Can't wait to see the Leafs in the Playoffs
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Wrong thread.........
You seem to be a little slow on figuring things out.....let me help ya out a bit.
http://www.madjacksports.com/forum/showthread.php?t=519962
Also started this.......ya know, because I am all about making others happy. That is how I roll.....
http://www.madjacksports.com/forum/showthread.php?t=519962
I'm not clicking on any other links, you aren't going to tranny roll me that easily. I have this one bookmarked and it is all I really need.
Can't wait until tonight's action! :00hour
I would never tranny roll anybody in this thread, this thread is a Leaf thread, thus I would not disgrace it.
Just sayin'
Speaking of this thread and how it is all Leafs.......
Watch out for Lupol in this series........he might just be the difference.
Leafs pretty big underdogs to win this series, but because of this amazing thread (I sent every member of the team a copy of this thread) they will pull off the upset.
Lupol high fiving after yet another goal:00hour
Sidney Crosby won't play in Game 1
By Scott Burnside
ESPN.com
PITTSBURGH -- Pittsburgh Penguins captain Sidney Crosby has not recovered sufficiently from a broken jaw and will miss at least the opening game of Pittsburgh's Stanley Cup playoff quarterfinal series against the New York Islanders on Wednesday.
Crosby told reporters after the team's morning skate Wednesday that doctors had not cleared him to play after his last checkup Tuesday afternoon, and he does not have a timetable for his return to action.
Crosby suffered a broken jaw after being struck by a deflected puck in a game against the Islanders on March 30. He has been practicing with the team while wearing a protective shield around his jaw and said earlier this week that he feels like he's ready to play but needed a doctor's approval.
"He said everything looks good," Crosby told reports. "He just wasn't prepared to clear me to play. Obviously I would have loved the chance to play tonight, but that's not the way it is."
Crosby, who was leading the NHL in scoring when he was injured, said he doesn't know when he'll next visit with medical staff. Game 2 of this series is set for Friday night in Pittsburgh.
"I'll just wait and see," Crosby said. "He didn't give me a date. He's waiting until he feels comfortable."
Penguins coach Dan Bylsma said that the team has been preparing for both possibilities and that Crosby's absence doesn't dramatically change the team's preparation for the Islanders.
"We've played a lot of hockey without Sid in our lineup," Bylsma said. "We've been playing and preparing for with or without Sidney Crosby in our lineup. If you're talking about the impact of not having one of the best players in the game in your lineup, certainly you'd like to have him in there.
"But we've played the last segment of our season without him, and we've been practicing that way for this week, and we're ready to go for Game 1."
By Scott Burnside
ESPN.com
PITTSBURGH -- Pittsburgh Penguins captain Sidney Crosby has not recovered sufficiently from a broken jaw and will miss at least the opening game of Pittsburgh's Stanley Cup playoff quarterfinal series against the New York Islanders on Wednesday.
Crosby told reporters after the team's morning skate Wednesday that doctors had not cleared him to play after his last checkup Tuesday afternoon, and he does not have a timetable for his return to action.
Crosby suffered a broken jaw after being struck by a deflected puck in a game against the Islanders on March 30. He has been practicing with the team while wearing a protective shield around his jaw and said earlier this week that he feels like he's ready to play but needed a doctor's approval.
"He said everything looks good," Crosby told reports. "He just wasn't prepared to clear me to play. Obviously I would have loved the chance to play tonight, but that's not the way it is."
Crosby, who was leading the NHL in scoring when he was injured, said he doesn't know when he'll next visit with medical staff. Game 2 of this series is set for Friday night in Pittsburgh.
"I'll just wait and see," Crosby said. "He didn't give me a date. He's waiting until he feels comfortable."
Penguins coach Dan Bylsma said that the team has been preparing for both possibilities and that Crosby's absence doesn't dramatically change the team's preparation for the Islanders.
"We've played a lot of hockey without Sid in our lineup," Bylsma said. "We've been playing and preparing for with or without Sidney Crosby in our lineup. If you're talking about the impact of not having one of the best players in the game in your lineup, certainly you'd like to have him in there.
"But we've played the last segment of our season without him, and we've been practicing that way for this week, and we're ready to go for Game 1."
No need to rush Crosby back if his jaw isn't fully healed. They have been playing well without him. As long as he is back for the next series, that is all the Pens really need.
I'm sure the Islanders and anyone else the Pens face will try to be overly physical with them and get them to take dumb penalties. Its the blueprint Philly put out there last year and several other clubs tried to mimmick during this shortened season. People are going to look to take shots at Crosby so that others on the Pens team will take penalties, and then Crosby will appear to be whining and fans can have a good laugh at him. That's fine and dandy, I expect Pitt and Bylsma to have learned their lesson from last year and not fall into that trap.
