Fans in Boston and New York may have seen their last home games of the season.
The latest Jaro Halak impression was furnished by Craig Anderson, who stopped 41 shots in Ottawa’s 2-0 win at Madison Square Garden.
Saturday afternoon, with our old friend Benoit Pouliot in the penalty box for a brain-dead slash in a tie game, Troy Brouwer beat Tim Thomas with a shot that good goaltenders stop.
Washington heads home with a 3-2 series lead and can send the Cup champs to the golf course on Sunday. And Patrice Bergeron is questionable for Game 6.
Elsewhere, José Theodore shut out the Devils 3-0 to move Florida within one win of advancing to the Eastern Conference semi-final.
In St. Louis, the Blues roared back from a 1-0 deficit to beat San Jose 3-1 and advance in the playoffs for the first time since 2002.
The Sunday tripleheader begins at noon in Philadelphia, where Pittsburgh will try to even up its series with the Flyers.
At 3 p.m. in Washington, the Caps will try to eliminate the Stanley Cup champions.
Then at 8, the Canucks are at home trying to stay alive against L.A.
The only two teams to make the playoffs every year since the lockout are the Red Wings and Sharks.
They’re both gone.
How about a Stanley Cup final between Florida and Nashville?
TV ratings through the roof … NOT!
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If only the Hockey Gods can make sure that the Bruins and Rangers bite the dust. As for HNIC. I nearly fell off my chair when Ron said they would wait for Cherry’s take on Torez! Of course, why they even allow P.J. to speak is beyond me. I actually turn to TSN any chance I get. P.J. makes Cherry sound like Einstein.
And Pens. Then my playoff watching is pretty much done for this year.
Great goaltending in these playoffs makes me realize that Price in not in the same category as some of these guys. I have yet to see Price perform to the level of Holtby, Quick, Rinne, and Anderson. I see more Jocelyn Thibeault in Price, than Roy (or Theodore for that matter). Above average, but missing some of those mental intangibles that separates the playoff performers from the rest……
I know a couple other intangibles he is missing, a more physical defenceman, a 2nd line that can score, a team which can score in the shootout.
Yes, and even with those he would still find a way to be an average 910% save %; cough up a softie/game – mostly when the canadiens are trying to mount a comeback……
Not to nitpick or anything, .916, on a last place team.
Even .940 would not have made a difference, but let’s make crap up anyway.
Edit: tied with that other horrible goalie, Ryan Miller
.940% would have placed him in the elite……you know, where most keep stating he is already though the stats never justify it.
Clearly you don’t get that it’s a team stat.
Alfie, you’re grasping at straws, Price is not the problem.
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Maybe it’s the poster who’s missing something?
+1
You made me LOL so much
Richard Dreyfuss for Sharks GM
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Forget about Halak. The Habs should never have let go of The-odour. Big shutout tonight again New Jersey.
Yeah in the series time forgot…
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Biggest Buttman nightmare:
Phoenix vs Florida in the final!
You mean Blues – Florida… No way Phoenix beats Halak.
Elliott
NO?! Really?! No way!!!
You forgot the sarcasm font Timo.
sarcasm font?
Don’t know if this was mentioned already, but I enjoy the Bruin fan in the white shirt in the photo showing the world how many active brain cells he has.
I just saved it to my hard drive.
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Link to this image please???
Isn’t that the goal judge?
Lol
Hitch gets the Blues to 2nd round!
Fearless Prediction: the Rangers are golfing at this time next week
Doug Wilson for Habs GM?
A lot of friends, good people abd all that in Ottawa, canadiab team, happy for them. There.
But the real reason I’m happy for them is that it makes me more optimistic about our beloved Habs. Ottawa was abysmal for a while to get those kids, and look at them now. Stone, Karlsson, Foligno, Butler, Greening, the kids came to play. They weathered the storm for a while and look at them.
And on the other side, we have the Habs who weren’t that great for some time and flat out sucked this year only. Finishing 28th in the league while having the 3rd even strength scorer, the highest shotblocking Dman, the 2nd PK and 1st PK on the road in the whole league. A young stud goalie, a high ceiling stud Dman, the best scorer of the W in regular season and the kid who broke a 15 yrs old record for assists in the W in the cupboards. I won’t talk about the last 2 1st rounder’s potential, but on top of that we’ll get a 3rd overall this year…….Ottawa didn’t have all that. We do. The future is not so bleak. PG’s shadow was, I’ll give you that.
