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Levitate posted:dang dude All the fresh LA fans got to sit through a big lovely lockout too, which didn't help their attention spans. At least the media can actually pronounce our players' names correctly this year. The two sports reporters for KTLA often come to the bar I watch from to see games, and they're surprisingly knowledgeable. The days of Brad Doty and Andy Kopidor are behind us 
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Sharks Eat Bear posted:n: no hockey tonight means no gdt The Howl of the GBS is calling out to you
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Sharks Eat Bear posted:yeah tbh i'll probably just wind up in the MLB gifs thread. i don't even like baseball but that thread is hilarious Hell yeah that thread rules.
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:The average ticket price for game 1 in LA is $790. I thought that was insane until they mentioned that the average ticket price for game 3 in NY is $1631. I saw a report somewhere saying that it would be cheaper for a New Yorker to fly to LA, get a room for 2 nights, and a ticket to watch the game here. It reminds me of when the Kings were playing Phoenix in the 2012 WCF, and Kings fans were driving six hours to Jobing.com Arena because they couldn't even sell out to the home crowd and the tickets were heavily deflated. It was less of a pain in the rear end, to spend half a day on the road, than it was to find tickets to the games at Staples. I kinda miss the days when it was $30 to get into the 300 section at Staples and then find some empty seats in the 100's. I like having a championship team more overall, but I gotta admit, I went to a lot more games when the Kings weren't as good.
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AngryBooch posted:Joke's totally on the Rangers if Jones gets to play with the way Quick played in the first three rounds. Yeah Jones was legit in the regular season. I guess we'll see if he's legit in the postseason too, provided Quick leaving wasn't just a precaution.
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Rotten Cookies posted:If LA loses, the LAPD have to start another race war in their city. If NY loses, TWA Flight 800 pt II. The loser has to give the winning town their worst sports team. NY gets the Kiss, or LA gets the Mets.
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EVGA Longoria posted:I would straight up trade the Jets for the Kiss. Send the Jets to the AFL where they belong and get those No, you just get the Kiss. Figure out what to do with your stupid Jets 
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Sir Unimaginative posted:How does Chivas miss the hook in your scenario? I don't know enough about Soccer, only that it bores me. Hell I forgot Chivas is even a team before you mentioned it. And I don't want a pro football team here, although if there had to be one, it should go for maximum trolling effort with the name.
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Heading over to Big Wangs to watch the big game  Before you all talk about how gay that sounds, this is in North Hollywood, not West Hollywood. And their chicken tenders are drat tasty.
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They call the hot sauce "Wang Sauce" too. I like to think they're trolling the homophobic UFC crowd that piles in on fight nights.
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What do you think this is, Canadia? We bust some ranch all over the place. Oddly enough they do serve poutine. Maybe it's a front for the Maple Syrup Mafia
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That game could have gone either way. If every game is like that I'm going to be happy, until I die of cardiac arrest.
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MaoistBanker posted:I live about a mile from there, their wings are garbage, go to Ye Rustic Inn on Hillhurst. Best drat wings anywhere and they play the game audio throughout the whole bar. You're thinking of the wrong Big Wangs. That's the original, and it looks like a crusty dive bar inside. The one I go to is in Noho; it's much newer, has like 75 TVs, pipes in the game audio loud and clear, and IMO has a better staff. I used to go to a place called Champs because I live close by it (As seen on Bar Rescue!). It still kinda sucks. Really though, my favorite sports bar ever is this place owned by former pitcher Jeff Suppan.
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Duck Rodgers posted:This is kind of funny: https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/my-life-and-times/stanley-cup-preview/ It's an apt description, Kopitar looks like loving Dracula. Re: NY Speed Advantage, it sure was scary to see those breakaways. However, I think the Kings will adjust. They always do. They may not be able to eliminate the risk completely, but they'll find a way to manage it to a reasonable level. Tightening up the passing is step one. Their puck movement was shakier than it was against Chicago.
