NHL Thread

[TerryTate]

-5!!! Hahaha

Pronger has been able to shut down Big Buff this series. He really can eliminate a player whenever he's on the ice. Hawks in 7, only because I have tix.

[IrishinSyria]

Originally Posted by GO IRISH!!!

Stupid penalties, bad turnovers, and getting away from their style of hockey really killed the Flyers in the first period. The no call on the high stick on Briere was significant too. That would have been a big double minor power play.

eh, no call on Briere no call on Soup. That's hockey, its a fast game and refs miss stuff. Anyways, a double minor gets wiped out with a goal, so it was a big non-call but the flyers would still have needed to get another goal even strength to tie it up assuming they could score on the PP.

My personal favorite thing about the game is that pulling Leighton creates doubts for the flyers. You have to assume that he'll be back in for game 6, but taking him out after the first is a good way to tell him that the team doesn't have much confidence in him to overcome a little bit of adversity. He didn't play his best period of hockey there, but he did make a few big saves, the hawks could easily have gotten another goal out of that first period.

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Originally Posted by IrishinSyria

eh, no call on Briere no call on Soup. That's hockey, its a fast game and refs miss stuff. Anyways, a double minor gets wiped out with a goal, so it was a big non-call but the flyers would still have needed to get another goal even strength to tie it up assuming they could score on the PP.

My personal favorite thing about the game is that pulling Leighton creates doubts for the flyers. You have to assume that he'll be back in for game 6, but taking him out after the first is a good way to tell him that the team doesn't have much confidence in him to overcome a little bit of adversity. He didn't play his best period of hockey there, but he did make a few big saves, the hawks could easily have gotten another goal out of that first period.

The flyers were down 2 when briere got high sticked and they woulda had a 4 minute powerplay. Also pulling leighton had little to do with leighton last night.

[IrishinSyria]

The flyers were down 2 when briere got high sticked and they woulda had a 4 minute powerplay

I know. But even if they had scored 30 seconds into the hypothetical powerplay, the rest of it would have been wiped out and they would have had to get one more even-strength.

Also pulling leighton had little to do with leighton last night.

When a tender gets pulled, regardless of the reason, its humiliating. Leighton seems like he's gone through a lot of adversity in order to get here, so I don't expect him to fold, but still its a vote of no confidence on the part of the coach.

Anyways, this series has been high flying from the get go. Last night was no exception and I can't wait for Wednesday. The Flyers have been unbelievable with their backs against the wall, and the Blackhawks have been dominant when they've had the opportunity to close out a series. It should be another great game in an unbelievable series.

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Originally Posted by IrishinSyria

I know. But even if they had scored 30 seconds into the hypothetical powerplay, the rest of it would have been wiped out and they would have had to get one more even-strength.

If the flyers had scored within 2 minutes the first 2 would have been wiped out. Then they would have had a new 2 minute poweplay. The winner woulda had to have been even strength

[GO IRISH!!!]

Originally Posted by IrishinSyria

eh, no call on Briere no call on Soup. That's hockey, its a fast game and refs miss stuff. Anyways, a double minor gets wiped out with a goal, so it was a big non-call but the flyers would still have needed to get another goal even strength to tie it up assuming they could score on the PP.

My personal favorite thing about the game is that pulling Leighton creates doubts for the flyers. You have to assume that he'll be back in for game 6, but taking him out after the first is a good way to tell him that the team doesn't have much confidence in him to overcome a little bit of adversity. He didn't play his best period of hockey there, but he did make a few big saves, the hawks could easily have gotten another goal out of that first period.

Yeah, I know that double minors get wiped out with a goal. I wasn't alluding to being two minor penalties. However, that could have been a game changer. Get guys out there for potentially four minutes of penalty kill, your top PK guys get very tired, start standing and reaching and just like that they take another penalty or make a bad turnover. Four minute PP is still valuable at that stage of, at that time, a close game. I thought the no call on Briere was much more egregious that any of the other calls. On a faceoff the refs are all looking right at the circle. Not like it happened behind the play or on another part of the ice where a ref wasn't looking. It's hockey, yes, and referrees are factors (or non factors) in all sports, but it was a pretty obvious call.

I don't put any weight in the pulling of Leighton. Professional goalies have been pulled before and they know how to handle it. And Leighton has already been pulled once in this series and has come back to play some darn good hockey.

The first 10 minutes of game 6 will be very fun to watch. The Flyers are going to throw everything at them. Pronger won't have another game like he did in game 5 and he will be out for blood.

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Originally Posted by GO IRISH!!!

Yeah, I know that double minors get wiped out with a goal.

The flyers could have scored 2 powerplay goals on the double minor