All-Star Game Open Thread
by Becca H on Jan 29, 2012 3:00 PM EST
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me…me…me…
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It’s the dumb production guys … I can say that … because I am one
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by TheFuryUnleashed on Jan 29, 2012 3:02 PM EST up reply actions
Phew, I thought it was my set.
"The Caps fan doesn't say, 'is the glass half full' or 'is the glass half empty'. He wonders when the glass is going to spill."
Its a problem when you try to use the talent mic as both the the feed to the broadcast and the feed to the stadium … there needs to be delay on the broadcast feed or else the echos from the arena feed back into the talent mics … thus making that horrid echo. It’s sorta like pointing a video camera into a tv set …
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by TheFuryUnleashed on Jan 29, 2012 3:07 PM EST up reply actions
Damn, the AHL couldn’t spring for HD?
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Guys, you know this is for the NHL All-Star Game at 4, right? Obviously feel free to chatter about the AHL skills until then (my parents are there, randomly), just wanted to make sure :)
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occupy the all-star thread
also
All-Star Open Thread. Both AHL and NHL. Come one, come all.
by EmilyB on Jan 29, 2012 3:01 PM EST
Ah, Em made an executive decision without me I see :P The intention was for NHL, I think if they’re going at the same time it’ll be a bit confusing. Maybe at 4 someone can pop open a separate thread for those who want to keep watching AHL skills.
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He looks happy
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by TheFuryUnleashed on Jan 29, 2012 3:08 PM EST reply actions
Anyone else looked at the PD drinking game? I think you’d be drunk before the end of the first period.
"The Caps fan doesn't say, 'is the glass half full' or 'is the glass half empty'. He wonders when the glass is going to spill."
I can’t believe that this audio is going out on air…. I would be firing people right now if I was the producer …
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by TheFuryUnleashed on Jan 29, 2012 3:15 PM EST reply actions
Maybe we should all tweet @ahl about it.
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I guess the AHL doesn’t have the same thoughts on helmets as the NHL …
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by TheFuryUnleashed on Jan 29, 2012 3:20 PM EST reply actions
For those who care, per Whyno, Wideman will be skating alongside Phaneuf in today’s game. Poor Dennis.
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@drosennhl
Team Chara lines: Gaborik-Datsyuk-Hossa; Perry-Malkin-Iginla; Lupul-Seguin-Kessel; Benn-Kane-Eberle
Team Chara D pairs: Chara-Campbell; Phaneuf-Wideman; Timonen-Suter
Team Chara goalies: Howard (1st), Price (2nd), Thomas (3rd). Thomas is going for his fourth straight All-Star Game victory.
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Team Alfredsson lines: Michalek-Spezza-Alfredsson; Couture-Giroux-Stamkos; Sedin-Sedin-Hartnell; Neal-Tavares-Pominville
Team Alfredsson D pairs: Karlsson-Letang; Yandle-Weber; Edler-Girardi
Team Alfredsson goalies: Lundqvist (1st), Quick (2nd), Elliott (3rd)
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Continue AHL commentary here:
http://www.japersrink.com/2012/1/29/2756741/ahl-all-star-skills-overflow
Returning this thread to NHL control…
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Over/under for start time of 4:30.
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:: checks watch ::
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Suter just gave the stink eye at this music.
by Backstrom4Eva on Jan 29, 2012 4:15 PM EST up reply actions
The intros are actually moving at a pretty fair clip. If they weren’t accompanied by the random guy (who just STANDS there when he’s not “singing”, this is hilarious) this would be pretty good.
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I think the sunglasses are worn to highlight how awkward everyone seems to feel about the situation, if not in Risk Astley tribute.
Dingos are involved. Best not to ask.
Or Corey Hart.
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Never surrender Becca, never surrender.
by Rather Bengt on Jan 29, 2012 4:21 PM EST up reply actions
I despise these jerseys.
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Ok … Canada wins the battle of the anthems
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by TheFuryUnleashed on Jan 29, 2012 4:22 PM EST reply actions
Hi folks. Finally, this silliness will all be over soon! :)
What number is Wideman wearing? His 6, or something else?
