Penalty Fest 2011: Islanders Drop Wilkes-Barre/Pittsburgh Pens 9-3
by FrankD on Feb 11, 2011 10:39 PM EST
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Whenever a fan base is faced with a blowout game like this, the one prevailing thought is, "Just end the game." Unfortunately, 307 combined penalty minutes [Edit: Final tally is 386] as a result of scrums, fights, slashes, kicks, punches and whatever else you can think of (no biting at least) would not allow that to happen all too quickly. It was a slow form of torture, and you can bet 29 fan bases are loving every second of it.
What the hell just happened at Nassau Coliseum?
In case you were wondering, a player who doesn't suit up for a game as a result of being injured for almost two months can still suck. Islanders fans were quick to remind us all that "Crosby sucks," even though he played no part at all in this debacle.
When the Islanders opened up the lead with six straight unanswered goals halfway through the second period, all you had to hope for was for the Pens to cut the deficit. Or, at the least, leave the game without any more injuries. Unfortunately, as TonyAndrock reminded me in the comments after this post went live, it appears Eric Tangradi is down and out with some sort of head injury. When you consider the fact that injuries were a reason why the Pens got blown out on Friday, avoiding any further incidents at this point would be nice.
I have to admit, I laughed toward the end of the game when the camera cut to the Penguins bench and it showed a grand total of four players. Same can be said for the Islanders bench.
The Islanders announcers joked that it would take until Sunday to give a full rundown of the penalties in this game, but here's a brief roundup for your reading pleasure, in order from most to least. Just a note, these numbers may change, since even as I type this the totals are changing.
| Player | PIM |
| Eric Godard | 31 |
| Michael Haley |
24 |
| Matt Martin |
22 |
| Trevor Gilles | 24 |
| Travis Hamonic | 17 |
| Max Talbot | 17 |
| Craig Adams | 17 |
| Kyle Okposo | 16 |
| Josh Bailey | 15 |
| Pascal Dupuis | 15 |
| Mike Rupp | 15 |
| Kris Letang | 12 |
| Brett Sterling | 12 |
| Deryk Engelland | 12 |
| Zenon Knopka | 12 |
| Jack Hillen | 10 |
| Andrew Macdonald | 5 |
| Joe Vitale | 5 |
| Brent Johnson | 5 |
| Frans Nielsen | 2 |
| Jesse Joensuu | 2 |
| John Tavares | 2 |
| Zbynek Michalek | 2 |
| Ryan Craig | 2 |
| Brooks Orpik | 2 |
| Tyler Kennedy | 2 |
If you're keeping score at home, that's somewhere around 307 minutes of penalties (not included on the list is four minutes worth of bench penalties). I say "somewhere" because even while I type this recap I'm watching the nhl.com event summary updating with new penalty minute totals. I was at 301 at one point. Then 304. Final tally is 307. If it goes over that, don't look at me. I tried. [Edit: yeah, it was still updating. 386 is the final tally]
The record for most combined penalty minutes in a single game came back in 2004 when the Flyers and Senators combined for 419.
Often times I try to take something positive out of a loss. It's hard to do in a game like this, but I think I can find something.
The positive here? No one was murdered on the ice.
Oh, and at least New York didn't score 10 goals. Right?
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Wow what a crazy game. With Godard definitely suspended and Tangradi probably out means two more WBS forwards called up right? FSN said Jeffrey won’t play Sunday.
Laundry list of forwards out that I can remember:
Crosby(concussion)
Tangradi (concussion)
Malkin (knee)
Letestu (knee)
Kunitz (lower body)
Jeffrey (lower body)
Asham
Comrie (hip)
Cooke (suspended)
Godard (suspended)
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Jeffrey didn’t make the trip, so unless something totally unexpected happened during his evaluation today, then no, he won’t be playing on Sunday. Some good news would be nice, though!
Fortunately Letang told FSN that he’s okay from that slash. Hopefully Martin is okay. And also Talbot.
My feet are wet.
Still. With a name like that, I can hardly wait ’til we start hearing it called at the NHL level.
My feet are wet.
We only have 3 guys left to call up.
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by PensForTheWin on Feb 12, 2011 10:12 AM EST up reply actions
Just made an edit about Tangradi. Completely forgot he was still town on the ice when Godard lost his mind (just had to re-watch that part since i was driving at the time)
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by PensFanInDenver on Feb 12, 2011 12:21 AM EST up reply actions
My cursed eyes just wouldn’t look away.
Although I totally missed the 2 minutes or so of empty net time from the Pens (at one point the game summary said there was over 6 minutes of EN time, which couldn’t possibly be right). Does anyone remember when that happened? I assume it was somewhere during that 5 minute penalty, when it briefly looked like they actually had a chance to get back into it.
My feet are wet.
Total is up to 346 now. The initial recap in the Trib-Review says 289. I last tallied 303. This is sad and funny at the same time.
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Fire the Refs
to say they let this game get away from them is an understatement
by Diomedes7 on Feb 11, 2011 10:48 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
I’m with you the refs let this game get out of hadn quickly, but honestly what else could they do? They started throwing guys out in the second period.
by StripesForLife on Feb 11, 2011 11:29 PM EST up reply actions
The score was unimportant
9-3, 2-1, 1-0 — they’re all losses.
Tangradi seems to have concussion symptoms. Godard will be suspended. We may see additional suspensions if the League wants to send a message.
The next Islander’s game will be much the same, I’d imagine.
Just short of a catastrophe.
s.zielinski
wow
Talk about cheap shots. What a joke islanders are. Gilles is a joke and wont amount to anything but a b#tch. Complete headshot then go after him???sad pathetic and lame. And cheapshot by Martin too. Some suspensions needs to be handed out
Refs didn’t do a damn thing either. Sad a game had to come to this. Whatever. They wont amount to much of anything. Put it behind ya Pens. Rangers on sunday.
