Pens win a rough and tumble one in Philly 5-4
by Hooks Orpik on Oct 8, 2009 11:06 PM EDT
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Last night the Penguins largely went through the motions in a lackluster effort against a Western Conference nobody. Tonight was about the polar opposite of last night; back and forth action from the Wachovia Center from two heated rivals. It may have been five and a half months since the two teams last met and the Penguins eliminated the Flyers from the playoffs, but it didn't take very long for acquaintances to be renewed.
- As you could expect, the referees were the busiest men out there, whistling 24 infractions for a total of 66 penalty minutes.
- It only took the Flyers 14 seconds to record their first penalty, and just a couple ticks later Evgeni Malkin got credited with the goal (though it sure looked like Sidney Crosby tipped it).
- About 11 minutes later, in the highlight of his night, Braydon Coburn pinched down and threw a pretty pass out that Danny Briere could tap in to equalize the game. Before the loud-mouth PA guy could draw out his goal announcement, Malkin ripped a pass right through the middle to Jordan Staal who huged his huge reach to beat Ray Emery.
- Briere would score again in the second before the Penguins once again used a long pass to expose the Philly defense, springing Bill Guerin on a breakaway for Dad's first goal on the season.
- Then, with the Penguins up 3-2 but short-handed it happened. Coburn, from behind his own net at an extreme angle somehow inadvertently saw his cross-ice pass hit Emery's skate and end up in his own net. Somehow Alex Goligoski gets the easiest goal he'll ever score.
- Tyler Kennedy would score a goal in between two Jeff Carter markers to end the scoring, then the fun really starts.
- With less than five seconds left, and no chance of winning, Mike Richards demonstrated his leadership by running over Marc-Andre Fleury and then valiantly grabbing his head (when he didn't come close to hitting it on the goal or ice) so no one would attack him. Scott "Fartsmell" started getting in a scrum and apparently biting Kris Letang in the hand. Letang was definitely bleeding on the hand/wrist area.
- As if that wasn't enough, Chris Pronger treated his former teammate Chris Kunitz like a puppet, choking him from behind by grabbing his jersey and trying to get in a fight. With nothing to gain, since the game was decided.
Stay classy, Philadelphia. As for Pittsburgh, that's two more points in the win column and an impressive road division win against their toughest rival.
Also, as an aside: in addition to, you know, winning the Stanley Cup, Dan Bylsma now has a regular season record of 21-4-4 as an NHL head coach. That would be a 130 point pace over an 82 game season (last year San Jose led the league with 117 points).
And finally, a new feature:
The Good: Sidney Crosby won 21 of 24 faceoffs
The Bad: Evgeni Malkin took four minor penalties (even though his one goal and one assist paced the team)
The Ugly: Other than Coburn's gaffe how about Scott Hartnell freaking bit a man
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is anyone really suprised?
name me one time a philly team lost with class? remember when the eagles were in the bowl that is super? mcnabb sick as a dog pukin and they wanted to run him outta town.
so in the “new nhl” this kinda stuff is supposed to be off limits. its called “message sending”. i call it poor sportsmanship. maybe we should have the flyers act as security for the jerry psringer show or something since thats just about the only thing they really know how to do well. most of thier fans are there anyway so it’ll be all good
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by oldtimehockey09 on Oct 8, 2009 11:45 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
spell fail
jerry psringer
jerry springer
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by oldtimehockey09 on Oct 8, 2009 11:45 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Taking a run at the goalie like that is Bull
The league needs to step in before someone loses a stud goalie for the year over some stupid antic.
As for biting? WTF? Is this day care on ice? What is next Fartsmell is going to poop himself and stick his hands in it and smear it on other players? Grow up! Biting? I would love to hear the Philly fans defense for this.
