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Penns/Caps will be at 7:15 on Saturday. Go Charlottesville!

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Well damn. Guess no game for me on Saturday

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:lol Sorry Barbs! Wish I could make it to C-Ville. But it being Mother's Day weekend, my fiancée and I decided it would be a good weekend for our parents to meet for the first time! :eek Have a drink for me.

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Come on, Caps...

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It's A Hockey Night In Pittsburgh!

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At least you'll be at Dave to comfort you once the Caps are eliminated...

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The Caps are playing the Predators?!?


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Patric Freaking Hornqvist!

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Off to a flying start

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That was a deliberate shoulder motion...

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Yep. They toast. Penns in 2.

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Matt The Ageless Wonder Cullen and Tom Kunhackl! What a great first period!

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Matt Murray never going to give up a goal again ever. Will be fun to watch

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Powerplay in full suck mode. Yikes this is gonna be a long week watching this unfold

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Kid is unflappable. Cannot be flapped.

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Uh oh, Kris Letang did something very very stupid. Fuck.

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I am currently following the game on my phone. What happened?

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have a feeling letang will be suspended next game.

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Fucking hell Letang. Use your brain!

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He delivered a late hit to the head. Similar of Orpik's hit.

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High hit on Marcus Johansson. Also a touch late but barely. Who in the world knows what will happen as far as suspension.

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I didn't think it was nearly as bad as Orpik's. Somewhat similar. Not quite as high or late I thought though.

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Jesus James Christ Letang! You have suffered multiple concussions. Orpik just hit your defense partner into next century. Don't go for the head!

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He had a late hit that, while not quite as egregious as Orpik's, still fell on the side of unnecessary. I don't know if there was any injury on the play, but I suppose that is kind of besides the point.

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Not according to DoPS :shrug

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So true. Any hit to the head should warrant at least a game. But who knows what DoPS will do! :lol

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Ugh the Caps are about to make Matt Murray look AWESOME over the next few games

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Justin Williams is having a really rough playoffs

Even for the best playoff player ever, all it takes is a Caps jersey

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That are hitting like there is no tomorrow though. Puck luck might not be with DC right now, but they certainly haven't rolled over by any means.

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No they haven't rolled over at all. The Caps are totally carrying play. They've absolutely been the better team. That's what's so frustrating.

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:lol:lol

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c-o-l-l-a-p-s-e

can't spell collapse without c-a-p-s, caps caps caps!

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Nothing like watching your team simultaneously carry play and get pummeled

Sounds like it must be Caps playoff hockey

I've gotta get up too early to continue. Enjoy the third round Penns people

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Caps outplaying Penns. Not a night puck luck going their way


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hoping the pens get 6-7 so the rangers beatdown doesn't sting as much

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Maybe it's a good thing I'll be at the show instead of watching Game 5.

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Caps still don't have an answer for the HBK line. WOOOO!!!

http://stillrealtous.com/wp-content/...sweetchin9.gif

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Just can't get it through. 48 shots on goal and only 1 goal. Ouch.

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It's been all Caps this period. The only place they haven't been winning is the only place it counts, however. Matt Murray is a beast!

But he couldn't stop that one! Goddammit Pens can you please score an empty net goal to put this away!

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Plenty of opportunities, deficit was too much. Props to Murray.

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Jesus James Christ you cannot take your foot off the gas against the Caps! Matt Murray is having an incredible playoff. Thank goodness the Pens scored 3 goals tonight.

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Caps have been the better team for the last 4 periods no question. If they play like they did tonight, they'll head back to DC with a road split. No doubt in my mind.


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:lol the things Brohan has "no doubt" about are hilarious.

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This is the playoffs, where the suspensions are made up and being the better team doesn't matter

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I especially like their chances to do so if Letang is suspended a game. But the Pens keep finding ways to score on Holtby. The Haeglin-Bonino-Kessel line has been electric. It sucks that Rust got hurt, as he is a speedster. The Caps may be the better team, but not on the scoreboard thus far. I'll take the Pens being up 2-1.

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Should I try my hand at doing a Penn's fan impression? Something, something, something Letang. Something something something at least 1 game. Something something something garage league.

In all seriousness Letang should probably get a game. But it's been set this offseason, cheap shot & a repeat offender it's 3 games. Letang has been suspended twice thus far I believe? Could be mistaken


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Also Letang stick to face on Stalberg in first round. Due to get rung up for a couple or 2. But then again it's the NHL were talking about, they'll just spin a wheel and see where that takes them


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If Trotz thought Orpiks hit was clean, Letangs must have been barely a scratch

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Wait, Joe Sakic didn't ever play for the Caps...

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:lol :lol they even almost came back. God I hate this team

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Just saw the Letang hit. That tool needs to sit. Not as late as Oprick but left his feet and targeted head. It's a bad hit. He will get a game and maybe even 2 but I doubt it's 3.

Been a bunch of bad hits so far and it's only early second round.

