dom

What's on? The alumni game? Its 10 in the morning.

Jonesi

Read the article you dork.

Jonesi

Started @ 9:30am EST

dom

Meh, Burke is still way too far up that list.

Only the NHL puts Mario on the ice at 9:30 What else do they have going on there today that forced them to be this game on at 9:30.

Jonesi

9:30am for these guys is like 4:30pm for us

97BlackAckCL

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Alumni game was cool, although all I could do was listen to it. Anxiously waiting to see if I'm going to be out in the rain tomorrow or if there will be rain delays, I'm betting on the game being played on Sunday, but just have to wait and see

and Hawks are in 8th? No wonder this thread died, yummy isn't whoring it up every 5 minutes

Yumcha

It's called being out of town. I'm not a fair-weathered fan. Nice try.

Yumcha

Obligatory TOEWS-IS-THE-BEST-PLAYER-EVAR post!

jupitersolo

Night game or Sunday, they are suppose to make an announcement any minute.

black label

I'm hearing 8:00 tonight due to the rain. Tough day for the winter classic, it's 50+ degrees in southern NH.

05TLdcc

can't believe its 52 in pittsburgh on jan 1. hopefully it will stop raining soon.

fsttyms1

Go Redwings

05TLdcc

...they're not playing today?

e30cabrio

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Very nice goal for the Caps.

Rangers never cease to amaze, tie with seconds to go and lose in ot.

GAAAAAAAAAAAAA

jupitersolo

Damn that felt like a Stanley Cup game...

Steven Bell

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^^ It did-good game, even though Washington won. The Caps goaltender looked outstanding.

jupitersolo

Pretty funny quoute by Caps owner, Ted Leonsis,

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dom

Too bad about that ice. May as well have played with a tennis ball.

I get its a great event to be at, but it must suck to actually watch the game. Even the angles on TV were terrible.

jupitersolo

Don't think I heard any of the players say it was that bad.

Viewing on TV was a little off, with cameras being further away from ice, but I loved the overhead camera shots.

dom

You could see they were all struggling with the puck. It wasn't sitting still.

I wish they had left it on the overhead camera the whole game.

Caps are an interesting team. Tons of talent but it seemed to be the role players getting it done yesterday. And that's a good thing. I don't think I heard Semin or Backstrom the entire game.

dom

Btw... Canada vs the US semi at the world juniors on Monday.

jupitersolo

Well for yesterdays game you didn't hear big names from both sides. I watched a little today with the CBC feed, they have the biggest hard-on's for Crosby and Pittsburgh, so they talked a lot about them.

jupitersolo

Saw them some today against Swiss, can't believe they have beat them 18 straight games.

dom

Really? I hadn't noticed.

I watched a lot of the NBC feed because the leaf game was on CBC but there's only so much Mike Milbury I can take.

dom

But they're getting better and better.

According to the experts the Americans are better than than were last year and Canada isn't so I'm not expecting much. But it should be great game as they always are.

black label

Last year in Boston it sat still too much and it took the players a while to adjust to push the puck harder when passing. I think the elements is all part of the fun and challenge of the classic. It's colder, you may have snow or rain, you may have the wind in your eyes. Winning it seems to come down to the ability to adapt to the conditions or possibly pure luck.

I think Moog should lobby for one in Los Angeles on that synthetic ice.

Yumcha

Toews may be back on Monday!

jupitersolo

I wonder if Rupp got his bra fixed from the game last night?

Jonesi

That fight was pretty much a draw.

jupitersolo

A draw?? he asked Erskine to stop fighting after getting hit twice in the face.

Jonesi

Don't know about that. But if you say so. I could have sworn they announced he got poked in the eye. Which is why he never returned.

jupitersolo

Yeah, Erskine's left hand jab him twice in the face, then Rupp called mercy.

Jonesi

ok

jupitersolo

Thanks for clearing it up, thought it was his bra strap or his panties started running up on him. What a pussy to start a fight and then ask to stop, because he wasn't going to win.

Jonesi

It was a good fight. Dood got poked in the eye, couldn't see and stopped the fight. Not sure what your point is if you have one.

jupitersolo

He's a pussy, a bitch, talks shit on 24/7 when time to man up, he calls mercy.

Jonesi

Refresh my memory. What did he say on 24/7 that got your panties in a bunch? B/c this is the first time you've mentioned it, yet it seemed to really upset you.

97BlackAckCL

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Players stop fights all the time when they're bleeding or when they get tired, from what i saw, Rupp couldn't keep his eye open, but hopefully we'll see more on Wed's 24/7.

Regardless of who won the game, it was an awesome once in a lifetime experience, and I had a blast at the game. Our seats were great, and I could see everything. Heard that the TV angles sucked, that's really a shame, because the vantage point that we had at the game was incredible, even people in the 500's said that they could see everything. I have a ton of pics, I'll post some up in the next day or 2

Moog-Type-S

Luc Robitaille and the Kings have been lobbying the NHL and Bettman for quite some time now for a Winter Classic in LA. One of the sites would have it at Dodger Stadium.

Irony: It was colder in LA this year than it was in Pittsburgh.

No need for synthetic ice......heck the Kings and Ranger played outdoors in Vegas in 90F back in the day....and the ice was better than it was in Pittsburgh

Moog-Type-S

Little Schenn has 7 goals and 9 assists in five tournament games...his point streak is still alive.

Kings got three kids still in the tourney:
Derek Forbort
Maxim Kitsyn Russia

...and of course...Little Schenn