My little fly in this ointment is the fact that the Preds won their opening series, so now our/their second rounder will be no better than the 53rd pick. It would have been between the 45th and 52nd pick (inclusive) had they lost.
Not really germane to your point, it just bugs me. The only thing I was rooting for was a Bruins loss and a Predators loss.
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Whaddya mean see you at noon, Boone? It’ll be 0900 hrs here at faceoff time. I’ll just be getting in at that time. Being Saturday night and all.
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Cassie Campbell.When I hear her talk I feel so relaaaaxxxeddddd…..zzzzzzzzzz
When Ottawa scored empty net goal, Bryan Murray was VERY demonstrative in his celebrations.
Could have sworn I was watching Jacques Martin.
Who’s Davidson, Don Cherry? Don’t know any goalie with that name
John Davidson. President of St. Louis Blues. Played for the Rangers 30 years go.
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Beat me to the answer Mike, Canadiens beat him in 78-79 cup final 4-1
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Bob Gainey won the Conn Smythe trophy that year.
Technically the best hockey player in the world, according to Viktor Tikhonov.
I always wondered if he was just messing with us, trying to get us off track.
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Best “2 way” player in the world, I believe was the term used.
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Wow quick 2nd goal by St. Louis, looks like they are going to win. Halak must be playing lights out!!!!
Oh… you silly, silly man, you.
***Subbang Baby!!!***
Come on I have been away for 10 days, you mean he isn’t playing? I thought he started the first game of series?
Jaroslav Penney’s injured.
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Halak IS in nets…spiritually.
In the minds of Halakalites everywhere.
How come you never give Elliott any credit?
Because then you would have to give credit to all the other skaters on Montreals team from 2 years ago. Clearly you didn’t watch the playoffs that year, Halak scored all the goals as well.
Blindfolded, with one hand behind his back!
And he’s scored all St. Louis’ goals too
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Bob Cole, well after the Jason Spezza goal, the second of the Senators mind you, compared to the no goals scored by New York: “And Ottawa looks like they’re going to take a 2-0 lead going back home.”
Uh? They have the 2-0 lead, they’re going to be 3 wins to 2 going home.
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Cole’s job, if you must know, is to ensure viewers are paying attention. Anybody can see what’s happening on the TV, do you really need to have someone describe the play to you? No, but let’s face it, sometimes viewers’ attention wanders and Cole reels you back in by saying something so stupid that your mind detects before it drifts too far away.
I am getting the impression your frustration with Cole runs very deep my friend. This isn’t to say I don’t share the frustration, but you have provided ample evidence of said frustration LOL
Just trying to provide facts to the discussion, as opposed to unsubstantiated opinion. Kind of like when I was offering savant critiques of P.K. Subban’s play, with specific incidents of the previous game to illustrate the issues. For which I was roundly booed, since P.K. is indubitably a Norris Trophy winner five times over. In the Future. So we can’t say he has rocks in his thick thick skull right now. No coaching allowed.
As far as Mr. Cole, he is just not up to it anymore. He needs to retire, or be made to retire.
I may be biased, his voice reminds me of when I would be forced to watch the Canadiens in English because O’Keefe had successfully sued to have the Nordiques broadcast in the Montréal region on a number of Saturday nights. So it was either watch the Nordiques against the Whalers, or watch the Canadiens play Toronto, and this was the guy’s voice I grew to learn to hate.
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” So we can’t say he has rocks in his thick thick skull right now. No coaching allowed.”
Interesting!
Where have I heard similar anthropological/archaeological expertise before?
Niemi just gave up a bad goal 1-1 game now.
New Yorkers can go back to hating.
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Konopka playing great for the Sens. But he wasn’t good enough for the habs.
This whole parity thing is kind of cool. I don’t like the Sens but that was fun.
***Subbang Baby!!!***
way to recover from that one Bob
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Spezza! Sens beat Rags!
Wow, I am happy with an Ottawa win, playoffs makes you weird i tell ya
During the regular season, I can’t stand the Sens, but I can’t help pulling for them myself.
