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Dec 17, 2008
what series do you guys think will be the most fun to watch? i feel like i gotta binge on as much playoff hockey as possible and i'll be watching cbj-pens anyway. i'll probably watch leafs-caps to hate-root against the caps but fat chance that isn't a curb stomp series

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Dec 17, 2008

RC Cola posted:

Shut up that's how everyone will feel when the Pens win

Whoa man why so hostile

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Dec 17, 2008

Jamwad Hilder posted:

It's going to rule when the Blue Jackets suck again next year, sort of like the Panthers did this year after they were mysteriously unable to continue "being really lucky"

one of my favorite ongoing storylines this season has been the hagiography of gerard gallant, who was unfairly fired and surely one of the best jobless coaches out there because last year he won a division that had six poo poo teams and one other good team

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Dec 17, 2008
you just know that if the leafs win game 1 or something there's going to be a not-insignificant chunk of the caps fanbase that starts getting nervous against their better judgement. plus the leafs can't break anybody's hearts without first giving them hope, so basically we should all hope the leafs win a game or two

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Dec 17, 2008

xzzy posted:

The number of avatars still current 3 years later is pretty funny. Pay lowtax's bills guys!

every time i see something funny enough to av somebody else in PAS beats me to it. i'll just have to hope something i say is stupid enough to get me redtexted i guess

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Dec 17, 2008

that guy definitely thought therrien was the right coach for the habs

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Dec 17, 2008

Jordan7hm posted:

5 minutes in and there's one combined shot in STL / MIN. I'm thinking it's not this one

edmonton-san jose seems like a sure bet because mcdavid will probably do something cool

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Dec 17, 2008
Playoff hockey...it's good as heck

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Dec 17, 2008

FrenzyTheKillbot posted:

Hey, it's me. The guy who paid more dollars than he should have for a single ticket to go see the Leafs get fuckin stomped by the Capitals.

i mean, unless the capitals completely and mercilessly roll over the leafs, in my experience, playoff hockey is still well worth seeing live even if your team loses.

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Dec 17, 2008
i know the blue jackets corsi'd pretty good and rang up a lot of shots on goal in the first especially but volume doesn't matter much when the shot locations look like this

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Dec 17, 2008
i tried to watch the OT for the western playoff games as best as i could but unfortunately fell asleep, thankfully the internet let me witness the greatness regardless:
https://streamable.com/1iko7

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Dec 17, 2008

stab posted:

Tanner Glass and Tom Wilson have GWG's in the playoffs of TYOOL 2017

and they said lovely punchmen were on their way out

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Dec 17, 2008

Mind_Taker posted:

No I mean why not have a 7:00 and 7:30 start tonight instead of two 7:00 starts?

yeah that's stupid as hell, they had it perfect the first night with all the games staggered so i could just have a non-stop orgy of playoff hockey from 6pm until well past midnight

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Dec 17, 2008
playing hockey primarily in canada makes you bad at hockey?

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Dec 17, 2008

Jamwad Hilder posted:

Lol the blue jackets are doing an incredible job burning any good will people had for them. Calvert is a piece of poo poo.

guess i might as well repost from the gdt since maybe somebody out there was actually watching games instead of shitposting

https://twitter.com/EvgeniMaIkinEgo/status/853060552666566656

for context the score was 4-1 pens with approximately 40 seconds on the clock

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Dec 17, 2008
Guys i have bad news, now that the habs have won a game we cant talk poo poo about how bad at hockey canadian teams are until its time for them to start getting eliminated

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Dec 17, 2008
Mook was cool if you liked watching somebody be extremely hostile about random things for no reason other than the conviction that he knew everything

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Dec 17, 2008
Hopefully Sullivan is smart enough to realize that actually the Blue Jackets are doing this dumb poo poo because they're extremely "shook" as the kids say and should let them hang themselves with their own rope

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Dec 17, 2008
Ironic that hartnell is a trump guy considering how vocal those people usually are about their opinions on cucks

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Dec 17, 2008

Did they decide they weren't reviewing the part of the sequence that occurs after the initial cross check or what here?

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Dec 17, 2008

CBJSprague24 posted:

But when he tripped the guy who shoved him down really hard by pulling his skate out from under him while he was on the ice, an angel got its wings.

weird how mentioning brandon dubinsky being third man in on the ensuing scrum slips your mind though

thankfully justice was served when he was penalized and the penguins scored on the ensuing power play

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Dec 17, 2008

VJeff posted:

I remember when the Flyers got in their heads in 2012 and things just turned into a loving gong show. It was so surreal. The Penguins finally had both Crosby and Malkin back at the same time and then all they just got clowned.