It’s because of that stifling trap defense they play in the ASG.
by Rather Bengt on Jan 29, 2012 4:32 PM EST up reply actions
According to HNIC: Team Chara has a cumulative total of 738 points so far this season. Team Alfie has 737 points.
Gabby scores on his own goalie. LOL.
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DWides +1.
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:D
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by caps_shutterbug on Jan 29, 2012 4:35 PM EST up reply actions
I like Alfie, but then I am not much of a Leafs fan. My co-worker Leafs fan always calls Ottawa “Spezza and Meatballs”.
by Rather Bengt on Jan 29, 2012 4:40 PM EST up reply actions
I think it’s less of a Senators thing as it is a Alfredsson thing. I was a huge fan of Mats, and I really did not like Alfie’s little taunt. Even if Alfie wasn’t a Senator, I’m really not enamored of the guy.
I liked both Mats and Alfie, but since I didn’t have anything invested in either of their teams it made it easier.
by Rather Bengt on Jan 29, 2012 4:43 PM EST up reply actions
Just because it looks like a Team Chara runaway, remember things can change along with the goalies. I can remember games where it looked like it would be a blowout and ended up close, maybe even a shootout.
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The funny thing is, if you ask me who I liked – Lundqvist or Jimmy Howard, I say the King, every time.
Plus, I really think Team Chara is better skilled.
Tim Thomas will be in net next period, I fully expect him to get lit up.
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Yeah, Timmy gets the third.
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Yeah, last year Team Staal scored the first four goals and Team Lidstrom responded with the next four.
by Backstrom4Eva on Jan 29, 2012 4:42 PM EST up reply actions
They gave Spezza that goal that looked like Girardi’s, apparently. Must have tipped it. Or it’s an Ottawa conspiracy. ;)
As a Canadian, I worry about bigger conspiracies coming out of Ottawa than ASG goal attributions ;)
by Rather Bengt on Jan 29, 2012 4:46 PM EST up reply actions
Ha, for once I’m happier with the NBC mic’d up choices…Iginla and Lundqvist > Lupul and Hartnell :P
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I’m not sure, but I’m thinking they’re having different guys mic’d every so often. I wouldn’t mind getting to hear Price in-game :D
I actually enjoyed hearing Tim Thomas mic’ed up during the game last year. Marty Turco was the best at being mic’ed up in game at the ASG
by Rather Bengt on Jan 29, 2012 4:51 PM EST up reply actions
Marty Turco is my all-time favorite mic’d up player…although Manny Legace came pretty close.
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ah, Jimmy Howard. Overrated!
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I was going to say, when he had a 3-0 shutout going, that he was proving some things. I guess not so much anymore. ;)
ha, Team Beautiful wasn’t throwing anything at him. As soon as they got some shits, BadJimmy appeared!
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JImmy doesn’t deal well with guys “getting some shits”.
by Rather Bengt on Jan 29, 2012 4:52 PM EST up reply actions
Such an awkward time for the game. Just made beef stew for dinner, haven’t done this for ages and ages. Tastes pretty good. I guess dinner time will be during an intermission.
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we’ve got brisket out on the smoker. happens every year, trying to figure out when to eat dinner during ASG
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Stammer, that’s why ScarFace doesn’t let you take a shootout turn.
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Gaborik-Datsyuk-Hossa is such a sick line.
2 Marians and a Pavel
Soon the Championship with be ours, all ours!
I’m trying to remember is Hossa played with Pavel when Hossa was in Detroit.
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If I remember correctly, he played on the line with Shawn McEachern and Radek Bonk in Ottawa.
by Rather Bengt on Jan 29, 2012 5:00 PM EST up reply actions
“How are your groins feeling today?” um, okaaaaaay.
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Speaking of groins, Darren Machesney did something bad to his and the Stingrays had to get another goalie. Billy Sauer from the Everblades.
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ouch. poor McCheese.
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need more hockey haunches talk to spice things up
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by TheFuryUnleashed on Jan 29, 2012 5:00 PM EST up reply actions
I find it hilarious that they are turning Maryland’s state individual sport—jousting—into a televised spectator sport.
