[quote]Tiribulus wrote:
etaco wrote:
Tiribulus wrote:
etaco wrote:
Detroit is going to run into a brick wall in, oh, six or seven days.
I’ll take into account your history of drug abuse and general downtrodden existence when I excuse this remark =]
I must have been on drugs to assume that it would in fact be a brick wall rather than a golf ball.
Let’s not get ahead of ourselves here pal. Admittedly both teams have been streaky all year and both have been great at home with ho hum road records, but it’s anybody,s series now.
To the other guy: Except for lagging special teams (yes that’s a big exception, especially in the playoffs) I didn’t think the Wings played bad at all as much as the Flames resurrected themselves as I feared they might.[/quote]
The Wings most definitely had a ton of chances they just couldn’t get anything to sneak by Kiprusoff. I REALLY hope the same thing doesn’t happen where they run into a hot goalie and all the sudden their top scorers can’t put the puck in.
[quote]StevenF wrote:
<<< The Wings most definitely had a ton of chances they just couldn’t get anything to sneak by Kiprusoff. I REALLY hope the same thing doesn’t happen where they run into a hot goalie and all the sudden their top scorers can’t put the puck in. [/quote]
Calgary is getting murdered, they Pull Kippur to avoid late game injury and Mclellan hatchets Franzen across the gut with his goalie stick. Come on man. Entirely unacceptable. I’d be sayin the same if Hasek would’ve done it.
[quote]Tiribulus wrote:
Calgary is getting murdered, they Pull Kippur to avoid late game injury and Mclellan hatchets Franzen across the gut with his goalie stick. Come on man. Entirely unacceptable. I’d be sayin the same if Hasek would’ve done it.[/quote]
It’s dirty play like this that marginalizes hockey. I can see trying to send a message, but this is really an indictment on their coaching staff.
It would be nice to see Inginla suspended for the attack on Snyder with the butt end of his stick. That had nothing to do with hockey.
[quote]Tiribulus wrote: HOLY SHIT thank God that’s over before someone really got hurt. 5/1 wings, but the Flames went into beserker mode at the end there. [/quote]
Can anyone say Pyrrhic Victory for this series? Detroit lacks the toughness to deter this sort of abuse. A team like Anaheim would be licking its chops at the prospect of a series against them. But Anaheim won’t be meeting them in the playoffs this season…
In all seriousness though, I think the NHL should come down hard here and they probably will considering this was a national network broadcast in the US.
One other thing that’s bothering me, and I don’t want this tangent to turn into a hijack, but does anyone else think that the suspension lengths are completely out of whack? Specifically I’m referring to two which were handed out this week. Brad May takes a cheap shot on one of Minnesota’s most important players, a known non-fighter, puts him into the hospital and out of the series and he receives three games.
That’s a no-brainer value play for May. Meanwhile, Sean Hill harms nobody but tests positive for presumably nandrolone, and receives 20 games. This all for receiving a little pharmaceutical assistance in recovery during what everyone agrees is too long/dense of a season for the players health.
For a hundred bucks a ticket, I expect players to be using every possible means to stay healthy and at the top of their games. This isn’t baseball. The sport isn’t reliant on the notion that fat asses and string beens can cut it at the highest levels of sport in order to provide relatability to the fans.
[quote]etaco wrote:
Tiribulus wrote: HOLY SHIT thank God that’s over before someone really got hurt. 5/1 wings, but the Flames went into beserker mode at the end there.
Can anyone say Pyrrhic Victory for this series? Detroit lacks the toughness to deter this sort of abuse. A team like Anaheim would be licking its chops at the prospect of a series against them. But Anaheim won’t be meeting them in the playoffs this season…
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Wow, what color is the air on your planet? The wings took everything Calgary could dish out and it was the wings who handed out the bone crushing checks. All Calgary could do was take cheap shots. Did you watch the game or are you just repeating the pundits?
It’s true the wings don’t have thugs, but that is not what wins playoff hockey. Bertuzzi, Calder, Markov, Holmstrum, Chelios etc…, that is the kind of toughness that wins games.
[quote]etaco wrote:
<<< Can anyone say Pyrrhic Victory for this series? Detroit lacks the toughness to deter this sort of abuse. [/quote]
Pyrrhic Victory for who? I may be a little biased, but I did not see much of a physical slant in this game either way.
As for suspensions. I think they need a codified set of policies so at least like behavior is treated somewhat similarly.
I agree with you generally on enhancement, especially in this sport, but it will never be accepted and will always be treated like a felony because that’s just the atmosphere in the whole sporting world.
On another note. Dallas is giving Vancouver NAH-THING. It’s a miracle it’s only 1-0, though Dallas isn’t getting a huge number of great chances either. Lotsa offensive pressure and stifling neutral zone coverage from what I’ve seen so far, but I have been doing some other stuff too.
[quote]Tiribulus wrote:
On another note. Dallas is giving Vancouver NAH-THING. It’s a miracle it’s only 1-0, though Dallas isn’t getting a huge number of great chances either. Lotsa offensive pressure and stifling neutral zone coverage from what I’ve seen so far, but I have been doing some other stuff too.[/quote]
Given that I would rather have SJ face Anaheim in the 3rd round rather than the second- due to them only using 3 regular lines and 4 D, with a shortage of reliable depth after that-
I hope Vancouver can take it at home with minimal extra injuries/suspensions. Detroit has better depth than the Ducks and Dallas isn’t the sort of team to leave them hobbled coming out.
[quote]etaco wrote:
For a hundred bucks a ticket, I expect players to be using every possible means to stay healthy and at the top of their games. This isn’t baseball. The sport isn’t reliant on the notion that fat asses and string beens can cut it at the highest levels of sport in order to provide relatability to the fans.[/quote]
Wow, that’s quite interesting. I’m not saying that I agree or disagree, but it was well said.
[quote]David Barr wrote:
I love watching these guys play! It’s such a shame that one has to go home first round.[/quote]
Everyone raise their hand who saw 3 shutouts coming in the first round for Turco. Dave doesn’t count, his hands are always up and with a heavy dumbbell to boot.
The other side of that coin though is that Vancouver’s offense has been in a coma. I couldn’t believe how Dallas so thoroughly controlled that game last night. Didn’t see the one before, but I hear it was pretty much the same.
Waiting to hear from the league on possible suspensions for tonight’s game 6 at the Saddledome.
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Flames goaltender Jamie McLennan has been suspended five games, coach Jim Playfair has been fined $25,000 and the organization has been fined $100,000 for a variety of actions late in Game 5 of the team’s Western Conference Quarter-final series against the Detroit Red Wings. [/quote]
That fine on Playfair will really hurt considering he will be out of a job within the next few days.
Flames goaltender Jamie McLennan has been suspended five games, coach Jim Playfair has been fined $25,000 and the organization has been fined $100,000 for a variety of actions late in Game 5 of the team’s Western Conference Quarter-final series against the Detroit Red Wings.
That fine on Playfair will really hurt considering he will be out of a job within the next few days.
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Yeah I frequent TSN myself for hockey news and saw that. Looking at this as detached from the fact that his team is in a deathmatch with mine, I really don’t think the guy has intuition under pressure.
His decision making to this point has had me scratching my head. He also just looks lost on the bench. I know people express themselves differently, but he just appears over his head.
You are no doubt correct that if the Flames lose this series he is history. They’ve been calling for his head over there ever since game one already.
