Quick Hits: Conkblock Edition

Fuck Montador. He held Franzen in front of the net, they got knocked down, and then while Franzen is down he gets punched in the head by Montador. He deserves to get popped for that chickenshit.

WOOOOOOOOOOO-HOOOOOOOOOO!

Hopefully more coming. I’ve got to fly today and need to get through two games’ worth of CSSI. I’ll tell it was absolutely awesome being in that crowd.

I’ll take it over “Fuck Detroit” because at least it’s a tiny bit clever.

Also, the tears coming from SCH about the refereeing are hilarious. The Hawks have been called for a grand total of 2(!) penalties in 2 games against the Wings, but it’s the refs that cost the Hawks the game last night.

I’ll give them that Filppula got away with a crosscheck on the tying goal, but the Hawks were slashing and interfering all over the ice last night (I was at the game), and nary a call. Instead of the refs helping the Wings it’s them hopping on the bandwagon with the rest of the Hawk fans.

It’s pretty funny actually.

I was really disappointed no one got that haha

Then the top 4 of those 6 teams would make it, with 2 teams left out.

It’s going to happen that a team is going to be left out of the playoffs simply because of the division they play in. We see it now when a Western team would be a division leader in the East but misses the playoffs in the West.

why not just cut out Columbus and one other shitty team from the league? then it could be 4 seven team conferences or divisions or what ever they want to call them and we wouldnt have to watch nearly as much garbage hockey.

But contracting teams means so much more on a bigger scale. First, you’re eliminating jobs for the players, who are part of a union. Imagine how well that is going to go over.

Then you’ve got the team staff, the arena workers, and the damage to the local economy.

While it’s nice to think you can just zap a team out of existence, the reality is that so many people would be affected that it’s a devastating move for the NHL to do. Relocation will always be looked at before contraction.

Put it this way: I’d expect them to add 2 teams before they eliminate them.

also you would have to look at the money they bring in and the lack of fans, like tampa for example (sorry yzerman) even when they are doing good they cant fill their arena.

Not true. Living in the Tampa area, also being a Bolts fan, I attend games much as possible and that couldn’t be further from the truth. Last game I went to was on New Year’s Eve vs. Hurricanes and was a packed house, sold out in fact. Even hours in advance for the Espo tribute and statue unveiling. During last years playoff run, games were sold out weeks in advance and we had about 3-4,000 more people (including me) watching outside on the screens. Plus numerous watch parties, all over the area.

Not only has the new owner(savior), front office, team, Yzerman, city bought in (literally in some cases) but the fans have also. For example.. check out the season ticket sales alone. Craziness!!

And far as currently:

Then there’s the claim that fans won’t pay to watch the 1-3-1 system. Again, not true. In 2009-10, the Lightning were 21st in the NHL in attendance with an average of 15,497 fans per game. Last season, the Lightning ended up 17th in attendance, with their average fans per game going up to 17,268. So far this season, the Lightning are 8th in attendance, with an average of 19,150 fans per game. Funny, it seems like their attendance has increased in proportion to how many games they win. -Daniel Wagner, posted under opinion (Backhand Shelf)

Keep in mind here.. we’re also talking about hockey… in Florida. Not too shabby.

Edzo told us repeated during a replay of it. He emphasized it a good 10-to-50 times. Definitely Happy’s fault.

Chicago blows.

But I checked the box score on Yahoo and it showed that Franzen got a 2 minute roughing penalty at 3:08 of OT. Must have been for that punch. Glad it didn’t result in anything other than 2 more penalty minutes on Mule’s sheet.

Besides Pav just being amazing…Mule/Montador are pretty much responsible for the goal.

If you watch them as it happens.. Mule has Montador’s stick between his legs, being Mule he doesn’t do much to free it and almost holds it there. At the same time.. Montador isn’t doing much at all to free his stick from Mule either, more just watching the puck/play.

This is key… because as they’re tying each other up, during this lovely embrace, Crawford tries to cover the puck as the “Mule-tador” combo trips over his glove. Not allowing him to cover, freeing up the puck for Dats-a-wrap!

and I can tell you that we’re definitely a classy bunch!

I guess that’s what happens when you put together a bunch of Hawks fans, and some of which still (sadly) have big time inferiority complexes towards the Wings

This will sound like me being a prick no matter what, but I figured I’d point it out but:

You can always post these as Fanshots. If they’re just links, that’s a good place to put them.

Not meant to be a prick, sorry.