Think Torts would make a good coach for our Habs? ha
Well west of Quebec many people think the language he uses is French
Edit: L, you know I know better just my western roots showing is all.
Do you own a Stetson? Size XXXXXXXL haha
Gotta love the 1st round eh
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haha those shots of Bryan Murray were kind of funny
Y’all are mean, man
that last one from Propwash is just nasty 
My iphone is wreakin havoc on my liveblog social skill btw, can’t reply directly.
LOL the McGuire one?
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Glen Sather must be chewing on his cigar furiously.
Anderson in The Zone!
Red Sox blow a 9 run lead, Bruins lose in the last minute, Tom Brady comes out, Celtics trade Rondo to Harlem Globetrotters… tough sports day in Beantown *POIT!*
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+1
Bripro may have an issue with your Brady comment, but i found it funny!
WOW, Theodour gets a S/O, that’s why I don’t bet on sports.
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would have been a great mise-au-jeu bet.
No kidding. One in a million lol.
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He must have really applied the propecia prior to game.
Boone has a man crush on MacLean
Boone has a man-crush on all of us, why else would he be live blogging Ottawa games and Boston games?
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Can Bob Cole get anything right?
“Oh, and that’s icing against the Senators.”
“Uh, no Bob, everyone stopped skating because the big pane of glass fell on the ice.”
“…. Okay then, let’s go to commercial!”
And:
“And a penalty coming up, it’s going to be against Ottawa I do believe.”
“Ryan Callaghan, actually, going to go off for goalie interference..”, says Gary Galley.
“Awww, okay….”
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I like Callahan as a player, but Crosby was right, he’s a cry baby, constantly whining
“It’s not an obsession, It’s a way of life..”
I noticed that to.
Bob Cole yelling at PJ stock during break, thinks PJ took his last depends,
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Or the rules or the players’ names or the name of the rink …
It was mentioned during the Hot Stove discussion that the players’ union will be asking for a proper appeal process to be incorporated in the CBA so players can have their challenge of disciplinary action heard by a truly impartial body. I’m in favour, so long as the union stands behind members who have been the victim of vicious hits and would like to see stiffer penalties than ones handed out by the league.
If the NHL and NHLPA truly were a partnership, as the owners kept saying during and after the lockout, the players might be more amenable. Can’t blame them for not wanting anything of what the owners are selling.
The next negotiation is simply going to be about hammering down the players’ share of general revenue down to 50% or lower, no matter what Gary Bettman says, and despite the fact that fans contribute these revenues to see the players, not sclerotic owners.
As far as the players advocating for their own safety, it’s puzzling that they never see drug testing or player suspensions as contributing to a safer workplace. The NHLPA does have a legal duty to advocate strongly for their members when it comes to discipline, but they should welcome a framework where their members’ brain cells have a better chance of leaving the game intact.
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The players’ union has too narrow a focus. Its principal concern is to increase the wages of its members, when its paramount concern should be a safe working environment. It should also share responsibility in making that happen by taking its own disciplinary action against those members whose conduct jeopardizes the health and earning capacity of other members. What that action might be is open to conjecture. Perhaps something related to pensions …
In an ideal world, maybe. Unfortunately there’s very clear legal precedent that a union has a legal responsibility to defend its members to the best of its ability, in all situations. They can’t be involved in punishing its own members.
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Which is both its strength and weakness.
If punishment is beyond the union’s means, education certainly isn’t. Perhaps a program of moral instruction and a course in empathy might achieve the desired goal: players who play with a conscience.
Torterella’s head is going to explode in the post-game presser.
Semin’s gonna explode tomorrow as the Caps take down the Broonze
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That alone would be worth the price of admission.
Smiler, you’re at it again.
I’ll happily let out my inner Semin (TM), if the Bruins get the boot tomorrow …
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Holy smokes Cole can’t figure out a delayed penalty anymore which team it applies to. Anderson is skating out of the net and he says Ottawa is getting a penalty. Take the old dog out behind the barn already.
Man, that new Ford Fusion is sleek
There’s a guy who delivers to my job that drives one, valvetrain is already making a ton of noise, I’d stay away from that.
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that only applies to the Mustang.
anyone complaining about the Torres suspension should watch the legal hit just made by Neal.
