sign that russian goalie

1/5/2012 9:56:23 PM

Quote :

"http://espn.go.com/new-york/nhl/story/_/id/7426297/video-shows-philadelphia-flyers-fans-attacking-new-york-rangers-fans Shocking to me. I've never known Philadelphia sports fans to be anything but kind. These animals need to be put down."

lawl @ the fight being outside of Geno's hahaha

1/6/2012 11:32:02 AM

Jesus, someone put a harness on Boston already. 9-0 last night over Calgary! (and yes, 6-1 the night before that against a woefully inept Devils team...)

1/6/2012 3:24:04 PM

There is a new hd video out of the beating that pretty clearly shows the suspects face. Should make it easier to catch him.

1/6/2012 3:55:39 PM

Rangers are the best team in hockey right now. I'm going to try to get Rangers@Bruins tickets Jan 21, should be one hell of a matchup

1/8/2012 1:39:21 AM

Mike Babcock applauding Jack Capuano after Capuano calls a timeout with 20 seconds left and the Isles leading 5-1.

ahaha



[Edited on January 11, 2012 at 12:31 PM. Reason : .]

1/11/2012 12:30:54 PM

^ahahah.

Also, Mat Cullen played in his 1000th game last night. Scored a goal that went off his leg as he was laying halfway in the net. Also snuck one in during the shootout.

1/11/2012 1:31:18 PM

http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=611434


Teemu is the man

1/12/2012 10:58:59 PM

^good on him.

also, LOL @ Cammalleri being traded MID FUCKING GAME

1/12/2012 11:46:24 PM

Looks like next year's Winter Classic is gonna be Wings/Leafs in front of 115,000 at the Big House.

Quote :

"Brian Burke, in answering questions on Twitter, said that he would not allow the Maple Leafs to take part in a 24/7-type series unless the league mandated it. "

1/13/2012 11:41:28 AM

I thought league more or less mandated that you had to after the success of last year's? I think it should be required, nothing but good comes of it, unless they want us to see how lol-errific Ron Wilson is.

1/13/2012 3:40:19 PM

Burke doesn't want everyone to know he goes to the room and calls them all pussies before every period.

1/13/2012 5:08:20 PM

I imagine the Maple Leafs with the Toronto media are enough of a circus without HBO 24/7.

1/13/2012 5:48:32 PM

^^this

1/13/2012 7:06:02 PM

I want to see that.

[Edited on January 14, 2012 at 1:13 AM. Reason : 24/7 at least, but the game would be fairly good too]

1/14/2012 1:13:02 AM

the 4th best team in the Central Division has 6 more points than the best team in the Southeast

pathetic as usual


I cant wait until the realignment. Detroit should end up with 120+ pts everty year

1/20/2012 1:47:57 AM

http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/23/sport/white-house-bruins-goalie/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

lol Tim Thomas

1/23/2012 11:33:06 PM

now 4 of the top 5 teams in the NHL in the Central

1/25/2012 1:58:35 AM

LOL, Columbus is only 32 points shy of 4th in their division!

1/25/2012 8:54:24 AM

These Ottawa fans suck

1/26/2012 8:32:02 PM

dude ottowa sux

1/26/2012 8:54:48 PM

having pictures of the players as kids as they come onto the ice is fucking weird

1/28/2012 7:24:45 PM

Chara can shoot a hockey puck fast

1/28/2012 9:12:07 PM

hahahah. apparently it's the All-Star weekend

1/29/2012 2:33:16 PM

1/29/2012 2:51:12 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDxZP3fnWhU&feature=youtu.be

1/30/2012 12:57:44 AM

Attn Stein: It looks like I'm bringing the chicken and you're bringing the tilapia!

1/31/2012 9:44:14 PM

click the video clip for the final goal that came with 0.3 seconds left in the LA/CBJ game. watch the clock. hilarious. no review.

http://www.nhl.com/ice/boxscore.htm?id=2011020753

2/2/2012 1:16:51 AM

While I agree that it's hilarious, how would you review that? On top of whatever extra human error is introduced by trying to run a stopwatch on when the clock was stopped, it's just as easy to argue that over the course of every stoppage during the game, just as much time was accidentally run off on either end of a stoppage.

2/2/2012 2:52:06 AM

^I agree.

Also, this is awesome. It's a budweiser commercial that's going to air in Canada during the super bowl.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0qZYqdsYAg&feature=share

2/2/2012 11:08:15 AM

Quote :

"no review."

Having watched the game, I can tell you that they most certainly did review it.

2/2/2012 1:04:40 PM

er yeah, didn't realize at the time. that makes it even worse.

