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Wow...definitely wasn't expecting the Sharks to take it to the Wings like this!

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We got a game for the 3rd.

What was Sj's defense thinking on the Cleary goal?? :confused:

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This, and the regular season is these guys day job. Like every job it's easy to get caught up and being putting in just enough effort to do a good enough job to earn the pay cheque and not the full 110% required for a phenomenal job. The playoffs on the other hand are why they choose to pursue careers as pro-hockey players so the extra effort is a given.

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Never been a Sharks fan but boy howdy I sure am for the next 2 weeks or less!

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Sharks hold on and draw first blood.

I really like Joe Pavelski...he sure would look good in Blackhawks red.

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That was so bad. I am hoping for no more WTF goals like that in this series.

Hell no. I am loving Pavs. From his clutch play for team USA to his clutch goals so far. Hoping Micah can wear number 8 next year. :tu

Nice to see the Sharks special teams step up and in both scoring goals on the PP and holding the Wings off the board on 7 PP's. 15 Penalties tonight and the teams clearly have their hate on early. I think by the end this may rival the Hawks Knuckleheads. Well maybe not, but its already chippy.

That said the Wings showed why they are a great franchise. Down 3 goals they didnt panic, they kept their heads and got right back in the game. To me this series has the potential to go 7. Howard impressed me a lot with his play tonight as to keeping his head and staying in the game. His interview after the game also showed a lot of poise.

Babcock crying in the press conf saying Settogucghi dove after getting high sticked in the face. He did get sticked in the face and he admits that, but he didnt like the way he reacted after getting sticked in the mouth. Seriously? He's already going to start lobbying the refs? It was a friggin penalty and he's complaining. I saw some embelishment the other way guess hes not concearned about his teams embelishing. :td


As to the win. AWESOME!!!!!:banger

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Number #8 is great...although #3 is pretty cool too. ;)

At least Babcock admitted Setoguchi got hit in the face...idiot color man said that "He got hit in the wrist and his legs stopped working". What the Hell play was he watching??

Congrats on a good Game 1 win...I agree, this one might be headed to 7. But I also disagree, Mike...I see no way this is going to get near as nasty as the Hawks and Canuckleheads series will be.

I will probably miss a couple games, as I don't think the hospital I am going into has Versus...luckily the first3 Hawks games are on ComCast, and I will be able to catch the NBC games too.

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Hmmmmm #3 sounds like some plugs defense number. :D Thought about it because he was 3 when he played his first hockey game. See I am already teaching him to stand infront of the net though, so I just dont think 3 would work. :r Hell maybe I will go 96 for the modern day king of standing infront of the net and getting dirty goals.

As to the no games, uhhhhh you have heard of justin.tv and dailyfun4u.com right? just take your laptop with you and bang instant hockey. thought u had an iphone, there is even a justin.tv app. Its not bad I sometimes use it on my ipod touch using my phone as wifi hotspot. There is no excuse to miss any hockey. Where there is a will there is a way.

Life is good sitting on the front porch with my last PSP#2, laptop and a rootbeer(non drinker) life is good. :tu Wife didnt want to wrestle because I have a cold. :td Hope your stint in the hospital will be over before the end of the second round. I am ueber superstitious so I wont speak further as to 3rd round.

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Thanks Mike, my stay will be over long before Round 2 ends. But while I am there, I will miss some games...I don't own a laptop. ;) :r

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That tripping penalty on Franzen after getting high sticked really bothers me. Lead to a Pavalski PPG on a 5-3. Probably what sealed the game. Wings did keep going at it. Resting a few days and getting back to it on Sunday will definitely help the Wings. They looked a little slow in the game.

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That penalty was fricken crap. Hard to control your stick when you are trying to cover your face from the high stick that just cut you below the eye. You could see the amazement on his face that he got called for that penalty while he was wiping up his own blood. :bh

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Leaving the house in a few, my son has a baseball tournament that gets under way tonight. Gonna miss Game 1 tonight of the Pens vs Habs.

Go Pens!

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Looked to me like the High Stick came as a result of being tripped. You cant control your stick while being tripped.

