NHL Thread 49: rangers blues

[Steveweiser]

1-0 Devils, Gionta.

[Steveweiser]

Keith Aucoin levels it for the Islanders.

[Steveweiser]

Carle with a PP goal, 1-0 Lightning.

[Steveweiser]

Sid the Kid, 1-0 Pens.

And with his goal tonight, Crosby adds another city that he's scored in. The only one he hasn't is Vancouver, which he won't this season, unless it's a Pens/Canucks Stanley Cup Finals.

[darbus alan]

Neuvirth's looked impressive in the net for the Caps.

[darbus alan]

It's a good thing the Devils have been deadly on the penalty kill and the Caps look completely listless. They've been extremely sloppy with these penalties.

[darbus alan]

Ugh, tied game. Sloppy, sloppy play by the Devils this period. They've given away the lead.

[darbus alan]

KOVY!!!!!

Devils are 3-0. Caps earn their first point of the season but they still got a gooseegg in the win column.

[BR329]

Jets beat Penguins 4-2. Well done Winnipeg, well done.

[HMARK Center]

Officiating in the third period of the Caps/Devils game was disgraceful. Thought I was just biased sitting in the crowd, but seeing stuff later, they were whistling down any and everything. Seems like standard operating procedure after a lockout: just make the game one giant power play and hope it drives up scoring.

Not saying the Devils didn't deserve any of the calls that went against them (they did get sloppy at a couple points in the 3rd), but it got completely out of hand. Hope it's a one game thing.

Really happy to get back to Newark for a purpose other than grad school, though. Felt nice to grab a ticket, grab a beer at one of the local bars, and see some snow coming down outside. The winter felt a bit empty without that.

[triplethreatmark]

Jan 25, 2013 23:38:28 GMT -5 HMARK Center said:

Officiating in the third period of the Caps/Devils game was disgraceful. Thought I was just biased sitting in the crowd, but seeing stuff later, they were whistling down any and everything. Seems like standard operating procedure after a lockout: just make the game one giant power play and hope it drives up scoring.

Not saying the Devils didn't deserve any of the calls that went against them (they did get sloppy at a couple points in the 3rd), but it got completely out of hand. Hope it's a one game thing.

Really happy to get back to Newark for a purpose other than grad school, though. Felt nice to grab a ticket, grab a beer at one of the local bars, and see some snow coming down outside. The winter felt a bit empty without that.

That's how I feel about the reffing so far this year as well. it's just been garbage throughout. I remember they called an interference penalty on Justin Williams when he just grabbed the Oilers player's wrist for literally a split second for position purposes.

[darbus alan]

I'd like to know who Bernier served the Unsportsmanlike minor for. I knew it wasn't on him, specifically, but I didn't see anything outlandish.

[Vice honcho room temperature]

Jan 26, 2013 1:08:35 GMT -5 darbus alan said:

I'd like to know who Bernier served the Unsportsmanlike minor for. I knew it wasn't on him, specifically, but I didn't see anything outlandish.

I think DeBoer said he got it

[Urfarkendarf]

I had a lot of fun at the game tonight despite it being freezing and starting to snow.

The Devils really went off the deep end in the 3rd, but the referees were absolute dogshit tonight too. Luckily, Kovy saved the day. Ill take it.

[Steveweiser]

Couple of strange goals in the Wings/Wild game, one that went in and under the goal, and another for Parise that rebounded off Zetterburg's arse and went in.

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Atleast their pp was alive (for now).

Good win boys!

[Urfarkendarf]

I hate Parise more than I hate John Cena

[RKTaker]

Jan 26, 2013 11:01:45 GMT -5 Urfarkendarf said:

I hate Parise more than I hate John Cena

is it because he left the devils

[darbus alan]

Probably going to go to Modell's sometime this weekend and get a new Devils shirt. And I've been convinced to donate my Parise shirt to Goodwill instead of tossing it in the dumpster.

[HMARK Center]

Goodwill is obviously a good idea, though I like the idea of being a surgeon on such jerseys and either changing the names or the numbers on them. Add a "1" and cover the nameplate and make it a Zajac one; I keep meaning to tell my roommate to take his old Langenbrunner one and turn it into a little Matteau jersey.

So the Rangers got into a bit of a social media bru-haha because they allowed a fan to publish "A Girl's Guide to Watching the Rangers" on their website, which came off as pretty condescending and with an air of "You're a woman, of course you don't get hockey" (meanwhile, the most passionate Rangers fan I know is a woman).

CBS Sports wrote a blurb about it, comparing it and the controversy to CBC running a show called "While the Men Watch" that was meant to appeal to women during hockey season, but what was super, SUPER creepy about it was the comments guys were leaving. Like, uncomfortably misogynistic stuff.

Blech, hate that aspect of sports fandom. Take the super macho BS somewhere else, or if you're a player save it for the ice/field/court/etc.