Other Games of Note - December

[Captain Slack]

So far, the Boston/San Jose trade seems be working out in Boston's favor. They're up 2-0 on Ottawa. The first goal was by Marco Sturm with Strum & Brad Stuart setting up Bergeron for the second. If this keeps up, Bruins fans might not miss Thornton after all!

[Alicia]

And the Leafs are up on the Trashers 2-0...

[VandyCane]

This game was being shown on HDNet, but all of a sudden we lost the broadcast. Their announcers are decent and the HD is great but they do have a lot of "freezing" of the images.

Ahh, never mind it finally came back.

[tommy]

So far, the Boston/San Jose trade seems be working out in Boston's favor. They're up 2-0 on Ottawa. The first goal was by Marco Sturm with Strum & Brad Stuart setting up Bergeron for the second. If this keeps up, Bruins fans might not miss Thornton after all!

Figures... the first game I actually put money on, seriously, because I thought Boston would be discombobulated, and they're up 2-0 on the freakin Senators. ugh.

edit: 3-0. damn.

[tommy]

18 seconds in and Vancouver's up 1-0 on Edmonton! that was quick!

[SouthernHockeyChick]

Wings are down 3-2 to the Flames with a little over a minute left and the Flames just missed a penalty shot. You know how the Wings are.....they'll probably tie it up.

Or not! Flames win!

[SouthernHockeyChick]

Holy crap, anyone been watching the Kings/Sens game? Looks like it's been NASTY. :crazy:

Chara fought Gleason (which is who tore up Shanny the other night). And Chara got an instigator penalty on that one and got ejected! That one is in the last five minutes, too. Wonder if Murray will get fined?

I see penalties for Sean Avery and McGratton at the same time that resulted in game misconducts but no fight. Think Avery turtled?

[Alicia]

Think Avery turtled?

Nah...(I hope not) :beatup:

[SouthernHockeyChick]

Think Avery turtled?

Nah...(I hope not) :beatup:

:laugh: :laugh:

A total of 95 minutes in penalties were doled out in the third period, including 65 against Ottawa.

Brian McGrattan was eager to go with Avery, however, and the Ottawa enforcer caught up with him moments later at 8:18. Avery got a game misconduct, along with roughing and unsportsmanlinke conduct penalties. McGrattan got cross-checking and roughing minors and a 10-minute misconduct.

But no fighting penalty. Hmmm.

[apolinar]

Chara fought Gleason (which is who tore up Shanny the other night). And Chara got an instigator penalty on that one and got ejected! That one is in the last five minutes, too. Wonder if Murray will get fined?

What's good for the goose is good for the gander. Chara isn't a "goon" or "fighter" usually so using that same litmus test there shouldn't be a suspension or fine for the coach, just a fine for the player like in Shane Doan's case. If something different is done then we've got ourselves an Animal Farm situation. "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."

[SouthernHockeyChick]

Chara to be suspended for instigating

TSN.ca Staff
12/3/2005 10:11:44 AM

Zdeno Chara's fight on Friday with Tim Gleason of the Los Angeles Kings will cost the Senators' defenceman a suspension and his coach Bryan Murray a fine.

Chara was given an instigating penalty for the fight, which took place with less than four minutes remaining. A new rule added in the off-season says a player who gets an instigating penalty in the final five minutes will get a one-game suspension and the coach of that player will get a $10,000 fine.

The NHL has the freedom to go back and review the situation - like they did with Shane Doan and Wayne Gretzky last week - but Chara and Murray's case is considered by the league to be a textbook example of why the rule was put in place.

Huh? :crazy: So, I guess Chara is a goon? WTF?

I wanna be Old Major! Or maybe Moses....at least he never has to work.

[cmw00]

Well Bryan Murray isn't Wayne Gretzky! But I agree WTF!


Brian McGrattan was eager to go with Avery, however, and the Ottawa enforcer caught up with him moments later at 8:18. Avery got a game misconduct, along with roughing and unsportsmanlinke conduct penalties. McGrattan got cross-checking and roughing minors and a 10-minute misconduct.

But no fighting penalty. Hmmm.

Its kinda hard to fight with Brian McGrattan crosschecking you to the ice. :beatup:

[cmw00]

Heres the Chara vs. Gleason incident:
http://rapidshare.de/files/8559358/051202_gleason_chara.wmv.html

At first it doesnt look like that much different than how 2 heavyweights would get started. 2 things though, Chara lined up as a right winger in the standard faceoff setup with 2 defenders back and 3 forwards up, also what we don't get to see *I THINK* is Chara starts wailing on Gleason while the camera follows the play down the ice.

However after watching this I still don't think its any different than what Doan did.

[Alicia]

Caps up on Rangers 5-0...wtf? :crazy:

[SouthernHockeyChick]

David Tanabe scored in OT to give the Bruins the win over the Oilers tonight.

[SouthernHockeyChick]

OK, I feel better.....maybe our fans aren't such losers. We're in the last minute in Detroit, they're down 2-1 to the Isles and they have the goalie pulled and the people at the Joe are LEAVING!!! This is Detroit we're talking about! How often do they score that last second tieing goal?!? And people are leaving? Crazy stuff. :crazy:

They didn't manage to tie it up, BTW.

[nccanes]

SHC, I'm now convinced people are basically the same most everywhere. Last night they 'Yotes played a great game that had everything from their team, goals, physical play, good goaltending, 2 players with the potential of a hat trick, 1 that got one, and a ton left early.

And they also screamed like banchees over free Tshirts, lol. Thankfully they only did it at 1 point in the third. Funny thing was, they shot (or dropped them) from above the lower level because everyone got up and turned around and seemed to be looking for them. I never did see any shirts or where they came from, lol. But they screamed on queue. :beatup:

[StormShaman]

OK, I feel better.....maybe our fans aren't such losers. We're in the last minute in Detroit, they're down 2-1 to the Isles and they have the goalie pulled and the people at the Joe are LEAVING!!! This is Detroit we're talking about! How often do they score that last second tieing goal?!? And people are leaving? Crazy stuff. :crazy:

They didn't manage to tie it up, BTW.

Detroit fans get a free pass, though, cos they're in "Hockeytown" and therefore good fans rather than a bunch of drooling terbacky-chawin' Neckcar-watchin' sibling-boffin' rednecks who burn crosses on our front lawns and lynch random [racist term redacted] for kicks. :roll:

Just sayin'.

Not taking a potshot at you, Chickie--just pointing up the double-standard.

[SouthernHockeyChick]

Detroit fans get a free pass, though, cos they're in "Hockeytown" and therefore good fans rather than a bunch of drooling terbacky-chawin' Neckcar-watchin' sibling-boffin' rednecks who burn crosses on our front lawns and lynch random [racist term redacted] for kicks. :roll:

Just sayin'.


I figured that was the case, lol.

You know, I worked with a guy who was born and raised in Detroit last month. His entire family is Red Wings fans but he couldn't care less about hockey. He absolute LOVES NASCAR, though.

[StormShaman]

You know, I worked with a guy who was born and raised in Detroit last month. His entire family is Red Wings fans but he couldn't care less about hockey. He absolute LOVES NASCAR, though.

Oh, the irony! :beatup:

[tommy]

Detroit fans get a free pass, though, cos they're in "Hockeytown" and therefore good fans rather than a bunch of drooling terbacky-chawin' Neckcar-watchin' sibling-boffin' rednecks who burn crosses on our front lawns and lynch random [racist term redacted] for kicks. :roll:

Just sayin'.


I figured that was the case, lol.

You know, I worked with a guy who was born and raised in Detroit last month. His entire family is Red Wings fans but he couldn't care less about hockey. He absolute LOVES NASCAR, though.

Well of course!! If it weren't for Michigan we wouldn't have any of them there redneck-mobiles with them fancy numbers painted on 'em...

And as far as Phoenix... If I ever see anyone who doesn't have a kid less than 5 years old leaving early from a game we're winning 8-4, I am going to physically hold them in their seats...

[SoCalcaniac]

Here's a mildly humurous recap of the Kings/Sens debacle on Saturday night, one of a series of funny articles that have the same theme "Sean Avery". :eek2: I'm not certain about many things related to the Canes and who'll play, or whatever, and not to jump over the Ducks or anything- but I'm pretty sure Boulerice will be dressed for the game on Thursday in Hell-ay......

Anger Doesn't Manage Anything for the Kings
Avery is out, coaches trade barbs and TV commentator is chased after Ottawa wins, 5-1.By Chris Foster
Times Staff Writer

December 3, 2005

KANATA, Ontario — The pile of bodies behind the net at game's end Friday might as well have carried a sign: Sean Avery was here.

Although a game misconduct and unsportsmanlike penalty with 8:18 left meant that Avery was not around to see the final minutes of the Kings' 5-1 loss to Ottawa — he was on the bus outside the Corel Center when the game ended — he was again at the center of chaos.

This might have been a teaser for tonight's visit to Montreal, where Avery's September comment about French Canadian players has not been forgotten.

But the Kings' third consecutive loss, and fourth in five games, was also a painful lesson in why the Senators have a league-leading 40 points. Dany Heatley scored twice and Dominik Hasek looked every bit the Vezina Trophy winner that he has been six times.

All that was tabled for discussion when the coaches, the Kings' Andy Murray and Ottawa's Bryan Murray, ended the evening talking more about each other than the game, primarily focusing on the two fights that Ottawa players started as payback for Hasek's being hit during the game, mostly after a King player was pushed into him.

The game slid into hockey's version of wild west "justice" after the Kings' Craig Conroy was pushed from behind by Ottawa's Chris Kelly and hit Hasek in the head with his skate with eight minutes left. Then the last five minutes devolved into 48 minutes of penalties.

"That's what Andy does, they run the goaltender," said Bryan Murray, the former Mighty Duck coach and general manager. "Pretty much every time we played them in Anaheim, it ended up like this."

Another Murray, another view.

"We both have reputations," Andy Murray said. "We know sends players out like that because he has a reputation as a tough coach.

"So, he's sitting up there on his lofty perch, saying all this stuff about me. The problem is, if you're up there, you can't have it both ways. You don't preach one thing and then go out and do something else."

[b]The he-said, he-said spat spilled outside the locker rooms, when Bryan Murray chased down and screamed at Jim Fox, a Kings' television commentator, because of on-air remarks by Fox that Murray was "unprofessional" and had a "reputation" for these kind of incidents. :eek: :crazy:

Kelly escalated the situation, going after Jeff Cowan with 3:29 left. Then, eight seconds after play resumed, the Senators' Zdeno Chara jumped Tim Gleason.

Chara received an instigator penalty, which under NHL rules should result in a one-game suspension and a $10,000 fine for Murray, although the NHL didn't apply the late-game instigator rule recently when it involved Phoenix Coach Wayne Gretzky.

Avery, though, was blamed by Bryan Murray for starting the trouble.

"He's never been much of a factor other than what he does," Bryan Murray said. "He speared Hasek in the crease. He talks to players [on the ice] all the time. He's the leader of the band there."

[goalie33]

If Boulerice pounds Sean Avery, I'll buy him a steak dinner.

And I like Sean Avery.

:beatup:

[corylav]

Winner, winner... steak dinner?

[cmw00]

Kelly escalated the situation, going after Jeff Cowan with 3:29 left.


Wow talk about homerism :laugh: Little Chris Kelly going after Jeff Cowan give me a break!

And I like Sean Avery.

We're in the minority but I like him too! Maybe not exactly "like" but he's entertaining! You always here people talking about certain players saying "he's a player you hate, but would love him on your team". Well Sean Avery is a guy I like but would hate to have on my team :laugh:

They were talking about him during the Sens/panthers game lastnight and said alot of his teammates didn't like him?

[goalie33]

I have this little favorite from a while back:

Buccigross: What's the craziest thing you've ever done?

Sean Avery: Move in with Brett Hull. Let's just say it was psychedelic experience. He complained about everybody on the Wings.

[StormShaman]

Well of COURSE he complained about everybody on the Wings! It's Brett Hull, it's what he does. :D

[SoCalcaniac]

Ok, I've taken my Avery obsession- can't figure out what to call it- to the next level- this is in Today's TO Star- the Kings play the Leafs- and if you can get through this article without laughing, no HOWLING, you're a much better person than I. :spin: It's friggin hilarious on so many levels I'm still laughing as I type this..... :laugh:


Everybody hates Sean
He's irked francophones, been hunted down by angry opponents and told to shut up by his team

L.A. Kings superpest Sean Avery also happens to be a pretty good hockey player
Dec. 6, 2005. 01:00 AM
MARK ZWOLINSKI
SPORTS REPORTER


For Sean Avery, talk is no longer cheap.

The Los Angeles Kings forward has not spoken to the media in the past four days. His media victims are piling up like empties at a Christmas party, including over a dozen locals yesterday who got the brushoff from the NHL's most famous mouth of 2005.

According to Kings coach Andy Murray, the club has had a little talk with the bombastic superpest.

