C-A-P-S! CAPS!!! CAPS!!! CAPS!!! 
Wow… What a game.
That’s 2-0 at home. All the other series are 1-1.
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!
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.
It took longer to hit youtube than I thought.
By the way, can we stop with this “Malkin is better than Crosby” nonsense?
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.
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.
Triple OT? What triple OT?
Duck up 1-0 after 1.
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!
I am not liking this crappy reffing :mad:
Old man Neidermayer scores on the PP for 2-0!
Quack! Quack!!
I have to agree with you there. What? Wisnewski (sp) gets elbowed in the face and the *Ducks *are in the penalty?
What a fucking idiot.
“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.
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.
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.
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.
I want to change my picks for this series. Zebras in five.:dubious:
Ugghhh…
Here’s the videowith 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.
sorry for the double post; hereis 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.