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Martin Brodeur is averaging a point every 4 games in these playoffs. That's freaking astonishing. He has more points in these playoffs than 92 other players who have played at least 7 games.
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I kid you not.....
I was listening to local radio news station this morning.
Sports guy comes on talks about the Kings... then says "Here's some comments from Kings Captain Dustin Penner?!?!?
Pancakes....seriously???!??!?!
btw...the recorded segment was Dustin Brown talking, and not Pancakes.
For crying out loud.....Pancakes?!?!?!
I was listening to local radio news station this morning.
Sports guy comes on talks about the Kings... then says "Here's some comments from Kings Captain Dustin Penner?!?!?
Pancakes....seriously???!??!?!
btw...the recorded segment was Dustin Brown talking, and not Pancakes.
For crying out loud.....Pancakes?!?!?!
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I kid you not.....
I was listening to local radio news station this morning.
Sports guy comes on talks about the Kings... then says "Here's some comments from Kings Captain Dustin Penner?!?!?
Pancakes....seriously???!??!?!
btw...the recorded segment was Dustin Brown talking, and not Pancakes.
For crying out loud.....Pancakes?!?!?!
I was listening to local radio news station this morning.
Sports guy comes on talks about the Kings... then says "Here's some comments from Kings Captain Dustin Penner?!?!?
Pancakes....seriously???!??!?!
btw...the recorded segment was Dustin Brown talking, and not Pancakes.
For crying out loud.....Pancakes?!?!?!
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I know I haven't been around much lately but did I see a Fawkin build a bear on the previous page?
LFG RANGERS!!!!!!!!!!!
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No you are hallucinating.....
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KINGS!!
When I was 12, I collected newspaper articles from every Kings game during the '93 Playoffs, I can't wait to get tomorrows paper so I can put it with this one I've had for almost 20 years. Go Kings go!
I totally forgot about this thread.
When I was 12, I collected newspaper articles from every Kings game during the '93 Playoffs, I can't wait to get tomorrows paper so I can put it with this one I've had for almost 20 years. Go Kings go!
I totally forgot about this thread.
I shoot people
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Congrats Kings.
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A game worthy of the final game of the Conference Finals.
Smith kept the Yotes in the game. He did all he could possibly do.
Probably one of the worst officiated games I've seen in a while.
So many wrong calls and blown calls against both teams.
I think the linesmen forgot their contacts last night.....oof!
Pancakes....oh.....Pancakes!!!!!!!! The greatest goal of your career you say?....I don't disagree. Go reward yourself with an IHOP full stack of buttermilks....or maybe not....don't want to throw out the back for the finals.
...and Pancakes nice quote you made when they asked you what you think about Quick:
"...you mean Vezina - Smyth?"......well done, sir!
...and Yotes fans....stay classy
Hey Count, you might want to tell the fans of your team not to litter the ice after your team gets punted from the playoffs.
....and Yotes players...(some of you)....stay classy
So much for the classy handshake....you really had to bitch, moan, & whine to the Kings players during the handshake?!?!
Memo to the Yotes: You didn't lose the Conference Finals because of Game 5.....you lost it because of games 1, 2, 3......
Smith kept the Yotes in the game. He did all he could possibly do.
Probably one of the worst officiated games I've seen in a while.
So many wrong calls and blown calls against both teams.
I think the linesmen forgot their contacts last night.....oof!
Pancakes....oh.....Pancakes!!!!!!!! The greatest goal of your career you say?....I don't disagree. Go reward yourself with an IHOP full stack of buttermilks....or maybe not....don't want to throw out the back for the finals.
...and Pancakes nice quote you made when they asked you what you think about Quick:
"...you mean Vezina - Smyth?"......well done, sir!
...and Yotes fans....stay classy
Hey Count, you might want to tell the fans of your team not to litter the ice after your team gets punted from the playoffs.
....and Yotes players...(some of you)....stay classy
So much for the classy handshake....you really had to bitch, moan, & whine to the Kings players during the handshake?!?!
Memo to the Yotes: You didn't lose the Conference Finals because of Game 5.....you lost it because of games 1, 2, 3......
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I see the bandwagon swung by your house to pick you up. :wink:
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About 4,000 peeps showed up at the airport last night to welcome the Kings back home
(I was not in attendance... )
(I was not in attendance... )
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Smith, Doan Embarrass Coyotes After Overtime Loss To Kings
BOSTON (CBS) — There is losing with grace and class, and there is losing in disgrace. Congratulations, Phoenix Coyotes, for choosing door No. 2!
