team, so that's understandable." Never once will he ever complain about the fact that he is basically the most under appreciated player in the entire league by everyone outside of DC. Well Mr. Nicklas Backstrom, I am here to complain for you. The fact that, if we're picking one guy per team (which is really fucking stupid that every team gets a rep, deserved or not), and the chosen Capital is 8 and not 19 is everything that is wrong with the NHL. Both guys are having good years. Backstrom is having a much better one. Soap box off. Screw you NHL all star game voting team. |
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Fleury being snubbed is much bigger than Backstrom being snubbed IMO
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I think it's the fact that Backstrom is a consistent snub is why I'm so irritated by it this time. He's NEVER played in one. Which is ridiculous, because he's been the best player on a pretty good Caps team (forget last year) for years now. And yet ol Hot Dog himself, Ovie's never missed an ASG. How can the guy with the 11th most points in the league be left out of a game that requires almost 40 selections? Come on. |
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21 Wins .926 Save % 2.16 GAA 6 shutouts if those aren't all-star numbers, i don't know what are |
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41gp-13g-28a-41p 43gp-11g-9a-20p 42gp-10g-21a-31p 41gp-11g-14a-25p 38gp-12g-16a-28p 37gp-16g-13a-29p 34gp-6g-12a-18p (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) The top line is Nick Backstrom's stat line so far this season. The 6 underneath are all stat lines that belong to forwards (yes, those are all forwards) who will be participating in the All Star Game. So stupid. |
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But really. Can we all agree Matt Cooke is an ass?
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Oh absolutely, the chance that I actually watch the ASG is about 0%. I think I'm particularly annoyed because I thought this year there was absolutely no chance he would be left out again. Silly me.
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What a loser. Shea Weber is such an absolute badass. |
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I still don't like fighting in the league, but that's a separate story. |
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This article is a great starting point. |
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Rangers up to #5 on ESPN's power rankings! Finally some love! I can't wait for tomorrow's game!
Also, so glad I picked Nashville to be my west team. Just hope we don't run into them in the finals or the crush I have on them will be like a 13 year old girl in 1999 finding out that Lance Bass was gay. |
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One thing I love about NHL players and the ASG is that it's a pretty-well understood rule that you don't bitch about whether you were included or not. In fact, I think most players would rather NOT play in it and take the time to rest. Because hockey players are awesome. My disdain for the ASG is well documented. I'm still trying to get the league to move it to pre-season, but they don't seem down with the idea. For some reason they won't return my calls. Don't they know who I am?? Quote:
Also, a side note to this is Ribeiro being willing to get rough as well. What a great story he's been for the Predators. Not sure if he's been able to clean up whatever was going on in his personal life, but all signs point to him getting back on the right track. He's been great for the Preds. |
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