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Posted: 8/11/2007 7:24:33 AM | I have to say this but.... 8 more weeks until the season premiere of HNIC! WHOOO! 
For any Rangers fans here, is anyone going to the games this upcoming season? | |
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Posted: 8/12/2007 6:23:55 AM |
Just ask Spezza, heatley and redden in the Finals.
Sens got out mauled by the Ducks. Refs put their whistles away for the finals.. Ah well Eastern Conference Champs still looks darn good.. Just ask Leaf fans 40 years and counting | |
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Posted: 8/12/2007 10:50:18 AM | "refs put their whistles away for the finals"
i love hearing the excuses from Sens fans.
Then they bring up the leafs to make themselves feel better.
At least TO has won a stanley cup. Been awhile but 13 of them. | |
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Posted: 8/12/2007 5:24:08 PM | Yeah! Fellow hockey fans :)
I am a Kings fan (maybe I am slightly masochistic with that, but I am a fan nonetheless  )
Although I love a good hockey game no matter who is playing! I can't wait for the season to start. | |
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Posted: 8/12/2007 5:29:41 PM | "refs put their whistles away for the finals"
I agree totally. Alfie should have been given a match penalty for his headhunting slapshot at Neidermeyer with :01 to play in the period. | |
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Joined: 10/14/2006
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Posted: 8/12/2007 5:35:23 PM | ^^^an Alfie should be starting the season with a suspension for that cheat shot.
What a **** he is. | |
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Posted: 8/12/2007 5:47:36 PM | Woohoooooo preseason is almost here...."GO FLYERS!"  | |
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Joined: 10/14/2006
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Posted: 8/12/2007 6:38:29 PM | Flyers will be a much improved team this year.
Briere is awesome and will be a treat to watch. | |
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Posted: 8/12/2007 8:32:43 PM |
I agree totally. Alfie should have been given a match penalty for his headhunting slapshot at Neidermeyer with :01 to play in the period.
no kidding jokester. Boy did that comment about the refs putting the whistles in the pocket come out of cyberspace or what. Two of my chums are seasons ticket holders with the Sens; attended all the games at home in the playoffs and never once mentioned the reffing.
Sounds like sour grapes. maybe that's some folks interpretation of being a good loozer.Whine about the refs. lol. ya ok. But hey, a buck fifty nine and the Eastern conference championship will still get you a large coffee at tim hortons...mmm mmm mmm
Neil with a vicious elbow to the head of McDonald 6/2/07
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG99kRovlZI
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Daniel Alfredsson shoots the puck on Niedermayer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAuj_AMnMGM
Oh how quickly some fans forget how the series really went. Outchecked, outhustled, out-goalered, outcoached, out scored and flat out, out-played. The Sens looked so not ready for prime time, they were an embarrasment when compared to the last two canadian club representatives in the Finals.
But still kudos to them for winning the east. but the refs didn't cost them this Cup. That's baloney. | |
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Posted: 8/12/2007 9:08:34 PM | | Yup^^^ shooting blanks cost the Sens the cup. Along with Anaheim's strong D. | |
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Posted: 8/13/2007 4:33:24 AM |
At least TO has won a stanley cup. Been awhile but 13 of them. .. Very true except Ottawa has won the cup 10 times.. The modern Senators have been around for only 15 years. For 10 of those 15 years they have made the playoffs.. Tor 5 and Mon 4 out of 10..
Did you guys not see the first 2 games of the Anahiem series ?..The Interference on Emery was not being called as it was in the previous games.. I am talking about the new crack down, not on the old days of letting it all go. I am a ref
Take of your anti Ottawa blinders and watch it from a Canadian team point of view.. Excuses.. Eastern Conference Champs.. No Excuses needed.. | |
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Posted: 8/13/2007 7:53:15 AM | "At least TO has won a stanley cup. Been awhile but 13 of them."
Does Original 6 even count any more?
The Leafs haven't even been to the final since a seventh team was added to the league. In fact, pretty much since the introduction of the draft, or at least since the time that the affects of the first NHL draft were being felt, the Leafs have sucked. Yup, as soon as the playing field was level, the Toronto Maple Leafs went down the toilet.
