Around the League - PLAYOFFS!?

[Evilhomer]

Bruins lose again.

2 straight losses for them and 3 straight losses for Panthers.

With their schedule, I expect Boston to struggle down the stretch. Both Florida and Toronto could pass them.

 

[PromisedLand]

LOL

 

[Burnie97]

I would love St Louis to get in over Vegas. After all the maneuvering and they miss.

 

[Arzak]

LOL

Karma

But also, he would either get nothing or 20 games for something like that, with his history.

 

[PROUD PAPA]

Forsberg vs Seider scrap and they weren't f'ing around!

 

[Seath The Scaleless]

Devils had a glorious chance to really get back in the race but they punted it away vs Ottawa tonight

If the Rangers win the 3rd here, Leafs will be 5 points back of the Panthers with a game in hand + two upcoming matchups

 

[Bomber0104]

LOL

Captain material for the Bruins.

Looks good on them.

 

[Jimmy Firecracker]

Such a crazy difference between announcers at Sportsnet.

Canucks make it 3-1 over Calgary: "That should take care of that for Vancouver."

Edmonton pulls within3 making it 5-2 Leafs: "We've got a game here!"

 

[Seath The Scaleless]

Kings sat back for the whole 3rd period and allowed Tampa to tie it

 

[TMLBlueandWhite]

If Ottawa was a movie they'd be Ishtar.

What an expensive boondoggle they've become again. They always were a shit show. But this year's been extra special.

Has there ever been a more consistently dysfunctional team in the NHL?

It's not like this is something new. They're. Constantly. Being. Rocked. By. Scandals. Always in the gutter of the standings.

The stench of embarrassment in Ottawa extends beyond just the usual suspects.

Nothing in sports is so sure as management's desire to relive the past. Now Alfredsson and Martin's "legacy" is being tarnished too. I use that term loosely seeing as they only just went from being losers to being even bigger losers.

At this point even Ryan Reynold's isn't Superman enough to bring respectability back to this blockbuster flop of a franchise.

 

[weems]

Forsberg vs Seider scrap and they weren't f'ing around!

 

[BallardEra]

McDavid has 89 assists in 66 games and is on pace for 108 this season.

He also has more assists (636) than games played (635) as of right now.

 

[hockeywiz542]

SIMMONS SAYS: Excessive reviews having an adverse effect on sports, and NHL looking to add to it

The last thing the NHL — or any other professional league — needs right now is more instant replay.

torontosun.com

The last thing the NHL — or any other professional league — needs right now is more instant replay.

At a time when we don’t necessarily know what a goal is, what’s a ball and a strike, what’s a foul in the NBA or what constitutes a catch in the NFL, the NHL is looking to add more opportunities for video review challenges.

When instant replay was introduced in North American pro sports — to get the calls right, remember — it wasn’t thoroughly thought out or examined. The intent was not to turn games into lengthy breakdowns of milliseconds of inconclusive replays. Games in hockey and goals are now being determined regularly by computer geeks sitting in their offices away from the ice and finding reasons to challenge offside calls.

Instant replay was supposed to rid the game of obvious mistakes. But instead, goaltender interference, determining what exactly is a goal and the picayune nature of the offside regulations have stolen from the game and made it worse, certainly not better.

You need a glossary today to understand what kind of calls can or can’t be challenged in the NFL. Some of the coaches don’t seem to know the rules.

Baseball begins another season shortly, this one with 12 cameras now installed in every stadium for instant replay with the sport investing $50 million on getting calls correct when, at the same time, it’s doing nothing about inconsistent umpires who have trouble accurately calling balls and strikes.

The intent of instant replay has always been fine. It’s what’s happened in the interim that hasn’t been. Now every team in every league has broken down the rules to such minute detail that they’ve made the games worse, the arguments more, with the sports somewhat defeating themselves.

Adding more replay as baseball and hockey are won’t the make games better. It will mean we will talk more about technology and less about the players and what they do on the field.

 

[BallardEra]

 

[Stephen]

Just a quick thought about the possibility of playing Florida and matchups.

Last year the Panthers rode Alex Lyon into the playoffs on a lengthy winning streak and didn’t switch to Bob until part way through the Bruins series.

I notice they’re playing him a lot now. And he’s not playing that well. So one of the factors at play might be Florida over using him now which may make him less fresh come playoffs.

Just a thought.

 

[Gabriel426]

SIMMONS SAYS: Excessive reviews having an adverse effect on sports, and NHL looking to add to it

The last thing the NHL — or any other professional league — needs right now is more instant replay.

torontosun.com

The last thing the NHL — or any other professional league — needs right now is more instant replay.

At a time when we don’t necessarily know what a goal is, what’s a ball and a strike, what’s a foul in the NBA or what constitutes a catch in the NFL, the NHL is looking to add more opportunities for video review challenges.

When instant replay was introduced in North American pro sports — to get the calls right, remember — it wasn’t thoroughly thought out or examined. The intent was not to turn games into lengthy breakdowns of milliseconds of inconclusive replays. Games in hockey and goals are now being determined regularly by computer geeks sitting in their offices away from the ice and finding reasons to challenge offside calls.

Instant replay was supposed to rid the game of obvious mistakes. But instead, goaltender interference, determining what exactly is a goal and the picayune nature of the offside regulations have stolen from the game and made it worse, certainly not better.

You need a glossary today to understand what kind of calls can or can’t be challenged in the NFL. Some of the coaches don’t seem to know the rules.

Baseball begins another season shortly, this one with 12 cameras now installed in every stadium for instant replay with the sport investing $50 million on getting calls correct when, at the same time, it’s doing nothing about inconsistent umpires who have trouble accurately calling balls and strikes.

The intent of instant replay has always been fine. It’s what’s happened in the interim that hasn’t been. Now every team in every league has broken down the rules to such minute detail that they’ve made the games worse, the arguments more, with the sports somewhat defeating themselves.

Adding more replay as baseball and hockey are won’t the make games better. It will mean we will talk more about technology and less about the players and what they do on the field.

Offside challenges can only be review when there is a goal but what about a penalty. Like can the team challenge a penalty bc the offeansive team was offside when entering the zone.

That’s why I think the offside challenge rule needs to amend. Like was the offside player in play or how many seconds before the goal scored, or maybe change the offside rule completely. As I really don’t have the answer to that.

 

[LeafalCrusader]

Jets are really imploding on their eastern road trip.

 

[BallardEra]

18 goals in the last 24 for Ovechkin.

 

[Darcy Tucker]

Things sure have changed.

 

[TMLegend]

What a tip by Crosby.

 

[MSZ]

This is Sid's 40th career 4 pt game.

 

[BallardEra]

 

[keonsbitterness]

This is Sid's 40th career 4 pt game.

And it still may not be enough.

 

[BallardEra]

And it still may not be enough.

Personally, I love where the Pens are. A lot of their fans claimed the Caps only cared about Ovie hitting #895 yet the Caps have infused a lot of their younger players into the lineup and have even stock piled some picks this year too.

If anything, the Pens are guilty of going all in on an aging core. Hopefully they bottom out next year and the Sharks get a lottery pick from them.

 

[keonsbitterness]

And it still may not be enough.

.........and it wasn't.