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Please. I am always in here talking NY Rangers hockey. Why do I have to remind everyone of that every year?

NY is represented well in here.

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Sarcasm, but I'm sure you knew that

:lol Love it

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Has Pittsburgh stopped scoring yet?

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Yeah I mean most of it was correctable stuff... not strong with the puck, turnovers in your own zone, missed assignments on Defense, losing 50/50 battles etc.

The younger guys all looked like deer in the headlights and the Vets didn’t bring it but even still, the goalie situation is the really the only thing that has me uneasy at this point. I expect Elliot to bounce back but he’s just not as quick in net these last few games since he returned from injury.

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Crosby had another hat trick this morning

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in before ricky comes in here to razz us about thread dynamics.

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More people picking the Caps than the Pens in the Ants bracket. :lol

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it's hockey in vegas. of course it's a circus. it was awesome.

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I missed it. Please tell me there were flamingo dancers!!

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The Jets wore the old logo as part of the 2016 Heritage Classic. It doesn't look like they sell a lot of throwback merch through Fanatics except for a t-shirt that was associated with the Heritage Classic.

So either the Coyotes allowed this one time use or the Jets are really pushing that new logo.

It looks as if the Coyotes still keep the team history of the old Jets and the current Jets keep the history of the Thrashers. This doesn't seem to be a case of when the Browns moved to Baltimore where the Ravens became a new franchise and the former Browns players became Ravens. In that case the league kept the Browns intellectual property and they retained their team history when they came back in 1999.

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Yeah, that was a first for me as well and I have been playing and watching for 30+ years.

That would have made a soccer player proud.

Unbelievable what he has been doing with the puck the past two weeks.

Yup, Dubnyk was getting peppered all game though while Hellybuck had a much more solid D corps.

Amazing, so cool to see.


That was a bit annoying, my TV was on to watch hockey, not some pre-game rap concert.

Such a sad story. Nice to see the entire NHL rally around to support them though.

I have no doubt he practices those deflections every bit as much as Tavares and Pavelski- both of whom we all know are damn good at it. Additionally, Crosby played baseball growing up and could hit so he knows darn well how helpful hand eye coordination is.

Great one too.

They are both insanely good but have different responsibilities so it is tough to really compare a canter to a wing in order to determine who is better.

Of course not, one could say the same about any cup winner.

So happy they got their first ever playoff win!

He loves the spotlight of a camera as much as a politician but in truth if you actually chat with him he is pretty humble and soft spoken.

I think any road to the final runs through Pittsburgh in the EC.

Yeah, that was a disaster and worse they were showing that spectacle during the intermissions rather than replays of the games in progress.

Winnipeg has been a great story line this year, the Sedin's retiring was a big deal, the magic guys like Tarasenko or MacKinnon can create are well documented, Vegs shattered every record for an expansion team, Nashville won the Presidents Cup and think back to last year when Bryan Bickell scored for the Canes in his last game in that shootout knowing his MS would prevent him from playing again. Point being there a lot of great story lines we chat about in here.

They have a great fan base IMO and many are very well educated in hockey, I think you are not giving enough credit to their fans.

Apologies for the multi quotes - just got up after watching hockey almost all day yesterday until the end of that Kings/Vegas game - I did not have even a single sip of beer (or any alcohol) yet I feel like I have some sort of hockey hangover! :lol

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So Doughty is getting a hearing today for this hit. Thoughts?

https://twitter.com/davidnestico200/...364773376?s=21

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^ Longest quote post of all time?

EDIT: Lcsulla's

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That’s a shame because those heritage classic jerseys looked great. The best looking jerseys in the league are the old school ones; pens, hawks, oilers, bruins come to mind. I’m just not a fan of the newer styles.

The puck didn’t break. Those were pieces of the back of Letang’s skate.

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Does nobody understand sarcasm here? C'mon guys and gals I know you're better than this!

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Not during the playoffs, bub.

;)

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Eh...it could go either way. I don't think he was trying to hurt him or anything like that. I think he actually just missed what he thought was going to be a big shoulder-to-shoulder hit and wound up getting some of his head. The only thing I don't like is that Doughty's shoulders go up at the end, but even that may have been natural body instinct from bracing for a hit. Those are my initial thoughts at least.

Edit: My conclusion is that there is nothing there that is out of line.

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Clean IMHO.

If he had been a half stride later this would be a non-issue. Whoever the VGK player is is reaching out to make a move around Doughty so naturally the head sticks out a bit.

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Thank you, Brad Marchand.

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Might as well change my username to Marshmont.

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Oooh I haven't done one of these in a while!

*Did Doughty leave his feet? No.

*Was he charging? No.

*Was it a blindside hit? No. Carrier was looking down, but Doughty was not out of his line of sight.

*Was contact made with the head? Looks like he mostly got Carrier's shoulder, with some head contact made as he skated through the check.

*Was he targeting the head? I see no reasonable evidence to lead me to believe that Doughty was not trying to make a shoulder-on-shoulder check.

* Did Carrier put himself in a compromised situation? Nope, not really. I mean, guy's gotta keep his head up when he's driving to the net but he didn't really do anything to put himself in a vulnerable position.

IMO, no supplemental discipline should be assessed.

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I didn’t see direct contact to the head.

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Should get a game. League has made it clear that hits at this point are like high sticking. It’s not about intent but the actual result.

Ring him up for a game

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I don't see any reason for discipline, Doughty is leading with his shoulder and Carrier is driving and sort of drops a bit when he skates into Doughty so his head gets hit slightly by Doughty's shoulder. It was a fluke play, Doughty had as much right to try and get at that puck as Carrier did to keep driving so I see no reason for the NHL to discipline a guy who was not even penalized for the play at the time. It is a contact sport, stuff like that happens unfortunately.

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Wow, showing all those clips in one video shows you just how dirty Torres is.

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One of the biggest p.o.s' to ever lace 'em up.

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:lol :thumbsup


There were multiple people commenting on the game in Winnipeg, I watched the rest after the Pens ended.

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So after the first period that game then?

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That Doughty hit is hard to punish imo. Doesnt look like he was trying to target the head. No way to predict what the league will do though.