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by carolinaeasy on Oct 9, 2009 9:06 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I hate Mike Richards as much as I hate anyone in the NHL, but I truly don’t think he intentionally ran Fleury. He was looking back at the puck the whole time, and he didn’t have much time to react. It was questionable, though.
by Link_Gaetz on Oct 9, 2009 9:13 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
He pretty clearly threw his arm out at MAF. No question in my mind.
by PensFan024 on Oct 9, 2009 9:33 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I may be trying to be too unbiased here, but I think the arms was an involuntary reaction. He picked his head up at the last second and his arm came out.
by Link_Gaetz on Oct 9, 2009 9:49 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I didn't see the play
I was unable to be home to watch the game, I have it DVRed so I will watch it tonight. But as a guy who used to play goalie this stuff makes me cringe. They have to try and protect the goalies. If Richards would do this and hurt Lugano or Brodeur, all hell would break loose.
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by carolinaeasy on Oct 9, 2009 10:12 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
GW40 has some highlights of the game
http://www.pensburgh.com/2009/10/9/1077639/hd-highlights-penguins-vs-flyers
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by FrankD on Oct 9, 2009 11:06 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
At impact, there is no arm.
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by Geoff Detweiler on Oct 9, 2009 3:27 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
lol at us owning philly no matter what they do
by BDON911 on Oct 9, 2009 12:26 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
The Flyers always revert to form...
I can’t think of a team in sports I hate more than the Flyers. They can add Emery; they can add Pronger, but once a player becomes a Flyer, he becomes a capital J jackass. For all their legitimate scoring talent, their decades-old franchise philosophy: “goon the other team if you can’t win” will always hold them back from winning when it counts.
Even their captain Mike Richards gets in on it. The last two seconds were a joke. It reminded me of the end of Game 1 against them during the playoffs last spring. Richards steamrolls Fleury, hits his hand on the crossbar, then goes down as if he was the injured player. What a baby.
And Pronger … what a real man, strangling his ex-teammate (who’s six inches shorter) by pulling on his sweater from behind.
I hope the Pens eliminate the Cryers every year in the playoffs.
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by adrian-pie on Oct 9, 2009 12:47 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
eliminate the cryers every year in the playoffs would truly be epic.
The Pittsburgh Penguins are your Stanley Cup Champions!!
by jetpen89 on Oct 9, 2009 12:58 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Hmm, with everyone jumping on that, didn’t Malkin pulled the exact same thing in the finals, in game 5 (??) was it?
Ugh my memory is failing me already. I really need to buy that dvd.
by AppleSweetRose on Oct 9, 2009 1:38 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
They can add Emery; they can add Pronger, but once a player becomes a Flyer, he becomes a capital J jackass.
Those two were destined to become Flyers eventually. I think that’s the rag more than anything. It’s not the mark that the Flyers leave on players (Eaton, Recchi, and several other lovable Pens played for the Flyers), it’s the players the Flyers covet that creates the stain.
That being said, the Flyers looked really slow tonight. Malkin’s new fetish is undressing Flyers defensemen. That sounds like a photoshop project…
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by gorgalor on Oct 9, 2009 2:25 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
The throw in of “strangling his ex-teammate (who’s six inches shorter)” is flat out ridiculous.
a) Ex-teammate means nothing, but if that makes him more of a capital J jackass to you, whatever;
b) Does his height really matter? “Ohhh, pick on someone your own size!” doesn’t work in the NHL, only on the elementary school playground; and
c) When Kunitz is the third man in on a scrum – which, asides from being unfair, against the rules, and warranting a capital J – should Pronger have started punching him instead?
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by Geoff Detweiler on Oct 9, 2009 12:39 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Quit trying to defend your goons
Play hockey the way it should be played, with class and dignity. Obviously your team is a bunch of sore losers
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by carolinaeasy on Oct 9, 2009 2:18 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Hockey is played with class and dignity? I think you’re confusing hockey with golf, polo, or sailing.
As for the “sore losers” accusation, you can gladly have a team that loses 3-0 to the Phoenix Coyotes and sulks off the ice. I’ll keep my team who tries until the very last second of play to win the game, then has a player defend his Captain – whether he was right or wrong – and an entire team that shows how unhappy they are with losing. I’d much rather that than a team that simply brushes off losing.
