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I'm glad I'm not the only one who voted straight DRW Party on the ballot.

Is it just me or does the hole look like a silhouette of Jay Leno's profile?

Used to be that you could get some before or after the game if you waited by the gates and whatnot, but now security is so tight that they don't even let people get anywhere near the gates. I do remember one time when I was a lot younger, however, my dad was able to get us below the concourse on the ground floor of the Joe, underneath the stands, immediately following a blown lead by the Wings, resulting in a 5-5 tie with Florida (my dad coached Florida's equipment manager back in high school, so he managed to get us down there). I was sitting there waiting with a select few people, when out comes Steve Yzerman. The nervous young kid in me, looking like he just saw Jesus, was so afraid to approach him, but to this day, I regret not trying to get to him sooner, because by the time I ran off to stop him for an autograph, he kind of gave me a blank look and kept on walking. He was clearly upset about the game, but I'll never forget how crushed I felt that day. Anyway, have fun and good luck getting some John Hancocks. You're going to need it.

Those look pretty legitimate to me. Have fun!

I had a feeling someone would be able to further explain it, and explain it better at that. All in all, the net has many different parts that affect the problem in different ways, such as hitting the back bar of the net as opposed to the actual netting. Several things would slow the puck down upon impact and some of the force would be transferred in different ways. I was unable to find the coefficient of static friction so I was going on the fact that ice is slippery enough to neglect it. I knew in my head that this would probably throw off my analysis quite a bit, but I was willing to take it with a grain of salt. All in all, reasonable maybe, but does it make the video any less fake? No. Edit: now that I look at the video a few more times, it does appear that the net moves before the puck hits the back of the net a few times, but it almost looks like a couple of those shots hit the crossbar and near side post before going into the net, which makes it look pretty fake, but it actually does move at the correct times. I'm still not buying it though.

Friday, November 12 Edmonton at New Jersey Tampa Bay at Pittsburgh Colorado at Columbus Minnesota at Florida Calgary at Phoenix Dallas at Anaheim Saturday, November 13 Ottawa at Boston Washington at Buffalo Colorado at Detroit X2 Carolina at Montreal Florida at Philadelphia Vancouver at Toronto Pittsburgh at Atlanta St. Louis at Phoenix Chicago at Nashville Calgary at San Jose NY Islanders at Los Angeles Sunday, November 14 Edmonton at NY Rangers Minnesota at Tampa Bay Atlanta at Washington Anaheim at Chicago

No that would be too obvious.

Did someone say physics!? - A hockey puck weighs 6 oz = 0.17 kg - A hockey goal weighs 125 pounds = 56.69 kg (http://www.arizonasportsequipment.com/hockey/complete-hockey-goals/regulation-goals-72-x-48/sku/238opw/) A little background on what I'm about to do for those who are interested: In order for the net to move, a shot (force) hitting the net's center of mass would have to overcome the initial static friction (which we can assume there is none due to the ice's slipperiness). Essentially all there is then is to say that a horizontal force must exceed the downward force due to the mass of the net and gravity, in order for the net to move at all. Force = mass*acceleration (in this case acceleration is gravity) Fnet = (56.69kg)*(9.81m/s2) = 556.13 Newtons Thus, the force of the puck needs to exceed 556.13 Newtons to be able to move the net. The hardest shot recorded is 105.4 mph = 47.12 m/s The kinetic energy of a shot with this speed is KE = (1/2)*m*v2 = (1/2)*(0.17kg)*(47.12m/s)2 = 188.72 Newtons*m. This amount is only equal to the Work, however. In order to equate it to the Force applied, you must divide this number by the distance, which can be said from the top of the circle, is about 35 feet = 10.67 m. So (188.72 N*m)/(10.67 m) = 17.69 Newtons, roughly 3% of the necessary energy required to cause the net to move. Working backwards using the necessary force to move the net, the necessary Kinetic Energy is KE = (556.13 N)*(10.67 m) = 5933.9 Nm. Put that into the Kinetic energy equation and solve for velocity: v2 = (5933.9 Nm)/(1/2)/(0.17 kg) = 69810.67 m2/s2. Take the square root to get velocity: v = 264.2 m/s, which is 590.99 miles per hour. To get an idea of how fast that is, the speed of sound is 340.29 m/s, which is 768 miles per hour. But of course it's fake. You can tell by how the net moves before the puck even hits the net on the last two shots. Douchiness and the Pittsburgh Penguins are completely uncorrelated. Douchiness and Sidney Crosby being a whiny ***** is completely correlated.

