Sidney Crosby HAS BEEN SHOT http://www.versus.com/nhl/videos/scuffle-between-crosby-and-dubinsky/in-stream/sort/most-recent/i/17/

3/5/2010 1:44:15 PM

Holy Cole, what a dive!

3/5/2010 1:51:35 PM

yeah that was kind of embarrassing

3/5/2010 3:00:58 PM

its such bs that he would use that shit to his advantage

3/5/2010 7:39:28 PM

i dont know, if i knew they were going to give me leeway every time, i'd do it too

fucking poster boy

3/5/2010 10:57:41 PM

This thread is a sufficient substitute for a seat in 328.

3/5/2010 11:20:32 PM

As someone who has been known to take a dive here and there, you at least have to wait for a sufficient amount of contact.

3/6/2010 9:24:14 AM

'da fuck?

Quote :

"Around 1:19 p.m. today, which would be in the first period, the FSN Pittsburgh broadcast of the Penguins' game most likely will be disrupted for about 2-4 minutes because of a phenomenon called a sun outage. It affects broadcasts at times because the Earth, the satellite dish being used and the sun align in such a way that the sun's rays cause problems with the transmission."

3/6/2010 1:13:44 PM

^^Danny Briere EXPOSED??

3/6/2010 1:26:35 PM

^^ lol, did that happen?

3/6/2010 8:53:44 PM

^Yeah, I missed the Stars' first goal.

Here's a hit to the head by Matt Cooke on Marc Savard from this afternoon's game.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z1vJrIAg-0&feature=player_embedded

That seems pretty much identical to the hit Mike Richards put on David Booth that he didn't get suspended for. For reference:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSILVbnofZM

Cooke should and will get suspended for that, especially since he has already been suspended 2 games for doing the same thing to Artem Anisimov earlier this season.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXixraReToU

If the NHL really wants to get rid of these hits, they would have a set policy for when this happens, and not make it a subjective process. In international hockey, there would have been a misconduct penalty called on the ice, and a suspension would be automatic.

[Edited on March 7, 2010 at 7:52 PM. Reason : .]

3/7/2010 7:51:28 PM

In international hockey, hits to the head are illegal.

This is shoulder-first, and totally clean by NHL rules.

3/7/2010 8:00:50 PM

I'm aware of that, which is why I used it as an example. It SHOULD be illegal in the NHL. It might not prevent people from doing it, but it would make the punishments fair. I'm tired of this prior history bullshit being a part of Campbell's decision making process. Have a set punishment for when this happens, and if a player is a repeat offender, then have a tiered suspension process for each time it happens. That way it's the same for all players.

[Edited on March 7, 2010 at 8:10 PM. Reason : It's a dangerous hit, shoulder first or not]

3/7/2010 8:09:40 PM

You can't have a set punishment for something that's not illegal.

The hit on Anisimov was a charge.

3/7/2010 8:17:16 PM

Quote :

"It SHOULD be illegal in the NHL"

3/7/2010 8:39:17 PM

Maybe so, but it's not. Call for the rules to change, sure, but calling for a suspension for something that's completely legal is silly.

3/7/2010 8:51:14 PM

what's messed up is that cooke will be suspended while richards wasn't

3/7/2010 9:32:10 PM

The Detroit-Chicago game was rockin'.

3/7/2010 10:18:06 PM

way to go Jersey! gotta love getting blanked by the shittiest team in the league

3/8/2010 12:27:24 AM

Your guess as to whom it's directed towards. . .

3/8/2010 12:44:34 AM

a washed up goalie?

3/8/2010 12:52:09 AM

They spent too much of the game trying to get Fernando Pisani's ulcerative colitis to flare up.

3/8/2010 12:57:51 AM

Marc Savard likely out for the year.

Bruins playoff chances killed.

3/9/2010 1:20:45 PM

looks like cooke won't be suspended after all, my mistake, i figured because he's a goon who's missing teeth he'd get the hook

but it also looks like next year, no more boom headshots even if they are currently "clean"

shane willis is retroactively pleased

3/10/2010 12:29:01 PM

48 year old Chris Chelios has been called up by Atlanta.

3/10/2010 3:14:54 PM

Centrum Silver night in Columbus

3/10/2010 3:17:08 PM

http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/blog/puck_daddy/post/U-S-Senate-candidate-on-how-campaign-stole-Co?urn=nhl,227264
Speaking of Columbus. Haha. Oops.

[Edited on March 10, 2010 at 9:24 PM. Reason : .]

3/10/2010 9:23:02 PM

Quote :

"Canucks forwards Daniel and Henrik Sedin, together with their wives Marinette and Johanna, have made a gift of $1.5 million to help build a new BC Children's Hospital. The Swedish twins, who have lived in Vancouver for 10 years, made their gift to support the hospital's Campaign for BC Children, and specifically to the Intensive Care Unit and Diagnostics and Imaging area in the new hospital. "Henrik and I along with our families feel very fortunate to live and work in this great city and province. We are committed to giving back to the community we live in and wanted to do something that would benefit children and families across the province," said Daniel Sedin. "Every time Daniel and I visit BC Children's Hospital we meet kids and their parents who come from all over BC. This is our way of saying thank you to British Columbians for all the support we've received since we joined the Canucks," said Henrik Sedin."

