yankeehater
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I said just a few posts before yours that I dont want LA to win, and Dastardly and Heretic are no Kings fans either. The Rangers are by far the least bad option left.
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I said just a few posts before yours that I dont want LA to win, and Dastardly and Heretic are no Kings fans either. The Rangers are by far the least bad option left.
Coldnoodle
Member
Fuck the Rangers.
Devils and Kovalchuk need to win ):
Devils and Kovalchuk need to win ):
CrazedArabMan
Member
Woo!!!
It was mostly drowned out by the Kings supporters so I didn't see it. Plus with the other LA teams out of the basketball playoffs, I see a major increase in Kings fans coming, mostly for the worse.
yankeehater
Member
I guess I get being so bitter at the team that knocked your team out, but I could never understand rooting for a slug like Kovalchuk.
SuperSonic1305
Member
If it wasn't for Kovalchuck I wouldn't mind the Devils winning. I don't want him rewarded for his contract shenanigans.
SuperSonic1305
Member
I just saw Doan's DDT. Amazing.
Dubbedinenglish
Banned
He is a douche but undeniable he has been a very good goalie this year. I wonder if he makes the move north, if not the Devils seem like a perfect match for him.
bonesmccoy
Banned
I just wish Doan et al had been a little more self-overhearing. The Coyotes have been no strangers to cheap shots in these playoffs - wasn't there even a knee on knee that they didn't get a penalty on in Game 2 or 3? But even if there was a missed call in Game 5's overtime, criticizing the referees and playing the victim card is an extremely ignominous way to go out.
Every crappy goalie shines under a trap system then goes away the year after.
Mason
Leclaire
Elliot
Bryzgalov
And now Smith.
All just average and mediocre goalies look superhuman when playing behind the trap.
I don't understand the Kovalchuck hate. It was Lamoriello (with pressure from ownership) along with Kovalchuk's agent that structured the contract. Kovalchuk just signed it, just like Richards, Luongo, Hossa, Alfredsson, Pronger, and other guys with borderline-illegal contracts did. Do you guys hate them too?
Officerrob
Banned
My problem with Kovy stems from his trip to L.A. when the Kings were courting him. The Kings rolled out the red carpet for him and had players show him around town. After he signed with the Devils he then said he was never close to signing with the Kings and only went to L.A. to meet with the Kings because his wife wanted to visit L.A. That is a bitch move
haha i know. it's actually 8 tickets (after a 10% service fee, ugh) for friends and I. we're going to try and sell some of those as well.
Did Gagne play enough regular season games to get his name on it if LA wins?
Brad Richards, right?
clearly you don't remember Corey Crawford's beauties from the 1st round.
Yeah.
Did some quick research. Gagne played 34 games this season. To get your name on the cup, you need to at least play 41 games OR play 1 game in the SCF.
If it comes to that, I bet they find a way to get him on there.
Ok, softest OT goal in the Finals.
Ok, softest OT goal in the Finals.
CrazedArabMan
Member
Did some quick research. Gagne played 34 games this season. To get your name on the cup, you need to at least play 41 games OR play 1 game in the SCF.
They allow exceptions, it is mostly so that you don't just put half of your farm team on the cup as well, usually with an injury like that I would imagine they will still put their name on the cup. Great example is Konstantinov for Detroit in 98, though that was a different type of injury and a whole different story.
Savard's name is on the Cup.
Yeah, they petitioned and Savard was added. He only played 25 games and was out with a concussion. The minimum is 41 games. They also petitioned to add Steve Kampfer (played 38 games) and Shane Hnidy (played 3 games and 1 post season game), but the league denied those requests. I'm guessing Gagne will likely be on there.
Source: http://www.necn.com/09/28/11/Kampfe...anding_sports.html?blockID=569058&feedID=3352
yankeehater
Member
I hate him for several reasons, he seems like a prick, he got an insane contract even though he had accomplished very little in the NHL, he was involved case of cap circumvention ever, and he plays for the Devils.
I hope Gagne gets his name on the cup if the Kings win. Wasnt there a report about him being close to coming back? I bet they get him into at least 1 SCF game so that it isnt even an issue.
Savard and Konstantinov had played with their teams for several seasons, though. It'd be kind of weird to me if Gagne was included.