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by Geoff Detweiler on Oct 9, 2009 2:55 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
See now you’re just dancing around the subject. Don’t take the attention away from the Flyers and put it on the Penguins for losing to the Coyotes. That doesn’t even pertain to the argument. Your team will lose to a “bad team” at some point too.
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by FrankD on Oct 9, 2009 2:57 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I’m not dancing around the subject. I’m responding specifically to his comment, contrasting the attitudes of the two teams involved toward losing.
If putting up a fight at the end of a loss makes the Flyers “sore losers”, I’d rather a team that puts up a fight than one that doesn’t. I’m well aware that we will lose to a bad team. But when the team loses, their players fight to the last second, defend their Captain, and show anger at the fact that they lost, how is that being a “sore loser”? It’s showing losing isn’t acceptable.
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by Geoff Detweiler on Oct 9, 2009 3:06 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I think your captain said it best today on Philly.com when he said something along the lines of, “It’s not like we were going to go 82-0.” So take your losses in stride and come back stronger in the next game. I really don’t get late-game statement scrums or fights. Two months from now the Pens and Flyers play again. It’s not like the statement Philly tried to make at the end of this game can be carried over into the next game of the series tonight, tomorrow or this weekend. It’s two months away.
And I wouldn’t even say the Penguins sulked off the ice after the Yotes game. In fact Bylsma came right out and said they were playing a horrible game. But I like to think that any team, Penguins or otherwise, will play a horrible game like that from time to time. And if you can’t make it work in that game the best way to rebound from it is to follow that up with a big win the next night. The Pens did just that, so I’m not holding anything against them.
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by FrankD on Oct 9, 2009 3:09 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Speaking purely on last night, I see nothing wrong with the way that last second scrum went down. Richards drove to the net hard, ran Fleury – whether he could have stopped or not, I’m sure we have differing opinions – and Letang stood up for his goalie. Hartnell stood up for his Captain. Kunitz grabbed Hartnell, Pronger grabbed Kunitz. I see nothing wrong with any of that. Letang should stand up for his goalie, Hartnell should stand up for his Captain, and Pronger should prevent a third man in.
None of that was trying to make a statement or send a message, it was about trying to score the tying goal as time expired. The play on the faceoff immediately after that was, IMO, not a team making a statement to the Penguins, but to themselves. Last year, the Flyers had a problem with constantly downplaying losing 2 or 3 games in a row. This year, that will not be accepted. And showing fight at the end of a game proves to everybody – the players, the coaches, the fans, the owner, the GM, etc. – that this year, that isn’t good enough.
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by Geoff Detweiler on Oct 9, 2009 3:16 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I guess i can see it from that angle then. If your team needs to make a statement to themselves then so be it. Some teams don’t need to display it on the ice like that, others do. But such is life. Each team functions differently. Well put.
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by FrankD on Oct 9, 2009 3:24 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
i have a feeling when a player is being bitten, the “third man” in the scrum coming to his rescue isn’t violating any hockey code of ethics.
by t1mmy10 on Oct 9, 2009 2:35 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
oh and what’s ridiculous is that one of your players bite one of ours. THAT’s what’s freaking ridiculous
by t1mmy10 on Oct 9, 2009 2:36 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I highly doubt Kunitz was going to rescue Letang from being bitten. Especially since nobody knew what was going on except Hartnell and Letang, the “third man in” argument still applies.
As far as the biting, only two people know what happened. If Hartnell intentionally bit him, that is ridiculous. But there is no proof that his accusation is in fact true.
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by Geoff Detweiler on Oct 9, 2009 2:49 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
But do you really think Hartnell would tell the truth in either case? What grounds does Letang have to lie? His team won and he came out of a scrum bleeding from the hand.
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by FrankD on Oct 9, 2009 2:51 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
No, Hartnell certainly wouldn’t tell the truth. And the accusation is completely feasible. But that doesn’t make assumptions that he intentionally bit him true. If Hartnell intentionally bit him – which can never be proven – there is no defense. But because it’s Pittsburgh v. Philadelphia, nobody cares.