In what may very well be the franchise’s final moment in Arizona, the Coyotes lost in overtime of Game 5 of the Western Conference finals to the Los Angeles Kings. There is no shame in that, as nobody’s been able to beat the Kings all postseason.
Yet, no other team chose to go out the way the Coyotes did, and for that, the Coyotes should feel shame.
The beginning of the end took place with 2:30 left in overtime. Michal Rozsival carried the puck across the blue line just after teammate Antoine Vermette crossed the line himself. The linesman blew his whistle for offsides, but he did not blow his whistle until after Brown had already begun making contact with Rozsival. Watch the replay and hit pause when you hear the whistle. You’ll notice that the two bodies have already collided by the time the whistle is blown:
So the hit was not late. But was it dirty? Well, no, not even a little bit. Brown certainly leaned into Rozsival (a necessary step if you’re trying to hit somebody, you know), but the fact that their legs collided was without question just incidental. Brown only leaned with his shoulder, and he never extended his left leg in order to hit Rozsival. After the collision, you could see Brown, an honest player by all accounts, immediately turn toward Rozsival after the collision, as if he wanted to apologize. In overtime. Of a playoff game. With a Stanley Cup Finals berth on the line.
If you think Brown intentionally made a knee-to-knee hit on Rozsival, you’re more than a little bit insane.
Cue the Coyotes postgame comments!
“If Raffi Torres gets 25 games for his hit during the play, then this guy [Brown] ought to be done forever,” Coyotes goalie Mike Smith said afterward, according to the Tucson Citizen.
(If you’re keeping track at home, he’s comparing a leaping head shot by a guy with a long rap sheet of dirty play to a shoulder-to-shoulder check that had some incidental leg contact. Solid.)
Captain Shane Doan, who stopped Brown in the postgame handshake line to offer his thoughts on the play, also drove the whambulance in the dressing room.
“How do you miss that?” Doan cried. “I mean Rozy’s knee’s blown out. How do you miss that? How do you miss that when it’s after the whistle and it’s a knee? How can you possibly miss that?”
Here’s one answer: It was not after the whistle.
Here’s another answer: Not every hit that includes two knees colliding is dirty and intentional. Sometimes, it happens.
Smith had more to cry about as well, in between his bites on his whamburger and french cries.
“It’s disappointing we not only got beat by them but got beat by the officials, too,” Smith said, according to Yahoo!, before bragging about his amazing 20-20 vision. “It’s not just that [Brown] play — it’s all game long. They called us for three offsides in the first period and none of them were offside.”
(A brief timeout: Smith stands in his net, which is positioned more than 100 feet away from the offensive blue line. Yet, he knows his team wasn’t offside. That’s incredible.)
“[A Kings player] flipped it over the glass — how do all four refs not see that?” he continued.
(Side note: There are only two referees and two linesmen on the ice for NHL games. There are never four referees. Apparently, in exchange for being gifted with phenomenal vision, Smith sacrificed his ability to count.)
“It’s not just this game, it’s all season long,” Smith said. “They did everything they could not to let us get to this position.”
Poor guy. If only the whole world hadn’t conspired against the Coyotes, maybe they would’ve won more than one game in this series. Maybe.
As bad as Smith’s and Doan’s postgame comments were, they weren’t the worst transgressions of the evening. Those came during the handshake line.
Now, there’s little argument in the sports world that the handshake line is the greatest tradition there is. In a sport as intense as playoff hockey, it’s incredible to see one team graciously accept victory and the other team respectfully resigned to defeat. Players show their true respect for each other, with some of the losing players offering words of encouragement to the winning players, while others are too overcome with emotion to even speak.
But the Coyotes took that tradition and disgraced it.
Before the handshake line even took place, Smith skated toward the referees (where alternate captain Keith Yandle and Derek Morris were already screaming in the refs’ faces), slammed his stick on the ice and shouted at them, as if they had just allowed the season-ending goal.
Once in the line, the other alternate captain, Martin Hanzal, stopped Brown in the line to share his thoughts on the hit. Seconds later, Doan took some time to shout his thoughts at Brown, too.
The Coyotes certainly have the right to be upset about anything they want, but to use the handshake line as a platform to whine and complain is just unacceptable.
Though it’s not surprising. The final goal came when Yandle tried to step up at the blue line and clear the puck but whiffed. He then was out of position and got beat to the net by Jeff Carter. Yandle then stood to the side as Dustin Penner’s game-winner flew past Smith and into the net.
