Snake
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The Rangers are fast and they have world-class goaltending. They have a shot.
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I'm here to tell u the new Coors Light summer brew is good - I think it has lemon lime & orange flavors in it - the only bad thing is it is only a 10 oz can.
I didn't like it so much...I thought it tasted like the failed soda "Surge." Put me in the Bud Light Lime column for the Macro fruit beers.
Summer Shandy and Sam's Summer Ale are others I enjoy.
Nothing beats a Gin & Tonic for real summertime drinking!
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So nobody though John G's goal today was down-right awesome....tough crowd.
Your fault for posting in the middle of Bruins talk!
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I missed your actual point because I was too busy throwing up a little.
Please, please do not compare the Bruins to UND. In any way. Ever. Even if it's just a simile. It's like comparing sardines to ice cream; don't taint my ice cream.
I think Goon's analogy was spot on!
If you think about it, both teams have a history of playing a hard-nosed and edgy game with plenty of skill involved. The teams' styles aren't as dissimilar as some may want to think.
although with the amount of goons they have and cheap shots they do, maybe they are more comparable to Denver a few years back with Paukovich(sp).
I think Lucic may have learned a thing or two from watching Prpich get even on Paukovitch...Just sayin'
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Miami has been knocking on the door for quite a while.
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Yessir! This series has me tied up in knots. If they'd have lost last night they would have been in trouble. I think the Bruins have outplayed the Canadiens in every game of this series with maybe the exception of Game 2 which, ironically, the Bruins won. The Bruins have hit posts, missed open nets, and have had countless opportunities to score in this series but have been snakebitten. I'm hoping that on Saturday night the floodgates open.
It just seems like everyone is fighting the puck on the B's - especially the Krejci line. I have never seen Krejci play such a slow game...ever. Soderberg has been very impressive, and his line was the best on the ice last night.
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Love the move by the Vikes to move up and get the best QB in this draft. Bridgewater is really the only QB I wanted in the first 2 rounds and was the best QB all college season but people get too hung up on a bad workout in shorts and a t-shirt. Hope they can add another LB and some secondary help with the 2 3rd rounders tonight.
Bridgewater's numbers against the blitz last season have been touted by many this morning.... something like 70% completions with 14 TDs and 1 INT. That's very "not Christian Ponder."
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If we are the oilers we can play the blow-out scene from "There will be blood" every time we stomp someone. Also, it makes the lives of newspaper writers easy... "Oilers Drill (Opponent)". Everytime. No need for originality, we'll call it tradition.
If we have a comeback victory... "Oilers dig deep for win"... writes itself.
And when we have a game stolen from us, Schlossman can write that we ran into "another fracking hot goalie!"
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As someone who's gone to CC games ever since they built the world arena, I personally do not enjoy the game as much on the Olympic sized rink. I think it's slower as teams who don't normally play on the big sheet can quickly adjust and anticipate those home run passes. I think more defensive mistakes, turnovers, and offensive forechecking pressure happens with greater frequency on the NHL sheet...resulting in more scoring opportunities and thus, more excitement for the fans. CC/DU games on the whole have generally been more entertaining with more turns in momentum when played at Magness than at World Arena. Just one guy's opinion.
I also don't like the game as much on the big sheet at the college level. There are too many missed passes and too much time is spent chasing the puck. The olympics are fine, but those are world-class hockey players.
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Were you the guy that someone tweeted to me on Twitter wearing a Sioux hat and a Bruins jersey? One of my twitter friends pinged me with that. That was a cool picture. I heard this story... That's cool... Sometimes I am conflicted as well because the FSN crew is so pro Gophers they they can't even recognized the other Division I teams in the state of MN.
Ha ha...yeah, that was me.
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Paille is the one who got 2 for tripping at the end of the first OT. That hit was more questionable (close to knee on knee) than Bergeron's hip check.
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Have any of you that are rooting on the wild ever been to a few of their games wearing Sioux gear? I have and I've experienced some nasty nasty gopher fans at the games. Even more nasty than I've personally experienced at final 5's of the past. For this reason I can never cheer for the same team as these guys. Even though we have a great former Sioux player on this team. Ill root for zach and wish him well. But will definitely be rooting for the hawks to stomp the wild.
Yes. I was wearing Boston AND Sioux gear during their game against the Bruins just prior to the Frozen Four. I was getting chirped constantly - almost completley for my Sioux hat.
I like the Wild, but since I bleed kelly green first, the media and some of the fans really make it hard to buy in. The fact that there is a lot of coverage overlap on FSN for both the Gophers and the Wild makes it hard for me as a Sioux fan to listen to blind Gopher homerism one night, and then try to agree with their takes on the Wild the next. Maybe I just need to be better about separating the two?
Go Bruins!
