Hitting The Links: Barbecued Edition
by sarahconnors on Feb 3, 2012 9:03 AM EST
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PrintWhat do the Carolina Hurricanes and Super Bowl Weekend have in common? Lots of barbecue. I hope the 'Canes fans in Raleigh enjoy their awesome tailgates and great barbecue en route to a super great draft pick. That is all.
Hey, so Montreal lost last night after taking an early lead on the Devils! How great. They're now tied for last place in the conference with Carolina, with a game in hand. Ha. Last night was also a huge night for Edmonton's Sam Gagner, who tied Wayne Gretzky's Oilers record of 8 points in a game. Yes, the Oilers routed the Blackhawks 8-4 for the second time this year, and Gagner played a part in all eight goals. Every team has a kryptonite; for the Hawks, it seems to be the Oilers; for the Bruins it's Carolina.
Meh.
After the jump, Sean Avery is on Project Runway, the Devils are hilarious, the Sharks set some records last night, and more...
Bruins News
- The Bruins' blueline looked significantly less horrifying with Andrew Ference's return last night. [Matt Kalman via NHL]
- Swept by a team that is probably going to be in the draft lottery. SIGH. [Herald News]
- There's a cute little scoring race going on among a few Bruins right now. All are about to reach 20 goals. [Telegram]
- The Stanley Cup will be at a pond hockey tournament in New Hampshire this weekend. [Union Leader]
- The Bruins are looking for a left-handed shot on defense at the trade deadline, most likely. [Globe]
- Maybe a trade would be a good wake-up call. [Herald]
NHL News:
- Gagner's eight points are the most by any player since before he was born. [Edmonton Journal]
- Why does no one (outside of Chicago and St. Louis) really hate Detroit anymore? [Gazette]
- Sean Avery was on Project Runway as a guest judge last night. EPIC. [Mass Live]
- The best part of this Devils/Habs recap is the first comment. Seriously, go look. [In Lou We Trust]
- Brian Burke is a badass, talking gay rights and the potential of a gay player coming out in the NHL. Featuring canadian icon George Strombolopolous! [CBC]
- Comparing the Capitals to the similarly injury-riddled 02-03 team. Oh hai Glen Metropolit. [On Frozen Blog]
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Oh hai Glen Metropolit.
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by Arenacale on Feb 3, 2012 9:10 AM EST reply actions 3 recs
I wish I could double-rec
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Feb 3, 2012 9:24 AM EST up reply actions
sooo cute haha
The real turning point in this game… …was when Foster got hurt.
The Habs are trying to be like the bruins and it’s down right adorable.
On a more serious note that was a very dirty game and the Devils showed real tenacity with such a come back.
by Sn0 on Feb 3, 2012 6:57 AM EST reply actions
HOCKEY TEMPER
I hste to say it because I'm all Bruins, all the time -
and I hated the Devs for a really long time, but I’m starting to kind of like them.
Kick his ass, Seabass!
by phonymahoney on Feb 3, 2012 10:30 AM EST up reply actions
That will pass once Parise is a Bruin or Wild next year.
by Michael Taylor on Feb 3, 2012 10:31 AM EST up reply actions
Parise-Koivu-Heatley is going to end lives
and nothing else about the team will be all that good
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Feb 3, 2012 10:36 AM EST up reply actions
2nd line Bouchard-Granlund-Clutterbuck
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Feb 3, 2012 10:49 AM EST up reply actions
which leaves the 3.5 million dollar man matt cullen on the third line
hmmm
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Feb 3, 2012 10:50 AM EST up reply actions
sooo cute haha
The real turning point in this game… …was when Foster got hurt.
The Habs are trying to be like the bruins and it’s down right adorable.
On a more serious note that was a very dirty game and the Devils showed real tenacity with such a come back.
by Sn0 on Feb 3, 2012 6:57 AM EST reply actions
HOCKEY TEMPER
Funny that Kalman wrote that about Ference, he was on the ice for 2 of the 3 Carolina goals. I wouldn’t say based on last night’s game that he made the defense look less horrifying at all.
Ference
I honestly think it is time to part ways with ference. He hasnt been playing the way we need him to and last night was yet another example. Granted there were many issues including forwards pushing too far ahead of the defense and positioning was awful. I cant remember what the pairing was but there were two right-handed defensemen out on the ice and we couldnt get a good shot off. As for Cam Ward, Those were easy shots that good old Hannu Toivonen could have saved. The Bruins didn’t make tough shots for him to make. They were in plain sight. In Ference’s case, I wouldnt mind seeing the Bruins push for yes Ryan Suter but there are other candidates in that race. I think a good fit might be Rostislav Klesla who is plays well and shoots left. I think a trade is needed to turn things around…thoughts?
by Andrew Cafua on Feb 3, 2012 11:21 AM EST up reply actions
Rostislav Klesla
Andrew Ference is better than Rostislav Klesla.
