2010-2011 NHL Season Thread

[Palin]

Lopside special teams in that game. Chicago was the better team 5v5 but the PK and PP failed them. Solid win for the Stars, needed that.

[Thoronas]

Is the stars PK looking any better? I was shocked how bad it looked against the Canucks.

[Thoronas]

Daniel Sedin scores the 10,000 goal in Canucks history. 3-0 vs Calgary.

[Callisto]

Lopside special teams in that game. Chicago was the better team 5v5 but the PK and PP failed them. Solid win for the Stars, needed that.

Ott dove like a fucking fuck, plus the penalty that went to Benn should have gone to him so he shouldn't have even been on the ice for the ENG, but yeah there's no excuse for the PK being that bad, not going to win many games giving up 3 PPG.

[Thoronas]

Fuck you Jackman, Luongo was 10 seconds away from a shutout.

[Palin]

Ott dove like a fucking fuck, plus the penalty that went to Benn should have gone to him so he shouldn't have even been on the ice for the ENG, but yeah there's no excuse for the PK being that bad, not going to win many games giving up 3 PPG.

To be fair you probably want Ott over Benn on the opposing PK. Benn's a monster on the PK, though Ott does hold the edge as our best faceoff guy.

Is the stars PK looking any better? I was shocked how bad it looked against the Canucks.

That was a really bad night, kinda like the Hawks had tonight. Our PK has been getting better every week since the start of the season where we were atrocious. That Nucks game vs such a good PP was an outlier of our improvement on special teams over the past 2 months. We were 4/4 on the PK tonight vs #1 Chicago too.

[vagus]

So any theories how the 'Nucks are gonna fit Salo into the lineup? Or will Mike pull the douche move and ask Salo to wave his no-trade clause and trade him to a play-off team?

[Thoronas]

They're going to dump Alberts and Rome in the minors around trade deadline and hope no one notices. Then bring them back up after the trade deadline is over. They ain't trading nobody and Salo still isn't convinced he can play period.

[Bregor]

Maybe Ovechkin could've potted one against the Lightning yesterday if he wasn't so tired from skating around the ice the final 20 seconds of the Winter Classic like a homo pumping his arm that the game was already won. Fucking russians. Kovalchuk WJC Shootout type of move IMO.

http://scarlet.capitals.nhl.com/uplo...dea8b86419.jpg

Also, my boy Evgeny Kuznetsov coming up huge in the gold medal game. WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW, CANADALANDERS?

And the Stamkos fail is pretty lol, not as bad as Kovalchuk but still gif-worthy.

Edit: Here ya go.

http://www.gifsoup.com/view4/1668551/stamkos2-o.gif

[Bregor]

Oh and the final episode of 24/7 was kind of a disappointment. Not enough focus on the momentum shifts of the game, or the people who contributed the most. I don't think I heard them mention Fehr, Carlson or Alzner once. And I wish they'd use more tape from the actual game broadcasts to get people used to the flow of the game. The occasional bit of slo-mo of someone ripping a slapper or making a hockey stop is great and all, but they kind of went overboard with this one. All in all, great series, sad to see it go, and I hope they bring it back for next year's WC.

[Callisto]

And I wish they'd use more tape from the actual game broadcasts to get people used to the flow of the game. The occasional bit of slo-mo of someone ripping a slapper or making a hockey stop is great and all, but they kind of went overboard with this one. All in all, great series, sad to see it go, and I hope they bring it back for next year's WC.

Did they have any actual NBC footage at all? They may have been limited to using only what they filmed themselves last week.

[Bregor]

Did they have any actual NBC footage at all? They may have been limited to using only what they filmed themselves last week.

Not for the WC, I don't think so. For the other games they did have game footage from CSN Washington and FSN Pittsburgh, as well as both radio broadcasts. Which reminds me, the Pittsburgh radio guy is God-awful. "HHHHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE SHOOTS AND SCORES!" Reminded me of:
http://knowyourmeme.com/i/000/044/03...jpg?1269304723

[Ivaden]

Hey fuck you buddy

[Bregor]

Steve Kolbe on the Caps radio broadcast isn't much better. He has a fairly high-pitched voice for a dude and when he gets excited it only makes it worse. I think he squeaks every time he says VarLAAHmov.

[Callisto]

ah god Emerick kept saying VarLAHmov too and it was driving me fucking crazy all game

[Selamis]

VS and NBC constantly say the names with the accent on the wrong part and it drives me crazy as well.

[Bregor]

Well for Varly it's actually correct, sort of. When he came up Kolbe and Joe B were saying VARR-la-mov but he told the team the emphasis is on the second syllable, var-LAH-mov. But no one seems to be able to pull it off without sounding like a douche.

[Callisto]

I just realized that the US finished the WJC with a better record than Canada but with a worse medal reward, lol

[vagus]

Unruly Russian hockey team kicked off NY flight

By CAROLYN THOMPSON, Associated Press

CHEEKTOWAGA, New York (AP)—Russia’s gold-medal celebration went into overtime. And that prevented them from boarding their flight Thursday morning, a day after they won the World Junior Hockey Championships.

About 30 members of the Russian contingent were asked to get off a Delta Air Lines flight to Atlanta after boarding for takeoff early Thursday morning, an airport spokesman said.

“To ensure the safe operation of the flight, the crew of Flight 1266 denied boarding to 30 passengers who were traveling together and displaying unruly behavior,” Delta spokeswoman Susan Chana Elliott said. “The passengers are being rebooked on a future flight.”

Russia overcame a three-goal deficit in the third period to stun Canada 5-3 in the gold-medal game Wednesday night. It was the country’s first gold medal since 2003.

An hour and a half after the upset win, several Russian coaches and trainers came on the ice—one holding a bottle of Crown Royal Canadian whisky and others sipping from paper cups—to pose for pictures in front of the scoreboard that had been lowered to ice level after the game.

The players, all 20 years old or younger, had left the ice.

Buffalo Niagara International Airport spokesman C. Douglas Hartmayer said after leaving the flight, the group headed to the baggage terminal to collect their belongings, which were taken off the plane.

Tournament officials had no immediate comment.

The Russians enjoyed a wild on-ice celebration once the final horn sounded, players throwing their gloves and sticks in the air as they jumped off the bench to mob goalie Igor Bobkov.

The celebration eventually spilled over into the media interview area, where team captain Vladimir Tarasenko and teammate Yevgeni Kuznetsov hugged and chanted “We’re champions! We’re champions.”

The Russians proved to be the comeback kids during the 11-day tournament. They reached the final by overcoming third-period deficits to win their previous two games.

They weren’t counted among the favorites in a tournament that featured Canada and the defending champion United States. Russia was also coming off an embarrassing sixth-place finish last year.

Associated Press Sports Writer John Wawrow contributed to this report.

Too much wódka. Lolz.

[isladar]

Good god, 30 twenty year-old Russians, hopped up on gold medals