So here’s what I’m wondering: could/should the Refs have done anything differently earlier in the game to change the way it played out? I have some ideas of my own, but I’d like to hear what others have to say, first.
My feet are wet.
The crap did not start until the Isles had significant lead
Games like this are fairly rare these days. I’d like to believe the refs just did not expect the game to get so out of hand. But…
s.zielinski
Couldn’t the refs have just called the game? As in, declare it over? I thought they had authority to do that and thought for sure that they would after the Godard-Johnny-Hayley incident.
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by AllieLXXXVII on Feb 11, 2011 11:29 PM EST up reply actions
First off they should never have let Haley get a free look at Johnson. He should have been escorted off the ice.
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by TonyAndrock on Feb 11, 2011 11:07 PM EST up reply actions
Fact, I think that was the only time I haven’t seen a player escorted to the penalty by a referee.
by StripesForLife on Feb 11, 2011 11:31 PM EST up reply actions
This was the worst officiating I have ever seen in a game. And I didn’t watch half the game. Especially after the last game against the Isles…this should have been on the radar for the NHL. They are up 6-0 and a player tries to cold cock Talbot from behind? A guy takes a run at Tangradi, punches him while down, and taunts him from the runway? A guy doesn’t get escorted to the box or off the ice, but is allowed to go and fight a goaltender? This game NEVER NEVER NEVER should have gotten this far. I turned the game off after the 2nd because I cannot stand to watch games where every play you feel like someone is going to get hurt. And I do not just do it when it is the Pens. There is no reason that the referees should have lost control to the extent they did.
Beware: I am a #71, #15, #29 sympathizer. You wanna fight about it?
"You saw in that fight just how tough Deryk is. I've played with him for three years in the minors, and I've seen him lose one fight. And he just doesn't win fights: He kicks the crap out of people." - Ben Lovejoy
"Wow, that’s uhh, that was amazing. It’s something you don’t see happen often but he went out there, deked the ref and threw a bomb [laughs]. It’s something for our team that gives us a lot of energy and it’s something that’s fun to see." - Max Talbot
Okay. But what, specifically, do you think they could have done earlier in the game, to avoid the chaos that ensued?
My feet are wet.
They really did everything they could to try to keep the game under control. They just couldn’t. I think this is where the league has to step in and just suspend a bunch of guys.
by StripesForLife on Feb 12, 2011 12:18 AM EST up reply actions
besides issue penalties for infractions, i did not see any preemptive attempt
to stop this from getting out of hand…none whatsoever
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"You saw in that fight just how tough Deryk is. I've played with him for three years in the minors, and I've seen him lose one fight. And he just doesn't win fights: He kicks the crap out of people." - Ben Lovejoy
"Wow, that’s uhh, that was amazing. It’s something you don’t see happen often but he went out there, deked the ref and threw a bomb [laughs]. It’s something for our team that gives us a lot of energy and it’s something that’s fun to see." - Max Talbot
by NEPA Pens on Feb 12, 2011 12:25 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
Well they did start throwing guys out in the 2nd period. And then everyone who fought after that was just thrown out.
by StripesForLife on Feb 12, 2011 12:27 AM EST up reply actions
Kinda funny how guys like Godard, Gulles and Haley made it to the 3rd period.
by StripesForLife on Feb 12, 2011 12:28 AM EST up reply actions
as i said…the guys in the second that were thrown out were thrown out because of the first big brawl not as a way to deter more…the refs went over to the benches at that point and had the opportunity to re establish control…they did not
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"You saw in that fight just how tough Deryk is. I've played with him for three years in the minors, and I've seen him lose one fight. And he just doesn't win fights: He kicks the crap out of people." - Ben Lovejoy
"Wow, that’s uhh, that was amazing. It’s something you don’t see happen often but he went out there, deked the ref and threw a bomb [laughs]. It’s something for our team that gives us a lot of energy and it’s something that’s fun to see." - Max Talbot
by NEPA Pens on Feb 12, 2011 12:36 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
I feel like they would have gone over to the benches and said anybody who fights is out. There was just nothing the referees could do about this game. This is one where the league just needs to step in and dish out suspensions to everybody who got game misconducts.
by StripesForLife on Feb 12, 2011 12:42 AM EST up reply actions
i think first you go to the coaches and say next person who pulls something is getting a game misconduct and is done for the game. then if it were to continue with the game in hand…i would call the game
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"You saw in that fight just how tough Deryk is. I've played with him for three years in the minors, and I've seen him lose one fight. And he just doesn't win fights: He kicks the crap out of people." - Ben Lovejoy
"Wow, that’s uhh, that was amazing. It’s something you don’t see happen often but he went out there, deked the ref and threw a bomb [laughs]. It’s something for our team that gives us a lot of energy and it’s something that’s fun to see." - Max Talbot
by NEPA Pens on Feb 12, 2011 12:24 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
That was pathetic joke
That was disgusting. Seriously call up an AHL hack to go after a goalie. Allow that hack to get off the ice and go down there after he’d just jumped another guy? F*ck you jack capuano you fat steamy pile of dog crap. gilles and martin are a disgrace. This is hockey? What a complete shambolic event. BJ certainly played rattled and the Penguins were about 1/20 the intensity of the Isles when the game was still in doubt. Bushleague job by the refs letting this get so out of hand. I’d say suspend gilles after that chicken shit elbow and yelling from the side of the ice, but would anyone notice?
THAT event was a joke, jack capuano is a pile of dog crap and it will be interesting April 8th. Isles are a joke.
A big fine and suspension for Capuano
He’s supposed to have control over his team, is he not?
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Same could be said for Bylsma too. I think the NHL should suspend Gillies, Martin and Haley and fine both organizations money as well.
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by TonyAndrock on Feb 11, 2011 11:13 PM EST up reply actions
Suspending and fining Bylsma?
