herbalist

How did I know you'd be posting this? Nice goal.

Yumcha

Very nice. Versteeg's from the other night was a beauty too.

Oswald Vater

It's official - new coach is Peter Laviolette. Losing 6 out of the last 7 did Stevens in. Hopefully this will shake up the troops and get them back on the right track.

Yumcha

Pens vs. Hawks tonight at the Igloo...should be a good one!

dom

For exactly how many more years will the Habs be celebrating their centennial?

Steven Bell

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Nice! I might have to tape the game. I can't watch it live. We got a new Central Hockey League team in Kansas City this year (Double A League) called the Missouri Mavericks.

I'm the PA/Stadium Announcer for the team and we've got a 7 PM Central game tonight.

herbalist

Seriously. I thought it was last year. Having all the legends take the pre-game skate was a nice touch though.

Yumcha

Nice series of saves by Niemi...and looks like Hossa is Public Enemy #1.


Gotta love the pace so far. Lots of hitting and these two teams are playing like they've been rivals forever...

Go Hawks!

jupitersolo

Not much shaking, Caps are up 6-1 with 8 minutes left in the 2nd.

Yumcha

Flyers are in trouble...

gmsron

For those that missed the legends pre game skate.

http://www.rds.ca/video/visionneuse.html?video=35398

Yumcha

Nice set play by the Pens to tie it.


OT, here we go. GO HAWKS!

Yumcha

Versteeg!

97BlackAckCL

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I'll take the point for that game, the Pens had Niemi standing on his head the whole game, at least he didn't get the shutout, great game.

Yumcha

^ Excellent game...had a playoff feel to it.


Sharks and now Pens...both on the road. Hawks are doing well.

Fibonacci

Teh Hossa rule: enuff said. See you when the season really matters yummy cakes.

Yumcha

I'm not giving the Cup to the Hawks at all...but, that being said, let's see if your Pink Things even make the playoffs.

Fibonacci

touche.

I like our chances of extending the most glorious post-season run of any professional team in the major sports. We're battered and bruised but not out. Tell ya what, if you are really, really nice -- I'll invite you to a suite this post-season - in Chicago!

Yumcha

^ Oooo...maybe we have a deal. Keep me posted.

Yumcha

So far, not bad for Niemi. Keep it up and maybe Chicago does have their own version of Minny's Backstrom.

Steven Bell

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After watching the Hawks/Penguins game as well as the Hawks/Sharks game, you've got to think that Chicago has an excellent chance to win it all. I know it's early in the season, but hopefully, they will continue to improve.

herbalist

I would love to have Carcillo on my team, but he is one dirty piece of shit.
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jupitersolo

Cost his team a nine minute power play, three goals and a loss. As well as a four game suspension ($43,597.56). There's no room for these types of players in the NHL today.

Yumcha

Dirty...? I still give the trophies to Matt Cooke, Ryan Kesler, and Steve Ott.

At least Carcillo will fight instead of turtling.

Yumcha

I dunno yet. The team still needs to learn how to take on the hard-trapping teams better (i.e. Kings, Ducks, Canucks, Preds, Wings). Too often, they still try to pass their way through the clogged neutral zone which almost never works.

The team needs to learn to win ugly games too...

herbalist

He could have given the guy a chance to defend himself.

97BlackAckCL

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Don't forget your boy Keith, he is in AFTER every whistle trying to start shit

wstevens

Don't forget Ovechkin

Yumcha

Thank Cooke for that one. He started it with the flying elbow...
Keith got him back with the same check later a play later...aw, sorry. At least DK was penalized. Cooke got away with it.

Keith is not a dirty player. If you think so, I think you're the only one on the planet...and I attribute that to bitterness to the loss.

Hawks' supposed "dirty" players are Eager, Fraser, and Burish.
But, neither of the 3 trench guys are nearly as bad as Ott, Avery, COOKE, or Kesler...

Yumcha

@ 97Ackack thinking Duncan Keith is "dirty"...


Cooke comes in with a forearm into his head a play before...and Keith just responds back that he can't be pushed over.

And oh, later ON in the evening, Cooke sucker punches him. Keith didn't respond back...




Keith dirty...

Yumcha

Oh oh...one more for you, Ackalacka...

How did you like the CLEAN play by Malkin where he tries to drive Fraser's head through the ice with a crosscheck while the latter was flat on the ice?


Dirty? Really...? You want to go there...? I guess I was watching a different Pittsburgh-Chicago game. Must've watched one of those TSN hockey replays...Except, I didn't see a Jagr or Lemieux playing. No Belfour, Chelios, either...

Weird.

