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Mellotron Storm 
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 Posted: June 15 2009 at 22:34 |
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Being a huge Penguins fan I had to eat a lot of humble pie last year from Red Wings fans.
Well,now it's my turn!To all you Red Wings fans.....he he he.
Congrats to Sid and the Kids!!!!!
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I was almost as excited as when the Steelers won the Super Bowl this year. Not too many people were giving the Pens a chance in game 7 especially on the road. I was on pins and needles watching the last few minutes. Who would have thought Talbot would be the hero scoring twice. Saw a picture today in the paper of Sid at the Pirates game with the cup.Pretty cool.
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Posted: June 16 2009 at 12:06 |
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due to the photo uploading system we have here at prog archives I might have some difficulty posting my parade pics
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Posted: June 16 2009 at 21:57 |
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^ Hey! Glad to see you here. I was a little afraid you were in a depression spiral and decided to give up on modern life and live in the forest. |
I wouldn't last a week alone in a forest. I'd become deer food.
I'm disappointed that the Red Wings didn't win, but quite frankly the Penguins were the better team this series. The game that the Red Wings won 5 to 0 was the only game where the Red Wings actually looked like the Red Wings. The Penguins could have won the first two games that the Red Wings won, if it wasn't for a couple of gratuitous bounces. On the other hand, the Red Wings could have one 3 of the 4 games that they lost if it wasn't for some bad luck or bad calls that went against them. Don't mistake that last comment for sour grapes. That is hockey for you. In Game 3, if the refs call the Penguins for too many men on the ice (I'd say 20 seconds with 6 guys on the ice certainly qualifies), the Wings might have been on the power play at the time that the Penguins scored the game winning goal. That's not to say that the Penguins wouldn't have scored short-handed (see game 4). The Penguins might still have won that game but it was still a bad break for the Wings. In Game 6 with the score 2 to 1 Zetterberg hit the post with a shot. An inch to the right and it is in the net (or maybe Fleury saves it?) And then with just seconds left the Penguins' defenseman makes a save because Fleury is out of the net and when Franzen slides the rebound towards the net it gets past the defenseman's hand but it happens to hit his back skate which is on the line. That close to tying the game up, but no cigar. In Game 7, the Penguins scored their first goal on a play that could have been whistled for icing, but the linesman chose not to call it. Stuart coughed up the puck and the Penguins scored. It is what it is, but it was still an unfortunate break. And than late in the game during desperation time one of the Wings (I forget who) beat Fleury up top, but the puck hit the crossbar and bounced away. Again, an inch lower and the Wings score (or Fleury makes the save). Fleury made two great saves at the end and the Penguins win the Cup.
If any of those plays go the Red Wings way and it could be a different team carrying the Cup. On the other hand, the circumstances would have changed and the Penguins may still have won. It was a great series and Malkin, Talbot, and Kennedy were too much for the Wings. I am still left unimpressed by Sid the Kid however. |
I'm sorry Rushfan, but you can spend all summer playing the what if game, it happened to half of Pittsburgh last year. What if this penalty was called, what if that shot didn't take a lucky bounce. As avid a fan as you seem to be, you know that the luck of the bounces and the officials pretty much evens out. Bill McCreary doesn't get to ref his 24th year (or something like that) by pushing the game towards one direction or the other. I'm not saying that things wern't called that should have been, I'm just saying it all evened out. Detriot was guilty of an incredible amount of interference calls throughout the series. Because they wern't being called, the Penguins started committing the same infractions. My point is that you can't yell at the refs for a no call in game seven on a Penguins infraction without admitting that the Wings were committing the same infractions throughout the bulk of the series.
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Posted: July 01 2009 at 14:51 |
Somehow I missed this last comment. I don't disagree with Roland's comment. I think if you read my post again you will see that my comment was essentially the same thing. You'll notice that I didn't complain about most of the penalties that weren't called for various fractions. The only one that I mentioned was the extremely obvious one of the Penguins having too many men on the ice in game 3. The Penguins scored the game winning goal during a period of time that they should have been killing a power play. It doesn't mean that the Wings would have scored or even won the game but at either rate it was a bad break. The bounces at the end of the games off of crossbars and such are very much apart of the game and again just bad luck. As far as the noncall on the icing, the Red Wings were called for icing the entire series. In my opinion, the linesman blew the call, but even so, Stuart shouldn't have coughed up the puck to allow Pittsburgh to score. My opinion hasn't changed. I still think that the team that played better during the series won. I think that Pittsburgh was the better team in 6 out of the 7 games, but with a little bit of better luck, especially with those last minute flurries, there could have been a different result. C'est la vie.'
