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This one is for all our female posters. For Game #4 Hockeytown001 will be back posting his work, hopefully it will be a 2-1 Series lead for the good guys when he does. Red Wings Line-up Zetterberg - Datsyuk - Abdelkader Franzen - Filppula - Cleary Nyquist - Andersson - Brunner Eaves - Emmerton - Samuelsson Kronwall - Ericsson Quincey - Smith Kindl - Lashoff Howard Gustavsson Ducks Line-up Ryan - Getzlaf - Perry Palmieri - Bonino - Selanne Winnik - Koivu - Cogliano Beleskey - Steckel - Etem Fowler - Beauchemin Lovejoy - Sbisa Lydman - Allen Hiller Fasth

My first attempt at an animated gif

Vladdy woulda hip checked him into next week but that is a lost art.

I'm not sure how and why you posted that in this thread lol.

Well, looks like I'm up to 12 bucks after last night's game. Woo hoo! Send me to the poor house, boys!

sweep there will not be

If I remember correctly, one of the years we all saw the thank-you letter from the charity that received our money. This is for real, so go ahead AND PUT YOUR MONEY ON THE BOARD!! To Vladdy16- Thanks so much for doing this!

From someone who is in Vancouver ... I hope the Canucks lose tonight. And the series.

Why aren't they melting the ice that actually caused the injury? There was no contact with the head until he landed face first on the ice. Gryba just got ******* hosed. Shanny should be ashamed of himself.

He needs to put on some mass. This was evident to start.

He may be right but I don't listen to that much that hairbag says.

I really don't like the suspension. It punishes the consequence, and is probably for no other reason other than to put Gryba back on the ice this weekend with MTL looking for their own "retribution". But I really don't view the principal point of contact as the head. These plays happen so fast, I think it's kind of ridiculous to show the video in super slow-mo over and over again breaking down which part of Eller's body was impacted first. He had the right to throw a shoulder check in that situation and it wasn't gratuitous to do so. Gryba was probably as surprised as anybody that Diaz threw the puck towards him. I'm almost convinced there are situations you could be placed in where you would accidentally get a suspension unless you purposefully tipped backwards on your skates and allowed the unsuspecting player to knock you over.

Nothing irrational about that fear.

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No hitting league. 2 games for clean hit.

I'm not sure we are watching the same games. Kindl has really stepped his s*** up this year when it mattered most.

I don't think Tootoo is tall enough to get at the Duck's heads

Teh no calls on the dives are pretty despicable but i like that there were some hooks and holds and slashes by both sides that went uncalled.

Every fan base accuses the other team of "gooning it up," or that there's some league bias for or against a team... it's almost pointless to debate specifics. They're going to miss calls both ways, so the most important thing is that they maintain a level of control that prevents things from becoming truly dangerous on the ice (e.g. player violently boarded that doesn't result in a penalty so headhunting begins in earnest).

I'm just glad the Canucks lost

These are 2 teams Buttman does not want in the finals. That game was a barrage of bad play and scrums. Not ascetically pleasing to the casual fan but I enjoyed watching them beat the crap out o each other.

I'm posting this from my phone so hopefully the photo displays correctly. I made this last night. Lets hope it gives us more luck for Thursday! EDIT: On a computer now. Fixed the image embed.