The last thing we need is less scoring from the blue line.
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Feb 3, 2012 11:29 AM EST up reply actions
The two are about the same player, except Klesla costs 700K more and has another season on his contract and no playoff experience. No thanks.
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by BobbyOrrsBastard on Feb 3, 2012 11:32 AM EST up reply actions
also half the goals with 1 minute more per game and 6 more shots
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Feb 3, 2012 11:33 AM EST up reply actions
I was looking career, not just this year.
Let’s face it… neither are employed for their offense. Klesla has more goals and fewer assists… they are basically identical in points per game and goals created per game. Main difference is Ference has 99 playoff games to Klesla’s 8…
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by BobbyOrrsBastard on Feb 3, 2012 11:36 AM EST up reply actions
Klesla is like really good at getting swept by the Red Wings, though
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Feb 3, 2012 11:43 AM EST up reply actions
It takes talent.
In all honesty though, I’d obviously much rather have Ference’s SCF experience.
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by phonymahoney on Feb 3, 2012 12:37 PM EST up reply actions
Although I dunno…Horton did okay
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Feb 3, 2012 12:38 PM EST up reply actions
He did, but when comparing Ference and Klesla… Ference wins IMO
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by phonymahoney on Feb 3, 2012 12:38 PM EST up reply actions
But maybe he would have done better had he more playoff experience.
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by BobbyOrrsBastard on Feb 3, 2012 12:39 PM EST up reply actions
Possibly.
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Feb 3, 2012 12:40 PM EST up reply actions
At least, we won't have to face Carolina again until next year....
My take from the game, it was just one of those games. Nearly 50 shots and Cam Ward saved them all. You just regroup for the next game and take it out on the Penguins. Kind of reminds me of the night Ron Tugnutt had in Boston, what was it 70+ saves? Some nights are just not your nights…
By the way, I thought it was bogus that Lucic got a 2 minute penalty for roughing for coming to the assistance of Krecji, and yet nothing for the Hurricanes, or Marchand taking a couple of high sticks within a short time, one of which may have been Chara’s, but the other wasn’t. One night we get no calls, the next we get all the calls…consistency, ain’t it awesome. :)
Cam Ward
somehow becomes Hasek AND Brodeur AND Thomas in one player when he plays the B’s. Don’t know how. Don’t know why. But it happens.
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I hope he converts to hari krishna and quits hockey
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Feb 3, 2012 10:53 AM EST up reply actions
Do you think Cam Ward took it personally
when we scored 3 short-handed goals a few years ago?
I hope so.
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Feb 3, 2012 11:26 AM EST up reply actions
in spite of that amazingness, that game also nearly turned into a shit sandwich – one with playoff implications IIRC – were it not for Bergeron being a goddamn deity. What the hell is it with us and Carolina…
I remember that insane empty net save.
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by BobbyOrrsBastard on Feb 3, 2012 11:45 AM EST up reply actions
Answer:
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by Arenacale on Feb 3, 2012 11:45 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Yeah, I remember that part of the game as well.
We almost ended up with L in that game….
Hurricanes games make me sad
(Will be in that building next weekend for Monster Jam!)
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http://ctwhaleshop.com/collectibles.html
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Feb 3, 2012 11:26 AM EST up reply actions
Their main website (http://www.ctwhale.com/home/) is nicer than the NHL’s. They’re really going full-court press down there to get people into hockey, hopefully it’s making an impact.
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and just because the parentheses on that kills the link: http://www.ctwhale.com/
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Feb 3, 2012 11:29 AM EST up reply actions
Contrast that with Providence’s website, which is consistently useless.
(It’s possible I’m bitter because the pro shop at the Dunk didn’t have the fitted Rhode Island Reds hat in my size the last time I went, and the P-Bruins website has had the same singular hat on the site for 1.5 years).
by Michael Taylor on Feb 3, 2012 12:00 PM EST up reply actions
Providence’s website,which is consistently useless.
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Feb 3, 2012 12:01 PM EST up reply actions
You may be bitter
But their website might be worse than the team, if that’s possible.
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I F’ING LOVE PUCKY
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Watch me yell about stuff on the twitters
(also: Let's Go Bluuuuuuuues!)