Yandle’s immediate reaction? Turn to the ref and complain about a hand pass that never happened.
It was a good indication of what was to come from these Coyotes, and it perfectly displayed the difference between a team capable of winning a championship and one that’s only looking for excuses.
If the Coyotes do indeed leave Phoenix (which is anyone’s guess right now), would this not be the perfect ending to a chapter in franchise history that really never needed to happen?
In what may very well be the franchise’s final moment in Arizona, the Coyotes lost in overtime of Game 5 of the Western Conference finals to the Los Angeles Kings. There is no shame in that, as nobody’s been able to beat the Kings all postseason.
Yet, no other team chose to go out the way the Coyotes did, and for that, the Coyotes should feel shame.
The beginning of the end took place with 2:30 left in overtime. Michal Rozsival carried the puck across the blue line just after teammate Antoine Vermette crossed the line himself. The linesman blew his whistle for offsides, but he did not blow his whistle until after Brown had already begun making contact with Rozsival. Watch the replay and hit pause when you hear the whistle. You’ll notice that the two bodies have already collided by the time the whistle is blown:
So the hit was not late. But was it dirty? Well, no, not even a little bit. Brown certainly leaned into Rozsival (a necessary step if you’re trying to hit somebody, you know), but the fact that their legs collided was without question just incidental. Brown only leaned with his shoulder, and he never extended his left leg in order to hit Rozsival. After the collision, you could see Brown, an honest player by all accounts, immediately turn toward Rozsival after the collision, as if he wanted to apologize. In overtime. Of a playoff game. With a Stanley Cup Finals berth on the line.
If you think Brown intentionally made a knee-to-knee hit on Rozsival, you’re more than a little bit insane.
Cue the Coyotes postgame comments!
“If Raffi Torres gets 25 games for his hit during the play, then this guy [Brown] ought to be done forever,” Coyotes goalie Mike Smith said afterward, according to the Tucson Citizen.
(If you’re keeping track at home, he’s comparing a leaping head shot by a guy with a long rap sheet of dirty play to a shoulder-to-shoulder check that had some incidental leg contact. Solid.)
Captain Shane Doan, who stopped Brown in the postgame handshake line to offer his thoughts on the play, also drove the whambulance in the dressing room.
“How do you miss that?” Doan cried. “I mean Rozy’s knee’s blown out. How do you miss that? How do you miss that when it’s after the whistle and it’s a knee? How can you possibly miss that?”
Here’s one answer: It was not after the whistle.
Here’s another answer: Not every hit that includes two knees colliding is dirty and intentional. Sometimes, it happens.
Smith had more to cry about as well, in between his bites on his whamburger and french cries.
“It’s disappointing we not only got beat by them but got beat by the officials, too,” Smith said, according to Yahoo!, before bragging about his amazing 20-20 vision. “It’s not just that [Brown] play — it’s all game long. They called us for three offsides in the first period and none of them were offside.”
(A brief timeout: Smith stands in his net, which is positioned more than 100 feet away from the offensive blue line. Yet, he knows his team wasn’t offside. That’s incredible.)
“[A Kings player] flipped it over the glass — how do all four refs not see that?” he continued.
(Side note: There are only two referees and two linesmen on the ice for NHL games. There are never four referees. Apparently, in exchange for being gifted with phenomenal vision, Smith sacrificed his ability to count.)
“It’s not just this game, it’s all season long,” Smith said. “They did everything they could not to let us get to this position.”
Poor guy. If only the whole world hadn’t conspired against the Coyotes, maybe they would’ve won more than one game in this series. Maybe.
As bad as Smith’s and Doan’s postgame comments were, they weren’t the worst transgressions of the evening. Those came during the handshake line.
Now, there’s little argument in the sports world that the handshake line is the greatest tradition there is. In a sport as intense as playoff hockey, it’s incredible to see one team graciously accept victory and the other team respectfully resigned to defeat. Players show their true respect for each other, with some of the losing players offering words of encouragement to the winning players, while others are too overcome with emotion to even speak.
But the Coyotes took that tradition and disgraced it.
Before the handshake line even took place, Smith skated toward the referees (where alternate captain Keith Yandle and Derek Morris were already screaming in the refs’ faces), slammed his stick on the ice and shouted at them, as if they had just allowed the season-ending goal.
Once in the line, the other alternate captain, Martin Hanzal, stopped Brown in the line to share his thoughts on the hit. Seconds later, Doan took some time to shout his thoughts at Brown, too.
