NHL Thread: Can Lidstrom Unretire? Please?

Burtletoy

dictating play

Rei

Jagr with trademark terrible backchecking.

mr_mich

The only assist Staal will get all postseason, but I'll take it!

facetious

Oh look the best third line in the league is back.

mr_mich

No penalties yet? I've seen a bunch on both sides.

Burtletoy

mr_mich wrote: »

No penalties yet? I've seen a bunch on both sides.

Meh.

Its good hockey, nothing too flagerant so far.

Let em play.

quovadis13

Blendtec wrote: »

quovadis13 wrote: »

Blendtec wrote: »

Got my whiteout shirt, going to the arena tomorrow. Gonna try to get a rush ticket, if not, just gonna watch outside on the big screen, can't wait.

Whiteouts are horrendously stupid now since the home team doesn't wear white anymore.

You've gotta admit it looks cool though.

See, Nashville's doing it right. Everyone in the arena looks like the team they are supporting. It makes sense.

facetious

DUPERSTAR!

Vesty

The problem with the Pens white out now a days is the shirts aren't free. Gotta buy one. So it's tough to get a complete white out.

That and they have white outs almost every game so it loses it's punch.

quovadis13

Ominous start....

Rei

Vesty wrote: »

The problem with the Pens white out now a days is the shirts aren't free. Gotta buy one. So it's tough to get a complete white out.

That and they have white outs almost every game so it loses it's punch.

They can't just give away 18,000 shirts? Hell they're already white, just give away plain shirts, no one watching on tv can tell what's on them anyway.

Rei

That's the downside of letting them play. A hit takes one more shade of grey and all of a sudden its a penalty.

Vesty

Rei wrote: »

Vesty wrote: »

The problem with the Pens white out now a days is the shirts aren't free. Gotta buy one. So it's tough to get a complete white out.

That and they have white outs almost every game so it loses it's punch.

They can't just give away 18,000 shirts? Hell they're already white, just give away plain shirts, no one watching on tv can tell what's on them anyway.

idk if they currently still do it but before they would print a custom design every white out. So couple that with doing them probably at least twice a series and it starts to add up real quick. Why give it away for free when you can sell them and make money. I still think they could afford to do it for free (and should), but I can sort of understand why they don't want to.

-e- holy balls Fleury

-e2- well that sucks

facetious

That was pretty clearly offside on replay, ah well. They can have one.

quovadis13

Great PK there

Rei

Vesty wrote: »

Rei wrote: »

Vesty wrote: »

The problem with the Pens white out now a days is the shirts aren't free. Gotta buy one. So it's tough to get a complete white out.

That and they have white outs almost every game so it loses it's punch.

They can't just give away 18,000 shirts? Hell they're already white, just give away plain shirts, no one watching on tv can tell what's on them anyway.

idk if they currently still do it but before they would print a custom design every white out. So couple that with doing them probably at least twice a series and it starts to add up real quick. Why give it away for free when you can sell them and make money. I still think they could afford to do it for free (and should), but I can sort of understand why they don't want to.

-e- holy balls Fleury

-e2- well that sucks

That is pretty cool, but given the choice between cool and money or plain (or even sponsored) and free I'd rather take the free. Actually the last Ranger game of season they were giving away blue shirts for the playoffs that were sponsored by Chase. Not that everyone wore them, most would rather show off their rarer jerseys.

Penguins seemed to have let their foot off the gas a little, playing at a breakneck speed for a full 60 isn't easy.

Burtletoy

Vesty wrote: »

Rei wrote: »

Vesty wrote: »

The problem with the Pens white out now a days is the shirts aren't free. Gotta buy one. So it's tough to get a complete white out.

That and they have white outs almost every game so it loses it's punch.

They can't just give away 18,000 shirts? Hell they're already white, just give away plain shirts, no one watching on tv can tell what's on them anyway.

idk if they currently still do it but before they would print a custom design every white out. So couple that with doing them probably at least twice a series and it starts to add up real quick. Why give it away for free when you can sell them and make money. I still think they could afford to do it for free (and should), but I can sort of understand why they don't want to.