Think Boyle beats Ference as the Guy Fawkes mask doppelganger, Messr. Boone
You may be right
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Anderson is having a helluva night.
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Can’t we get the Baton Rouge commercial girl to do Cassie’s gig ? Just the voice at least ?
That’ll help me get through long stretches of Bob Cole’s musings….
Voice not enough. Need the uniform to go with it.
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Any word on how serious Halak’s injury is?
Once he is healthy Allan Walsh will be tweeting all of Elliot’s weaknesses to the world.
THAT goes without saying!
He only tweets about weak goaltenders. You know. The ones that play worse than his client and then get more ice time than him.
That isn’t happening in St. Louis.
Should the Habs trade Price for Anderson?
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Whatever….
HH means Price’s agent.
Skated this week, but not on the bench. I doubt he’ll start any more games, apparently an ankle problem.
I would hope so, skating on the bench carries certain risks.
I think it’s an allergy. He’s allergic to being a backup.
why would anyone be concerned about the injury statas of a backup? I’m being serious. The only reasn he started game 1 was due to Elliot’s inury. Elliot seems to be ok now.
Except that, not at all.
Halak lol
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Go Rimouski Go !!!!!!!!!!!
I agree with the sentiments in the Torres discussions that the penalty (given recent rulings) was absolutely unfair. I also went and looked at the hit again and again. I hate to say this and this comment is only specific to this comparison. But the Torres hit was more of a hockey play in the flow of the game with less of a deliberate intent to injure than was Shane Weber’s. Chara’s hit on Max Pac was way worse with more evidence of malice aforethought.
And I dont give a damn if Shane Weber was retaliating for some cheap shot. It’s like saying you can go home and get a gun and shoot someone out of anger because his dog bit you.
When the heck did the Florida Panthers start singing Ole song?
They can have it, I hate that song…
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You started quite a stream today with your Semin comment
Stream lol
yeah fun acting like Beavis & Butt-Head once in a while…
Tomorrow Semen’s gonna be all over Boston.
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I was just watching the AHL playoffs and the Norfolk fans were doing the same thing, I was confused. In Florida though I imagine they are probably our fans that cheer for us when we are there.
I’ve seen a few teams use that chant to get the crowd going but I can’t remember which teams. I know it’s originally a soccer chant, that’s where habs fans stole it from.
I think it’s got something to do with #60 between the pipes making a nice stop.
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The Luongo talk is a bunch of detail talk for them to say they know his contract details, big deal. At the end of the day if Vancouver tells Luongo he is no longer the #1 goalie and he is riding the pine next year he will want to be traded. The whole NTC beomes mute when a player with the ego of Luongo is told he isn’t good enough to play on their team.
Luongo will end up in Toronto if BB has anything to say about it.
I don’t think Luongo will want the pressure cooker of Toronto. I can see him trying to get a trade to another Southern team, perhaps Tampa?
I personally don’t think any GM with half a brain will touch Lou with a ten foot pole.
Which explains exactly why Burke will try to land him.
I think habsfan0 nailed it!
heh heh heh
I hope Burke gets him.
Not that I’m defending that SWINE Torres, but that was not the worst hit I have ever seen.
If he get’s 25 games for that hit, Chara should have gotten 40+ for what he did to Pacioretty.
I agree!
In shocking news, Chris Lee just called a horrible penalty against the Panthers with 2 minutes left and the Cats up 2-0.
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The Panthers coach was livid with him.
@Boone, Healey was making sense until he gave Weber a complete free pass.
Boone, not sure why it would surprise you. Torre’s said it was a hockey play; what more can you ask for? Understandable GMs are upset.
Earlier tonight,Healey made a reference to Ottawa and the Rangers,saying that “these two teams don’t like each other”.
What’s with that?
Can he provide an example of 2 teams that “do like each other”?
2-0 Florida
What is with server tonight, have had to sign back in 3 times this evening.
Bruins lose, Cats win, great day for me so far.
Bob Cole’s iconic voice is producing the most amateurish description imaginable!
For all the Cole lovers, his job is to supply description of the video and he is clearly incapable of that there is no correlation between the two.
Hmm I don’t think I have ever seen anyone love Bob Cole on here. Actually I haven`t seen much love for anything CBC on here.
I like Bob Cole.