It had a lot to do with the fines, francophone player-bashing, alleged racial slurs, NHLPA bashing, and other verbal hellfire that has made for great headlines over the past two months.

"We've talked to him about that," Murray said after Kings practice yesterday.

"We want to make sure his actions do the talking for him."

Avery has likely set a record of sorts for him — the longest period without a zinger quote.

Love him or hate him, and there are plenty of players around the NHL in the latter group, he enters tonight's contest against the Leafs as one of the most talked-about players in the league.

"You have to give `Aves' credit, he's tough, he goes out and backs it up, he fights. ... He can't fight everyone and everyone wants to fight him," Kings forward Craig Conroy said.

Avery discovered how much ire he raises in peers after he allegedly called Edmonton's George Laraque, who is black, a monkey.

After the game, the entire Oilers roster went on an Avery hunt, scrambling through the lower hallways at the Rexall Centre to get at him.

According to those who witnessed it, the Oilers were beyond words; they wanted a group beating. :laugh: :laugh: :crazy:

Such response is typical for Avery these days. He played in Montreal Saturday, his first appearance in Quebec since his anti-French player comments in October, and faced deafening jeers from the fans. One fan even threw a teddy bear wrapped in a Quebec flag at him as he sat on the bench.

The Kings, while unofficially putting a muzzle on their talented winger, also went to the lengths of bringing an NHL security representative and their top media handler on this four-game road trip that wraps up against the Leafs tonight.

"They (Kings public relations staff) don't let him watch TV and they don't want him to read the papers," a source close to the team said.

Why can't Avery just shut himself up?

In a recent interview with the Los Angeles Times, he said, only half seriously, that he may have been dropped on his head as a baby. :crazy:

"There's some wires crossed up there," he said.

Some observers say the career agitator felt a little left out when megastar Jeremy Roenick arrived from Philadelphia this season.

Avery reportedly sat in the locker room, almost invisible to a west coast media looking for hockey stories in the post-lockout NHL.
No one talked to him. A week into the season, a TSN camera crew finally set up in front of him. OMG is that for real???
The next thing anyone knew, Avery was stereotyping Francophone players in his response to what he felt was a dirty hit on Roenick by Phoenix Coyotes defenceman Denis Gauthier.

Kings coach Andy Murray wants to nip the snowballing media reaction to Avery.

"The thing that gets lost in this whole equation is that Sean Avery is a good hockey player," Murray said.

Avery has four goals, six assists, and a team-leading 59 penalty minutes in 19 games so far this season.

"What we want people to understand is that the act is behind him. Now, the league will have to look at him in a different way, he's changed, he's not running goalies, it's not the way it's being portrayed."

While Avery was — and is — getting under the skin of opponents, no one was complaining about his celebrity.

A distraction? Kings players beg to differ.

"It's a distraction at times, yes, but it's a good distraction," Conroy said.

Conroy and his teammates learned yesterday that back in Los Angeles, there are photos of the infamous paparazzi — the photo legions that usually hound movie stars — aiming their cameras at Avery.

"The paparazzi ... oh no, Sean's head is going to get too big after this, we'll never hear the end of it," Conroy said, laughing.

[StormShaman]

"You have to give `Aves' credit, he's tough, he goes out and backs it up, he fights. ... He can't fight everyone and everyone wants to fight him," Kings forward Craig Conroy said.

I think Conroy must have stuck scissors in a light socket when he was 2 or something, if he's saying that.

Avery? Fight? Maybe if I'm the King of Siam!

Avery discovered how much ire he raises in peers after he allegedly called Edmonton's George Laraque, who is black, a monkey.

After the game, the entire Oilers roster went on an Avery hunt, scrambling through the lower hallways at the Rexall Centre to get at him.

According to those who witnessed it, the Oilers were beyond words; they wanted a group beating.

Boot party on aisle 19!

Some observers say the career agitator felt a little left out when megastar Jeremy Roenick arrived from Philadelphia this season.

So....what? They're saying he's an attention-whore?

[SouthernHockeyChick]

He can't fight everyone? I think what he meant to say is that he can't fight anyone bigger than him.

He's that really bratty kid from second grade that you found out when you grew up just wasn't getting enough attention at home. Only he's not in second grade anymore.

I would agree that Avery is the kind of player you like but would hate to have on your team. Only, I wouldn't really say I like him. I'd say I like to see how big of an a** he's going to make of himself next. I tend to, as much as I pretend I don't sometimes, really like a mouthy player. What I don't like is a mouthy player who adds on being a little pr*ck on the ice.

[SouthernHockeyChick]

Man, most exciting PP I may have ever seen in TO just now. LA got a 4 minue minor and the Leafs kept it in the zone for the first 2.5 minutes and Conroy didn't have a stick for the majority of that time. Garon made some awesome saves.

Unfortunately, to clear it Conroy dove on it and threw it out so they went down 5 on 3 for a full minute and a half and TO scored. :roll:

Exciting stuff, though!

[Guyute]

Good God is Kipper making some great saves. getting some help from the posts too.... but some really solid netminding. Nitty's been good too.

10 left in the 3rd, still 0-0. good game

[Guyute]

WOW. Flyers finally got a power play, bout 6 minutes left... some great chances... no goal. minute or so later, turnover JUST inside the blue line... Gags is there to snag it, and breaks right between both defensemen.... gets off a fairly decent shot... not great, but a chance.

hauled down. thought they were going to give him a shot.. but no... another power play. 3:35 to go.

[SouthernHockeyChick]

OT and Calgary on the PP now. (stupid freakin' penalty for Knuble to take too, IMO) Only about a minute 30 left in the OT.

[SouthernHockeyChick]

Shoot out in Philly!

And I thought Mikka was gonna get up and kick Hatcher's a**!

[Guyute]

really one of the best games I've seen this season.

new rules, so more wide open... yet it's not a 7-5 game.

OMG, with 2 seconds left in OT, there's a shot that Almost gets through Kipper.
4 on 3 killed by Flyers... what a kill it was.

time for a Shoot Out.

[SouthernHockeyChick]

Yeah, it's been totally up and down but still no goals. Just proves you can still have a goal death match in the "new NHL."

[SouthernHockeyChick]

Richards broke through the Mikka wall. :D

If Nittymaki stops Amonte that's huge.

[Alicia]

Richards broke through the Mikka wall. :D

Crap! :angel:

Yay! :evil:

[Guyute]

Richards scores 5 hole! BEAUTY!!

Flames can't get one by Nitty, stones all 3.

Hell of a game. hope ours is anywhere near as entertaining

[SouthernHockeyChick]

Crap! :angel:

Yay! :evil:

I was having somewhat similar emotions. I love both Calgary and Philly.

That was a great game.

Now, off to catch the end of the Kings/Leafs game (2-1 LA, BTW)!

[Guyute]

heh, I switched to the same game.. though I did think briefly about NJ/DET.

[Alicia]

Crap! :angel:

Yay! :evil:

I was having somewhat similar emotions. I love both Calgary and Philly.


Me too! (haven't said that in a while) ;)

[SouthernHockeyChick]

heh, I switched to the same game.. though I did think briefly about NJ/DET.

Me too but get real. It's already 5-2, Clemmenson in goal. Last thing I want to watch is Detroit put on an offense exhibition, lol.

[Guyute]

lol, I didn't even check the score.

hmm, wonder if O has been demoted, or if he was sitting for injury or something? don't remember seeing him in the last half of the 3rd.
I Know I didn't see him with 40 seconds to go, extra attacker, faceoffs in the Kings zone... kind of odd.

haven't checked super stats to see.. I know he got Some ice time, because he was in on yahoo's fantasy stats. (just did nothing, par for the course lately)

[SouthernHockeyChick]

Man, it just cracks me up that the Leafs are the darling of the hockey world. I've only watching this game during the intermissions of Flames/Flyers but it seems to me to have been a perfect example of what I see from the Leafs all the time. The LA players were clearly more skilled, clearly better skaters than the Leafs but the Leafs just thugged it up enough to nearly make up for the difference. And until this last 5 minutes, the refs seemed to be letting them get away with most of it, too. Several times when I was watching I'd see TO commit a couple penalties in a row and then LA would commit one and that's the one they'd call.

2-1 LA, final score. Glad they broke that losing streak over the head of TO and not us.

[Guyute]

yeah, I really have trouble watching too many TO games... because it's like watching a fixed fight... it's horrible.
almost Every one of their games are like that. they are Always getting lopsided officiating... it's amazing.

[corylav]

anyone see DiPietro's save at the beginning of the seond period? I didn't see the replay, but he dove across the crease after a rebound and made a crazy stick save. Of course, it happened so fast it's possible the shot went wide ... but I'm 90 percent sure he got it with the stick. A beaut.

[SouthernHockeyChick]

yeah, I really have trouble watching too many TO games... because it's like watching a fixed fight... it's horrible.
almost Every one of their games are like that. they are Always getting lopsided officiating... it's amazing.

I always thought I was just being a homer when I thought that. :beatup:


I didn't see the DiPietro save. I'll have to watch for the highlight!

[Alicia]

I see that Frolov was "goaded" into 8 PIMs this game.

[puck_it]

Well of COURSE he complained about everybody on the Wings! It's the wings, it's what you do. :D


FTFY ;)

[SoCalcaniac]

Ok, it's another day in Avery-land; and I have yet another contribution to get us 'prepped' for tommorow's game vs the Kings; He really is like the little kid who needs the teacher's attention...... :crazy:


SPORTS EXTRA/KING REPORT
Avery Appears to Enjoy the AttentionBy Chris Foster
Times Staff Writer

December 7, 2005

TORONTO — Sean Avery couldn't seem to resist the glare of the spotlight one more day, ending three days of "no comment" by holding court after the Kings' morning skate Tuesday.

Of course, this came a day after Avery made a harsh non-verbal comment to a Toronto paparazzi. Avery was walking with actress Elisha Cuthbert this weekend and made an obscene gesture to the photographer. The photo ran in the Toronto Star on Tuesday.Avery later claimed he made the gesture thinking that it would prevent the photograph from being published. :laugh: :crazy:

But Avery, who had not spoken to the media since Friday morning before the Ottawa game, seemed to bask in the Toronto glow Tuesday. He was born in Pickering, Ontario, near Toronto, and his father, mother and brother attended the Kings' game against the Maple Leafs on Tuesday.

As to his recent adventure in Montreal, where he was verbally assaulted for comments he made in September about French Canadian players, Avery tried to make it all seem like a misunderstanding.

"I think some things I said got misconstrued," Avery said. "I keep reviewing them, but it is all clogging up my brain right now so I can't think."

When asked whether he heard that Kings' Coach Andy Murray had said that he was a great hockey player, Avery smiled and said, "I saw that on TV. I gave him a big hug [Tuesday]. It was our first moment in three years. It was nice."

If nothing else, Avery has picked up one admirer, teammate Jeremy Roenick, hardly a media wallflower in his own right.

"I'm enjoying watching him go, to tell you the truth," Roenick said. "He's gone places I would never, ever dare to go. He's really brash.

"I'm kind of being the buffer, when he needs someone to step in and kind of be the mediator, then I'll kind of step in and try to help him out."

Avery has watched Roenick with similar admiration.

"He's the most amazing human I've ever met," Avery said. "And for me to be astonished by a person is saying something. He does it on a daily basis."

The value of Roenick and Avery has not been lost on other Kings' players.

"We've kind of been lucky to have J.R. and Avery around the last little while because the attention has been on what they say and not how we've played," Kings' center Craig Conroy said.

The Kings have lost five of their last six games.

Toronto center and former King Jason Allison claimed that he didn't realize that the Maple Leafs were playing the Kings until Tuesday morning. While that seemed difficult to believe, Allison said Tuesday morning, "I'm really going to enjoy playing against guys I was buddies with."

Allison said the lockout gave him another year to recover from a concussion that forced him to miss all but 26 games with the Kings the last two NHL seasons.

"The last eight to 10 games I have started to feel like myself again," he said.

The lifestyle change is a radical one for Allison, who signed with Toronto in the summer. He lived in Manhattan Beach while he was with the Kings and now resides on a farm 40 miles from Toronto. The intense Toronto media scrutiny has also been a big change as well.

"You have 10 guys saying 10 different things about you," Allison said.

[PennsylvaniaCanesFan]

Here is an odd, but touching story. I posted it here, for lack of anywhere else seeming fitting.

Lilian Hosking has seen a lot in her lifetime, but the Edmonton woman had just one wish for her 101st birthday:Run her hands through the hair of Edmonton Oilers forward Ryan Smyth.According to a report in The Edmonton Sun, the woman got her wish at the Meadowcroft Senior's Residence on Monday, just one day after turning 101."It was my wish to see Smitty," Hosking told the newspaper. "I can't believe he's here. I love to watch him skate up and down the ice and bang in goals. And I love his hair. I hope he never cuts it."Smyth surprised Hosking at the seniors' home with a cake, an autographed No. 101 Oilers jersey and two puck-shaped brownies.The newspaper said Hosking hugged Smyth and ran her hand through his hair. The Oilers star began to blush.Now I'll have to bring back the Stanley Cup for you, too," Smyth told Hosking."The young fans are important because they're our future," Smyth told The Sun. "But seniors are the ones who paved the way for us to live the lives we do."Said Hosking: "I never expected this. It's really too much. It's been the best birthday of my life."