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Poor Caps. Maybe they can hire Bruce back.

Letang hit was bad. Left feet and targeted the head.

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Letang absolutely needs to get suspended. What a stupid thing to do immediately after the Orpik situation.

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I didn't even think about it like that but this is true. The attention was already brought to this stuff with Orpik a day early and then you have the coach saying Pens get preferential treatment....everyone was gonna be watching. Might as well just gone and asked to be suspended.

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Mojo missed tying it by inches in the last minute. They really tease us, don't they?

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On top of that, you can't as an organization and fan base bitch and complain about Columbus, NYR, Flyers, and now the Caps and #GarageLeague and then have one of your star guys go and do that.

My immediate thought was I hoped the dude from Washington was ok. I then saw the replay and was disgusted. I thought, "Com'on Tanger, you're better than that and now you should/are going to get suspended."

:BANG

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Just completely boneheaded. And you've both presented logical cases as to why Letang should be suspended. But this is the NHL we are talking about, where they play cow shit bingo to determine suspensions.

Brohan was saying that Letang is a repeat offender and should get more games for that, but I really don't recall any previous Letang suspensions.

And yes, you can't cry #garageleague and then have a star player make a #garageleague play.

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:lol :lol :lol

Gold, Jerry!

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Gives me an excuse to post two of my favorite things.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2791/...b48d5493_o.jpg

and

http://www.nhlwheelofjustice.com/

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:lol I just wasted 10 minutes on the Wheel of Justice. That is great stuff.

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Connor McDavid or Dylan Larkin in the final 3 for the Calder.... He had a great year for how much he played there is no question but...he did only play 45 games.

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I do not understand how Rico Fata is not a possibility for a player on the wheel of justice....wtf?

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Lost in this Letang nonsense is that the Pens' star rookie speedster, Bryan Rust, appeared to break his foot by blocking a shot with it early in the game. I'm hoping he's ok, but it didn't look good.

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The Letang hearing has been scheduled. Ready the Wheel of Justice!

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no whammy, no whammy, stop!

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:lol I plugged in all of the right parameters for this particular situation and it came back a "hockey play" :lol

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yes you can. you can bitch about all of it. which is exactly what i do. it's all bad

it's a garage league and the Penguins are a part of it along with every other team...it's too bad Lemieux saying something doesn't carry weight with anyone

no Letang and no Rust spells disaster for the Pens...so much speed off the ice

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I whole-heartedly agree. I was referring more to the collective fanbase (i.e. the dumb yinzers) than the fine Pens fans in this thread.

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it's not just yinzers either, it's all fan bases

it's such a barbaric mentality it makes me sick

we actually had someone say in here say that if a guy on his team made a bad hit, he'd defend it more than if it was another player

that's the good 'ol boys, obsolete, overly Canadian, regressive, embarrassing and archaic line of thinking that keeps the NHL in the dark ages

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:lol Of course it did!

And the Pens themselves, or at least Mario, have made such comments in the past. And h2P is right, the Pens are part of it. The league as a whole needs an overhaul in that department.

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Hartley out in Calgary. He had a shit team, what do you expect?

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wonder how much Barry Trotz will bitch and moan today

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Fucking nailed it, h2p

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I thought that was a bad look. Crying about biases makes you look really bad in my opinion

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you know the worst part about it? this is a series between the 2 best teams left in hockey. every game is high drama, fast, strong hockey. it's exciting theater and boom, all of that is lost by a couple of bad hits

such a shame

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I'm so over watching the Caps outplay opponents and still lose in playoff games. This is the third time it's happened in the 9 games so far this year. Sucks.

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yea

really loved how Orpik handled it though...fuck i miss him

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I agree. I know coaches like to defend their guys, but I didn't love how Trotz looked there.

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i realize the Caps out shot the Pens pretty badly, and controlled the puck in the 3rd period, but this narrative that the Penguins didn't deserve to be on the ice with the Caps is absurd.

The Pens cashed in on their chances, have a smoking hot PK, and have excellent goal tending...sounds like a recipe for winning playoff games to me

The Caps can rack up as many un-screened shots and throw as many shoulder checks as they want...Pens are out skating and cashing in. that's their game...this is just an evenly matched juggernaut matchup IMO

edit: and let's not play the "if" and "but" game either, because it goes both ways...Letang was a goal post away from making it 4-0 at the end of the 2nd period last night

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Who is saying the Pens don't deserve to be on the ice with the Caps? I haven't seen that narrative anywhere. Pretty much everyone is saying they're the two best teams in the league, and that this should have been the eastern conference final.

For the bolded above, the Caps don't?

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You're not wrong. However I do think last night it was classic Caps can't score in the playoffs syndrome. The Penns did get a couple lucky bounces. No denying it. They got some unlucky ones too but the Caps got zero good ones. Last night I thought the Caps carried play pretty clearly throughout all three periods. I'm not saying the Penns shouldn't be on the ice with them. They do skate well. Probably better than the Caps. But last night was clearly an example of a game where the better team lost. They're not quite hungry enough in front of the net. The Penns are doing a better job at making Holtby's job difficult. But they're not generating offense at the rate the Caps are so if the Caps can manage to fix that maybe some pucks will go in.

