Board 8 > NHL Discussion Topic - Stanley Cup Round 2

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I dunno if we made a few adjustments or if Ottawa forgot that they played dead even with us in Game 1 and could do it again if they wanted but this game has been pretty lopsided, especially the 2nd and 3rd periods.
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Sens played super defensive in the 2nd and 3rd. We looked good in the first.
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gg Sens. I imagine they're gonna have a ton more energy in Ottawa on Weds, but we've been really good on the road so far.
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The Pens are going to win the cup with a sack of potatoes playing on their third defensive pairing.
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yeah if the injuries keep piling up, whoever the western team is will have to be licking their chops
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If Schultz is seriously hurt, they probably don't have a SINGLE defenseman that I would take on the Capitals. MAYBE Cole would be like, an even trade for Orpik. Maybe.
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good news for everyone

penguins replaced steigerwald with steve mears for our broadcasts
https://www.nhl.com/penguins/news/steve-mears-joins-root-sports/c-289465720

now we might move up to only the 2nd biggest homer announcers in the nhl
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let's go pens
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maybe don't come out like you're asleep for the first period.
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jesus christ.
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BYE FLEURY!!!

that may actually come back to bite us ... Murray's net now
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okay watching basketball

ffs pens
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Man the Preds really ARE the 2012 Kings. Up to and including randomly getting to face a ridiculously weak team who had no business getting through the East but did anyway.
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i'm surprised you had nothing to say about this being all fleury's fault etc etc
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I mean it clearly was in Game 1. But the Sens are actually playing well tonight. Who knew they had it in em?
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I'm not too worried. We played well after getting shellacked in game 6. Problem is we have put ourselves in must win mode already.

And Game 1 Fleury got beat by a breakaway goal. Game 2 he pitched a shutout. Dunno what else you want from him.
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Dunno what else you want from him.

Same thing I want from Holtby. To be better than the guy at the other end of the ice. In Game 1 he wasn't. Goalies stop breakaways about 70% of the time.
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what ever Murray ain't shit either
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honestly it seems like scoring more does the Sens no good

but ringing a few up on Murray totally WOULD help them in the long term
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C'mon Ottawa, open up 3 before returning to what my announcers called "The Big Paint". (because no matter how much John Gibson slips up, the other series is way closer!)
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Running the score up on Fleury might go down as the biggest mistake of the post-season if Murray is as impenetrable as he was last year.
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1 win away from being 1 win away

GET TO MURRAY EARLY AND OFTEN! GO SENS GO!!!
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The Penguins are hungry....
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I already hate Murray
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fuck Matt Murray
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Crosby you dirty little bugger
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oh hey ref bias

High stick into Turris face no call

Slash to Kessel, call immediately
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hey refs

you can call those penalties on the Pens

also weak ass goal
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Period 1 thoughts:

Sens playing very well
Pens playing better, hungrier
Malkin is the Pens best player, well except for Murray
Anderson looked great until that awful goal
Crosby looks... off, that concussion is still there
ref bias is bad here
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Started the game late, but at least I saw the Sens' goal... and this second one now! Man, this is way more fun than watch the Cavs trouncing Boston by 50 points.
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Got away with one there tonight. I hate 3-0 leads.
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nhl playoffs > nba playoffs

you guys already knew this
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also Nick, your whining about the officiating is pathetic when shit like the hit on Ruhwedal didn't get called.

I get that the Sens can't beat us on skill but it's a little embarrassing watching them take our players out game after game. I think it's time for us to even the score and I think Karlsson is the perfect target.
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It was an awkward hit and he bent down. That's not headhunting or taking a guy out on purpose.
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Also calling for Karlsson's head is sleezy as fuck.
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well I mean fight fire with fire ya know
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well i mean... Crosby cut a guys finger off and got no penalty so ???
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five years from now we will still be talking about finger gate as if it matters. ottawa has hurt two of our players this series with questionable hits. It's not out of the scope for me to be a little frustrated with it. especially with all the predictable "BUT THE REEEEEFFFS" whining
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Now I don't know if I want Nashville to just win Game 6, or Anaheim to force a game 7 that would be devastating for both teams.
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cmon preds, we need some new blood in the finals

go pens
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GO SENS GO!

GO SENS GO!

Harpur in
Dzingel out

Rust in
Sheary out
Streit in
Ruhwedel out
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Ref missed that too many men by the Sens
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this series is over
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pretty good...
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Fucking Sens
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yeah so

Anderson got hung out to dry there

whatever, we are done

we had an amazing season but we did not strike when we needed to and now the Pens have us figured out

oh well
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This is only game five, Nick. Jeez.
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kill me
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we looked like this in game 3

i like our chances but the series isnt over until someone's won 4 games
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Nick did you go to Game 4?

Also can you explain to me why the arena is 30 goddamn minutes out of town in the middle of nowhere with no decent public transit?

I kept hoping to see Trudeau standing by the side of the road shedding a single tear from all the carbon emissions from those 10,000 cars all traveling the same way coming from and returning to the same place. Like seriously, what in the actual fuck?
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