The Official 2011-12 Regular Season Talk Thread

[rdnk]

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I was a the Big Chill, and I had the misfortune of sitting behind a 300+ lb MSU fan. When you mean "cram", it's too the fullest extent of the word.

Sadly, as stated earlier, Ilitch would have it at Comerica Park.

[jb12780]

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[daflyboys]

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Ya, that's original.

[slickdtc]

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Hard, hard loss for the Flyers.

NHL officials suck. It was so blatantly obvious they were trying to keep this one close or tied. Defensemen for NYR wouldn't have gotten a penalty shot called off that one in any other game, minus playoffs. Callahan wouldn't have gotten a holding the stick penalty on Timonen's lasso either. Bigger stage = make some kind of crazy call to keep the game close.

It would have felt cheap if we had won. I'm thankful for NYR fans that King Henrik is as good as he is. I feel like we talk about a lot of good goalies, but he seeems to somehow slip under the radar. He's a beast, a Top 3 goalie in the league for my money. He's been doing it for some time now, too.

Impressed with the Rangers. They're on top of the East for a reason. I think they may be a bit thin but with Lundvquist back there... never know. They could make a run.

[jb12780]

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Yeah, the call on Callahan for holding the stick was horrible. However, the argument for the penalty shot can be made. It did look like McDonagh covered the puck.

All in all, a very entertaining game hockey game.

[gopher_guy]

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Very entertaining Winter Classic! Hopefully the ratings were good!

Pumped to watch it on 24/7 this week!

[MizzyMike05]

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definitely a great winter classic game, minus the bad officiating.

[jyoung]

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Great game until the officials tried to ruin it.

For a second there I thought I was watching a NBA playoff game.

[slickdtc]

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Yeah, the call on Callahan for holding the stick was horrible. However, the argument for the penalty shot can be made. It did look like McDonagh covered the puck.

All in all, a very entertaining game hockey game.

It certainly looked that way, but it has to be conclusive. It's like when a goalie covers a puck over the goal line, even though there's only one place it can possibly be, if we can't see it, for some reason it's inconclusive. NHL rules, and the enforcement of them, are ridiculous.

I was shocked they called it. I bet if that play happened in the first period, it doesn't get called that way.

I don't want to say the NHL is rigged. It's far too quick for that and it would be nearly impossible to do it without anyone knowing. But I do think some of these officials are instructed to keep the game close if it's borderline on penalties, close calls, etc. I'd love to see a breakdown of the stats done with timing of penalties relative to score and game clock.

[DJ]

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Some great drama to end a well-played Winter Classic game. I'm glad I had the chance to watch the entire game.

Hopefully the Avs will beat the Kings tonight and creep closer to Minnesota in the standings.

[ManiacMatt1782]

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Hard, hard loss for the Flyers.

NHL officials suck. It was so blatantly obvious they were trying to keep this one close or tied. Defensemen for NYR wouldn't have gotten a penalty shot called off that one in any other game, minus playoffs. Callahan wouldn't have gotten a holding the stick penalty on Timonen's lasso either. Bigger stage = make some kind of crazy call to keep the game close.

It would have felt cheap if we had won. I'm thankful for NYR fans that King Henrik is as good as he is. I feel like we talk about a lot of good goalies, but he seeems to somehow slip under the radar. He's a beast, a Top 3 goalie in the league for my money. He's been doing it for some time now, too.

Impressed with the Rangers. They're on top of the East for a reason. I think they may be a bit thin but with Lundvquist back there... never know. They could make a run.

Penalty shot was justified, you cannot cover the puck in the crease unless your a goalie. whether he actually grasped it or not is moot he reached for it and was able to slide it under his leg and he's not the goalie. I agree about the holding the stick call though.

[Fiddy]

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When the Flyers get rid of Hartnell they will win a Cup with the group that they have.

LOL at Rupps salute!! Wish he would have done it after the 2nd goal as well..

[Fiddy]

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Ya, that's original.

and Jagr doing it back in the day with the Pens was original to eh? Lol.. It was a joke then and is now.. Funny to see Rupp poke some fun at him..

[SidVish]

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Carcillo will definitely be receiving a call from Shanahan for boarding Gilbert. It was really stupid and karma bit him because Gilbert flew back into his knee and hurt him as well.

[jack1535]

The Winter Classic in Buffalo was fun to watch, and had the best weather in my opinion (but I was in my warm house), but there was only one game. There was no legend game college game just the NHL game.

I thought this was a great game today. I don't agree with the holding the stick call, but the pentaly shot was the right call. You could see the player jump on top of the puck.