Did any Pen initiate a brawl?
s.zielinski
Bylsma is already suspended for the Godard incident (leaving the bench to join the Johnson / Haley fight)
I believe in Geno.
I forgot about that
For jumping on Haley and taking a suspension, every player on the team ought to chip in enough money to buy Godard a Lamborghini or Ferrari.
s.zielinski
No, but fine is automatic for a player leaving the bench to fight as Godard did. Intent is nothing as he had no intention of going after Haley as much as protecting Johnson. THat’s fine and I’m sure Bylsma and Godard would have that happen 10 times out of 10. But rules are rules.
But the NHL being what it is, I’m sure Martin will get a fine with no suspension and Gillies will be granted automatic entry to the NHL All Star game next year.
Towards the end of the game yes. Craig was lokin for a dance partner. Vitale was a questionable incident. I’m not saying DB should be fined etc but the league will probably fine both coaches
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by TonyAndrock on Feb 11, 2011 11:25 PM EST up reply actions
The greater penalty ought to be given to the Isles
They pursued their vendetta once the score greatly favored them. And looking for a fight is a bit different than intentionally attempting to injure an opposing player, especially a player who was defenseless.
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by steve_z on Feb 11, 2011 11:29 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
I think Godard started the second one with Gillies, which was actually a pretty good clean scrap.
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by iwearstripes on Feb 12, 2011 2:19 AM EST up reply actions
Regarding the actual game, don’t take too much out of the score. Our defense and goaltending cost us this one. Having our full forward corps present would not have done a damn thing.
In any event, the sooner we forget this monstrosity, the better. For a number of reasons.
Agree, terrible defense and goaltending cost us the game. The refs can’t control the players. The refs where ejecting every player even remotely involved in anything, but the cheap shots continue. The video I’ll never forget is Gillies challenging Tangradi, after his concussion, from the runway. What a jerk, how was he allowed to be there anyway. That’s what Campbell should look at. It was definetely the Islanders who started the cheap shots. It’s Di Pietro’s own responsibility if he got hurt. He challenged another player to a fight and lost, plus got hurt. I was kidding when I said in another post that Blysma may have to lace them up. But tonight it came close.
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He took a shot in the foot at the LA game
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by PensForTheWin on Feb 12, 2011 10:00 AM EST up reply actions
Andrew Orpik assigned to WBS from Wheeling per twitter
Guess that means Wallace is coming up. But we need two. I think Veilleux might get his chance simply because there aren’t many non ECHL forwards left in Wilkes-Barre. I think I recall Bombulie of Pens insider saying that the Pens have no more centers under nhl contracts so that would rule out Lerg, Sill, and Street and possibly Veilleux. Maybe Chris Collins will be the 2nd guy?
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WOW! And someone laughed when I said he needs to be called up!
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by PensForTheWin on Feb 12, 2011 10:00 AM EST up reply actions
It’s still laugh worthy in a way, haha
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It gets to a point where it's all laughable
Like Tony said last night, the WBS pens only have 3 forwards on an NHL contract… that’s pretty crazy
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I was out and missed the game… but I’m going to go out on a limb and say it was bad? :s
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by BobPurkey34 on Feb 11, 2011 11:20 PM EST up reply actions
Haley is a douche...
Haley needs to be suspended He deserves to be at a minimum fined. He instigated a fight against a goalie because his goalie is a pussy. Godard did the right thing. If Haley had any balls he would’ve gone after a fighter like himself. He’s classless.
He is what he is. And I don’t know the Islanders to know what that is. But to go after Talbot and then challenge a goalie. Imagine if he did that against the Caps. I mean Steckel concussed our best player and we tried to engage him and Wallace went after him and he was called out. Haley went after the 2 Pens that were on the radar in the same melee and got fighting a game misconduct for both — on the same play!
I fail to understand how the two situations are comparable. Steckel did not purposely single Crosby out with the intention of injuring him the way Haley did with Talbot.
Sorry I wasn’t clear – I’m a little upset from that trash of a game. I was comparing our challenges to Steckel to the Islanders perverse attempt at headhunting Talbot. Both Talbot and Steckel were enemy #1 for their hits. We wanted to ask Steckel to fight and he did. Boudreau calls out the Penguins for bring up an AHL player (Wallace) to fight Steckel (when that was like the 3rd attempt to try to fight him). The Isles try to sucker punch him and attack him every time there was a stoppage.
So yes, the two situations are light years apart in terms of response (our more traditional and the Islanders more prehistoric) and that is what I was trying to compare/contrast.
Something came up and I had to miss most of this game.
There aren’t words adequately to describe.
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Uh wow…. so I missed one epic game….. oh god.
This is just insane. If the score weren’t so lopsided, I would consider watching the game somewhere!
by AppleSweetRose on Feb 11, 2011 11:48 PM EST reply actions
Not sure it would be worth it even if the Pens had won 9-3. I couldn’t bring myself to stop watching, but it was an [insert favourite string of expletives here] sort of “game”. It was kind of sickening, really. Maybe only worth watching the “highlights” so you know what everyone is talking about.
My feet are wet.
Ugh, PD already has some up… blah. This game sounds terrible. Like an explosion went off or something, blah :/
by AppleSweetRose on Feb 12, 2011 12:04 AM EST up reply actions
This is just a tidbit of what Lighthouse Hockey had to say about the game:
It’s pretty funny how Johnson was playing big tough goalie again, until he realized that it was Haley coming at him. Eric Goddard had to come flying off the bench to save him, so there’s an automatic ten game suspension for Goddard.
There is even more good stuff over there. What a joke.
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I was going to post
a response to the neanderthal who posted that and to the others who are saying this is a “galvanizing win” and how Haley deserves a 5 year contract for being a team player but they don’t allow it for 24 hours.