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by Geoff Detweiler on Oct 9, 2009 2:59 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
But he still bit him, intentional or not. Sure an accident can happen, and I guess in the case of one player fish hooking another (if THAT even happened) could lead to an “accidental” biting, but at the end of the game he still bit him. By questioning whether it was intentional or not you’re still, it seems to me, admitting he did bite him. So we can at least agree on that.
Frankly I don’t want to see the refs come down on Hartnell that much. It’ll just give Philly fans one more thing to rally around and cry about the refs loving the Penguins. Because you know, it’s ok to go around biting people.
I’d rather see Letang and Hartnell situate it in December.
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by FrankD on Oct 9, 2009 3:03 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Nobody knows if he bit him. That’s what I’m trying to say. It’s plausible, even likely, but any number of things could have happened. It could have been scratched, scraped, caught, whatever. I’m not asking for proof, but without it, all anybody is doing is speculating. Only a select few will claim biting is acceptable. However, this happens all the time in the NFL and is simply accepted. Just a point.
As far as “rally around and cry” goes, you were on our Game Thread last night and the one kid who made a comment about the NHL favoring the Penguins got shouted down. Nobody is complaining about anything except poor defensive play. In fact, if you notice, all of the whining, crying, and complaining is going on right here in this thread. But, the Flyers will continually be called the “Cryers”, whiners, etc.
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by Geoff Detweiler on Oct 9, 2009 3:10 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I wouldn’t say I’m whining or crying by any means. I thought I was having a civil conversation. You have your view, I have mine. Even if we don’t see eye to eye on it at least we can get our points across and stand by it.
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by FrankD on Oct 9, 2009 3:12 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Oh, I’m not saying you are at all. I am rather enjoying our back and forth because we are actually able to disagree and discuss it rationally. I was pointing out the many other comments on this thread that were complaining about something, while in the process saying the Flyers cry, whine, and complain. That is what, to me, is ridiculous.
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by Geoff Detweiler on Oct 9, 2009 3:20 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
i can't believe you'd argue because it's not proven on video tape it's not true
he broke skin and there were bite marks the penguins were trying to show the refs that night. you ever hear of an “accidental” bite breaking skin before?
your argument reminds me of those commercials for the all inclusive cell phone plan where the one mythical creature is telling the other imaginary creature it’s not believable. i can just see a commerical for the right now…perhaps even advertising for a flyers game.
by t1mmy10 on Oct 9, 2009 4:37 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
furthermore, going by your argument of “But there is no proof that his accusation is in fact true” of the biting incident, then that philosophy can be used to argue that kunitz did indeed know what was going on due to his teammate possibly crying out in pain and thats why he went in. there’s “no proof” otherwise.
by t1mmy10 on Oct 9, 2009 4:41 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
How do you know he broke skin? Are there teeth marks? Did he drag his teeth across the finger? You can’t answer these questions because you don’t know. My point isn’t that because it’s not on video tape it isn’t true. It’s that you and I have no way of knowing.
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by Geoff Detweiler on Oct 9, 2009 4:59 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
HE WAS BLEEDING FROM HIS HAND!!!!
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by oldtimehockey09 on Oct 9, 2009 6:46 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
you maybe defending your player by basically saying because I can’t prove it, it really doesnt mean anything. even though in all likelihood he did bite our player.
there is a difference between what may have happened because it can’t be proved otherwise (and despite what common sense may point towards) and what probably happened.
the fact that you come on a penguins website and defend your player who probably bit ours with the defense that “there isn’t video evidence” while criticizing a penguins player for jumping into the fracas despite “you having no way of knowing” why is laughable. you’re being a homer by being hypocritical when choosing what to look the other way on and what to call out.
by t1mmy10 on Oct 9, 2009 10:31 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Nowhere did I defend Hartnell by saying there is no efidence. In fact, if you look at my post from 4:59, I specifically said “My point isn’t that because it’s not on video tape it isn’t true.” Everything you just said was not my point at all. So, I’ll try to summarize in a hopefully clearer way – sorry if I’m repeating anything you in fact caught:
The first thing I commented on was the individual who decided to criticize Pronger in completely juvenile ways – he’s an ex-teammate! He’s bigger! – and it divulged into this. I like that Richards went hard to the net, I like that Letang tried to defend his goalie, I like that Hartnell defended his Captain, I like that Pronger defended Hartnell. Every comment I made in regards to Hartnell was that nobody knows what happened. Hartnell probably bit him, but nobody knows if Letang stuck his finger in Hartnell’s mouth, if Letang fish-hooked him, or even – albeit less likely – if Letang just scratched his finger on Hartnell’s teeth or helmet. My problem was that people just assumed Hartnell intentionally bit him Tyson style, while assuming Letang had no fault. And that is a baseless claim.
