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Re: The NHL 2007-08 Season Thread
Anyone see videos last night's riots in Montreal? Pretty crazy footage on youtube and tsn.ca. 16 people were arrested (including three minors) and they destroyed 5 cop cars and damaged/raided 10 businesses. At least no one was hurt.
Go Flames and Flyers!
Re: The NHL 2007-08 Season Thread
Anyone see this story? My buddies were talking about it last night and saying it was hilarious because "poor Tim Thomas is still wearing the yellow pads." Marc-Andre Fleury's been playing so much better since he changed the colour of his pads, but it might be coincidental. It's pretty crazy, though.
Ottawa optometrist assists Pens' Fleury
By Joe Starkey
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Wednesday, April 9, 2008Every once in a while, Ottawa Senators fan and longtime Ottawa optometrist Janet Leduc would look at her television and cringe.
It would happen when the Penguins were on. Dr. Leduc could not understand why their goaltender, Marc-Andre Fleury, was dressed so loudly.
"For three or four years, every time I walked past and saw those yellow pads, I'd say, 'What is that boy thinking?' " Dr. Leduc recalled Tuesday in a phone interview. "I'd wonder, 'Why doesn't someone tell him?' because it's not a secret."
By that, Dr. Leduc meant the notion that yellow is the most sensitive color to the human eye - in this case, shooters' eyes in a hockey game.
"When they're moving that fast and can see the goal pads, the goalie, the net, it makes it a little bit easier to shoot on net," Dr. Leduc said.
Dr. Leduc, 50, explained as much in a letter sent to Penguins executives this past winter, in which she suggested Fleury switch to white pads. Fleury, recuperating from an ankle injury, got a hold of the letter.
"I thought about (the suggestion)," Fleury said then, "and I thought, 'Maybe it's time.' "
Upon his return, Fleury looked like a different man, having replaced his yellow pads and blocker with white ones. He played like a different man, too, ripping off 10 wins in 12 starts going into tonight's Game 1 matchup against the Senators.
Fleury isn't sold that pad color is the reason for his hot streak, but he does say, "I think I'll keep them."
Yellow pads had become Fleury's trademark, one copied by many a youth league goaltender.
"That was the tough part," Fleury said. "At first, I didn't want to do it. I'd see so many kids in hockey schools with yellow pads."
He laughed and added, "You know, I'm sorry to the moms and dads. It was a tough choice."
The toughest part for Dr. Leduc was the realization that her beloved Senators would meet the Penguins in the first round. A story in yesterday's Ottawa Citizen should make her a celebrity of sorts.
But if she's worried about becoming Ottawa's answer to Steve Bartman (the Chicago Cubs fan whose foul ball catch might have robbed the Cubs of a trip to the World Series), she isn't letting on.
"Well, I have been called a traitor already," she said, laughing. "But mostly, people still like me. My neighbor phoned and said she'll help me with a disguise for Game 3 (in Ottawa)."
Dr. Leduc said she hasn't heard from Fleury or the Penguins but welcomes the possibility.
"I expect at least an autographed jersey," she said.
Source: http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune … 61375.html
Re: The NHL 2007-08 Season Thread
So it's Philly. The refs were absolutely retarded though. I like that they let them play, but there's a line. You don't push a defenseman on top of the goalie so that he's down and out and then call it a goal. That's ridiculous. Ah well, go Flames!
And Habs get the Flyers in Round 2. Should be a great series.
Re: The NHL 2007-08 Season Thread
that penalty against Washington in OT was bullshit...and Huet had a bit of a brain fart there...he thought the rebound went the other way 
doh!
it was avery good series though...i anticiapte that Philly will give the habs maybe more than they can handle...Philly is huge and the habs have alot of small dudes. the other series in the East is Rangers/Penguins...that will be a good one too 
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Woo-hoo!!
Refs weren't bad. The defenseman had the puck so he checked him. Not the Flyers fault the goalie was standing behind him. The OT trip was pretty blatant. I agree in the 3rd period on let 'em play, but that was a pretty obvious trip. The guy even lost his stick over it.
Re: The NHL 2007-08 Season Thread
that penalty against Washington in OT was bullshit...and Huet had a bit of a brain fart there...he thought the rebound went the other way
it was avery good series though...i anticiapte that Philly will give the habs maybe more than they can handle...Philly is huge and the habs have alot of small dudes. the other series in the East is Rangers/Penguins...that will be a good one too
Thing with Philly is that they're big and slow. Habs are very quick (Philly only really has one player who is small and quick, Danny Briere). Habs don't really have many "small" guys outside of Plekanec, Koivu, and Sergei Kostitsyn (they're each barely under 6'0), and then you have Bouillon who's 5'8 but a heavy hitter. Actually, Philly has more guys under 6' than the Habs do (Briere, Kapanen, Thoresen, Timonen... you can add Downie and Richards to the small frame, big hitter category). Philly has those two big dumb towers on defense (Hatcher and Coburn), but the Habs have big Ds to retaliate with O'Byrne and Komisarek.
You really needed to see the games they played against each other in the regular season to see how they line up. Montreal's guys skated circles around them while hits were usually pretty even between them. I know playoffs are an entirely different situation, but I don't think Philly's size gives them any advantage. If anything, it's a handicap.
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well first off its ot...so to put WSH on the PK in OT is crap in a game seven (maybe i'm jsut too old school but there was a time when you were good to go unless you cut someoen arm off with your skate...then maybe you might get a penalty 
) ... second he was going for the puck IMHO
just a shitty way to win as far as i'm concerned...the refs won it for the flyers all that hard playing and it came down to a shitty call...figures