Mr. B said “That looks like fun!” sigh
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I’ve just never had a desire to do something where there is another person intentionally trying to inflict injury on me.
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Oh, you mean he want’s to do it? Eep! No thank you! As the ad said, no defense. You WILL get hit. Also, people used to die doing that. Kinda why they stopped and switched to lancing rings, instead. Don’t know when full contact jousting made a comeback.
of course he wants to do it! he’s the guy who voluntarily crouches behind the guy who swings the big wooden club while trying to catch fastballs. And wishes he had been a hockey goalie.
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Lundqvist was kinda made for this ASG alternate captaining thing. Mic’d up, tweeting at intermission. They got it all with him.
I love that so many of the players are tweeting during this event – not only is it fun to read their tweets but it’s hilarious to see them sitting there with their phones out and (pretty much) know what they’re doing.
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Good evening big. Gabs even gave Hank the Anisimov gun salute after the first goal.
by Rather Bengt on Jan 29, 2012 5:16 PM EST up reply actions
Smokey McFornicate is going to be mic’ed up? Oh, awesome sauce
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I might find myself liking Price. He’s having fun here.
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Carey is easily one of the funniest guys in the League. He’s a good kid, despite what people want to think.
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Mr. B was unaware that Carey had any personality. Carey bitching about the ice, saying his gonna flop, and then finding out about the Smokey McFornicate nickname……mr. B might have a new favorite goalie.
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Ha, really? He’s got a great personality, I adore him :)
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Carey played junior hockey for the team Olie Kolzig owns. Olie used to go and play at goaltending coach when Carey was there during the lockout.
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There’s this series called “Your Canadiens” that they were showing on NHLNet last year, where they basically follow one of the Habs around for a day…Carey’s was the best, he went bowling with the host, his girlfriend and his girlfriend’s mom. And went shopping for a custom-fit bowling ball, apparently he goes a lot.
How do you not like a guy like that? :P
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Jordan Eberle with a -12 Corsi so far. What a scrub. #NHLAllStar
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so, this is going to play out like last period?
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Dwides +1 again.
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they should go back to talking to Price.
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oh, Doc, the AHL skills comp already happened. but nice try.
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It’s okay. Closest he’s going to get to a Hershey reference today, probably.
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I eagerly awaiting his Hershey reference! Surely he can note that when Carey Price was a Hamilton Bulldog, he won a Calder Cup by defeating the Hershey Bears.
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I rewatched the SuperBowl Sunday snowpocalypse game last night, and made special note of Doc’s lengthy rumination on the Hershey Bears, who were also in the midst of a massive winning streak at the time. Man, that was a great game to rewatch.
I really need to re-watch that game. I don’t actually remember large chunks of it!
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I see it’s still on DVR. Unfortunately I recorded it on a replay, and they cut about 10 minutes out of it, including the part where Knuble went after Adams for the uncalled board on Ovi.
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a Penguin committed an uncalled aggression on a Capital? Never!
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Funny, huh? Knuble got 17 minutes for his trouble.
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came back and slayed the penguins!
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Indeed. Ahhh, such nice memories.
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OMG I forgot that too. What. A. Game.
E Fehr starts the comeback from 4-1, and life was sweet.
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Snovechkin, Dueling Hattricks, Winter Classic, and the Ten Goal Game are my favorite post lockout games. you’ll notice a theme in three of them.
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The dueling hattricks still pisses me off because one of those hat tricks was scored when a team should have been on the PK.
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It wasn’t the preponderance of hats?
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I LIKE hats.
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There sure were an awful lot in that game. Waves and waves. ’Twas distracting.
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they just kept coming
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shocker. absolutely SHOCKED.
I imagine Bettman & Friends in their little secret lair watching the Capitals either win or at the very least stay in these games against the Pens and screaming “Why won’t you DIE?! Why don’t you JUST GO AWAY?!”
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That was completely the vibe I was getting during the commentary on the Snovechkin game last night. It took until Ovi’s hattrick for them to even approach speaking about him anywhere near as glowingly as they did Crosby.
