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JayJ79 · Post by **JayJ79** » Fri May 08, 2009 10:33 pm

Gonchar's injury scares me, since he normally plays a TON of minutes for Pittsburgh. But hopefully the Pens can bring in another decent defenseman and/or the others can step up their games.

Part of me really wishes the NHL would issue a suspension on Ovechkin for the hit. But to be honest, I don't think it was an intentionally dirty hit. It just ended up that way. Still, I think it deserved more than a mere minor penalty. So a suspension is probably a bit much, but hopefully there's at least a fine. Even if it wasn't intentional, the league should send some sort of message that knee-on-knee hits like that really need to be avoided.

DukeJack · Post by **DukeJack** » Sat May 09, 2009 3:31 pm

JayJ79 wrote:Gonchar's injury scares me, since he normally plays a TON of minutes for Pittsburgh. But hopefully the Pens can bring in another decent defenseman and/or the others can step up their games.

Part of me really wishes the NHL would issue a suspension on Ovechkin for the hit. But to be honest, I don't think it was an intentionally dirty hit. It just ended up that way. Still, I think it deserved more than a mere minor penalty. So a suspension is probably a bit much, but hopefully there's at least a fine. Even if it wasn't intentional, the league should send some sort of message that knee-on-knee hits like that really need to be avoided.

I don't see how you can say it was dirty, or deserving of punishment.Ovi took three steps towards Gonch, led with his shoulder, Gonch saw him, tried to sidestep, and in doing so left his leg out. Ovi peeled off, but knee hit knee and Gonchar went down. If it had been Ovi that went down, would you still want him punished?

I dunno, it may be the homer in me, but I just saw a collision players tried to avoid which just made it worse. I hope Gonch is alright, he was one of my favorites when he played for the Caps, but to act like Ovechkin did something dirty, sorry, I gotta take issue with that.

Post by **TwinTownBisonFan** » Sat May 09, 2009 3:41 pm

DukeJack wrote:
JayJ79 wrote:Gonchar's injury scares me, since he normally plays a TON of minutes for Pittsburgh. But hopefully the Pens can bring in another decent defenseman and/or the others can step up their games.

Part of me really wishes the NHL would issue a suspension on Ovechkin for the hit. But to be honest, I don't think it was an intentionally dirty hit. It just ended up that way. Still, I think it deserved more than a mere minor penalty. So a suspension is probably a bit much, but hopefully there's at least a fine. Even if it wasn't intentional, the league should send some sort of message that knee-on-knee hits like that really need to be avoided.
I don't see how you can say it was dirty, or deserving of punishment.Ovi took three steps towards Gonch, led with his shoulder, Gonch saw him, tried to sidestep, and in doing so left his leg out. Ovi peeled off, but knee hit knee and Gonchar went down. If it had been Ovi that went down, would you still want him punished?

I dunno, it may be the homer in me, but I just saw a collision players tried to avoid which just made it worse. I hope Gonch is alright, he was one of my favorites when he played for the Caps, but to act like Ovechkin did something dirty, sorry, I gotta take issue with that.

take it from someone with NO rooting interest in this series... it was a clean hit. Gonchar just was unlucky... which is unfortunate... I like him as a player... but Ovie shouldn't be punished for something like this.

Mountaineer · Post by **Mountaineer** » Mon May 11, 2009 3:25 pm

Grow the brand? Yes we Cane!

When it comes to branding, it's hard to come up with a solid defense of the NHL. Their efforts to make the game faster and more friendly to casual fans has seen some success, but the sheer fact that they're still relegated to Versus most of the time renders their collective brand suspect, to say the least.

But that's not to say that there aren't successes within the NHL. Forbes recently did a story on the fastest-growing team brands in the sports world, looking at which teams in each of the professional sports leagues showed the greatest percentage growth in brand value over the last three years. (As an aside, it's amusing to me that the NHL wasn't even mention in the main article, and is relegated to the back of the bus in the photo-gallery, but I digress.) Here was the breakdown of the Top 5 teams, according to Forbes:

Team - Three-year growth in brand value - Current brand value

1. Pittsburgh Penguins - 88% growth - $28 million

2. Edmonton Oilers - 71% growth - $22 million

3. Montreal Canadiens - 69% growth - $47 million

4. Carolina Hurricanes - 55% growth - $19 million

5. Buffalo Sabres - 54% growth - $19 million

http://www.opensports.com/community/use ... 11766be289

Original Forbes article:
http://www.forbes.com/2009/05/08/fastes ... rands.html

UNHWildCats · Post by **UNHWildCats** » Mon May 11, 2009 4:37 pm

Dear Scott Walker

Watch ya back.

