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    NHL Hot Stove Thread

    Gaborik is great when he plays. The question is how many games will he actually play in a blue shirt and how many will he spend nursing an injury? Having to face him 6 times a year isn't a very enticing possibility.
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    2009 Stanley Cup Playoffs

    Congrats to all the Red Wings on another great playoff run. You can't win the Cup every year, but they came very close to another one. The way that franchise is run, they'll be back. And now a brand new generation of Penguins fans get their own cup win to celebrate. It may be because I'm a...
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    2009 Stanley Cup Playoffs

    But will he even be 80 percent? The man (reportedly) has a broken foot. The Red Wings were good enough to beat the Penguins twice without him. How good is he going to be defensively against guys like Crosby and Malkin if his foot's broken? Having him back would be a huge boost for the Red Wings...
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    2009 Stanley Cup Playoffs

    Couple of comments. - The past 100 minutes of goaltending from Marc-Andre Fleury has been inspiring. He's only let up two goals in that time, and he was screened on both of them, the latter of the two by Bill Guerin, his own teammate. - Malkin has something he didn't have last year in the...
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    2009 Stanley Cup Playoffs

    Good game from the Penguins, but they won Game 3 at home last year. If they want to prove things are truly different and that they've actually improved enough to beat the Red Wings, they need to win Game 4. It is absolutely crucial. The Pens were outshot this game, which is in contrast to the...
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    2009 Stanley Cup Playoffs

    Are you talking about Talbot's play on Osgood? He was just trying to poke the puck free. Osgood embellished it greatly. And no, if it happened to Fleury, there wouldn't be a suspension, one reason for that being that as mentioned before, the referees aren't calling anything, and secondly...
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    2009 Stanley Cup Playoffs

    Call interference ONCE on Detroit? Call for a penalty shot when Zetterberg closed his hand on the puck in the crease in game 1? Call Hossa for a slash even when he wasn't slashing? There is A TON the NHL could be doing to help the Penguins, both justifiable (the first two) and not (the last...
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    2009 Stanley Cup Playoffs

    I know, and it was a weak goal. Fleury should have had it. Looking frame by frame at the Hossa "slash" you can see that both men were simply trying to play the puck, their sticks impacted, and Dupuis' broke in the middle. Good no call. As for the Wings not getting any penalties, neither are...
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    2009 Stanley Cup Playoffs

    Detroit is far better than any of the teams the Pens faced in this year's playoffs. Philadelphia had weak goaltending in Marty Biron, Washington had defensemen who had to look up the word "defense" in the dictionary, and I don't even know what was wrong with Carolina. Cam Ward had a beyond...
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    2009 Stanley Cup Playoffs

    Um..... Addendum to that: Fleury needs to realize the boards are lively and be in better position. The boards had a lot to do with the first two goals, and on the third, Staal was right near the puck but lost track of where it was, leading to freaking Justin Abdelkader of all people scoring...
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    2009 Stanley Cup Playoffs

    They probably would use the stick, since they are technically attempting to play the puck, dangerous as it may be. I'm sure they were, but they didn't try to exploit them much if at all.
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    2009 Stanley Cup Playoffs

    The Wings did a very nice job in their own end at keeping the puck contained to the boards. The Pens didn't get very many good scoring chances, and when they did, Osgood made the save. Very unlucky for the Pens though that the puck landed on Osgood's back and stayed on him in the third, but as...
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    2009 Stanley Cup Playoffs

    I plan on it Bill. It was just a bit hard to keep up with the boards during this thing called college, but since I'm off until mid-August, I'll have time to be on here a lot more.
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    2009 Stanley Cup Playoffs

    Hi folks. Haven't been on these forums for a while, but figured I'd check back in on the eve of a very inciting matchup. Now I'm obviously biased, but I'm going to say Penguins in 6. Last year, the Red Wings had all the experience over a young team that breezed its way into the Cup Final. Now...
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    BCS to leave FOX for...ESPN?

    So ESPN can increase subscriber fees further. Seeing how ESPN would pocket the ad revenue from any of their productions on ABC, that's the only reason I can think of. Personally I welcome the BCS to ESPN. They know how to cover college football, and have announcers and production crews that...
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    Who do you consider the greatest quarterback of all-time?

    Joe Montana. Nobody is better in the clutch than he was, and there's a very good chance nobody ever will be.
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    Irritating habits that announcers say

    I've been good Bill. Just busy.
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    Irritating habits that announcers say

    Absolutely. No where is there a more entertaining and informative broadcasting team in sports today. As for annoying habits, Joe Beninati, my least favorite announcer in all of sports, and his tendency to call every goal the exact same way, regardless of importance or lack there of. "HE...
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    2008 MLB Playoffs

    That's even more like a horror movie: They don't die until the last scene. :D
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    2008 MLB Playoffs

    "And I love that dirty water....."
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    NCAA Football 2008-09 Season

    Nailed it HD.
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    NCAA Football 2008-09 Season

    Might have something to do with the fact ESPN doesn't have the rights to televise Mountain West football anymore. Versus does, and they'll be showing that game.
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    NHL 2008-09 Season

    Under for Hossa, as there's too many other talented players in Detroit, and scoring will be more evenly distributed. Under for Buffalo. (Sorry Sabres) Under for Crosby, as he's more of a playmaker than a pure goal scorer. I can see him breaking 100 points though.
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    2008 MLB Playoffs

    Is she dating someone on either the Dodgers or Phillies or starring in a show on Fox's fall lineup? If not, you'll get maybe two or three shots of her the whole series.