NHL Playoffs

[Asher]

Your failure at reading comprehension in that thread is no different than any other.

[Asher]

You would have to understand exponential functions to understand the rate at which Luongo gave up goals last night.

It's certainly true in the last five minutes of the game.

With 10 minutes to go, the coach "asked" him if he wanted out of the game. He said no. And look what that did for him. I hope his confidence is shattered.

[-Jrabbit]

Do you think that it's fair that more than half of the total suspension time in the entire history of the stanley cup finals have been served by Rome?

I think that's ridiculous. I know that had this happened to Chicago, you'd be the first to complain.

Ben, a couple things:

1. Prior to the hearing, my opinion was simple: It was a late hit. Bruin or Canuck, head up or head down, injury or not, it was a dirty play. I'm surprised at the length, but I don't see the NHL as being very predictable or consistent in the area of suspensions.

2. I take great exception to your last statement. I invite you to search all my posts in this thread, and defy you to find an officiating complaint. I am a sports fan, a Chicago fan, and a realist. I had ZERO complaints in the Chicago-Vancouver series. In fact, I expressed specific doubt, prior to Game 1, that the Hawks would beat the Canuckleheads.

Remember: I have no dog in this fight. If I had my druthers, Boston would win, but because they are Original 6 and for no other reason. If Vancouver gets its first-ever Cup after 40 years of fail, I -- as a lifelong fan of Chicago sports failures like the Cubs and, until last year, the Hawks -- am perfectly fine with that.

Now leave me out of your paranoid rantings.

[Asher]

bingo...

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/hockey/canucks-have-become-nhls-most-hated-team/article2050961/

Canucks have become NHL’s most-hated team

They may, or may not, have been “Canada’s team,” but three games into the Stanley Cup final, the Vancouver Canucks have become the most hated team in the NHL.

The odd part is that Vancouver’s two best players -- the Sedin twins -- are the most mild mannered, polite gentlemen you’d ever want to meet, but the rest of the roster is pushing their pleasant personalities to the background. From Alex Burrows’s bite to Aaron Rome’s hit, the Canucks have won few fans outside of British Columbia with their comportment on hockey’s biggest stage.

It began in the first round when Raffi Torres obliterated Chicago’s Brent Seabrook, a hit that fired up the Blackhawks, and continued through to Monday’s 8-1 loss to the Boston Bruins in Game 3 of the Cup final.

You can bet that there were many hockey fans who felt the butt-kicking was just deserts, especially after Rome sent Bruins forward Nathan Horton to the hospital with a “severe concussion,” according to the Bruins. The Canucks defenceman hit Horton after the puck was long, long gone, and the latter was carried off the ice on a stretcher.

Rome received a four-game suspension -- the stiffest in Cup final history -- and did not escape NHL justice as Burrows did for biting Patrice Bergeron’s finger in Game 1.

“It does get pretty painful watching and seeing that team in it ... It sucks seeing them there,” Blackhawks forward Dave Bolland told the Chicago Tribune this week. “Typical, pulling hair and biting people. Sort of like a girl ... stuff like that isn’t meant for hockey.”

In Game 3, centre Maxim Lapierre drew fire. Prior to the game, Bruins head coach Claude Julien said his antics were probably why he played for three teams this season, while during the contest, Dallas Stars forward Krys Barch took to Twitter with his thoughts.

“I don’t know if he has an ounce of man in him,” Barch wrote. “I’d be embarrassed to be his father.”

On the Jim Rome radio show, former Ottawa Senators president Roy Mlakar said the only Canadians rooting for Vancouver reside in B.C., while Edmonton Oilers defenceman Ryan Whitney went on a Boston radio station last week and said: “This team is so easy to hate it is unbelievable ... I’d say that 90 per cent of the guys in the league want nothing to do with seeing them win.”

The list of grievances goes beyond Burrows’s bite and Rome’s devastating hit. Burrows, the Sedins, Lapierre and Ryan Kesler are viewed as players who are not beyond embellishment if it will draw an official’s whistle.

Kesler’s nasty disposition on the ice, and willingness to talk trash, don’t exactly win friends among NHL peers, while his stone-cold demeanour in interviews doesn’t help his Q-score outside of B.C. There was also his willingness -- or his outright enjoyment -- at playing the ugly American last year during the 2010 Olympics, when he said he “hated” the Canadian team.

“We don’t really care,” captain Henrik Sedin said when asked about being the villains. “I know the guys we have in the room and they are honest guys, hard-working guys, and we’re a tight group. If people on the outside want to say what they want to say, than that’s fine.”

Bolland
Whitney
Barch

And this article doesn't even address the issue of Vancouver fans, which are not rather famous worldwide in unflattering ways.

[Ben Kenobi]

1. Prior to the hearing, my opinion was simple: It was a late hit. Bruin or Canuck, head up or head down, injury or not, it was a dirty play. I'm surprised at the length, but I don't see the NHL as being very predictable or consistent in the area of suspensions.

Thank you. That's my contention as well. Having Rome with >50+ of all suspension time in the history of the Stanley Cup Finals is a painfully bad decision.

[Ben Kenobi]

Asher:

That makes me happy. They wouldn't be whining if they were winning.

[Asher]

Thank you. That's my contention as well. Having Rome with >50+ of all suspension time in the history of the Stanley Cup Finals is a painfully bad decision.

Sean Avery got 6 games for a potty mouth. Why don't you use that as your barometer and shut the **** up.

[Ben Kenobi]

6 games in the regular season = 1 game of the SCF.

[Koyaanisqatsi]

6 games in the regular season = 1 game of the SCF.

Then this hit was worth 2 since SCF games are worth 4x as much as regular season games. Giving him 4 games means that this hit was worth 16-20 games.

Inflation.

[Ben Kenobi]

It rounds down.

[Koyaanisqatsi]

6 rounds down to 4?

[Supr49er]

Marchand's goal was positively Datsyukian.

[Asher]

6 games in the regular season = 1 game of the SCF.

Even using your ridiculous and arbitrary conversion rates and quantitative analysis, wouldn't you say that giving someone a severe concussion with a dirty hit is at least 4x as bad as having a foul mouth?

[Asher]

Vigneault has just said the Canucks have been whining to the NHL about Tim Thomas' aggressive style.

Holy **** is this pathetic. Biggest crybaby team ever assembled, from top to bottom.

[-Jrabbit]

I just heard an amazing fact on the radio. I guess it just shows how little I know about hockey, but it's a stunning statistic all the same:

Take away all his goals and Wayne Gretzky is STILL the NHL's all-time points leader.

Wow. Truly the Babe Ruth of hockey...