ECF Game 1 | Senators @ Penguins | 7:00 PM ET | NBC CBC SN TVAS

[Flamingo]

so it made it 1/8 of the way under then caught it and tore it in half?

or is that just my pancakes..

Don't use canola oil.

 

[Brewsky]

It's been hella exciting for me so far fella

Didn't answer the question, but it's ok.

 

[Shaftception]

Because it isn't 2-2 and the same play from stone that got called doesn't get called when it was a pen committing the infraction. Not that hard to understand really.

The other 3 are obvious penalties. No complaint from me on those.

I agree, but the level of complaining does not match that which would be justified for one missed call and you know it.

Without the 3 indisputable penalties, this has been a practically evenly called game barring likely one or two misses. And jabbing a goalie's glove covering the puck is goalie interference, no late whistle necessary.

Hell I'll even give you the hypothetical this could be a 3-2 pp game in favor of Ottawa if you're suggesting Ottawa haven't committed more than 2 non-automatic penalties that have been missed. In that scenario, where's the conspiracy? Where's the screw job?

What's happening is the 3 automatic penalties skewing the totals are the cause of the complaining. No one complains over one or two missed calls in a 3-4 total powerplays game.

 

[illpucks]

Really weird comebacks from ottawa fans. Just don't watch??? We're hockey fans, we love hockey, and we're hoping for a good game given there's less than a month of hockey left. Unfortunately ottawa is playing anti-hockey and trying their best to kill this game, like they did all season long. Pitt should just pull a Flyers move to show what ottawa is really doing.

Look the Sens lost in '03 in the ECF to a Devils team that played like this. 14 years later they are trying to use their opponents strategy to advance...

 

[IranCondraAffair]

Pens fans complaining about the trap?

LOL, what do they ****ing think their team, was doing for the last 7 minutes of game 7 against the caps? Playing patty cake?

 

[Karl Eriksson]

Crowd sounds much louder on NBC than on CBC.

US network piping in fake crowd noise

 

[playasRus]

Really weird comebacks from ottawa fans. Just don't watch??? We're hockey fans, we love hockey, and we're hoping for a good game given there's less than a month of hockey left. Unfortunately ottawa is playing anti-hockey and trying their best to kill this game, like they did all season long. Pitt should just pull a Flyers move to show what ottawa is really doing.

Sign the Senators entire team and fanbase up

 

[905PENS]

Boring or not... Its working. Complaining about it makes ya look salty.

 

[Ocoee]

I'm a Pens fan but if pitt wants to avoid the trap then get the ****ing lead off of 5 pp chances.

 

[tny760]

Obviously, the at least one of you saw something in this game that supposedly should make people realize Erik Karlsson is the best in the NHL. But the fact is, Karlsson has been a complete non-factor and made some pretty bad plays defensively. Best in the league maybe at giveaways...

he seems so lost in the D zone sometimes.. i think he kinda bails himself out positionally by having such a good stick, a couple times i've seen him lose his man while puck watching but then bats the pass out of the air and creates the breakout. it's not really trashing him cause i mean, he's always ready to pick the puck, 2 hands on the stick and the stick on the ice.. i dunno

 

[missingchicklet]

Pit is going to adjust and bring it in the third. Anderson is going to need to continue coming up huge.

 

[PoutineSp00nZ]

Still a lot of hockey to be played. But it never ceases to be funny when people complain about the trap

 

[Flamingo]

It exists. You just need to throw the puck in, have a fast/big guy come in and get it, crush the guy on D then dig it toward the net for some dirty goals. Of course, Pens are out Letang and Daley right now so, yeah. Pens will score goals, but it's going to be a war just to get one now. It's awful hockey, but I'd rather watch winning awful hockey than all the firewagon offence crap Murray subjected us to over the years. Boucher forever!

They obviously haven't heard about Anderson's puck-handling ability.

They tried the wraparound a couple times in the 2nd period, his other weakness.

The dump-in is his other weakness. Get him to play the puck, and just go to the slot for the pass.

 

[edguy]

Boring or not... Its working. Complaining about it makes ya look salty.

Preach!

It doesnt matter how you win games, all that matters is winning games.

 

[Finesse]

Pens fans complaining about the trap?

LOL, what do they ****ing think their team, was doing for the last 7 minutes of game 7 against the caps? Playing patty cake?

From what I can recall, it looked like Sid was chopping off players fingers left and right and the team was paying off the refs. Pretty embarrassing to be honest.

 

[Synergy27]

Rangers had no issue at all breaking the "trap" with no Crosby or Malkin. What's the Pens problem?

 

[voiceofreason666*]

he seems so lost in the D zone sometimes.. i think he kinda bails himself out positionally by having such a good stick, a couple times i've seen him lose his man while puck watching but then bats the pass out of the air and creates the breakout. it's not really trashing him cause i mean, he's always ready to pick the puck, 2 hands on the stick and the stick on the ice.. i dunno

Guentzel in the first period was a pretty good example of this

 

[Senscore]

Gonna be a long 20 minutes.

 

[JBose7]

Im a Pens fan and dont care how Ottawa chooses to defend. We shouldve buried them with power play goals and instead we have half the team loafing thru the game.

 

[SladeWilson23]

Trapping is great.

 

[Frenchy]

we will close early , we are almost at 1000 replies.
Plz use our other thread, for the 3rd period

http://hfboards.mandatory.com/showthread.php?p=132359661#post132359661

 

[aufheben]

Number of penalties doesn't matter. When you miss 70% (to put a number to it) of the penalties one team commits, and 5% of penalties the opponents commit, there is an obvious bias.

Refs have missed some blatant calls against the pens tonight.

Lol of course it doesn't.