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Wow how about we go to the video shall we. lets watch 3:04 to say 3:10 and watch it a few times.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRTxpZxzCUA

Tripping after getting high sticked. The incidences at best occurred at exactly the same moment. I would give the nod to Franzens stick touching settos skates prior to the settos stick touching his face. The way you two are talking you are making it sound like he was highsticked and then he tripped him. These incidences occurred at the exact same instance and one did not cause the other. But hey you guys break out that crutch so you can blame the game on that.

"got the penalty while wiping blood from his face" that is absolutely false sir. :td

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So.....how bout them Pens!!!!!!!

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micah loves cindy and the pens. He was happy tonight. Jumping up and down on the couch. Pretty dominating performance tonigt that's for sure.

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Tonight I am a Blackhawks fan.

Tomorrow I am a Sharks fan.

ALWAYS a Penguins fan.

Don't give a crap about who wins the flyers/bruins series fan!

In the end, its gonna be Hawks/Pens in the finals. Can't wait!

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It's interesting how much you read into my posts. Look back at what I put.. All I said is that it bothered me and because of that penalty that pretty much sealed the game. I can't conclusively say which came first after looking at it again.

You might want to check yourself on the "crutch" part. I never made any comments on how the refs stole the game from us. In fact I feel we got some calls because of a bit of acting which I hate to see. Nothing worse than players taking dives or acting to get a call. Terrible for the game.

I honestly expected the Sharks to win. They were at home, after a week of rest and the Wings coming off a big emotional win less than 48 hours before the game. The Sharks would have really dropped the ball if they lost that first game. I'm encouraged by the Wings effort and I'm not at all worried that we won't win this series. The effort the Wings gave after that early deficit is a great sign of things to come.

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I dont read to much into your post and I quoted two posts both of which had false statements in them.
You stated the tripping penalty came "after" the high sticking. The video shows different. You said it lead to the 5-3 goal. No what lead to the 5-3 goal was Filppula's stick in Settoguchi's mouth. You said the penalty probablly sealed the game.

I also quoted a second person who said the trip occurred after the highstick and while he was wiping blood of his face.

I dont think I need to "check" myself when I am attempting to correct what appear to be false statements, or statements that are very open to debate. To me anytime you say a whole game was sealed or controled by one single call or non call is a crutch. It negates the other 55+ minutes of the game.

I just want to make sure anyone who did not see the game would clearly see what we were discussing and how it was not how it was being portrayed in the 2 posts I quoted.

This series is far from over and the Wings have a better chance then the Sharks to win the Series given experience and what they have shown so far. That said this thread will go a lot further if people dont start calling out individual penalties or non penalties implying they sealed the game. It takes 60 minutes to seal a game. So lets all just sit back and get ready for a long one. In the end the Wings will likely prevail anyway so settle down.

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The goal after the penalty pretty much did seal the game. That was the game winner for the Sharks. Pretty simple.

I'm still looking for how I'm using that as a crutch.. In all my statements I never said that play sealed the game. Probably and pretty much were used. That means there were other aspects to the game that helped win it for the Sharks. I'm not looking for any crutch or any excuses as to why the Wings lost.

Definitely looking forward to the next game tomorrow. And looking forward to Monday's dissection of the game between the 2 of us.

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Look I have already said why and also shown in video that some of your comments were not accurate. They played for near 20 minutes after the goal and had a PP. They didnt get it done. I am done discussing this with you. I have said already why its a crutch comment.

As to todays action The B's take game 1 in OT and both goalies of what I saw looked very average out there. Who ever emerges will likely be easy pickings for the Pens. With all that the Pens look poised to possible lift the cup again. I dont see the Habs knocking them out. I wouldnt mind seeing a Pens Bruins conf final. There would be some good hate in that series and who knows who gets taken out.

Is it 5pm Pacific time yet? I want to watch this nucks Hawks series more then the Sharks Wings. This thing has the potential to be epic. Maybe instead of pulling hair dude will go full cat fight and scratch his eyes. Do we see a fight in game one? I am leaning towards yes and big Buff just tormenting the stash.

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http://news.therecord.com/article/629923
was thinking about this kid the other day and found this article.

for those of you with kids, if they were good enoug would you want them to play college hockey or major jrs and why?

I lean towards college because they get an education.

