Hockey 2008

Tim Wakefield said:
You're right on the defense part. Detroit is just far too dominant in the neutral zone. That has been and will be the key to this series. I'm gonna have to disagree about the "one superstar" thing though, because the Pens have plenty of talent on their end outside of Crosby (Malkin, Staal, Sykora, Hossa, Talbot, Malone, etc). Still, the Pens are gonna have to take both home games or else we're fucked. I thought it would be a little more even than this, but the Red Wings really turned it on when it meant something, and I'll give my kudos to that.
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even if any of those players you mentioned had as much talent as the wings, they still wont win. crosby is a type of player that plays for himself. kinda like gretzky...just a little bit different. gretzky was an amazing player, like crosby. however, how many times did gretzky win the cup while with the kings.

crosby is the type that would go to pick up hockey, and you would be pissed at him because he never passes. the wings have the same amount of telent as the pens, but the wings can play better as a team because they dont have that cocky kid on their team that thinks its up to him to win the game.

you can compare every single one of those players to the roster of the wings and find the wings are +1 on all of them. if you dont think so, i shall revert the the scoreboard as my rebuttle.
 
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Well, I'm going to have to completely disagree with you on the Crosbey not passing thing Masterorion. If you really watch his game passing is what he's usually the best at, and he has the most assists this playoffs total (http://www.nhl.com/nhlstats/app). Also in the regular season had twice the assists as he had goals (24 vs 48). He's a very good team player, the only problem with this series is that Pittsburgh isn't getting enough offense through Detroit because Det is smothering them.

gogo Wings!
 
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masterorion said:
crosby is a type of player that plays for himself. kinda like gretzky...just a little bit different. gretzky was an amazing player, like crosby. however, how many times did gretzky win the cup while with the kings.

crosby is the type that would go to pick up hockey, and you would be pissed at him because he never passes. the wings have the same amount of telent as the pens, but the wings can play better as a team because they dont have that cocky kid on their team that thinks its up to him to win the game.
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Lol, you've gotta be kidding me. He's probably as selfish as Adam Oates

Edit: I wonder if anyone takes the coaches into consideration. If you're looking at how Crosby is shooting more often, perhaps he's being told so. Pavel Bure used to be able to play great defense if he had to, but more times than not the coaches were always telling him "Shoot, shoot, shoot." Twelve forwards don't just go out there and play their own game.
 
A lot of people are forgetting that. Coaches do tell players 'I dont care what it takes, get the puck to him so he can shoot.' Look at Stevie's first few years. There are people that were on the Red Wings team who were just as selfish (ie. Federov) that had absolutely no prompting from coaches to 'Shoot, shoot, shoot!'. Those people are just about building numbers for recognition. Not about whats coming from the heart and using that to play your ass off every night.

The game was high-paced and pretty interesting. I like it when little Draper gets all angry and gets in peoples faces (or chest, depending on their height). It makes me giggle.
 
I figured that it's about time for Mr. Tim Wakefield to update his signature.

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Go Go Detroit.
 
Nice Prop hahaha.
 
Yeah all you Detroit haters are pretty quiet today... Whats the problem ladies?
 
Morwen said:
Yeah all you Detroit haters are pretty quiet today... Whats the problem ladies?
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What she said. I was just noting not long ago how its pretty dead here for a game day and all.
 
Tim Wakefield said:
Haha, thats good stuff. My Dad used to work for Wholey's years and years ago. You can smell that place from 100 yards away when in the Strip.
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Nice, lol. I had a mental image in my head when I read that.

Guy: One octopus, please.

Fish Guy: Can I see some ID?
 
One - Nothing for Pittsburgh after one.
 
3 - 2 the final. Sid the Kid had Osgood's number in the first two periods.
 
Don Cherry's jacket is making my eyes blur. Awesome.
 
Finally this is becoming a series, I'm glad Pittsburgh finally found the net. Now I truly hope this goes 7 games so I can be entertained as much as possible. Man I don't want to wait until October to see hockey again lol.
 
Zephayra said:
Don Cherry's jacket is making my eyes blur. Awesome.
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Yeah. He was a little too subdued for the last few games. Good to know he's back to making our eyes bleed.
 
that was the most exciting game ive seen in ages. however, i wouldnt say that crosby had osgoods number....he just picked up the garbage in front of the net. either way, very action packed game
 
masterorion said:
that was the most exciting game ive seen in ages. however, i wouldnt say that crosby had osgoods number....he just picked up the garbage in front of the net. either way, very action packed game
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That is hockey lol, being at the right place at the right time. Pittsburg got more pucks behind osgood. End of story.
 
That was a great game last night, I'm excited for Saturdays game.

Crosby definitely stepped it up, I was surprised.
 
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