After that shootout biff, I think I'm going to make an attempt to start a trend for the masses (if not for good, at least for tonight and the next couple of days, as I assume the sting won't wear off any time soon): Ilya LOLvalchuk.

Boston's announcer is horrendous.

Get 'er done Shanny!

Get Bettman out, put the NHL back on ESPN and all will be right in the world.

Yuck. 11.

I see it less as "taking shots" and more as showing them that while they have all the reasons in the world to be happy their team is doing very well early in the season, they should wait until the season has progressed further than a dozen games before they start "forgetting" who the Red Wings are. Joking or not, coming into a Red Wings forum and making comments like that (as if we were doing so terrible, even), is asking for our fans to have a little bit of a bad taste in our mouths. Blues fans: Take a lesson from Hawks fans and don't do what they do. When and if you win the Cup in the near future, we'll think a lot more highly of you guys than we do of Chicago.

If the puck was on it's side though, it would still be questionable, thus making the yellow line kind of unnecessary. I think they need to add a wide-angle camera inside the nets that shows the entire goal line (possibly from different angles in case the goalie's butt gets in the way), and would show the puck crossing the line. I also thought of a way they could utilize a sensor. I'm a physics major and we've used Gieger counters in class that detect radiation due to elemental composition. I wonder how hard it would be to implement a system that used the composition of the puck and made it so the counter detected the puck and its spikes in readings as it enters the net (fully or not). It'd be even easier if the NHL used pucks with a thin disc of metal, something that wouldn't affect the weight, shape, or size of the puck, but would be easy for a detector to read whether the puck completely crossed the line. /geek.

Awesome. Got any second place prizes? Just kidding, you don't even have to donate the puck to the game's winner, but the fact that you are is really, really cool.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

I just got wood. What a SAVE!!

Friday, November 5 NY Rangers at New Jersey Boston at Washington Montreal at Buffalo Carolina at Florida Calgary at Minnesota Phoenix at Dallas Detroit at Edmonton X2 Pittsburgh at Anaheim Saturday, November 6 St. Louis at Boston Florida at Carolina Ottawa at Montreal Philadelphia at NY Islanders Buffalo at Toronto Chicago at Atlanta Minnesota at Columbus Dallas at Colorado Pittsburgh at Phoenix Nashville at Los Angeles Detroit at Vancouver Tampa Bay at San Jose Sunday, November 7 Philadelphia at Washington Edmonton at Chicago St. Louis at NY Rangers Nashville at Anaheim

Wow. Player of the game voting: Howard 200%.

LOL. Hooking??

What a save by Howie!

Wow, terrible call.

Good to see Mickey on the road

Friday, October 29 Montreal at NY Islanders Carolina at NY Rangers Philadelphia at Pittsburgh Buffalo at Atlanta Edmonton at Chicago New Jersey at Anaheim Saturday, October 30 Nashville at Detroit X2 Pittsburgh at Carolina Florida at Montreal Boston at Ottawa NY Islanders at Philadelphia NY Rangers at Toronto Buffalo at Dallas Atlanta at St. Louis Chicago at Minnesota Columbus at Colorado Tampa Bay at Phoenix Washington at Calgary New Jersey at Los Angeles Anaheim at San Jose