[ONeillsNo1Fan]

Awww, that's sweet. :spin:

[tommy]

Ha, that is awesome! Good story!

[Alicia]

Hmm...*starts contemplating future birthday wishes* :evil:

Good for her!

[Turbulence]

That's cute. :spin:


I want to rub Donald Brashear's bald head. :laugh:

[nccanes]

Funny article about Johnson and Crosby.

WHAT HIS FRIEND SAYS: U-M's Johnson: Sid's the ultimate competitor

December 7, 2005

BY GEORGE SIPPLE

To Michigan freshman defenseman Jack Johnson, Crosby is just Sid, his friend and former teammate.

Crosby and Johnson met in the 10th grade, when both played for Shattuck-St. Mary's, a powerhouse high school hockey team in Minnesota.

When Crosby plays against the Red Wings on Monday night, Johnson will be watching from the stands.

Johnson plans to get together with Crosby for the Penguins' morning skate. Then Johnson will head back to Ann Arbor for U-M's practice before returning to Joe Louis Arena for the game.

The two usually talk once a week. "A little bit about hockey," Johnson said. "Just normal conversations, really."

Johnson said Crosby hasn't let all the hype affect him.

"In a way, he hasn't changed at all, which is the nice thing," Johnson said. "He's still the same kid playing high school hockey as he is now playing in the NHL."

What separates Crosby from all of the others Johnson has played with and against? Crosby wants to win all the time, at whatever he does, Johnson said.

"He and I would play a pickup game of tennis and turn it into a war," Johnson said.

Even frisbee became a competition. Frisbee?

They would compete to see who would drop the pass first, Johnson said.

No site is off-limits for a competition. The friends roomed together in Ottawa for this year's NHL draft, where Crosby was selected first overall by the Penguins and Johnson was selected third overall by the Carolina Hurricanes.

"I spent the previous week up in Nova Scotia with him playing hockey, so I had to bring my hockey gear to the hotel," Johnson said. "I went to air it out and he had all his shoes on my side, and he had like 10 pairs of shoes.

"He said, 'You can't air that out, the room will stink.' I said, 'Well, move your shoes.' Things started to escalate, so I moved my hockey gear into the closet with the suit he was going to wear to the draft -- just to make him mad. He shoved me out of the way and things escalated. Turned into a pretty big wrestling match."

Johnson is listed at 6-feet-1, 210 pounds, Crosby at 5-11, 193. So who won?

"It was pretty much a draw," Johnson said. "But our room was pretty much destroyed after that.":lol:

[SouthernHockeyChick]

So, I admit I avoided a lot of the stories on Crosby around draft-time just because I was already on Sid the Kid overload. What's the story on how they ended up playing high school hockey together in the US? Meaning, why was Crosby here?

[nccanes]

Someone more versed in 'all things Crosby' probably knows, but my guess would be he only went 1 year or something and then went on to the OHL.

Isn't that the fancy schmancy boarding school that has the great hockey program. That kid that Gretzky drafted here went there as well?

[apolinar]

Yeah, it's some prep school that is a hockey star breeding ground due to the competitiveness. Supposedly puts out well-rounded kids and is good for keeping their egos in check. Kids from all over try to get in and only the most skilled do. In junior hockey you have to go to high school in addition to playing hockey and practicing, so why not go to one of the best hockey programs with a good prep school to boot. I watched a program about cros that explained the whole lure of the school.

[goalie33]

From Bucci's column this week:

Paul Kariya is the biggest diver in the league, and [Darcy] Hordichuk is the worst player in the NHL. He's an embarrassment. He can't even skate, he can't shoot and he can't pass. Just look at the stats.

:laugh:

[SouthernHockeyChick]

OK, I totally missed the "Sean Avery wrote" at first glance and I'm all like "why is Bucci bashing players?!?"

[SoCalcaniac]

E- that Article was great on Johnson & Crosby! - I remember that NHL draft show that they showed on OLN showing Crosby telling the story of all of Johnson's hockey gear being strewn all over the room and stinking upthe closet -complete with Crosby showing the piles he made of his stuff, vs the mess on Johnson's side and Crosby complaining- and cracking himself up when Johnson thought Sid did something to his toothbrush (sabatoge? he asked Crosby, after he pulled his toothbrush out of his bag "is this ok" and Crosby was like WTF?) because Crosby was so heated about the gear and he thought he 'did something' to his stuff. It was the first time I saw Crosby as a teenager- not the SuperTeen that he's had to be for the media; he was giggly, laughing, near tears at Johnson's thought that he did something to the toothbrush. LOL.

So, I admit I avoided a lot of the stories on Crosby around draft-time just because I was already on Sid the Kid overload. What's the story on how they ended up playing high school hockey together in the US? Meaning, why was Crosby here?

SHC- Shattuck St. Mary's is the school in Minnesota- Andy Murray (coach of the Kings) was the coach at that school during that time, his kid Brady went there before he graduated and is playing for the North Dakota Fighting Sioux; and Darren Pang is like on the board, has a kid their too, and does coaching clinics in the summer- apparently during that time, the Crosby family wasn't sure if he was going to do the prep school/college route, or if he'd play junior hockey...... thus the enrollment at Shattuck St. Mary's and him meeting his protector, Johnson. :laugh:

[ontheglass]

Lightning take a 1-0 vs Blues.... a TB loss would be a good thing. :D

No sooner after I hit the submit button, the Blues tied it at 1-1.

[SouthernHockeyChick]

Here is an odd, but touching story. I posted it here, for lack of anywhere else seeming fitting.

Lilian Hosking has seen a lot in her lifetime, but the Edmonton woman had just one wish for her 101st birthday:Run her hands through the hair of Edmonton Oilers forward Ryan Smyth.According to a report in The Edmonton Sun, the woman got her wish at the Meadowcroft Senior's Residence on Monday, just one day after turning 101."It was my wish to see Smitty," Hosking told the newspaper. "I can't believe he's here. I love to watch him skate up and down the ice and bang in goals. And I love his hair. I hope he never cuts it."Smyth surprised Hosking at the seniors' home with a cake, an autographed No. 101 Oilers jersey and two puck-shaped brownies.The newspaper said Hosking hugged Smyth and ran her hand through his hair. The Oilers star began to blush.Now I'll have to bring back the Stanley Cup for you, too," Smyth told Hosking."The young fans are important because they're our future," Smyth told The Sun. "But seniors are the ones who paved the way for us to live the lives we do."Said Hosking: "I never expected this. It's really too much. It's been the best birthday of my life."


They just showed scenes from her party (and her running her hands through his hair) on the Oilers broadcast of the game tonight. That is so cool!!

[SouthernHockeyChick]

Lightning take a 1-0 vs Blues.... a TB loss would be a good thing. :D

No sooner after I hit the submit button, the Blues tied it at 1-1.

It's 3-2 Blues now. :eek2:

C'mon Blues!

[ontheglass]

Oh Sh*t. TB 4-3.

[tommy]

rangers all over the preds, 5-0 after 2. pretty much kills my chances of making some $$. (i did a 4-game pick that would have turned $10 into $60, and thats the only game thats not going my way...)

[apolinar]

Anyone watch the Wild Pens game tonight? Orpik almost took off Chouinard's head just minutes before the 5 min mark of the third period. I forget who but like a good team player should one of the wild Instigated with Orpik in the last 3 minutes and of course will likely get a fine and a game suspension. Coach Lemaire will likely get fined too. But I don't know how else you keep the game in control.

Chouinard almost gets taken out for the season and possibly career in a game his team has handily won (and embarrassed the pens) and Orpik gets 2 minutes despite the severity of the hit. This instigator rule, and fine and suspension rule has got to go. I predicted it, this rule becomes a bad thing when a team is losing badly and someone starts getting chippy like orpik did when his team was down 5 nothing. The refs called the appropriate penalty. The wild and pens never meet again during the regular season but Orpik needed to get cleaned for threatening the career of another player like that. The Wild should not get fined because if they didn't do this, the next time orpik plays the canes he may think about doing the same thing on Eric Staal.

[SoCalcaniac]

The Wild should not get fined because if they didn't do this, the next time orpik plays the canes he may think about doing the same thing on Eric Staal.
Well Ap- I watched that game too and totally agree with ya, but...... I hate to be the bearer of bad news.......

Sports Ticker
Wild's Wanvig Suspended- Lemaire Fined
12/9/2005 5:25:29 PM

TORONTO (Ticker) - Minnesota Wild right wing has become the latest player to be suspended for instigating an altercation within the final five minutes of a game.

On Friday, the NHL suspended Wanvig one game without pay and fined coach Jacques Lemaire $10,000 following an incident in Thursday's game against the Pittsburgh Penguins.

With 3:35 left in the Wild's eventual 5-0 triumph, Wanvig instigated a fight with Penguins defenseman Brooks Orpik. By rule, a player deemed the instigator of an altercation in the final five minutes of regulation or during overtime will receive an automatic one-game suspension.

Wanvig, who has two goals, five assists and 38 penalty minutes in 23 games this season, will miss Saturday's game against the Philadelphia Flyers and forfeit $2,521.51.

On Saturday, Ottawa Senators defenseman Zdeno Chara was suspended for instigating a fight in the final five minutes of last Friday's win over the Los Angeles Kings and was suspended for Monday's game against the Florida Panthers.

[SoCalcaniac]

The Wild should not get fined because if they didn't do this, the next time orpik plays the canes he may think about doing the same thing on Eric Staal.
Well Ap- I watched that game too and totally agree with ya, but...... I hate to be the bearer of bad news.......

Sports Ticker
Wild's Wanvig Suspended- Lemaire Fined
12/9/2005 5:25:29 PM

TORONTO (Ticker) - Minnesota Wild right wing has become the latest player to be suspended for instigating an altercation within the final five minutes of a game.

On Friday, the NHL suspended Wanvig one game without pay and fined coach Jacques Lemaire $10,000 following an incident in Thursday's game against the Pittsburgh Penguins.

With 3:35 left in the Wild's eventual 5-0 triumph, Wanvig instigated a fight with Penguins defenseman Brooks Orpik. By rule, a player deemed the instigator of an altercation in the final five minutes of regulation or during overtime will receive an automatic one-game suspension.

Wanvig, who has two goals, five assists and 38 penalty minutes in 23 games this season, will miss Saturday's game against the Philadelphia Flyers and forfeit $2,521.51.

On Saturday, Ottawa Senators defenseman Zdeno Chara was suspended for instigating a fight in the final five minutes of last Friday's win over the Los Angeles Kings and was suspended for Monday's game against the Florida Panthers.

[SoCalcaniac]

The Wild should not get fined because if they didn't do this, the next time orpik plays the canes he may think about doing the same thing on Eric Staal.
Well Ap- I watched that game too and totally agree with ya, but...... I hate to be the bearer of bad news.......

Sports Ticker
Wild's Wanvig Suspended- Lemaire Fined
12/9/2005 5:25:29 PM

TORONTO (Ticker) - Minnesota Wild right wing has become the latest player to be suspended for instigating an altercation within the final five minutes of a game.

On Friday, the NHL suspended Wanvig one game without pay and fined coach Jacques Lemaire $10,000 following an incident in Thursday's game against the Pittsburgh Penguins.

With 3:35 left in the Wild's eventual 5-0 triumph, Wanvig instigated a fight with Penguins defenseman Brooks Orpik. By rule, a player deemed the instigator of an altercation in the final five minutes of regulation or during overtime will receive an automatic one-game suspension.

Wanvig, who has two goals, five assists and 38 penalty minutes in 23 games this season, will miss Saturday's game against the Philadelphia Flyers and forfeit $2,521.51.

On Saturday, Ottawa Senators defenseman Zdeno Chara was suspended for instigating a fight in the final five minutes of last Friday's win over the Los Angeles Kings and was suspended for Monday's game against the Florida Panthers.

[tommy]

http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/recap?gameId=251209022

The 'Nucks take down Ottawa in a shootout!

[tommy]

http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/recap?gameId=251209022

The 'Nucks take down Ottawa in a shootout!

[tommy]

http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/recap?gameId=251209022

The 'Nucks take down Ottawa in a shootout!

[SouthernHockeyChick]

Anyone else see the Darcy Tucker v. Steve Ott fight tonight? Awesome match!!

Ott has quite a bit of size on him but Tucker has enough psychosis or, as much as I hate to say it out-loud, possibly heart to make up for it. Very entertaining!

[SouthernHockeyChick]

Anyone else see the Darcy Tucker v. Steve Ott fight tonight? Awesome match!!

