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Nashville can still win this series. Weber is not the Nashville Predators. He is a player on the team. They've won without him in the lineup before. If Nashville wins the next game, they can win the series. If they don't, then it's going to be a lot less likely.
 
Typical Shea Weber being a dirty goon. He's almost as bad as Pronger, which is saying something. If that was in the regular season, he'd be looking at 5 games, given that he's a repeat offender.

Nashville relied on Rinne, and lucky goals to win that game. They can't keep doing that or they'll be curbstomped as soon as they step foot in the Joe.

And for everyone's sake, let's get some competent refs, as well please.
 
Vandenal
Nashville can still win this series. Weber is not the Nashville Predators. He is a player on the team. They've won without him in the lineup before. If Nashville wins the next game, they can win the series. If they don't, then it's going to be a lot less likely.
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Weber's a pretty important player on the team. The Preds don't play a puck possession game, and often let the other team dictate the pace of play. That's bad news when you're talking about Lidstrom, Datsyuk, and Zetterberg without Weber to counteract them. Suter is one hell of a defenseman too, but the pairing works as a pairing. Subtract either guy and it's not the same force. I worry that if he gets suspended for 2 games, the Wings would go up 2-1 and that'd be tough to come back from, especially with game 4 being in Detroit.

Edit: the Kings win game one 4-2!
 
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Got to say I kinda lol'd at Burrows' fail which gave LA the finishing touch. I'm not a Canucks hater, but Burrows is certainly the last player in the world who would deserve a Stanley Cup. It's fun to see him fail like that.

Despite the Weber hit, it was nice that Nashville won. I'm getting bored with watching Detroit constantly advancing forward when it's the same boring team every year.

The Pens kinda failed their 3-0 lead, I'm a bit neutral when it comes to their rivalry with Philly. I have hoped for the Flyers to fail because of that extremely stupid way of trading away players for Bryzgalov, who was genuinely overrated in the end. If they win though, that's a good thing, at least the annoying Crosby and Cooke the Cheapshotter will fall out.
 
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Got to say I kinda lol'd at Burrows' fail which gave LA the finishing touch. I'm not a Canucks hater, but Burrows is certainly the last player in the world who would deserve a Stanley Cup. It's fun to see him fail like that.
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Doesn't deserve it? And why is that? The guy was never drafted and worked his way through the ECHL to the AHL where he finally got a chance here. He's taken himself from one of the lowest levels of pro hockey to become the biggest bargain in the NHL. He's easily worth double what they pay him and yet he still has nothing but good things to say about the team and Vancouver.... Oh and does more charity work here than almost anybody, guess that doesn't deserve one?

Burrows was the least of our problems last night. He's a first unit penalty killer which played more than our first line last night. We took so many penalties I was almost yelling at them through my TV. Your not going to win many games taking that many penalties. Edler was terrible last night and actually it was his mistake that led to their 3rd goal. He was awful on many plays last night.

In a bright spot for the Canucks though, Luongo was brilliant last night. That was the goalie we traded for and I wonder where that was all season long.

Weber's rage last night was disgusting. I used to have all the respect in the world for him but that is all but gone. It's not even like it was some idiot that pissed him off. If it was me in charge of discipline that's 3 games suspension. But the NHL being the NHL probably just a fine.
 
Ridiculous that Weber only got a fine. This is the worst thing about the NHL, Weber gets a $2500 fine for smashing someone's head into the glass twice, but Tortorella gets a $20,000 fine for comments after a game. Avery gets 6 games and an anger managment class for saying "sloppy seconds". James Wisniewski gets 2 games last year for an "inappropriate gesture".
 
Let me tell you something. That $2,500 fine is the damndest slap on the wrist ever. So roughing up a guy on the ice merits THAT sort of fine compared to a five-figure fine for criticizing officials? How about adding an extra zero or two to that $2.5K fine and throw in a suspension or two? Michael Wilbon on PTI made a great point today- whatever happened to respecting members of your own profession in a sport like hockey?

I rarely watch hockey, but that's just foul.
 
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I really have no problem with that fine. Weber was high sticked in the face earlier in the game by Franzen. Blatantly obvious too. One could argue that the Zetterberg incident was more retaliation than anything. I was surprised it wasn't a penalty. The NHL clearly wants rougher playoff hockey.
 
Vandenal he makes something like $6 million a year.... Why bother fine him at all? Like people said, coaches being honest about the officiating in these games get fined in the tens of thousands while a star player that makes 3 times that of a well paid coach gets $2500? What a joke.

2-3 game suspension is what I'd like to see, at the very least make the fine more than what a coach says for saying bad things about an official. Where is the deterrent in a $2500 fine? I've heard of traffic fines costing more than that.
 
Vandenal
I really have no problem with that fine. Weber was high sticked in the face earlier in the game by Franzen. Blatantly obvious too. One could argue that the Zetterberg incident was more retaliation than anything. I was surprised it wasn't a penalty. The NHL clearly wants rougher playoff hockey.
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Zetterberg threw a clean body check trying to get the puck. Pronger, Jr. smashed his face into the glass after the game.

