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Nice goal by Crosby. The wheels are coming off for the Isles.

And I had to mute the tv because McGuire was so excited on the Crosby goal it was making me uncomfortable.


Kunitz just ran Nabokov and may have hit him in the head.

I hope you're kidding

 

 

You look at the video of the wings losing in OT...every skater the Wings had on the ice were standing around the crease when the puck went in

Some of them were out of position maybe, but they were at least trying to make a play.

 

That is nothing like what Ovechkin is doing here.  Literally coasting towards the guy about to score a goal.  He had the best seat in the house.

 

The YT clip shows the best angle.  I thought he came off the bench but he was on the ice the whole time, coasting from center ice.
 

Still, he put up a 41 goal/95 point performance this season. Hes not paid to play defense, hes there to put the biscuit in the basket. 

 

When you're paid $9.5 million a year you're expected to be a star player.  And a star player doesn't coast towards the net like that.

 

That was the game winner.  In the playoffs. 

 

Do you guys seriously see nothing wrong with his play there?

 

I wonder how his teammates feel about his effort ?  Yeah, Semin was clearly the problem in Washington.

Hopefully this will humble some of their more idiotic fans.  God they were intolerable a couple seasons ago.

 

But honestly getting swept may have saved them from a few more years of playoff disappointments by spurring management to make more dramatic moves.  Like ending the goalie debacle with luongo.

Smith hasn't shown any flashes of brilliance his whole NHL career up til now. So much hype and he plays like a taller Lebda at best. Painful watching him play in the top 4

 

His whole NHL career to date has been 53 games spread over 2 seasons.

 

I expected him to progress more than he has, but it's too early to give up on him.  He's still having positional problems at the NHL level but he's getting more physical and more confident in his offense. 

 

That was Smith who made the nice stretch pass to Brunner catching the Ducks on a line change.  I'd call that a flash of brilliance.  Or at least Rafalski-like.

That rookie line also won us game 2 and 4... They have has all 5 rookies out there numerous times...

And not to nitpick but Kindl is in his 3rd season on the wings and has over 150 NHL games under his belt. He's not exactly a rookie.

Lashoff Kindl is not a good pairing.

What the hell did Smith do?

 

grabbed him with his bare hand and dragged him down with him. 

 

I'm fine with coincidentals for that.  They were all over each other.

People who think Cleary sucks and doesn't do anything need to watch him in front of the net.

thankfully the war room gets one right.

Ref waved it off, but I could see that counting under review.

Is it just me, or has Zetterberg been invisible out there?

Some people seem to think so but he assisted on both goals and had a great play to Dat's shot that rang off the post right at the end of the 2nd. 

 

He's not looking dominant, but he's doing things out there.

They just let Getzlaf walk in between the hash marks.  Wtf were the  forwards doing?

Murph playing without his glasses, and then trying to play with steamed up glasses was funny.  Someone should tell him about contact lenses.

 

 

 

I also like the part around 45 sec where someone gives Ozzy a drink of whatever is in the bottle, and hes like "mmm...that's a delicious blend you have there, my friend"

That was hysterical.

 

The look on his face was  like "that's not gatorade!"

That is awesome.  Too funny.

But that's because the Norris Trophy is for the defenceman who has "demonstrated the greatest all-around ability" at the position.  Hence why defensive defencemen like Derian Hatcher and Scott Stevens never won it.

 

That said, its a pretty paltry list this year.  Would lol hard though if Subban wins it after all the frothing at the mouth in some parts when there was speculation earlier in the season that we could trade for him

 

But on the flipside Karlsson just won it and he doesn't have the greatest all around ability at the position either.  He's an amazing offensive defenseman but still has to develop his game in the defensive end. 

 

Last nights game was more evidence of Karlsson's suspect decision making.  After the game Maclean made comments about how they'd go over the mistakes Karlsson made and talk to him, and that sometimes he plays for the other team, but when he plays for their team he makes them better.

 

Stevens actually used to be more of an offensive defenseman.  He has the skillset, they just reigned that in in Jersey under Lemaire's system.