(Crosby who was GIFTED a goal by TSlo.)
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I was going to say Dueling Hattricks is up there. I’m not sure I know which game is the Ten Goal Game, other than it being a Pens game.
I think that was Boston.
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actually, part of the fun with that was my friends had gotten the kiddie birthday pack so we could all go to the game together. We all got caps pennants and kiddie hotdog and sodas and a visit from Slapshot. We were all pretty sloshed by the time Slapshot came to say “happy birthday!” in the third. Good times.
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Ten Goals is actually against the Bruins. part of the Miracle Run. it was amazing. i think Tim Thomas got pulled twice. Ovie had a hattrick in the first period. Matt Bradley got goal #10
years later, the best part was that the two guys who scored for Boston in the game would get traded to the Caps :)
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Ah, yeah, it’s key to the game to have all the extra-curriculars. Like Nick Backstrom fighting Tyler Kennedy. WTF?
so don’t remember that part of the game. Oh boy.
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We should get together for a rewatch with much booze. Of course, that won’t help you remember it any better. ;)
Hmm, don’t remember that. Got a time stamp on that?
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Nick got a misconduct for it. I don’t have a timestamp offhand, but I can look in a bit. It was during the same scrum that Ovi took down Letang, I think.
I don’t have a time, only what the boxscore says. it happened at 9:15 of the 2nd period.
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I thought it was in the second.
gfcaps—my timestamp won’t help you any more than Birdie’s game time, since the intermissions and ads are cut out of my copy.
Ah, you’re right!
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there’s got to be at least one more Hershey connections out on that ice. who else can we think of?
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that would be the Dwides we know and scream about love
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a Wideman mention! Holy, will wonders never cease?!
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just that Wideman’s pass up ice got broken up.
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@emptynetters
Malkin, Letang, Neal all have points. Last time three Pens had points in an ASG was 1996 in Boston. Lemieux (2), Jagr (1), Francis (1).
You’re welcome.
Signed,
A. Ovechkin
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by EmilyB on Jan 29, 2012 5:36 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
I’m rec’ing that, with an assist to B. Shanahan.
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by gfcaps fan on Jan 29, 2012 5:39 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
more Wideman mentions!
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For being awesome no less!! :D
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more from Mr. B: “wait, someone in the all star game is actually playing defense and it’s Wideman?”
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This game needs more goals.
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Phaneuf sucks.
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Team Beautiful with the beautiful goals.
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Tim Thomas has won three straight ASGs (or more accurately has been the goalie in net when his team scored more goals than the other). I’m pulling for D-Wides, but man alive do I want that streak to end this year.
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LOVE that the players all came out to watch Drake, got their phones out to take pics…that’s awesome and adorable.
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Is this considered talent? Because, you know, I’m old and rap sucks.
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Hahaha well.. I’m not loving the stuff he’s doing tonight, but Drake isn’t terrible. I think it’s really cute that most of the guys are out there. Even if they’re old and European and stuff ;)
Everyone knows the Europeans loved Degrassi: The Next Generation
by Rather Bengt on Jan 29, 2012 6:07 PM EST up reply actions
This is awesome...
Makes me laugh:
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by Becca H on Jan 29, 2012 6:17 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
hey, Team Beautiful, this is when you’re supposed to light up the opposing goalie! :)
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I can’t believe that they’re anointing TT as the MVP so soon. Slurp, slurp.
He's a better skater than Nick, but he's big in the back[side]...BB
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I detest Team Chara. so much slurping of so many players I really don’t like.
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CBC’s been pretty good. Plus, Wides!
Plus I also detest the Senators. So it was an easy decision I made the minute Alfie made his first couple picks.
my hatred of Chara, Thomas, Geno…….it outweighs my grudging respect for Wideman
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I don’t really hate Geno. I mean, I dislike him, but he’s such a good player that well, I dunno. No hate. and I have no hate for Timmy. I’m not sure there’s a player that I detest with a burning hatred on Team Chara. Team Alfie…. bleh.
Aww. I like Giroux. He and Hartnell both sound like they’d be fun.
