Pre-Game Talk: (3) Washington Capitals VS (6) New York Rangers (Schedule in Post #1)
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Doctor King Schultz
Garian Maborik
I was helping my friend move that day but his two places were close together. We left his new place between periods and when I got to his old place I was flipping through the channels trying to find NBC sports network and found the channel just as the devils were celebrating against the boards. I was so pissed that I didn't even get to see it happen.
nyrpassion
Vetted.
Yeah, it was a blast.
When Gaby scored, my whole family screamed, jumped up and down and we had a group hug/huddle.
When Richie and Staal scored, I did one knee fist pumps.
Remember all 3 goals perfectly
Gabby triple OT: was finishing up a paper, had a few friends at the game. was juust texting one of them that it'll be a garbage goal that will end it, and as I was typing this gabby scores. The kicker, the series a few years back when Gabby scored on his own net basically, I was texting the same friend and he texted me exactly the same text, a garbage goal will win this.
Richie 6.6: I was at my buddy's house, just watching the game on my NHL game center app, was too nervous to watch. When my app said 0:48 seconds, I said **** it and got in my car. Of course, the radio was on Caps hockey, so I pull out of his driveway and onto a busyish street. I hear 20 seconds left, 15...10.. then, "Del Zotto with a wrist shot" and a few seconds later, THEY SCORE, THEY SCORE, WITH 6.6 SECONDS REMAINING. I kid you not, I almost got into an accident. I started screaming, had to pull over and compose myself.
Staal: I rushed home, and just knew in my heart that we would win this game. Then Staal ends it. I ran around my house screaming and fist pumping everywhere. Soooo satisfying.
Holocene
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Watching Staal's game 5 goal again... man he definitely has the best slap shot out of all of our defensemen, usually always low and on net. TAKE NOTES MICHAEL "HIGH" DEL ZOTTO AND DAN "WIDE" GIRARDI.
Ryan McDonut
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its funny because he shoots high all the time and plays like hes high half the time
Holocene
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Apparently the Caps won the season series 2-0-1... HMMMMMMMM
NHLN is horrible. I don't know why I watch this crap for playoff previews. JFC.
NHLN is horrible. I don't know why I watch this crap for playoff previews. JFC.
This is how easy it is to score on Holtby. Looks like Holtby is without scates
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swv4TIUKFn0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swv4TIUKFn0
Callagraves
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The Gloaming
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I was at game 5 last year.
Best game I've ever been to.
I really thought we would win it all after that.
Best game I've ever been to.
I really thought we would win it all after that.
AlternateSideParking
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I think its an absolute travesty that the NHl not only takes the games away from networks after round one, but have a miserable duo of Emrick-Olczyk as their lead team.
Doc Emrick replaced Gary Thorne as Devils play by play on Sportschannel only because Thorne quit to be the national announcer for ESPN.
When Fox took some national games from ABC/ESPN, they were scraping the bottom of the barrell for a dedicated national voice. They couldnt find one, so they asked guys like Emrick, Rosen, Jeanerette etc to volunteer for Sunday broadcasts -- usually if their organic team was on the slate.
The idea that Emrick is the best is garbage. Thorne and Clement held the highest honor for over a decade, and when ESPN dropped hockey to NBC/OLN, Thorne was already committed to baseball.
What options for a national voice were out there?
Not much. They tried Cuthbert on NBC, but he was loyal to TSN. Strader's great but he wasnt offered. Bennenati is horrid. Rosen has contractual obligations with Fox and the NFL. Pat Foley and Randy Hahn are massive homers.
So they came up with this horrid team of Olczyk and Emrick. Emrick got the job because of seniority. In 1998 he was doing women's olympic hockey. ESPN never wanted Emrick tyo do their national broadcasts once they took the contract in 1992.
Olczyk is just garbage. Great player back in the day, but just a terrible color man.
The NHL needs to do away with Doc. Enough already. The botched Kane goal should have been a sign. Either promote Strader or steal somebody from TSN, Rogers or CBC.
Doc Emrick replaced Gary Thorne as Devils play by play on Sportschannel only because Thorne quit to be the national announcer for ESPN.
When Fox took some national games from ABC/ESPN, they were scraping the bottom of the barrell for a dedicated national voice. They couldnt find one, so they asked guys like Emrick, Rosen, Jeanerette etc to volunteer for Sunday broadcasts -- usually if their organic team was on the slate.
The idea that Emrick is the best is garbage. Thorne and Clement held the highest honor for over a decade, and when ESPN dropped hockey to NBC/OLN, Thorne was already committed to baseball.