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Go Bruins, the overtime period was awesome :tu

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Gosh I hate the Red Wings! Go Sharks. I can't believe the Capitals are out, I thought they would be raising the Stanley Cup this year

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Not such a good first period for the Hawks. Hopefully they will pick it up.

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it just got worse. Yikes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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My son's coach's entire philosophy is to gear the boys for Junior or College hockey. He follows the ADM (American Development Model supplied by USA Hockey). He grew up and played Junior hockey in Sweden, and says their development program is very similar to the ADM.

Our boys are all 1998 birth years, which makes them Peewee Majors next season. Last season they played Tier II hockey and ended up the year ranked 11th in the USA.

All in all, we would rather he play college hockey, for the overall experience. We know the odds of any given kid to make the NHL, but getting a college scholarship is much more in reach.

Junior players usually live with host families, and serve 'community service' for the opportunity to play Junior hockey. My kids team switched organizations for next year and this new organization utilizes its Junior A players to help out with coaching the elite level youth teams as part of their community service.

They both have rewards I am sure, but I think College is the way to go unless you are a superstar like Crosby, which we all know only happens once in a generation or so.

:2

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Good game tonite!! Go cAnucks!!!

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I really don't think the Hawks could have had a worse game. They lost home ice, got beat badly, now have a goalie controversy, and outside of when they opened it up in the 3rd didn't have many chances. The stash played wel in net.

today I was talking to Scott Nichols wife about this topic. She met Scott while he was playing jrs. She said no way would she let her son live with a host family. In her experience there was a lot of partying that occurs and it can not be good if the young man follows the group. I think it's great you are seeing a lot more high level players take the college route.

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What a fluke, the Boston Bruins lucked out with that OT goal... anyone but the Red Wings, and Blackhawks--sorry Icehog, still dislike the B-hawks after the brutual rivarly with my beloved North Stars!

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New to the forum so I am just throwing it out there: GO WINGS!!! Wings v Penns in the finals. Penns win in 6.

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I don't post lately but thought I'd jump in here. In the OHL teams will pay for a kids education after they have graduated(so to speak). If a player does 3 years with a team they will pay for 3 years education. It would definitely depend on the maturity level of the kid. Can you imagine a 16 year old kid in Sudbury without his family? A lot of kids who play university hockey in Ontario have already played in the O.
There are players here in St. Catharines who play Junior B until their scholarships start in NCAA. Here is a boy that played here. http://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/A...aspx?e=2558394
They can get into trouble wherever they go.

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I would want my kids to play college. Why? If your good enough to make the show it really doesent matter where you play (other than visability). And when your playing days are over you will still need that education to to make a living.

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Eleven and Al prety much sum up my thoughts.... Though I am not too worried that we will be having to make that difficult decision...... If we did, I'd consider it fortunate....

My 13 year old.....playing D for his High School JV team this Summer....
http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/8...rayhockey1.jpg

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Very nice! My folks wouldn't play ice hockey when I was young so for my 11th b-day they got me street hockey gear. :td

Still my favorite sport then lacrosse which I played 4 years of high school. I miss it a lot. Hope your son does well during the regular season!

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Montreal looked great today against the Pens... Can they continue to defy the odds?

Enjoyed Detroit v San Jose. Kinda pulling for the Sharks - I was born not far from San Jose. :D

Only thing that would make this time of year better would be my Hurricanes in the mix. :ss

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I'm not much of a fan of the hurricanes...especially after what they did to the B's last year. -(P

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awesome pic, I'm such a gear whore. I see he is wearing a Plexi shield. Micah wears one but he and one other boy in the league were the only ones. Everyone else had cages. Love the Grafs, the pattern looks like Supra 605's but the colors are reversed. Just grabbed Micah a pair of Supra 370's from back east, going to come in this week. Its his first pair of Graf's hoping they fit. By the look of the gear, Eagle gloves, Graf skates, plexi shield (preference I know) looks like he is more about comfort on the ice then flash. :tu

Micah starts summer league on Saturday, got 1 whole week off.

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Thanks.... I have become his personal photographer...:r After every game he is asking for the pics....

Yea, he wanted the plexi shield shortly after starting(maybe year 2), just came to me and said he wanted "one of those clear masks" or something to that effect. They are few and far between here as well. Maybe 1 in 10 at best, probably not even that. I thought there may be fogging issues, but it has not been much of an issue.

