Pre-Game Talk: Round 2 Game 1|Senators @ Penguins|7:30|(Likely) CBC,RDS

[Mark Effin Stone]

PIT: Hughson/Simpson/Healy/Oake

NBC it is..

 

[Max Power]

I'm sure this has been mentioned but you have to laugh at CBC putting everything on the Leafs winning. Now they don't even have a 7PM Saturday game

 

[Milan the God*]

PIT: Hughson/Simpson/Healy/Oake

NBC it is..

Scott Oake...

Saw him at the All-Star Game in Ottawa last year. He was going through the crowd interviewing people. From what I saw (saw him interview a good 4-5 different sets of people), he was only interviewing Leaf fans. CBC probably wanted to make it look like Scotiabank Place was full of Leaf fans at the ASG.

 

[Goat Boy]

Ugh. it's already started. From the CBC website:

It's a battle of the ages! Sid the Kid and the Penguins take on Daniel Alfredsson and the Senators, tonight at 7 p.m. ET.

It should be Daniel Alfredsson and the Senators taking on Sidney Crosby and the Penguins. Not the other way around.

I am disappoint.

 

[Milan the God*]

@SunDoniB: MacLean starts presser by saying he's done his homework and he knows who Player 87, 71 and 58 are. He needs more time to learn others #sens

 

[NyQuil]

Tyler Kennedy is sad.

 

[NyQuil]

Someone needs to make a Senapred Alliance avatar; fully on your bandwagon now that the Caps have been eliminated (moved to DC last summer). As an aside, I could never be a Caps fan; after being a Preds fan, lazy defense just kills me.

Welcome aboard!

We have an avatar thread where some tireless workers are helping out our worthy bandwagon friends.

 

[Vaclav Varada]

Battle of the Bald tenders. Which Q-ball will come out on top?

 

[ACLEVERNAME]

Go Sens!

 

[SixthSens]

Should I just convert this to the GDT?

 

[Iconoclast]

Sorry if this has been answered elsewhere, but is Michalek in tonight? Heard he wasn't at practice a couple days ago... was that just to let him rest or is there something worse going on?

He was just having a maintenance day. He'll be ready for game 1.

 

[Vaclav Varada]

The possibilities are endless...

 

[Slow Hands]

The possibilities are endless...

You can tell he's thinking about all the cheese cake he's going to have in pittsburg

 

[Dana Scully]

Should I just convert this to the GDT?

We aren't having an official GDT? What kind of show are we running here?!

 

[Taelin]

Nothing would please me more than to see the mighty Pens empire fall.

 

[Do Make Say Think]

Nothing would please me more than to see the mighty Pens empire fall.

Sens in 6 baby

 

[BBB]

While I am happy the Sens start round 2 tonight, I would have enjoyed another day discussing the Leafs failure.

Hope Turris has been eating his Wheaties.

 

[Step]

Stoked for tonight. I thiiiink I'm gonna hit the LCBO for a giant order before they strike

 

[Scrub*]

no gdt yet?

 

[Goat Boy]

Stoked for tonight. I thiiiink I'm gonna hit the LCBO for a giant order before they strike

What??? They're striking again? Bloody hell, how much does someone really need to be paid to operate a cash register?

I'll be back in a jiffy.

 

[Harbinger]

So dumb question: what determines home ice advantage?

 

[GK]

So dumb question: what determines home ice advantage?

Seeding. 1-4 always get home ice advantage, so if you're better you get it.

 

[Jaromir Jagrbombs]

So dumb question: what determines home ice advantage?

Do you mean like how the announcers always talk about "stealing the home ice advantage" or whatever? If so, it's just whoever has home ice in an elimination game. That's what I always thought they meant at least.

If you just mean who has home ice for what games then it's seeding.

 

[Do Make Say Think]

So dumb question: what determines home ice advantage?

The team that finished higher up in the standings up gets home-ice (meaning they start at home at Game 7 is at home) to start

If the away team steals Game 1 or 2 then it is said that they "stole home-ice advantage away" because now the away team has more home games remaining (it's 3 a piece and game 7 home ice goes to the top seed)

 

[Pancakes Pancakes]

Can I take a crack at explaning?

I think the simplest way to explain this is if the away team wins one of the first two games, then all they have to do is win their three home games to win the series, therefore, they now have home ice advantage!