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grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

Vincent Van Goat posted:

Bob Cole is old and bad now, and I'm glad I won't have to listen to him.

Yet I would 100% prefer to listen to Bob Cole over Romanuk or Randorf

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grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

Stretch Marx posted:

I'm pretty sure the NBC feed is going with Gord Miller for Habs vs. Rangers. So at least you have that.

Sportsnet coulda thrown money at Miller or Rick Ball and instead they hire Romanuk and Randorf and then have to go out and get Cole out of retirement because those two were so loving terrible.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!
Habs lost on a goal by Tanner Glass. In the playoffs. That's one of those things that should make you reconsider being a professional hockey player.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

Suspicious posted:

Nah, it's all part of the plan. Now Glass will be a permanent fixture on the NYR roster and we already got his lucky 1 goal out of the way.

As long as AV is the coach in New York Tanner Glass will always find his way back in to the lineup.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!
That was terrible by Andersen

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

Andersen played a pretty good game overall but man, the second and third goals against were really awful.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

Penguins gonna put in Sestito next game and he's going to literally kill someone on the ice.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

Aye Doc posted:

calvert needs to be suspended at least 2 games, not for justice because I know the NHL doesn't care about that, but to trigger the mechanism inside Torts that brings out the demon and make this series a sports entertainment trainwreck

I just want one reporter to compare the Jackets to the US World Cup team in an after-game press conference.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!
Apparently Emelin didn't travel to New York with the Habs.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

Suspicious posted:

Isn't it the league that decides who refs the finals, not the ref union?

Yes.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!
I'm no fan of Pittsburgh but Columbus, holy christ, you are making it hard to cheer for you in this series.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

Levitate posted:

The Rangers are a poorly coached hockey team

Yeah that AV guy is so bad, huh? Rangers should totally fire him in the offseason.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

Bullshit. That is clearly a dinosaur, not a man.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!
Well, I mean, the actual injury that Roman Polak suffered probably hurt so it's at least partially true.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

Coming from experience - just wait until AV is fired and replaced and you'll realize just how good a coach he is.

Also, what the gently caress do you expect from that defense?

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!
Do you know how much it takes to bribe Tim Peel to gently caress with the Bruins?


Like, a medium coffee, sometimes he wants a cruller as well. poo poo, I'm glad I got my money's worth tonight.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

Captain Internet posted:

All 4 of tonight's games ended in fuckin OT. gently caress yeah playoff hockey.

Two of the OTs kinda blew, but the other two were awesome.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

Zodijackylite posted:

Hockey could use more dekes, but a football player's got the sickest dangle of the month.

:drat:

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

JoelJoel posted:

Uuuh, I think you're missing a bald man.

Anderson's been all over the place. He was great in game 4, not so much in game 3.

Edit: Dammit!

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

FBS posted:

I suddenly feel intense sympathy for the Calgary Flames.

Get help. Lots, and lots of help.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!
No, he couldn't coach Brian Elliot to be a good goaltender but that may be beyond the power of anyone currently in the NHL.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

Kilza posted:

I don't know, Ken Hitchcock managed to convince everybody Elliott was a good goalie.

True, I forgot for a moment that Dallas decided to re-hire him.


Well, let's see if he can do something about Niemi and Lehtonen.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!
How many concussions has that guy suffered?

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

:vince:

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

Koopa Kid posted:

I don't buy the presumption that coaches are trying to game corsi, especially the idea that they would do so to the exclusion of trying to win games somehow. Like, what's the incentive exactly?

There are arguments to be made that you can design an offensive system that generates a high number of Corsi events but a low number of quality scoring chances. That may not exactly be "gaming Corsi" but it's very similar. LA may be the poster child for this, or it may be that they didn't have good enough offensive players to actually score even though as a team they had great possession numbers.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

Koopa Kid posted:

The Kings are also a terrible example because they did really well and then their key guys got old, oh well.

That's why I added the "or" to that statement. The Kings' main offensive players had horrendous shooting percentages this year even though, as a team, they still generated a lot of shots.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!
Well one's blurry and the other isn't blurry, duh.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!
Not quite as stupid but equally topical -

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

Aurora posted:

Canucks were in the playoffs?

Alain Vigneault did, at one time, coach the Habs

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!
Double OT loss in 2007 to the Ducks when Luongo didn't come out for OT and nobody knew what was going on. Then finding out later Lu was busily making GBS threads his guts out and Vancouver had to play Dany Sabourin to start OT.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

Darude - Adam Sandstorm posted:

Anyone cheering for the Preds, wants Mike Ribeiro to have his name on the cup, to join the likes of Patrick Kane and Doug Gilmour as rapists with their name on the Lord Stanley's Cup.

Unless Nashville has a rash of injuries Ribeiro won't get his name on the Cup if the Preds won.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

Suspicious posted:

You have your name on the cup if you played 41 games in the regular season. Ribeiro played 46.

This will sound stupid but doesn't he still have to be on the team? He's with the Admirals

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

bunnyofdoom posted:

But....where is Bob Cole?

Lost, I'm guessing

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!
What I would like for the Oilers/Ducks series:


Corey Perry and Milan Lucic collide at centre ice, form some sort of rear end in a top hat singularity that destroys them both.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

El Gallinero Gros posted:

He's worth at least one Taylor Hall!

Yeah, and PK is only worth one Shea Weber, the scrub.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!
Lundqvist stops like 300 million good shots and the Rags lose on a bullshit shot from the goal line that bounces off one of their own guys.



THE SYSTEM WORKS, I guess

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

geeves posted:

But I've also wondered, what if - just what if - we had traded Fleury for Subban? I've always loved/hated Subban's play and thought that Subban would be a great fit for the Pens as Crosby or Malkin's enforcer. A cleaner Matt Cooke who wasn't afraid to mix it up and could make a good complement to Letang.

This is one of the stupidest posts I've seen in a hockey thread in a long, long time.

Yes, a Norris Cup winning elite offensive defenseman who's averaged two fights a season is "an enforcer" and "a cleaner Matt Cooke".

grack fucked around with this message at 05:59 on Apr 28, 2017

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!
Maybe if I wish really hard Jim Benning will turn in to the best GM in the NHL

grack fucked around with this message at 06:33 on Apr 28, 2017

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

Xtanstic posted:

Oh thank god I'm not the only one to have this response. At first I was like... surely you don't mean PK, but a different brother??

Malcolm is a goalie, Jordan is an offensive defenseman who doesn't fight and the next oldest Subban brother is like, 6.


Probably meant the 6 year old. Chippy little bastard.

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grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

bunnyofdoom posted:

Me too. Chiling in the red zone!


I'm Cherokee Jack!

So are you getting a little Pageau jersey or a little Karlsson jersey for Harriet?


And when do we get pics?





Also the answer is no, I don't care if she kills you afterwards.

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