Sincerely

Milan Lucic

Post by **BlueHen86** » Mon May 11, 2009 7:57 pm

Caps beat Pens 5-4 in overtime to force a 7th game. Game 7 will be played Wednesday night in Washington.

Vancouver and Chicago are tied 3-3 after 2 periods. The Blackhawks lead the series 3 games to 2. If Vancouver can even the series they will host game 7 on Thursday.

Post by **BlueHen86** » Mon May 11, 2009 8:08 pm

Vancouver just scored and now leads Chicago 4-3 with about 15 minutes left in regulation.

Post by **BlueHen86** » Mon May 11, 2009 8:09 pm

Blackhawks score!

Vancouver 4 Chicago 4 - 14:19 left in regulation.

Post by **BlueHen86** » Mon May 11, 2009 8:26 pm

Vancouver scores with 7:45 remaining to take a 5-4 lead.
Blackhawks tie it 45 seconds later.

5-5 with 6:34 remaining. Chicago is about to start a power play.

Post by **BlueHen86** » Mon May 11, 2009 8:27 pm

Blackhawks score a PP goal.

Chicago 6 Vancouver 5 with 6:11 remaining in regulation.

Post by **dbackjon** » Mon May 11, 2009 8:29 pm

High scoring game!

Post by **BlueHen86** » Mon May 11, 2009 8:33 pm

dbackjon wrote:High scoring game!

Yes.

And the Blackhawks score again and now lead 7-5 with 3:43 remaining.

Post by **BlueHen86** » Mon May 11, 2009 8:42 pm

The game is over, the Blackhawks win 7-5

They also win the series 4 games to 2.

AppGuy04 · Post by **AppGuy04** » Tue May 12, 2009 10:23 am

UNHWildCats wrote:Dear Scott Walker

Watch ya back.

Sincerely

Milan Lucic

If this happens, the Canes will be in the conference finals and Lucic can fume at home

UNHWildCats · Post by **UNHWildCats** » Tue May 12, 2009 11:12 am

AppGuy04 wrote:
UNHWildCats wrote:Dear Scott Walker

Watch ya back.

Sincerely

Milan Lucic
If this happens, the Canes will be in the conference finals and Lucic can fume at home

He's smart enough to wait until next season.

UNHWildCats · Post by **UNHWildCats** » Tue May 12, 2009 5:06 pm

Bruins up 2-1 in the 2nd

UNHWildCats · Post by **UNHWildCats** » Tue May 12, 2009 5:28 pm

3-1 B's

UNHWildCats · Post by **UNHWildCats** » Tue May 12, 2009 5:35 pm

4-1 Bruins.....

These are the Bruins we saw most of the season.

Mountaineer · Post by **Mountaineer** » Tue May 12, 2009 5:36 pm

Looks like the magic is coming to an end for the Canes. Complete meltdown these past two games.

I imagine Boston closes this one out back home on Thursday.

UNHWildCats · Post by **UNHWildCats** » Tue May 12, 2009 5:52 pm

Mountaineer wrote:Looks like the magic is coming to an end for the Canes. Complete meltdown these past two games.

I imagine Boston closes this one out back home on Thursday.

i aint gonna celebrate until they do, I had my doubts the oither night wether they would pull it off... I had no doubts they could, but doing and having the ability to do so are two different things...

In any case Carolina is a good team and its been a good series... sorta.... aside from the one OT game, each game has been lopsided.

Whoever advances from both this and the Wash/ pitt series should make a good eastern conf championship

Mountaineer · Post by **Mountaineer** » Tue May 12, 2009 5:56 pm

I'm a natural pessimist.

Yeah, the series has been pretty decent, but there's no way (after this implosion) that the Canes win Game 7. Nope. Ain't happening.

Post by **BlueHen86** » Tue May 12, 2009 7:40 pm

Mountaineer wrote:I'm a natural pessimist.

Yeah, the series has been pretty decent, but there's no way (after this implosion) that the Canes win Game 7. Nope. Ain't happening.

I hope you are wrong. Go Canes!

AppGuy04 · Post by **AppGuy04** » Wed May 13, 2009 6:55 am

Looks like we are done!

Post by **ChetSteadman** » Wed May 13, 2009 7:21 am

The Canes aren't done yet, but it's really darn close. The lack of a solid shut-down defenseman is really hurting.

Post by **BlueHen86** » Thu May 14, 2009 4:27 am

Pittsburgh beats Washington 6-2 in game 7 of their series and advances to the Eastern Conference final.
The Penguins scored the first 5 goals of the game and the Caps were never able to make it close afterwards.

The Penguins will play the winner of the Boston - Carolina series which is tied at 3 games each, with game 7 scheduled for tonight.

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