Meanwhile Jack Johnson played almost twice as many games for the Kings this season as Gagne, was a King for six seasons, and definitely won't have his name on the Cup because he was traded.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dlg4qpHumVk (watch his left knee)
50.1 Kneeing - Kneeing is the act of a player leading with his knee and in some cases extending his leg outwards to make contact with his opponent.
Meanwhile Jack Johnson played almost twice as many games for the Kings this season as Gagne, was a King for six seasons, and definitely won't have his name on the Cup because he was traded.
lol....yes it was
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dlg4qpHumVk (watch his left knee)
50.1 Kneeing - Kneeing is the act of a player leading with his knee and in some cases extending his leg outwards to make contact with his opponent.
He had scored 38 goals or more in the 7 seasons since his rookie year.
Your post kinda boils down to "seems like a prick". That goes for about 90% of players in the NHL.
yankeehater
Member
I meant in terms of winning stuff, like divisions of playoff series. I know that he can score goals and do nothing else. You really think 90% of players seem like pricks? I totally disagree with that.
Zaraki_Kenpachi
Member
So he should have single handedly made the thrashers not suck? What should he have done?
Lone_Prodigy
Member
Congrats Kings fans, but you're not there yet.
yankeehater
Member
Maybe if he was a 2 way player they would have been better, but I am still not sure what that has to do with anything. Kovalchuk is a very overrated player, and I am sure I am not the only person that hates him. 6 goals in 15 games and a -6 so far these playoffs for one of the highest played players in the NHL.
https://twitter.com/TSNBobMcKenzie/status/205368906150461440
Fake Edit: Guess this doesn't really belong here.
Lulz.
Not sure if Giroux was that of a beast before he got injured or that Fleury was that crappy. Or maybe both.
Is that a record for holding the league longest without your team being in it??!
Technically he's not even in the top-50 if you look at player salaries for the 2011/2012 season. He starts making boatloads of cash next year.
Also, he's obviously been one of the best players on the Devils, despite your attempts to undermine his contribution. He's been around a point-per-game since the beginning (even though he played a few games injured) while averaging over 20 minutes against top defensive pairings. Plus, there were games where he dominated and controlled the flow of play. In the last three games against the Flyers, for example, he put up 6 points and a +2.
Of course you don't. You posted a gif that cuts out everything before the point of contact.Still don't see it.
Watch his left leg from the first frame on.
I can slow it down even more and use a red circle to identify Brown's left leg, if you require.
Did you hate him before he became a NEW JERSEY DEVIL? Be honest.
Well:
Kovalchuk's contract rejected! Way to go NHL!!!
Hopefully this means he'll sign with the Flyers now!
Zaraki_Kenpachi
Member
:lol :lol
Post history is a dish best served cold.
Sogood.jpg
This again? You realize there's a search function, right? It took more time to edit the post than it did to find it.
CrazedArabMan
Member
Leave it to Soc to go post digging, but in this case it is quite funny. Also the Red Wings Traverse City Training Camp twitter tried to give me a heart attack today: http://blogs.detroithockey.net/misconduct/2012/05/23/deleted-tweet-says-lidstrom-to-retire.php
I never understand these sorts of posts. As if it's some long arduous process to find someone's past posts about a certain subject that required hours of toiling away.
In other news, it sounds like Dubinsky may indeed be in the lineup tonight. Having one forward in that hasn't played since Saturday and another that hasn't played in weeks could be a really really good thing for the team's energy.
Tonight is pretty much the series, at least as far as the Rangers are concerned. Gotta consider this an elimination game.
Ice cold.
vatstep
This poster pulses with an appeal so broad the typical restraints of our societies fall by the wayside.
Does anyone else hate the fact that we have two active threads? The off-season one is such a dumb gimmick, and shouldn't exist until the playoffs are over. Yeah, it was funny when Manics would start it every season, but there's no reason that all NHL discussion can't happen in here.
Fleury and the general wackiness of that series did help Giroux's stats, but he was already averaging nearly a point per game in the playoffs before this season.
yankeehater
Member
Flyers needed scorers then and he does score, which I already said. Good job on finding that post though. Cant really argue with that. Here is a post by me before the Devils signed Ilya:
So yes I hated him before he was a Devil.
So yes I hated him before he was a Devil.