And now for the actual reason that I came to this thread.
Marian Hossa signs 12 year $62.4 million contract with the Chicago Blackhawks. I'm surprised that after losing in the finals two years in a row, that anyone would want him. 
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Posted: September 25 2009 at 17:00 |
The NHL exhibition season is good for at least one thing. I am off to see an Original Six matchup between the Red Wings and the Toronto Maple Leafs. Last week I saw the Wings play the New York Rangers. With the Wings in the West and these teams and Boston and Montreal in the East, the only Original SIx team we ever see is the Chicago Blackhawks.
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Posted: September 25 2009 at 18:32 |
rushfan4 wrote:
The NHL exhibition season is good for at least one thing. I am off to see an Original Six matchup between the Red Wings and the Toronto Maple Leafs. Last week I saw the Wings play the New York Rangers. With the Wings in the West and these teams and Boston and Montreal in the East, the only Original SIx team we ever see is the Chicago Blackhawks. |
Awesome. I'm a Leafs fan, but have been a longtime admirer of the Detroit Red Wings, one of the finest franchises in all of professional sports. They never seem to have the need to hold onto a draft pick in the top 3 rounds. They've found more diamonds in the rough than most. Despite not making the playoffs since the lockout, I've got to have hope for the Leafs at the start of the season. Quite a few new faces, and some of our rookies have been quite impressive in the preseason. Interested to see what Phil Kessel can bring to the team, but 2 1sts and a 2nd round pick is a damn steep price to pay. Boston will be hoping the Leafs fall in the autumn and stay down in the winter.
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Posted: September 25 2009 at 18:49 |
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Finally I'm on this side of the pond. Go Canucks!
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Posted: September 26 2009 at 10:34 |
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It was an enjoyable game last night. The Leafs jumped out to a 3 - 0 lead, and the Wings stormed back with 4 goals. Two from Nicholas Kronwall, whose picture happened to be on the game ticket last night, and two from Johan "The Mule" Franzen, whose jersey I got as a birthday present this summer. The Leafs scored with about a minute and a half left to send it to overtime and then won it in the shootout, so the end result wasn't so good as a Wings fan, but it was still a good game. I'm pretty sure that the Leafs' fans in attendance last night outnumbered the Wings' fans in attendance so it almost felt like a road game from that perspective. That was kind of strange as Wings' fans usually make road games feel like home games.
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Posted: September 26 2009 at 19:08 |
rushfan4 wrote:
It was an enjoyable game last night. The Leafs jumped out to a 3 - 0 lead, and the Wings stormed back with 4 goals. Two from Nicholas Kronwall, whose picture happened to be on the game ticket last night, and two from Johan "The Mule" Franzen, whose jersey I got as a birthday present this summer. The Leafs scored with about a minute and a half left to send it to overtime and then won it in the shootout, so the end result wasn't so good as a Wings fan, but it was still a good game. I'm pretty sure that the Leafs' fans in attendance last night outnumbered the Wings' fans in attendance so it almost felt like a road game from that perspective. That was kind of strange as Wings' fans usually make road games feel like home games. |
And the way the fans boo at the Air Canada Center, Leafs fans make home games feel like road games.  I'm glad you enjoyed the game. The only NHL game I've been to was in 1996 (Leafs vs Kings at Maple Leaf Gardens). I'd love to go to a game when I move back to the Toronto area after I graduate university, but tickets are hard to get whether they are winning or losing. At least I have Raptors games.
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Posted: October 08 2009 at 20:32 |
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With the Tigers' season over time to move on to my other sports' love, the Red Wings. After losing both games against St. Louis in Sweden, the Red Wings are playing their true home opener on U.S. soil and currently lead the Chicago Black Hawks 3 to 1 in the 3rd period. All 4 goals were scored in the 2nd period.
