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I'm 2-0 on my picks for tonight so far but my Wild pick ain't looking good right now.

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Ottawa!!!

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Here ya go. Live HD stream.

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Got it at the bar

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The average boy at summer camp pulls the goalie quicker than Minnesota

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Wow Anaheim is owning this 3rd period here. Jets can't get anything started

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Really don't want this game to go to OT

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Really a shame about Winnipeg. Really wanted to see them win a series.

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I wanted to see them win a game. I said before I didn't want them to pull a Thrashers and get swept....whoops.

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Yeah, that's dumb. Only thing I am looking ahead to is the next game.

The only thing I have mentioned about a possible round 2 is that I hoped the Rag$ series went long so that "IF" the Islanders advance, the Rangers don't have too much rest. And I was saying that all along, even prior to game 1. I knew our series would go long, win or lose.

Speaking of our series, it was nice of Brooks Laich to applaud the penalty and subsequent injury to Vis saying it was a good penalty to take. Add him to the list.

Islanders are clearly still not happy about the hit and I believe, even though many are young and inexperienced, they will use that energy in the right direction towards positive play and not worry about any kind of payback. There will be a time and place for that. They will be focused on the task at hand.

I'm just happy to watch the game live tonight after watching 3 of the first 4 on the DVR because I worked until 9pm.

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It was a clean hit.

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Isles better stay focused. Don't get caught up in the hit and/or revenge.

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:lol:lol

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I don't believe that for a moment. Vis had clearly been a target of theirs. With no Hamonic, they know it is a huge drop off to our 8th D. I won't say they have been looking to take him out but I bet they saw him as one hard hit, borderline dirty, dirty or whatever from being done and they found a way to get it done. The hit that sent to locker room on Sunday should have been an interference call and wasn't. At least the puck was closer to him to Tuesday.
Hockey can be a mean, tough sport and we saw it on Tuesday.

I just hope the Isles use it as motivation tonight in the right direction.

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Not going to lie, it's sort of satisfying seeing former Sabres not succeed on their new teams ;) Of course, I did like Stafford quite a bit in his years with Buffalo.

And...

LET'S GO CAPS!!!

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hoping the caps win this series so we can beat them in the playoffs for a 4th straight year (or whatever).

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You did blow that 3-1 lead to them that one year...

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i dont think rangers/islanders or rangers/caps will be a very good series.

i haven't been impressed at all with either of those teams. such a damn shame CBJ had all those injuries.

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I think it's extremely short sighted to dismiss out of pocket areoshady's buddy's ability to jinx the islanders. I think it's entirely possible and from the evidence, may have already happened.

We'll find out more on this tonight of course.

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forgot we didnt play them last year. bummer.
they beat us 4-1 in '11

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Dinglebury, I mean, Milbury ran the team for years. There is nothing us fans could do that would be worse than what the owner and management did for years.

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Grabovski officially activated. Someone else with a concussion history that the Caps can target, assuming he will play. Wish it was Hamonic, though, to be honest.

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Rangers beat the Caps the last 2 times and Caps won the previous 2.

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The only edge I'm hoping plays out is that the caps have been there and lost so many times recently that maybe experience will be a factor for them.

They have come out dead flat in every game though and that's just not a winning formula. Out shot and out hit is no way to go through life.

Homer comment of the day coming, and give credit to the Isles, but I don't think we've seen close to the best hockey the caps can play. Brouwer and Johansson need some points and hopefully Fehr comes back soon.

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Still stinging from last night. Pens just don't have it this year. Blah. But Rags/Caps or Rags/Isles would be both be good, competitive series.

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Laich didn't applaud the fact that Visnovsky got injured. Come on man

It was pretty clean. The only issues are the closeness of the puck and the fact that it ended up being a head hit (though he didn't target the head, don't even try to say he did)

:lol :lol :lol

Man, if the Islanders are focused on this bullshit as much as you are it should be a pretty smooth night for the Caps

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Come on, you know I'm not a sensationalist.
I'm not saying it wasn't a clean hit. By definition of a clean hit, it was, but I hardly think that's the point.

The point is, it was a charge from a pretty good distance against a player who wasn't involved with the puck. It was just really unnecessary.

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He stopped skating. Didn't see much of a charge. He's allowed to accelerate as long as he stops skating before delivering the hit. Also Visnovsky was absolutely involved with the puck. Not sure what you're talking about there.

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clean hits on clean hits on clean hits

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They also beat you in 09. The Rangers are exactly 2-2 in playoff series vs the Caps since the Ovie era started. Hardly the dominance Rangers fans like to pretend it is.