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Karen
Member
09-07-2004
| Monday, May 28, 2007 - 8:31 pm
LOL, Wink... we figured that out about halfway through the first period. Who says that years of prolonged marijuana use has no effect on your motor skills???
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Bluejaxrock
Member
04-23-2004
| Wednesday, May 30, 2007 - 7:24 am
After years of (personal) scientific study, there is no such thing as too many years of wacky tabacky...lol Although I'm sure friends and family may disagree. I enjoyed the Canadian national anthem, but why was she wearing a Ducks sweater? Should've been wearing the Sens...imho, she's singing the Canadian anthem and should've worn a Canadian sweater. And even though I think the Ducks will take the Cup, I'd like to see it return to Canada. It's spent too much time in "vacation" areas...Tampa, Carolina, etc. The Sens impressed me Monday night...after such a long layoff, they came out strong, just not strong enough. Can't wait til tonight!
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Karen
Member
09-07-2004
| Wednesday, May 30, 2007 - 9:34 am
LOL about the wacky tabacky, Bluejax. Kindred spirits we must be. I think there's 30 million people North of the border who agree that it's time the cup comes home to Canada. I predict the Sens will take it in five. Maybe six.
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Kstme
Member
08-14-2000
| Wednesday, May 30, 2007 - 1:08 pm
quack, quack...if it isn't a Canuck, then it has to be a duck! oh, silly me!
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Scooterrific
Member
07-08-2005
| Wednesday, May 30, 2007 - 1:19 pm
GO DUCKS!!!
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Wink
Member
10-06-2000
| Saturday, June 02, 2007 - 8:24 pm
YAY SENS Methinks they've got their legs back. And once again the classless #25 of Anaheim delivers a cowardly hit. Boo Hiss.
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Saturday, June 02, 2007 - 8:45 pm
politics! even the refs turn a blind eye when dirty stuff happens. I missed the recipient but Wasnt it pronger who JUMPED up and Elbowed that Senator right in the face? Not even a penalty. Completely PO'd me Then a few mins later a Senator gets hit from behind...not jsut hit but the Anaheim player Jumps up with his stick completely horizontal and Strikes him across the back of the neck just below the helmet. That could have fractured a vertebrae! dangerous as HECK!! once again, No penalty for the hit, but penalties for all the Guys who supposedly started the fight. SIGH I'll be shocked if Sens are allowed to win the Cup. Refs will be calling against them so to guarantee a USA win. I'm calling it here. USA team will win due to miscalls by the referees and No Goals by the judges...both positions which can benefit financially for making calls leaning towards a team. I couldnt find a list of the Linesmen and Ref for this game. Would love to know if it was Koharski. He has been banned from working the playoffs before due to his slanting calls for a team
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Sherbabe
Member
07-28-2002
| Saturday, June 02, 2007 - 9:50 pm
lol...that's a great conspiracy theory. what are the nationalities of the ref's.
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Sherbabe
Member
07-28-2002
| Saturday, June 02, 2007 - 9:51 pm
and the nationalities of most of the ducks.
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Wink
Member
10-06-2000
| Sunday, June 03, 2007 - 6:11 am
Both the refs were from Southwestern Ontario and neither was Koharski. There are not a whole lot of referees from the US in the upper echelons. I thought it was a pretty evenly called game but I do think the league will look at the Pronger hit where no penalty was called (as in the Detroit series) and a suspension "may" be in order.
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Kstme
Member
08-14-2000
| Sunday, June 03, 2007 - 6:52 am
Yea, I was thinking the same thing about Pronger.
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Sunday, June 03, 2007 - 7:17 am
Yay Ottawa!!! Just a comment on the American coverage. I was curious and had a brief look at it. I was astonished at how lifeless the coverage seemed. The crowd and the game action seemed almost muted by comparison to the Canadian coverage which was very exciting in comparison. It's no wonder hockey can't make it in the States when the coverage is that dull. It's weird because I assume they are getting the feed from the Canadian channel. Anyone else notice this?
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Eeyoreslament
Member
07-20-2003
| Sunday, June 03, 2007 - 10:16 am
Jimmer, I didn't see the game yesterday, but I've watched a few games this year on NBC and the coverage and commentary is TERRIBLE. Even my avid Detroit fan who was born and raised and lives there says he'd rather get the Canadian coverage from Windsor than listen to an American broadcast. The thing I find really weird is the guy who sits BETWEEN the two benches, all alone. Then the camera ACROSS the rink from him will focus in him but from afar, while he comments on bench happenings and stuff. I also find that American hockey sports casters cannot just let the hockey happen quietly. There are just some points where you don't really need them to be saying anything. I remember in one of the Detroit series', there was a goal review going on and the announcers just wouldn't shut up. Sure, they're there to talk, but they were just repeating themselves TOO much, and filling up too much airspace. It's pretty obvious that a ref standing at the statistician's box talking on the phone is a "goal review" and even more obvious when they replay the goal in slow-mo several times. CBC would play the goal a few times, the commentators would make *their* call, and then they'd go on to either being quiet, or maybe chit-chatting about other aspects of the game: "You know Bob, one of the things I'm noticing is when Anaheim is down in their end, their defensive zones are a lot wider than Ottawa's, and this is creating more scoring opportunities like the one we have now, under review. What do you think?" NBC would say somehting like: "The referees are going upstairs to review this goal. Let's look at it one more time....OK, I think it will be called a goal.....There's the referee on the phone waiting for the people upstairs to review it and make a final ruling....once the people upstairs have looked at the tapes, they will tell the referee if it indeed was a goal. Let's look at the goal again, while we wait for the refs to get word from upstairs." And that cycle repeats for 10 minutes as the goal is reviewed.