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I liked the Thursday start of the Final Five also. In fact, we scheduled the extra night in Minneapolis this year just for fun!
The NCHC could give the top 2 teams first-round byes, have the bottom six play best-of-three series, and then have a tourney format like the old Final Five with a single Thursday night play-in game.
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North Dakota good ole boys
Never meanin' no harm.
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I speak American. I can only count to 1776 and the only crayons I need are red...white...and blue.
Redneck.jpg
Yet this whole back-and-forth is about your "Spanglish?"
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Everyone is talking around the real topic - what will it take to win number 8. If Union can do it ...
What do we have to do differently? - Where do we need to improve? What about that power play? Pretty good is getting old.
I think we witnessed steps in the right direction from this past season. Solid goaltending & mobile puck-moving D-men were the overriding theme this year. The work ethic was there. Everyone knows we were short on high-end forward talent, and I think the PP suffered because of it; but with a talented group of freshmen and a good group of senior forwards next year could be pretty good.
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Fleury has to start. Vokoun hasn't played a minute all year and Zatkoff has no postseason experience. Fleury made a horrible blunder on that tying goal tonight but other than that he has been solid the entire series. Their only chance to win is if he plays.
I agree...the Penguins don't have many options in goal.
In addition to the poor decision to go out and play the puck on the tying goal, the OT winner was a softie. Columbus had the right game plan for a rattled goalie in OT - throw everything at the net.
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Cooke gets 7 per NHL Player Safety on Twitter
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OK now you have me wondering. Would they have gotten in still by beating WMU and OSU winning? I thought the Badgers had to win for UND to get in. Am I off here?
No, they wouldn't have made it had OSU won...that's not what I was getting at.
I'm more or less alluding to the point jdub27 also made. Had the results been the same, if the games had been played at different times we may not have perceived this team as "backing into" the playoffs.
The PWR shook out as it did due to the entire body of work throughout the season. It didn't *only* come down to UW beating OSU for UND to make the tournament.
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Beg to differ on that. How did he do such a great job when what got them there was an overtime goal in a game UND was not in? If OSU had won that game no regionals for UND.
So it was only the result of the OSU/Wisco game that got them there and not the body of work over the entire regular season?
If the Big 10 championship game had been played in the afternoon and the 3rd place game against WMU had been played at night, would we then say they "won their way in?"
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On my drive home from work today I was listening to Lou Nanne talking on the Dan Barreiro show about the Cooke incident from last night. In Lou Nanne's words, sticking your knee out like that is not intent to injure but rather an instinctive reaction to slow a player down. Lou stated that he did it many times in his playing days and had it done to him many times. He said that at one point he eventually had to have surgery as a result of having that done to him, and yet he maintained the opinion that it is not done with the intent to injure. So, to the handful of usual suspects here who lower themselves to calling me nasty names due to disagreeing with my opinion... I am sure that you guys know more about hockey than Lou Nanne does. So please be my guest to call him nasty names the way that you have done to me.
Lou added that he thinks Cooke will be suspended because of who he is, not because of what he did. Barreiro went on to suggest that Wild fans who are condoning what Cooke did would be livid if a Colorado player did that. Nanne agreed that fans tend to be inconsistent that way, but that his own opinion would be the same regardless of who is wearing what jersey.
And for the sake of consistency, now would be the perfect time to remind everybody that Alex Ovechkin did the very same thing to Sergei Gonchar in the playoffs about five or six years ago when Gonchar was with Pittsburgh. I personally dislike Ovechkin, but because I am consistent in my views I stated on this very forum that I had no problem with that particular collision. Who knows how to search for posts that old?
Well, Lou also said that he thought Cooke would only get about 3 games...even though he has an in-person hearing which indicates more than 5. Lou isn't exactly the most informed source, nor the most "unbiased." Even Barreiro tried to call him out on the dirtiness of the Cooke hit. I wouldn't call Barreiro "informed," but I'd give him more credit in the "unbiased" category.
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Giving up three goals in two minutes to blow a two-goal home lead?
The sound you just heard was the Columbus Blue Jacket tent folding up.
Hasn't every game that series been a blown two-goal lead by the loser?
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I'm still trying to find the clause in the NCAA rule book that explains which teams are forced to recruit 18-year-old, highly talented freshmen instead of 20-year-old, experienced freshmen.
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I'm a tiny little hockey puck that happens to cross the goal line with 0.6 seconds left, defeating your biggest rival and catapulting your favorite hockey team into the championship game.
Unfortunately for you, you thought it would be a good idea to watch the game in Dinkytown and park your car on the street.
If you have cut-rate car insurance, you might not be protected against a street sign being thrown through your car windows.
Protect yourself from MayheM like me.
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They're certainly great at digging themselves holes and then climbing out of them! They're "streaky great."