To be honest with you I had never given the Islanders a second thought but now I actually take solice in the fact that they have no fans and they will eventually be moved off of the island. Serves them right. Classless fans…
by JerseyGuy77 on Feb 12, 2011 12:10 AM EST up reply actions
I just went to read their re-cap and comments, and was left with mixed opinions. But if we look at the actual game for a moment, it was certainly a good win for the Isles. Yes, they were playing a tired and severely depleted Pens team, but it’s still the Pens, and still a team they have struggled against. And it wasn’t a close game by any stretch. Their offensive guys came up big, and their goalie/defense did a better job than I’ve seen them do in awhile (not forgetting that the Pens are struggling on offense, of course). If we could erase the ugliness of the game from our memories, it’s a game where the Islanders should be proud of their play, and that the Pens should be frustrated with.
That said, here’s hoping our boys can find a way past it by Sunday.
My feet are wet.
I feel bad that a lot of the Pensburgh community will think of Lighthouse Hockey like this.
Their blog leader, Dominik, is a very reasonable fellow who writes very well and is dedicated. He didn’t have, from what I can tell, any part of that post. I suppose who he employs to post for him reflects on his blog, but it’s a shame.
I used to consider LHH among the finest (and one of the most under-appreciated) hockey blogs on our network.
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by Hooks Orpik on Feb 12, 2011 12:17 AM EST up reply actions
And I’ve had good experiences at LHH in the past, talking about the Nabokov situation and even about the Johnson fight. And to their credit, many of them don’t like what Gilles did either.
I’m not going to comment there about this game though. My policy is not to comment on other SB Nation blogs unless I have something nice or neutral to say. Which means I’m a member of several blogs that I have never commented on once. :)
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My policy is not to comment on other SB Nation blogs unless I have something nice or neutral to say
Hahah same here. I enjoy reading recaps of other teams after games, and am a daily reader of blogs like Behind The Net, Fear the Fin, and Battle of California, but I don’t comment too much.
by AppleSweetRose on Feb 12, 2011 12:28 AM EST up reply actions
Thank god the real goon Isles fans haven’t quite figured out how to use the internet yet. There were a TON at that game.
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by PensForTheWin on Feb 12, 2011 9:59 AM EST up reply actions
Dominik does a great job on that site, honestly and I understand that that recap rubs people the wrong way, but I don’t understand the need to go out and troll on that site. I just don’t understand it. It’s like a pissing match, jeez.
by AppleSweetRose on Feb 12, 2011 12:26 AM EST up reply actions
From one of their blog admins
Just to re-iterate
No one should bother with Pensburg, unless you can be civilized. I’m watching their recap and if anyone tries to troll them (no matter who you are from this site) your going to be in trouble here.
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Sorry, Hooks
I’ve caught up with all the fight highlights and don’t feel a bit of remorse. Even Martin on Talbot
the Pens started the game of physical one-upmanship. Funny how it’s suddenly not cool when a team fights back.
Other teams "stick up for themselves," but the Islanders have one night of Enough Is Enough — against a team that had it coming — and suddenly they’re "classless" and "goons." Uh huh, right.
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There goes your reasonable fellow.
I’ve talked to Dom before and he seemed like a great guy, but this is my first interaction with LHH in general. I’m not impressed. I’m doing my best not to get banned at two NY blogs in as many weeks, but we’ll see how that goes.
Taking a cheap shot at your appearance, which I see nothing wrong with, was really just over the line IMO.
Been there
A sane person couldn’t possibly imagine what these retards are typing. There’s more where that came from:
Thank you Michael Haley… for kicking ass with and without your gloves!
Thank you Trevor Gillies… you may have gone too far… but when Colin Gives you life… give him hell!!!
And probably when your heart stops beating 200 times a minute you can send some nice flowers to the hospital room. That’s probably more than Cooke does.Thank you… NEW YORK ISLANDERS… for making me feel proud of this group of young men… I definitely don’t want to see this every night, but if ever a team needed to unleash some testosterone on a group of hypocrites(yeah Cindy, I’m looking at YOU), TONIGHT WAS THE NIGHT.
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Johnson didn’t back down from a fight against a guy when the other guy clearly had the advantage. I still say he’s big tough goalie. And it doesn’t take a genius to realize a goalie is an underdog when going up against a skater based solely on equipment, hence why goalies only fight other goalies (in unwritten code at least).
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yea... that goes along with the unwritten code...
of not grabbing someone from behind and trying to punch them in the face
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It wasn’t always like that with goalies. Just ask Billy Smith and whatshisface from early in the Pens days.
True, but at the time they also wore pillows instead of armor padding, so mobility was a bit different. Just watch old video of Dryden. He looks so sleek, and it’s probably because he only has about three inches of padding on his chest. I think that’s part of the reason why the side-to-side style or even butterfly for that matter became the prevailing goalie method. “Well, I have all this equipment on, might as well ‘get big’ and take away the net.”
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I simply cannot believe this. This is insane. What in the freaking world happened?? I need to read the GDT at once.
by AppleSweetRose on Feb 11, 2011 11:52 PM EST reply actions
Lunacy.
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by BobPurkey34 on Feb 12, 2011 12:04 AM EST up reply actions
This game was absolutely horrifying. Tangradi has a concussion, Kris Letang got whacked in the foot, the sucker punch on Talbot, Haley attacking Johnson for some kind of vengeance. It’s understandable that the Isles wanted to “make a statement” after the Johnson fight, by scoring a lot of goals and even starting fights. But the way they set out to injure Penguins was appalling and inexcusable.
While the sucker punch was bad, and the Johnson fight was scary, the absolute worst was Gilles giving Tangradi a concussion, punching him while he was down, and then taunting him as he left the ice with a head injury — that Gilles caused. That was flithy, scum behavior and he deserves to be suspended for a long time.