Mind you,I also liked Captain E.J. Smith prior to his steering the Titanic into that iceberg.
Ottawa powerplay really misses Alfie it appears.
“What’s it all about,Alfie”?
haha, I knew as soon as I typed Alfie a reference like that was coming. Well done bud.
That Bruin’s fan in the crowd should take a lesson from Ferrence and hide it up his behind! (Referring to the picture up top)
How do you know he’s a Bruins’ fan? Because the game’s in Boston and he’s wearing a yellow shirt?
That and the fact he looks like he wants to eat Brower’s face.
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Bet he is hoping he can knock the glass loose like they did on Krejci and Thomas earlier.
Torres just got 25 games for an almost identical hit. Just sayin…
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Disagree Boone, clean hit IMO
“It’s not an obsession, It’s a way of life..”
Puck was gone for a few strides already, he targeted early and refused to let up. It is the mentality of this league where, as long as within the last 5 minutes the player has played the puck it is okay to nail him? Purpose of hitting is to remove the puck from the player. Puck was already long removed.
That’s how I see it as well…
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Fair point, I just thought that he didnt leave his feet ot launch himself into the other player, he also let up and coasted into the hit while making shoulder to shoulder contact. When you “Finish your check”, I thought that was a hit after the player releases the puck .
“It’s not an obsession, It’s a way of life..”
Agree it is a league and a hockey problem. The whole finish your check concept to me has gotten out of control and should never have started.
I wish finishing your check was callled for interference and no longer took place.
After watching the playoff games the question has to be asked do you really need to have a 6 million dollar goalie to succeed…unless you pay 6 million for a goalie because he can play 70 games in the regular season but does not really give you any edge over 20 other goalies…the bottom 6 players for the majority of the playoff teams are way better suited to provide support for their teams than the habs bottom 6…
This may look like a game that the Rangers are playing at least on equal terms but they are making some stupidly desperate passes or defensemen pinching and the Sens are getting clean chances on Lundqvist. Rangers are lucky Sens havent capitalised yet.
Another example of no touch icing and why it is needed in the Florida New Jersey game, Kulikov to the dressing room.
ya, that was crazy.
They also chant ” Potvin Sucks”, he didn’t.
“It’s not an obsession, It’s a way of life..”
Did Boone enjoy 4/20 a little too much? Vancouver plays tomorrow. Hawks tonight.
Don’t forget Quick on L A
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“Rinne, Holtby, Anderson, Lundqvist … Year of the Goalie?”
Not in Toronto!
I hate to beat a dead horse, but take away McDonagh and Gaborik from the Rangers and add Gomez, and this is not a first place team.
Still hating on that trade
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I think in fairness the trade is just McDonagh. Rangers would have sent Gomez to minors like Redden, and still added Gaborik. I think.
Semantics Gerald. The fact is that trade took Gomez off the books and gave them the space to sign Gaborik.
And if the Rags were really ready to send him to the minors when we traded for him, that makes it even worse actually!
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I know Clay, I guess part of me is just tired of the whole mess. Let us hope those desperate trade moves are in our past now. Please!
I’m awaiting the new management team with bated breath.
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In all fairness,even with those 2 guys they still don’t look like a first place team. Also, Mcdonagh sure isn’t very physical.
Anderson is doing his Halak impression tonight.
So has Holtby.
Wow Anderson!
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It’s a bit early,but if both the number 1 & 2 seeds are knocked off,we’re looking at a Florida/Ottawa matchup in the next round.
Oh joy.
I’m rootin for Florida, so it’s cool with me. But I understand I’m in the minority.
Hard to not feel good for Ottawa though…
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They really seem to have bought into the coaches game plan. Good for them. I’d rather see them do good than Vancouver.
Im hoping Vancouver gets bounced
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I’m assuming,of course,that Florida gets by the Devils.
Devils have played pretty good. I still can’t fathom how great a job Tallon did in turning the Cats around. They have really played well this season. I’m happy for them.
Yes. Tallon built a Stanley Cup champion in Chicago too.
Too bad the Habs can’t acquire him.
Meanwhile, in Halifax, Nathan MacKinnon has scored twice and it’s 4-4 late 3rd period in game two against the Rimouski Oceanic. Great game!
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Heart break for the Moose as Rimouski scores on the PP in the final minute of the 3rd.