I cannot stand how Malkin is such a dirty ass. I mean, is whole team is, but he’s particularly dirty in a nasty, underhanded way. The worst part of it is he’s so bloody talented, he doesn’t need to play that way, yet he does. Pisses me off.
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I would argue that there are nastier guys on the Pens, but I get you. Sometimes I wonder if it’s a Bylsma/coaching thing. Their ENTIRE team can’t be that douchey by nature can they?!
apparently they can. It goes back to before Blysma, too. No idea if they look for that sort of guy, or actively encourage guys to cross that line.
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So, they’re now actively encouraging Giroux to trip and knock down Hartnell? I am all in favor of Flyer-on-Flyer violence.
It is. I think it’s awesome. Those jackasses are winning me over.
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god damn it, Team Alfie. Stop sucking
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Timmy’s gonna get his panties in a twist with that Sedin twin plowing into him
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Wideman finally got a point! Woohoo.
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holy fuck, way to leave Lupul wide fucking open.
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this crowd is getting ugly
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that would involve him not being a narcissistic asshole.
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Yeah, clearly never gonna happen. Because letting a stand-up guy have a great home-town moment while you still get the win is un-American, or something.
those Swedes playing in Canada are infringing on the rights of Timmy….
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I don’t know. I just don’t think he has a responsibility to give them a home-town moment. What about all the other fans who would prefer to see the great save? I’m okay with it.
eh, his team is up 3 goals very late in the game. the all star game, a game that doesn’t matter.
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although, I’m gonna say that I’m feeling the Timmy hate here, and I’m going to say that I hate Alfie as much as I think you ladies hate Timmy.
Elliot does seem very all-star tonight
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ugh, that should be doesn’t
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MVP: Alfie or Gabby?
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oh, spare me this “it’s about the fans” bullshit. bunch of rich corporate sponsors in those stands.
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I am actually surprised the extent to which this dog-and-pony show ISN"T for the fans.
It would be interesting to see what we would do if the ASG was ever in DC. Not that we’re likely to have to deal with that for some time, if ever.
Washington is winning the SE because of a “technically” my ass. Fuck you, Washington is winning the SE because they’re the best team in the southeast. What is so fucking hard to understand?
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by RedBirdie on Jan 29, 2012 6:55 PM EST reply actions 2 recs
Having more wins and the same number of points actually tells me that Florida is tied because of a technicality as opposed to Washington winning it because of a technicality…but maybe that’s just me.
The definition of being a Caps fan is watching the same team over and over and expecting different results.
I know I’ve posted this several times in the last week, so I apologize if everyone is sick of it…..but if Washington had been able to convert just half of their regulation losses into OTLs, they’d be in the same conversation as NYR, BOS, and PHI.
which tells me OTLs mean jack shit.
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Just rolled back the video, and it’s DOC who said by a technicality. I thought he loved us.
"The Caps fan doesn't say, 'is the glass half full' or 'is the glass half empty'. He wonders when the glass is going to spill."
he loves the Bears. but as soon as you pull on that Caps sweater…DEAD!
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They said that? Fuck ’em in the ear.
Come on, Caps. Come back hard and win this bitch with authority!
Who said that and how did I miss it?
"The Caps fan doesn't say, 'is the glass half full' or 'is the glass half empty'. He wonders when the glass is going to spill."
Keith Jones predicting Florida will win the Southeast. Ugh. Milbury saying they’re tied with Washington and Washington leads on a technicality - GAG
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Jones said the same thing the other night. he really hates Washington.
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Hm, I didn’t realize he played here. Wonder if he got mugged outside Verizon one night or something.
clearly something must have gone down. For years he’s made no bones about his dislike of the Capitals.
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I used to Caps birthday bios…I never did one for Jonesy though.
by Rather Bengt on Jan 29, 2012 7:03 PM EST up reply actions
Keith Jones on his most influential NHL teammate:
“Dale Hunter for sure at Washington,” said Jones about the most influential person during his playing career. “He was my linemate; taught me how to play the game and prepare for the game, how to contribute in any way possible to get the team to victory, how to be a good teammate.”
by Rather Bengt on Jan 29, 2012 7:05 PM EST up reply actions
when it doesn’t jive with the Washington-hating narrative Keith Jones wants to tell.
