All-Purpose Hockey Thread II

1. The Recchi thing weirded me out a little, but I guess I've grown accustomed to the way things seem to be now. Not like anything Recchi was going to do was going to decide the game. I'd just as soon they put him out to the same pasture his buddy LeClair got sent to.

2. You could tell Stall's not far away. He's still a big part of the game, even though he's struggling. Cole on the other hand surprised me. He was straight-up invisible. I realized in the middle of the third I hadn't heard his name all night.

3. I was very surprised that nobody ran Orpik in the final minutes. Figured at 3-0 it might be coming.

 

I really think that the Canes have moved on (although I don't think you'll ever see a Cane NOT finish their check on Orpik). It was the second meeting this season with Orpik playing and really nothing happened in the first game. Plus, Laviolette really preaches against gooning it up and, at one point, made a ridiculous statement that he had a "no fighting rule" on his team (see Commodore, Mike; Walker, Scott). That clearly isn't the case, but you rarely see a Carolina player instigate something. Laviolette, I believe, just thinks that it would be stupid to lose a guy to injury suffered in a fight.

 

Thought the Yzerman ceremony was very well done. And pure Stevie to thank Bowman and tell the fans his role as captain "was overblown...I didn't do anything more than anybody else."
Classy ceremony for a classy guy.

 

Nice to see the Senators giving the Sabres a 4-0 smackdown. Boy, is Emery in a groove.

 

Props to the Sens. They added even less character to their locker room with the acquisition of Mike Comrie. http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/news_story/?ID=190679&hubname= Gutlessness, thy name is Ottawa.

 

Tell ya what deadline, that interior shot, even if it is computer generated, looks pretty sweet. Imagine an evening game on a clear night with the starlight coming in through the windows.

 

Heatley had four points in the second period of the Sens' 6-3 win over the Sabres.

 

what makes ottawa so gutless. spezza and fisher are injured, they needed help in some form.

 

Chris Neil set up a nice breakaway goal by Peter Schaefer, then ragdolled and beat up Buffalo's Paul Gaustad near the end of the game. Then Gaustad trashed his team's stick rack on the way to the dressing room. Funny.

 

The Olympic-esque diving. The sneaky cheap shots. The bitching and moaning. The eye-rolling after every call. The fact that they've had the league's best team for four or five years and haven't won jack.

 

fair enough, i thought you were talking about the move to get comrie.

 

Well, Comrie's a whining piece of shit, so he'll fit right in.