<3 Ah, the good old days… I hear Brass Bonanza in the distance…
Oh, wait – that’s because I’m still humming it from last night.
BRING BACK THE WHALE!!!
Kick his ass, Seabass!
by phonymahoney on Feb 3, 2012 12:40 PM EST up reply actions
In before corny makes a remark about how there's always the CT Whale (wink wink) -
I want NHL in HARTFORD!
Likely? No.
Awesome? You bet your ass.
Kick his ass, Seabass!
by phonymahoney on Feb 3, 2012 12:41 PM EST up reply actions
I don't know if that would be truly unlikely...
Here is my point, you bring a team back to hartford, there would be support for the team.
Think about, the region right now supports numerous AHL teams right now, and I am certain that they can transform that support to an NHL team. Right now, in the immediate area you have Hartford Whale, Springfield Falcons, Manchester Monarchs, Bridgeport Soundtigers, plus, you might get fans from the Worcester Sharks and Providence Bruins who would gravitate towards a team in Hartford…I was thinking about the Whale a few weeks ago and all the AHL teams in either Connecticut or Western/Central Mass…It might not be that unlikely, you would more than likely get a bigger draw than Phoenix…
The way the NHL likely sees it
The Hartford Whalers would in some likelihood kill 2 AHL markets (Hartford, Springfield).
They also likely believe that by keeping a Rangers farm team in Hartford, eventually Central Connecticut’s hockey fans will become Rangers fans, without using up an NHL franchise.
Hartford probably has the lowest net gain for relocation destination. It wouldn’t have quite the rabid fanbase as Quebec City, wouldn’t be a cash cow like S. Ontario, and wouldn’t help develop an under-served hockey area like Houston, Seattle, Kansas City, etc.
And this from someone who would love a return of the Whalers.
by Michael Taylor on Feb 3, 2012 12:56 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Thanks for the info...
I would have to agree, it would kill off some AHL team, if hockey were to return to Hartford. I am not certain about Houston, but Quebec would be a cash cow for the NHL. I am surprised that the NHL has not moved faster in getting a team in Seattle. Without an NBA franchise, the NHL might be able to establish itself and have a viable market.
How are you including Manchester into the equation? They are 2+ hours apart and Boston is between them. Even Providence I don’t buy since most fans would still be closer to Boston than Hartford and would already likely be Bruins fans.
Oh, and then there is the attendance factor… for the last three seasons the two teams have been below average five times combined. Bridgeport has an 8400 capacity arena and average 4300… Hartford/Connecticut have a 15,600 capacity arena and average 4900. Definitely seems ripe for an NHL team… might even manage to surpass Phoenix attendance numbers!
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by BobbyOrrsBastard on Feb 3, 2012 1:03 PM EST up reply actions
all of the people in Bridgeport and Hartford together don’t beat the average Phoenix attendance
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Feb 3, 2012 1:05 PM EST up reply actions
My fault...I don't know what I was thinking...
I for some reason was thinking Manchester was based in CT, not NH, you are right, my fault.
As for the Providence fans, my feeling would be those that would not be able to make it to Bruins games (being soldout), would have an alternative in a Hartford franchise..
Anyways, I will go back to under my rock… :)
All good. I just don’t see Hartford being a viable market… they can’t get enough butts in the seats. It’s why they lost the franchise in the first place… they were 4K below the average practically every year. Even the Bruins regularly trounced their attendance totals and the Bruins attendance sucked.
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by BobbyOrrsBastard on Feb 3, 2012 1:14 PM EST up reply actions
Hartford had a couple of problems though
1. They almost never had a truly competitive team (see: ATL)
2. The arena sucks hardcore.
- may be taken care of in the next few years with Baldwin’s $109 Million XL Center renovation plan (which, NHL or not, needs to happen in some form to keep Hartford a viable market for anything). #1…well…
I suspect that a revival of the Whalers would make them the Connecticut Whalers because Hartford itself is a small market but it has a lot of rich, rich people surrounding it. Getting those folks to games would be the key.
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by Arenacale on Feb 3, 2012 1:22 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
I don’t disagree with what you’re saying, but I can’t help but point out that comparing AHL and NHL attendance is like comparing apples and oranges. Going to a minor league game of any kind is pretty ‘meh’ for most people, while going to a MLB/NBA/NHL/NFL game is a big deal.
Kick his ass, Seabass!
Maybe so, but it also shows the level of diehards. If CT hockey fans can’t be bothered to fill AHL arenas at 50% capacity what makes you think they will shell out 5-10 times as much in tickets to fill a larger arena?
