Official NHL thread?

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Originally Posted by r'aggro

For me, the whole post season has been a heart attack waiting to happen but especially now. The games have been great though, and I read that ratings are up like 80% over last year. Good for the league.

Officiating hasn't been too bad really; not enough to influence the outcome of the games and that's the most important thing. Was a little miffed when Keith about chopped Briere's face open with a high stick and didn't even take a penalty.

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Yeah, I read about ratings and memorabilia sales being way up, good to hear.

On that high stick, they ruled it no penalty due to it being a follow through. But if we're going to call that, then we should also call the multiple cross checks to the lower back that Pronger constantly gets away with when the refs aren't looking ;)

He actually injured at least one person doing that, Kopecky I think it was.

Haven't heard a thing about this series outside of here. Not even a whisper. Sad sad sad.

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Originally Posted by Snakespy

Haven't heard a thing about this series outside of here. Not even a whisper. Sad sad sad.

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Welcome to the NHL :(

I'm from Southern California, so all I hear about this time of year is the effing Lakers.

Where's the puck? LOL! http://video.nhl.com/videocenter/con...nhl-vidmod-hpr what a way to end the Stanley Cup Playoffs haha!

Crazy ending. Horrible goal. No way the Flyers goalie should have not had that angle shut off.

Really the story of the series IMO.

Leighton was not as good as Neimi. When Neimi absolutely had to come up with a huge save, he did so with much more consistency that Leighton.

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Originally Posted by Spank_Me_Hard

Crazy ending. Horrible goal. No way the Flyers goalie should have not had that angle shut off.

Really the story of the series IMO.

Leighton was not as good as Neimi. When Neimi absolutely had to come up with a huge save, he did so with much more consistency that Leighton.

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Grats Hawks fans for the first cup win in 49 years.

I'll give you that Niemi came up big at times in these playoffs but he's going to get worked next season. Players will watch video and figure him out. There are many aspects of his game that drive me nuts and they are:

1) Sloppy rebounds off the pads all over the place. This is going to kill him next year.

2) He's always ending up on his but or stomach during save sequences.

3) Whenever he slides stick side he always leaves his blocker in his mid section. People are going to get him to move to his blocker and just roof it on him if he doesn't fix that.

Anyways, he's going to get a nice contract this offseason and the team will be blown up a bit since they probably can't keep everyone due to salary cap. So we'll see what happens.

One thing I hope for sure is that we dump Huet so we clear cap and can keep the team together. I agree to an extent with Niemi's criticisms but he's got the monkey off his back now. I see him only getting better. He doesn't get rattled so that's a BIG plus right there. Other than that, I never thought I would see this in my lifetime.

The last shot in particular was crazy!

http://video.nhl.com/videocenter/con...id=35&id=82239

Imagine if the guy had some wingers.

Oh wait, I'm glad he has no wingers.:p

Oilers are #1 in the West and #2 overall this year so far!!!

WooHooz!

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