Thanks for allowing me to bring that up. I love doing that. I try to do it every year. | |
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Posted: 8/13/2007 9:36:12 AM |
I am a ref
well stick to reffing your little girl's games. Both of those Sens fans buddies of mine read your post and agree you sound like a whiner. i had no anti-Ottawa blinders on, and neither did they. At least they're men and admit the better team won by a longshot. You guys got your A.sses handed to you on a platter. Is that how you justify sportsmanship when you lose? Admit it. Your team was thoroughly outperformed, with the possible exception of Emery playing well. The rest of your team should have stayed on the golf course. And here i thought you knew something about hockey from the womens ice hockey thread. pfft.
EDIT:ps Game 1 Notes from Bryan Murray:
The only complaint the Ducks had about their effort was that they took too many penalties. It has happened often this spring but they again managed to survive. Ottawa was 2-for-7 on power plays while Anaheim was 0-for-4.
It was an exciting opener, and the first of four series openers lost by the Senators this post-season. Coach Bryan Murray wasn't the least bit happy about the playoff of Calgarian Heatley, Swede Alfredsson and Spezza of Mississauga, Ont.
''Their checking line played head to head with our guys and they ended up getting the winning goal,'' said Murray. ''So that's the whole game in a nutshell.''
He knows what his players have to do to get back into the series when it resumes Wednesday.
''We gotta get the puck deep more often,'' said Murray. ''We have to create some offence off of that and get their defencemen to gived up the (blue-) line once in awhile.''
Redden turnovers led to two of the Anaheim goals.
''They made our defence extra hard and we didn't retaliate the same way,'' said Murray...
...The way the Ducks played on the U.S. Memorial Day holiday, the Senators may soon be cut and baled.
Andy McDonald of Strathroy, Ont., and Ryan Getzlaf, another Saskatchewan product - born in Regina - scored Anaheim's other goals.
The Ducks outshot Ottawa 32-20 and would have won by a greater margin had not Emery played so well.
The Ducks laid on 30 hits compared to 21 by the Senators.
''We used our forecheck and were physical,'' said McDonald. ''I thought as the game went along we wore their defence down a bit and I thought that was a factor.''
The persistent checking paid off as Anaheim committed five giveaways and Ottawa 14.
http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/teams/news_story/?ID=209134&hubname=nhl-ducks
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Posted: 8/13/2007 10:15:55 AM |
Flyers will be a much improved team this year.
Briere is awesome and will be a treat to watch.
Did you see the banner on the home page for the Flyers? "Back with a vengence!" | |
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Posted: 8/13/2007 12:01:16 PM | ^^^see all the Flyers needed was to sign some good ol Canadian hockey players to help there team. Oh Canada. | |
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Posted: 8/13/2007 4:56:37 PM | Slysterling ... Your Senator buddies have a short memory
ANAHEIM -- Bryan Murray was seeing red yesterday.
The Senators coach doesn't want to instruct his players to do anything stupid, but Murray indicated if the Anaheim Ducks are going to get away with hooking, holding and obstruction, he's going to tell Ottawa players to try to do the same.
With Game 2 tonight and the Senators trailing 1-0 in the Stanley Cup final, Murray has decided that what is good for the goose is good for the gander, so the Ducks can expect Ottawa players to change their game.
Asked by Sun Media during a news conference about the Senators' response to the Ducks' physical challenge in a 3-2 loss in Game 1 on Monday, Murray launched into diatribe about the officiating.
"They got their physical play from good dump-ins and us not holding anybody up," Murray said. "Their first man in, got the hits. That was the main part. The other part is when people are standing around in front of the net trying to defend and they're hammering away at our defencemen, as well as our goaltender. Those are two areas that concern me.
"And, I guess, we'll have to adjust our style and get back to holding up their forechecker better with our man, because it's obvious that it's not being called. We have to encourage our guys to do it. Those are areas that help or hurt aggressive play. When they got in time after time and got a chance to run a defenceman on a clean shot, it's difficult for the defenceman to make a play."