-e- holy balls Fleury

-e2- well that sucks

I dont live in pittsburgh, but are you sure?

white out (oor whatever color) games are almost universally give away shirts that have the name of a bank, or something, on the back and dont cost the team a dime.

mr_mich

facetious wrote: »

That was pretty clearly offside on replay, ah well. They can have one.

Which play are you talking about, Briere's goal? I thought the same thing and chalked it up to "3 officials and 18000 fans probably know offsides better than me."

Vesty

Burtletoy wrote: »

Vesty wrote: »

Rei wrote: »

Vesty wrote: »

The problem with the Pens white out now a days is the shirts aren't free. Gotta buy one. So it's tough to get a complete white out.

That and they have white outs almost every game so it loses it's punch.

They can't just give away 18,000 shirts? Hell they're already white, just give away plain shirts, no one watching on tv can tell what's on them anyway.

idk if they currently still do it but before they would print a custom design every white out. So couple that with doing them probably at least twice a series and it starts to add up real quick. Why give it away for free when you can sell them and make money. I still think they could afford to do it for free (and should), but I can sort of understand why they don't want to.

-e- holy balls Fleury

-e2- well that sucks

I dont live in pittsburgh, but are you sure?

white out (oor whatever color) games are almost universally give away shirts that have the name of a bank, or something, on the back and dont cost the team a dime.

http://penguins.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=626717

The Penguins are asking fans to wear anything white – a jersey, shirt, sweater or t-shirt.

Special playoff Whiteout t-shirts are on sale at all Dick’s Sporting Goods stores as well as PensGear at CONSOL Energy Center and PensGear at SouthSide Works. Cost is $14.99.

The only started charging for it in the last season or so. Consol wasn't cheap! They did get a towel tonight for what it's worth.

enlightenedbum

So many penalties. Bleh.

Rei

Huge save by Bryz on the PP there.

Burtletoy

Im not sure I heard that right, but I thought i just heard milbury refer to it as "that offside goal by briere"

enlightenedbum

Oh and Helm got a skate to the wrist or something. UGGGGGGGGH

mr_mich

That 2 on 1 was hilarious...

Vesty

Gotta shoot that Asham

quovadis13

Tied!!!

Rei

What a contrast in penalties between the two games. Pitt and Philly are taking runs all over the ice with marginal calls.

Blendtec

The guys in the bear suits are the best at this Pens game.

mr_mich

Maybe we should start putting a tag on our posts when there's simultaneous games going on so I know which one we're talking about D:

For a brief instant I thought quovadis was saying the Flyers somehow scored 2 quick goals.

Burtletoy

So my phone just decided I wanted to view the french language version of their website (edit: ummm, their = nhl.com) instead of the english one.

Now Im curious...

Does the french version still do stupid puns for every article every day? Are the puns as bad in quebecois as they are in english?

Rei

The puns are just the worst. The amount of times I've seen "Gift of Gab" is staggering.

facetious

mr_mich wrote: »

facetious wrote: »

That was pretty clearly offside on replay, ah well. They can have one.

Which play are you talking about, Briere's goal? I thought the same thing and chalked it up to "3 officials and 18000 fans probably know offsides better than me."

Yeah on replay he was clearly offisde. By a few feet. It's whatever, though, mistakes happen.

Jragghen

Blendtec wrote: »

The guys in the bear suits are the best at this Pens game.

Apparently some Pittsburgh radio personalities said on-air that they would pay for the bear suit for any person who was behind the Philly goalie and dressed up as a bear.

facetious

Blendtec wrote: »

The guys in the bear suits are the best at this Pens game.

I have not seen them.

I must.

mr_mich

Didn't Bryz's friend get killed in a bear mauling in Russia? As hilarious as the quote is, seems a bit disrespectful to keep jabbing at that...

I love his weird rant about how big the universe is on 24/7 though.

TheSmacker

I think it would be hilarious if Caps fans dressed up as Obama behind Thomas

Burtletoy

mr_mich wrote: »

Didn't Bryz's friend get killed in a bear mauling in Russia? As hilarious as the quote is, seems a bit disrespectful to keep jabbing at that...

I love his weird rant about how big the universe is on 24/7 though.

man, russia sucks.

quovadis13

That was a nice tip

Shockwave

I'm looking forward and not looking forward to Nucks'/Kings, better get my Tums.

mr_mich

If that offsides goal wins them the game I'm going to be fucking furious.