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Are the commentators always this down on us, or is this a new thing this year? I’ve never watched this much ancillary hockey coverage before, so I don’t have a handle on it.
they tend to be very very very bipolar about the Caps. One moment gleefully telling the world that the Caps don’t play hockey the right way, the next bemoaning the death of “fun” hockey and how clutching and holding is sucking the fun out of the game and wasn’t hockey way more fun when the Caps played high flying craziness under Boudreau? Milbury has long been very negative, notoriously calling them the “Crapitals” during a 2008 playoffs broadcast, among other things. Jones has always been pretty negative, too. On the other hand, Barry Melrose LOVED the crazy fun Caps and never apologized for it.
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what a stupid thing to say. Don’t they even look at Florida’s wins and losses?
I hate people.
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you think they actually do anything approaching real analysis?
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by TheFuryUnleashed on Jan 29, 2012 6:58 PM EST reply actions
Caps-Bolts back on NBCSN and the Idiot Brigade on Tuesday. My mom is in Tampa right now, I told her see needs to go and hold up signs behind pierre for us.
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Campbell and Chara were +7. I don’t think they were on for any goals against.
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Thought Japer's Might like this ...
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by TheFuryUnleashed on Jan 29, 2012 7:15 PM EST reply actions 2 recs
proof that Dennis Wideman actually played!
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see my fancy browser theme?
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by TheFuryUnleashed on Jan 29, 2012 7:17 PM EST up reply actions
mine is very similar! but your weagle is bigger than my weagle
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Someone’s got weagle envy.
He's a better skater than Nick, but he's big in the back[side]...BB
by Backeez Got Back on Jan 29, 2012 7:19 PM EST up reply actions
you know … it’s not the size of the weagle …
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by TheFuryUnleashed on Jan 29, 2012 7:20 PM EST up reply actions
Oh my.
The definition of being a Caps fan is watching the same team over and over and expecting different results.
What happens in Ottawa, stays in Ottawa.
You perhaps knew me better as "Your Nation's Capital." Same great commentary, now with 100% more transparency!
Ottawa Baby!
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by TheFuryUnleashed on Jan 29, 2012 7:45 PM EST up reply actions
Where are Sedin’s feet…?
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by CapitalCentre on Jan 29, 2012 8:00 PM EST up reply actions
In the negative analysis department on the Caps, Neil Greenberg statistical analysis seems to concur with Keith Jones’ opinion. Greenberg gives the Caps only a 1 in 3 chance of winning the division. I presume much of it is due to the Caps low percentage of shots and poor showing in the advanced stats department.
Then again, I wonder how sustainable Florida’s own play is, given that they’ve depended so much on Bettman points for their relatively lofty position in the standings.
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so if they don’t figure out how to tilt the ice in their favor they most likely will be on the outside looking in come April.
I think Neil’s projection reflects the difficulties the Caps face, but as he notes, it’s still unclear who is likely to win the Southeast division. The question is whether the pattern of being outshot and outchanced will continue, and whether the team (apart from the goaltending) is becoming more responsible defensively. This wouldn’t be the first time the Caps have adapted to a new style after the beginning of January (although this year they have a new coach to go with the new style). I think we’ll have a better sense of the Caps prospects a few weeks from now – right now, it’s hard to tell.
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we will be fine …
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by TheFuryUnleashed on Jan 29, 2012 10:04 PM EST up reply actions
The lineups were interesting. Even if Hartnall started off on the Sedin lines (and Alfredsson with his Senator teammates), eventually, Alfie joined with the twins (and it seemed that that particular line was on the ice for most of the third period — a little bench shortening going on.)
And then their was the Slovakian line (with Pavel Datsyik) that had Hossa and Gaborik. In the end, Chara was on the ice with that group when he scored.
Interesting that it was Kessel and Seguin on the line together, given that Kessel was traded for the draft pick that became Seguin.
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