I’ve always had a soft spot for the Islanders and their fans, because I feel like sometimes they get kicked around in ways they don’t deserve, and because of the Guerin connection. But tonight, the players lost control of themselves. It was like they were in a rage and didn’t know when to stop. It was truly scary because you knew there would be injuries, and there were. I just hope Tangradi is okay, and that his concussion isn’t nearly as bad as Crosby’s has turned out to be.
All of this is especially terrible when you consider the original offense was a fight between two consenting players. Johnson didn’t mean to break anything. I can see trying to pick a stupid fight over it, but the Isles acted like the Penguins had murdered the team mascot or something.
I believe in Geno.
reports on twitter from many say Tangradi has passed initial tests so thats a good sign.
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by TonyAndrock on Feb 12, 2011 12:08 AM EST up reply actions
They’re saying he passed initial tests but has concussion symptoms. I’m guessing that means he isn’t confused but has physical symptoms such as a headache or dizziness? But I don’t know what “initial tests” means, or what it means to pass them while still having symptoms that are classified as concussion symptoms.
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yea me neither. Hopefully a good sign. Probably wont play sunday. that makes 10 forwards out of the lineup and two more should be coming up from WBS. Wheeling assigned Andrew Orpik to WBS to there’s def moves about to be made
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by TonyAndrock on Feb 12, 2011 12:16 AM EST up reply actions
Aha! It’s all beginning to make sense now: the entire last month has been part of a grand plan to get the Orpik boys playing together!
My feet are wet.
This could be the plot of a B movie where it turns out that all of these injuries were orchestrated by a player in Wheeling who is determined to do whatever it takes to make the NHL.
I believe in Geno.
LOL that’d be one terrible movie. Psychological thriller, no? Haha.
by AppleSweetRose on Feb 12, 2011 12:58 AM EST up reply actions
All that means is he knows what year it is, where he is, and his name. He probably has a concussion.
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by AllieLXXXVII on Feb 12, 2011 12:45 AM EST up reply actions
This Game Was Disgusting
It’s almost these two teams wanted to one-up the Habs—Bruins game from the
other night.
SIMPLY
UTTERLY
DISGUSTING.
Both sides, both teams.
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by PensFanInDenver on Feb 12, 2011 12:07 AM EST reply actions
Puck Daddy’s Greg Wyshinski said it best: “There’s old time hockey, and then there’s a prison riot.”
I hate it when he’s right
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by BobPurkey34 on Feb 12, 2011 12:18 AM EST up reply actions
Inmates Running The Asylum
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by PensFanInDenver on Feb 12, 2011 12:13 AM EST reply actions
It’s a shame the refs didn’t have control of the game.
Ironically they thought they did by tossing Engelland and Rupp early, but that only worsened the car wreck at the end.
Not that it would have probably made much of a difference.
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by Hooks Orpik on Feb 12, 2011 12:19 AM EST up reply actions
Thought SBN was supposed to be a respectable blogging network, but Lighthouse Hockey just ended any and all thoughts of that.
"It's a great day for hockey!" - "Badger" Bob Johnson
You don’t visit too many NFL blogs on SBN I suppose…
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by BobPurkey34 on Feb 12, 2011 12:15 AM EST up reply actions
Haha. I don’t even like going to Behind The Steel Curtain. I feel like I have to defend myself from attack even as a Steelers fan there.
I sometimes pop in over at BTSC for game day threads but it gets a bit too crazy sometimes. But if you go over to the Browns or Ravens boards, etc, you’ll end up banging your head against a wall
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by BobPurkey34 on Feb 12, 2011 11:29 AM EST up reply actions
There are some times in hockey where the events that transpire just leave you speechless
For example, the three goals in a row against Detroit in game 4 SCF.
This game left me speechless for an entirely different reason. I’ve never witnessed insanity on this level. It was just one thing after another. Talbot getting nearly Bertuzzi’d, Gilles elbow on Tangradi then attempt to smack talk while he’s still down, Johnson getting attacked by numerous Islander players and then some. To be quite honest, after the Tangradi concussion/Johnson fight, I thought the refs should have called the game off right there. The game had already been long decided, the refs had no control over the players and it was a pure riot, not a hockey game.
I believe the old saying is “When it rains, it pours”
It’s monsoon season in Pittsburgh
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The Refs Should Have Ended This Game
Long, long before the middle of the second period.
But then again, they’re NHL refs and we shouldn’t expect much from them.
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by PensFanInDenver on Feb 12, 2011 12:19 AM EST reply actions
The situation was so wild it would be hard for any 4 officials to control 12 players on the ice. Especially when the score was a blowout the whole way and one team was hell-bent on getting retribution for prior incidents.
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by Hooks Orpik on Feb 12, 2011 12:20 AM EST up reply actions
PAYD
was there, Mike and the Knitting Lady; I saw them sitting behind the Islander bench.
I wonder 1. what kind of pics he took this time and
2. How much he spent on these tickets?
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by PensFanInDenver on Feb 12, 2011 12:22 AM EST up reply actions
was the knitting lady the female yelling at bylsma to pull beej after like the 4th goal or so?
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by NEPA Pens on Feb 12, 2011 12:27 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
I did not see her yelling
But I bet she thought of using her knitting stick on several players throughout
this nightmare of a game.
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by PensFanInDenver on Feb 12, 2011 12:40 AM EST up reply actions
I’m sure he’ll recap your point #1 in a fanshot tomorrow (can’t wait) and not tryin to put his business out but I got front row seats behind the goalie (on the 2nd hand stubhub market) for $80 or $90 bucks a seat for their home opener last season….Tickets aren’t that expensive there because no one wants to go into that shithole
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by Hooks Orpik on Feb 12, 2011 12:31 AM EST up reply actions
I think we still have Connor ??
Hopefully he was a healthy scratch. Did anybody here?
the roster report says he was a scratch
Lovejoy, Connor and Cooke.. so I assume he’s fine, just a scratch as I don’t think Kunitz is on the IR and he wasn’t even listed..