Ott has quite a bit of size on him but Tucker has enough psychosis or, as much as I hate to say it out-loud, possibly heart to make up for it. Very entertaining!

[SouthernHockeyChick]

Anyone else see the Darcy Tucker v. Steve Ott fight tonight? Awesome match!!

Ott has quite a bit of size on him but Tucker has enough psychosis or, as much as I hate to say it out-loud, possibly heart to make up for it. Very entertaining!

[tommy]

Crap, Senators lose again, in OT!

[tommy]

Crap, Senators lose again, in OT!

[tommy]

Crap, Senators lose again, in OT!

[SoCalcaniac]

Anyone else see the Darcy Tucker v. Steve Ott fight tonight? Awesome match!!

Ott has quite a bit of size on him but Tucker has enough psychosis or, as much as I hate to say it out-loud, possibly heart to make up for it. Very entertaining!

Yeah, that was entrtaining SHC- especially after Tucker went into the penalty box, sat down and simulated "shooting" (i.e. bang, bang) at Ott with his fingers :lol: . He's made me laugh out loud, he's that damn entertaining, much like a car accident where you must look just out of curiosity- and the blood streaming down his forehead also adds to the Darcy lore........ ;)

[SoCalcaniac]

Anyone else see the Darcy Tucker v. Steve Ott fight tonight? Awesome match!!

Ott has quite a bit of size on him but Tucker has enough psychosis or, as much as I hate to say it out-loud, possibly heart to make up for it. Very entertaining!

Yeah, that was entrtaining SHC- especially after Tucker went into the penalty box, sat down and simulated "shooting" (i.e. bang, bang) at Ott with his fingers :lol: . He's made me laugh out loud, he's that damn entertaining, much like a car accident where you must look just out of curiosity- and the blood streaming down his forehead also adds to the Darcy lore........ ;)

[SoCalcaniac]

Anyone else see the Darcy Tucker v. Steve Ott fight tonight? Awesome match!!

Ott has quite a bit of size on him but Tucker has enough psychosis or, as much as I hate to say it out-loud, possibly heart to make up for it. Very entertaining!

Yeah, that was entrtaining SHC- especially after Tucker went into the penalty box, sat down and simulated "shooting" (i.e. bang, bang) at Ott with his fingers :lol: . He's made me laugh out loud, he's that damn entertaining, much like a car accident where you must look just out of curiosity- and the blood streaming down his forehead also adds to the Darcy lore........ ;)

[Guyute]

I just have to pop in to say "Welcome back Peter!!!" (Forsberg)
(1g, 1a in a 3-2 win on Sat)

that is all. :D

[Guyute]

I just have to pop in to say "Welcome back Peter!!!" (Forsberg)
(1g, 1a in a 3-2 win on Sat)

that is all. :D

[Guyute]

I just have to pop in to say "Welcome back Peter!!!" (Forsberg)
(1g, 1a in a 3-2 win on Sat)

that is all. :D

[SouthernHockeyChick]

Not a game, but OLN has a special about Darren McCarty's return to Detroit with Calgary this year on right now. Started at 6:30.

They are also running a special on Mario Lemeiux after the Pens/Wings game tonight.

[SouthernHockeyChick]

Not a game, but OLN has a special about Darren McCarty's return to Detroit with Calgary this year on right now. Started at 6:30.

They are also running a special on Mario Lemeiux after the Pens/Wings game tonight.

[SouthernHockeyChick]

Not a game, but OLN has a special about Darren McCarty's return to Detroit with Calgary this year on right now. Started at 6:30.

They are also running a special on Mario Lemeiux after the Pens/Wings game tonight.

[StormShaman]

Not a game, but OLN has a special about Darren McCarty's return to Detroit with Calgary this year on right now. Started at 6:30.

Too bad the TV's in use right now. :(

[StormShaman]

Not a game, but OLN has a special about Darren McCarty's return to Detroit with Calgary this year on right now. Started at 6:30.

Too bad the TV's in use right now. :(

[StormShaman]

Not a game, but OLN has a special about Darren McCarty's return to Detroit with Calgary this year on right now. Started at 6:30.

Too bad the TV's in use right now. :(

[SouthernHockeyChick]

Hey! Detroit is copying our Dad's weekend idea!! They're going on a road trip with the players just like they did here. No credit given to Lavi for the idea, of course. Losers.

[SouthernHockeyChick]

Hey! Detroit is copying our Dad's weekend idea!! They're going on a road trip with the players just like they did here. No credit given to Lavi for the idea, of course. Losers.

[SouthernHockeyChick]

Hey! Detroit is copying our Dad's weekend idea!! They're going on a road trip with the players just like they did here. No credit given to Lavi for the idea, of course. Losers.

[StormShaman]

Hey! Detroit is copying our Dad's weekend idea!! They're going on a road trip with the players just like they did here. No credit given to Lavi for the idea, of course. Losers.

Actually, credit should be given to the Nashville Predators--they've been doing it for years (with great success), and Lavi copied the idea from them. :)

[StormShaman]

Hey! Detroit is copying our Dad's weekend idea!! They're going on a road trip with the players just like they did here. No credit given to Lavi for the idea, of course. Losers.

Actually, credit should be given to the Nashville Predators--they've been doing it for years (with great success), and Lavi copied the idea from them. :)

[StormShaman]

Hey! Detroit is copying our Dad's weekend idea!! They're going on a road trip with the players just like they did here. No credit given to Lavi for the idea, of course. Losers.

Actually, credit should be given to the Nashville Predators--they've been doing it for years (with great success), and Lavi copied the idea from them. :)

[SouthernHockeyChick]

Hey! Detroit is copying our Dad's weekend idea!! They're going on a road trip with the players just like they did here. No credit given to Lavi for the idea, of course. Losers.

Actually, credit should be given to the Nashville Predators--they've been doing it for years (with great success), and Lavi copied the idea from them. :)

Details, details. ;)


It's an absolute miracle of a goalie-god that the Wings are only beating the Pens 3-0. They've outshot them 39 to 12!! It's insane. Fleury has played so well.

[SouthernHockeyChick]

Hey! Detroit is copying our Dad's weekend idea!! They're going on a road trip with the players just like they did here. No credit given to Lavi for the idea, of course. Losers.

Actually, credit should be given to the Nashville Predators--they've been doing it for years (with great success), and Lavi copied the idea from them. :)

Details, details. ;)


It's an absolute miracle of a goalie-god that the Wings are only beating the Pens 3-0. They've outshot them 39 to 12!! It's insane. Fleury has played so well.

[SouthernHockeyChick]

Hey! Detroit is copying our Dad's weekend idea!! They're going on a road trip with the players just like they did here. No credit given to Lavi for the idea, of course. Losers.

Actually, credit should be given to the Nashville Predators--they've been doing it for years (with great success), and Lavi copied the idea from them. :)

Details, details. ;)


It's an absolute miracle of a goalie-god that the Wings are only beating the Pens 3-0. They've outshot them 39 to 12!! It's insane. Fleury has played so well.

[tommy]

And honestly, in the third period, the Pens overall looked just as good, if not better, than the Wings. Just couldn't muster the shots. Fleury is incredible.

[tommy]

And honestly, in the third period, the Pens overall looked just as good, if not better, than the Wings. Just couldn't muster the shots. Fleury is incredible.

[tommy]

And honestly, in the third period, the Pens overall looked just as good, if not better, than the Wings. Just couldn't muster the shots. Fleury is incredible.

[corylav]

Hey! Detroit is copying our Dad's weekend idea!! They're going on a road trip with the players just like they did here. No credit given to Lavi for the idea, of course. Losers.

Actually, credit should be given to the Nashville Predators--they've been doing it for years (with great success), and Lavi copied the idea from them. :)

I recall Lavi saying he did it on Long Island

*shrug*

Pens are so bad ... I can't believe they're on for OLN game another 132 times this year ;)

[corylav]

Hey! Detroit is copying our Dad's weekend idea!! They're going on a road trip with the players just like they did here. No credit given to Lavi for the idea, of course. Losers.

Actually, credit should be given to the Nashville Predators--they've been doing it for years (with great success), and Lavi copied the idea from them. :)

I recall Lavi saying he did it on Long Island

*shrug*

Pens are so bad ... I can't believe they're on for OLN game another 132 times this year ;)

[corylav]

Hey! Detroit is copying our Dad's weekend idea!! They're going on a road trip with the players just like they did here. No credit given to Lavi for the idea, of course. Losers.

Actually, credit should be given to the Nashville Predators--they've been doing it for years (with great success), and Lavi copied the idea from them. :)

I recall Lavi saying he did it on Long Island

*shrug*

Pens are so bad ... I can't believe they're on for OLN game another 132 times this year ;)

[Lady J]

Not a game, but OLN has a special about Darren McCarty's return to Detroit with Calgary this year on right now. Started at 6:30.

They are also running a special on Mario Lemeiux after the Pens/Wings game tonight.

RATS! I missed that! :mad: I've been looking forward to this game for over a week ( a non-Center Ice subscriber :( ) and I forgot! Fie! I only made it in for the last period.

*sigh* Go Wings. :|

[Lady J]

Not a game, but OLN has a special about Darren McCarty's return to Detroit with Calgary this year on right now. Started at 6:30.

They are also running a special on Mario Lemeiux after the Pens/Wings game tonight.

RATS! I missed that! :mad: I've been looking forward to this game for over a week ( a non-Center Ice subscriber :( ) and I forgot! Fie! I only made it in for the last period.

*sigh* Go Wings. :|

[Lady J]

Not a game, but OLN has a special about Darren McCarty's return to Detroit with Calgary this year on right now. Started at 6:30.

They are also running a special on Mario Lemeiux after the Pens/Wings game tonight.

RATS! I missed that! :mad: I've been looking forward to this game for over a week ( a non-Center Ice subscriber :( ) and I forgot! Fie! I only made it in for the last period.

*sigh* Go Wings. :|

[SouthernHockeyChick]

LMAO, the play-by-play guy in Ottawa keeps calling Colorado Carolina. It's cracking me up! I guess those 2 losses have just haunted him!! :lol:


I'm sorry you missed the game, J. :sad:

[SouthernHockeyChick]

LMAO, the play-by-play guy in Ottawa keeps calling Colorado Carolina. It's cracking me up! I guess those 2 losses have just haunted him!! :lol:


I'm sorry you missed the game, J. :sad:

[SouthernHockeyChick]

LMAO, the play-by-play guy in Ottawa keeps calling Colorado Carolina. It's cracking me up! I guess those 2 losses have just haunted him!! :lol:


I'm sorry you missed the game, J. :sad:

[Lady J]

LMAO, the play-by-play guy in Ottawa keeps calling Colorado Carolina. It's cracking me up! I guess those 2 losses have just haunted him!! :lol:


I'm sorry you missed the game, J. :sad:

:kiss: You'll have to tell me all about how engaging and riveting Dman was.

[Lady J]

LMAO, the play-by-play guy in Ottawa keeps calling Colorado Carolina. It's cracking me up! I guess those 2 losses have just haunted him!! :lol:


I'm sorry you missed the game, J. :sad:

:kiss: You'll have to tell me all about how engaging and riveting Dman was.

[Lady J]

LMAO, the play-by-play guy in Ottawa keeps calling Colorado Carolina. It's cracking me up! I guess those 2 losses have just haunted him!! :lol:


I'm sorry you missed the game, J. :sad:

:kiss: You'll have to tell me all about how engaging and riveting Dman was.

[corylav]

Looks like the top three picks from 2003 are all living up to their billing now. Staal, of course, has been amazing; Fleury, while getting pelted with rubber, has looked amazing for the Pens; and Nathan Horton got his first career hat trick last night (and if anyone saw the highlights ... wow, they were beauties) and quietly has 14 goals already (in only 22 games).

[corylav]

Looks like the top three picks from 2003 are all living up to their billing now. Staal, of course, has been amazing; Fleury, while getting pelted with rubber, has looked amazing for the Pens; and Nathan Horton got his first career hat trick last night (and if anyone saw the highlights ... wow, they were beauties) and quietly has 14 goals already (in only 22 games).

[corylav]

Looks like the top three picks from 2003 are all living up to their billing now. Staal, of course, has been amazing; Fleury, while getting pelted with rubber, has looked amazing for the Pens; and Nathan Horton got his first career hat trick last night (and if anyone saw the highlights ... wow, they were beauties) and quietly has 14 goals already (in only 22 games).

[nccanes]

I saw that Fla/Nsh score last night and was like "whaaaa?". Heard this morning on XM that Voukon's backup pulled something in the warmup and they had to use their AHL backup callup. Tough night. I think they said he still stopped 33 shots or something? Nice job by the NSH D to help him out, lol.

With only one healthy goalie, D Jamie Allison dressed as Finley's backup

:laugh: :eek2:

[nccanes]

I saw that Fla/Nsh score last night and was like "whaaaa?". Heard this morning on XM that Voukon's backup pulled something in the warmup and they had to use their AHL backup callup. Tough night. I think they said he still stopped 33 shots or something? Nice job by the NSH D to help him out, lol.

