And it happens when CRL’s Forces of Hockey segment was about skating.

So amazing that the NHL highlights clip doesn’t include it? I can’t honestly believe the NHL wouldn’t include an exciting play in their highlights clip.

If he didn’t have bad luck, he’d have no luck at all.

The most talented awkward guy.

It’d be easier to call it a toe pick if hockey skates actually had those……. but unlucky as hell does seem to apply, for sure! :-p

And it’s certainly not worse than my spelling.

Didn’t a certain #4 freeze our #40 w/ a similar shot then proceed to bury it top corner? I am all for Sasha pulling that move any day of the week on a shoot out.

Turco’s response toward the camera was priceless when they showed the net-cam. like “what the hell just happened”?

Anyone remeber the female bouncer around DC from the 80’s and 90’s that used to dye her hair blonde and wore the leather jacket with The Clash painted on the back? She used to intimidate the hell out of me and hit on my girlfriend one night lol not much I could do and just let her.

LOL it does look kinda like that doesn’t it?

can’t stop laughing

That photo almost deserves its own caption contest

he was issued a double dog dare, and of course, his tongue stuck to the ice

He was actually healed in time for the Olympics but Brian Burke didn’t like Booth’s lack of truculence. (So if Booth was actually healthy for the Olympics, who would you pull off Team USA to put him on the squad? Ex-ante I would have said Drury or Callahan, but those guys were great on the PK so that probably would have been a bad idea. Kessel blew goats but there was no way he wouldn’t make it. Maybe Pavelski?)

I guess it depends on who’s viewing it (an ovie hater or fan) but it’s kind of borderline … does the hit make contact with the head first .. or the head and the chest at the same time

Jagr lowers his head and turns his torso away from Ovie at the last second. If he didn’t do that, he would have been hit square in the chest. If Jagr kept his head up, he would have seen that hit coming. Cooke came up behind Savard and hit him from the side, square in the temple. Savard had no way of knowing that hit was coming.

herein lies some of the arguement from folks who say you cant outlaw headshots cause it will take hitting out of the game. but clearly you can differentiate this hit, whether or not ov made contact with jagr’s head first or not, with the cooke hit. ov was clearly lining up for a body shot, elbow tucked and skates on the ice. these hits cant be taken out of the game and is exhibit a to keep your head up. if ov’s elbow was out or he left his skates, i would say thats a penalty.

contrast that with cooke and booth hit. both of those were direct shots to the head. no body contact whatsoever (and the booth hit was late as well). not only that they were blindside hits, which ov’s was not. i think thats where you draw the line.

Cooke could have done a similar thing as Ovie did and line up for a full body hit on Savard and decided to hit him in the head only whether it be with his shoulder or not, that in my opinion is the difference. I know Cooke was coming in at a more perpendicular angle than that but he surely could have just given Savard a full body check, there was obvious intent to target the head.

Because AO skated straight at Jagr, in his straight ahead line of sight if his head was up, and led with his shoulder to center mass. Cooke came from out of Savard’s range of vision and led with the shoulder straight to the head. It’s the same as the Richards hit. If you come at a guy that can’t see you from the blindside and only get head, it’s because you wanted to get head. If you wanted to line up the guy’s core from that angle, it’s easy as pie. They aren’t going to move because they can’t see you. Blindside head shots are among the most despicable things you can do.

Was that game on TV last night? I wouldn’t know since I have DirecTV and the NHL doesn’t seem to know how to force its “partner” VS to work out deal that doesn’t leave 18 million households in the dark.

Speaking of goalies, how’d you like that Stars goalie who “sucks” last night?

I think Theo is the clear number one…it pains me to say it. But the clip is probably right about him playing for a contract which is fine with me as long as we’re holding the Cup in June.

I noticed that. Goc, Erat, Weber, Suter, Legwand, Hornqvist, and Ward all up there. I don’t know how to interpret those things real well, but hopefully Dirk will look into it.

Goc, Hornqvist, and Erat are on a line together, as are Legwand and Ward, and of course Weber and Suter are paired always so I’m assuming that has a lot to do with it, but really don’t know.

I was actually wondering if this was the system used by the Bears. So what is the difference?

I’ve been called worse.

Maybe they’re just going through a horrid stretch, and their true level of play is a few pct points higher. Maybe.

Grasping is all that’s left at this point. If they kill at 78% in the playoffs, they’re cooked.

I don’t think that’s grasping at all. I think PK and PP might be the hardest thing to get just dropped into. The stats show that at least Corvo is a competent PK. I have to imagine he’ll get better after he has a better sense of what is mates will be doing.

I think Stecks overcommitted on that first one, and it was a scramble thereafter.

I thought Varly was jumpy all night, especially on the PK, never really getting properly set.

He doesn’t have good 4-on-5 numbers either.

PPP is getting a podcast?

The Caps’ PK over the past three seasons (i.e. the Bruce Era):

2007-08 (1/4 of the season was Hanlon): 25th
2008-09: 17th
2009-10: 25th

Are you sure “BB can absolutely coach up a better PK”?

grad student budget…and it’s better than the other cheap options

Actually the back…those chicks were druuuuuuuuunk! When Ovi scored the third goal one of them leaned in and kiss my friend. Pretty entertaining. All in all great seats. How was the view from 107?

When I had your seats, the people to the right were dirty Flyers fans.