These writers at freep are idiots...

[BlakChamber 8]

Wow...anyone who's followed Detroit sports for more than a day knows that Drew Sharp is an idiot. Any other breaking news for us?

[CAredwingsfan91 28]

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article...109/1048/SPORTS

A penalty is a freaking penalty.. (besides the pens woulda won anyway.... can't help sykora with the scora)

here i am reading this article because of the "these writers are idiots" topic and im thinkin whats wrong with this article then i reazlied the IDIOT who posted this.

[Satan81 0]

I'm guessing that the penalties the Pens got away with were o.k. with you Numba 66 including the couple of high sticks you're team has gotten away with because the refs supposedly "didn't see them". Let's be honest the impact of that high stick was so weak that the only way it drew blood was if the Pen player used the old wrestling maneuver and used something to cut himself and insure blood. None of those calls should have been made in the OT periods including the hooking call against the Pens. Didn't hockey used to a sport for warriors not figure skaters. As a matter of fact I think that their actually is more contact allowed in every other sport on the planet. Buttnugget has turned the NHL into the International Ice Dancing Federation, PLEASE someone peg this ass in the head in Pittsburgh with an Octopi!!!!!

Edited June 4, 2008 by Satan81

[omnipotent_hudler 0]

alright #66 you think bell is a skank so maybe I should reiterate my Crosby comment more fully since you're probably into that

[Xitium 272]

If your a fan of the sport I don't see why you can't express your views

Thats just it.

"Our view" is our view, i.e. not Pittsburghs view, and a lot of the posters at the Pens board will look at it as trolling.

[Electrophile 3,554]

If your a fan of the sport I don't see why you can't express your views

Help me out here. I'm a Democrat, I'm voting for Barack Obama, should he be my party's nominee. Would it make sense for me to go talk about politics, specifically Democratic politics, on a board that is heavily slanted to the right? No it would not.

See my point? Awesome.

[HudlerRULES 0]

rofl I have so much fun here .... great place to post when I am at work

They allow you to use the computer for personal use at Burger King??

[CAredwingsfan91 28]

you know its like Therrian and the pens KNEW they would be getting a PP so they just saved acted like Gonchar was hurt and they saved that son of a b till they went on the PP...there it is i've solved it thats why/how the d-bags won!

[Guest NumbaSixty-Six]

I'm guessing that the penalties the Pens got away with were o.k. with you Numba 66 including the couple of high sticks you're team has gotten away with because the refs supposedly "didn't see them". Let's be honest the impact of that high stick was so weak that the only way it drew blood was if the Pen player used the old wrestling maneuver and used something to cut himself and insure blood. None of those calls should have been made in the OT periods including the hooking call against the Pens. Didn't hockey used to a sport for warriors not figure skaters. As a matter of fact I think that their actually is more contact allowed in every other sport on the planet. Buttnugget has turned the NHL into the International Ice Dancing Federation, PLEASE someone peg this ass in the head in Pittsburgh with an Octopi!!!!!

One high stick? how about all the interference penalties... but I wont go there snice I am not really well informed on the matter because I don't whine

[RockyMountainWingGal 108]

Try the Detroit News next time. Don't blame us 'cause some sportswriter expressed his opinion in his column - and tempt us to agree with him or not.

Reffing was bad last night - but NOT why the Wings lost. OTs are so much fun when they don't call stupid sh*& unless it's blatant. The high stick was just an unfortunate accident from a player who'd been playing hard for almost 5 hours - the hockey Gods seemed to not be on our side last night - although the Wings almost fought through that too........

[omnipotent_hudler 0]

One high stick? how about all the interference penalties... but I wont go there snice I am not really well informed on the matter because I don't whine

Vitals

How dare he?

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How dare he?

Sidney Patrick Crosby (born for the first time on December 25, 1 BC, in a small manger in Bethlehem, and then again on August 7, 1987, in Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada) is a professional ice hockey player for the NHL's Pittsburgh Penguins. He was the first pick of the 2005 NHL Entry Draft and one of the leading scorers during the 2005-06 NHL season finishing 6th in scoring with 102 points (39 G, 63 A), though some believe that to be a farce, as he was playing with one hand taped behind his back in order to bring himself down to the talent level around him.

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Playing career

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Amateur years

Ironically, when Sidney was born, hockey did not even exist, in spite of the fact that he was predestined to excel at the game. Because he was originally born in such a warm, middle-eastern climate, he decided it best to put himself to sleep for nearly 2000 years to wait for history's great explorers to discover and inhabit Canada.

On the 7th day of August, in 1987, he rose again, and started practicing. Quickly, he was deemed to be "too good" for Canadian juniors, and was drafted by his favorite team, the Montreal Canadiens, in the second round of the 1988 NHL entry draft.