With only one healthy goalie, D Jamie Allison dressed as Finley's backup

:laugh: :eek2:

[nccanes]

I saw that Fla/Nsh score last night and was like "whaaaa?". Heard this morning on XM that Voukon's backup pulled something in the warmup and they had to use their AHL backup callup. Tough night. I think they said he still stopped 33 shots or something? Nice job by the NSH D to help him out, lol.

With only one healthy goalie, D Jamie Allison dressed as Finley's backup

:laugh: :eek2:

[corylav]

With only one healthy goalie, D Jamie Allison dressed as Finley's backup

:laugh: :eek2:

ESPN showed him on the bench, acting all funny, laughing it up. I would've loved to see him in there. Like a position player pitching in baseball.

[corylav]

With only one healthy goalie, D Jamie Allison dressed as Finley's backup

:laugh: :eek2:

ESPN showed him on the bench, acting all funny, laughing it up. I would've loved to see him in there. Like a position player pitching in baseball.

[corylav]

With only one healthy goalie, D Jamie Allison dressed as Finley's backup

:laugh: :eek2:

ESPN showed him on the bench, acting all funny, laughing it up. I would've loved to see him in there. Like a position player pitching in baseball.

[Alicia]

OK, at 4:55 into the 1st period, Avery goes with Tyler Wright to get a 10 min. misconduct...:roll:

[Alicia]

OK, at 4:55 into the 1st period, Avery goes with Tyler Wright to get a 10 min. misconduct...:roll:

[Alicia]

OK, at 4:55 into the 1st period, Avery goes with Tyler Wright to get a 10 min. misconduct...:roll:

[tommy]

Tied at 3-3 with the Bolts, the Wings scored 3 in the third to win 6-3!!

Sens beat the Leafs 8-2. SIX PP goals for Ottawa. Damn. They are unstoppable.

Also, 5 minutes into the game Calgary is up 3-0 on Boston.

[tommy]

Tied at 3-3 with the Bolts, the Wings scored 3 in the third to win 6-3!!

Sens beat the Leafs 8-2. SIX PP goals for Ottawa. Damn. They are unstoppable.

Also, 5 minutes into the game Calgary is up 3-0 on Boston.

[tommy]

Tied at 3-3 with the Bolts, the Wings scored 3 in the third to win 6-3!!

Sens beat the Leafs 8-2. SIX PP goals for Ottawa. Damn. They are unstoppable.

Also, 5 minutes into the game Calgary is up 3-0 on Boston.

[SoCalcaniac]

This is my friggin Christmas present right here- (on top of the Canes rolling ways....) Warms the heart eh??? :D


Senators use power play to rout Leafs

Canadian Press

12/17/2005 10:18:08 PM

OTTAWA (CP) - After being embarrassed 8-0 the last time they faced the Ottawa Senators, the Toronto Maple Leafs fared only slightly better Saturday.

Toronto's frequent trips to the penalty box and poor penalty killing allowed the Senators to ring up a franchise-record six power-play goals en route to an 8-2 in front of 19,953, the largest-ever crowd at the Corel Centre.

''We started to take penalties and obviously we weren't doing a very good job of killing them, that's why the score was embarrassing as it is,'' Leafs coach Pat Quinn said. ''They're a skilled team and if you take penalties and then miss a lot of plays like we did tonight, then you get the kind of result that we got.''

Dany Heatley, Wade Redden, Jason Spezza, Daniel Alfredsson, Antoine Vermette and Chris Kelly all scored with the man advantage as the Senators finished 6-for-11 on the power play to eclipse the team's previous high of five power-play goals set in 2003.

''The power play's been up and down a bit the whole year, so we got a few more tonight,'' said Redden, who, along with Spezza and Alfredsson, also had a pair of assists.

Mike Fisher broke a 1-1 tie with the teams playing four-aside hockey in the second period and then Senators took over from there, jumping to an eventual 4-1 lead heading into the final frame.

Bryan Smolinski also scored for Ottawa (23-5-2). The win allowed the Senators to break out of a mini-slump in which they had won just one of their four previous contests and improve to 4-0 on the year against Toronto (16-13-3).

Dominik Hasek stopped 27 shots in goal.

''We capitalized big tonight,'' Alfredsson said. ''We skated better than we have in a while. We moved the puck well and we were taking the shots when we had them as well. It was clicking pretty good. We did a lot of good things tonight to make it tough on them.''

While Redden was back in the lineup for the first time after missing the past 10 games with a sprained knee, the Leafs were without the injured Eric Lindros (wrist), Tie Domi (shoulder) and Nik Antropov (knee).

Mariusz Czerkawski, with his first goal as a Leaf since signing as an unrestricted free agent in September, scored on a power play and Bryan McCabe had the other Toronto marker.

The Leafs went 1-for-6 with the man advantage.

Ed Belfour, looking to move past Terry Sawchuk on the NHL's all-time goaltending wins list, failed to do so for the fifth straight start. He made 35 saves, but hasn't won since Nov. 28 and remains stuck at 447 career victories.

Toronto has just one win in its last five outings and two victories in the past seven games.

''It was very frustrating. Too many penalties on our part and things went their way,'' said Belfour, who gave up five goals on 15 shots in the 8-0 defeat at the Air Canada Centre on Oct. 29. ''It seems like they have some really good games against us. I don't think the refs helped us too much tonight.''

Belfour's frustration spilled over late in the game when he took a swing at Spezza following a whistle, sparking a fight between Spezza and Colaiacovo.

Spezza was given an instigator penalty for the fight with 3:36 remaining, which means he'll receive an automatic one-game suspension and Senators coach Bryan Murray will be fined $10,000. It's the second time this month that's happened after Zdeno Chara met the same fate against the Los Angeles Kings on Dec. 2.

Spezza felt he was speared (speared by Belfour? No Way! :roll) during the incident and is hoping the automatic suspension might be reviewed by the league and overturned under the circumstances.

''I was pretty angry,'' he said. ''Nobody takes any liberties on me. I wasn't really thinking about (the suspension).'' that Spezza kid is gutsy...

The Senators also received a blow when rookie right-winger Brandon Bochenski crashed into the boards in the second period and left the game with an injury to his right shoulder and didn't return. His status wasn't immediately known.

Czerkawski, who signed with Toronto for $500,000 U.S., hadn't dressed since Nov. 25 and was playing for just the eighth time this season because of injury and general ineffectiveness.

After finding the back of the net in the NHL for the first time since April 2, 2004, he stood in one spot and tilted his head back, screaming and pumping his fists.

The celebrations didn't last after the Leafs took three straight minor penalties before the first was over, however, and on the final opportunity with the man advantage, Heatley had several whacks at a rebound before finally lifting it over Belfour to tie the game.

In the second, Toronto ran into more penalty trouble and, after Fisher was left alone in front to take a pass from Bryan Smolinski and put the Senators ahead 2-1, eight minutes in, Redden and Spezza each capitalized on power-play opportunities to make it 4-1.

McCabe and Smolinski, from an extreme angle, exchanged goals 37 seconds apart early in the third before Alfredsson and Vermette scored, the first coming with the Leafs two men short and the second before the latter penalty had expired.

Kelly rounded at the scoring with 18 seconds to go.

''I had some mixed feelings. Coming back, I got so excited, then we lose again, eight goals,'' Czerkawski said. ''We thought we played pretty well and it was 1-1, then those power-play goals for them.''

Notes: With Martin Havlat out for at least the remainder of the regular season with a shoulder injury, Ottawa also made healthy scratches of defenceman Christoph Schubert and right-winger Patrick Eaves, both rookies ... The Senators are 13-1-0 versus Northeast Divison opponents ... Tough guys Wade Belak for Toronto and Brian McGrattan for Ottawa both suited up after being made a healthy scratch in their teams' last games ... The Senators are in Montreal on Tuesday ... The Leafs play host to the New York Islanders on Monday night.

[SoCalcaniac]

This is my friggin Christmas present right here- (on top of the Canes rolling ways....) Warms the heart eh??? :D


Senators use power play to rout Leafs

Canadian Press

12/17/2005 10:18:08 PM

OTTAWA (CP) - After being embarrassed 8-0 the last time they faced the Ottawa Senators, the Toronto Maple Leafs fared only slightly better Saturday.

Toronto's frequent trips to the penalty box and poor penalty killing allowed the Senators to ring up a franchise-record six power-play goals en route to an 8-2 in front of 19,953, the largest-ever crowd at the Corel Centre.

''We started to take penalties and obviously we weren't doing a very good job of killing them, that's why the score was embarrassing as it is,'' Leafs coach Pat Quinn said. ''They're a skilled team and if you take penalties and then miss a lot of plays like we did tonight, then you get the kind of result that we got.''

Dany Heatley, Wade Redden, Jason Spezza, Daniel Alfredsson, Antoine Vermette and Chris Kelly all scored with the man advantage as the Senators finished 6-for-11 on the power play to eclipse the team's previous high of five power-play goals set in 2003.

''The power play's been up and down a bit the whole year, so we got a few more tonight,'' said Redden, who, along with Spezza and Alfredsson, also had a pair of assists.

Mike Fisher broke a 1-1 tie with the teams playing four-aside hockey in the second period and then Senators took over from there, jumping to an eventual 4-1 lead heading into the final frame.

Bryan Smolinski also scored for Ottawa (23-5-2). The win allowed the Senators to break out of a mini-slump in which they had won just one of their four previous contests and improve to 4-0 on the year against Toronto (16-13-3).

Dominik Hasek stopped 27 shots in goal.

''We capitalized big tonight,'' Alfredsson said. ''We skated better than we have in a while. We moved the puck well and we were taking the shots when we had them as well. It was clicking pretty good. We did a lot of good things tonight to make it tough on them.''

While Redden was back in the lineup for the first time after missing the past 10 games with a sprained knee, the Leafs were without the injured Eric Lindros (wrist), Tie Domi (shoulder) and Nik Antropov (knee).

Mariusz Czerkawski, with his first goal as a Leaf since signing as an unrestricted free agent in September, scored on a power play and Bryan McCabe had the other Toronto marker.

The Leafs went 1-for-6 with the man advantage.

Ed Belfour, looking to move past Terry Sawchuk on the NHL's all-time goaltending wins list, failed to do so for the fifth straight start. He made 35 saves, but hasn't won since Nov. 28 and remains stuck at 447 career victories.

Toronto has just one win in its last five outings and two victories in the past seven games.

''It was very frustrating. Too many penalties on our part and things went their way,'' said Belfour, who gave up five goals on 15 shots in the 8-0 defeat at the Air Canada Centre on Oct. 29. ''It seems like they have some really good games against us. I don't think the refs helped us too much tonight.''

Belfour's frustration spilled over late in the game when he took a swing at Spezza following a whistle, sparking a fight between Spezza and Colaiacovo.

Spezza was given an instigator penalty for the fight with 3:36 remaining, which means he'll receive an automatic one-game suspension and Senators coach Bryan Murray will be fined $10,000. It's the second time this month that's happened after Zdeno Chara met the same fate against the Los Angeles Kings on Dec. 2.

Spezza felt he was speared (speared by Belfour? No Way! :roll) during the incident and is hoping the automatic suspension might be reviewed by the league and overturned under the circumstances.

''I was pretty angry,'' he said. ''Nobody takes any liberties on me. I wasn't really thinking about (the suspension).'' that Spezza kid is gutsy...

The Senators also received a blow when rookie right-winger Brandon Bochenski crashed into the boards in the second period and left the game with an injury to his right shoulder and didn't return. His status wasn't immediately known.

Czerkawski, who signed with Toronto for $500,000 U.S., hadn't dressed since Nov. 25 and was playing for just the eighth time this season because of injury and general ineffectiveness.

After finding the back of the net in the NHL for the first time since April 2, 2004, he stood in one spot and tilted his head back, screaming and pumping his fists.

The celebrations didn't last after the Leafs took three straight minor penalties before the first was over, however, and on the final opportunity with the man advantage, Heatley had several whacks at a rebound before finally lifting it over Belfour to tie the game.

In the second, Toronto ran into more penalty trouble and, after Fisher was left alone in front to take a pass from Bryan Smolinski and put the Senators ahead 2-1, eight minutes in, Redden and Spezza each capitalized on power-play opportunities to make it 4-1.

McCabe and Smolinski, from an extreme angle, exchanged goals 37 seconds apart early in the third before Alfredsson and Vermette scored, the first coming with the Leafs two men short and the second before the latter penalty had expired.

Kelly rounded at the scoring with 18 seconds to go.

''I had some mixed feelings. Coming back, I got so excited, then we lose again, eight goals,'' Czerkawski said. ''We thought we played pretty well and it was 1-1, then those power-play goals for them.''

