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Looks like google also updated for the 2012 season

Here is mine from last year: A new one for this year:

I like the part where you troll anyone who posts things you aren't into.

Ask and ye shall receive, quick and dirty.

I posted this in the "Creative " area of the forums.. I just wanted to make sure everyone got a chance to see it (If they wanted to) I know not everybody looks in the Creative area of the forums on a regular basis (Mods/Admins- I am sorry) Enjoy! A look back and a good luck to our Red Wings!

My brother (RippedOnNitro) just informed me about this good cause! I am always in for great great charity! As far I am still a Rags guy, I want to include the NYR in it as well. So let us both get as far as we can. My bro will transfer both of our charity collection to you from the Netherlands. Red Wings: Winning a series in 7 games: $2 Winning a series in 6 games: $5 Winning a series in 5 games: $7 Winning a series in 4 games: $10 Getting Kronwalled $5 Homer screening Goal (no disallowed goals) $5 Eurotwin combo (Goal+Assist Dats-Z or vice versa) $5 The Mule Multi Goal Per Game $5 Winning cup Red Wings $15 New York Rangers: Winning a series in 7 games: $4 Winning a series in 6 games: $7 Winning a series in 5 games: $10 Winning a series in 4 games: $15 Per save in previous rounds only when getting in Stanley Finals $0.05 (round off up to whole dollars) Stanley Cup Finals per save $0.05 (round off up to whole dollars) Henrik Lundqvist Godlike Shutout $5 Brandon Dubinsky Goal $2 Rookie Derek Stepan Goal $3 Brandon Prust / Sean Avery Fight! $3 Winning cup Rangers $20 Good luck to both of our teams!

The new and improved scary maze game!

yea sorry I'm new to this whole paint/photoshop war thing I just hope you liked my effort to do the "switch" thing.

???????????? Oh, it's a hat store.... As you were.

Welcome to year 5 of the Playoff Picks Game. Past Champions List 2007: zetterisbetter 2008: winsgnut_19 2009: Chunkylover 2010: Batigol2k 2011: *Insert Your Name Here* The format this year is the same as last, so please to make sure you fully understand the rules below before making your picks. For those of you that aren't familiar with the game, here's how it works: Each round you will pick a winner for each series. For every correct series winner you predict, you will receive 4 points for the first round matchups, 8 for the 2nd, 12 for the 3rd, and 16 for the Finals (0 if you pick the incorrect team, 3 points if you picked a 4-3 series and the other team won in 7 games). Also, to aid with tiebreakers you will pick how many games the losing team in each series will win. Given that the team you picked to win actually does win the series, you will then have the opportunity to receive up to 3 bonus points. For every game you are off for the losing teams actual win total, I will subtract 1 bonus point. After each round, every player will then re-pick again based on the teams that made it through to the next round. Whoever has the most points at the end of the season, wins Playoff bragging rights. As was mentioned earlier, if you pick a series to go to the 7th game and the series does but the team you picked ends up losing, you will receive 3 points rather than 0. Lastly, pick who you feel will represent each conference in the Stanley Cup Finals as well as the Champion. This will be worth 3 points per pick if you're correct. Best of luck to everyone! If any of your are confused, here's a mock Picks example: (1) Vancouver 4-2 over (8) Chicago (2) San Jose 4-2 over (7) Los Angeles (3) Detroit 4-1 over (6) Phoenix (4) Anaheim 4-3 over (5) Nashville (1) Washington 4-0 over (8) New York Rangers (7) Buffalo 4-3 over (2) Philadelphia (3) Boston 4-1 over (6) Montreal (5) Tampa Bay 4-3 over (4) Pittsburgh WC Champion: Detroit Red Wings EC Champion: Tampa Bay Lightning SC Champion: Detroit Red Wings Let's say this happened in the first round: (1) Vancouver won 4-1 over (8) Chicago (7) Los Angeles won 4-3 over (2) San Jose (3) Detroit won 4-1 over (6) Phoenix (5) Nashville won 4-3 over (4) Anaheim (1) Washington won 4-1 over (8) New York Rangers (2) Philadelphia won 4-2 over (7) Buffalo (6) Boston won 4-3 over (3) Montreal (5) Tampa Bay won 4-0 over (4) Pittsburgh Here's how my point total would work out: VAN/CHI = 4 Points + 2 Bonus Points SJS/LAK = 0 Points DET/PHX = 4 Points + 3 Bonus Points ANA/NSH = 3 Points WAS/NYR = 4 Points + 2 Bonus Points PHI/BUF = 0 Points BUF/BOS = 4 Points + 1 Bonus Points PIT/TBL= 4 Points Total first round score: 31 Feel free to post any questions, and remember that your Picks must be in *before* the first puck drops Wednesday at 7:00 ET. Here are the Matchups based on their respective ranks: WEST: (1) Vancouver Canucks vs. (8) Chicago Blackhawks (2) San Jose Sharks vs. (7) Los Angeles Kings (3) Detroit Red Wings vs. (6) Phoenix Coyotes (4) Anaheim Ducks vs. (5) Nashville Predators EAST: (1) Washington Capitals vs. (8) New York Rangers (2) Philadelphia Flyers vs. (7) Buffalo Sabres (3) Boston Bruins vs. (6) Montreal Canadiens (4) Pittsburgh Penguins vs. (5) Tampa Bay Lightning NOTE: Please copy and paste the following template when making your picks. This truly cuts down on the time it requires to tally up scores and I greatly appreciate it. Bold the team you're picking to win, and then write the series score directly after in this manner: -- VAN/CHI 4-1 Round 1 Template: ________________________________ VAN/CHI: 4- SJS/: 4- DET/: 4- /NSH: 4- WAS/: 4- PHI/BUF: 4- BOS/MTL: 4- PIT/TBL: 4- WC Champion: EC Champion: SCF Champion:

Ah now I understand the term dry ice.. got it!

