1 NY Rangers vs 8 Ottawa Senators

[Sucker Punch]

Ugh, two blown calls and we're down by two.

Some crap rebound control by Anderson too.  I'd pull him now and replace him with Bishop.

 

[Guru Tugginmypuddah]

Yay! part 2!

this series is currently tied at one? (I'm sure I could find that somewhere on the net, but it's faster to just ask here)

NY up 2-1 in series.

 

[Sucker Punch]

And there's the makeup call.  Thanks refs.

 

[Sucker Punch]

Konopka gets a roughing minor for... throwing a check?  Or something?

Seems the refs have decided they're gonna be the stars of this game.

 

[Tigger]

So the explanation I heard ( didn't see the replay ) was Konopka was going hard to the net and warned for it but is called for that?

 

[Tigger]

The refs are all over the map here, the trip against the rags was called but a very similar trip wasn't called against the sens just moments before.

 

[Sucker Punch]

And now the ref gets in Michalek's way during an odd man break.

 

[LittleHockeyFan]

reffing ain't good that's fersure.

 

[LittleHockeyFan]

:-(

hate Spezza, but that's a suspendible hit IMO. Poor guy.

 

[pnjunction]

Too bad for Spezza but he couldn't have had his head much lower.

And Ottawa ties it.

 

[Tigger]

Losing Spezza like that with no call, ouch.

In the game though now, and frankly, Spezza hasn't looked all that good, maybe it'll be motivational or something.

 

[Tigger]

Too bad for Spezza but he couldn't have had his head much lower.

This is something I have a time with, I'm not going to blame Spezza but yeah, get your damn head up.

 

[Tigger]

Healey: not a suspendable offence just good hard hockey...

 

[LittleHockeyFan]

Healey: not a suspendable offence just good hard hockey...

*rolls eyes*
OTOH, Spezza is back, so.......

 

[CarltonTheBear]

Too bad for Spezza but he couldn't have had his head much lower.

This is something I have a time with, I'm not going to blame Spezza but yeah, get your damn head up.

Yeah, I'm not sure what Staal could have done there. Spezza was bent over, there was no way Staal wasn't making contact with the head in some way.

 

[GhostofPotvin29]

Someone should tell Foligno that the time to make a big scene with your arms over a penalty is not right after the replay shows you clearly slewfoot/kick the guys skate out from under him.

 

[Derk]

Rangers keep blocking a lot of shots.

 

[Tigger]

Nice kill by Ottawa.

Spezza looks ok so yeah, that's something.

I honestly don't know what to say about Staal, I guess the NHL has to make a call there, if the choice is don't hit him in the head how are they going to deal with those consequences? His coach certainly isn't going to tell him not to.

Ottawa's all over them here.

 

[CarltonTheBear]

Whoever controls Ottawa's goal horn needs to be stopped.

 

[GhostofPotvin29]

Rangers were overrated.