As far as my critique on Kunitz goes, it was a) contrasting the impression that Pronger is dirty for trying to keep him away from double-teaming his teammate and b) showing that Kunitz broke, not only an unwritten rule in hockey, but an official NHL rule. For that, Pronger gets attacked. So, what you took as my hypocrisy was actually me trying to call out hypocrisy.
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by Geoff Detweiler on Oct 10, 2009 12:20 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
i’ll summarize mine since you seem to have an issue understanding me & explain why you’re sending mixed signals
i first said the hockey code of ethics can be bent when another player is also breaking them. i don’t have an issue with what pronger did to kunitz. that’s hockey. my issue lay where you continue to give kunitz no benefit of the doubt, yet refused to really admit that hartnell probably bit letang until frank called you out on it. thinking kunitz wasn’t just trying to break stuff up with his teammates health at mind can easily also be seen as a baseless claim (even though unlikely). that’s the point i’m trying to make to you. kuntiz wasn’t doing anything to break up the tussle until all of a sudden he jumped in. a second later it was broken up and letang was yelling at the refs and he left the ice injured.
i didnt initially see your comment to frank because it was in reply to him and not me. i took notice of that stance when you said something similar in response to me. however, until then you continue to referred to the incident as alleged, not proven, etc. even after you said:
Nobody knows if he bit him. That’s what I’m trying to say….I’m not asking for proof, but without it, all anybody is doing is speculating.i would take that to mean that in your defense of hartnell, you are saying that there is no conclusive evidence. that’s what my response was about above, referring to what may and probably happened.
but as you continue to defend hartnell. not along the line that “he didnt do it”, but along those that it wasnt intentional, etc. you are giving HIM the benefit of the doubt and aren’t giving it to kunitz. that’s fine. you’re a flyers fan. thats expected. but you can’t be mad at ppl doing the same thing as you…on their website for their team. which is giving kunitz the benefit of the doubt and not hartnell.
as for my critique of hartnell, what he most likely did was both breaking both unwritten and written rules of hockey.
by t1mmy10 on Oct 10, 2009 2:55 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Point on Kunitz is taken. That is feasible.
On to Letang, I see your point but still disagree. The point that I disagree on is that while I’m not convicting Hartnell, I’ve also never convicted Letang of making it up, faking it, bring it about, etc. Those giving Letang the “benefit of the doubt” are turning around and convicting Hartnell. That’s a small distinction, and one that doesn’t really matter in the scheme of things, but something that probably really bothered me. I mean, I love my mophead.
Your critique of Hartnell is entirely accurate, which is why my first comment on this thread had nothing to do with Hartnell, since I never actually wanted to defend him. I wanted to defend Pronger and got drug into a Fartsmell convo. haha
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by Geoff Detweiler on Oct 10, 2009 11:27 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
lol i understand & that’s a good point about comparing letang and hartnell (and if you didnt want to talk about hartnell you couldve simply said that from the start but you chose to, so here we are). but you have to understand the big picture to get why pens fans aren’t out of line in “convicting” hartnell. 1) there is better than a 50% chance he bit letang regardless if it was intentional/unintentional/retaliation for being fish-hooked etc. theres a FAR less of a chance that letang is making it up that hartnell bit him. also, hartnell had yet to even deny he bit letang and only danced arounded the subject before his meeting with the league. and its far easier to find it in you to lie (assuming he did) when you’re facing a fine and suspension than if you’re not.
