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Well when you have Marleau stopping to pick up his glove instead of back checking which ended in a goal and not scoring you pretty much can focus on Pavs and Logan. Marleau has turned into such a useless player this year. I am amazed hes +2. The guy has been a ghost. Hes not the only one, but the worse. JR maybe was right. Clowe the other night post game said everyone knows what their job is. Some people arent doing their job.

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With the Loss today the Isles are officially eliminated from the post season dance. I am sad but optimistic with the core group pf guys we have. I just hope Snow dosn't Fvck it up. He has done well so far in my book.

So Baseball season is starting hmmm...

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Heading down to the United Center for the Hawks last regular season home game versus the Wild. Let's Go Hawks!

http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/a...g3/Hossa-1.jpg

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Have fun.

Sharks had a nice win yesterday. Fairly chippy game with some fights. Ott ejected. They play again Tuesday and expect a very nasty game.

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Potentially the loser books tee times. Huge game, can't wait!

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Christ, I can't keep up with the Pacific Division. As it stands right now Vancouver gets San Jose in a repeat of last year's Conference Final but god only knows what's going to happen there. I think the NHL's system of seeding the Division leaders no lower than 3rd regardless of their point totally is completely idiotic.

Either way, Vancouver is now 1st in the West and tied on points with the Rangers for first overall. Our last 3 games (Anaheim, Calgary, Edmonton) are, on paper anyways, much easier than either the Blues (Detroit, Phoenix, Dallas) or the Rangers (Boston, Philly, Pitsburgh, Washington) so there's a good chance that we'll repeat last year with both 1st in the West and President's Trophy.

If only the Canucks would find their offense again instead of relying on the goaltending to bail them out. It works ok when both your goalies are at a level that places them as the #1 on basically any team in the league but it's just not sustainable. God it's going to suck losing Schneider in the off-season. It's going to suck even more seeing him in Maple Leaf blue, especially for him going from one of the top teams in the league to a team that really doesn't even deserve to be in the NHL based on it's caliber of play over the last decade :(

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Whoooooo baby what a game pens and philly

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Can't believe I actually have to root for Boston today...

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Agreed....would sure like the NHLPA go along with the 4 division format that was proposed earlier this year.

Off to the Hawks game soon.

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That'd be a good step, I still prefer the idea of extending the regular season slightly so you play every team in the league 3 times a year and the top 16 teams in the league make the playoffs regardless of conference. That eliminates scenario's like Vancouver's where a large part of the reason they're ranked as high as they are is because they're in a pathetically weak division and it means that you don't have the yearly BS of the 14th, 15th or 16th ranked teams (based on points) not making the playoffs because they're in the stronger conference.

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:sw :lr

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Lol, I've been a Habs fan my entire life and a Canucks fan for the last decade after moving to Vancouver. Trust me, rooting for Boston goes entirely against my genetics but the Bruins beating the Rangers today helps the Canucks towards repeating as regular season champs so... (holds nose) go Bruins go (runs to bathroom and pukes) ;)

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Should be a good game always a close contest.

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Watching the Rangers & Bruins, drinking an American style lager(Miller Lite) and wondering why I didn't stay in Cancun for another week to watch.....;).

Go Avs 2012-13!

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^^^Miller Lite > Dos Equis

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Because vacations cost money and mexico doesnt have a professional hockey team?
Im just shooting in the dark. Oooh and you gots one of those damn j o bs

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Thank you Bruins, now I can return to hating you like normal :r

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B I N G O.... Well, money at least... They were showing soccer on two of four televisions & I have like 280ish hours of banked vacation(7 weeks?) that I can burn..... Though, if I said I was leaving for 7....they may ask me to think of them.....;)

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Fun Hawks game tonight, several fights and a Hawks goal with 2:30 left to grab a point.

Brandon Bollig said something to Heatly while lining up for a face off that sent Heatly over the deep end, and had one of the other Wild challenging Bollig after the puck dropped. I mean Heatly just went berserk. I hope it didn't have anything to do with Heatly's vehicular homicide charge....I don't care for Heatly, but that would still be bush league.

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Set the TiVo to watch the highlights when I got home from the Hawks game. Thr Tribune company is apparently at odds with Directv, so all that got taped was a notice from Directv that the owner of the station has pulled the rights from DirectV to broadcast it.

The majority of Hawks games are on Comcast Sports Channel, the Tribune station (WGN) does about 15 games a year, and I believe tonight was their last one for the season...but I would have been livid if I hadn't had tickets and the game wasn't on TV.

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A sign at the Bruins Jets game.

Good for Him:tu

http://i.imgur.com/E0Zys.png

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That's to funny :r

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This was a great game to watch live. To quote Tom before the game "its the last game so there won't be any fights". Wrong!! I think by the 3rd one we knew it was going to be a crazy game.

