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Matt Zerella
Oct 7, 2002

Norris'es are back baby. It's good again. Awoouu (fox Howl)
Dan Boyle status: still loving sucks

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Eric the Mauve
May 8, 2012

Making you happy for a buck since 199X
Rangers d-men loving block everything

Pornographic Memory
Dec 17, 2008
Bonino beating somebody in a foot race :monocle:

Stretch Marx
Apr 29, 2008

I'm ok with this.
Datsyuk just got run over. Wasn't graceful in the least.

Good Soldier Svejk
Jul 5, 2010

Pornographic Memory posted:

Bonino beating somebody in a foot race :monocle:

Must be playoff magic because I am sure I've never seen that

Matt Zerella
Oct 7, 2002

Norris'es are back baby. It's good again. Awoouu (fox Howl)

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

Must be playoff magic because I am sure I've never seen that

Was it Boyle? It was probably Boyle.

Angry Asian
May 24, 2006
*BOOMSHAKALAKA*
What's up with Letang? He gets so loving riled up so easily

marioinblack
Sep 21, 2007

Number 1 Bullshit
Well both powerplays have looked a million times better so far.

Levitate
Sep 30, 2005

randy newman voice

YOU'VE GOT A LAFRENIÈRE IN ME
lol this scuffle

Eric the Mauve
May 8, 2012

Making you happy for a buck since 199X

Angry Asian posted:

What's up with Letang? He gets so loving riled up so easily

Letang is never more than 2 seconds from going apeshit

Levitate
Sep 30, 2005

randy newman voice

YOU'VE GOT A LAFRENIÈRE IN ME

Angry Asian posted:

What's up with Letang? He gets so loving riled up so easily

he's a giant loving baby who takes cheapshots whenever he can and gets away with it because he's a "star player"

Good Soldier Svejk
Jul 5, 2010

Angry Asian posted:

What's up with Letang? He gets so loving riled up so easily

He is fueled entirely by his rage.
I think this is partially true.

Levitate posted:

he's a giant loving baby who takes cheapshots whenever he can and gets away with it because he's a "star player"

Sorry our star defenseman is better than yours.
At least when he isn't broken.

vyst
Aug 25, 2009



The Joe is falling apart

Eric the Mauve
May 8, 2012

Making you happy for a buck since 199X

Levitate posted:

he's a giant loving baby who takes cheapshots whenever he can and gets away with it because he's a "star player"

Not disputing the first part but there is no player in the NHL on the receiving end of more uncalled cheap shots than Letang

Ginette Reno
Nov 18, 2006

How Doers get more done
Fun Shoe

Angry Asian posted:

What's up with Letang? He gets so loving riled up so easily

He plays as angry as I've ever seen a player play. It's hard for him to control his emotions.

Levitate
Sep 30, 2005

randy newman voice

YOU'VE GOT A LAFRENIÈRE IN ME

Eric the Mauve posted:

Not disputing the first part but there is no player in the NHL on the receiving end of more uncalled cheap shots than Letang

possibly true but he also dishes them out as much as he can

maybe if he wasn't such a dirty player then other players would respect him more and not cheap shot him :smugdog:

fenix down
Jan 12, 2005

Eric the Mauve posted:

Letang is never more than 2 seconds from going apeshit
lol and always losing the helmet

marioinblack
Sep 21, 2007

Number 1 Bullshit
The worst penalty :negative:

Levitate
Sep 30, 2005

randy newman voice

YOU'VE GOT A LAFRENIÈRE IN ME
like seeing Hayes get a little fiery, he needs to produce more here

Eric the Mauve
May 8, 2012

Making you happy for a buck since 199X
Letang is as good as he is despite not actually having any plus skills besides skating speed exactly because he is so relentlessly balls-to-the-walls aggressive 100% of the time. Svejk is right, unfocused rage is inexhaustible fuel for him.

Matt Zerella
Oct 7, 2002

Norris'es are back baby. It's good again. Awoouu (fox Howl)
So I guess this is another night where Boyle will lead in TOI?

Levitate
Sep 30, 2005

randy newman voice

YOU'VE GOT A LAFRENIÈRE IN ME
gently caress OFF BOYLE YOU'RE SO GODDAMN BAD

HappyHippo
Nov 19, 2003
Do you have an Air Miles Card?
Haha Worst Penalty!

a false
Mar 5, 2009

I DECIDE
WHO LIVES
AND WHO DIES
god dan boyle is so bad

Angry Asian
May 24, 2006
*BOOMSHAKALAKA*
Kreider taking out linesmen now :tinfoil:

darkwolf220
May 14, 2009

SOON :stare:

I feel uneasy/don't care for a lot of the video reviews for offsides, but at the end of the day, he /was/ offsides and the right call was made. I'd rather have a bunch of people angry that the goal got rightfully overturned on review than a bunch of people rightfully upset that their team got hosed by a blown offsides call that led to a goal. Getting a goal overturned is a lovely feeling, but not as rage inducing as getting hosed by the (lack of) refs.