Also I'm looking forward to a big playoff performance by Malkin. Guy was MIA last year in the embarassing loss to the Flyers.
I'm sure the Islanders and anyone else the Pens face will try to be overly physical with them and get them to take dumb penalties. Its the blueprint Philly put out there last year and several other clubs tried to mimmick during this shortened season. People are going to look to take shots at Crosby so that others on the Pens team will take penalties, and then Crosby will appear to be whining and fans can have a good laugh at him. That's fine and dandy, I expect Pitt and Bylsma to have learned their lesson from last year and not fall into that trap.
Also I'm looking forward to a big playoff performance by Malkin. Guy was MIA last year in the embarassing loss to the Flyers.
Hey dipshits........there is a Pittsburgh Thread on the front Page in the Penalty Box forum:facepalm:
http://www.madjacksports.com/forum/showthread.php?t=519962
Stop fucking up this thread with non Leaf shit:nono:
Bleed even has an LA Kings thread.........
http://www.madjacksports.com/forum/showthread.php?t=519959
http://www.madjacksports.com/forum/showthread.php?t=519962
Stop fucking up this thread with non Leaf shit:nono:
Bleed even has an LA Kings thread.........
http://www.madjacksports.com/forum/showthread.php?t=519959
Tough loss for the kings...be interesting to see how they come out 1st period tomorrow..
Pens question is goaltending..think they send a message game 1.
There are babe Ruth's, Michael Jordan's, Walter Payton's, and Ernests Gulbis like icons in sports...some play for the kings, some for the pens...why r we wasting bandwidth on the leafs?
Pens question is goaltending..think they send a message game 1.
There are babe Ruth's, Michael Jordan's, Walter Payton's, and Ernests Gulbis like icons in sports...some play for the kings, some for the pens...why r we wasting bandwidth on the leafs?
Just because Mr. Poon says something it doesn't mean it is true.
In this thread you can only talk about the glory that is the Leafs....or how hot Jennifer Love Hewitt is.
That's it.
All about Leafs Glory in this thread.
Pens' Fleury doesn't live in the past
Pens' Fleury doesn't live in the past
Pens' Fleury doesn't live in the past
By Scott Burnside
ESPN.com
PITTSBURGH -- His first set of pads were foam, and he and his sister and the neighborhood kids used them in the family basement taking shots against one another. He was 4, maybe even 3. His first set of real equipment came a couple of years later courtesy of Santa, and that meant no more renting goalie equipment from the local minor hockey association -- and wasn't that a big moment for young Marc-Andre Fleury.
At 28 now and the proud father of Estelle, born last Friday, Fleury has essentially been a goaltender his entire life.
He joked on Tuesday, a day before Game 1 of the opening round of the 2013 playoffs, that Estelle can't walk yet, but he's already working on her butterfly technique.
Still, it seems that being a goaltender is what Fleury does but not who he is. And maybe that's why, in the face of significant pressure after coming off an entirely forgettable playoff series a year ago against the Philadelphia Flyers, Fleury remains as unflappable and upbeat as he has ever been.
"I love what I do. I love the game. We have a good bunch of guys, so it's always nice to come to the rink and have some fun. Maybe if I get scored on, then I'm not happy and I don't smile," he said with a grin.
As for the Philadelphia series -- something that still casts a huge shadow over Fleury and the entire Pittsburgh Penguins team -- Fleury prefers not to dwell too much on those memories.
"It was just another obstacle," he said. "I wasn't happy. I wasn't feeling great about that. But took some time to think about it, take some time to forget about it and just start all over again."
The Penguins are a huge favorite to dismiss the New York Islanders in short order in the first round and march right to the Stanley Cup final. Yet there is a theory espoused by some that if there is a weakness in a Penguins lineup that seems built for glory, it is between the pipes -- specifically with Fleury.
"The question is going to be the goalie," one Eastern Conference scout told ESPN.com on the eve of the playoffs.
This theory presupposes, of course, that last season's playoff debacle -- which saw Fleury allow 26 goals in a six-game series loss in the opening round -- has anything to do with this season.
No doubt the Islanders hope you can draw a distinct line from then to now.
Former NHL player Keith Jones, now a national analyst, believes the Islanders' power play is potent enough that Fleury will have to be sharp. But he doesn't believe Fleury represents any kind of fatal flaw for the talent-laden Penguins.
Another national analyst, former NHL netminder Glenn Healy, agrees.
Healy thinks that the Penguins are a team on a mission and that Fleury does not represent any kind of deterrent to that mission being accomplished.
Marc-Andre Fleury fell flat against Philadelphia last year. Will that affect him?