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PK loving SUBBAN posted:Agree 100% with this part. I've seen it the whole playoffs, Kings know how to build momentum throughout a game like it is an art. The media grabbed on to the unkillable cockroach analogy but I prefer to call them a horde of zombies for this very reason
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MaoistBanker posted:Nay, I'm thinking of the right one. Across from the Federal, next to Panda Express. Still garbage! /wings chat  . I'll be honest, I don't go anywhere for their wings, I just want a good place to watch the game. I will have to check Ye Rustic Inn out sometime though, I've been to Fred62 a bunch for late-night grub but never even heard of that spot, and it's right around the corner.Back on the topic of hockey, have 15 minutes of the best of Darryl Sutter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1umjn9m_Rc The Casualty fucked around with this message at 20:46 on Jun 5, 2014 |
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AngryBooch posted:KAS is like 5 guys and a Red Wings fan. No no, a hot wings fan.
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Lost Season posted:N: The Kings have not held a lead in 229 minutes and 15 seconds, when Duncan Keith tied game 6 of the Western Conference Finals. The Kings have played three complete games in that stretch, winning all three and taking a 2-0 lead in the Cup Finals. Offense wins games, trolling wins championships.
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Sharks Eat Bear posted:i mean i fully realize it's easy for me to say this given my team is out, but i really think the 3rd kings goal was a toss up. i wouldnt be happy about it, but if that's enough for my team to blow the lead and then lose then i'm probably going to be more pissed at my team than the refs Maybe people aren't full of poo poo when they say having good possession creates more scoring chances  Plus it isn't like the Kings haven't been really unlucky at points too. They've given up some goals and lost games on some really crazy bounces, deflections, or wrong-place-wrong-timey stuff. That's the nature of the game. I think the team's mental toughness is a bigger factor than their good or bad luck. Their ability to bounce back from hardship is unrivaled.
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PK loving SUBBAN posted:Meanwhile, I don't think his stats show it but Rick Nash has been playing great this round and last. He had a hilarious number of shots before scoring a goal in the Montreal series, didn't he?
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Rutkowski posted:Do this and then make Torts a ref. "No, you're a bad call, Jonesey! You gently caress!"
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onemillionzombies posted:From what I've read on twitter the Rangers are talking a bit about bad bounces and puck luck today, does that sound like a confident winning mentality? Contrast that line of thought to what happened back in late April, when Kings players still had that "win one game at a time" mentality despite some downright crushing losses to the Sharks. Of course, there was some luck involved in their comeback, but probably no more luck than the Sharks had in blowing them out for two games. Luck doesn't keep someone or some team from giving up, only mental discipline does. It's hard to honestly believe that you can make up a three game deficit, but if you can then you're going to play like it. If the Rangers feel like this: Surfing Turtle posted:so snake bit that they've become disillusioned
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Rutkowski posted:Uhh not really, I wouldn't even say he is a top 5 skilled defender. Is there some other league I'm not watching that makes the NHL look scrub-tier or something?
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If you can't find a statistcal reason to like Doughty then I'd like to remind you that there's some things you just can't put on paper, like his effectiveness against Shane Doan's weak takedown defense. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9szMtkCSLaA
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deafmute posted:AV hasn't told Daniel Carcillo if he'll get to play tonight yet. He can't be worse than Brad Richards so it's worth a shot
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Mr. Kite posted:OldSenileGuy said he was going to kill St. Louis' dad if the Rangers were having trouble. So much like the Rangers themselves, he is terrible at finishing. He probably forgot
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Kwik posted:That's a new one. Hank stole this game because he scuffed the ice in his crease really loving hard.
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sweet thursday posted:I'd like to know his pre-game mental routine AV builds a rhinoceros out of pucks and Chris Kreider, and launches it right into him
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Ginette Reno posted:It's a little annoying to watch other team's with good goalies sit on leads and get hammered with shots and yet win because their goalies don't suck. Also the Kings inherited all that offensive bad luck that the Rangers had in the previous games. Shots off the post, two pucks getting through and coming to a stop right on the goal line, open net misses, it was frustrating to watch. Not taking anything away from Lundqvist though, he was very good. He certainly bounced back from Game 3. I have faith that the Kings will win game 5, but I'm also nervous because they seem to play slightly worse at Staples for some inexplicable reason. Maybe they thrive on discomfort or something. I don't know.
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Rotten Cookies posted:Bad news: Tonight I'm bartending for a wedding that rented our place out. So I wouldn't be able to watch the game. I'm working at a bar in LA tonight so I'm hoping for the exact opposite!
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