The Coyotes certainly have the right to be upset about anything they want, but to use the handshake line as a platform to whine and complain is just unacceptable.
Though it’s not surprising. The final goal came when Yandle tried to step up at the blue line and clear the puck but whiffed. He then was out of position and got beat to the net by Jeff Carter. Yandle then stood to the side as Dustin Penner’s game-winner flew past Smith and into the net.
Yandle’s immediate reaction? Turn to the ref and complain about a hand pass that never happened.
It was a good indication of what was to come from these Coyotes, and it perfectly displayed the difference between a team capable of winning a championship and one that’s only looking for excuses.
If the Coyotes do indeed leave Phoenix (which is anyone’s guess right now), would this not be the perfect ending to a chapter in franchise history that really never needed to happen?
FYI both Doan and Smith given 10 Minute Game Misconducts after the game.
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Doan = The Ultimate Tool
Doan = The Ultimate Tool
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dom: With Pancakes game winner last night, he guaranteed himself a $4mill. contract with your Leafs for next season.
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Congrats, Waldorf. 4 more wins and your suffering is over.
LA Bandwagon all day....just came from the NBA thread, so what's this I hear about the Kings?
Last edited by CarbonGray Earl; 05-23-2012 at 05:44 PM.
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^^ doesn't matter, the LeHeat are gonna beat em.
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I'm here to officially welcome you to the Hockey Thread.
I know it's a new thread and very hard to find.
I'm also here to officially welcome you to the LA Kings bandwagon.
(Not to be confused with the Sacramento Kings bandwagon)
Remember: Denial of being a bandwagoner is your first step toward maybe becoming a real fan.
May Pancakes, Kopidor and Brad Doty get the lucky ball bounces in the next round, and score as many touchdowns as possible!
I know it's a new thread and very hard to find.
I'm also here to officially welcome you to the LA Kings bandwagon.
(Not to be confused with the Sacramento Kings bandwagon)
Remember: Denial of being a bandwagoner is your first step toward maybe becoming a real fan.
May Pancakes, Kopidor and Brad Doty get the lucky ball bounces in the next round, and score as many touchdowns as possible!
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Waldorf, if the Kings win it all, do you think LA is going riot? Please say no.
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Win what?
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Still so superstitious about what YOU say having an effect on their outcome. I picked them to win and you were boohoothis and boohoothat and lookit...they won. And relatively easily by the series count.
So, stop being such a weirdo. Your team at this point looks like the one to beat. Don't see the East's remaining squads being able to take them out.
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^^ You can't speak to this.
Kings have won nothing for over 4 decades.
How may Cups do the Hawks have....
Sell your non-superstition in sports somewhere else.
Kings have won nothing for over 4 decades.
How may Cups do the Hawks have....
Sell your non-superstition in sports somewhere else.
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Very superstitious, nothin' more to say
Very superstitious, the devil's on his way
Thirteen month old baby, broke the lookin' glass
Seven years of bad luck, good things in your past
Very superstitious, the devil's on his way
Thirteen month old baby, broke the lookin' glass
Seven years of bad luck, good things in your past
Trolling Canuckistan
Basically, here's how it works. You've been a member of the forum for 4 years 1 month and a day. The Kings have made it to the finals for the first time in about 20 years.
Here's the kicker.....
https://acurazine.com/forums/misc.ph...osted&t=199461
you have 2 posts in this thread and they both came after the Kings made it to the big show.
If you were a die hard Kings fan or Hockey fan in general, you woulda showed up here to bitch or brag about something that happened in "last nights game" a long time ago.
That's what hockey fans do when they see a hockey thread.
But that's all nothing to worry about because it's OK to get excited when the home team does good. Maybe you'll become a die hard fan because of it.
Here's the kicker.....
https://acurazine.com/forums/misc.ph...osted&t=199461
you have 2 posts in this thread and they both came after the Kings made it to the big show.
If you were a die hard Kings fan or Hockey fan in general, you woulda showed up here to bitch or brag about something that happened in "last nights game" a long time ago.
That's what hockey fans do when they see a hockey thread.
But that's all nothing to worry about because it's OK to get excited when the home team does good. Maybe you'll become a die hard fan because of it.
Last edited by black label; 05-23-2012 at 07:41 PM.
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You gotta believe!
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@ everything on this page.
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And congrats Moog, I'll now go suffer in that corner alone.
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You guys have it easy.