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Chris Conner?
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by BobPurkey34 on Feb 12, 2011 12:39 AM EST up reply actions
Yes
Just saying because we have another body. Granted not big but at this point any is good.
Haha I think he was referring to your misspelling. Chris Conn_er_ :)
by AppleSweetRose on Feb 12, 2011 12:49 AM EST up reply actions
You from Arizona?
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by BobPurkey34 on Feb 12, 2011 12:54 AM EST up reply actions
Tucson, Not a whole lot of fans in my circles. Lucky if its on the news with a disaster like this. Have to have the package.
That’s how I remember it too. I’ve been out there a few times, not to Tucson though. But from my times in Phoenix, it was pretty challenging to find hockey highlights.
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by BobPurkey34 on Feb 12, 2011 12:58 AM EST up reply actions
Yeah didn't see much Yotes stuff
I actually did get a few comments from people about my Pens jersey though. I think there ARE hockey fans, just not so many of the Yotes. There’s a lot of transplanted fans in Phoenix
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When I have seen Pens games up there they have a good crowd. Probably 50-50. They moved far West area of Phoenix and it hurts them big time from what I here.
In town the U has a week club team which hurts me to watch. I think I am a hockey snob. Other than that when I say hockey I am in a foreign language.
Yeah I’d imagine. It’s nowhere near anything. Have you ever been to the Burgh? It’s completely different here, you can’t go 15 feet without seeing more hockey stuff
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I just watched the replay of the Gilles / Tangradi incident and it’s sickening. You all know I am a fan of Tangradi and always sympathize with him (maybe too much) in his struggles, but to see him fall to the ice hurt while Gilles continues to hit him… it’s so awful. I wish I hadn’t watched it again.
I believe in Geno.
That’s not even the worst part in my opinion
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by BobPurkey34 on Feb 12, 2011 12:41 AM EST up reply actions
When he barked at him standing in the gate?
The punch after the hit was probably the worst part, to me. Especially for a “tough guy” like Gillies.
I really get the feeling, given this rodeo and the Boston/Montreal game, that the NHL is going to make an example of the night…..Godard, Martin, Gillies could all be in for some big time discipline.
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by Hooks Orpik on Feb 12, 2011 12:46 AM EST up reply actions
I think they may even suspend Engo, Rupp and Dupuis (and they’’re counterparts from NYI) for being 3rd men in. They all got game misconducts, but like you said I think the league might make an example of this game and we could see more suspensions.
by StripesForLife on Feb 12, 2011 1:14 AM EST up reply actions
no way
I can’t see that happening.. None of those 3 did anything to merit a suspension.. the only penguin that will be getting a suspension is Godard..
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I’m just saying, they all got thrown out for being 3rd men in. Obviously this isn’t amateur hockey (although it sure looked like it), but 3rd man in gets an automatic game and several game suspension.
by StripesForLife on Feb 12, 2011 1:19 AM EST up reply actions
To add, I think the league is getting a bad rap recently with the Johnson fight last week, Boston/Montreal, and now this. We’ll see how the NHL feels about this. If they aren’t liking the way they are being viewed, they could come down hard on this game and try to set a precendent.
by StripesForLife on Feb 12, 2011 1:20 AM EST up reply actions
The NHL got a ton of pub from the Johnson fight
and advertised the hell out of it on their website.
Fighting in hockey is good for the NHL… it makes them money
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Fighting is good. Several line brawls in one game, as we’ve seen twice now in the past 3 days is not.
by StripesForLife on Feb 12, 2011 1:34 AM EST up reply actions
There’s good publicity and bad publicity.
The Johnson-DP fight was fine. This is NOT what the NHL wants to promote.
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Teams are jumping on what we started – NHL needs to set a standard and make an example of the isles…what happens if the Isles try this crap again in April? Last game of the season, they are out of the playoffs and we need points…they better do something about it.
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by PensForTheWin on Feb 12, 2011 9:56 AM EST up reply actions
I mean almost last game of the season.
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by PensForTheWin on Feb 12, 2011 9:56 AM EST up reply actions
Did they get 3rd man in?
boxscore just says misconducts… and there’s no way that Dupuis got a 3rd man in.. Engelland was the only one that could have gotten that and didn’t he come back?
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Yes Engo did get a 3rd man in (apparently Talbot and Marten was a fight). I thought that was the reason Rupp and Dupuis got game misconducts too. I agree neither of them were the actual 3rd man in, as they squared off with other players, but what other reason would they have gotten thrown out?
by StripesForLife on Feb 12, 2011 1:37 AM EST up reply actions
maybe so, but how did all of those guys in Boston/Montreal not get thrown out? I didn’t see the whole game, but it seemed like they had more than 6 skaters finish the game.
by StripesForLife on Feb 12, 2011 1:42 AM EST up reply actions
That’s just disgusting. The other one is Marten incident. Thank God Talbot saw him or that could have been sickening.
by StripesForLife on Feb 12, 2011 12:45 AM EST up reply actions
Ugh this is all just terrible. We got apocalypse’d. If the season was presented in a graph, hopefully tonight will be the lowest point and we could only move up from that point on.
by AppleSweetRose on Feb 12, 2011 12:48 AM EST up reply actions
In a lot of ways this has to be a low point.
—Ton of guys hurt
—Give up 9 goals
—Suspensions on the way
—Total gongshow of a game.
Ironically, this will be the highlight, number 1 game for the Islanders. Guess that just goes to show you..
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by Hooks Orpik on Feb 12, 2011 12:50 AM EST up reply actions
Unrelated note
Do you know how to ban member’s of PensBurgh? Frank was trying to explain it to me tonight but I never got rid of the guy. Maybe he already did
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by TonyAndrock on Feb 12, 2011 12:52 AM EST up reply actions
Send me an email with the guy’s name…Would be too much to explain what the mod settings are, especially in this forum.