It shouldn't be that hard to get an accurate timer in situations like this, with some kind of software solution or something. Obviously the game should have gone to OT though

2/2/2012 2:22:29 PM

But your point is well taken because all they showed were the usual replay angles minus the time and then the overhead goal cam view with the windowed clock. So yeah, if there were a hiccup, it should have been caught.

2/2/2012 3:12:52 PM

Quote :

"It shouldn't be that hard to get an accurate timer in situations like this, with some kind of software solution or something."

A software solution for stopping the clock on a whistle? You could engineer the hell out of this and it'd still probably trip over things like the occasional post ring, not to mention whistles during scrums and the like.

A guy with a switch is not perfect, but there are far less problems with that than some convoluted electronic "solution."

2/2/2012 5:26:09 PM

It's causing quite a stir on NHL.com http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=614971

2/2/2012 7:15:42 PM

no I meant like a way to overlay a (stopwatch) clock on top of their feeds in toronto to time out things like that, in the case of what happened last night.

but the thing about your post is, there IS a piece of hardware like that. most college basketball conferences use it, dunno about the NBA, but the refs can start the clock on their belt-pack and it stops when they blow the whistle. don't know why the NHL doesn't use it.

and with the scrums thing, if the clock is already stopped, it doesn't matter if more whistles blow.

strangely, they don't use this in the NCAA tournament. you think they would with all the issues they have year in and year out

[Edited on February 2, 2012 at 7:39 PM. Reason : ]

2/2/2012 7:31:43 PM

I don't know why they didn't catch that when they reviewed the goal anyways. Sounds like the Moose in Toronto got distracted while macking on some fine Canadian hottie.

2/2/2012 7:40:12 PM

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"don't know why the NHL doesn't use it."

Obviously I don't know the ins and outs of the basketball technology, but there's no natural sound in basketball that sounds like a ref's whistle. Hockey has such sounds, so I'd expect that technology might have some problems; perhaps not. Moreover, I think it's the fact that the NHL is resistant to change.

2/2/2012 8:25:34 PM

Gagner on the Oilers gets 8 points. Awesome.

They gave him the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd stars. that's really cool

2/3/2012 12:14:10 AM

It's especially impressive since it's Sam Gagner, who entered to game with 22 points.

Mario Lemieux had three eight-point games in 1988-89, including one in the playoffs and the night of the single coolest offensive display in hockey history: five goals, five ways.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm2jbo3pqPA

2/3/2012 2:36:45 AM

There was just some article about what should be named after Mario... well, Sam Gagner might have just given them the clue.

2/3/2012 7:57:03 AM

lindy ruff death watch!



http://blogs.buffalonews.com/sabres/2012/02/bulletin-ruff-injured-in-practice-collision-status-unknown.html

he left the ice with assistance, but peter laviolette has got champagne on ice ready just in case

[Edited on February 6, 2012 at 3:09 PM. Reason : -]

2/6/2012 3:07:17 PM

Quote :

" Obviously I don't know the ins and outs of the basketball technology, but there's no natural sound in basketball that sounds like a ref's whistle. Hockey has such sounds, so I'd expect that technology might have some problems; perhaps not. Moreover, I think it's the fact that the NHL is resistant to change."

This solution was experimented with during the preseason of the 05-06 season.

The whistles used were typical fox40 ball-less whistles that produce an even tone at a pretty unnatural frequency, not unlike what is used in college basketball. The timing system worked, but it was scrapped because the whistles were I'll received by officials, coaches, players, and fans.

Iirc players had difficulty adapting to the sound they've been ingrained with, which was a far lower pitch. Some guys missed the whistles.

There's also the factor that the human reaction time starting play can be negated by the same reaction stopping it. No harm no foul if you consistently hold or run 0.2 seconds on the clock. The buzzer beaters won't be fixed by the automatic system, because it still relays on a human reaction to start. The last segment of play will always be 0.2 seconds longer than indicated because of this reaction time, regardless of human or electrical stoppage.

With all that in mind, the system was also scrapped because, "it didn't sound like hockey". And I'll agree, the whistles were foreign sounding, though admittedly everyone could have adapted.

[Edited on February 6, 2012 at 9:26 PM. Reason : .]

2/6/2012 9:24:34 PM

Attn Stein: Man, I can taste that tilapia from here! Make sure to add the Mrs. Dash!

2/7/2012 9:29:58 PM

lol
http://didgomezscore.com/

2/10/2012 11:54:21 AM

I'm so upset that my Phoenix Coyotes thread was locked

2/10/2012 11:55:36 AM

^^ Hahahahahahaha. Too good.

2/10/2012 11:59:23 AM

Lol. Wat.

2/10/2012 12:00:16 PM

Carter reunited with Richards in LA.

2/23/2012 9:24:11 PM

Jack Johnson wasting away in Columbus and Philly's party boys go LA?

Awesome!

2/24/2012 2:59:36 AM