The Ditch part deux

And why was that icing waived?

 

just posted this on another thread, skinny:

 

in other words, refs win game 3 on an icing/no icing call. why did I even bother to watch. voynov looked good, sharpie and kaner looked weak. hopefully kaner's mom arrives in la soon.

 

Because Shaw was lazy coming out of the zone. I can't find fault with the zebras when the players don't try. If they blow an offside here or there, I'm not too worried. I would say they nail 95% of the ones I THINK THEY MISS. I thought it was offsides, but I'll watch it again and bitch. Keith can't shoot worth a damn though, wouldn't have mattered. If it was Hjalmarsson, Seabrook, Leddy, or Oduya, I might have been more upset. My rage goes to Shaw.

 

Pretty much worse case for the Hawks. They lost and I think they have a few guys really banged up after tonight, especially the blueline. Hawks didn't skate yesterday or today, bad move Q. LA skated like they normally and closed space on Chicago. Chicago was slow to adjust and took stupid penalties. LA earned that win. Both goalies were good, nothing special.

I was laughing at Pang and Engblom when they were calling Greene a beast. Some of the hits were on Leddy, Frolik, and Kruger. I could knock them airborne from a recliner. Kruger is pretty much a floormat for an SUV in winter, his job is to be a sacrificial anode of sorts. Engblom has been pretty good though. After listening to Pierre, I'm going to get a new fathead of him.

Had to leave gamechat early. Tough to convince me referees were a major reason why a team with home ice is swept in the first round. They weren't even playing against Crosby.

 

I thought Sharp was banged up for games 1 and 2. I think he's worse off now. Kane has been a pile of Kesler this series. Couple nice plays offset by bad decisions with the puck and some lazy shifts.

 

Darryl Sutter may not be high on your list, Bob, but he's gaining my respect when it comes to answering questions from the media. He said Keith's double minor for recklessly high sticking Carter should have only been two minutes. That was the end of his answer. He doesn't go on and on about officiating all the time like some coaches do. He doesn't even do the "I don't want to harp on the officiating but I'm going to anyway" spiel. He seems like an honest, straight-up guy.

 

i'm gonna smoke a turd in hell for this one... hopefully Solomon won't see this and revoke my Pens Fan Club Card.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-p...ng-baby-flight-actually-sidney-145808057.html

 

Carloina changing unis for ........? ....the Victor Rask era? looks pretty similar to the same ones they've already altered. Happy Dallas is keeping green, even accentuating green. Need more green in the league.

Uggh, sub committee to look at goalie pads. the term sub committee makes cringe. haven't they been looking at downsizing for a decade now? maybe they didn't have the right sub committee before.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9M_FYFyo0k

Puck over glass

 

He is honest. He believes in physical punishment. He believes it's better to hit than be good at hockey. That's why he had so much success with loaded rosters in Chicago, SJ, and CGY for so many years.

The players, fans, coaches, and front offices are coming across as whiny and bitchy as ever about officiating, so I have been happy (yes, he made me happy) to hear a coach put the emphasis on what happened during a game and with the players. People call Tortorella "honest" but it's just a subjective perspective. Perspective isn't "truth" as so many assert so many times. Sutter has always been more accurate than most when describing play. I still don't want him touching my roster...ever. Our eyes and ears would be better off if we could just read his interviews instead though.

 

I read that story yesterday...that was goodl.

 

Yeah, it was well before the previous lockout that they were looking into that stuff.

Many of the problems have been with the PA. That's one of the many reasons why I bashed the PA for so many years and why I thought Fehr might be the best thing for the league when they hired him. Infighting and little sects of players have been disrupting common sense problem solving for decades. The owners don't help much but at least they communicate with each other effectively.

I'm hoping Fehr's team has finally had enough time to really organize the PA administratively so their are better procedures and practices in place to let the players understand what's really going on and vote accordingly instead of the 2nd and 3rd hand rumors they've been used to dealing with on so many issues.

 

Good song.

I love the automatic penalty.

 

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7 years of shame on you Halo.

 

quite true. this is why i chuckle when you mention Claude as bitchface, he very rarely calls anyone out and the only time I can recall that he did, he wasn't wrong. his gigantic fathead is reason enough to be the butt of jokes however.

 

so do I. seems like most people hate the automatic penalty, i think its earned.

 

Julien was okay in my world until he was griping about diving and it being "bad for the game" when he was way too supportive of one of the league's worst offenders. He was trying to come across as if he was looking out for the league, but he failed when he followed up with a specific reference to an opponent just a couple seconds later. If he was really worried about the game's integrity, Marchand would have been scratched in 2011, 2012, or 2013 for a game here or there just for embellishing.

He and Randy were whining in public about faceoffs this year too.

I remember a few conferences in a row where he indirectly implied officiating gripes too.

I don't consider him better or worse than most. I put coaches like he and Quenneville in the average group. Quenneville is much better at keeping himself from turning purple in Chicago, probably age, but he still has his moments. I can't imagine Q or Julien are too much different except how they express their frustration. Q gets short and declines to comment...until he comments, and Julien likes to play on words. Both will go months without any griping.

Anyway, Claude can't live down and shouldn't be forgiven for his "chat" on diving anytime soon. It's like Lemieux's public griping after the mess with the Isles, or Melnyk's griping about dirty players, or Burke's griping with the media.

 

i have no problem in general with torts. he bothers me far less often than grapes does.