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by Hooks Orpik on Feb 12, 2011 12:54 AM EST up reply actions
its all good actually, jus checkd my email and frank realized he could do it from his phone so he took care of it. Pretty sure everyone in tonights thread knows who I’m talking about. A real jerk.
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by TonyAndrock on Feb 12, 2011 12:55 AM EST up reply actions
Not me :p
Haha but I won’t ask. I shall move on now…
by AppleSweetRose on Feb 12, 2011 12:58 AM EST up reply actions
The one who kept dropping F-bombs and eventually said he was leaving for TPB because we were Nazis?
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by BobPurkey34 on Feb 12, 2011 12:59 AM EST up reply actions
Yeah that would be him…
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one of their posters said that.. I’m too lazy to go get the quote
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Haha they are saying that last already over that LHH.
Please, please let this mean that despite adversities we go to the Stanley Cup finals and win the damn thing (Winter classic trend, hmm?).
by AppleSweetRose on Feb 12, 2011 1:00 AM EST up reply actions
Gilles clearly targets the head
and then takes advantage of the situation while a man is down
and continues carrying on like a chickenshit buffoon afterwards
Cooke got 4 games when the other player turned his back
mostly he got 4 games “for being Matt Cooke”
what Gilles did was far worse
anyone want to bet he gets fewer games than Cooke (or none)?
I now hate the Islanders on the level of the Flyers and Capitals. Bravo Islanders. You bunch of f*****g jackwagons.
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by CammieBuckeye33 on Feb 12, 2011 12:45 AM EST reply actions
Forgot about Conner.
So probably just Wallace getting called up. Makes sense that WBS only got little Orpik and not two guys
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WBS is getting depleted right now…. bad situation all around, hmm?
by AppleSweetRose on Feb 12, 2011 12:51 AM EST up reply actions
we are still winning though. 2 shutouts by thiessen in the last 3 games
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by TonyAndrock on Feb 12, 2011 12:52 AM EST up reply actions
Oh great to hear. Hope they keep it up.
by AppleSweetRose on Feb 12, 2011 1:00 AM EST up reply actions
Just started watching the replay on the NY broadcast. No Pens replay….kind of weird. Late in second. I want to here their point of view.
FSN Pitt had a replay but it started at 11 EST.
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by TonyAndrock on Feb 12, 2011 12:56 AM EST up reply actions
The Tavares slash on Tanger pissed me off the most Teams want us dead and will stop at nothing. All in all, I am dismissing this game from my mind. I refuse to let the Islanders in my head.We have a cup to win.
this kind of got overshadowed
and Tanger came back no worse for the wear… But, I was hoping to see Letang to get a little retribution later in the game.
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This per JB at Pens insider
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Yea well they would have more if well…. you know
Wallace should definitely be called up and Veilleux is second on the list. I think you guys would love Veilleux if he does what hes been doing in the AHL. Big guy who fights anyone, hits a lot and for 6-5 a very nice set of hands.
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Bylsma is so classy
just watched his post game interview…
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He’s always right. I’d say at least 6 and then 10 for the (expletive) that attempted to Bertuzzi Talbo
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If the League wanted to make a point that others will hear...
…it would give Martin and Gilles 81 game suspensions with significant fines. Severe punishment would not be excessive. Both attempted to seriously injure Talbot and Tangradi. The attempts were intentional. Had Martin severely injured Talbot, just as Bertuzzi injured Moore, the League would have been justified in giving Martin the death penalty — a lifetime ban.
s.zielinski
I think we all know that won’t happen. Bertuzzi got what, 20 games? And he ended someone’s career. I do agree they need to step up and take a stand against this horse$hit but I can’t see them doing anything much more than 10 for anybody
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Godard automatically gets a 10. I think Marten should get 7-10 and Gilles should get 5-6.
by StripesForLife on Feb 12, 2011 1:46 AM EST up reply actions
The League should punish Martin and Gilles more than Godard. It would if it were reasonable.
s.zielinski
I don’t think that will happen though. 10 games s a lot, but it is explecitely stated in the rules. I wouldn’t be happy if any of the islanders got less than 5 games, but likewise I can’t see any of them getting more than 10-12.
by StripesForLife on Feb 12, 2011 11:15 AM EST up reply actions
NY broadcast
They are calling this standing up for there team. Granted they didn’t like Gilles hit and actions but they love Haley.
They also are saying this ment more for them than us. Got to go with them on that.
Ranger fan here
not trolling. his game was indeed ugly.. feel bad for you guys. Went a little too far imo. Hopefully we can have a good game with you guys on Sunday.
Though, with our issues as of late…uggh.
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by BleedsRangerBlue on Feb 12, 2011 2:40 AM EST reply actions
Visiting another blog isn’t trolling. It’s nice getting input from neutral parties on stuff like this.
You’re right, it did get out of control, and everyone was at fault for that. The Isles for initiating this $hit, us for reacting to all of it and the officials for allowing it to happen. I never thought we would see a full-scale riot in the NHL again but never say never, right?
I would say I hope we have a good game…but first of all, let’s just have a game. It’ll be interesting to see how many guys off our roster the NHL decides to suspend. If it’s more than a few, we’re in deep trouble, there’s only 3 more forwards in WBS we could promote that are on NHL contracts.
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thanks.
And by good game, I mean clean-ish, and nowhere near the horror of tonight. I’d be upset with my team if they did anything like this. Play hard sure, but do it clean.
Good luck with the suspensions, and on sunday. I hope my guys win though. we need it :)
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by BleedsRangerBlue on Feb 12, 2011 2:56 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
At the very least, Godard will be suspended the automatic 10 games for leaving the bench, Tangradi will almost surely miss the game due to a concussion from Gilles garbage and I wouldn’t be surprised to see Rupp or Adams given suspensions too.