Does that mean Murray thinks the officials have to do a better job?
"No, I think the rules have to be made clear to me. That's all," said Murray, who planned to discuss the matter with the series supervisor today.
Murray said he spoke with former Detroit Red Wings coach Scotty Bowman prior to Monday's game about the way the Ducks play.
Murray said Bowman told him that the Senators had to be ready for the Ducks being allowed to get away with illegal tactics.
"I just talked to some of the Detroit people and they just told me this is the way it went (in the Western Conference final)," Murray said.
http://www.ottawasun.com/Sports/Columnists/Garrioch_Bruce/2007/05/30/4219468-sun.html
Eastern Conference Champs.. Still sounds good to me.. | |
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Posted: 8/13/2007 5:20:32 PM | Well i love my Flyers but "Back with a vengence" remains to be seen...oh god i hope so..cant take another season like the last one  | |
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Posted: 8/13/2007 5:24:08 PM | Well if we must use the Ottawa Sun and Garrioch as the source, then I wonder why the change in his attitude (and reporting) from game 1 to the end of the Series?
Maybe Garrioch's more sporting than I give him credit for. Funny it's not supposed to be the hometeam sports reporters exemplifying good sportsmanship better than cyberspace folks claiming they're refs. At least he isn't still whining that the refs cost him the Cup. What a joke. Here's a few snippets from his review after your Sens forgot to show up for the Finals.
RAY EMERY: Had a standout year and emerged as the No. 1 netminder in November. He's going to have a long summer thinking about what went wrong in the final. Needs to be more consistent
DANY HEATLEY: Only he can explain what happened in the final. Too bad it ended that way because he did put together back-to-back 50 goal regular seasons
JASON SPEZZA: Another guy with a lot of explaining to do for his performance against Anaheim. Again, it soured what had been a great season. Guess the young players have a lot to learn about what it takes to win
WADE REDDEN: He gave up his right to unrestricted free agency and re-signed with Ottawa, but didn't have the kind of year anybody expected.
MIKE FISHER: Another heart-and-soul player who lays it on the line every night. He was the best and most consistent forward in the final
There was supposed to be a Stanley Cup, a parade, a summer-long celebration, rings and a banner-raising this fall at Scotiabank Place.
Instead, the Senators came up short in the Stanley Cup final against the Anaheim Ducks.
When push came to shove, they couldn't get the job done and now they have the summer to think about it.
http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Hockey/NHL/Ottawa/2007/06/10/4249798-sun.html
Let me repeat your own source for you:
When push came to shove, they couldn't get the job done and now they have the summer to think about it. By BRUCE GARRIOCH
...and that's the bottom line.
The closest thing I seen to the refs costing a club a Cup was in Buffalo on the brett Hull goal by Dallas in 99, and that was sour grapes by Lindy ruff or...and possibly, if you can go back that far, the summer of 1980 when Dennis Potvin was clearly offside trying to keep the puck in in an overtime goal by Nystrom to win the Cup over the Flyers. | |
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Posted: 8/13/2007 6:15:15 PM | | Sens Eastern Conference Champs... | |
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Posted: 8/13/2007 8:52:08 PM | Wow .... Rock em Sock em ...... love the heated debate on this thread ..... keep it going guys .... just don't let it get in the gutter!
Middle of August and every one is this passionate already! Woo Hoo can't wait for the first puck drop. | |
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Posted: 8/14/2007 11:53:46 AM | | Any ones take on iron Mike coaching the falmes I knew that Playfiar was to soft as a coach | |
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Posted: 8/14/2007 9:34:11 PM | Sens lose in Final to Ducks
oh wait a more accurate statement;
Sens get creamed in Final to the Might Ducks. | |
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Posted: 8/14/2007 10:09:35 PM | ^^^
Just a wee bit behind the times, aren't we?  | |
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Posted: 8/14/2007 11:42:34 PM | ^^^
nope...this happened last year. We have not had a nhl hockey final since the Ducks smashed the Sens. | |
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