The Official 2011-12 Regular Season Talk Thread

[slickdtc]

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What bull**** move? Putting our fourth line out? Clean hitting? If that's bull****, then I don't know what to say. Also, this is funny coming a flyers fan. The flyers are notorious for trying to intimidate at the end of games.

Yeah, I don't really think it was BS... their 4th line was out, yeah maybe the hit didn't NEED to be done, but I really have no issues with it, either. That'd be like saying anytime someone makes a big open ice hit is BS. They're done for effect. It was 100% clean. Briere got rocked, straight up.

As for the Flyers being notorious for intimidation... meh, just about the same as every team. Then again, when it's Flyers/Pens, you do see a bit more of the dumb, after the whistle stuff. Flyers will never be able to shake that reputation of the 70's no matter how saintly they act (not saying they are... but I've seen plenty of cheap stuff from other teams on our players and other teams on other teams' players). When the games are out of hand, it's a dick measuring contest. One team gets super physical to show they're tough even if they are losers in the game, and the other team is on high alert, trying to get out healthy but also not back down from the other teams physicality. I kinda hate that stupid balance, but it'll forever be in the NHL. Until someone gets killed by the dirty, cheap bull**** that often happens at the end of games and it's taken seriously by the league that, yeah you can be physical, but you can't take runs at guys no matter what the scoreboard says.

[Kobalt]

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So Blackhawks allowed the tying goal with under a minute left to play so they locked the 6th seed. Probably going to play Phoenix now, who is leading the Pacific by 1 point and has Minnesota left. Good luck not trying to fall asleep 'hawks fans.

[jyoung]

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I'd take Phoenix in that series. Mike Smith has been superb this season.

[SidVish]

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Here are the remaining Western Conference playoff scenarios to determine seeding.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/western-conference-playoff-scenarios-nhl-regular-season-finale-165900689.html

Vancouver Canucks (109 points, 42 ROW): If the Canucks beat the Edmonton Oilers at home, or lose in overtime or a shootout, they win the Western Conference. If they lose in regulation and the St. Louis Blues get a regulation, OT or shootout win at the Dallas Stars, the Blues are the top seed through the ROW tiebreaker.

St. Louis Blues (107 points, 44 ROW): What, you didn't read the Canucks' thing? Once more, with feeling: The only way the Blues win the conference is with a Canucks regulation loss and a win over Dallas.

Phoenix Coyotes (95 points, 35 ROW): They control their own destiny. A victory at the Minnesota Wild gives them 97 points at the Pacific Division title, along with the confirmation that Coach Dave Tippett is a [expletive] sorcerer. A regulation loss means the Kings/Sharks game is for the division title. An overtime or shootout loss leaves them with 35 non-shootout wins, meaning that they'd win a tie-breaker with the Sharks should they beat LA, but if the Coyotes and Kings end up with 96 points and 35 ROW, then the next tie-breaker is head-to-head points, and that goes to the Kings: 8 points to seven points. (Note: We had this reversed in yesterday's Death Watch.) If the Coyotes and Kings end up tied with 96 points but the Kings win in a shootout, then the Coyotes win the division based on having more non-shootout wins.

Los Angeles Kings (94 points, 34 ROW): The Kings win the Pacific Division with a win over the Sharks in regulation or overtime and a Phoenix loss in either regulation, OT or the shootout, thanks to having earned eight points to the Coyotes' seven in the season series. The Kings finish seventh if the Coyotes win in regulation and they beat the Sharks; or with a Phoenix OT/shootout loss and a Kings' shootout win over the Sharks. The Kings finish eighth if (a) the Coyotes beat the Wild and they lose to the Sharks; (b) the Coyotes pick up a point and the Kings lose to the Sharks in a shootout; or (c) the Coyotes lose in regulation and the Kings lose to the Sharks.

San Jose Sharks (94 points, 33 ROW): If Phoenix wins in regulation, OT or a shootout, then the best the Sharks can do is seventh, with a win over the Kings. If the Coyotes lose to Minnesota in OT or a shootout and the Sharks beat the Kings, then San Jose is the seventh seed based on the ROW tiebreaker. If the Coyotes lose to the Wild in regulation, then the Sharks can win the Pacific with a victory over the Kings; with a loss, they'd be the No. 8 seed.

[bd007h]

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Sabres should have gotten Gregg Williams to give a pre-game speech before their final game of the season against the Bruins today

[Stu]

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Sabres should have gotten Gregg Williams to give a pre-game speech before their final game of the season against the Bruins today

Yeah taking out a few Bruins players would have definitely helped the Sabres in their playoff run.

[Beantown]

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Yeah taking out a few Bruins players would have definitely helped the Sabres in their playoff run.

All class.

[TheMatrix31]

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Sabres should have gotten Gregg Williams to give a pre-game speech before their final game of the season against the Bruins today

No need for that.

[ImTellinTim]

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All I can do is shake my head and laugh at the teams that "earned" the 3 seeds in each conference.

[DrJones]

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TSN's Miller/Ferraro calling Caps/Rangers for NBCSN. TSN not allowed to broadcast Caps/Rangers (or Kings/Sharks) because HNIC has exclusive rights to regular season Saturdays. Dumb.

[Stu]

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All I can do is shake my head and laugh at the teams that "earned" the 3 seeds in each conference.

The crazy thing is if the Caps win and Florida loses in regulation, the Caps are the 3 seed.

[DrJones]

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All I can do is shake my head and laugh at the teams that "earned" the 3 seeds in each conference.

You're just jealous of the Miami Loser Points and their legions of fans.

[ImTellinTim]

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The crazy thing is if the Caps win and Florida loses in regulation, the Caps are the 3 seed.

It's ridiculous. Especially if you look at what their records would be under the old style of determining wins and losses.

It's fitting that Florida throws rats on the ice because that's precisely what I smell here.

[bd007h]

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Yeah taking out a few Bruins players would have definitely helped the Sabres in their playoff run.

Lucic pretty much sabotaged our season by taking out Miller for a few weeks in November, it should have been time for payback and affecting their chances of a repeat haha

[TheMatrix31]

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The dirty, unpunished play by Lucic didn't help matters in the least, but let's not act like that one incident unraveled our entire year. Other players got hurt. Other players sucked it up.