2010-2011 NHL season

Craig Laughlin's take:

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He was right about the shinny goal. Brutal.

 

This reminds me of the time I was doing color on a college basketball game. I was talking about how a guy had turned his season around, and I mixed my cliches with disastrous results. I meant to say that the guy had righted the ship. Instead, I said he was "getting his ship together."

And it sounded just like you thought it would over the air. I made it worse by looking at the PxP guy and saying, "I said ship."

Anyhoo, didn't see the game because I was at work, but Carrera's Post story had some interesting Boudreau comments about poor body language, and the coach more or less called out the top two lines for sucking. So we'll see if it's any better Saturday against the Avs. Another game I'll miss because of work. Stupid job.

 

Those overall numbers are tainted by his horrific start.

During the 11-game winning streak, Fleury has a 1.59 GAA and a .945 save percentage. Goalies can't control the number of shots (and isn't that the name of the game, to limit your opponent's scoring chances and increase your own?), and Fleury's stopping just about everything he's seeing.

http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=545957

 

This is truly bizarre. Some guy, after the Leafs get beat by the Flyers last night, throws WAFFLES on the ice.

http://sports.nationalpost.com/2010/12/10/why-throw-waffles-at-the-maple-leafs/

Who brings waffles to a hockey game?” Armstrong asked, not unreasonably, the day after the great waffle-throwing incident of 2010. “Had we won the game, was he going home with soggy waffles? I don’t know. I don’t appreciate it, really, a guy throwing waffles at me as I’m skating by.

 

Listening to the Oilers Lightning game right now, sounds like defence optional so far -- odd man rush after odd man rush. 2-2 in the second.

 

Omark proved his youtube game transfers over to the NHL, at least for one night. Beautiful shootout winner. I don't care if there was a little extra mustard on it, hell it was creative and showed his skill. The Lightning players were pissed though. I would rather see that than some extravagant celebration, and it beats the hell out of some guy just skating down and trying to pick a corner and put no move on whatsoever. The NHL wants the game to be entertaining -- particularly the shootout -- that's what that was. Hell they encourage it with the shootout competition at the all-star game. Omark actually has the balls to try those moves during a real game, even his first NHL game.

 

Here's the shootout move:

http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/2010/12/11/omark_game_shifter/

 

You think Renney liked that?

What was so entertaining about a spinarama at centre? It's an unnecessary risk to take, I hope he catches an edge next time.

Now this is entertaining and skillfull

 

He wouldn't have put him in the shootout in his first game if he wasn't expecting something like that.

 

You put him in the shootout because he's great on breakaways and he's got great skill. The spinarama at centre serves no purpose except to draw attention to yourself.

 

Shamelessly stolen from the Kurtenbloggers

"I feel like Omark might get the Lou Brown treatment from Tom Renney. "Nice move, Linus. Don't ever ####ing do it again."