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The national media; social media etc...just seems to be the narrative

and as for the bolded, yea, the Caps have a good PK but Holtby is getting outplayed by Murray so far IMO...not by much, but he is

the Penguins are generating plenty of chances, and more importantly, they're cashing in

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Caps aren't getting to the front of the net...Murray is seeing everything

it took a cannon of a wrist shit that was perfectly placed by Ovie, and a scramble with an extra attacker to beat him last night

it's fun hockey for sure...but if you just listened to the NBC coverage and didn't watch the games, you'd think the Caps were up 3-0 in the series

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Yeah no I didn't have any fun last night

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:lol

obviously meant to say wrist shot* btw

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The Penguins are definitely doing a better job getting people to the front of the net, but none of the goals they scored last night were because Holtby couldn't see the puck. He saw all three. One was a great deflection, one was an unlucky bounce off Kuhnhackl's back, and one was a great play off a defensive breakdown. Sure, Murray has a better sv% and GAA this series, but I don't think it's because he's outplaying Holtby. None of the goals last night were Holtby's fault.

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yea but sometimes you need your goalie to make a save, even if the chance thats created "isn't his fault"

Murray is definitely outplaying Holtby so far, c'mon man

that can change very quickly, but so far Murray has been better

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Yeah, I thought they were the better team last night. They lead in every stat but the giveaways killed them and obviously they fell short in the most important category - goals.

Gretzky, Lemuix, Dionne, Orr, etc, etc would give Sakic a run for their money.

Yeah, it was not as late as Orpik's hit but equally as dangerous. Just a dumb move coming the game after the Orpik incident.

He was suspended 2 games for boarding Burmistrov in 2011. Also I think they will take into consideration his smashing the stick into Stalberg's throat in round one - also I cannot recall if he was suspended for crosschecking a linesman in 2013. I would guess a game or two and what may save him a game is that Johansson was back on the ice later in the game unlike Maatta.

League has set a good precedent so far by suspending Shaw for a game, Bellemare for a game, Schenn for 3 games. I will be surprised if he does not get at least one game.

Final 3 are Gostisbehere, McDavid and Panarin.

Sharks are peaking at the right time and the Blues are damn good all around so the west may have something to say about that. Even if Nashville and/or Dallas somehow advance I do not think they have the defense to contain either the Caps or Pens. Also, whomever comes out on top of that Islanders/Lightening series is not going to make it easy on either the Pens or Caps.

Yeah, he handled it very well. Classy on his part not to bitch, moan or appeal.

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I said last night on twitter the reason the NHL shouldn't take injury into account when handing out suspensions is because it gives teams incentive to make injuries look worse and hold out players who took a bad hit. For that reason, I was surprised Johansson was back in the game.

Well, guess what? The Caps just announced that Johansson is not skating today, out with an "upper body injury." So either he shouldn't have gone back into the game last night, or the Caps are just posturing for a longer suspension. Either way, it's dumb, and further reinforces my conviction that the NHL is dumb for suspending to the injury.

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Maybe I'm biased, but I just don't agree. I think the goaltending has been extremely even, and the Pens 2-1 series lead comes down to other factors, like the Caps defense. I think if you switched the goalies in this series and played the games exactly the same with the goalies facing each other's shots, the Pens would still be up 2-1.

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It's classy to not bitch, moan, or appeal a blantant late hit with a wild elbow? Mind blown

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i'm not saying Holtby's been bad at all, but Murray has been slightly better

at some point, Holtby is going to have to make a save on a deflection, or through traffic, or be in the right place at the right time

so far that hasn't happened

i never said classy, i just like the way he handled it

he was a man and took responsibility for his actions. which is more than i can say for most guys in this league

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No, I said that. JRS just seems to have an issue with anything I say. For the record I agree with what you said about Orpik and Murray.

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MoJo not skating. Out indefinitely for an upper body injury. Wonder how this will factor into Letang suspension.

Also for who was asking Letang is a repeat offender. In 2011 and 2013 I believe


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Even if Johansson is relatively ok, they'd still be sitting him out of practice today for the reason you are sorta suggesting.

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I have no doubt it's a ploy by mgmt to get Letang more games. Gamesmanship on the Caps part. Very interesting to see how many games Letang will get now. It should be 3 to be consistent but will probably be 2


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Apparently it's a neck injury, not a concussion. Guess that's how they're covering their asses from the "why did you play him if he's hurt" crowd.

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Blah blah blah

So much bullshit. Whole lotta focus on things that aren't the games that have been played on the ice or the ones that are coming up.

#garageleague

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Letang only one game. Pretty much what I was expecting but probably should have been 2


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Oh and yea #garageleague


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