Look on the good side they can savour the win in the home town and B.C. Place can pull in another few $million in Gate receipts.
How about them Canucks!
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Look on the good side they can savour the win in the home town and B.C. Place can pull in another few $million in Gate receipts.
Look at the hacking and dirty play from Stalberg. Everyone talked about Torres but at least Torres got involved with the guy who had the puck. Stalberg deserved to get his head kicked in, and did.
YouTube - Kevin Bieksa vs Viktor Stalberg Apr 19, 2011
YouTube - Kevin Bieksa vs Viktor Stalberg Apr 19, 2011
Tell me about it - I paid good money to take my family to a game in Boston last month, only to watch the Habs do nothing while Boston scored 7 goals.
By about the fourth Hawk's goal, I figured out that the Cannucks had decided that Chicago was just too good a team to be out of the play-offs so soon and felt they deserved at least one win. Mind you, I was thinking the same thing about the Habs and Bruins the night before. LOL!
Seriously though, they did play like they were waiting for something to happen so they could capitalize on the mistake - but the Hawk's had other plans.
You are right about the officiating too. That call on Erhoff, for one, was outrageous - it does make you wonder if there is some conspiracy in the league - doesn't it.
All well they can lock up the series in Vancouver in front of their true fans and their sometimes supporters.
GO, CANNUCKS, GO! :canada:
Are you actually saying 'seriously' that the game was fixed? And do you actually believe that because
chicago was 8th they are 8 times worse than canucks, seriously?
No matter how many times the players and management have explained to all of us how close the
talent is in the NHL, and that, where the teams are placed in the standings doesn't mean much in
the way of 'difference', and we also can figure that out by watching how they all play all
season, 'do you still not get that?, or do you just send in these types of posts to be irritating.
I would prefer it is the last one, it would make you look more knowledgeable.
By about the fourth Hawk's goal, I figured out that the Cannucks had decided that Chicago was just too good a team to be out of the play-offs so soon and felt they deserved at least one win. Mind you, I was thinking the same thing about the Habs and Bruins the night before. LOL!
Seriously though, they did play like they were waiting for something to happen so they could capitalize on the mistake - but the Hawk's had other plans.
You are right about the officiating too. That call on Erhoff, for one, was outrageous - it does make you wonder if there is some conspiracy in the league - doesn't it.
All well they can lock up the series in Vancouver in front of their true fans and their sometimes supporters.
GO, CANNUCKS, GO! :canada:
Yeah, thats right, they came out to play a defensive road game, and just wait for opportunities, and
score one or two goals, and go home with a 2-1 victory, but they forgot that chicago didn't want to
play like that, if they were going to go out, they wanted to do it by putting up a good fight, and
feel a bit good about themselves, they certainly did that, and canucks stood by and watched.
Poor L.A., they actually should be ahead in their series, they are outplaying san jose, but they
find themselves behind 2 games to 1, two overtime losses, and one outright win, but quite exciting
anyway.
I guess montreal play tonight, haven't checked the schedule, hope they win at home, and stay ahead
in the series, I think they will play better tonight.
thats right, and bieksa stated in the interview after the game, that he had to stick up for
lapierre who got (I think is was speered by staalberg), and give him what he deserved, and
bieksa certainly did that, and good for him, i'm just glad he wasn't given a one game suspension
for starting a fight inside of the last five minutes of the game, as there is a rule about that.
No! What I am saying is that the Canucks were not trying very hard to win. One home play-off game
gets the Canucks a couple million dollars. To move on to the next series the Canucks have to win just
one out of the next three games.
Talloola the NHL is a business. The Canucks are a business.:roll:
Yes, you are saying, that because it is a business, they made sure there is another game, and
that, my friend 'is fixing' a game.
The ultimate goal is the stanley cup, and to take a chance like that, and to allow chicago back
into the tournament, just to get the gate from one game, would be very stupid.
The faster they could possibly get to the cup final is exactly what they would want, and then the
'business' they are in would be as successful this season as they could ever want.
It is impossible for some people to see the loss last night as 'exactly' what it was, a simple loss,
one team coming out flat, and the other making a point, and getting some pay back for the torres
non suspension, (in their mind), these are hockey players not game fixers. To fix the game the
management would have to give the team instructions to 'lose' on purpose, totally out of the question.
There is no other way the game would be lost, as you say, 'because it is a business', it would then
be a crooked business, and the actions would be criminal, and they aren't that stupid to try to
involve that many people. The refusals, and the leaks that would happen would blow the whole thing
wide open, and it would be front page news the next morning.
Far too many media, players, and other employees to ever have a thing like that 'work'.
No way.
Yes, Juan it is a business, a very successful, working business, not a bunch of crooks, like
the mafia, manipulating the outcomes of games, come on, give your head a shake.