Notes: With Martin Havlat out for at least the remainder of the regular season with a shoulder injury, Ottawa also made healthy scratches of defenceman Christoph Schubert and right-winger Patrick Eaves, both rookies ... The Senators are 13-1-0 versus Northeast Divison opponents ... Tough guys Wade Belak for Toronto and Brian McGrattan for Ottawa both suited up after being made a healthy scratch in their teams' last games ... The Senators are in Montreal on Tuesday ... The Leafs play host to the New York Islanders on Monday night.

[SoCalcaniac]

This is my friggin Christmas present right here- (on top of the Canes rolling ways....) Warms the heart eh??? :D


Senators use power play to rout Leafs

Canadian Press

12/17/2005 10:18:08 PM

OTTAWA (CP) - After being embarrassed 8-0 the last time they faced the Ottawa Senators, the Toronto Maple Leafs fared only slightly better Saturday.

Toronto's frequent trips to the penalty box and poor penalty killing allowed the Senators to ring up a franchise-record six power-play goals en route to an 8-2 in front of 19,953, the largest-ever crowd at the Corel Centre.

''We started to take penalties and obviously we weren't doing a very good job of killing them, that's why the score was embarrassing as it is,'' Leafs coach Pat Quinn said. ''They're a skilled team and if you take penalties and then miss a lot of plays like we did tonight, then you get the kind of result that we got.''

Dany Heatley, Wade Redden, Jason Spezza, Daniel Alfredsson, Antoine Vermette and Chris Kelly all scored with the man advantage as the Senators finished 6-for-11 on the power play to eclipse the team's previous high of five power-play goals set in 2003.

''The power play's been up and down a bit the whole year, so we got a few more tonight,'' said Redden, who, along with Spezza and Alfredsson, also had a pair of assists.

Mike Fisher broke a 1-1 tie with the teams playing four-aside hockey in the second period and then Senators took over from there, jumping to an eventual 4-1 lead heading into the final frame.

Bryan Smolinski also scored for Ottawa (23-5-2). The win allowed the Senators to break out of a mini-slump in which they had won just one of their four previous contests and improve to 4-0 on the year against Toronto (16-13-3).

Dominik Hasek stopped 27 shots in goal.

''We capitalized big tonight,'' Alfredsson said. ''We skated better than we have in a while. We moved the puck well and we were taking the shots when we had them as well. It was clicking pretty good. We did a lot of good things tonight to make it tough on them.''

While Redden was back in the lineup for the first time after missing the past 10 games with a sprained knee, the Leafs were without the injured Eric Lindros (wrist), Tie Domi (shoulder) and Nik Antropov (knee).

Mariusz Czerkawski, with his first goal as a Leaf since signing as an unrestricted free agent in September, scored on a power play and Bryan McCabe had the other Toronto marker.

The Leafs went 1-for-6 with the man advantage.

Ed Belfour, looking to move past Terry Sawchuk on the NHL's all-time goaltending wins list, failed to do so for the fifth straight start. He made 35 saves, but hasn't won since Nov. 28 and remains stuck at 447 career victories.

Toronto has just one win in its last five outings and two victories in the past seven games.

''It was very frustrating. Too many penalties on our part and things went their way,'' said Belfour, who gave up five goals on 15 shots in the 8-0 defeat at the Air Canada Centre on Oct. 29. ''It seems like they have some really good games against us. I don't think the refs helped us too much tonight.''

Belfour's frustration spilled over late in the game when he took a swing at Spezza following a whistle, sparking a fight between Spezza and Colaiacovo.

Spezza was given an instigator penalty for the fight with 3:36 remaining, which means he'll receive an automatic one-game suspension and Senators coach Bryan Murray will be fined $10,000. It's the second time this month that's happened after Zdeno Chara met the same fate against the Los Angeles Kings on Dec. 2.

Spezza felt he was speared (speared by Belfour? No Way! :roll) during the incident and is hoping the automatic suspension might be reviewed by the league and overturned under the circumstances.

''I was pretty angry,'' he said. ''Nobody takes any liberties on me. I wasn't really thinking about (the suspension).'' that Spezza kid is gutsy...

The Senators also received a blow when rookie right-winger Brandon Bochenski crashed into the boards in the second period and left the game with an injury to his right shoulder and didn't return. His status wasn't immediately known.

Czerkawski, who signed with Toronto for $500,000 U.S., hadn't dressed since Nov. 25 and was playing for just the eighth time this season because of injury and general ineffectiveness.

After finding the back of the net in the NHL for the first time since April 2, 2004, he stood in one spot and tilted his head back, screaming and pumping his fists.

The celebrations didn't last after the Leafs took three straight minor penalties before the first was over, however, and on the final opportunity with the man advantage, Heatley had several whacks at a rebound before finally lifting it over Belfour to tie the game.

In the second, Toronto ran into more penalty trouble and, after Fisher was left alone in front to take a pass from Bryan Smolinski and put the Senators ahead 2-1, eight minutes in, Redden and Spezza each capitalized on power-play opportunities to make it 4-1.

McCabe and Smolinski, from an extreme angle, exchanged goals 37 seconds apart early in the third before Alfredsson and Vermette scored, the first coming with the Leafs two men short and the second before the latter penalty had expired.

Kelly rounded at the scoring with 18 seconds to go.

''I had some mixed feelings. Coming back, I got so excited, then we lose again, eight goals,'' Czerkawski said. ''We thought we played pretty well and it was 1-1, then those power-play goals for them.''

Notes: With Martin Havlat out for at least the remainder of the regular season with a shoulder injury, Ottawa also made healthy scratches of defenceman Christoph Schubert and right-winger Patrick Eaves, both rookies ... The Senators are 13-1-0 versus Northeast Divison opponents ... Tough guys Wade Belak for Toronto and Brian McGrattan for Ottawa both suited up after being made a healthy scratch in their teams' last games ... The Senators are in Montreal on Tuesday ... The Leafs play host to the New York Islanders on Monday night.

[SouthernHockeyChick]

Aw, I was hoping the Leafs would win so Staal could gain some ground on Spezza, Heatley and Alfredsson.

[SouthernHockeyChick]

Aw, I was hoping the Leafs would win so Staal could gain some ground on Spezza, Heatley and Alfredsson.

[SouthernHockeyChick]

Aw, I was hoping the Leafs would win so Staal could gain some ground on Spezza, Heatley and Alfredsson.

[SoCalcaniac]

Aw, I was hoping the Leafs would win so Staal could gain some ground on Spezza, Heatley and Alfredsson.

A- No WAYYYY! ;) I have a feelin' Staal will be right in there all the way til the end- The Battle of Ontario must always be won by the Sens, point standings be damned! :laugh:

[SoCalcaniac]

Aw, I was hoping the Leafs would win so Staal could gain some ground on Spezza, Heatley and Alfredsson.

A- No WAYYYY! ;) I have a feelin' Staal will be right in there all the way til the end- The Battle of Ontario must always be won by the Sens, point standings be damned! :laugh:

[SoCalcaniac]

Aw, I was hoping the Leafs would win so Staal could gain some ground on Spezza, Heatley and Alfredsson.

A- No WAYYYY! ;) I have a feelin' Staal will be right in there all the way til the end- The Battle of Ontario must always be won by the Sens, point standings be damned! :laugh:

[ontheglass]

This may be here somewhere, but I was just watching ESPN's highlights and "Sid the Kid" is wearing the "A" for the Pens? WTF? A nineteen year old wearing an "A"? When did this happen and what a slap in the face of the proven NHL'ers on the Pens. Just my opinion, but this doesn't say much for those guys. Can you say Winnipenguins?

[ontheglass]

This may be here somewhere, but I was just watching ESPN's highlights and "Sid the Kid" is wearing the "A" for the Pens? WTF? A nineteen year old wearing an "A"? When did this happen and what a slap in the face of the proven NHL'ers on the Pens. Just my opinion, but this doesn't say much for those guys. Can you say Winnipenguins?

[ontheglass]

This may be here somewhere, but I was just watching ESPN's highlights and "Sid the Kid" is wearing the "A" for the Pens? WTF? A nineteen year old wearing an "A"? When did this happen and what a slap in the face of the proven NHL'ers on the Pens. Just my opinion, but this doesn't say much for those guys. Can you say Winnipenguins?

[corylav]

This may be here somewhere, but I was just watching ESPN's highlights and "Sid the Kid" is wearing the "A" for the Pens? WTF? A nineteen year old wearing an "A"? When did this happen and what a slap in the face of the proven NHL'ers on the Pens. Just my opinion, but this doesn't say much for those guys. Can you say Winnipenguins?

http://www.letsgocanes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5134

[corylav]

This may be here somewhere, but I was just watching ESPN's highlights and "Sid the Kid" is wearing the "A" for the Pens? WTF? A nineteen year old wearing an "A"? When did this happen and what a slap in the face of the proven NHL'ers on the Pens. Just my opinion, but this doesn't say much for those guys. Can you say Winnipenguins?

http://www.letsgocanes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5134

[corylav]

This may be here somewhere, but I was just watching ESPN's highlights and "Sid the Kid" is wearing the "A" for the Pens? WTF? A nineteen year old wearing an "A"? When did this happen and what a slap in the face of the proven NHL'ers on the Pens. Just my opinion, but this doesn't say much for those guys. Can you say Winnipenguins?

http://www.letsgocanes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5134

[ontheglass]

Thanks... if it was a snake... I was just tired last night and I didn't do my homework. Atleast I see many comments that I agree with.

[ontheglass]

Thanks... if it was a snake... I was just tired last night and I didn't do my homework. Atleast I see many comments that I agree with.

[ontheglass]

Thanks... if it was a snake... I was just tired last night and I didn't do my homework. Atleast I see many comments that I agree with.

[tommy]

Luongo with 46 saves in the Panthers' 3-2 win over the Caps. Sheesh.

[tommy]

Luongo with 46 saves in the Panthers' 3-2 win over the Caps. Sheesh.

[tommy]

Luongo with 46 saves in the Panthers' 3-2 win over the Caps. Sheesh.

[nccanes]

Well, as Emrick said - the most nervous folks at the ACC are the backup goalies. Leaf and Isles at 4-4 after ONE period. O'Neill got the 4th and tying goal for the Leafs. Looked pretty damn happy and punched the glass.

[nccanes]

Well, as Emrick said - the most nervous folks at the ACC are the backup goalies. Leaf and Isles at 4-4 after ONE period. O'Neill got the 4th and tying goal for the Leafs. Looked pretty damn happy and punched the glass.

[nccanes]

Well, as Emrick said - the most nervous folks at the ACC are the backup goalies. Leaf and Isles at 4-4 after ONE period. O'Neill got the 4th and tying goal for the Leafs. Looked pretty damn happy and punched the glass.

[tommy]

8-4 leafs after 2 periods.

I'm thinking 'so long' to the Canes/Flyers and Sens/Buffalo games as the highest scoring this year...

[tommy]

8-4 leafs after 2 periods.

I'm thinking 'so long' to the Canes/Flyers and Sens/Buffalo games as the highest scoring this year...

[tommy]

8-4 leafs after 2 periods.

I'm thinking 'so long' to the Canes/Flyers and Sens/Buffalo games as the highest scoring this year...

[SouthernHockeyChick]

8-4 leafs after 2 periods.



Gee, smart move pulling DiPietro, huh? :roll: We flipped away right after they pulled him for allowing an unstoppable (except by the defenders who didn't bother) shortie.

[SouthernHockeyChick]

8-4 leafs after 2 periods.



Gee, smart move pulling DiPietro, huh? :roll: We flipped away right after they pulled him for allowing an unstoppable (except by the defenders who didn't bother) shortie.

[SouthernHockeyChick]

8-4 leafs after 2 periods.



Gee, smart move pulling DiPietro, huh? :roll: We flipped away right after they pulled him for allowing an unstoppable (except by the defenders who didn't bother) shortie.

[tommy]

8-4 leafs after 2 periods.



Gee, smart move pulling DiPietro, huh? :roll: We flipped away right after they pulled him for allowing an unstoppable (except by the defenders who didn't bother) shortie.

And I guarantee you the guys on OLN when they do a game update will say that DiPietro sucks... and throw the love on Belfour for "recovering" from losing 5 straight. They were heaping praise on how Belfour "always recovers" from losses like the past few he's had, and basically said his losing streak was his team's fault and not his. :roll:

[tommy]

8-4 leafs after 2 periods.



Gee, smart move pulling DiPietro, huh? :roll: We flipped away right after they pulled him for allowing an unstoppable (except by the defenders who didn't bother) shortie.

And I guarantee you the guys on OLN when they do a game update will say that DiPietro sucks... and throw the love on Belfour for "recovering" from losing 5 straight. They were heaping praise on how Belfour "always recovers" from losses like the past few he's had, and basically said his losing streak was his team's fault and not his. :roll:

[tommy]

8-4 leafs after 2 periods.



Gee, smart move pulling DiPietro, huh? :roll: We flipped away right after they pulled him for allowing an unstoppable (except by the defenders who didn't bother) shortie.