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Mike Boone says: “What a joke this network has become.”
They do a few things well. Their opening montages set to music are usually outstanding. Elliotte Friedman is excellent. So is Jim Hughson.
They just have to get rid of a lot of deadwood and fossils and neanderthals: Don Cherry, Mike Milbury, P.J. Stock, Bob Cole.
Then, be advocates for hockey being played fast and tough and fair, spectacular, fan-friendly hockey where talent and skill is prized, over size and churlishness at all costs.
If we must have a between-periods joke segment, let’s have Norm MacDonald and Brent Butt riffing on hockey and the issues of the day. I’d watch that, instead of switching channels to see what else is on.
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so my favorite comments of the day belong to PJ Stock.
I’m paraphrasing here:
“So the problem with Chara is that he doesn’t play THAT WAY (read dirty) all the time. See, if played THAT WAY (cross checking and mugging players) all the time, he would NEVER be called for it”.
And then, the classic, describing the Boston Garden and the Boston fans: “this place needs the violence”.
So the “National” broadcaster is proud to promote a 2-bit, goof like PJ Stock, and we are surprised that the NHL has become Nascar on Ice??
Who is responsible at the CBC??
Who is calling the shots??
My tax dollars are being flushed down the toilet on the set of Hockey Night in Canada.
What a disgrace!!
And, if you haven’t figured it out yet, PJ Stock is very likely the clown that will be replacing Liberace once he retires.
Ed, I was in disbelief when PJ Puke made those comments, then worse Mclean and Hrudey basically endorsed his comments.
Believe it or not I actually agreed with most of what Cherry said today. At least he finally admitted there are idiots on the ice who are just headshot cheapshot artists.
I am more and more inclined that the instigator rule should be dropped, as nothing so far is preventing these devastating hits.
HiB, I know what you’re saying, but you can’t think like that. You can’t give in.
The NHL has to understand that the science of how head injuries occur and the way they aggravate when they occur consequently, as well as how the damage is irreversible and has consequences later in life, all that isn’t going away. The lawsuits are coming. They need to react and adjust.
Just because we’ve always bashed each other in the head in the past doesn’t mean it’s okay to do it. We didn’t use to wear seatbelts or refrain from smoking or drinking during pregnancy, now we know better. It used to be okay for people to be owned by other people. We don’t still do it because it’s tradition.
There is a simple, progressive solution to these issues. Punish any contact to the head. Two minutes for incidental contact, four for intentional, five and a game for attempt to injure, with the bar set pretty low. As in, a facewash is a four minute penalty, a punch/shove is five minutes.
To facilitate the enforcement, have a video referee on hand, all seeing, all knowing. Abracadabra, we don’t have cheap shots behind the play anymore. There isn’t a behind the play. The camera sees all.
The NFL is at least pretending it gets it. The NHL can’t resist much longer.
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How about it NHL? No fighting, just hockey?
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I hear ya, just have lost all faith in the “Deep Thinkers” of hockey ever cleaning it up the right way.
I also really liked it when Hrudey said Chara “should get more calls in his favour.”
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Ed, I totally sympathize with your revulsion that P.J. Stock is on the air on the public broadcaster. It’s a misuse of an important arm of our government and contributor to our cultural identity.
Broadcasters get to use the airwaves as a result of a licence from the government. One of the stipulations of this licence is that they will broadcast programming that will benefit the public, and will be for society’s good. Surely the CBC is in breach of its licence by using the airwaves to propagate the noxious, injurious views of P.J. Stock, Mike Milbury and Don Cherry?
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How about it NHL? No fighting, just hockey?
http://relentlessineptitude.blogspot.com/
Do you know how much tax you pay towards the CBC? A couple of dollars? How much? Anybody know the contribution of individual taxpayers to the CBC on an annual basis? I bet it is much less than the proposed F-35 jet fighters.
Richard R
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I miss the play by play calling of Danny Gallivan and Bill Hewitt.
Bob Cole misses a lot of play by play as well.
Can’t argue with that!
Mike Boone called it: Cherry is riffing on the instigator rule again.
Use video referees. Illico presto, no need for goons to ‘police’ the game anymore.
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How about it NHL? No fighting, just hockey?
http://relentlessineptitude.blogspot.com/