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That's not the quote, I said "Minnesota has no playoff hopes so there won't be any fights"....but I was still way off. :r

Looks like Tyler is laughing at that sign....wonder if he remembers the skanks? :r

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The local sports station was bemoaning the fact that the Wild have won three in a row at "the worst possible time", harming their lottery chances. LOL Whatever. They have an influx of young talent on the way over the next 2 seasons, and if they stay healthier next year, they could become a force to be reckoned with once that talent matures. Not only that, they are expected to be a fairly big player in the free agent market over the offseason, and reportedly have a native son as their main target:
http://3.cdn.nhle.com/lightning/imag.../parise600.jpg

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Hooooray for puck bunnies.

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Bigger pic from in the funny pics thread...

http://i672.photobucket.com/albums/v...29107547_n.jpg

At least they look pretty cute there. :)

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odd officiating in kings oilers game. End of First kopitar slashes and breaks and oilers stick going to net looking for a rebound. Two pieces of stick laying on ice no call. Hopkins in second barely touches Richards who goes down and gets a slashing call. Now a tripping call when the oiler clearly got the puck first.

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Close but not quite....

http://video.redwings.nhl.com/videoc...d=-6&id=169351


I love watching this guy play!

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That would be a good get for the Wild!

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Buffalo playing like they want to miss the playoffs.....

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think the way it sits in the pacific right now is the way it will end.
Dallas has to win out against Nashville and St. Louis. Not likely
San Jose would need to take both games I think to leap them as I think the kings have a better record against sharks.
phoenix has St. Louis and minn unlikely they will beat the blues.

Either way the Sharks get the blues or canucks and are likely one and done.

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I gave up on that game when i almost threw my phone at the wall as Toronto went up 5-3. I turned the tv back on expecting to see the post game show and some how im watching them win in ot. This season has been hell on my nerves but i'll take it.

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It was a great and exciting comeback, still hoping they can overtake the Caps.

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I know they've been talking about it since before this season. Plus, the fact that he's built a huge new house here. I know they're likely to throw a boatload of $ at him. Imagine a line of him and Heatley, centered by Koivu, and a second line featuring Setoguchi and Granlund and maybe someone like Clutterbuck or Cullen. It would be HUGE for this franchise to bring in a player of his caliber. Of course, all this doesn't mean jack shyte if none of them can stay healthy. Not only that, the other young talent they are expecting to have come in. This franchinse has a bright future ahead, and adding Parise would make it damn close to blinding, IMO.

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That Zucker kid from Denver put a move on the defense last night that had a couple of jocks laying on the ice. Unfortunately he lost the puck before he had a chance to do anything after getting past them. I agree with the young talent this team could do something sooner rather than later, but health has been such an issue all season long.

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Hey, did any of the Minnesota papers pick up or report on what was said to Heatly by Bollig in Chicago last Sunday?

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You and me both. They had there chance last weekend and blew it, lets hope its not to late.

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Nothing that I read. I'll take a little closer look at Monday's paper, but I hadn't heard anything.

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Never seen a non-fighter type so angry before a face-off in all my years of watching.

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There's some speculation that Bollig was chirping about Heatley's old vehicular manslaughter charge...

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If that's the case, it's a bit bush league, to me. But, he did do it, so it's fair game, I suppose. :confused:

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It's bush league but it also depends largely on what was said, Snyder was one of Heatley's best friends afterall. On ice trash talk is one thing but there are limits to what acceptable and to me personally something like that would be crossing the line almost as much as trash talking an opponents kids.

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I agree with this 100%. It's one thing to trash talk, but to do it about that... I sure hope that wasn't the case.

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That thought crossed my mind, as I couldn't think what else could make him so angry. As I stated earlier in the thread, hope that's not the case...I really like this Bollig kid, but that would be a huge mark against him in my book, even if I think Heatly is a douche.

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Rematch tonight. We'll see what fireworks occur.

I do agree about trash talk. There's good trash talk, and some things that I would personally stay away from, as I'd call them bush league. Maybe the Wild need to send Kassian out there and line him up across from Bollig. A midwest version Rangers-Devils? LOL

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Papers here are expecting a repeat of the fireworks. :bx

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Shouldn't be much in the way of fireworks but a win tonight for the Canucks clinches the Western Conference and forces the decider on the President's Trophy to the last game of the season. A Calgary win gives the Rangers the Pesidents Trophy and St. Louis a chance at 1st in the West.

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Reminds me of the spark that caused this fight:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6WsGb71NgY

According to Theo, Chelios said "you'll be here for a couple more months then you will be back in rehab." while pretending to snort cocaine. Aparrently after that Theo lost it and slashed Chelios. Chelios elbowed him and then the fists were flying. I haven't heard Chelios's version. Supposedly they were friends before this incident but not afterwards.




That aside, Wings/Blues played a good game last night. It was a break-neck pace all the way through. Blues looked to break the will of the Wings with a shorty during a 5 min major. To make it worse they scored again 3 min later, around 9 minutes left in the 3rd, to go up 2-0. The Wings regrouped and came back strong. Two Datsyuk assists to Frazen goals alter it was tied with 3 min left. OT was almost all Wings. Shootout went Blues X X X and Wings X X 1 thanks to Bert's top-shelf backhander.

Very fun to watch. I'm thankful Howard seems back to mid season form.

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Enjoyed the game as well, Mike....well, at least the first 57 minutes. :r