RC Cola
Aug 1, 2011

Dovie'andi se tovya sagain

Pungry posted:

I'm already mad about this challenge even if it benefits the Pens

Same

marioinblack
Sep 21, 2007

Number 1 Bullshit

a false posted:

god dan boyle is so bad

I'm sorry you traded your Boyle for an older, shittier Boyle.

Pornographic Memory
Dec 17, 2008
Kreider even taking out the linesmen, better suspend him for 20 10 games

a false
Mar 5, 2009

I DECIDE
WHO LIVES
AND WHO DIES
no one is safe from chris kreider

Matt Zerella
Oct 7, 2002

Norris'es are back baby. It's good again. Awoouu (fox Howl)

marioinblack posted:

I'm sorry you traded your Boyle for an older, shittier Boyle.

That Boyle sucks too.

Overwined
Sep 22, 2008

Wine can of their wits the wise beguile,
Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile.

Angry Asian posted:

Kreider taking out linesmen now :tinfoil:

It's hard for him to control his emotions. That's something sane people say, right?

Eric the Mauve
May 8, 2012

Making you happy for a buck since 199X
MSG broadcaster: "Kreider is in... against Lovejoy..." Except that he had already blown past Lovejoy, who was no longer in the play. Then after Murray makes the save the MSG guy talks about Kreider's terrific speed. Well... yeah, to the extent 90% of the players in the NHL have terrific speed compared to Lovejoy, sure.

Lovejoy's transformation into the New Scuderi is distressingly close to complete.

Eric the Mauve
May 8, 2012

Making you happy for a buck since 199X
Penguins incredibly lucky to take a scoreless game into intermission and are going to lose the series if something doesn't drastically change.

Ginette Reno
Nov 18, 2006

How Doers get more done
Fun Shoe
Pens did okay. A few too many odd man breaks against but most of them weren't of the breakaway or 2 on 1 variety so I can deal.

Jovial Cow
Sep 7, 2006

inherently good

Eric the Mauve posted:

MSG broadcaster: "Kreider is in... against Lovejoy..." Except that he had already blown past Lovejoy, who was no longer in the play. Then after Murray makes the save the MSG guy talks about Kreider's terrific speed. Well... yeah, to the extent 90% of the players in the NHL have terrific speed compared to Lovejoy, sure.

Lovejoy's transformation into the New Scuderi is distressingly close to complete.

I mean to be fair, I'm not sure there are many players that have the top speed of Kreider when he's at full bore. It's amazing how many times D-Men say gently caress this and just immediately turn around and start racing to their net when Kreider is coming at them.

Levitate
Sep 30, 2005

randy newman voice

YOU'VE GOT A LAFRENIÈRE IN ME

darkwolf220 posted:

I feel uneasy/don't care for a lot of the video reviews for offsides, but at the end of the day, he /was/ offsides and the right call was made. I'd rather have a bunch of people angry that the goal got rightfully overturned on review than a bunch of people rightfully upset that their team got hosed by a blown offsides call that led to a goal. Getting a goal overturned is a lovely feeling, but not as rage inducing as getting hosed by the (lack of) refs.

If there was magically some way to only review the ones that are obviously offsides (like a dude is 3 feet offsides) and not the frame by frame bullshit "can you figure out whether his skate was touching the ice inbetween frames!" then that'd make sense but that's not really feasible.

Felt like the Rangers ultimately had the better of the play that period but it makes me nervous when they come away empty handed since Pittsburgh can easily score a bunch of goals even if they're being outplayed

Matt Zerella
Oct 7, 2002

Norris'es are back baby. It's good again. Awoouu (fox Howl)

Eric the Mauve posted:

MSG broadcaster: "Kreider is in... against Lovejoy..." Except that he had already blown past Lovejoy, who was no longer in the play. Then after Murray makes the save the MSG guy talks about Kreider's terrific speed. Well... yeah, to the extent 90% of the players in the NHL have terrific speed compared to Lovejoy, sure.

Lovejoy's transformation into the New Scuderi is distressingly close to complete.

Kreider does have good speed though?

Eric the Mauve
May 8, 2012

Making you happy for a buck since 199X

Levitate posted:

If there was magically some way to only review the ones that are obviously offsides (like a dude is 3 feet offsides) and not the frame by frame bullshit "can you figure out whether his skate was touching the ice inbetween frames!" then that'd make sense but that's not really feasible.

Felt like the Rangers ultimately had the better of the play that period but it makes me nervous when they come away empty handed since Pittsburgh can easily score a bunch of goals even if they're being outplayed

The solution is to only allow offsides plays to be reviewed at full speed and give the refs only 30 seconds. If it's not super obvious at full speed that the play was offside then it stands.

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Levitate
Sep 30, 2005

randy newman voice

YOU'VE GOT A LAFRENIÈRE IN ME

Jovial Cow posted:

I mean to be fair, I'm not sure there are many players that have the top speed of Kreider when he's at full bore. It's amazing how many times D-Men say gently caress this and just immediately turn around and start racing to their net when Kreider is coming at them.

He completely legitimately might be the fastest player in the league full out in a straight line, I've seen some absolutely ridiculous poo poo from him that I haven't seen from anyone else in the league including guys like Hagelin, he's just not the kind of player that goes all out all the time

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