League News: 2015-16 Around the League VII (NHL News n' Scores n' Stuff)

[hockeykicker]

Well it's looking like a pens win anyways

 

[Nice]

Just looked, you are right but it's on nbcsports. Right now on there is the world curling championships haha

Oh wow haha, do many people watch curling here in the US? I can't imagine more people tuning in to watch that instead of a Pens Flyers game. Looks like there are a lot of empty seats at the match too.

 

[tycoonheart]

Okay Pitt is downright scary right now.

 

[Calicaps]

Okay Pitt is downright scary right now.

God I hate that team so much.

 

[hockeykicker]

Okay Pitt is downright scary right now.

That first goal only happens because the refs refuse to call Crosby for diving. Becoming a joke really

 

[Nice]

Philly needs to start throwing hits like they did against us.

 

[troyerlaw]

Pens have 92 goals for and 41 goals against, in March and April, give or take a goal or two.

Caps are 48 GF and 48 GA in same stretch. (Again, give or take a goal or two).

Pens' world right now, rest of us just live in it

 

[Blades of Steel]

I hate hagelin

 

[hockeykicker]

Pens have 92 goals for and 41 goals against, in March and April, give or take a goal or two.

Caps are 48 GF and 48 GA in same stretch. (Again, give or take a goal or two).

Pens' world right now, rest of us just live in it

those numbers are unsustainable

 

[Calicaps]

those numbers are unsustainable

And the Caps' stats include Holtby's worst stretch of the season.

 

[hockeykicker]

And the Caps' stats include Holtby's worst stretch of the season.

well meant more that two months ago the caps and pens stats were flipped were they not? thus they wont last

 

[4thTierSport]

Pens have 92 goals for and 41 goals against, in March and April, give or take a goal or two.

Caps are 48 GF and 48 GA in same stretch. (Again, give or take a goal or two).

Pens' world right now, rest of us just live in it

Their defense is garbage and the sling the puck up the ice and see what happens offense won't cut it. It was barely sustainable over the past year and half in the AHL because Murray was standing on his head while on a pin.

That first goal only happens because the refs refuse to call Crosby for diving. Becoming a joke really

Literally turns around and whines at the refs midplay, falls on his ass and the call is made.

 

[Ridley Simon]

Pens have 92 goals for and 41 goals against, in March and April, give or take a goal or two.

Caps are 48 GF and 48 GA in same stretch. (Again, give or take a goal or two).

Pens' world right now, rest of us just live in it

I just don't see it. Their youth is playing over its head. Meh, maybe it's all real.....but I want to see how that group plays when its get really rough. They remind me of the 2008 Caps. Bunch of kids that don't know any better.

 

[hockeykicker]

Their defense is garbage and the sling the puck up the ice and see what happens offense won't cut it. It was barely sustainable over the past year and half in the AHL because Murray was standing on his head while on a pin.


Literally turns around and whines at the refs midplay, falls on his ass and the call is made.

yep its really angering me how crosby just falls down and gets calls. he was barely touched and the way the stick hit his stick should not have resulted in him falling on his bottom. he does it a lot and gets away with it

 

[troyerlaw]

I just don't see it. Their youth is playing over its head. Meh, maybe it's all real.....but I want to see how that group plays when its get really rough. They remind me of the 2008 Caps. Bunch of kids that don't know any better.

??

Fehr? Cullen? Kunitz? Bonino? Kessel? Hornquist? Crosby? Letang? Fleury? Malkin? Hagelin?

They have plenty of veterans on that roster

 

[txpd]

Pens have 92 goals for and 41 goals against, in March and April, give or take a goal or two.

Caps are 48 GF and 48 GA in same stretch. (Again, give or take a goal or two).

Pens' world right now, rest of us just live in it

maybe I am wrong but when that stretch started the Pens were out of a playoff spot and the Caps were locked into the top spot in the league except for official clinching. but you can compare them equally if you want to

 

[Langway]

Thank god there's just another week left in the regular season. Then we can get on with it and see what's what.

 

[troyerlaw]

Thank god there's just another week left in the regular season. Then we can put all of the excuse making to bed and get on with it.

Yes! I feel same way.

It has been a hell of a fun season. But i'm ready to see where it all leads.

 

[Calicaps]

Thank god there's just another week left in the regular season. Then we can get on with it and see what's what.

It's not excuse making. It's trying to understand what's going on with the team. It's only excuse making if you assume they suck.

 

[Langway]

It's not excuse making. It's trying to understand what's going on with the team. It's only excuse making if you assume they suck.

Yeah, I edited that to come across more diplomatically. I don't think they suck but I do think they've effectively wasted a large portion of the season when instead they could have been perfecting their craft and becoming stronger mentally in the process. All of the talk about urgency just goes to show they haven't been driven towards a standard that isn't based on necessity. Relying on sheer determination with their back up against the wall is not a sound plan in any walk of life when it can be avoided.

I don't know. I don't get their mentality down the stretch. The bad thing is if their best isn't good enough that's just going to open up how they handled the back half of the season even more. Whereas with more planning it's possible their best would be better anyway. But, again, we'll see soon enough and we can finally see what they're really made of.

 

[Carlzner]

I think the Rangers will beat Pittsburgh in the 1st round. Hank + Experience and Grit down their lineup.

 

[ForzaItalia]

I think the Rangers will beat Pittsburgh in the 1st round. Hank + Experience and Grit down their lineup.

Rangers might not even be playing them in the first round. Think it comes down to who wins that game between the Isles versus Rangers later this week.

I think the Rangers seem off this year. They're missing something.

 

[Calicaps]

Yeah, I edited that to come across more diplomatically. I don't think they suck but I do think they've effectively wasted a large portion of the season when instead they could have been perfecting their craft and becoming stronger mentally in the process. All of the talk about urgency just goes to show they haven't been driven towards a standard that isn't based on necessity. Relying on sheer determination with their back up against the wall is not a sound plan in any walk of life when it can be avoided.

I don't know. I don't get their mentality down the stretch. The bad thing is if their best isn't good enough that's just going to open up how they handled the back half of the season even more. Whereas with more planning it's possible their best would be better anyway. But, again, we'll see soon enough and we can finally see what they're really made of.

I guess I just disagree with your interpretation of the second half. They're humans not robots. All January long teams brought their best game vs. the Caps and were overcome. There was literally nothing left to prove in the regular season. To expect them to play with desperation when there was absolutely nothing to feel desperate about is, to my mind, unreasonable.

They've said repeatedly that they are aware of the lack of urgency and have been working to combat it. To me that is getting stronger mentally. They weren't able to entirely manufacture desperation out of thin air, which I think is understandable. But they have worked to overcome the lethargy of their dominant start and maintain their lead.

In doing that, they have to this point avoided losing in regulation twice in a row and three time in a row at all. Has any team ever done that for a whole season? I don't know. They've sustained a better than .500 pace even with nothing at stake such that they set a franchise win record and have Holtby on the verge of breaking the single season wins record without playing 70 games.

The body of work has been historically good. But we know the playoffs are different. There's nothing they could possibly have done the past month or could do now that will matter in two weeks. There was probably nothing for them to do starting mid-January that would have mattered in April.

They're either good enough or they're not. We'll know soon.

 

[txpd]

I think the Rangers will beat Pittsburgh in the 1st round. Hank + Experience and Grit down their lineup.

the league aint gonna allow that to happen if caps v pens is a potential 2nd round matchup

 

[NoMoreChoking]

Just have that feeling that Pitt will win it all, it's our luck.

We have all seen this before...