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by BobbyOrrsBastard on Feb 3, 2012 1:15 PM EST up reply actions
NHL hockey is better than AHL hockey?
The ACC in Toronto sells out all year every year for decades but the Marlies get pretty bad attendance.
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Feb 3, 2012 1:16 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
And yet Toronto routinely has better attendance than either of the CT franchises.
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by BobbyOrrsBastard on Feb 3, 2012 1:19 PM EST up reply actions
Hershey, PA!
Hershey has the best attendance in the league! NHL to Hershey ASAP!
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See....
This is why I am not in charge of the NHL, or a business for that matter. :) Thank you all for your input, I did not take some of those things into consideration…thanks.. :)
Actually, it is I who seems to be in the minority for not considering Hartford/CT to be a viable NHL market.
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by BobbyOrrsBastard on Feb 3, 2012 1:25 PM EST up reply actions
I don't think so, I think you brought good and reasonable points
and how challenged a team coming back to the Hartford area would find it’s going difficult. If I am not mistaken, the Whalers only won one playoff series in their history before moving to Carolina, which that did not help the franchise at all. As Michael Taylor said, Quebec City, So. Ontario would be better destinations for an NHL. Hartford may get another team, eventually, but not immediatly. :)
morning y'all...
…sad I missed the game. Anyone else have issues getting on here last night? Wouldn’t even load @ my place. Meh yay for thunder storms in February messing up the power lines! Also yay for panini machines (SARCASM) becuase as much as i <3 me a good panini, i really, REALLY hate when the teachers are using them at 8:17 am (WHY ARE YOU MAKING A PANINI @ 8:17!!) and set them on fire so the fire alarms go off and we (the steewdents) have to go stand outside in the rain for 30-45 mintues! Did i mention it was pouring and that I had no shoes (left them @ the pool by accident after swim team this morning. oops.) No? Well it sucked. On the plus side, though, I did not have to go to more than those first 17 minutes of Spanish class.
ANYWAYS.
Happy Friday to everyone (remember that it’s FRIDAY FRIDAY and that we gotta get down on FRIDAY and that everybody’s lookin’ forward to the WEEKEND WEEKEND).
that was so immature of me. gah.
Carry On.
Don’t be sad. It was shitty.
Kick his ass, Seabass!
by phonymahoney on Feb 3, 2012 12:41 PM EST up reply actions
Chuck Kobasew fought last night, FYI
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Feb 3, 2012 11:34 AM EST reply actions
Woo Kobasew!
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by Arenacale on Feb 3, 2012 11:36 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Metropolit and Kobasew
Figured I’d throw in a Peter Schaefer shout out too!
http://www
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Feb 3, 2012 11:44 AM EST up reply actions
cracks me up every time. Every time.
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Feb 3, 2012 11:53 AM EST up reply actions
ewwww
We actually liked the other two. They were useful.
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by BobbyOrrsBastard on Feb 3, 2012 11:44 AM EST up reply actions
Metro was great
Even when he was a Hab…that series the B’s swept a few years back, Metropolit was pretty much the only MTL player that had any sort of work ethic or urgency, and he was legit happy for the B’s when they won. Much respect for a hell of a hard worker.
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Yeap. Hard not to like the guy.
Strange to see he was stuck toiling away in Finland and Switzerland before coming back to the NHL with three 30-point seasons in 4 years (I’m counting his 29 points in 69 games for Montreal)
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by BobbyOrrsBastard on Feb 3, 2012 11:51 AM EST up reply actions
KPD is drunk before noon again
@GlobeKPD
Imagine PK Subban with Julien as his coach and Chara as his captain. Nonsense gone. Runway 76 now cleared for takeoff. For Marchand?
I’m in for getting Subban on the Bruins
in fact I wish it would happen
not for Marchand, though. I want them to be teaming up and throwing Dion Phaneuf through a table.
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Feb 3, 2012 12:10 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Yes!
Return of the Bash Brothers!
Kick his ass, Seabass!
by phonymahoney on Feb 3, 2012 12:44 PM EST up reply actions
gif it!
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Feb 3, 2012 12:45 PM EST up reply actions
I’d send Horton over there.
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by phonymahoney on Feb 3, 2012 12:44 PM EST up reply actions
Gomez might score a goal if we do that
unacceptable
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Feb 3, 2012 12:46 PM EST up reply actions
There’s questionable PR decisions, bad PR decisions, and then there’s trading Brad Marchand for PK Subban.
I do agree with Cornelius, I think if you could acquire him somehow by not using a current core player (and the Bruins can’t) then I’d be all for it.
