NHL hockey playoffs start tonight

[jaytrem]

I see San Antonio won their first 10 playoff games and then lost the last 4. Perhaps the Kings would like to do something similar. Glad the'yre coming back to Jersey for at least 1 more. Certainly could use the gate receipts.

 

[JimG.]

I have not watched yet is it close for Devil's? And yes Martin will probably go down as 2 nd greatest goalie of all times, if not the best ever.

Marty had a few close calls in the 3rd, Kings hit the post a few times.

The Devils played tough...they scored and then the refs basically gave LA a goal with a very soft penalty call on Clarkson, but the Devils hung in there and scored again, then an empty netter.

I would love to see NJ win again and at least make LA sweat.

 

[4aprice]

Woohoo, we live for a day. Time to whip out all the cliches. One shift, one period at a time. Lets go back to LA next week. Get to say it at least one more time LETS GO DEVILS.

Alex

Lake Hopatcong, NJ

 

[JimG.]

Woohoo, we live for a day. Time to whip out all the cliches. One shift, one period at a time. Lets go back to LA next week. Get to say it at least one more time LETS GO DEVILS.

Alex

Lake Hopatcong, NJ

Look at the Spurs...20 wins in a row, then they lose 4 straight and they are home for the summer.

LA is ripe for the picking.

 

[jaytrem]

Look at the Spurs...20 wins in a row, then they lose 4 straight and they are home for the summer.

LA is ripe for the picking.

Yeah, we got em right where we want em!!! Let em win the first 3 so they're overconfident and then take 4 in a row. I love it when a plan comes together.

 

[legalskier]

Porn Star Taylor Stevens distraction at Kings game doesn't faze Devils coach
Story: http://www.examiner.com/article/por...ction-at-kings-game-doesn-t-faze-devils-coach

 

[ScottySkis]

Lets go Devil's

 

[JimG.]

Go Devils...3-2

LA's going down.

 

[jaytrem]

Go Devils...3-2

LA's going down.

Sounds good to me!!!

Got a physical scheduled tomorrow morning for life insurance. Hope my blood pressure is back to normal by then.

GO DEVILS!!!

 

[4aprice]

I only saw the last 1:30 of the game on Sat and that from a Pizza stand on the Wildwood boardwalk. (Flyer country) One more road victory and we bring it home for #7. Like fighting off a set point in tennis, I get to say it one more time. LETS GO DEVILS

Alex

Lake Hopatcong, NJ

 

[4aprice]

Congrats to the LA Kings. It was a fun ride but we came up short. The penalty was a tough pill to swallow but it is what it is and the Kings certainly deserved to win the cup. Will be very interesting to see what happens this off season (maybe devastating for the Devs).

Alex

Lake Hopatcong, NJ

 

[kickstand]

Hate to see Brodeur put up such a stinker on what will probably be his last Cup game, but LA fully took advantage of that 5-minute major. Haven't seen one of those in a while, and it's definitely the first time I've seen 3 goals scored on one. Good stuff.

 

[JimG.]

Congrats to the LA Kings. It was a fun ride but we came up short. The penalty was a tough pill to swallow but it is what it is and the Kings certainly deserved to win the cup. Will be very interesting to see what happens this off season (maybe devastating for the Devs).

Alex

Lake Hopatcong, NJ

Devils got screwed with that penalty. Game over after they score 3 goals. How do they call that a major penalty?? And I'm not a Devils fan, but I was hoping for a game 7.

Now I hate the Kings and those refs who screwed us all out of a cup decided on the ice, not with whistles.

 

[jaytrem]

Devils got screwed with that penalty. Game over after they score 3 goals. How do they call that a major penalty??

I don't know, it seemed pretty legit to me. It was exactly what they were trying to crack down on all year. Definitely sucked though. Anyway, it was a great and surprising run. That Jonathan Quick is amazing. Will be interesting to see if he's another flash in the pan of if he can sustain. He a free agent after next season, grew up a Rangers fan. Hmmmmm.......

 

[kickstand]

Devils got screwed with that penalty. Game over after they score 3 goals. How do they call that a major penalty?? And I'm not a Devils fan, but I was hoping for a game 7.

Now I hate the Kings and those refs who screwed us all out of a cup decided on the ice, not with whistles.

http://www.nhl.com/ice/page.htm?id=26329

Bernier didn't play the puck, had a solid 10-12 feet to change his course and busted up Scuderi's face enough in 2 places that there was a delay to clean the blood off the ice. How is that NOT a 5-minute major?