97BlackAckCL

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Did you watch any of the stuff that led up to Malkin pushing Fraser down? Apparently not. And not once did I bring up Keith's dirty hit, I brought up him jumping in post-whistle every time after the whistle was blown, but it wasn't Keith I was referring to, it was Seabrooke, he's the one always in AFTER the whistles not Keith, I put the wrong name, because I was thinking of that hit on Cooke, but didn't even mention it.

But believe me I'm not sore about an OT loss, I was happy the pens got a point with the way Niemi was playing see post# 20416

Yumcha

Hockey 101 for centers: If you lose a draw against the other player, the best thing you can do is tie him up. There was nothing that Fraser was doing that was "dirty" (i.e. crosschecking, facewashing)...he was tying up Malkin. Simple.

And yes, I watched the entire game in Glorious HD from start to finish.


Seabs would be in there getting dirty...But, if Guerin et al are crowding the crease, what exactly do you want him to do? Hang around in the back like what the overpaid Campbell does when he's on the ice...?

Yumcha

And again, I am absolutely stunned you think Seabrook is "dirty". Getting your hands dirty in a scrum in the goalie crease is not dirty...Not once in the game did I see Seabrook hit too low, crosscheck, or pull the shit that Ott, Kesler, et al do regularly...

Give me a break.

97BlackAckCL

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Wow, I really touched a nerve saying hawks players were dirty lol, I love yanking your chain about the hawks yummy

The hit by Keith was dirty, hands down, retaliation or not, and I didn't bring it up, you did, I mentioned Keith's name in error. In the same game, cooke had a guy lined up and backed off because he saw the numbers, not saying cooke's hit that he was suspended for wasn't dirty, because I didn't say that. I'm just saying Keith's hit was dirty and I hope the NHL deals with it like they dealt with Cooke after the Rangers game, but they won't.

Tying up a center is hockey 101, he didn't just tie him up, he was anally raping him, you should expect a shoove after leghumping someone like that.

I don't think Seabrooke is a dirty player by your definition of making ovechkin(for wstevens) like hits, but I've never seen a guy jump in after the whistle trying to start shit every time like I saw with Seabrooke. Don't give me the scrum excuse, he's trying to start shit and instigate after every whistle, that's just dirty if you ask me. Just skate away, stop trying to start fights unless you want to fight.

Yumcha

Get me fired up...? Well, kinda like how Bugs Bunny gets you with his sarcasm...?

Except...in your case, I don't see sarcasm other than you-mean-it comments. So, you going to now say that you were making ridiculous comments in jest and that I can't take a joke? Well, you sure don't sound like it most of the time...and what? I can't post something to defend the team I've rooted for all my life in and in some success...?

Notice I don't get this way with dom or wstevens...?

And so, to go with your argument...you start it off by naming the wrong player. So, of course, I'm going to jump all over you. Here, let me use your excuse then: "BOY, that Jordan Staal is a dirty player!!!"

Posts by people result.

And now, I go: "Oh oops...I'm sorry, I meant, MATT COOKE." Sorry, how the heck am I supposed to know? So, what's your point? You brought up KEITH...so, I naturally will talk about Cooke's cheepshots and what Keith was doing to protect himself if there was a non-call by the refs. WELCOME TO HOCKEY.

So, sorry for not being psychic. I'll try to know next time that if you're laughing at Kane, you really mean it is Toews. And if it's Hossa...you're talking about Byfuglien instead. No, it was Huet, not Corey Crawford.

So, now you want to talk about SEABROOK (no 'e', please). I still find your logic off to orbit...sorry. The game was a hard-hitting affair. Your Pens were clearly trying to play their game (duh, Pittsburgh is one of the league leaders in hits). So, Seabrook, IN A SCRUM, tries to draw a penalty by doing an extra shove...not a stick swing, not a sucker punch, not a groin pull, not a ear bite, etc. etc. etc. ( ) and you call HIM dirty...?!?



Okay. Sure. Whatever you say.

Yumcha

The weather is beyond freezing...I'm here allll day.

dom

The only thing more dirty than the Blackhawks on the ice is BlackHawk management and their continuous attempts to try and circumvent the cap off of it.

BTW - Who won that Hawk -Pen game anyway?

I sometimes forget there are other teams in the league.

Yumcha

Well, how else were they going to keep the Big 3 after Tallon's overpayment of Soupy and Huet...and then the RFA fiasco from the summer?

Are you sore about Dirty Seabrook, I mean, Keith's contract @ a bazillion years...? Well, apparently, Bowman et al made many trips over to the League Offices to make sure there was no wrong-doing on any of the contracts signed (to prevent a post-signing investigation a la Hossa and Prongers).

Hawks won. 2-1 in OT.



But, dayum...were the Hawks dirty. They took out kneecaps galore. And you should've seen Keith...ER, I mean, Seabrook. He made Steve Ott look like Mother Teresa.

Yumcha

Let's talk about Toronto vs. Boston...how great was that game...?











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