The skates are G5's.... They have the Limited color scheme, which probably threw you off.


I hear you Mike....it is just a year round thing now. When I was a kid, I did whatever sport was in season and really didn't have a choice, that is just how things worked. Other than camps ect, that may allow you to play something different in the Summer for a week or 2, it was 100% seasonal. Now kids are given the choice of all the sports as their seasons come and go, most have year round access.... That is something that was not an option for me. Truthfully, I am not sure if it is a good thing....:confused:

The Little Man has done it all, but now just plays hockey....one season just rolls into the next.....

Continued success to Micah.... Sounds like he is excelling at a young age, that is great for his confidence and will expand exponentially IMO.



Add: Of every sport(like I said, we have done it all), hockey is BY FAR the most fun to be a parent. Not only the game, which is far superior to be a spectator at....but the community. That must make up for the financial end, which has to be the worst.....:r

I apologize for the hi-jack

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The WHL does the same, but I believe it's actually 4 years. Not too bad a deal, play 4 full years of junior and then if you don't make it up to the NHL your undergrad is paid for.

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figured I would weigh in on the Sharks Wings game. Didnt see all of it. That said I was happy to see the Sharks keep home ice advantage as the odds are against them to grab a game in the Joe. Their record in the Joe is horrible so it will be suprising to see them get a win there. If they can it would likely spell doom for Det. I also see this series now having the potential to go 7 games if the Sharks dont get lucky and end it early. In order for that not to happen the Wings would need to take 4 straight and that just isnt to likely. In a 7 game series I still think the wings experience will end up winning the day as they just dont ever seem to panic. The question is though can the Sharks end it early.

Detroit spent 1/3 of the game in the box lastnight taking a lot of stick related penalties. Babcock said the Wings would now be much more careful with their sticks. I wonder though if penalties are a result of fatigue as I see some players using their sticks instead of their feet. You could also see some frustration as Stuart went after Pavs. With all that said Datsyuk is a friggin stud. He has impressed the hell out of me with his ability to dangle and skate. I think he would get a lot more attention if not for Crosby and Ovi. I dont think hes as physical or strong on his skates on the boards as either, but in the open ice he is deadly. His combination of skating and dangling seems to freeze players trying to stop him. Holmstrom is a monster in front of the net. It looks like the Sharks have decided to let him stand their and attempt to shut down any feeds to him instead of putting a man on him. I hope this works. Lindstrom continues to roll also even at age 40.

As to the win :banger:banger:

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Did not think they were G5's very cool. I rock G35s

Tried to get him into Tball this year, but he was too young so hockey it is. My wife thinks baseball will drive him crazy do to all the down time. He's comedy even when on the bench hes usually chirping it up at everyone and baseball is very different.

The community here is very small, that said I have already heard it can be very political which scares me. The cost is definelty the worse.


As to tonights action I dont think anyone can call the Phi Bos series. The Hawks desperately need a win tonight to help right the ship.

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Missed the games on Versus this weekend as my hospital room did not have it. Listened to the Hawks game, glad I missed it. Tonight is as close to a "must win" as a non-elimination game can be.

Sharks up 2-0, Pavelski is just the hottest player in the league right now. Good for him, he is a good guy too.

Looking forward to not missing any games this week, should be excellent hockey.

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Flyers go down 2 games to 0. Two really hard fought games by both teams so far...much more intense than the Devils/Flyers series IMHO.

The color commentator on Versus drove me crazy tonight. To any Bruins fans, is he the regular color guy for the Bruins? My guess is he was. :r At first I thought his perspective may have just been slanted until I noticed "Prongah", "Wheelah" and "Rydah". :r

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not sure. I know the sharks feed has not been the local guys. Then again it's been prety obvious to me what fan base vs is playing to. You don't want to piss off the larger of the the two fan bases tuning in now. :r

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Hawks have 20 minutes to get their sh!t together or I fear they will be golfing on Mother's Day. :(

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Man of the Hour. :D

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Yesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

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heeeeeelllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll ll










wait for it













YES!




Second favorite dog in the hunt grabs the win.
Congrats to the Hawk nation I imagine you were gripping hard at the start and into the 3rd.