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2009-2010 NHL Season Part 3: After The Gold Rush

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Ouch. Steve Downie just got a stick to the midsection. His own stick - it snapped in half.

Reminiscent of Joe Pereira on BU last year. Hope he's okay.
 
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The Chicago/New Jersey game tonight was the first in the NHL since March 28, 2001 (Boston at Toronto) in which neither team was assessed a penalty.
 
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I love how the Rangers are getting my hopes up right now that they'll actually make the playoffs.
 
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kennedy said:
The Chicago/New Jersey game tonight was the first in the NHL since March 28, 2001 (Boston at Toronto) in which neither team was assessed a penalty.
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That was a pretty good game, despite the NJ loss.
 
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So we've got Boucher vs Osgood in Philly this afternoon, and it's 3-2 Flyers a minute into the 2nd period. I'll take "8-5 final" for $200, Alex.
 
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Hammer said:
So we've got Boucher vs Osgood in Philly this afternoon, and it's 3-2 Flyers a minute into the 2nd period. I'll take "8-5 final" for $200, Alex.
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Gotta love dueling Sieves...
 
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Does anyone have a team to add to the squads that are allowed to play on Sundays on NBC?

Detroit Red Wings
Philadelphia Flyers
Pittsburgh Penguins
Washington Captails
New York Rangers
Boston Bruins
Chicago Blackhawks

I think the Hawks only got added this year when NBC realized no one wanted to watch the Bruins when they're so bad.
 
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Dude Love said:
Does anyone have a team to add to the squads that are allowed to play on Sundays on NBC?

Detroit Red Wings
Philadelphia Flyers
Pittsburgh Penguins
Washington Captails
New York Rangers
Boston Bruins
Chicago Blackhawks

I think the Hawks only got added this year when NBC realized no one wanted to watch the Bruins when they're so bad.
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The Rangers haven't even played that much on Sunday afternoon this year.

But yes, those are the ones. I think the Devils may play occasionally.
 
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RaceBoarder said:
Gotta love dueling Sieves...
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Out of curiosity...

Bigger sieve:

Carey Price
Chris Osgood (last 2 seasons only)
Christobal Huet
Brian Boucher

Honestly a tough question.

Price is among the most overrated goaltenders in the last 10 years.

Huet is a neverwas that managed to get paid like a star goaltender before exposing himself as a fraud.

Osgood was good at many points throughout his career but has, in the past two seasons, allowed a rookie and a career backup to look like Brodeur and Roy compared to him.

Boucher was, to me, always a backup goaltender that was, at times, forced into the #1 role and hasn't really been able to sustain anything reasonably worth being "ok" about.

I think it is a hard choice. I guess I'd go with Osgood simply because he has the distinction of being at one time, a great goaltender. The fact that he's fallen off so incredibly hardcore... wow.
 
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redwing77 said:
Out of curiosity...

Bigger sieve:

Carey Price
Chris Osgood (last 2 seasons only)
Christobal Huet
Brian Boucher

Honestly a tough question.

Price is among the most overrated goaltenders in the last 10 years.

Huet is a neverwas that managed to get paid like a star goaltender before exposing himself as a fraud.

Osgood was good at many points throughout his career but has, in the past two seasons, allowed a rookie and a career backup to look like Brodeur and Roy compared to him.

Boucher was, to me, always a backup goaltender that was, at times, forced into the #1 role and hasn't really been able to sustain anything reasonably worth being "ok" about.

I think it is a hard choice. I guess I'd go with Osgood simply because he has the distinction of being at one time, a great goaltender. The fact that he's fallen off so incredibly hardcore... wow.
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How is Tim Thomas not on this list?
 
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Dude Love said:
Does anyone have a team to add to the squads that are allowed to play on Sundays on NBC?

Detroit Red Wings
Philadelphia Flyers
Pittsburgh Penguins
Washington Captails
New York Rangers
Boston Bruins
Chicago Blackhawks

I think the Hawks only got added this year when NBC realized no one wanted to watch the Bruins when they're so bad.
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That's it. I got into a discussion over on HF about it.

The Rangers appear once, Detroit 5 times, Philly and Boston twice, Pittsburgh 4 times and Washington/Chicago 3, I believe. NBC managed 17 different teams in 17 weeks of NFL football, but that's probably because Fox and CBS would burn their headquarters down if they monopolized the Colts, Pats, Favrkings and Cowboys.
 
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Dude Love said:
Does anyone have a team to add to the squads that are allowed to play on Sundays on NBC?

Detroit Red Wings
Philadelphia Flyers
Pittsburgh Penguins
Washington Captails
New York Rangers
Boston Bruins
Chicago Blackhawks

I think the Hawks only got added this year when NBC realized no one wanted to watch the Bruins when they're so bad.
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I was thinking about this in the car today while wondering how many times this summer it will be Red Sox - Yankees on Sunday Night Baseball! :mad:
 
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bronconick said:
That's it. I got into a discussion over on HF about it.

The Rangers appear once, Detroit 5 times, Philly and Boston twice, Pittsburgh 4 times and Washington/Chicago 3, I believe. NBC managed 17 different teams in 17 weeks of NFL football, but that's probably because Fox and CBS would burn their headquarters down if they monopolized the Colts, Pats, Favrkings and Cowboys.
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You've seen what the ratings look like when they get the GOOD teams with a big following on the air, imagine if you crammed in a Thrashers-Devils game on NBC?

By the way, Detroit v. Chicago couldn't be picked out for next Sunday because the Red Wings used up all their NBC appearances, instead we'll get Boston-Washington.
 
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redwing77 said:
Out of curiosity...

Bigger sieve:

Carey Price
Chris Osgood (last 2 seasons only)
Christobal Huet
Brian Boucher
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From that list, it's a tie between Huet and Osbad, since Oz managed to turn it around in the playoffs last year (even if the results were not indicative of his play). Though to be fair to him, he hasn't gotten a lot of chances to improve upon his 08-09 regular season effort, due entirely to Howard's play since November.

But hey, even if Detroit's a first round exit, "The Streak" officially stays alive. Thanks Calgary! ;)
 
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GreatLakerMohawk said:
You've seen what the ratings look like when they get the GOOD teams with a big following on the air, imagine if you crammed in a Thrashers-Devils game on NBC?

By the way, Detroit v. Chicago couldn't be picked out for next Sunday because the Red Wings used up all their NBC appearances, instead we'll get Boston-Washington.
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Yeah. They get static regardless, and ignore half the country while they're doing it. I imagine it's pretty easy to justify showing 6 east time zone teams when any hockey fans in half the country are getting out of church or bed when the puck drops and not watching hockey.

The ratings next week are going to be *** anyway, since Tiger will likely still be in the Masters, so they may as well show decent hockey instead of Alexander Ovechkin vs. the amazing craphole Bruins. The Devils (yeah, yeah, I know boring hockey. Have you met Claude Julien?) are playing Ryan Miller (the other hockey guy Americans have heard of despite his nuts not being juggled by Pierre McGuire)'s "playoff" bound Buffalo Sabres that Sunday.

But yeah, show me more Bruins hockey. Jesus. I hope the game's in Boston, so the arena is empty because the Red Sox are playing.
 
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