2) since there is a good chance he did it, ppl are quick to denounce him since what he may have did was low. it was far worse than a 3rd man in the scuffle, someone “choking out” another player,or taking a run at a goalie and then acting like he’s injured.
you might love the player but those are the facts. when i go to pens flyers games in philly i’m not as boisterous as i would be in pittsburgh and i let a lot of things slide. i’m on your turf. the same goes here.
by t1mmy10 on Oct 10, 2009 1:45 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
can't wait for hartnell to get suspended and fined
oh, and if anyone is ever curious about how flyers fans think i was at the game tonight. and they’d FAR FAR FAR rather cheer against the opposing team instead of rooting for their own…which is a joke. since i’ve been in philly for over a year i’ve grown found of the phillies since the ownership of the pirates show no interest in even attempting to field a legit team. but if the penguins were destroyed by a meteorite i couldn’t root for the flyers cuz their fans are simply jobbers.
by t1mmy10 on Oct 9, 2009 12:50 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Seriously
Who bites?
And letang should have immediately jumped on richards’ back. That’s why people do that kind of garbage, because they get away with it. Jump on his back and grind his face into the ice and he might think twice about taking a flying leap at our goalie next time they lose to the Pens (12/15/09). Tanger’s not really an enforcer, but still, at least fall on the guy.
And for flyers fans, after the phantom head injury richards sustained for all of 1 minute, you lose all rights to call anyone a ‘cry baby.’ If he was a real leader he would’ve been up in the scrum not laying on the ground like a girl. That was pathetic even for someone playing for Philly.
And bad form for the pens when no one helped Kunitz while he was being strangled from behind by an oversized elf. Throw a glove in its face and it will let go. Then run, lol.
by puckhead45_82 on Oct 9, 2009 2:22 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
It looked to me like everyone had a dance partner, and there wasn’t a free man to pull Pronger off Kunitz. As far as Richards running into Fleury, Bob Errey summed it up best. If Emery was run into like that, the first thing the mellow minded goalkeeper would have done was start throwing blows at whomever ran him over. Fleury could have taken his stick and used it as an axe on Richards if he was so inclined, too, but Fleury isn’t a hothead. I have a feeling the Pens wrote a lot of numbers down this game, and will be sure to send out thank you notes the next time they meet.
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by gorgalor on Oct 9, 2009 2:32 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
We were down by the Pen’s bench, and it seemed like Crosby was pissed at Letang after that scrum behind the net. He said something like I have been begging you forever to put something in my mouth, and you always say no, but you’ll do it for Hartnell you are such a bitch. Then he stormed off.
by burtonboypa on Oct 9, 2009 11:22 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions 0 recs
har dee har har
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by FrankD on Oct 9, 2009 11:23 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Do you write gay erotica for a living? If you don’t, you should. Don’t worry about your grammar and punctuation—that’s what editors are for.
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by GreenEyedLilo on Oct 9, 2009 2:08 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
gotta ask 2 questions and i have 2 comments
1) are you players regularly screened for diseases or do we need to make sure we have all our players vaccinated for things like rabies before playing our next game against you?
2) how much are you going to pay mike tyson when your team signs him?
3) be kinda hard to make fun of crosby as a cry baby after richards’ intentional dive into the net
4) it’s kinda pathetic that pretty much all flyers fans are so homophobic yet so enthralled with gay sex that their main insult for penguin players and fans is that they’re gay….
of course i guess it could be worse. you could be making fun of us for being so bad that we score an own goal in a game where we only lose by 1. that’s gotta hurt
by t1mmy10 on Oct 9, 2009 2:27 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
It’s always nice beating the Flyers in Philly. I was really amused with Emery’s performance tonight. It doesn’t appear he’s the Flyer’s answer in goal. He looked really shaky tonight. He didn’t look like he was moving well, and gave up fat rebounds. Even though Colburn scored an own goal, Emery looked like he was day dreaming on the play, too. This guy is going to get lit up this year.