If Gillis heard that accusation, I can see the eyeballs rolling, they have got
much better things to do, legally, than throw games.
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I've said it before and I'll say it again...
****ing sports fans!!!
Canuck Fan Videos: The ShuffleNuck Video - NHL VideoCenter - Vancouver Canucks
****ing sports fans!!!
Canuck Fan Videos: The ShuffleNuck Video - NHL VideoCenter - Vancouver Canucks
you should have done two derps this time. lol
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We knew that the start of this game was crucial for canucks to 'get it going', and they started out
well, then got a power play, BUT no goal, then chicago got a power play, a goal, then another one
very shortly after. (Hossa's goal was deflected, first goal, I thought it was a
soft goal but after they checked it, not so).
The first goal was deflected, as was the next two, then a breakaway, so luongo was really tested
very quickly, and none of those goals were his poor play, can't do much about deflections, or
a breakaway, then the floodgates opened.
I see a chicago team that has gained so much confidence since game four, and with the quick start
tonight, built on that confidence, and a canuck team who had the stuffing knocked out of them
quickly tonight, and lost ALL of their confidence, and also they began to play as individuals,
which is not their usual style, and the sedins still have not played well at all in this play off
as they cannot rise to the occasion, and their games look weak and slow, don't know how they will
fix that.
I don't have much to say, I am not going to trash anyone,(guess I kind of did though), and I feel bad for the team, as they
have to dig deep now and figure this out.
Its useless to point fingers and throw blame around, they have been so good all year,
and now they will have to grind their way out of it.
Definitely the Torres hit was the 'catalyst' in this turn around, as the chicago team came out
in game four, infuriated that he didn't get a suspension, and mad that their player was out of
the game, and that event gave them motivation and passion, and its too bad that happened, because
up to that point chicago was sagging more with each game.
But they still have to win two games to win this series, so on to the next game, and see what
happens.
I don't feel angry at the team, they would feel bad enough themselves, and it is not about me
anyway, i'm just a 'watcher', it is about 'them', they have to go through all of this, and for
any of us to trash them, is so easy, we don't have to do anything but sit in our livingrooms and
point fingers and criticize and think we know better, well folks, we don't.
GO CANUCKS GO
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'some sports fans', and I like reading opinions and mature criticisms, but not the childish me me me
ones. lol , but for sure, I give mine, and like to read others as well.
I don't like coddling excuses either, but reality is nice.
I can give my opinion about them, or criticism, which I did, but it has absolutely nothing to do with
how much money they make, their salary doesn't give me any right to criticize them, but how the team
plays, or certain players play, certainly has an effect on how I feel about them, and I will comment.
Many fans get so riled up, that I guess if they don't 'rant' they will self destruct, but lots of
it is ridiculous, the ranting is about 'them' not the team, they can't seem to cope I guess, its as
though the team has done something to them, and all that has happened is a team lost in hockey, when
they wanted them to win.
it is amazing how many different opinions come from one game, its fascinating really, just listen tomorrow
on the radio, its quite unbelievable.
No one is 'more' of a sports fan than I am, and we all have our own way of reacting, we're definitely
not all the same, no rules.
GO CANUCKS GO
I hear you loud and clear, tallola. Being a Sask Roughrider fan has prepared me for times like this when the team just seems to dissolve before our eyes - take heart tallola. As someone once said - it ain't over till it's over and the Cannucks surely have the ability to come back from these last two losses - I just hope they still have the heart.
GO, CANNUCKS, GO.
well, if they can get themselves out of this fix, and move on, then this experience can be a positive
one, but they have shook themselves up pretty good now, they are fragile, and they have to remember
how good they have been and get back to that, BUT in all of this I have to repeat again, how chicago
have re discovered themselves, and duncan keith is playing like the norris trophy winner that he is,
and inspired the rest of his team, so it's not all about the canucks self destructing, its also about
chicago.
who would have thought after game 3 that chicago could play like that,
and also, those first 3 goals of the game. I watched chicago get three redirects, one right
after the other and a breakaway, AND I saw canucks shoot many shots from the point that could have
been redirected into the net, throughout the game, and weren't, sometimes they go in and sometimes they don't, BUT yes
that is only part of it, as canucks forgot how good they are, and lost their rythym and trust in
one another, and began playing like individuals, so one thing leads to another, and if it was
canucks who had scored those 3 redirects things could have and would have been different.
I'm sure chicago said to each other after that first period. WOW, everything went 'in' the
goal that period,
and sometimes it is like that.
As much as its so easy to have emotional reactions, and get mad, a realistic look at exactly how
the results came about works for me, after all it's just a game of hockey, not life threatening.