NHL 2014-15 Season Thread

Grimmlokk

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Honestly people here really don't care about the regular season even a little bit at this point. The team will make the playoffs and host a round at least. Fans just want them to actually be healthy and perform in the playoffs finally. It's a sad travesty to have Sid and Geno's prime years wasted like they have been. They should have been in 4-5 finals by this point.
 

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All star draft had me rolling. Host's were treating the players like 8 year olds so the captain's and alternates were laughing at them and ignoring them completely. Was the most awkward, funny thing i've seen in awhile. So much so that I think I now love Doughty, he was a riot. Of course Ovie was the only doof playing along. His PR guy should advise him never to speak, like ever.
 

Merrith

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Hilarious penalty on Ovechkin there. Erhoff goes to hit Ovechkin who basically shrugs him down and gets called.

Given the state of the game (4-0, Ovie with 2) maybe it was 2 minutes for making the Pens look bad on National TV. Pierre is trying to sound all enthusiastic about the Caps but really you can tell he's choked up holding back tears.
 

Merrith

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Forgot they played tonight. I've got this nasty cold and am basically retarded right now. Sounds like I should be glad.
It wasn't a great game for you guys. Probably could have been worse but Fleury made a few nice stops. Got a little nasty towards the end but shit was going on all night.
 

Grimmlokk

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Looking at the box score. What did Downie do?

>Steve Downie: 10 Minute Game Misconduct for Abuse of Official

That guy...fuck man. I like him on the ice, he's actually a really good player in this system. But he's never gonna stop being who he is, and you can't ride with a guy like that in the playoffs. He's too much of a hothead, he'll get all fired up and take a stupid penalty and cost them. Motherfucker has 54 more penalty minutes than the next highest guy in the league. That's fucking retarded.

They need to just shut the entire team down for a month. Bring a bunch of guys from Wilkes-Barre up to play. They'll win a few games(shit they basically have already). Get healthy and get their stupid heads right.
 

Merrith

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Shit I don't even remember them mentioning him getting that? Must have been after his fight when Latta kicked his ass for running around like the piece of shit he is all game.

Edit: Although nothing was as stupid as Ovechkin getting 2 minutes for being too strong.
 

Grimmlokk

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Unrelated to that, some guy's physics professor is sick of the Leafs...

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Grimmlokk

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He got the arm around him enough I guess, guy had position on him and Ovie was slightly behind. Still ticky tacky as fuck and almost definitely only called because the game was so chippy.
 

Merrith

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He got the arm around him enough I guess, guy had position on him and Ovie was slightly behind. Still ticky tacky as fuck and almost definitely only called because the game was so chippy.
Erhoff was trying to check him off from his pursuit of the puck and Ovechkin essentially braced himself. 2 minutes for not getting knocked off his feet and Erhoff being an idiot and landing badly. At worst his arm lays on Erhoff's shoulder. There's no clutch, no grab, nothing. This is basically a guy fighting through a check to get to the puck but Erhoff was an idiot and landed on his head. Trailing ref is looking right at it and doesn't even immediately raise his arm for a penalty (not even sure if he was the one who called it, was probably Peel who did, because Peel).

Simply a case of them seeing a guy "injured" and calling a penalty because they thought they had to.
 

Grimmlokk

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I mean, you see him reach the arm forward and pull back with his elbow, right? You see him pushing him down? You have eyes? "Braced himself"?

It's a bullshit call. Chickenshit. But your reasoning is stupid blind homer shit. Ovie absolutely pulled him down and did it on purpose. There's just no reason it should be a penalty in that situation.
 

Merrith

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I mean, you see him reach the arm forward and pull back with his elbow, right? You see him pushing him down? You have eyes? "Braced himself"?

It's a bullshit call. Chickenshit. But your reasoning is stupid blind homer shit. Ovie absolutely pulled him down and did it on purpose. There's just no reason it should be a penalty in that situation.
No, not really. I see his arm almost stay motionless just shielding his body, at most just pushing outward as force to protect against the incoming check. Any motion of it is due to Erhoff's contact, and not any action by Ovechkin. I think seeing any "pulling" is blind homer shit on your part the other way. Agree to disagree.

I mean having watched the game, I think they just felt like they had to call a penalty to try to calm down the chippyness that was starting to happen in the game.
 

Merrith

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Christ, Peters in net today for us against Blues. Ovechkin from his spot to tie it early. Might need a few more of those today. I love how no matter how much teams know it's coming, if Backstrom and Green move the puck that quickly they aren't going to stop his shot when it's that deadly.
 

Merrith

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I may have to backtrack on my "Holtby needs rest" viewpoint if Peters is going to be the only other option we're going to put out there.