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2009-2010 NHL Season Thread 2: Its all going up in flames!

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I think Pouliot will be fine. Overall, I think both teams and players end up much happier.
 
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NMU alum Dirk Southern assisted with that ECHL highlight reel goal. :D
 
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While I'm not sure the ratings will necessarily reflect it with the NFL game going on, I don't think NBC could have asked for a better game to kick off their 2010 NHL lineup. Outstanding effort from two teams that both played and traveled within the last 24 hours.

Also, for those that will crush NBC for missing PEaves' goal in the third-period, that is probably the error of the timeout coordinator in the penalty box who is actually an NHL off-ice official, and not an NBC employee. Still inexcusable, but I don't believe the majority of the blame falls on the network.
 
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kennedy said:
Also, for those that will crush NBC for missing PEaves' goal in the third-period, that is probably the error of the timeout coordinator in the penalty box who is actually an NHL off-ice official, and not an NBC employee. Still inexcusable, but I don't believe the majority of the blame falls on the network.
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OK, so they did miss that goal. I literally turned the TV on a few seconds before that happened and couldn't tell. I thought I wasn't paying attention, because surely they wouldn't have come back late from a commercial and missed a goal. And when did Patrick Eaves join the Red Wings?
 
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**** from today's notes column by KPD in the boston glob ****

Just back from playing in a pond hockey tournament in Vermont, and impressed by what he witnessed at the Winter Classic at Fenway Park, ex-Bruins general manager Mike O’Connell figures a little bit of the great outdoors may be just the right indoor ticket for the NHL.

When it comes to settling ties, said O’Connell, why not ignore the red line, the blue line, the faceoff circles and all the painted trappings of the NHL’s indoor game and simply turn the players loose, pond-hockey style, to bring home a winner?

“I’m not sure how everyone feels, but I can’t stand the shootout,’’ said O’Connell, who these days works in pro development and special assignments for the Los Angeles Kings. “I haven’t liked it from Day One. The games are being settled, but in a way that really has nothing to do with how hockey is played. I mean, look at [Wayne] Gretzky - the best player ever and he couldn’t score on a breakaway.’’

O’Connell’s vision of overtime, with the clubs skating four a side, would still have penalties being whistled and served. Otherwise, the full sheet would be in play, with no offsides, icings, trapezoids, or, it goes without saying, dreaded neutral-zone traps. If we all agree the world would be a better place with no lawyers, the ice would have to be a better place with no lines, right?

“All the talk we keep hearing about the game going back to its roots, how much everyone liked the outdoor game at Fenway,’’ mused O’Connell, “well, what’s more in keeping with the spirit of true hockey: something like this, or the shootout?’’

Coaches, O’Connell figures, wouldn’t support the free-form OT.

“They’d hate it,’’ he said. “They’d have to give up control. There’s not much coaching in pond hockey.’’

What would GMs and league bosses think?

“Well, if I ever got the chance to run it by them,’’ said O’Connell, “they’d probably think I’m nuts. But, hey, that’s OK. I just know there’s got to be something better than the shootout. I can’t say for sure that teams would score my way, but I think they would. I think it would be exciting and games would end pretty quickly.

“It would be, ‘OK, let’s play, and if you want to defend, then OK, go ahead. And if you want to go all out, fire away, try to win it your way.’ I mean, isn’t that the game we all first played? If everyone likes the idea of going back in time, then I think this could work.’’
 
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OK, so they did miss that goal. I literally turned the TV on a few seconds before that happened and couldn't tell. I thought I wasn't paying attention, because surely they wouldn't have come back late from a commercial and missed a goal. And when did Patrick Eaves join the Red Wings?
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The only Boston College Eagle that I've disliked more than Patrick Eaves is probably Jeff Farkas. Loved watching VERSTEEG! split him open here:

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Little known fact that Eaves probably wishes he had been aware of: VERSTEEG! has an exoskeleton made of Unobtainium.
 
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O'Connell is wrong, people think he's nuts for trading Joe Thornton and smearing him on the way out of town.

The way OT was played in the game this afternoon (and as it was played in the NYR-NJ game last week) strengthens my resolve that ties are a perfectly acceptable outcome. Sometimes you can be just as good as your opponent on that night.

Something needs to be fixed, starting off with awarding an extra point for just making it to OT. What a sham.
 
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Possibly the ugliest and worst hit I've ever seen, from QMJHL Devils prospect Patrice Cormier does this.

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Yes, he left the bench to deliver that hit to Mikael Tam and word coming out is that player's team is looking to press criminal charges.

ETA: He's got a penchant for this too. Check this from Team Canada's WJC team exhibition against Sweden.

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If I'm seeing it right, it's a buttend to the face? That's horrid. :eek:
 
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The worst part of that video is when he's laying on the ground twitching. :eek:
 
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Might've been a butt-end, but it's definitely an elbow. I edited the post to add another scummy hit he made in an exhibition game for the WJCs against Sweden.
 
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Might've been a butt-end, but it's definitely an elbow. I edited the post to add another scummy hit he made in an exhibition game for the WJCs against Sweden.
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Maybe it's the angle, but that second one looked more like a bit of an overreaction. :confused:

Either way, I hope he doesn't make the big squad.:mad:
 
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Maybe it's the angle, but that second one looked more like a bit of an overreaction. :confused:

Either way, I hope he doesn't make the big squad.:mad:
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That hit against Sweden was in a blowout game and it looked like he broke the kid's nose.
 
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Definitely an elbow with intent to injure. At the very least, he shouldn't be playing anymore.

Surprised someone didn't come after him after the attack in the first video.
 
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I say ban him from the Q for a year, force him to watch the WNBA for the rest of his life...oh, and fight a bear.
 
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