"Martin St. Amour," as they called him, was only one year old, and about 2'1", 23 lbs at the time of his drafting. The Canadians are generally lambasted for this pick, not because Crosby's first NHL stint only lasted one game, but because they probably could have picked him in the third round if they'd have exercised any sort of restraint.

After one game in the NHL, the young Crosby decided to slow his development and play on a more traditional track.

Interestingly, due to Crosby's intense and sometimes obsessive love of the United States-based chain "Dunkin Donuts," he decided to move to Minnesota for high school, where he met a young loner with a heart of gold named Jack Johnson. The two played together at Shattuck St. Mary's, with Crosby scoring at will and Johnson beating the crap out of people.

Johnson went to the University of Michigan where he more than likely just killed a man, while Crosby went back to the land of Tim Horton's to play junior hockey with Rimouski Oceanic. Nothing interesting at all happened there.

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NHL career

On July 30, 2005, in the first draft under the new CBA, the Penguins selected Crosby in the 2005 NHL Entry Draft with the first overall pick. It gave Crosby the opportunity to play alongside another hockey great, Mario Lemieux.

The happy couple

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The happy couple

Crosby, being only 18, needed a place to stay in Pittsburgh. Originally he stayed with consummate bachelor, Ryan Malone, but after repeated attempts by Ryan to "get Sidney as drunk as possible and then sleep with him," Sidney sought new arrangements. Luckily, Mario Lemieux's three square mile estate had some extra room. Some saw this coming together of old and young as "creepy," but nobody would dare bring it up because it's Mario ******* Lemieux and we just don't joke about him anymore, OK?

Right from the start it was clear that Crosby was going to be the best player in the game. Crosby, however, did not want to win a Stanley Cup in his first season, remarking, "well, where can you go from there? I want to earn it!" In an effort to help Crosby better "earn" the Cup, then GM Craig Patrick decided to fill the team with players from the NHL's proverbial rest home. Sergei Gonchar, Jocelyn Thibault, Ziggy Palffy, Mark Recchi, and John Leclair, all arguably well past their prime, were brought in as pylons for Crosby to skate around.

A rare Sidney Crosby moment in which he is not scoring

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A rare Sidney Crosby moment in which he is not scoring

Unfortunately the wheels began to fall off the bus right away as broadcaster Eddie Olczyk inexplicably posed as the head coach of the team, something he was woefully unqualified to do. Because the Mellon Arena lacks telephone hookups, however, the team was powerless to do anything, and the man they had actually hired to coach the team went to Carolina and did something there.

Two months passed and the Penguins' geriatric society decided it was just about time to hang it up. Lemieux caught the stomach flu, Ziggy Palffy bought a one-way USAir ticket to Whereabouts, Unknown, John Leclair transformed into a writhing cabbage, Mark Recchi left for Carolina, and Sergei Gonchar inserted his head up his ass. Jocelyn Thibault... Well... The less said, the better.

Interestingly, by himself, Crosby would have been more effective than having a group of misfit-old-guys around him, however NHL rules stipulate that a team must carry a certain amount of yada yada yada and Craig Patrick decided to fill out the team's lineup with scrubs. The scrubs inserted on Crosby's line, (Andy Hilbert and Colby Armstrong) went on to have surprisingly good seasons, spawning the term "The Crosby Effect."

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The Crosby Effect

The term given when two talentless, mostly retarded, wingers get paired with a centerman (in this case, Sidney Crosby) and actually end up looking like they're worth something.

The effect commonly results in one of these wingers getting cut and fans screaming "I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU DIDN'T OFFER ANDY HILBERT A CONTRACT OH MY GOD HE'S THE NEXT JARI KURRI" even though it is not true.

Some argue that this could be called "The Gretzky Effect," which would explain why Bernie Nicholls has 70 goals or some s***, but... no.

This effect is the reason Clark Gillies is in the hall of fame (in this case the Bossy effect).

In the world's spotlight

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In the world's spotlight

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Crosby's sought after jerseys

I've got one. It's pretty nice.

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Criticism

Like Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux before him, Crosby has been accused by opposing players and coaches of taking dives and complaining. The criticism is not unfounded, however. Because of Crosby's strong skating and Big Body Presence, he physically should never be knocked down. Therefore, whenever he is on the ice, it would technically be due to a dive.

Crosby, however, does not dive to draw penalties. Rather, to appear more human. He is a benevolent god and certainly anything but a glory hound.

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Related

[BlueMonk 102]

Drawing blood on a high stick is an automatic double minor. The ref has to call it if he sees it. Yes, the Wings have been on the receiving end and not gotten a whistle, but last night it was pretty obvious and I would have been surprised if Huds hadn't gone to the box.

Now, the remaining penalties called were all garbage, including the one against Pittsburgh. The officiating sucked. You don't call those penalties in the Stanley Cup Finals, let alone in a multiple overtime game.