That said, what a foolish Tweet that is. Imagine Brad Marchand with Julien as his coach and Chara as his captain. Nonsense gone?
by Michael Taylor on Feb 3, 2012 12:15 PM EST up reply actions
Probably some of it, Habs do tend to get into that stuff more.
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Feb 3, 2012 12:22 PM EST up reply actions
Nonsense decreased? Sure. Nonsense eliminated? I doubt it. Just based on what we see from #63 say…last night.
by Michael Taylor on Feb 3, 2012 12:25 PM EST up reply actions
What did Marchand do last night? I didn’t notice anything other than his taking two sticks to the face.
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by BobbyOrrsBastard on Feb 3, 2012 12:27 PM EST up reply actions
We went on the PP and he slashed the crap out of somebody. Wasn’t even close to being a hockey play. I get being frustrated, but there’s a time and a place. Also, I’m doubting the ‘Canes meant to high stick him, it’s on the refs to make the call. Delivering a wicked two handed to someone’s glove isn’t productive.
I still think this is a very talented team with some maturity issues.
by Michael Taylor on Feb 3, 2012 12:31 PM EST up reply actions
That’s right… forgot about that one.
I don’t think the high-sticks were related to that slash though… I mean, they happened two periods apart so I don’t see that being the case.
Was a stupid play no doubt but the game was all but decided by the time it happened.
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by BobbyOrrsBastard on Feb 3, 2012 12:32 PM EST up reply actions
Oh sure. I don’t mean to say, hey he cost them a shot at a win. But what if (I think it was) Allen winds up with a broken arm. Marchand is a repeat offender who just took a two hand slash in front of literally everybody. Why tempt another Shanaban?
by Michael Taylor on Feb 3, 2012 12:34 PM EST up reply actions
I gotcha.
I’d be stunned if that would merit further attention. The league doesn’t look at injuries from standard penalties in the same light as they do dangerous plays. Wasn’t it just last year that Boychuk broke his forearm thanks to a slash from Dubinsky? There wasn’t even a murmur of discipline from anywhere, not even Bruins fans.
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by BobbyOrrsBastard on Feb 3, 2012 12:36 PM EST up reply actions
I recall that Coach Julien benched Marchand and had
Benoit Puliot play his shift…CJ was not happy with that slash by Marchand.
Well it was dumb as hell
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Feb 3, 2012 12:41 PM EST up reply actions
It was and it killed a Power Play opportunity that we had..what
was it 8 seconds in when he took that dumb slash…
by pemci on Feb 3, 2012 12:51 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Yeah, he has a habit of doing stuff like that.
HOW HARD IS IT TO BEHAVE WHILE YOU’RE ON THE FUCKING PP??
Kick his ass, Seabass!
Especially at the rarity that it was happening last night...
We only had two power plays, and he does a bonehead move to kill one of them. I love Marchand, but he needed to be a little smarter there…
well yeah
I mean dumb players are going to do dumb stuff no matter where they are.
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Feb 3, 2012 12:28 PM EST up reply actions
On the other hand, yes please to this in black and gold: http://video.nhl.com/videocenter/console?id=154687
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Feb 3, 2012 1:01 PM EST up reply actions
he’s got more fights than Marchand and they’re equally dirty players
Plus Subban can do this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkEzL9h8a7U
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Feb 3, 2012 1:14 PM EST up reply actions
Does his 6 fights to Marchand’s 3 really make that big a difference? Or does he get credit for his 7th fight against Plekanec?
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by BobbyOrrsBastard on Feb 3, 2012 1:18 PM EST up reply actions 4 recs
Claude Lemieux has the 2nd-most playoff game-winning goals of all time
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Feb 3, 2012 1:33 PM EST up reply actions
I dunno, I mean I get angry at that when it’s a guy on the other side but I just can’t bring myself to say “we shouldn’t get a better player because he turtles”
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Feb 3, 2012 1:35 PM EST up reply actions
I’m not saying we shouldn’t get him. I would love to see him wearing the spoked B. But I would like to see him cut the bullshit.
"But I would like to see him cut the bullshit."
That would get him TONS of respect, someday hopefully, he will wise up and see that for himself…
Same goes for Monsieur Marchand and Herr Lucic.
Our intention isn't to discuss this... it's to see if you can bleed.
by BobbyOrrsBastard on Feb 3, 2012 3:15 PM EST up reply actions
Tons of Subban trade talk at Nucks Misconduct
In their rosterbation thread. Can’t think of a more perfect Canuck
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