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Willy, why are we not surprised
Stealyerfaceoff:
--- Quote from: OldHat on Wednesday May 02, 2018, 09:48:29 PM Eastern ---
I really hope this pulls everyone together and lights a fire under them. I have a feeling it might.
--- End quote ---
I'm with you on that Old Hat. Rally the troops. Caps vs the hens & DOPS.
With Murray in the net I like our chances.
RavenCp:
I'm really disappointed, Pens injuring our players and get nothing. I'm really advocating that refs are mostly fair, just miss calls, make mistakes. Now I wish that hockey was judged by AI.
waynerivers:
How can you suspend a guy for a hit that wasn't even called a penalty at the time? I'm not sure the hit was any different than hundreds of others. Wilson is taller than the other guy so his shoulder hitting him in the jaw isn't that surprising. This is just the result of the modern pussification of all contact sports. Develop better equipment to cut down on concussions. Take heavy contact out and you no longer have hockey. One game would seem reasonable at most. Three is an unfair advantage to the Pens who lost a 4th line scrub.
Mickstix:
Just saw this on twitter.. :rofl: :rofl:
"Caps recall Tim Winston. Will play on line with Kuznetsov and Ovechkin."
alta:
It's just more proof of the top down bias against the Caps. Two of OV's three suspensions were for being too physical. The third was for doing what Cindey does at least 8 times every season yet has never been suspended for it. Willy got suspended for the first game of the season for a hit that happens three times a week in the regular season, and damn near every game in the playoffs. We have the OV rule where his sweater isn't supposed to fall inside the tailbone pad, so during play a player is supposed to make uniform adjustments instead of trying to play hockey. I'm willing to bet OldHats salary that if Wilson had hacked off another players finger there would've been a suspension, but since Buttman's darling did it, it's just an unfortunate hockey play.
Because of fan and player complaints we have the Cindey rule. Yet diving is rarely enforced. When it is, it's somehow matching minors. If a player dives to draw a penalty, how is there an infraction on the other player? If there was no dive, %99.99998 of the time there is no offending penalty in the first place. Has Cindey ever been suspended for his flagrant diving? Or his widely known dirty play? I don't pay enough attention to dirty players to know.
Next I expect to see the new Capitals rule. That would be where any given player isn't aloud to check anyone more than three inches shorter than himself lest there be inadvertent head contact on the follow through. Need I remind everyone that there is no high sticking if it happens on the follow through of a slapshot. I don't understand how that seems logical to the NHL rule makers, if they were truly trying to keep a level playing field.
Bettman used to do an hour a week on the NHL SiriusXM channel where he'd take fans questions. I don't know if he still does. If he does a Caps fan needs to ask him a few questions, and record it, for posterity.
The NHL really pisses me off sometimes.
ArJ, the NHL doesn't screw the Caps every single time they play the Hens in the post season. Last years game 7 looked more like the Caps just giving up when they clearly took the momentum in game 6. So we'll say 9 out of 10 times.
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