All righty! Put me down for: - $10 for a series win - $2 for every shutout (I mean if we shut them out, of course, heh) - $1 for every multi-goal game Zetterberg has (I'm with Vladifan - he's gonna be back and on fiya!)

Awesome idea! I am going for 100% team effort only, so no individual rewards. The better they play the bigger the reward. And winning the cup means a big bonus. First round: Winning the series in 7 games: $5 Winning the series in 6 games: $7 Winning the series in 5 games: $10 Winning the series in 4 games: $14 Second round: Winning the series in 7 games: $7 Winning the series in 6 games: $10 Winning the series in 5 games: $14 Winning the series in 4 games: $19 Third round: Winning the series in 7 games: $10 Winning the series in 6 games: $14 Winning the series in 5 games: $19 Winning the series in 4 games: $25 Fourth round: Winning the series in 7 games: $14 Winning the series in 6 games: $19 Winning the series in 5 games: $25 Winning the series in 4 games: $32 When winning the cup: $1 per goal for the total play-off goal difference (goals for minus goals against) $5 per shutout for the total play-off shutout difference (shutouts for minus shutouts against) $1 per point gained extra above 99 points in the regular season (so including the 100th point) --> so this would be a $5 bonus (104 minus 99). So you know what to do Red Wings!

Question: Are we doing one for the post-season or is it a different one each series? (IOW, how often do we have to pay up?)

After years of defending the league against accusations of intentionally biased officiating, I'm no longer confident that everything is on the up-and-up. I think incompetence is a factor when bad officiating happens, and I also think it's an incredibly hard job that comes with mistakes. But I also believe there's more to it. Part of it is it seems the league is aware of public perception and attempts to react to it. I think the talk that Detroit was getting too much favoritism (especially at home), backed up by some convincing stats linked to on some very active internet forums, was one example. Since that public discussion, the pendulum seems to have swung to the opposite extreme. Just like foul and penalty disparities at half-time or intermissions seem to always magically "turn around" with calls going the other way to even things up later in the game. I think we're all being naive if we don't think it's at least possible that inequities in market sizes matter. Big market teams get nationally televised games; small-potatoes teams do not. Look at all the major sports and it's the same. The Yankees, Red Sox, Cowboys, Giants, Patriots, Knicks, Celtics, Heat, Lakers, Rangers Penguins and Red Wings all get more attention. They are either playing in huge TV markets or have marketable stars who have appeal that goes beyond the local fan base. So to think that this league, or any other, would never dream of letting that affect how they handle their affairs both on and off the playing surface, is probably ridiculous, even though we've been conditioned to buy into it. Stars get favorable treatment all the time. The top NBA players go to the line when a rookie role player who makes the same play doesn't. Supplemental discipline from the NHL is another example. If it had been Matt Cooke instead of Malkin, would there have been an instigator suspension for the Zetterberg incident in 2009? It's bad business to subtract a star player from the game's premier event. So why would entire teams be immune from the same kind of preferential treatment? But hey, professional sports leagues are in an enviable position. For some reason, everyone believes there is this unassailable sanctity in officiating. It's as if money can corrupt everything except pro sports officials. Sure, the Donaghy thing was a black eye to the league, but has it really hurt the NBA? Even with a guy going to jail after admitting he affected the outcome of games for money, there's this pervasive attitude that it's okay, it was just one guy acting on his own, it wasn't because of a league mandate, so surely it's not indicative of a bigger problem. Even as fans, we tend to feel ridiculous for bringing up egregious "mistakes" by officials. "Everyone gets bad calls sometimes." It's one hell of a cat bird seat the pro sports leagues are in. No matter how bad or one-sided the calls may seem (see the 2002 Sacramento-Los Angeles WCF and the 2006 Miami-Dallas NBA Finals for Exhibits A and B), you'll be dismissed as a whiner, sore loser or conspiracy-freak for saying you think something smells. What would it take to really create an insurmountable problem for a pro sports league? Is there anything a pro sports league couldn't sweep under the rug? I'm not sure. People love sports and they want to believe. All this being said, I'm not 100% convinced that there's corruption going on. I try to take a step back and look at the big picture. Detroit, another team with a huge following, was accused of being on the receiving end of a lot of favoritism. Ironically, I thought they outplayed teams to such an extent that they deserved an even wider disparity in calls for/against. But I'm not dismissing the possibility those accusations had some merit and I just didn't see it. Anyway, huge rant here, but I've been taking notice recently of some fishy stuff that's been going on in the NHL. And my team just won the game that has elevated my own suspicions, so this isn't some sour-grapes rant. It's cause for concern.

A redux of last playoff's: http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/262/legendk.jpg

Ah. I was confused when you said it was Eager. But seriously, you can't see much difference between Abby's hit, where he's actually going to hit a guy along the boards who had played the puck, and Heatley's, where he throws an elbow as he skates past Ott? just for reference. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJvY2WjIbLM The difference is that they're arguably the same? what? Now I'm starting to think you're a sharks fan just trolling. Abby's is worse than Bert's. But Abby's is nothing like what Heatley did.

I love Osgood but it's about time innit? Would have loved to had him healthy this season but it is what it is. It's about that time to hang em up...

Not really. Hopefully not on the Wings atleast.

Agreed

Best one from last year.