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2013-2014 NHL Thread

Stickytape said:
CarltonTheBear said:
Potvin29 said:
So this was the tying goal with 27 seconds left in Detroit, and Detroit won in a shootout:

http://mediacru.sh/PyCviN6D8xU9

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Wow, I just watched that now. When I heard about it on twitter last night I assumed the puck hit the mesh and play continued for a bit before the goal was scored. How in the heck did the refs miss that?
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Someone needs to lose a job over that.  How embarrassing for the league.  Honestly, when it's that obvious and everyone can see the play on the big screen seconds later, something has to be done.
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It's pretty sad watching the Kings player point his stick to the net indicating it went out.  All four refs/linesmen with their heads up their behinds on that one.
 
nutman said:
Nothing like a good old hockey brawl. Loved it, you can feel the passion. Torts, has his teams total respect now.
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I forgot.  Is the NHL the mafia, or a professional sports league?  If Torts needs fights to earn the respect of his team, he should have climbed over the bench and got in a fist-fight with Hartley.  I fail to see how respect is earned by sending other people out to fight on your behalf.

In the last three games (Anaheim, Phoenix, Calgary) the Canucks have amassed 197 PIMs.  That's just buffoonery on ice.
 
nutman said:
That's the kind of passion RC needs to show the Leafs, and if he did, we would see the team we know we have. Every game, not just once in a while.
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And yet he's an idiot in your mind for dressing Orr. Consistency, it seems, doesn't pull much weight in the Nutman household.
 
nutman said:
That's the kind of passion RC needs to show the Leafs, and if he did, we would see the team we know we have. Every game, not just once in a while.
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Yup. Nothing says "that's a guy I want leading me into battle" like a guy who loses his cool and charges head first into enemy territory to try to get at the other team's coach. Can't beat 'em on the ice, might as well beat 'em in the locker room.
 
nutman said:
That's the kind of passion RC needs to show the Leafs, and if he did, we would see the team we know we have. Every game, not just once in a while.
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I don't think just Carlyle. All coaches should have to bare knuckle box outside the locker rooms in between the first and second periods. At the very least this will be a good replacement for Coaches Corner when Don finally retires.
 
Potvin29 said:
Pretty sad indictment of him if he has to do that to earn their respect.  Guess he had to with the Rangers too?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIlLbJHKw8M
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Actually, there seemed more blood on the ice in this brawl than the Canucks/Flames tilt.  Also more vicious punching.

These 'staged' fights especially at the commencement of a game have always had an air of ridiculousness attached to them.
 
bustaheims said:
Yup. Nothing says "that's a guy I want leading me into battle" like a guy who loses his cool and charges head first into enemy territory to try to get at the other team's coach. Can't beat 'em on the ice, might as well beat 'em in the locker room.
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And eventually likely gets suspended leaving his team without a true head coach for a few games.
 
CarltonTheBear said:
And eventually likely gets suspended leaving his team without a true head coach for a few games.
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In person hearing tomorrow. Could be a very significant suspension. What he did was above and beyond. He moments away from likely committing an actual criminal act.
 
Nothing quite like a guy charging at another team's coach for starting a bunch of goons when he had no problem putting Sean Avery in his line-up night after night.
 
Puck Daddy explains that Torts has a bit of a history with this type of stuff:

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/john-tortorella-awkward-history-faceoff-fights-bob-hartley-211638086--nhl.html
 
That start to the Van/Cgy game was awesome.  I was at a buddies revelling in the Leaf's victory and someone wanted to switch to the late game.  Instinctively I looked at my watch getting ready to leave, as I don't think I've watched a single period of non-Leaf hockey in years and didn't intend to start doing so.  Then I see McGratton, WestGarth, Sestito all lining up... whoa, this could be interesting!  Glad I didn't leave right away.

Ended up watching the whole first period.  And got to see Tortorella lose his mind on multiple occasions as a bonus!  Was fun to see the benches dwindle too.  Really wanted to see the Sedin's get into it somehow, but alas it was a pipe dream.
 
You guys need to relax, I'm just cranking you. as I have said before, and will say again. I like fighting in hockey it's part of the NHL game. But, not the goon fighting, it is sick. what I like is when they fight in an intense game, as in not a staged fight. An example is when two players have been at each other for a while and they just get out of there system. I am not a fan of guys that cant play hockey, and are just there to fight. if the players fighting can put it in the net, and play a good game, and want to get in to it every once and a while to charge up the team that's fine as well.a guy like Orr should not be playing. while a guy like Ty Domi  scored, and played  good game. Clark was one of them players as well. As for the coach freeking out on the bench is fine but let it go when the game is off the ice.
 
nutman said:
You guys need to relax, I'm just cranking you. as I have said before, and will say again. I like fighting in hockey it's part of the NHL game. But, not the goon fighting, it is sick. what I like is when they fight in an intense game, as in not a staged fight.
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So how is what happened in Vancouver anything other than the textbook definition of a staged fight? 
 
Nik the Trik said:
nutman said:
You guys need to relax, I'm just cranking you. as I have said before, and will say again. I like fighting in hockey it's part of the NHL game. But, not the goon fighting, it is sick. what I like is when they fight in an intense game, as in not a staged fight.
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So how is what happened in Vancouver anything other than the textbook definition of a staged fight?
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That opening puck drop was super intense?
 
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