And I guarantee you the guys on OLN when they do a game update will say that DiPietro sucks... and throw the love on Belfour for "recovering" from losing 5 straight. They were heaping praise on how Belfour "always recovers" from losses like the past few he's had, and basically said his losing streak was his team's fault and not his. :roll:

[Alicia]

Poor Rick... :sad:

[Alicia]

Poor Rick... :sad:

[Alicia]

Poor Rick... :sad:

[SouthernHockeyChick]

Shoot-out in Philly.

Vanek just pulled the coolest freakin' move on Nittymaki I've ever seen.....then proceeded to hit the post.

Forsberg just scored.

It's up to Tim Connolly who.....SCORES!! Another nice move.

Going extra rounds, now.

[SouthernHockeyChick]

Shoot-out in Philly.

Vanek just pulled the coolest freakin' move on Nittymaki I've ever seen.....then proceeded to hit the post.

Forsberg just scored.

It's up to Tim Connolly who.....SCORES!! Another nice move.

Going extra rounds, now.

[SouthernHockeyChick]

Shoot-out in Philly.

Vanek just pulled the coolest freakin' move on Nittymaki I've ever seen.....then proceeded to hit the post.

Forsberg just scored.

It's up to Tim Connolly who.....SCORES!! Another nice move.

Going extra rounds, now.

[SouthernHockeyChick]

Buffalo wins.

[SouthernHockeyChick]

Buffalo wins.

[SouthernHockeyChick]

Buffalo wins.

[tommy]

9-6 Leafs with a few minutes to go... new highest scoring game of the year...

[tommy]

9-6 Leafs with a few minutes to go... new highest scoring game of the year...

[tommy]

9-6 Leafs with a few minutes to go... new highest scoring game of the year...

[Alicia]

Geez...

[Alicia]

Geez...

[Alicia]

Geez...

[SouthernHockeyChick]

Damn, this Calgary/Edmonton game is awesome!!! Even if the wrong team is now winning.

It had been 4-3 Calgary until a couple minutes ago. Now, it's 5-4 Edmonton with 30 seconds to go!!

Flames have one more chance here......Oilers win.

Nasty scrum at the end. Maybe this 8 games a year within division will get someone killed, eh? ;)

[SouthernHockeyChick]

Damn, this Calgary/Edmonton game is awesome!!! Even if the wrong team is now winning.

It had been 4-3 Calgary until a couple minutes ago. Now, it's 5-4 Edmonton with 30 seconds to go!!

Flames have one more chance here......Oilers win.

Nasty scrum at the end. Maybe this 8 games a year within division will get someone killed, eh? ;)

[SouthernHockeyChick]

Damn, this Calgary/Edmonton game is awesome!!! Even if the wrong team is now winning.

It had been 4-3 Calgary until a couple minutes ago. Now, it's 5-4 Edmonton with 30 seconds to go!!

Flames have one more chance here......Oilers win.

Nasty scrum at the end. Maybe this 8 games a year within division will get someone killed, eh? ;)

[SouthernHockeyChick]

Damn, Avery "fought" Jovo tonight. :eek2:

Jovo made a nasty hit on Belanger and, gotta give Avery credit ( :sick: :sick: :sick: ) he went after him, as someone should have. Bascially stood there and got the side of his head hit for a few seconds but I guess he made his point. Jovo has about a foot of reach on him.

[SouthernHockeyChick]

Damn, Avery "fought" Jovo tonight. :eek2:

Jovo made a nasty hit on Belanger and, gotta give Avery credit ( :sick: :sick: :sick: ) he went after him, as someone should have. Bascially stood there and got the side of his head hit for a few seconds but I guess he made his point. Jovo has about a foot of reach on him.

[SouthernHockeyChick]

Damn, Avery "fought" Jovo tonight. :eek2:

Jovo made a nasty hit on Belanger and, gotta give Avery credit ( :sick: :sick: :sick: ) he went after him, as someone should have. Bascially stood there and got the side of his head hit for a few seconds but I guess he made his point. Jovo has about a foot of reach on him.

[Alicia]

Damn, Avery "fought" Jovo tonight. :eek2:

Jovo made a nasty hit on Belanger and, gotta give Avery credit ( :sick: :sick: :sick: ) he went after him, as someone should have. Bascially stood there and got the side of his head hit for a few seconds but I guess he made his point. Jovo has about a foot of reach on him.

That was a pretty good game, for LA to win 4-3 in the shootout.

[Alicia]

Damn, Avery "fought" Jovo tonight. :eek2:

Jovo made a nasty hit on Belanger and, gotta give Avery credit ( :sick: :sick: :sick: ) he went after him, as someone should have. Bascially stood there and got the side of his head hit for a few seconds but I guess he made his point. Jovo has about a foot of reach on him.

That was a pretty good game, for LA to win 4-3 in the shootout.

[Alicia]

Damn, Avery "fought" Jovo tonight. :eek2:

Jovo made a nasty hit on Belanger and, gotta give Avery credit ( :sick: :sick: :sick: ) he went after him, as someone should have. Bascially stood there and got the side of his head hit for a few seconds but I guess he made his point. Jovo has about a foot of reach on him.

That was a pretty good game, for LA to win 4-3 in the shootout.

[SouthernHockeyChick]

Official notice: Rick Nash is back.

That is all.

[SouthernHockeyChick]

Official notice: Rick Nash is back.

That is all.

[SouthernHockeyChick]

Official notice: Rick Nash is back.

That is all.

[SouthernHockeyChick]

Man, this Oilers/Canucks game is a freakin' goal-fest. It was 5-5 after 2. And almost all of them had been Oilers get one, minute or two later Canucks get one, Oilers get one, minute or two later....etc.

It's 7-5 Oilers now (8 minutes left in the 3rd).

[SouthernHockeyChick]

Man, this Oilers/Canucks game is a freakin' goal-fest. It was 5-5 after 2. And almost all of them had been Oilers get one, minute or two later Canucks get one, Oilers get one, minute or two later....etc.

It's 7-5 Oilers now (8 minutes left in the 3rd).

[SouthernHockeyChick]

Man, this Oilers/Canucks game is a freakin' goal-fest. It was 5-5 after 2. And almost all of them had been Oilers get one, minute or two later Canucks get one, Oilers get one, minute or two later....etc.

It's 7-5 Oilers now (8 minutes left in the 3rd).

[Guyute]

Official notice: Rick Nash is back.

That is all.

yep, and apparently pissed for missing the start of the season. lol.

the oil/nucks game was quite entertaining. I really thought it was going to end up going to OT after they scored on the 6 on 3 about 2 seconds off the draw.

[Guyute]

Official notice: Rick Nash is back.

That is all.

yep, and apparently pissed for missing the start of the season. lol.

the oil/nucks game was quite entertaining. I really thought it was going to end up going to OT after they scored on the 6 on 3 about 2 seconds off the draw.

[Guyute]

Official notice: Rick Nash is back.

That is all.

yep, and apparently pissed for missing the start of the season. lol.

the oil/nucks game was quite entertaining. I really thought it was going to end up going to OT after they scored on the 6 on 3 about 2 seconds off the draw.

[Guyute]

oh, and game to watch tonight:
Flyers vs Ottawa. Gagne should be back in the lineup. :D

Ottawa is just 4-2-3 in its last nine including a 4-3 shootout loss Tuesday to the Montreal Canadiens.


Spezza left the game in the second period with a pulled chest muscle. He remains questionable for Thursday.

"I don't think it's bad," Spezza said. "Right now it's sore, but we'll have a better idea (Thursday)."

[Guyute]

oh, and game to watch tonight:
Flyers vs Ottawa. Gagne should be back in the lineup. :D

Ottawa is just 4-2-3 in its last nine including a 4-3 shootout loss Tuesday to the Montreal Canadiens.


Spezza left the game in the second period with a pulled chest muscle. He remains questionable for Thursday.

"I don't think it's bad," Spezza said. "Right now it's sore, but we'll have a better idea (Thursday)."

[Guyute]

oh, and game to watch tonight:
Flyers vs Ottawa. Gagne should be back in the lineup. :D

Ottawa is just 4-2-3 in its last nine including a 4-3 shootout loss Tuesday to the Montreal Canadiens.


Spezza left the game in the second period with a pulled chest muscle. He remains questionable for Thursday.

"I don't think it's bad," Spezza said. "Right now it's sore, but we'll have a better idea (Thursday)."

[SouthernHockeyChick]

Damn, I had not even looked today....some good games tonight!! Well, OK, maybe not many that are good....ones I have strong feelings about, how's that?

Four syllables: Let's Go Ran-gers!

Four More: Let's Go Fly-ers!!

And I just hope the Sabres/Panthers game is as physical and as long and as tough and as tiring as possible. It really wouldn't bother me if Florida won. Except it might be super freakin' cool to see the Sabres catch up to Ottawa! :evil:

Oh, and Go Caps!

So, I'm mostly just hatin' on teams tonight. :beatup:

[SouthernHockeyChick]

Damn, I had not even looked today....some good games tonight!! Well, OK, maybe not many that are good....ones I have strong feelings about, how's that?

Four syllables: Let's Go Ran-gers!

Four More: Let's Go Fly-ers!!

And I just hope the Sabres/Panthers game is as physical and as long and as tough and as tiring as possible. It really wouldn't bother me if Florida won. Except it might be super freakin' cool to see the Sabres catch up to Ottawa! :evil:

Oh, and Go Caps!

So, I'm mostly just hatin' on teams tonight. :beatup:

[SouthernHockeyChick]

Damn, I had not even looked today....some good games tonight!! Well, OK, maybe not many that are good....ones I have strong feelings about, how's that?

Four syllables: Let's Go Ran-gers!

Four More: Let's Go Fly-ers!!

And I just hope the Sabres/Panthers game is as physical and as long and as tough and as tiring as possible. It really wouldn't bother me if Florida won. Except it might be super freakin' cool to see the Sabres catch up to Ottawa! :evil:

Oh, and Go Caps!

So, I'm mostly just hatin' on teams tonight. :beatup:

[SouthernHockeyChick]

Flyers were up 4-0 in the second and then bam, bam, it's 4-2. :-/

Gagne scored his 24th of the season....Staal is sharing that top spot now.


Rangers up 2-0 at the end of the second.

[SouthernHockeyChick]

Flyers were up 4-0 in the second and then bam, bam, it's 4-2. :-/

Gagne scored his 24th of the season....Staal is sharing that top spot now.


Rangers up 2-0 at the end of the second.

[SouthernHockeyChick]

Flyers were up 4-0 in the second and then bam, bam, it's 4-2. :-/

Gagne scored his 24th of the season....Staal is sharing that top spot now.


Rangers up 2-0 at the end of the second.

[Alicia]

Just to reiterate...


Four syllables: Let's Go Ran-gers!

Four More: Let's Go Fly-ers!!

Go Caps!

[Alicia]

Just to reiterate...


Four syllables: Let's Go Ran-gers!

Four More: Let's Go Fly-ers!!

Go Caps!

[Alicia]

Just to reiterate...


Four syllables: Let's Go Ran-gers!

Four More: Let's Go Fly-ers!!

Go Caps!

[SouthernHockeyChick]

DAYUM! Freakin' awesome game in Philly!! Flyers 4, Sens 3.

Their announcers were whining incessantly and I also think several players tried to sorta fake injuries. Ridiculous.

And Tampa Bay loses!!! WOOOOOOOO!!!! Thank you Rangers!! :nanner:

Bolts sorta got humiliated at the end there.

And the Rangers team all just raised their sticks in a salute to the fans. That's cool.

[SouthernHockeyChick]

DAYUM! Freakin' awesome game in Philly!! Flyers 4, Sens 3.

Their announcers were whining incessantly and I also think several players tried to sorta fake injuries. Ridiculous.

And Tampa Bay loses!!! WOOOOOOOO!!!! Thank you Rangers!! :nanner:

Bolts sorta got humiliated at the end there.

And the Rangers team all just raised their sticks in a salute to the fans. That's cool.

[SouthernHockeyChick]

DAYUM! Freakin' awesome game in Philly!! Flyers 4, Sens 3.

Their announcers were whining incessantly and I also think several players tried to sorta fake injuries. Ridiculous.

And Tampa Bay loses!!! WOOOOOOOO!!!! Thank you Rangers!! :nanner:

Bolts sorta got humiliated at the end there.

And the Rangers team all just raised their sticks in a salute to the fans. That's cool.

[SoCalcaniac]

For those of us with that love/hate infatuation with Darcy Tucker ;) this little incident was a doozy, replayed for hours on Sportscenter this morning.....with Tucker mocking Jannsen on his way to the penalty box for the boo-boo he inflicted :roll:.......... I'll have to dig up the details in one of the papers.


Leafs' Tucker fined for helmet incident

Tucker and Janssen

Canadian Press

12/27/2005 1:58:18 PM

TORONTO (CP) - Forward Darcy Tucker of the Toronto Maple Leafs was fined $2,500 US but escaped any further punishment from the NHL on Tuesday after the league automatically reviewed his match penalty from the previous night's game.

