Hockey 2010-2011

[transjen]

Originally Posted by ila

How about if I'm Penguins fan only when they are playing any of the hated southern teams (including Washington)?

OK just for you i'll let you slide, but Washington is not a southern team but i hate them anyway and i can't stand Alex O

Penguinsfan Jen

[ila]

Originally Posted by transjen

OK just for you i'll let you slide, but Washington is not a southern team but i hate them anyway and i can't stand Alex O

Penguinsfan Jen

Thanks, Jen.

I know Washington isn't a souther team and it even gets cold enough there to make natural ice, but I've just never liked them and lately it's mostly due to Alex O.

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Originally Posted by transjen

OK just for you i'll let you slide, but Washington is not a southern team but i hate them anyway and i can't stand Alex O

Penguinsfan Jen

I agree with you 100%. His attitude(and the fact that he acts like he won the Stanley Cup whenever he scores a freaking goal) really rubs me the wrong way. Sidney Crosby is a far more respectable hockey player than Ovechkin.

I also hope that Crosby can play in the 2011-2012 season.

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I must say that Game #5 was a nail-biter. Both teams had numerous chances(Tanner Glass, how could you miss that empty net? LOL!), and it was anyone's game right until the end.

Whether the Bruins win or lose, Tim Thomas will win the Conn Smythe trophy.

[transjen]

Originally Posted by shadows

I agree with you 100%. His attitude(and the fact that he acts like he won the Stanley Cup whenever he scores a freaking goal) really rubs me the wrong way. Sidney Crosby is a far more respectable hockey player than Ovechkin.

I also hope that Crosby can play in the 2011-2012 season.

Great minds think alike
When i watch Sidney Crosby play he is playing for and with the Penguins ie he's a team player
When i watch Alex O play it like there is no Captials team it's Alex with his lackies i do not see him as a team player he wants all the spot light for himself to me he's nothing but a showboat and he'll never be on a Stanley cup winning team with that tude
Wayne, Mario and Sidney the three greatest players in my time all have one thing in common they made reg teammates look great
Something Alex won't do
I hope Sidney comes back next season too
Penguinsfan Jen

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Originally Posted by transjen

Great minds think alike
When i watch Sidney Crosby play he is playing for and with the Penguins ie he's a team player
When i watch Alex O play it like there is no Captials team it's Alex with his lackies i do not see him as a team player he wants all the spot light for himself to me he's nothing but a showboat and he'll never be on a Stanley cup winning team with that tude
Wayne, Mario and Sidney the three greatest players in my time all have one thing in common they made reg teammates look great
Something Alex won't do
I hope Sidney comes back next season too
Penguinsfan Jen

I'm not sure what it is about Ovechkin. He has boatloads of talent, but he also has been known to skirt the line between a good hit and a dirty play. He also tends to pout and likes to cherry pick empty net goals. I believe that is one of the reasons the Capitals bowed out so early this year(plus the fact that Backstrom pulled a vanishing act!).

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I guess the only solace that I can take from tonight's game is that they got a couple of goals past Thomas(and almost a third). Hopefully the Luongo that showed up in the home games shows up for game 7. I also think that Luongo will have a very short leash next game, and if it looks like he is struggling, I am sure he will get an early hook.

Game 7 on Wednesday. It should be a doozy!

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It's hard to imagine that Game 7 will be yet another 1-point victory by the Canucks. It's hard to imagine that yet another game in Vancouver will be won by the Canucks simply because the Bruins team didn't get the "break." It's hard to not to think that this Game 7 will be the anomaly of this series.

The Canucks now have 2 embellishment penalties in this series. So, the only thing we can say conclusively at this point -- and I'm sorry, my Canadian hockey fan friends on this board -- but that kind of bush-league crap seems to be (with the exception of Ovechkin ... see posts above) a uniquely Canadian practice this year, the purview first of the overacting, ham-it-up Montreal team ("oh, look, ref, he hit me so hard that I fell down and flew 20 feet across the ice") and now of Vancouver.

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Originally Posted by smc

It's hard to imagine that Game 7 will be yet another 1-point victory by the Canucks. It's hard to imagine that yet another game in Vancouver will be won by the Canucks simply because the Bruins team didn't get the "break." It's hard to not to think that this Game 7 will be the anomaly of this series.

The Canucks now have 2 embellishment penalties in this series. So, the only thing we can say conclusively at this point -- and I'm sorry, my Canadian hockey fan friends on this board -- but that kind of bush-league crap seems to be (with the exception of Ovechkin ... see posts above) a uniquely Canadian practice this year, the purview first of the overacting, ham-it-up Montreal team ("oh, look, ref, he hit me so hard that I fell down and flew 20 feet across the ice") and now of Vancouver.

Your "imagination" was correct. No one-goal game tonight! I will admit that the Canucks have been guilty of diving(which I dislike), but some of the Boston plays have been bad as well. Neither team can claim to be angels this series, but in the end the one that played with more heart(they could have folded up their tents and went "home" after losing the first two games, but they picked up their game and totally turned it around!) is going to win the Cup.

If Vancouver was to lose, I would have preferred the one-goal loss as it would at least have been exciting to the end. Being down 3-0, and with the Boston defense clamping down and blocking shots in front of Thomas, I don't think the Canucks will even get a goal!