Straight ******** that he didn't get at least a game.
 
Vandenal
I really have no problem with that fine. Weber was high sticked in the face earlier in the game by Franzen. Blatantly obvious too. One could argue that the Zetterberg incident was more retaliation than anything. I was surprised it wasn't a penalty. The NHL clearly wants rougher playoff hockey.
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A high stick doesn't give you free reign to smash someone's face into the glass WWE style after trying to punch them in the head.

The fine is symbolic, it's the max that's allowed under the CBA, and it's such an inconsequential amount of money. Weber makes 7.5M this year, the fine is 0.033% of his salary. You may as well make him bake Zetterberg a batch of cookies instead. It'd be more of a sacrifice than $2500 to someone making well into 7 figures.

The NHL is really bad when it comes to discipline. It's a farce, guys get away with murder unless someone else gets injured.
 
Noob616
The fine is symbolic, it's the max that's allowed under the CBA, and it's such an inconsequential amount of money. Weber makes 7.5M this year, the fine is 0.033% of his salary. You may as well make him bake Zetterberg a batch of cookies instead. It'd be more of a sacrifice than $2500 to someone making well into 7 figures.

The NHL is really bad when it comes to discipline. It's a farce, guys get away with murder unless someone else gets injured.
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Hahaha that form of punishment should be implemented into the next CBA.

Rule 1."The offending player shall pay the fine and/or serve the suspension handed down to him by the NHL disciplinary committee following a punishable offense."

1a. "If the actions of the offending player results in bodily harm to another player, the offending player must bake that player a batch of cookies. Flavor to be decided upon by the injured player."

1b. "The offending player must bake the cookies by hand and with no help from their mother."


Hehehe.
 
Funny thing CMvan46, is that I wouldn't be surprised if something that dumb was a rule. I mean we have the trapezoid rule thing, I still think that is dumb.
 
Problem would be when Weber slips laxatives into the cookies and Zetterberg shares them pre-game :lol:

EDIT: they're on TSN talking about the puck over the glass rule. That's another really dumb rule, along with the trapezoid.
 
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Noob616
Problem would be when Weber slips laxatives into the cookies and Zetterberg shares them pre-game :lol:

EDIT: they're on TSN talking about the puck over the glass rule. That's another really dumb rule, along with the trapezoid.
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:lol:

Saw that on TSN too and I agree with Ward. It's a dumb rule and shooting the puck over the glass by accident shouldn't decide playoff games. If it's intentional that's one thing but like when Edler hit be puck out of mid air last night and it went over is a bit ridiculous.
 
CMvan46
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Saw that on TSN too and I agree with Ward. It's a dumb rule and shooting the puck over the glass by accident shouldn't decide playoff games. If it's intentional that's one thing but like when Edler hit be puck out of mid air last night and it went over is a bit ridiculous.
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There's also the irony of it being a "delay of game" penalty. Instead of just dropping the puck again, they take all the time to call the penalty, tell it to the NHL stats guys who record the penalty, and then start play again. IMO it should just be like icing, if you shoot it out from the defensive zone, you can't change lines. I think it would have the same effect (punishing the lazy play) without the stupid aspect where it decides playoff games.
 
That's a good point, I'd much rather see that.

8-5 Philadelphia!!!! What? Do they realize it's the playoffs? I can't believe Pittsburgh is down 2-0 in the series.
 
Well the Preds lost 3-2 tonight. They really needed to win that game. Detroit with a tied series and heading home to Joe? Oh god. We have the better goalie, but we need more scoring. Someone to step it up. Also, 2 Flyers got hat-tricks in their 8-5 win. At first I thought I was looking at a score for a MLB game :lol:
 
Wow, Philly is certainly an awesome team despite all the doubts I used to have.

Seriously, the Pens' defense is a complete joke. Same goes for Vancouver without D.Sedin, a team just shouldn't collapse at the loss of a single player.

Fortunately I don't mind, TBH everything is currently going nicely from my view, with Philly and L.A. in a 2-0 lead, and New Jersey and NY Rangers in a 1-0 lead :)
 
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Really impressed with how loud the arena is in Florida, also it's pretty awesome the rats are back :lol:
 
Schneider start in Vancouver. Good move by their coach. Also Nashville got their first playoff win in franchise history at Joe Louis Arena. Weber is awesome. :)
 
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Beat Jersey.
 
1241Penguin
Canucks lost...
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Last year's run was a great run, to say the least. I think that the pressure this year for the Canucks is huge, and the cracks are showing. Although the fans will blame goaltending, there isn't much to blame in this series. Quick is really, really good and Schneider showed why he can be a #1 in any other team, outside LA and Nashville of course.
 
Kings really have dominated. It's not goaltending for the Canucks at all, it's just a lack of focus from the 'Nucks, in a pivotal game 3, instead of being a leader and playing hard, Kesler is falling and diving all over the ice. I think the Canucks championship window is starting to close, and this is proof of that.
 
I'd rather the Canucks lose now and quick, rather than build up false hope. Which will probably lead into another riot. :dunce:
 
I'd like to see them get swept, so that Vigneault gets fired, and Montreal can hire him :D
 

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