All-Purpose Hockey Thread II

Hat trick watch is on for Eric Staal ... 'Canes up 3-1 over Dallas.

EDIT: Scratch that. Two goals in 46 seconds - one shorthanded - has knotted the game. :-[

 

Staal turns the trick. Scott Walker's unselfish on the empty net got it for him.

I think the Cup hangover is gone ...

 

Jagr just scored goal number 600 off a rebound..

 

The Pens are off and running in Philly. They've got a 2-0 lead and the contest isn't even 2-0 in.

So far this year they're 3-0 against the Flyers this year and have outscored them 15-4 to this year I believe.

I wonder what the record for goals against a single opponent in one season is.

 

Who says old, slow pieces of shit like Derian Hatcher don't have a place in the NHL?

The Penguins are throwing tape-to-tape passes around to each other in the Flyers end of the ice on a power play. The Flyers and especially Hatcher are stumbling around trying to keep up. Evgeni Malkin gets a pass in the crease and fires in for a goal. Or did he?

The smooth-skating Hatcher tries to engage Malkin and runs into the net and dislodges it. Malkin's goal is waved off.

Where's Lyle Odelein?

Edit: The Pens get that goal back. Ryan Whitney gets a freebie with Antero Niittymaki out of position. But you'll have to excuse Niittymaki. Hatcher was laying face down in the crease after he fell down and blocked Niittymaki from getting over.

 

The Flyer's defense corps is as useful as a wood burning stove.

 

Anyone catching the Stars-Avs fray on OL... Versus?

What do you think of the new "rail" cam? I'm not sure it adds a lot to the broadcast. I've got to imagine to it annoys the hell out of the actual fans in attendance on that side of the ice.

 

Sucks ass comes to mind.

 

Derian Hatcher -- once a premier defenceman, now pointless in 21 games this season and the owner of the third worst plus-minus rating (-15) in the NHL.

On the 687-player list, Flyers occupy spots 667, 669, 672, 674, 679, 680, 681, 684, 685 and 686. Philly's plus-minus leader is Nolan Baumgartner, who has an even rating but was sent down to the AHL a month ago. What an accomplishment -- Ed Snider, take a bow!!

 

Mo has a way with words:

"Clearly there was not enough profanity on the bench in the opening period," Paul Maurice said after the game. "But we took care of that in the third."

 

Love him or hate Scott Burnside has a solid feature on The Man, the Myth, the Legend: Don Cherry on espn.com

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/eticket/story?page=doncherry&lpos=spotlight&lid=tab3pos1

Biggest mouth in sports, absolutely

 

Actually, that's Silken Laumann.