This times over 9000. I hated when they started passivating. Why wouldn't you hold the puck if you have the chance.
GDT: 05/05/13 - WCQF PLAYOFFS Game 3 Chicago @ Minnesota - 2:00 p.m. CDT - NBC/CBC/RDS
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This times over 9000. I hated when they started passivating. Why wouldn't you hold the puck if you have the chance.
Winning is great. Also great, is in one of the first shifts the closed captioning called one of Kentucky Koivu's teammates "Zenon Konobody".
Jarick
Doing Nothing
What we need to do is start working the puck into the slot by pushing the Blackhawks around. We've proven we can do that, and they didn't seem to have an answer for that. We need to hammer Crawford high glove side and when/if he starts overcompensating for that, we start exploiting what hole he's leaving open to cover his glove side.
Hit the Hawks hard to get the lead, then hit em harder to extend the lead, and then hit em harder still to go for the juggular. I would love it if we could end up getting under their skin and in their heads like the Senators got into the Canadiens heads last night. If we push the Hawks around hard enough I think we could have a chance to really snap their mental concentration.
Hit the Hawks hard to get the lead, then hit em harder to extend the lead, and then hit em harder still to go for the juggular. I would love it if we could end up getting under their skin and in their heads like the Senators got into the Canadiens heads last night. If we push the Hawks around hard enough I think we could have a chance to really snap their mental concentration.
Cullen's pass to Zucker on the GW was straight nasty. Play of the year - highlight play of the year - for our team.
jedisports
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Exactly.
Oh you are right on. I have many Cleveland friends and family who do not like that the team was Columbus instead of Ohio. There are many Clevelanders who are Penguins fans (some Red Wings but way more Penguins) and won't join in the Columbus love because they just don't feel like they are a part of it. If Cleveland natives feel that way, imagine how southern Ohio feels where hockey is really, really foreign. Yes, big mistake not making it an 'Ohio' team. Not that I don't think Columbus isn't going to do well anyway with the growing popularity but I think it would have been an instant hit had it been named Ohio instead. 
Guess what? I have a friend who graduated from Ohio State and doesn't cheer for Ohio State. He pulls for Cleveland State even if he'd have more 'success' pulling for Ohio State. Exactly.
llamapalooza
Hockey State Expat
AFAIK, "turtling" comes from fighting video games where some players will just hold crouch and block to minimize their vulnerable area, without making any effort whatsoever to attack the other player. Either they intend to wait it out until the other player accidentally leaves themselves glaringly open, or they've got the edge on the healthbar and are trying to run down the timer.
It actually seems to be a pretty apt metaphor for the Wild's bad habits...
I can't say that I've ever heard it used in another context. Did you have something else in mind?
That's the exact context I was reading the term from. My friends and I used to play Starcraft and sometimes we would go like 2v5 players vs computers and we would need to turtle up for the early part of the game and just let the computers waste minerals throwing their units at the walls we would put up until we had scaled the tech tree high enough to start taking out the computers one by one.
So, if the Wild followed that strategy, it would be more like them weathering an early onslaught and then going forth and blowing the opposition out of the water. That's actually happened on occasion. But you should never play hockey with the intention of turtling at any point. It needs to be something you can do when needed, like in the last 2-3 minutes of a game you are leading by one goal, or when the opposing team comes out hard by throwing everything including the kitchen sink at you, but it should NEVER be a strategy you employ for 17 minutes straight in a period.
Just disgusting:
You want to know what's REALLY strange?
Notice how in your Youtube video that Ed Olczyk says that Jason Zucker hit the crossbar in Game 1 OT.
But then go to this link at NHL.com : http://www.nhl.com/ice/series.htm?season=20122013&series=e
Click on the top video under "series coverage" that plays Zucker's OT winner, and notice how they blank out Olczyk saying Zucker hit the crossbar in Game 1 OT.
Strange.
You want to know what's REALLY strange?
Notice how in your Youtube video that Ed Olczyk says that Jason Zucker hit the crossbar in Game 1 OT.
But then go to this link at NHL.com : http://www.nhl.com/ice/series.htm?season=20122013&series=e
Click on the top video under "series coverage" that plays Zucker's OT winner, and notice how they blank out Olczyk saying Zucker hit the crossbar in Game 1 OT.
Strange.
That's...really odd. Good find.
INTOTHEVOID
Go right.
StealthClobber
A Digital Frontier.
Because they want to mask the fact that the Wild have any kind of chance, don't you read your own avatars? 
Same reason our opponents get away with murder and we get penalized if we breathe on someone the wrong way.
Dee Oh Cee
Registered User
StealthClobber
A Digital Frontier.
So long as he's not the play-by-play guy it's fine by me. He seems pretty unbiased anyways. Was Doc ever biased toward the Devils when he started doing national broadcasts all the time?
Dee Oh Cee
Registered User
I know I see it through tinted glasses but he said the whole game the Wild were cheating in the faceoff circle and made a comment about someone (Scandella I think) selling that high stick.
It's much easier to be objective as a PBP guy than a color guy I would think.
It's much easier to be objective as a PBP guy than a color guy I would think.
StealthClobber
A Digital Frontier.
Ah yeah I remember that cheating the faceoff ****. That was pissing me off because if these linesmen are allowing it, it's not cheating. We're just winning faceoffs better than they are.
Paul Bunyan
Registered User
Completely agree. Honestly, my friends that are fans of other Western Conference teams HATE Eddie O doing national games in which Chicago is involved.
He's not as much of a homer as say Mickey Redmond (who became even worse in his old age) but it's pretty bad at times --- though those were local broadcasts.
Strange.
Yet I'm not surprised at all.
As someone posted a picture before "I WANT TO BELIEVE" but it's tough.
Conspiracies abound.
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Fel 96
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