# NHL Playoffs **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [April 12, 2009, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-playoffs/492862 "2009-04-12T17:50:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f08c70/32.png) [@Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Brother_Walker)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2009, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-playoffs/492862/201 "2009-05-05T01:59:09Z")
C-A-P-S! CAPS!!! CAPS!!! CAPS!!! 😃 😃 😃 Wow… What a game. That’s 2-0 at home. All the other series are 1-1. ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f08c70/32.png) [@Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Brother_Walker)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2009, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-playoffs/492862/202 "2009-05-05T02:11:17Z")
> [@Rysto](#): > > Anything you can do I can do better > I can do anything better than you… I bow to you, sir. Quite apropos. First, we get Ovechkin’s hat trick. Then we get Crosby’s. To his credit, Crosby did swat the puck out of mid-air. Great focus by a player. Good timing on that post. 🙂 Ya still lost, though, you scurvy dog! 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Harborwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2009, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-playoffs/492862/203 "2009-05-05T02:16:40Z")
Maybe if we’re lucky, Gary Bettman will suffer from a joy overdose and have to step down. A hat trick each for the two biggest stars in the NHL in a playoff game could do that to him. ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2009, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-playoffs/492862/204 "2009-05-05T02:57:45Z")
> [@Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](#): > > Can you pull a hat trick? (probably too soon to find a link) [It took longer to hit youtube than I thought](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVVBdzD3SNk). By the way, can we stop with this “Malkin is better than Crosby” nonsense? ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2009, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-playoffs/492862/205 "2009-05-06T00:52:07Z")
That was a pretty good first period by the Canucks, and i’m happy to go in to the break ahead 1-0. It was a really sweet goal, too; Kesler’s pass across the goal to Raymond was perfectly placed and had perfect speed. Raymond had basically the whole net to shoot at. On a tangential issue, can i just say that i hate the way the people running the coverage insist on interviewing the players during the game. Player interviews, in most sports, are pretty useless and uninformative anyway, and it just seems completely pointless to try and get a guy who’s focusing on the game to talk about strategy or whatever while he’s sitting on the bench. Just leave them alone and let them play. ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f08c70/32.png) [@Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Brother_Walker)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2009, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-playoffs/492862/206 "2009-05-06T01:26:53Z")
I am witnessing the fall of the Buhlin Wall… …for the second time. As my mother used to tell my sister, “Well, if you kept your legs closed that wouldn’t happen.” 😃 (describing Vancouver’s third goal) Chicago is not showing any defense at all. Sheesh. More fighting than playing. See, now \*that’s \*bad hockey. ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2009, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-playoffs/492862/207 "2009-05-06T03:26:18Z")
Triple OT? What triple OT? Duck up 1-0 after 1. ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f08c70/32.png) [@Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Brother_Walker)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2009, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-playoffs/492862/208 "2009-05-06T03:37:06Z")
QUACK! ::ahem:: Man, the Ducks came out \*fast \*in the first period. I was watching guys just fly all over the ice. Good game so far. I am likin’ this. The guys on VerSus are talking about how Chicago is laying down. Even though Vancouver is injury plagued. It does not bode well for the Blackhawks. Here comes the final period! Go Ducks! ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2009, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-playoffs/492862/209 "2009-05-06T03:56:28Z")
I am not liking this crappy reffing :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2009, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-playoffs/492862/210 "2009-05-06T03:57:04Z")
Old man Neidermayer scores on the PP for 2-0! ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f08c70/32.png) [@Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Brother_Walker)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2009, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-playoffs/492862/211 "2009-05-06T03:59:34Z")
Quack! Quack!! 😃 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f08c70/32.png) [@Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Brother_Walker)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2009, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-playoffs/492862/212 "2009-05-06T04:06:48Z")
> [@wolfman](#): > > I am not liking this crappy reffing :mad: I have to agree with you there. What? Wisnewski (sp) gets elbowed in the face and the \*Ducks \*are in the penalty? ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2009, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-playoffs/492862/213 "2009-05-06T05:11:23Z")
What a fucking idiot. ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2009, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-playoffs/492862/214 "2009-05-06T05:13:28Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > On a tangential issue, can i just say that i hate the way the people running the coverage insist on interviewing the players during the game. Player interviews, in most sports, are pretty useless and uninformative anyway, and it just seems completely pointless to try and get a guy who’s focusing on the game to talk about strategy or whatever while he’s sitting on the bench. Just leave them alone and let them play. “Well, we’re feeling pretty good out there, we just gotta keep focus and move the puck and get it into the zone. We gotta take advantage of the opportunities we get…” Seriously, anyone could give one of these interviews for any given team. > [@Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](#): > > I have to agree with you there. What? Wisnewski (sp) gets elbowed in the face and the \*Ducks \*are in the penalty? I think he got the puck in his face, and the penalty was for a separate hooking (I think) incident that occurred right after, while play was still on-going. You know, I’m rooting for the Ducks in this game, but damn if the Wings didn’t just score. That is crappy refereeing. ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2009, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-playoffs/492862/215 "2009-05-06T05:21:37Z")
The puck was in the chest, the elbow was in the jaw. No penalty. On the other side of the coin, that should have been a goal near the end for Detroit, but then that ever so hazy “intent to blow whistle” rule negated that. Humans…freakin’ unpredictable. ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f08c70/32.png) [@Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Brother_Walker)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2009, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-playoffs/492862/216 "2009-05-06T05:29:44Z")
I don’t know what that rule is, but I’ve gotta say: You guys got robbed. Even though I want the Ducks to win, what? That was like about 0.7 seconds??? I am not a smart dude. ---
**Author:** ![Harborwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2009, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-playoffs/492862/217 "2009-05-06T09:54:53Z")
I want to change my picks for this series. Zebras in five.:dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Bruce\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bruce\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bruce_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2009, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-playoffs/492862/218 "2009-05-06T11:48:49Z")
Ugghhh… ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2009, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-playoffs/492862/219 "2009-05-06T14:37:43Z")
> [@Yeticus\_Rex](#): > > The puck was in the chest, the elbow was in the jaw. No penalty. Here’s the [video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRkQJjbKTCM)with the VS feed, which was different from the camera angles I saw from TSN/RDS. The RDS guys thought it was the puck that hurt him, and never mentioned the elbow, and I didn’t see it (I don’t usually catch these things anyways). Based on the camera angle as he was getting onto the stretcher, it doesn’t look like the injury is to his mouth though… he’s holding his chest/side in a very painful way. Perhaps internal injuries caused him to vomit blood, in addition to the gash to his mouth? I haven’t found any updates on Google News yet. I hope he’s ok. ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2009, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-playoffs/492862/220 "2009-05-06T14:47:24Z")
sorry for the double post; [here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRHwM58ACFc&feature=related)is the TSN feed I saw (though I listened to the French commentary, which was quite similar to this one). It seems clear that the puck is what hurt him, though the elbow should probably still have been called. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-playoffs/492862.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-playoffs/492862.md?page=12)