Around the NHL Part VII - The Good Old Hockey Game

[ColePens]

Yikes.... weird game 3 here.

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[ColePens]

Listen... Kopitar is a ****ing beast. Is he always this good? I watch a lot of LA and cannot believe how patient and good he is.

 

[Waffle Fries]

The Rangers really have a thing for deflecting goals into their own net don't they?

 

[Jaded-Fan]

Ex-Pen scoring the goal.

There are a number of those out there playing key rolls for other teams.

 

[Big McLargehuge]

Listen... Kopitar is a ****ing beast. Is he always this good? I watch a lot of LA and cannot believe how patient and good he is.

Not always, but just about always in big games. You can take a Tuesday off in November when you do this in the playoffs.

 

[SaintRon]

In game (PP) adjustments. Weird.

 

[mpp9]

Good lord Nash. You can't fight through that?

 

[Jaded-Fan]

If a Ranger fan ever *****es about Crosby supposedly diving again they deserve a rusty skate to the nuts.

 

[billybudd]

Lot of big game players on the kings. Richards may have no legs, but he's still got a great brain and a lot of balls.

 

[HuskerTornado]

Nice one from Richards on the 2 on 1. 3-0 Kings, rout is on.

 

[Jaded-Fan]

A team could never win a cup with Carter and Richards. Better trade them to make room for a crappy goalie.

 

[hiptanaka]

Bizarre how much more likeable Carter and Richards became after they left the Flyers. They're certainly much easier to root for.

 

[Zero Pucks]

Looks like the Kings really miss Scuds, good thing we snatched him from them.

 

[Beau Knows]

Lol Rangers.

 

[SaintRon]

So many guys doing the little things for the Kings. Back when the Pens won the Cup, that's what they did. Guys who couldn't/wouldn't fight fighting. Taking hits to make plays. Selling their souls to drink from the cup. Not just the 3rd and 4th liners, but everyone. It's fantastic to watch.

Using the memories of losing to motivate. Hopefully our new org can instill that feeling once again. Wins are great, but it all starts with effort.

Hockey is the study of pressure and time. That's all it takes really, pressure, and time. That, and a average ******* poster standing on his head.

 

[MeticulouslyDishevel]

In game (PP) adjustments. Weird.

They're allowed to do that?

 

[SaintRon]

Bizarre how much more likeable Carter and Richards became after they left the Flyers. They're certainly much easier to root for.

lol. It is so much easier to root for Flyers once they leave the team. Couldn't bring myself to root for Hartnell on his new team should it come to that but I suppose it depends on who his team is playing in the finals. If he went to the west and they played the Caps in the finals, that's a no brainer, sorry Caps.

 

[Jaded-Fan]

Has a team ever dived as much as the Rangers?

 

[SaintRon]

They're allowed to do that?

When the NBCSN crew started to talk about it and telestrate, I was hoping they would yank DDB from the NHL Network (he was on their pregame tonight) and ask him his reaction to the Kings in game and at times per shift adjustments.

Now that would be must see TV.

Line of the night

Edzo: "You gotta take what the other teams gives you."

Que?

 

[SaintRon]

The Kings are grinding the Rangers into the ground. It's gotta take a Jarret Stoll on a team when you get pushed around night and shift in and night and shift out. No team in the East like that, maybe the Bruins?

It's relatively easy to "get to your game" when grinding the other team into the ground is your game and you are capable of executing it.

 

[mpp9]

Rangers have played about as well as I expected. Their roster just isn't as good as the Kings. MSL, Richards and Nash aren't leading you to a Cup.

 

[cygnus47]

Clinical one for the Kings. They know how to shut a team down when they have to and this year they have the offensive power too. Quick's first great game in a while doesn't hurt. They'll be deserving champs when they close it out.

 

[SaintRon]

Kreider did try a new way of indirectly running into a goalie. Staal needs to go back to cross-checking instead of slew footing. Another shutdown 3rd by the Kings. How many minutes with the goalie pulled and NO shots on goal? They may have had one at the very end though.

 

[SirBrad]

Has a team ever dived as much as the Rangers?

given how much their fans whine about other teams diving it's pretty funny how much diving their team does.

 

[clefty]

It's really frustrating watching a team that nails it at every single big moment in a game/series, then immediately presses the advantage afterwards. Foot on the throat stuff. Whereas we've failed to rise to the occasion at every turn for five years, just look at our OT record and elimination game record.

The Kings should have been wiped in the first round, and instead they're going to win the Cup.