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And now they miss an easy call against the Kings. Someone wants L.A. to be division champs.

EDIT: And another fight, and another extra two on our guy. Awesome.

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Yay LA!! (Dustin just lost his cousin, thru marriage, the other day. 21 year old marine, was a victim of a suicide bomber in Afghanistan.) I couldn't imagine playing right now.

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Pens!!!!

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Torts called the Pens an "arrogant organization". :lol :lol :lol

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Gotta say though, despite calls I find less than impressive, Sharks are being outplayed right now and probably deserve to be down 1-0.

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:lol I love torts.

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That's probably accurate. Best player of all time owns the team and the best coach in the league coaches the best players in the league.

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Pretty much this. Torts was also whining about Sid and Geno's whining. Lots of whining right there. Torts was :rattle

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Lol at best player of all time. Loved 66 but come on now.

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...and I'm going to kill Kyle Clifford if Cooch misses a single playoff game.

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I'd take Lemieux over anyone. No homer.

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So let's do the break down: Rangers own the Flyers as of late. Flyers own the Pens as of late. Pens own the Rangers as of late.

Sounds like a playoff fun formula to me.

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If he's below 99, it's not by that much. If Gretzky gets cancer in the middle of the season, I don't think he scores 160 points and wins the scoring title in that same season. That stat will always blow my mind.

Edit: ^ Transitive property (maybe?) for the win! Though if the Pens fall to the Flyers, the Rangers likely wouldn't get the Flyers until Round 3, because I do not see the Devils falling to the Panthers. But it's the playoffs! Crazy shite happens.

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Bobby Orr, Gordie Howe, Maurice Richard...to name a few others.

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The greatest to ever play, no doubt. Though given the first choice in an all-time fantasy draft, I still might pick Lemieux. I'll readily admit my bias because he is the reason the Pens continue exist, and I saw him play in person, a lot. He had all the skills and intangibles in just the right combination. He just didn't have the health, between a rare bone disease, a horrific back and Hodgkin's disease. He only played in 915 regular season games.

Though when you get to the level of greatness of a Gretzky, Lemieux, Howe, Orr, I find it hard to rank. They're all really freaking great.

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Just noticed that Montreal has 76 points with a goal differential of -17, while Florida has 92 points with a goal differential of -27. How does that happen?

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florida has a ton of OT losses

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Hawks are locked into the 6th seed now. If LA wins tonight in regulation it means we can't play San Jose in the first round and its down to LA or Phoenix. Looking more and more like we're gonna play LA in the first round.

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Hawks would still take 5th with a win in regulation over Detroit. It would tie the two teams in points and ROW, and Hawks hold head-to-head tiebreaker. Personally, I hope we get to 100 pts and beat the Wings in OT. Let them face the Preds, I'd rather see LA/Phx/SJ.

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Crazy crazy game. 5-5 in OT right now. Thornton and Clowe both get Gordie Howe Hat Trick, and Clowe just played the puck away from Stoll while he was on the bench and didn't get caught. :lol

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Sharks win in shootout, now if Phoenix loses to the Blues tomorrow, Saturday's LA@SJ game will be for the Pacific title and the 3 seed.

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the deathly hallows?!

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Yeah going to be an exciting finish! Feel proud of the sharks tonight esepically after such a frustating season. Showed some fight which was needed. Can't wait for the game against l.a coming up

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Lollertorts. Whining about whining

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really? you have the biggest pussy in the nhl that gets hit and bitches right to the head ref right away. same with malk, dont talk about whinning. hes correct in every statement he made. it was a scrub hit from a spoonfed pussy of an organization.

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Maybe he should be more worried about the play of his team. He loves crying to the media. All im hearing is wahh wahh whahhh.

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Lemieux as the greatest of all time :lol Yea he is amazing and what he did back in 1993 is unheard of. I think we should be lucky that gocubs doesn't have something against Lemieux or there would have been a ridiculous thread about how he faked cancer.

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As for the Lemieux vs. Gretzky debate, I've always fell on the side of Mario and that is surely no knock on Gretzky. Kind of hard to knock the Great One. Wayne's numbers were absolutely ridiculous but he did play in the biggest offensive era in NHL history. Gretzky also never won anything without Messier and played with one of the biggest collections of talent in expansion era.

Mario, meanwhile put up superhuman numbers early on playing with the likes of Rob Brown and Wendell Young, not Kurri, Messier and Coffey. IF he remained healthy, his numbers would be a lot better and would loved to have seen where he wound up. And the last 1/3rd of his career was during the trap and clutch & grab era. He was still dominant.

Off the ice, yeah Mario saved the Penguins but by Wayne going to LA, he saved that franchise and enabled the NHL to expand and make hockey work in so many other markets the NHL never dreamed it could expand to. Sort of a wash.

I'm a Mario guy. Watched that five goal game live vs the Rags back in 1993. Amazing. How my Islanders beat him and that team to deny them the chance for a 3 peat sadly remains the highlight of my Islander fandom. Was just a little too young for those cups teams. What a series.

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the play of our team? coming from the guy who's franchise is based on a scrambled egg of a brain in cuntsby? id say see you late in the push, but the pens wont be around. Its not crying, its sticking up for your team. he did it to get the boys fired up with a game left before it starts to matter. and just calls a spade a spade.

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Yes. The play of your team last night was bad. When was the last time the rags even made it out of the first round? It is crying. Your coach bitches about everything. Watch more than two games a season before you start talking trash.