[Guest NumbaSixty-Six]

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Like Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux before him, Crosby has been accused by opposing players and coaches of taking dives and complaining. The criticism is not unfounded, however. Because of Crosby's strong skating and Big Body Presence, he physically should never be knocked down. Therefore, whenever he is on the ice, it would technically be due to a dive.

Crosby, however, does not dive to draw penalties. Rather, to appear more human. He is a benevolent god and certainly anything but a glory hound.

QFT

[omnipotent_hudler 0]

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Like Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux before him, Crosby has been accused by opposing players and coaches of taking dives and complaining. The criticism is not unfounded, however. Because of Crosby's strong skating and Big Body Presence, he physically should never be knocked down. Therefore, whenever he is on the ice, it would technically be due to a dive.

Crosby, however, does not dive to draw penalties. Rather, to appear more human. He is a benevolent god and certainly anything but a glory hound.

QFT

you missed the part where it was comedy

[Guest NumbaSixty-Six]

you missed the part where it was comedy

^ Thats what is funny! is you think it is a comedy!

[GMRwings1983 8,804]

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Like Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux before him, Crosby has been accused by opposing players and coaches of taking dives and complaining. The criticism is not unfounded, however. Because of Crosby's strong skating and Big Body Presence, he physically should never be knocked down. Therefore, whenever he is on the ice, it would technically be due to a dive.

Crosby, however, does not dive to draw penalties. Rather, to appear more human. He is a benevolent god and certainly anything but a glory hound.

QFT

Will you still post here regularly after you lose this series?

If not, then you're nothing more than a troll. In fact, I don't remember seeing you around here after game 4.

[Guest NumbaSixty-Six]

Will you still post here regularly after you lose this series?

If not, then you're nothing more than a troll. In fact, I don't remember seeing you around here after game 4.

I went to that game... was a little heartbroken.... O and you bet your ass I'll be around here if we lose the series forever

[GMRwings1983 8,804]

I went to that game... was a little heartbroken.... O and you bet your ass I'll be around here if we lose the series forever

That'll be the day. You'll be out of here like a cloud of dust, and will only come back if we play you again in the Finals next year.

We've seen fans like you all playoffs, depending on which team we're playing. None of them had the guts to come back.

[Wings_Dynasty 267]

^ Thats what is funny! is you think it is a comedy!

SAS Wikipedia is comedy. But it does have this little gem in it:

Here is the article. GOLD!

Edited June 4, 2008 by Wings_Dynasty

[tsudzy 2]

O and you bet your ass I'll be around here if we lose the series forever

Hopefully only as a bad memory.

[BuckeyeWingsfan80 209]

One high stick? how about all the interference penalties... but I wont go there snice I am not really well informed on the matter because I don't whine

You whined in that post.....

[Vincanni 1]

For the record the Hudler high-sticking penalty was a good call, it was also the same damn thing that happened to Lidstrom in game three though, were we got jack and s*** for a PP. That was the same game Gill injured Homer on another terrible none call. Also blowing a tire near Datsyuk is not a penalty, neither were either of our "goalie interference" calls in PP. The reffing has been brutal and is obviously trying to draw out the series by giving the Pens a clear edge, there's no way the team that has the puck as much as the Wings have should be absorbing so many penalties.

P.S. Pens obstruct and interfere (especially interfere) just as bad if not far worse than the Wings, just our coach has something called dignity and won't go spoiling his diapers on live TV to get his way, though I wish he'd at least bring it up.

[Electrophile 3,554]

^^I'm glad Babcock hasn't done it. If we win, I don't want ANYONE accusing us of buying the victory or cajoling the refs into giving it to us by calling more penalties on the Pens. Because you know damn well someone will do it, and they'll more than likely be loud about it.

[GoWings1905 2,694]

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article...109/1048/SPORTS

A penalty is a freaking penalty.. (besides the pens woulda won anyway.... can't help sykora with the scora)

Not true. A penalty is NOT always a penalty. I'm not saying they shouldn't have called the Hudler high stick, because that is a penalty. However, did you seem to forget Lidstrom being cut open in game three by a high stick with NO call?

I beg to differ that the Penguins would have won anyways. The Red Wings controlled play for most of the overtimes. Not to mention, your team seemed to perfect the "obstruction" tactics that Therrien whines about when the Penguins lose. The holding, hooking, and interference not called was a joke. I don't ever want to hear Michelle whine again after that showing by his team during the extra sessions.

By the way, I respect other fans and have no problem with them posting here, but why do you insist on convincing RED WINGS fans to see it your way? Post your opinion, but realize where you are doing it at.

Edited June 4, 2008 by GoWings1905

[CAWingsfan25 0]

I went to that game... was a little heartbroken.... O and you bet your ass I'll be around here if we lose the series forever

Lucky Us.