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Posted: October 09 2009 at 18:28 |
What kind of sick a$$hole bites another player?
Suppose it isn't really all that suprising really, he is a Flyer after all, and if the team's captain ("leader") has no problem with skating full steam into the other teams goalie then I suppose all bets are off with regards to behavior.
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Posted: October 14 2009 at 11:51 |
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^ It was rather self fulfilling on my end. My wife and I were watching the game and I made a disparaging comment about Hartnall. When questioned by my wife, I expressed my general feeling towards him which is that he's an idiot, a dirty player and a wanna be goon. Sure enough, a half an hour later he pretty much proved it for me.
On a similar note, it was a rough couple of days for Kris LeTang. On Thursday he gets bitten then on Saturday Rosehall (or something like that) spears him in what looked like the neck? I missed the actual play but saw it once on a replay, wow, tough week.
One comment on the Penguins in general. This team and especially Marc Andre Fleury looks so confident this year. In the home opener against the Rangers, with a minute or so left the Rangers pulled their goalie and had the extra attacker on. There was a scramble in front of the net for about a minute. Last year, Marc Andre would have been all over the place and a little erratic. This year, he looked so relaxed and simply followed the puck through the chaos surrounding him. He looked so relaxed, you could almost hear him say 'heh, I had to face the Red Wings in the last minute of game seven of the Stanley Cup finals, this is nothing'. Sure enough, nothing got by him throughout the final onslaught.
One other note, possibly the funniest moment that I've seen this season was when Fleury tried to steal Hartnall's stick.
Go Pens.
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Posted: October 14 2009 at 22:34 |
I'm glad I'm too busy with school to be watching the Leafs lately. 
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Posted: October 15 2009 at 16:05 |
My boss gave me tickets to go see the Wings play the Kings tonight. Should be fun? I go a Johan Franzen jersey for my birthday this summer, but he is out for 4 months with an injury, so I might as well wear my old Sergei Federov jersey, given that neither of them will be on the ice tonight.
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Posted: October 17 2009 at 07:40 |
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Hey Scott,
Sounds like a good week, Karmakanic and Hockey within a couple days of each other sounds like solid fun to me.
Tom
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Posted: October 17 2009 at 10:42 |
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Yes, it was a good week. Agents of Mercy and Karmakanic were awesome, and the Red Wings beat the Kings so it was a good week.
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Posted: December 01 2009 at 11:00 |
tough time refinding this thread
Popped in to mention the poetic justice of alexander ovechkin injuring himself during his most recent attempt to injure another player. I'm glad to see karma didn't let him get away with this knee to knee hit now I'm curious to see whether the league does (considering he's a repeat offender and they did nothing to him for last seasons playoff goon job on Gonchar). Will the NHL have the balls to fine and suspend this overrated, two-stat, no-defense playing punk?
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Posted: December 01 2009 at 13:51 |
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^ Yeah, I think the NHL has mandated that Florida trade Ballard to Washington as part of Ovechkin's punishment. It's bad enough when you only have to worry about being run by the other team, this Ballard character has just upped the ante.
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Posted: December 01 2009 at 19:38 |
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^ yeah, i saw that, was unbelievable. How can you play a fast paced sport in which you have to manuever a small rubber disc, thats in constant motion, on a sheet of ice with the curved end of a long stick if you can't even hit a stationary red post while standing still with nothing else going on on the ice. Since the goalie wasn't seriously injuried, from what I've heard, I wouldn't be surprised if this, from a lockroom standpoint at least, blew right over with an man to man talk and a few beers. I really have no idea what the league can/will do but this will certainly be replayed over and over on sports shows for eons to come, which is a shame for hockey.
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Posted: December 01 2009 at 21:14 |
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^ I'm amazed that the guy wasn't suspended. You've got to keep your emotions in check at all times, if it was the other team's goalie, he'd have a lifetime ban. I just can't believe that the team didn't even suspend him for a couple games. Picture this, if you go into work and "accidentally" smack your stapler off of your co-workers head, you're probably going to get a couple of days off. I just think the NHL would have done a lot of good for itself if it had done something. Instead, this will just be a shame as you mention.
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