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2009/2010 NHL Season & Stanley Cup Playoffs Thread

Sens/Pens

So I don't have versus (not sure if this game was even on VS), but I am thinking that the Sens will be a more power house team than the Pens in this round. I don't know how their series in the regular season went, but I don't think the Pens will make it out of this one. Can anyone chime in on this?
 
littleman23408 said:
So I don't have versus (not sure if this game was even on VS), but I am thinking that the Sens will be a more power house team than the Pens in this round. I don't know how their series in the regular season went, but I don't think the Pens will make it out of this one. Can anyone chime in on this?
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I found the game to be pretty boring honestly. It was real slow and neither team looked good to me. Pens goalie was weak and if he doesn't step up his game the Sens will for sure come out on top.

That being said - GO BOSTON!!!!!!
 
charlesbronsen said:
I found the game to be pretty boring honestly. It was real slow and neither team looked good to me. Pens goalie was weak and if he doesn't step up his game the Sens will for sure come out on top.
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Not what I was expecting, I would have thought this game would be one to watch.
 
littleman23408 said:
Not what I was expecting, I would have thought this game would be one to watch.
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I agree with charlesbronsen.... it wasn't the most exciting game I've ever seen. I expected it to be better, but I think the Sens know that in order for them to have a chance, they need to slow things down.

I think that they played four games against each other during the season, and the series was tied 2-2.

The game was on Versus, BTW.


I came across this post in another thread about a potential NHL Gamecenter App for iPhone, so I thought I'd share it here:

BladesOfSteel said:
Not sure if this is the same thing as the "Game Center"

But I think this is an app by the NHL.

Released this past week - just in time for the playoffs.

Link
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Surely said:
I agree with charlesbronsen.... it wasn't the most exciting game I've ever seen. I expected it to be better, but I think the Sens know that in order for them to have a chance, they need to slow things down.

I think that they played four games against each other during the season, and the series was tied 2-2.

The game was on Versus, BTW.


I came across this post in another thread about a potential NHL Gamecenter App for iPhone, so I thought I'd share it here:
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Thanks Surely, I don't have an Iphone so I will have to get it on my Ipod. As for VS, I guess there is nothing I can do about that one :(
 
Wow, I can't believe that Plekanec was the one to score the OT winner for the Habs!

After he talked s**t about Washington's goalies and all.....:D

"It's not as though we are facing (Martin) Brodeur or (Ryan) Miller," Plekanec told La Presse. "They don't have a dominant goaltender. When you look at the goaltending matchup in this series it favours our team. I just believe that our goaltending is more solid than theirs."
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http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=317881
 
NathanCH said:
Good to see the Canadian teams doing well. Let's hope Canada's best chance wins tonight too.
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I'm happy to see the Sens and Canadiens doing well.

I would be just fine with the Canucks losing in 4. Or 5. Or 6. Or 7. Just as long as they lose.

:D

Well, tomorrow night is big. Can both of my teams get an upset again? Or are the Flyers and Avs going to remember who they are? (and who they're playing).
 
Interesting...... Ovechkin didn't have a single shot on goal in their loss to Montreal. If the Habs can keep this up (doubtful), they can win the series.....

Tough loss for the Kings in OT last night. I knew the 'Nucks were going to score on that play..... I saw the whole thing develop.

This is going to be a long hard series. I still think the Kings can come out on top.
 
littleman23408 said:
Not one? Ovechkin sure has come to a stand still recently.
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I doubt that the Habs can continue to shut that guy down. He's just way too talented for that to go on for long.

Unfortunately, I won't be able to watch much of the action tonight..... appointments and then the gym and then out to dinner. I guess I'll have to catch highlights later on.:(

Maybe there will be some long OT tonight, so I'll have something to watch when I get home.:D
 
2-1 Habs after 1 period. If they're able to make it back to Montreal up 2-0, that would be crazy.


That's shi**y for the Sabres that Vanek got injured. I really hope for their sake that he'll be able to play.
 
Just saw the highlights, and way to go CAPS!

Watching the highlights makes me want to go to a Caps game, those fans are crazy into the Capitals.
 
Conspiracy theory!

Did you notice when the Montreal Canadiens were up big in their game against the Washington Capitals and were threatening to take a 2-0 series lead against the league's most promoted team and most promoted player in Alex Ovechkin, they suddenly ran into a series of highly questionable penalties.

Odd how that happens, sort of reminds you of how a team threatening to take a big lead in nationally televised NBA game suddenly runs into weird offensive fouls and travelling violations while the trailing team seems to be able to pull a gun and not get a foul.

Finally there were enough power-play opportunities for the Caps to get the momentum back, the crowd into the game and eventually the New York office was breathing easier as the Caps evened the series at 1-1. At the NBC offices, they must have been nearing collective embolism.

Then Saturday night the Canucks jump to a 2-0 lead and appear to be all over the Kings threatening to make short work of a market some important people in the league would love to come back to hockey after eight years of missing the playoffs and an eternity since Wayne Gretzky made the sport pop in the second largest market in North America.

Suddenly, a couple of questionable calls, one to Andrew Alberts for apparently tripping Dustin Brown and then a hold on Pavol Demitra, when it's abundantly obvious to most Canuck fans that the Slovak who shone so brightly at the Olympics is having trouble holding on to anything. Nothing too outrageous, but the team with all the momentum and threatening to finish this series quickly suddenly runs into a couple of questionable ones.

Third period in a 2-2 tie, another Alberts penalty when Wayne Simmonds cut into the middle generating what seems like the first stick foul called in the series although somehow the stick which stuck in Henrik Sedin's visor was missed in Game 1.

Henrik appears to win a third-period race to prevent an icing but the refs don't see it that way. Ryan Smyth's high stick in overtime and no call? Just a follow-through? Good thing the overtime penalty given to L.A. to give them four out of their five goals scored in this series on the power play wasn't contested by the Canucks.

Oh, it was 'the wrong call' according to Alain Vigneault who had looked at the tape before doing his post game. Well, you know, he lost. Just sour grapes right. Never mind that often even the most obvious fire drills at benches in overtime are overlooked. This one just didn't happen to be overlooked.

And just like last year all the traffic in the crease of Roberto Luongo has yielded no calls but the goalie isn't offering any opinions unless you think 'I'm not a ref' is an opinion.

These are all just coincidences we suspect. And that's probably all it really is, although won't you be just a little intrigued if the same thing should happen to the Nashville Predators if they threaten to go up 2-0 on the Chicago market tonight. Come on, work with us here.
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http://www.faceoff.com/hockey/teams... game conspiracy theorists/2921492/story.html

4 of the 5 goals LA Kings scored were on the power play. I don't believe this story, but the reefing has been absolutely terrible in this series.
 
Speaking of refs, they better call the Flyers game both ways. 3 penalties against the Flyers in the first 7 minutes is even a little high for them.

If that's the plan for the game fine. But they better use the whistle against both sides. Close ones get whistled.

And on the 3rd power play, as I type this, the Devils score.
 
And now we know.

Head shot on a Flyers player. Cross check to the face. The ref right there says nothing wrong. It took the other ref to even get a minor penalty called.

Edit: 6 minors in the first 10 minutes...
 
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