Guess they've come a long way. Wonder how much of that is due to ditching Bylsma.


Roman Reigns is sitting in the audience on Sunday watching the game with his family when someone screams "I'M NOT DONE WITH YOU YET!" and throws him through the glass.

they had some pretty bad meltdowns under mike johnston too (they led the league in PIMs during the one full year he was coach) so i guess they needed a guy like sullivan who would yell at them. incidentally im pretty sure he instantly became the second most beloved coach in penguins history (after bob johnson) the first time a camera caught him telling a player to shut up on the bench

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Dec 17, 2008
theyre handing out cowbells to everybody at the caps game, just in case anybody wanted to stay informed for future editions of "annoying crowd noises" chat

https://twitter.com/BonsieTweets/status/853347860859015168

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Dec 17, 2008

Kilza posted:

I was led to believe the Chicago Blackhawks were the only good team in the West.

The West Is Bad™

its funny how the wild and the blackhawks looked like the best teams out west and now they've both dropped two home games in a row

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Dec 17, 2008
oleksy does indeed suck. he's pretty much just an enforcer at this point

also apparently the caps have only played with a lead for 3 whole minutes in their series

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Dec 17, 2008

Wamsutta posted:

Really want this to happen, gently caress Chris Brown

it already is going to happen, because the leafs won and the series can't be a sweep anymore

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Dec 17, 2008

iospace posted:

Before yesterday: leafs fans; "we're finished!"

After yesterday: caps fans: "we're finished!"

It's still a best of five left, you know.

don't try to reason with kawalimus, the caps could be up 3-0 and he'd be talking about what a caps thing to do it would be to let a team get their backs up against the wall and have them channel the energy from a do or die home game into a reverse sweep

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Dec 17, 2008
kapanen loving up the caps' poo poo seems like a win for the penguins and the leafs imo

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Dec 17, 2008
small sample sizes make for really funny statistics

did you know pekka rinne has two more points than anybody on the chicago blackhawks? and matt calvert...it's gonna be tough for the blue jackets today with him out of the lineup, he's 50% of their goal scoring!

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Dec 17, 2008
the crosby-dubinsky matchup doesn't seem to be going that great for cbj considering dubinsky's taken a bunch of dumb penalties against crosby that the penguins subsequently scored on and he was on the ice when crosby worked the jackets behind the net to set up the OT winner

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Dec 17, 2008
jesus christ werenski

i wonder if they can get the swelling down enough for game 4

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Dec 17, 2008
According to the NHL rulebook (under Rule 8 - injured players, I'd copy paste it but its too annoying on tablet) it basically says that officials may whistle the play dead at their discretion if they think the injury is serious but aren't required to do so until the injured player's team recovers the puck, and the subsection specifcally for bleeding players simply says that the player "shall be ruled off the ice at the next stoppage of play." The refs could have blown it dead if they wanted to, and it would have been justified by the rules, but they also did nothing wrong by the rulebook by letting play continue.

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Dec 17, 2008
Well to be fair Jayson Megna did go on to be a first line winger

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Dec 17, 2008
the only thing i really worry about with sullivan is that hes going to grind his players to dust blocking shots because if there's one thing him and torts have in common its that they loving love shot blocking

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Dec 17, 2008
kinda hosed up that they wiped him off, gave him some stitches, and sent him back out if his face was broken

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Dec 17, 2008

Mage_Boy posted:

I feel like Caps/Leafs fans totally deserve each other in the playoffs.

yeah i was really hoping the leafs could take one of the first two games because a leafs road win would bring out the most amusing reactions from both fanbases. if the caps had won both of their home games caps fans might be able to (temporarily) overcome their congenital inability to believe in their team while leafs fans would just be like "oh well just happy to be in the playoffs so soon!"

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Dec 17, 2008

aejix posted:

Haha I didnt notice him doing that at the time. Is there a gif of him convulsing around on his back in the crease like an overturned turtle during the same game?

maf flopping around without rhyme or reason is too routine to be notable enough to gif

anyway this one's for you, joeljoel...

https://streamable.com/lehx0

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Dec 17, 2008

Mind_Taker posted:

Haha Ovechkin only had 15 minutes of ice time tonight. Gotta get the 4th line their minutes.

remember when everybody assumed ovechkin's ice time was down in the regular season to save him for the playoffs? somebody should probably tell him it's okay, even expected, to ride your star players hard in the playoffs

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Dec 17, 2008
Tbh if the Caps, Jackets, and Hawks get bounced in the first round that's pretty much the next best thing to the Penguins winning the Cup again

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Dec 17, 2008
Pretty crazy we're on the verge of so many sweeps after there were literally zero sweeps last year

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