Tucker took the helmet off Cam Janssen during a wild fight Monday night and hit the New Jersey Devils winger on the head with it _ twice. He was thrown out of the game with his match penalty and NHL disciplinarian Colin Campbell reviewed it Tuesday.

"We did not feel it was Tucker's intent to hurt Janssen with the helmet," Campbell said Tuesday. "He was trying to get the helmet off and I don't think he was trying to use it as a weapon."

Tucker said much the same after Monday's game.

[SoCalcaniac]

For those of us with that love/hate infatuation with Darcy Tucker ;) this little incident was a doozy, replayed for hours on Sportscenter this morning.....with Tucker mocking Jannsen on his way to the penalty box for the boo-boo he inflicted :roll:.......... I'll have to dig up the details in one of the papers.


Leafs' Tucker fined for helmet incident

Tucker and Janssen

Canadian Press

12/27/2005 1:58:18 PM

TORONTO (CP) - Forward Darcy Tucker of the Toronto Maple Leafs was fined $2,500 US but escaped any further punishment from the NHL on Tuesday after the league automatically reviewed his match penalty from the previous night's game.

Tucker took the helmet off Cam Janssen during a wild fight Monday night and hit the New Jersey Devils winger on the head with it _ twice. He was thrown out of the game with his match penalty and NHL disciplinarian Colin Campbell reviewed it Tuesday.

"We did not feel it was Tucker's intent to hurt Janssen with the helmet," Campbell said Tuesday. "He was trying to get the helmet off and I don't think he was trying to use it as a weapon."

Tucker said much the same after Monday's game.

[nccanes]

I saw a clip of that fight today. I think he's lucky, given some of his questionable choices/heat of the moment decisions. I realize he didn't plan on hitting the guy with the helmet, but he did (though I don't think those were the worst blows at all). It's like high sticks, some are just unlucky, but you get the gate anyway.

I think they play again soon huh?

Watched the end of 2 games tonight and the hapless Caps and Pens ended up on the short end of both. Pens tie the Leafs w/about 8 minutes to go in the 3rd and then have 2+ minutes of 5 on 3, with 3 Leaf D in the box, followed by another chunk of 1 man advantage. They don't score. Game goes to OT and the Leafs win - and half the Mellon arena erupts in cheering.

Caps are winning 3-1 in the 3rd and w/in a few minutes the Bruins tie it up and put the game away in OT.

Ouch.

[nccanes]

I saw a clip of that fight today. I think he's lucky, given some of his questionable choices/heat of the moment decisions. I realize he didn't plan on hitting the guy with the helmet, but he did (though I don't think those were the worst blows at all). It's like high sticks, some are just unlucky, but you get the gate anyway.

I think they play again soon huh?

Watched the end of 2 games tonight and the hapless Caps and Pens ended up on the short end of both. Pens tie the Leafs w/about 8 minutes to go in the 3rd and then have 2+ minutes of 5 on 3, with 3 Leaf D in the box, followed by another chunk of 1 man advantage. They don't score. Game goes to OT and the Leafs win - and half the Mellon arena erupts in cheering.

Caps are winning 3-1 in the 3rd and w/in a few minutes the Bruins tie it up and put the game away in OT.

Ouch.

[SouthernHockeyChick]

Prediction: The Isles have a new coach by the time we play them 1/6.

They just totally collapsed in a rough game vs the Sens where they really did have a chance. Stirling was standing on the bench at the end of the game, wouldn't leave, and you could just see, he knew. Kinda like Mo in his last home game, the thought of which still gets me teary-eyed.

I posted in the Olympic thread, but DiPietro got injured and had to be pulled. Smolinski landed on his leg HARD and he had to be damn near carried off the ice.

[SouthernHockeyChick]

Prediction: The Isles have a new coach by the time we play them 1/6.

They just totally collapsed in a rough game vs the Sens where they really did have a chance. Stirling was standing on the bench at the end of the game, wouldn't leave, and you could just see, he knew. Kinda like Mo in his last home game, the thought of which still gets me teary-eyed.

I posted in the Olympic thread, but DiPietro got injured and had to be pulled. Smolinski landed on his leg HARD and he had to be damn near carried off the ice.

[Alicia]

Prediction: The Isles have a new coach by the time we play them 1/6.

They just totally collapsed in a rough game vs the Sens where they really did have a chance. Stirling was standing on the bench at the end of the game, wouldn't leave, and you could just see, he knew. Kinda like Mo in his last home game, the thought of which still gets me teary-eyed.

I posted in the Olympic thread, but DiPietro got injured and had to be pulled. Smolinski landed on his leg HARD and he had to be damn near carried off the ice.

Here I will say CRAP!!!

[Alicia]

Prediction: The Isles have a new coach by the time we play them 1/6.

They just totally collapsed in a rough game vs the Sens where they really did have a chance. Stirling was standing on the bench at the end of the game, wouldn't leave, and you could just see, he knew. Kinda like Mo in his last home game, the thought of which still gets me teary-eyed.

I posted in the Olympic thread, but DiPietro got injured and had to be pulled. Smolinski landed on his leg HARD and he had to be damn near carried off the ice.

Here I will say CRAP!!!

[SouthernHockeyChick]

Happy dance! Happy dance! Tampa lost! Boston beat 'em! Happy dance!

:beatup:

Panthers also beat Montreal. Hope they tired 'em out!

[SouthernHockeyChick]

Happy dance! Happy dance! Tampa lost! Boston beat 'em! Happy dance!

:beatup:

Panthers also beat Montreal. Hope they tired 'em out!

[Guyute]

man, Buffalo sure has been tough lately. well, ok, more than "lately"... it's been over a month.

they're currently up 4-1 on Atlanta with 4 to go. as Atlanta likes to do... since they've got no chance of winning and the game is getting close to the end, there's been a lot of banging.
they're getting the worst of it though. Kozlov just got leveled. :D

[Guyute]

man, Buffalo sure has been tough lately. well, ok, more than "lately"... it's been over a month.

they're currently up 4-1 on Atlanta with 4 to go. as Atlanta likes to do... since they've got no chance of winning and the game is getting close to the end, there's been a lot of banging.
they're getting the worst of it though. Kozlov just got leveled. :D

[Alicia]

man, Buffalo sure has been tough lately. well, ok, more than "lately"... it's been over a month.

they're currently up 4-1 on Atlanta with 4 to go. as Atlanta likes to do... since they've got no chance of winning and the game is getting close to the end, there's been a lot of banging.
they're getting the worst of it though. Kozlov just got leveled. :D

Yay! :spin:

[Alicia]

man, Buffalo sure has been tough lately. well, ok, more than "lately"... it's been over a month.

they're currently up 4-1 on Atlanta with 4 to go. as Atlanta likes to do... since they've got no chance of winning and the game is getting close to the end, there's been a lot of banging.
they're getting the worst of it though. Kozlov just got leveled. :D

Yay! :spin:

[goalie33]

Panthers also beat Montreal. Hope they tired 'em out!

Luongo made a crazy glove save on a Kovalev penalty shot to preserve the 2-1 win...check it out if you didn't see it.

[goalie33]

Panthers also beat Montreal. Hope they tired 'em out!

Luongo made a crazy glove save on a Kovalev penalty shot to preserve the 2-1 win...check it out if you didn't see it.

[nccanes]

Prediction: The Isles have a new coach by the time we play them 1/6.

They just totally collapsed in a rough game vs the Sens where they really did have a chance. Stirling was standing on the bench at the end of the game, wouldn't leave, and you could just see, he knew. Kinda like Mo in his last home game, the thought of which still gets me teary-eyed.


I haven't watched many Isles games, but I have a friend whose a big fan and he said that Charles Wang has said that Milbury wouldn't be allowed to fire another coach -- so it'll be intersting to see if that happens or Milbury is out with him.

[nccanes]

Prediction: The Isles have a new coach by the time we play them 1/6.

They just totally collapsed in a rough game vs the Sens where they really did have a chance. Stirling was standing on the bench at the end of the game, wouldn't leave, and you could just see, he knew. Kinda like Mo in his last home game, the thought of which still gets me teary-eyed.


I haven't watched many Isles games, but I have a friend whose a big fan and he said that Charles Wang has said that Milbury wouldn't be allowed to fire another coach -- so it'll be intersting to see if that happens or Milbury is out with him.

[SouthernHockeyChick]

I haven't watched many Isles games, but I have a friend whose a big fan and he said that Charles Wang has said that Milbury wouldn't be allowed to fire another coach -- so it'll be intersting to see if that happens or Milbury is out with him.

Wow! That would be the smart thing to do, IMO. Just haven't seen that org do much smart in a while. I figured Milbury had to have some pictures of Wang in some uncomfortable situation or something. ;)

Although, honestly, I don't watch enough Isles to know if Stirling or Milbury is the one to blame in this case. Stirling looked distraught last night. Maybe he's hoping to get canned! They should have been able to hold on to that game. But then, it is Ottawa. They may have been just toying with them in the first. But you just felt that team collapse. The goaltending change didn't help much, though, lol.

BTW, I read this morning that DiPietro wasn't favoring either knee after the game and there's no more info on his injury. Maybe it wasn't serious. It sure looked serious at the time!!


I saw that unsuccessful penalty shot on the boxscore and thought "wow!" I'll have to check out some video.

[SouthernHockeyChick]

I haven't watched many Isles games, but I have a friend whose a big fan and he said that Charles Wang has said that Milbury wouldn't be allowed to fire another coach -- so it'll be intersting to see if that happens or Milbury is out with him.

Wow! That would be the smart thing to do, IMO. Just haven't seen that org do much smart in a while. I figured Milbury had to have some pictures of Wang in some uncomfortable situation or something. ;)

Although, honestly, I don't watch enough Isles to know if Stirling or Milbury is the one to blame in this case. Stirling looked distraught last night. Maybe he's hoping to get canned! They should have been able to hold on to that game. But then, it is Ottawa. They may have been just toying with them in the first. But you just felt that team collapse. The goaltending change didn't help much, though, lol.

BTW, I read this morning that DiPietro wasn't favoring either knee after the game and there's no more info on his injury. Maybe it wasn't serious. It sure looked serious at the time!!


I saw that unsuccessful penalty shot on the boxscore and thought "wow!" I'll have to check out some video.

[goalie33]

BTW, I read this morning that DiPietro wasn't favoring either knee after the game and there's no more info on his injury. Maybe it wasn't serious. It sure looked serious at the time!!

I had an ankle injury like that where I had to be carried off the ice, but once I got the skates and pads off there was less torque on it and it hurt a lot less, but I still couldn't skate for about a week. I guess this means I can wish for a Olympic-term injury to Esche instead of The Rick.

[goalie33]

BTW, I read this morning that DiPietro wasn't favoring either knee after the game and there's no more info on his injury. Maybe it wasn't serious. It sure looked serious at the time!!

I had an ankle injury like that where I had to be carried off the ice, but once I got the skates and pads off there was less torque on it and it hurt a lot less, but I still couldn't skate for about a week. I guess this means I can wish for a Olympic-term injury to Esche instead of The Rick.

[puckin_A]

Panthers also beat Montreal. Hope they tired 'em out!

Luongo made a crazy glove save on a Kovalev penalty shot to preserve the 2-1 win...check it out if you didn't see it.


I saw that. Luongo is looking very good lately. Getting ready to try to be #1 at the Olympics. Plus the team is playing better now. He stoned Kovalev.

[puckin_A]

Panthers also beat Montreal. Hope they tired 'em out!

Luongo made a crazy glove save on a Kovalev penalty shot to preserve the 2-1 win...check it out if you didn't see it.


I saw that. Luongo is looking very good lately. Getting ready to try to be #1 at the Olympics. Plus the team is playing better now. He stoned Kovalev.

[puckin_A]

Alfie got hit by a slap shot (charas') in the rib last night and it cracked his rib. OUCH!! he will be out for a few weeks. Ottawa has ALOT of injuries right now.

Spezza, Havlet and now Alfie. That is huge. They have more, but don't remember.

[puckin_A]

Alfie got hit by a slap shot (charas') in the rib last night and it cracked his rib. OUCH!! he will be out for a few weeks. Ottawa has ALOT of injuries right now.

Spezza, Havlet and now Alfie. That is huge. They have more, but don't remember.

[SouthernHockeyChick]

Enh, I thought Cam getting back and making that swat on Forsberg was more impressive than that Luongo save. :lol: :beatup:

[SouthernHockeyChick]

Enh, I thought Cam getting back and making that swat on Forsberg was more impressive than that Luongo save. :lol: :beatup:

[goalie33]

Enh, I thought Cam getting back and making that swat on Forsberg was more impressive than that Luongo save. :lol: :beatup:

I never said it was more impressive, I just said it was awesome.

[goalie33]

Enh, I thought Cam getting back and making that swat on Forsberg was more impressive than that Luongo save. :lol: :beatup:

I never said it was more impressive, I just said it was awesome.