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If it's a slow game with a lot of whistles, it's not hard to get the minutes up for a star player without running him into the ground.

I thought so at the time, but how many games was he scratched after the trade?

Last night my last flight home was supposed to leave at 10:54, making it impossible to get to my 11:15 game. Instead, we landed at 11 and I was on the ice before the first period was over. I had to borrow a stick because I didn't plan on being there, but I still got an unexpeted chance to skate.

And one of the teams on VS is the Minnesota Wild

The Hockey Hall of Fame has more guys that don't belong than every other major sport combined.

Well, the other five guys are all hurt in some way.

I remember listening to Lange argue with a regular succession of partners over the years. He's much better on radio where you can't see his play calling is often inaccurate and misleading.

Pittsburgh is the only market where guys like Lange and Myron Cope would ever be considered iconic broadcasters. In any other market, they would have been unemployed.

While it would be nice not having any of them do play by play, that crew might be the worst announcing crew ever assembled.

I thought it was funny how they were coming up with ways that Tampa was actually in trouble despite being ahead all game long. "If the Pens get one here, they will have momentum and ...." All of that despite the fact that the Pens couldn't get momentum to build from one shift to the next.

One of the biggest gripes I have with our educational system. Kissing ass is often more important than being correct or being able to back up your opinion with fact.

Nothing is more capable of killing interest in English and literature more than a high school English teacher.

Yeah, there are a few posts in the Pens topic.

As with most situations in the NHL, published rules and past practice are not always in sync.

I'm just going by past practice, this is nothing new at all. You can have incidental contact and a goal, incidental contact and no goal and intentional contact and no goal. Essentially they are saying that there was no intent to hit the goalie, but there was too much contact for the goalie to have had any chance at stopping the puck. When I read this part of the rule one thing pops out at me: I don't believe the guy (Leino?) made any attempt to avoid contact. He may not have intended to run Fluery, but he certainly didn't do anything to avoid him. The funny thing is, I can recall a number of situations where this has happened in the past, but even the NHL chart doesn't seem to address it. http://www.nhl.com/ice/page.htm?id=26557

Incidental simply means no penalty in that case, the NHL rules have an option to disallow the goal but not issue a penalty.

Disallowed goal was the right call and probably should have been a penalty. The contact was absolutely intentional. The thrown stick was a missed call, but that is almost never called.

Not at all, Pens dominated the play and seemed to win just about every race to a loose puck. I'm just amazed at how Cooke seems to always get away with so much.

Cooke really should have had a penalty for holding the stick before his goal today. The worst part is that it happened right in front of the ref and there was still no call.

Fortunately my PD never heard me swear, the APD on the other hand....

The funny thing about concussions is you start feeling better and think you're ready to go back, long before you are actually well enough to go back. If I was playing in a checking league, I wouldn't be anywhere near the ice right now.

If they could extend him for similar money, that's not a bad signing.

You better hope it's a regional subsidiary, most of the United flight attendants are old enough to be your mother. On a less pleasant note, I found out today that my grandfather has bladder cancer.

This is the part you have to watch. Many hockey bags will exceed the 62 linear inches. It all depends on how anal they want to be at the check-in counter but at least it will only be $25 each way if you have a smaller bag.

But then Sid couldn't make his cross zone passes to the cutting defenseman.