NHL Hockey thread

[viper37]

Yay.

Let Ed be happy. He gets all cranky and needy when he's not

So, he's never happy?

[Valmy]

Tonight was a good night.

[Ed Anger]

Yay.

Let Ed be happy. He gets all cranky and needy when he's not

[Barrister]

Tonight was a good night.

How do you feel about last night with the news that Crosby is out with a concussion?

[viper37]

Tonight was a good night.

They injured one of the league's best player, certainly the most inspiring player of their opponent, they lead 2-0 for most of the game, manage to get 2 goals scored in the last 5 minutes and only to win by the skin of their teeth in overtime?

yeah, good night.  And good luck against the Senators.   

[Valmy]

They injured one of the league's best player, certainly the most inspiring player of their opponent, they lead 2-0 for most of the game, manage to get 2 goals scored in the last 5 minutes and only to win by the skin of their teeth in overtime?

Gosh I was not aware nobody ever got injured in Hockey. Clearly the Caps should now have to forfeit the series in shame. Maybe you Canadians should burn DC down a second time.

Any victory against the Pens in the playoffs is a good night.

Edit: Oh and if they make it to play the Sens it would be their best season in 19 years. I will happily take their beat down.

[Valmy]

Tonight was a good night.

How do you feel about last night with the news that Crosby is out with a concussion?

Bummer for him. I hope he is ok.

Still glad the Caps won.

[Grey Fox]

Crosby is fragile, incidental stick to the face from a badly timed crosscheck.

This is hockey, shit happens.

[Barrister]

They injured one of the league's best player, certainly the most inspiring player of their opponent, they lead 2-0 for most of the game, manage to get 2 goals scored in the last 5 minutes and only to win by the skin of their teeth in overtime?

Gosh I was not aware nobody ever got injured in Hockey. Clearly the Caps should now have to forfeit the series in shame. Maybe you Canadians should burn DC down a second time.

Any victory against the Pens in the playoffs is a good night.

Edit: Oh and if they make it to play the Sens it would be their best season in 19 years. I will happily take their beat down.

What an oddly passive way of putting it.

Niskanen deliberately cross-checked Crosby (who has a history of concussion problems) in the head.  He was immediately ejected from the game for doing so.  This wasn't some "oh well injuries will happen" kind of moment.

[Barrister]

Crosby is fragile, incidental stick to the face from a badly timed crosscheck.

This is hockey, shit happens.

A "badly timed" crosscheck?  Since cross-checking is, you know, a penalty, when is there a good time to throw a cross-check?

[Valmy]

Niskanen deliberately cross-checked Crosby (who has a history of concussion problems) in the head.  He was immediately ejected from the game for doing so.  This wasn't some "oh well injuries will happen" kind of moment.

The Pens also crosschecked the Caps during the game and series. It was bad luck. At least that is what it looked like to me.

[PRC]

Easy to call it malicious when scrutinizing a slow motion replay.  If you view it in real time it was a hockey play that unfortunately went bad. 

[Barrister]

Easy to call it malicious when scrutinizing a slow motion replay.  If you view it in real time it was a hockey play that unfortunately went bad.

Again - in what way is a cross-check a "hockey play"?

[HVC]

Crosby is fragile, incidental stick to the face from a badly timed crosscheck.

This is hockey, shit happens.

Didn't even seem like a cross check, more like a body stop that would have gotten Crosby in the elbow if he wasn't tripped up. Ovie two handing him on the back of the head seems worse.

[Valmy]

Easy to call it malicious when scrutinizing a slow motion replay.  If you view it in real time it was a hockey play that unfortunately went bad.

Again - in what way is a cross-check a "hockey play"?

Well sure it is a penalty. There is a reason he was ejected.

At the time it did not look nefarious or that he intentionally went for the head.