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Sherbabe
Member
07-28-2002
| Sunday, June 03, 2007 - 12:08 pm
"Hockey can't make it in the states"! How many teams are there in the US? now How many in Canada? U.s. fans and businesses seem to be doing a great job of supporting their teams.
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Pamplemousse
Member
09-28-2003
| Sunday, June 03, 2007 - 12:44 pm
Pronger did get a one game suspension for the hit. i am glad the Sens won last night so game 5 will be at home for the Ducks (when hopefully they will be hoisting the Cup at home) GO DUCKS
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Kstme
Member
08-14-2000
| Sunday, June 03, 2007 - 1:33 pm
quack, quack! IMHO...Pronger deserved it. <sigh> My daughter and I have season tickets for the Las Vegas Flames. Yes, they are only EHL, but boy, do they play their hearts out and we have a blast at the games!
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Sunday, June 03, 2007 - 3:47 pm
Hockey can't make it in the States. I agree that there are pockets of great hockey fans who enthusiastically support the game in the States. They also have a lot of teams. However the U.S. has a population base that is 10 times that of Canada and many more large cities. The TV ratings for the Canadian audience are huge. Sadly though, the ratings for any nationally covered game in the States (on the extremely rare occasion that they do cover it) are absolutely abysmal. It's not that they don't get the high ratings they get in Canada. It's that the ratings are awful. I agree with Eeyore that part of the problem is that in general the coverage is so poor.
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Bluejaxrock
Member
04-23-2004
| Monday, June 04, 2007 - 5:24 am
Ditto, Jimmer. There may be a big fan base in cities with an NHL team, but when NBC airs figure skating instead of a playoff game it's about ratings. Heck, there's a reason ESPN didn't renew the NHL coverage contract and we get it on Versus. Kstme, my first hockey game was an ECHL game (Columbus Chill) and imo, it was as exciting if not more so than a Jackets game because of the venue. (Doesn't hurt that the Chill knew how to win, and even when they lost you knew they came out 100%). The Chill played at the State Fairgrounds Coliseum (a real barn) so no matter where you were, you were part of the action. As for commentaries, why the difference? Aren't former players doing the calls for USA TV? Is it a network thing? If there's that big of a difference, I'll start listening to the games on the net. A good commentator can make me visualize the action. As for Saturday's game, the Sens came out giving the Ducks the physical game the Ducks had been taking to the Sens. Heard it's been 14 years since the Cup was in Canada...so for that reason alone, I hope the Sens take it. The betting part of me won't let me not take the Ducks in 7, but I sure would like to see Lord Stanley's Cup back in it's home.
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Scooterrific
Member
07-08-2005
| Monday, June 04, 2007 - 5:32 am
Go Ducks!!!
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Kstme
Member
08-14-2000
| Monday, June 04, 2007 - 5:49 am
Oh boy...it was nap time when I posted yesterday! LOL It's the Las Vegas Wranglers who are the ECHL team for the Calgary Flames. <so red-faced here> Blue, that must have been a hoot! The arena is small here, around 8,000, but it's rarely full. It's so sad, cause the games are so much fun!
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Karen
Member
09-07-2004
| Monday, June 04, 2007 - 9:05 am
A good commentator can make me visualize the action. So true, Bluejax. Being in Vancouver, there are a number of Toronto games that we don't get here. We'll turn off the TV, and curl up on the couch with a beer, and listen to the CBC broadcast online. That was a crazy game on Saturday, and I'm happy that at least Pronger got a suspension for tonight's game. I saw some footage of the Sens at a news conference, they were saying that now they've beat the Ducks once, they've 'figured out how to beat them'. Go SENS! It's been way too long...
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Eeyoreslament
Member
07-20-2003
| Monday, June 04, 2007 - 4:23 pm
Cool Oh Canada tonight with the Canadian flag going around the arena. :-) Game on!!
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Karen
Member
09-07-2004
| Monday, June 04, 2007 - 4:29 pm
That was cool with the flag. But I was watching thinking, "Man, that's gotta be an expensive flag. If I owned it, there's no WAY I'd let go of it like that - you'd never get it back!!" Then Donners said he thinks it's something they do at the Corel Centre, kinda like the playoff towels... any Ottawa folk know?
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Eeyoreslament
Member
07-20-2003
| Monday, June 04, 2007 - 4:42 pm
It could be something sponsored by Corel Centre too. Like 10 "spirit" employees come out with the rolled up flag, and just instruct people to unroll it and pass it on. Then they watch where it ends and just collect it after the anthem. Maybe there are instructions that we don't hear, during a commercial or something? It's amazing how many cheap shots Anaheim is taking in this first period.
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Pamplemousse
Member
09-28-2003
| Monday, June 04, 2007 - 4:46 pm
i love the way Canadian fans sing their anthem! So wonderful, gives me goosebumps every time. I have gone to many hockey & baseball games & can't think of one time that we Americans sang along to ours. so far the game tonight is pretty good. my dh is working tonight so i have to text him scores/updates but he did a shift trade to get Wed night off =) GO DUCKS
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