 

[JimG.]

http://www.nhl.com/ice/page.htm?id=26329

Bernier didn't play the puck, had a solid 10-12 feet to change his course and busted up Scuderi's face enough in 2 places that there was a delay to clean the blood off the ice. How is that NOT a 5-minute major?

Just a bitter hockey fan who wanted to see one last game.

Of course, the Devils could have done a better job of killing that penalty and only give up say 1 goal instead of 3.

Easier to blame the refs.

 

[ScottySkis]

Marty I think wants another cup I think he will come back for next season

 

[jaywbigred]

Sounds good to me!!!

Got a physical scheduled tomorrow morning for life insurance. Hope my blood pressure is back to normal by then.

GO DEVILS!!!

Hope you've looked into an Irrevocable Life Insurance Trust!!!

Devils got screwed with that penalty. Game over after they score 3 goals. How do they call that a major penalty?? And I'm not a Devils fan, but I was hoping for a game 7.

Now I hate the Kings and those refs who screwed us all out of a cup decided on the ice, not with whistles.

I agree, but it is more a question of how the hit on Gionta 10 seconds earlier was not called exactly the same. The only real difference was the extent of the injury. If anything, Stoll's hit was more violent in the way he strided and especially the way he followed through with his arms.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9ydglfO0Mg

http://www.nhl.com/ice/page.htm?id=26329

Bernier didn't play the puck, had a solid 10-12 feet to change his course and busted up Scuderi's face enough in 2 places that there was a delay to clean the blood off the ice. How is that NOT a 5-minute major?

Because it is purely a discretionary call on the part of the ref, and there was no apparent intent to injure, no extra strides, no use of elbows, forearms, or hands, no targeting of the head. If you watch from 0:40 of the replay I posted above, his last stride is at the face off dot, and he actually brakes before contact. It was only violent because of the awkward distance between Scuderi and the boards. And given the degree of discretion that is involved with the penalty, the real issue is the huge gap in the application of that discretion between that hit and the one that occurred just seconds earlier. For the first to be a non-penalty and the second to be a 5 minute major and game misconduct seems completely incongruent. Of course, it was the Devils PK that turned an unfair application of the rules into the series deciding play.

Just a bitter hockey fan who wanted to see one last game.

Of course, the Devils could have done a better job of killing that penalty and only give up say 1 goal instead of 3.

Easier to blame the refs.

Exactly. Big question as to what this playoffs would have been like if the Devil PK that set the all-time NHL record for regular season PK% had shown up in the playoffs...or if Kovalchuk had been healthy...

The Kings deserved to win, perhaps based on Quick's play alone, but this was a closer series than the idiots on NBC ever gave credit for, and I think the Devs actually had the better play for the majority of the series.

Get Kovy healthy, sign Parise and Marty, bring a young goalie up for a quasi-platoon, and let's do it again next year.

 

[kickstand]

I agree, but it is more a question of how the hit on Gionta 10 seconds earlier was not called exactly the same. The only real difference was the extent of the injury. If anything, Stoll's hit was more violent in the way he strided and especially the way he followed through with his arms.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9ydglfO0Mg


Because it is purely a discretionary call on the part of the ref, and there was no apparent intent to injure, no extra strides, no use of elbows, forearms, or hands, no targeting of the head. If you watch from 0:40 of the replay I posted above, his last stride is at the face off dot, and he actually brakes before contact. It was only violent because of the awkward distance between Scuderi and the boards. And given the degree of discretion that is involved with the penalty, the real issue is the huge gap in the application of that discretion between that hit and the one that occurred just seconds earlier. For the first to be a non-penalty and the second to be a 5 minute major and game misconduct seems completely incongruent. Of course, it was the Devils PK that turned an unfair application of the rules into the series deciding play.

Personally, I think the non-call on Stoll was because it didn't look as bad as the Bernier hit. There was no glass for Gionta to ram his face into, so he sort of folded over the boards. Not sure if that's better or worse, but I believe that was a factor in the non-call.

When you look at the Bernier hit on a replay, particularly from the overhead camera, it looks like more of an unfortunate hit than a malicious one. He didn't have as much room as I thought he did, and I can totally see how Bernier thought Scuderi would keep the puck on the forehand and continue behind the net, not backhand it and slam on the brakes, like he did. However, we have the luxury of replay. In real-time, at ice level and depending on the ref's view (the one who called it was along the left boards), I can absolutely see how they called that. Maybe a more appropriate call would have been a double-minor, but that's the type of hit the NHL is trying to eliminate from the game. It's a shame it happened in the deciding game of the Cup finals.

 

[ScottySkis]

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?...9854271933.393280.284038321932&type=3&theater the Stanley cup is now can be eaten lol