"That was an implosion of the entire team," Healy said of last year's wacky, 4-2 first-round series loss. "Everyone had a part in it, and Fleury did, too."
Although Healy thinks that the tendency to resuscitate the past while debating what might happen in the future is something of a media trick, he did acknowledge that a series like last spring's is hard to forget.
It's one thing to be beaten by a better team, Healy said. "But it's another thing when you create your own wound because you're better than they are."
Fleury's former goaltending partner Brent Johnson thinks that last year won't get a nanosecond of consideration from Fleury.
"He's just not that type of guy," Johnson said. "He's got the best disposition."
While some goalies struggle to deal with poor outings, allowing them to seep into their subconscious to further erode their play, Johnson said Fleury has the uncanny ability to move on quickly.
"He can let it go better than any goaltender I've ever played with," said Johnson, who spent three seasons with the Penguins.
In some ways Fleury, the first overall pick in the 2003 draft, occupies an unenviable position in this hockey-mad city.
When the Penguins win -- and Fleury has been a large part of a lot of Pittsburgh victories, having collected 180 in the past four full seasons and 23 more in this lockout-shortened season -- more often than not the accolades go to guys such as Sidney Crosby or Evgeni Malkin or Chris Kunitz or James Neal.
When the Penguins lose, however, Fleury is often at the center of criticism.
Yet, unlike many goaltenders, he refuses to suggest the blame for losses lies anywhere but at his feet.
"He's just a fantastic guy. Just a really nice guy. And he's one heck of a goaltender," Johnson said.
Fleury says he learned early in his career not to dwell too much on the past. He points to the disaster in the gold-medal game of the 2004 IIHF World Junior Championships when his clearing pass bounced off teammate Braydon Coburn and into the Canadian net for what would turn out to be the winning goal as an example of having to move on from disappointment.
"I think with the experience I've had through my career, I had to learn young -- especially after that world juniors and all -- whatever happens, you can't let it take too much," he said. "You've got to come in the next day and look at what you did wrong and start from scratch and just try to do better the next game."
GM Ray Shero realizes that anything he says about his team in general, but specifically about his goaltender, when the puck hasn't dropped on the playoffs is in many ways meaningless. The facts are the facts. Fleury has won a lot of games for this team. He won a Stanley Cup in 2009 and the year before led the Pens to a Stanley Cup final.
But he will need to play well if the Penguins are to make good on their significant promise and win another championship this spring. The same can be said about every member of the Penguins, Shero said.
"It's no different for Marc-Andre Fleury than for 20 other players on our team," he said.
The bottom line is this: In the playoffs nothing matters, especially the past.
Starting Wednesday night we'll find out whether Marc-Andre Fleury, lifelong goaltender and new dad, has fully made his peace with his own past.
Pens' Fleury doesn't live in the past
Pens' Fleury doesn't live in the past
By Scott Burnside
ESPN.com
PITTSBURGH -- His first set of pads were foam, and he and his sister and the neighborhood kids used them in the family basement taking shots against one another. He was 4, maybe even 3. His first set of real equipment came a couple of years later courtesy of Santa, and that meant no more renting goalie equipment from the local minor hockey association -- and wasn't that a big moment for young Marc-Andre Fleury.
At 28 now and the proud father of Estelle, born last Friday, Fleury has essentially been a goaltender his entire life.
He joked on Tuesday, a day before Game 1 of the opening round of the 2013 playoffs, that Estelle can't walk yet, but he's already working on her butterfly technique.
Still, it seems that being a goaltender is what Fleury does but not who he is. And maybe that's why, in the face of significant pressure after coming off an entirely forgettable playoff series a year ago against the Philadelphia Flyers, Fleury remains as unflappable and upbeat as he has ever been.
"I love what I do. I love the game. We have a good bunch of guys, so it's always nice to come to the rink and have some fun. Maybe if I get scored on, then I'm not happy and I don't smile," he said with a grin.
As for the Philadelphia series -- something that still casts a huge shadow over Fleury and the entire Pittsburgh Penguins team -- Fleury prefers not to dwell too much on those memories.
"It was just another obstacle," he said. "I wasn't happy. I wasn't feeling great about that. But took some time to think about it, take some time to forget about it and just start all over again."
The Penguins are a huge favorite to dismiss the New York Islanders in short order in the first round and march right to the Stanley Cup final. Yet there is a theory espoused by some that if there is a weakness in a Penguins lineup that seems built for glory, it is between the pipes -- specifically with Fleury.
"The question is going to be the goalie," one Eastern Conference scout told ESPN.com on the eve of the playoffs.
This theory presupposes, of course, that last season's playoff debacle -- which saw Fleury allow 26 goals in a six-game series loss in the opening round -- has anything to do with this season.