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by gorgalor on Oct 9, 2009 2:44 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
It looked like Guerin didn’t even have to try on his goal.
by PensFan024 on Oct 9, 2009 9:36 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I think Guerin lifted his one leg up and showed that he was shooting at the blue line. I think everyone and their mother knew he was going five-hole. But he is Bill Guerin, and he will fit the puck in a one inch by one inch hole
by Link_Gaetz on Oct 9, 2009 9:50 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
It was beautiful.
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by GreenEyedLilo on Oct 9, 2009 2:09 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I don’t mind the after the whistle stuff, thats the flyers game. But biting letang? Seriously?
by Max Powers on Oct 9, 2009 7:41 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
I know its complete BS that Letang got bit. And the ref kinda shrugged it off like wtf man?! What are u supposed to be doing out there? Callin penalties or something right?
At least noone got stabbed this time
by biggoron on Oct 9, 2009 7:51 AM EDT via mobile reply actions 0 recs
It’s going to suck when Hartnell doesn’t get any sort of suspension for this, due to the lack of video evidence….especially when he practically admitted to doing it.
by Link_Gaetz on Oct 9, 2009 8:51 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
The key word is “implied.” He didn’t admit anything he just implied it. And even still you can get away with that unless it’s proven. Sucks, but it’s the truth.
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by FrankD on Oct 9, 2009 11:04 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I do mildly understand where Hartnell is coming from. I was once the victim of a bite. In a wrestling match in high school I was viciously applying a crossface to my opponents mouth and nose area when all of the sudden I got a sharp pain in my hand. When I jumped up and started yelling at the ref the match was called. 6 points for the good guys. Had I not so severely gone after his face (I may have been stretching the rule book just a little) I probably would not have been bit.
by PensFan024 on Oct 9, 2009 10:48 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
This is a crossface.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3128/3134603164_8cf2ceacbb.jpg
by PensFan024 on Oct 9, 2009 11:05 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
And that picture actually looks like the one dude is biting him…
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by FrankD on Oct 9, 2009 11:07 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
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by CGNC on Oct 9, 2009 10:55 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
heh we do what we can. But you can also catch the highlights in the fanpost section. GhostWalker40 has been on a roll after each game, putting together his own vids and posting them up for all of us.
http://www.pensburgh.com/2009/10/9/1077639/hd-highlights-penguins-vs-flyers
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by FrankD on Oct 9, 2009 11:07 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I won’t say anything about the supposed bite until we get some proof of it either way, and it did kinda look like Richards couldn’t stop himself from sliding into Fleury.
That said, what the hell was Pronger’s problem? He just randomly started wringing Kunitz’s neck for no reason.
by SlayerGhaleon on Oct 9, 2009 11:16 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
I wondered the exact same thing. But Pronger is now in the home of senseless, stupid violence, after all. I worried about Kunitz for a bit.
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by GreenEyedLilo on Oct 9, 2009 2:13 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
What can you say about Hartnell? Sad.
The thing we all have to remember is that this is not a court of law — there doesn’t have to be overwhelming proof that he bit him. Letang can show off his cut hand (teeth marks, anyone?), the league can ask other players, refs, etc., so that even if there’s not video proof, he can be suspended.
It’s not like he’s going to jail.
by RCheli on Oct 9, 2009 11:50 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
What happened to the 'bite' incident from last year?
I seem to recall something involving the….Sabres? Ruutuu I think it was, so maybe Sens Sabres from last year, but I don’t recall any outcome from that incident.
But without seeing it, I have to say, without endorsing anyone going all Tyson on an opponent, you stick a big, sweaty glove in someone’s mouth and you risk getting bit….or puked on….if it was me, my gag reflex would have kicked in before I thought about biting down.
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by ahtrap on Oct 9, 2009 2:09 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Ruutu got a two-game suspension and a fine.
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by FrankD on Oct 9, 2009 2:50 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Very decent game, except for the end. I don’t want to let Sideshow Scott’s or anyone else’s goonery overshadow that. The Penguins weren’t perfect, but they looked like themselves again. They actually tried! I guess they just need to be told to visualize every opponent in a Flyers jersey for motivation.
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"Don't beat yourself!"--Darrell Waltrip
by GreenEyedLilo on Oct 9, 2009 2:17 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
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