NHL 2012-13 - Half Season Thread

Grimmlokk_sl said:

Every Caps fan I know is like this. Like some shellshocked former soldier. Every little thing in the playoffs triggers a horrible playoff flashback and they end up staring off in to the distance and mumbling to themselves.

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This cracked me up

Erskine is so terrible. No idea how he's skating in our top 4 on the back end.

Ovie you fucking drama queen lmao.

Wow...that might have hit him up near the neck, but I never saw it hit his face at all. A little embellishing there Ovechkin. I'd feel worse about it if PP's weren't 6-2 before this.

I love how when Ovie does one of his ridiculous over the top acting moves to try and get a penalty he keeps moving forward.

But yeah, super faggy move by Ovie flailing the head back from a chest tap. Fagvechkin.

Merrith_sl said:

A little embellishing there Ovechkin.

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A little? He threw his head back like he got hit with a Tyson uppercut...like 2 strides AFTER the stick lightly caressed him a foot below his head.

Grimmlokk_sl said:

A little? He threw his head back like he got hit with a Tyson uppercut...like 2 strides AFTER the stick lightly caressed him a foot below his head.

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You feel the stick come up like that you're going to flinch whether it hits you or not. It's not like he stopped playing got back up and kept skating. Probably on par with Sid's embellishment in OT yesterday.

Credit the Rags, they had to get a win tonight and they came out and did it. We have to not give them momentum Wednesday night by having the parade to the box like we did tonight. We had the good start, but let them and the crowd back in it by being undisciplined.

Ref calls a penalty on the Red Wings from over 70 ft away and they can't see the most obvious interference call on Anaheim. Yeesh. Anaheim doesn't deserve this game at all and Hiller is the only reason they are in this game.

Edit: I should say Hiller and the refs, but who doesn't blame the refs nowadays even if it is legit.

I don't blame them for our loss tonight, hell they gifted us a chance to get even in the last 2 minutes and we did nothing with it. Detroit still looks like they're more likely to score here and tie this series up.

So many shots on goal and none have gone in. This is ridiculous.

FINALLY!

On second look, maybe the stick did catch him.

DeLLy_sl said:

Ref calls a penalty on the Red Wings from over 70 ft away and they can't see the most obvious interference call on Anaheim. Yeesh. Anaheim doesn't deserve this game at all and Hiller is the only reason they are in this game.

Edit: I should say Hiller and the refs, but who doesn't blame the refs nowadays even if it is legit.

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Two goals off Anaheim defense. Ugly lucky goals.

Kings flicked the switch in the 3rd didn't they?

I think they flipped it half way through the 2nd but man, I was sweating this game out. Strong comeback to tie this series.

Merrith_sl said:

On second look, maybe the stick did catch him.

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Sure did. Lightly. On the chest.

This one however cracked me up when I just saw it. Too many men penalty.



On the Caps.





edit: And more seriously, if someone could find a good HQ clip of Ovechkin getting grazed on the chin by that stick I'd appreciate it. It won't justify the Jon Lovitz Master Thespian level acting job, but I'll hate him less if I see it actually touch his chin.


edit2: To be clear, it's a high stick by Richards either way. A monumentally stupid high stick. I just love the over the top acting job.

Please Grimm, a person's head is going to flinch back if the stick comes up that high. That pic I posted makes it pretty clear it at least came up to his neck, it wasn't like he acted like he had been sliced open. Flinched back, went down, got right back up and kept skating with the puck.

Yeah I saw that too many men pick last night too, and it looks bad, although since the puck and play was at our blueline I figured that's why the ref didn't notice. Also, that pic misses a guy.

And just for another funny hockey gift.

The tip of the blade barely grazed the bottom of his chin. Technically it was a right call. What makes him a tool is his late over reaction. Someone needs to post that .gif

Chinaman889_sl said:

The Canucks have never been the same since 2010. Unfortunately, they're gonna be stuck in a SJ cycle of regular season awesomeness but underachieving in the playoffs.

The irony is the fact that it's SJ who's more than likely gonna eliminate us.

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heh, Vancouver will be lucky to maintain things for much longer. The sisters aren't spring chickens, and Kesler is falling apart at the seams. They have very little young talent coming up. You can at least credit San Jose for being a very good team for 10+ years and making the playoffs the entire time, even if they haven't translated that in to a cup (3 conference final losses). Vancouver on the other hand has missed the playoffs twice in the past eight years, and was terrible for most of the late 90's. Or look at it this way, San Jose has won 7 playoff series since the lockout, and never missed the playoffs. Vancouver has won 6 series (three of them one season) and missed the playoffs twice.

The reason that Vancouver can't win in the playoffs? Their two best players, the sisters, are shit in the playoffs:

Daniel Sedin regular season PPG: 0.836
Daniel Sedin playoff PPG: 0.696
Henrik Sedin regular season PPG: 0.837
Henrik Sedin playoff PPG: 0.747
Kesler regular season PPG: 0.606
Kesler playoff PPG: 0.679

So credit to Kesler for elevating his game in the playoffs. Shame on the Sedins for withering under the pressure. Compare them to someone like Briere who in 100+ playoff games is a point a game player vs around 0.778 in the regular season.

Abefroman_sl said:

Luongo has been on good teams and was the weak link. Why would anyone want a mentally weak goaltender with an albatross contract?

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Which good teams? He was in Florida or Vancouver his whole career. Florida was and always is awful. Luongo is the main reason that Vancouver did so well in the regular season the past 6-7 years, along with the sisters. However both he and the sisters are not playoff performers, although I don't see how you blame Luongo for them not winning the cup in 2010. They scored what, 6 or 7 goals in the final series? That's Luongo's fault? For what it's worth, Luongo's regular season and playoff stats are almost identical, which isn't actually a good thing for a goaltender. Again, you need a goalie that elevates their play, not one who's about as good as he normally is. You can ride hot goaltending all the way to the Cup, but you're not going to win it with just "good" tending.

StoiCynic_sl said:

The tip of the blade barely grazed the bottom of his chin. Technically it was a right call. What makes him a tool is his late over reaction. Someone needs to post that .gif

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Not like we didn't see the same sell job from the Oleksy elbow call last night. Right call, he caught him, but no need to go down like he had been shot. I don't like the embellishing, but I also don't mind the fact he got right back up and stayed with the play on the high stick call. We probably don't get it if he doesn't flinch away like that. Not that we did anything with the PP chance. Ribeiro must have thought the Rags were going to fall for the same fake over and over again.