3/10/2010 10:01:39 PM

Quote :

"For days now, Marc Savard has stayed inside his Boston condo, unable to do much beyond eat and sleep. His friends and Bruins' teammates say he exists in a vacuum of silence – no TV, no music – with curtains drawn even in daylight. They know this from his text messages and brief telephone calls since he was carried off the ice at Pittsburgh's Mellon Arena, his game and life interrupted by a head shot from the Penguins' Matt Cooke. What the Bruins also suspect is that Mr. Savard, at 32 in the prime of a rebuilt career – from “me” player to team player – is done for the season, the playoffs too. They spoke of that yesterday after practising in Montreal, where Boston head coach Claude Julien registered blunt disappointment. “He's not well. Not well at all.” That Mr. Savard's career has been jeopardized has sickened many in the NHL, including Mr. Cooke's Pittsburgh teammate Bill Guerin, who said the league should punish headhunters. Mr. Cooke got off scot-free, although the NHL is vowing to draft new legislation to ban blind-side headshots next season. Boston forward and former Penguin Mark Recchi was certain of one thing: “Once again it's a black eye for the NHL.” "

3/13/2010 8:23:10 AM

Much hyped Chicago/Washington game on NBC. Ovechkin just boarded the shit out of Brian Campbell and got a 5 minute major and a game misconduct. He should get suspended as a repeat offender as well.

3/14/2010 1:02:41 PM

That was a bullshit call and you know it.

3/14/2010 1:11:09 PM

What?

3/14/2010 1:16:11 PM

Of course it was a boarding call, but the game misconduct call was crazy.

3/14/2010 1:20:10 PM

Its about time they started calling Ovie. That guy gets away with so much more than he should. I like him, but they need to be fair about how they call players. Thankfully Campbell was okay.

3/14/2010 1:21:14 PM

It was a dirty play... but it was a push to the side where Campbell lost his balance. It probably should have been a minor or double minor penalty, not a major. There definitely shouldn't have been a game misconduct though. Those refs were way overreacting.

3/14/2010 1:27:08 PM

It was a bullshit game misconduct. The only reason some of you people say otherwise is because it was ovie and you know it.

[Edited on March 14, 2010 at 1:46 PM. Reason : .]

3/14/2010 1:30:01 PM

that's a BULLSHIT game misconduct

3/14/2010 2:00:57 PM

Bullshit. I don't know if it is worth a suspension or not, but that is the kind of reckless play that pisses me off about Ovechkin. After watching it several times, there's no way you can say it was a push from the side. He was completely behind Campbell and shoved him into the boards FROM THE GOAL LINE. That is one of the most dangerous plays you can make in hockey. When you add Campbell being injured, then this was called perfectly by the referees. Anyone who says otherwise is in denial, especially that fatass Bordreau.

Also, you can't issue a double minor for boarding. It's either a minor or a major, depending on severity. And as far as the game misconduct is concerned:

Quote :

"42.5 Game Misconduct Penalty - When a major penalty is imposed under this rule for a foul resulting in an injury to the face or head of an opponent, a game misconduct shall be imposed."

So basically, after calling the major, they HAD to call the misconduct because Campbell was injured.

[Edited on March 14, 2010 at 2:14 PM. Reason : .]

3/14/2010 2:05:29 PM

And he'll definitely be suspended, as this is his third game misconduct and that carries an automatic one game ban.

Semin should be watching his back.

3/14/2010 2:22:21 PM

wow... Didn't think that the Caps could come back in this game. Especially without Ovechkin.

3/14/2010 2:40:38 PM

Steve Downie is a thug. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHeh3tyUL10

Nice sell by Crosby of course.

3/14/2010 8:12:10 PM

god i hate downie. it seems like his only goal is to injure people.

[Edited on March 14, 2010 at 8:41 PM. Reason : -]

3/14/2010 8:36:11 PM

Apparently Campbell is out for season.

http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=314096

It's going to make it interesting to see what the league does with this.

3/15/2010 12:52:39 PM

I've just re-watched that hit by Ovie on Campbell and that was a dirty and extremely dangerous play. Absolutely zero regard for the other player's safety.

Ovechkin needs a message sent to him by the League.

3/15/2010 12:58:30 PM

i like ted leonsis overall, but come on man, you didn't amass a huge fortune by being an idiot. i am wondering if he's just making caps fans happy by pretending he doesn't know the difference between an illegal hit and a legal one.

Quote :

"I don’t think Alex should have received a game misconduct for that play. I don’t think he should miss our next game either. Matt Cooke didn’t get suspended or a penalty called on his hit last week, but Alex Ovechkin the league’s MVP did on that play? I don’t get it. But it is what it is. We will move on, play hard and we won’t “explain or complain”."

http://www.tedstake.com/2010/03/15/oh-yee-of-little-faith/

3/15/2010 2:03:29 PM

Yeah, Ovie needs to be suspended for a game or two.

3/15/2010 3:56:37 PM

Ted's just pandering to the fanbase, he doesn't need to impress anybody else. I don't see a problem with it. It's good to see an owner who actually cares about his team instead of one who probably spends 5 days out of a year in town and is rarely if ever heard from.

3/15/2010 4:02:51 PM

Let's be fair to ol' PK...whenever there's someone to throw under the bus, he's here ASAP.

I can't wait to see what PK says if we replace Tripp with Aaron Ward.

3/15/2010 4:07:14 PM

^^ ted's a good owner, no doubt

if he were to buy the redskins i think i'd poop myself with glee

3/15/2010 4:18:33 PM

Two game suspension for Ovechkin

http://tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=314125

That seems about right IMO



In other news, Comcast and DirecTV reached a deal to broadcast Versus again. Good news seeing as the playoffs start in about a month.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/sports_blog/2010/03/versus-directv-have-an-agreement.html

[Edited on March 15, 2010 at 5:19 PM. Reason : versus]

3/15/2010 5:15:28 PM