No doubt the Islanders hope you can draw a distinct line from then to now.
Former NHL player Keith Jones, now a national analyst, believes the Islanders' power play is potent enough that Fleury will have to be sharp. But he doesn't believe Fleury represents any kind of fatal flaw for the talent-laden Penguins.
Another national analyst, former NHL netminder Glenn Healy, agrees.
Healy thinks that the Penguins are a team on a mission and that Fleury does not represent any kind of deterrent to that mission being accomplished.
Marc-Andre Fleury fell flat against Philadelphia last year. Will that affect him?
"That was an implosion of the entire team," Healy said of last year's wacky, 4-2 first-round series loss. "Everyone had a part in it, and Fleury did, too."
Although Healy thinks that the tendency to resuscitate the past while debating what might happen in the future is something of a media trick, he did acknowledge that a series like last spring's is hard to forget.
It's one thing to be beaten by a better team, Healy said. "But it's another thing when you create your own wound because you're better than they are."
Fleury's former goaltending partner Brent Johnson thinks that last year won't get a nanosecond of consideration from Fleury.
"He's just not that type of guy," Johnson said. "He's got the best disposition."
While some goalies struggle to deal with poor outings, allowing them to seep into their subconscious to further erode their play, Johnson said Fleury has the uncanny ability to move on quickly.
"He can let it go better than any goaltender I've ever played with," said Johnson, who spent three seasons with the Penguins.
In some ways Fleury, the first overall pick in the 2003 draft, occupies an unenviable position in this hockey-mad city.
When the Penguins win -- and Fleury has been a large part of a lot of Pittsburgh victories, having collected 180 in the past four full seasons and 23 more in this lockout-shortened season -- more often than not the accolades go to guys such as Sidney Crosby or Evgeni Malkin or Chris Kunitz or James Neal.
When the Penguins lose, however, Fleury is often at the center of criticism.
Yet, unlike many goaltenders, he refuses to suggest the blame for losses lies anywhere but at his feet.
"He's just a fantastic guy. Just a really nice guy. And he's one heck of a goaltender," Johnson said.
Fleury says he learned early in his career not to dwell too much on the past. He points to the disaster in the gold-medal game of the 2004 IIHF World Junior Championships when his clearing pass bounced off teammate Braydon Coburn and into the Canadian net for what would turn out to be the winning goal as an example of having to move on from disappointment.
"I think with the experience I've had through my career, I had to learn young -- especially after that world juniors and all -- whatever happens, you can't let it take too much," he said. "You've got to come in the next day and look at what you did wrong and start from scratch and just try to do better the next game."
GM Ray Shero realizes that anything he says about his team in general, but specifically about his goaltender, when the puck hasn't dropped on the playoffs is in many ways meaningless. The facts are the facts. Fleury has won a lot of games for this team. He won a Stanley Cup in 2009 and the year before led the Pens to a Stanley Cup final.
But he will need to play well if the Penguins are to make good on their significant promise and win another championship this spring. The same can be said about every member of the Penguins, Shero said.
"It's no different for Marc-Andre Fleury than for 20 other players on our team," he said.
The bottom line is this: In the playoffs nothing matters, especially the past.
Starting Wednesday night we'll find out whether Marc-Andre Fleury, lifelong goaltender and new dad, has fully made his peace with his own past.
Stick to your own thread with this Kings shit......
Like a nice Canuck I even set it up for ya.......I even had Gulbis peruse it 1st and make sure everything was ok.
http://www.madjacksports.com/forum/showthread.php?t=519959
Stop posting your Kings shit in here, you dick.
Fleury gets a bad rub for the playoff performance last year as well as his average #'s this season. In my mind more of the blame should be related to the Pens effort on D from the other guys. They have such talented scorers and even most of their key defensemen are decent point producers, it hurts them on the other end I feel. Its as if they are far too often leaning ready to take off towards the other end of the rink and not focussing on giving MAF a proper line of defense throughout the game. That is why their wins are often the 5-3 or 6-4 variety. That's their style though, so hard to change overnight. They have the talent to play good defense, they just need to show it more in the playoffs, otherwise they are bound to get upset by a team like Boston.
I really don't want to derail this thread with addressing the Leafs too much, so I'll make this short.
This thread is #3 all time in terms of # of posts in the Penalty Box forum. Basically everyone, except one or two who are dellusional, realizes why that is, so lets focus on those items (the Kings, the Pens, a little Vancouver, some series bets and other playoff updates for those that need a reminder).
This thread is #3 all time in terms of # of posts in the Penalty Box forum. Basically everyone, except one or two who are dellusional, realizes why that is, so lets focus on those items (the Kings, the Pens, a little Vancouver, some series bets and other playoff updates for those that need a reminder).