Look there’s nothing wrong with fighting. I’m all for it. But in all honesty I really hope we don’t have to see the crap that happened tonight again, that’s not hockey and has no place in the game. After the Tangradi injury/Johnson fight, I’m actually pretty surprised the refs didn’t call this game off then and there. The result was already determined and nobody was playing hockey any more. We finished the game with 6 skaters I believe. That’s lunacy.
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by BobPurkey34 on Feb 12, 2011 3:03 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a game called early. Is there a policy on that? I would think it would probably have to go through both coaches. And something tells me one or neither of them wanted that.
by StripesForLife on Feb 12, 2011 11:19 AM EST up reply actions
Not entirely sure but I know it’s happened. Maybe the NHL was refusing. But there’s honestly a point in a game like this where you just have to say enough is enough, people are going to start getting hurt because the refs have no control over the game. I could see if it was 3-3 in the 3rd period or something then keep playing but the game was long over
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by BobPurkey34 on Feb 12, 2011 11:31 AM EST up reply actions
I don’t want to be too pessimistic about the Penguins’ chances, but if I were a Rangers fan I’d be feeling pretty good about Sunday. Most of our forwards are injured or suspended. Seven of our forwards will have started their season in the AHL. Many players will be banged up from last night — Martin was hobbling after blocking a shot, Kris Letang has a “painful” ankle injury. Even without the constant brawling, we’ve had a rough schedule with back to back games, travel, and little rest. Our coach might be suspended. The team will probably spend a lot of Saturday distracted by the fallout instead of focusing on preparation.
So, um, Sunday might be your lucky day. Just don’t act like y’all defeated Sidney Crosby if things go your way. :)
I believe in Geno.
Yeah I don’t understand that at all. That’s where I say classless Isles fans. First of all, do you hear Pirate fans chanting “Jeter sucks” when the Yanks come to town? No, because it’d look really stupid and it’s obviously not true. Second of all, Crosby hasn’t played a game in over a month, maybe they didn’t notice.
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Rangers are going to flop the opportunity is to good for them to win
First Im a rangers fan, I applaud what Godard did there is no question that you go if someone goes for your goalie, no idea how Haley even thought to challenge Johnson. (though it did look like Johnson could have handled that situation even though he should never have been in it)
Gillies and Martin made terrible moves, we as other fans can bitch about Matt Cooke all we want but it is wrong to go after other people with intent to injure, and injuring players should not be considered revenge for anything. Both of those players clearly were trying to cause harm, no questions suspend them as long as you like.
I also have the feeling that my Rangers are going to flop with this opportunity for a pretty easy two points compared to a full penguins roster. We are on a 6 game losing streak and havent played with the heart we had before our lineup was pretty injury free. Penguins are coming in with a chip on their shoulder and a bunch of kids trying to prove themselves in the nhl jumping at an opportunity to help the team in a tough situation they will be a better team then you expect them to be.
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by PensFanInDenver on Feb 12, 2011 10:41 AM EST up reply actions
The Islanders are a disgrace to hockey
When you do what they did tonight, you are certified as a professional loser. No matter what the score is.
Get a life, grow up, respect sport. And have the balls to send your goalie if you want to fight our, big sissies.
by -CEZ- on Feb 12, 2011 3:12 AM EST reply actions 1 recs
Islanders are trash… the two incidents that started the brawls were disgusting, let’s hope we have some long suspensions. That Haley and Gillies are complete idiots and I hope it’s the last we see of them. Hockey should be about skilled players, not idiots off the street that fight for a living…
Look forward to the playoff series between these two…. oh wait, it’s the Islanders
i missed this game but watching and reading the aftermath just left me disgusted.
islanders really have a problem if they’re patting their backs for a job well done on this game. they want to show the league that they’re no jokes but ended up looking like one.
im a fairly “new” hockey fan so im not used to watching these line brawls. i think the nhl should do something soon. with the “old school hockey” lately, the increasing headshots (even if unintentional) and the resulting concussions. the unpredictability of that injury is what’s most scary. you dont have a timetable for it and you dont know how that player will be when he gets back. i feel really bad for tangradi as he was not even in last week’s game.
most disgusting moment of the night: that gillies ass taunting tangradi who was clearly injured. i mean, i. cant. even. still boils my head thinking about it.
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by 3maria on Feb 12, 2011 7:25 AM EST reply actions 1 recs
We should just save ourselves and delete this and post a blank paragraph with the title “Isles Still Suck”
Can we move that team to Qubec City already?
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That’s an insult to QC
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by PensFanInDenver on Feb 12, 2011 9:55 AM EST up reply actions
Right, well then ship them off to Kansas City.
Get in the fast lane grandma, the bingo game is ready to roll!
by PensForTheWin on Feb 12, 2011 10:22 AM EST up reply actions
The Islanders can say we’re not smiling anymore, but we are. All the world has to do is look up their goalie getting knocked out like a true you know what, and it brings smiles and laughter right back.
Then we look at the game last night and get a different smile on our faces, a sinister smile and one of anticipation for the next time we play this amazing hockey team. I hope Jay Caulfield has a tough guy lesson with the players before then.
I heard the Hanson brothers are getting back into shape and could be under contract by April 8th.
by StripesForLife on Feb 12, 2011 11:22 AM EST up reply actions
I came here singin’ it about Matt Cooke, I’m here singin’ it about Clark Gillies and whoever else that AHL guy was taking on a goaltender. Gillies deserves a 20 game suspension. I wouldn’t cry about it if they tossed him for the rest of the year, period.
What the Islanders did last night was dirty, scummy, dangerous and a disgrace to hockey and to fair play.
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by Knee high to a duck on Feb 12, 2011 6:49 PM EST reply actions
Hah, yeah. Clark is in my head. Can’t blame me for typing the vastly more notable of the two players.
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by Knee high to a duck on Feb 13, 2011 9:49 PM EST up reply actions
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