What options for a national voice were out there?
Not much. They tried Cuthbert on NBC, but he was loyal to TSN. Strader's great but he wasnt offered. Bennenati is horrid. Rosen has contractual obligations with Fox and the NFL. Pat Foley and Randy Hahn are massive homers.
So they came up with this horrid team of Olczyk and Emrick. Emrick got the job because of seniority. In 1998 he was doing women's olympic hockey. ESPN never wanted Emrick tyo do their national broadcasts once they took the contract in 1992.
Olczyk is just garbage. Great player back in the day, but just a terrible color man.
The NHL needs to do away with Doc. Enough already. The botched Kane goal should have been a sign. Either promote Strader or steal somebody from TSN, Rogers or CBC.
truebluegoalie
Registered User
The videos remind me how much I loved that team last year. They had some great chemistry.
So now Oates is a better coach than Tortorella. Yes, the same Oates that has never held a head coaching job in the NHL is better than one of the top American born head coaches in NHL history. I'm not a Torts fan and I have nothing against Oates, but that's just hilarious. It seems to be a Craps fan they have to have the IQ of a donut.
Oh and now Holtby is on the same tier as Lundqvist. The main board makes my ears bleed.
Oh and now Holtby is on the same tier as Lundqvist. The main board makes my ears bleed.
The Gloaming
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Did someone really say that? I stay far and away from the main boards except for the photoshop thread. Too much stupid.
I can live with Emrick, but Edzo sucks.
You guys have no idea how much it sucks for me, though...I have to watch the games on Comcast Sports Net with Joe B and Locker. If I don't post for a few days you can assume I died of some sort of serious bleeding from the ear.
You guys have no idea how much it sucks for me, though...I have to watch the games on Comcast Sports Net with Joe B and Locker. If I don't post for a few days you can assume I died of some sort of serious bleeding from the ear.
Kakko
Formerly Chytil
Robert Theodorson
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Gary Thorne and Bill Clement. Dave Strader and Darren Pang. Hell, even Steve Levy and Barry Melrose. I loved those tandems back in the day. And then you had the idiot Buccigross on NHL Tonight.
I don't know if any of you guys know Craig Laughlin, the Caps' color guy. He's a really nice guy in real life, a cool dude. In the booth, though, he and Joe B form an absolutely terrible pair. Talk about homers. And Locker sounds like he had a stroke, the way he talks. He didn't, it's just his speech is so slow and drawn out with that Canadian drawl.
When the Caps score, it's simply awful. You have to listen to Joe B screaming at the top of his lungs, and the background from the arena itself which sounds like a ****ing firetruck crashed into the stands.
In the past, I've used the pause function on the DVR to sync up a radio feed of the game. Listening to Kenny and Dave while watching the game on TV is actually a really cool experience. I'll be doing that this year as much as I can.
For older fans like me, with memories going back to the Original Six, Emrick is a real treat.
Back then, there was very little hockey on TV or the radio. At night, if the atmospheric conditions were right, I could sometimes pick up radio broadcasts from Toronto and Montreal (I lived in the Bronx). So I got to listen to some of the classic hockey announcers of those days, Foster Hewitt in Toronto and Danny Gallivan in Montreal. They had a particular cadence to their announcing.
Emrick, who is about 14 months older than me, obviously listened to them too and I often can hear echoes of Hewitt and Gallivan in his announcing. It just sounds right to me. Sam Rosen is a different kind of announcer: you hear the streets of NYC in his voice. Although I've heard all the great Ranger announcers over the years: Marv Albert on radio in the early 60s, Win Elliot, and Jim Gordon (who was great), it is Sam's voice that I hear in my head when I think of the Rangers. In the middle of July and August, it is his voice that I crave hearing.
Eddie O. I can live without. One of my complaints with the national broadcasts from MSG is how they turn down the crowd mikes. You loose some of the feel for how passionate the Garden crowd is and lose some of the emotion of the game. I hate how they lower the volume on the goal song.
Although I like Emrick a lot, I wish we could keep Sam and JM for however long we stay in the playoffs. One of the great things about 1994 was having Sam and JD broadcasting Game 7 vs. the Canucks and listening to how ecstatic they were at the end. They captured what all us long suffering fans were feeling.
But, Emrick, he's fine in my book.
Back then, there was very little hockey on TV or the radio. At night, if the atmospheric conditions were right, I could sometimes pick up radio broadcasts from Toronto and Montreal (I lived in the Bronx). So I got to listen to some of the classic hockey announcers of those days, Foster Hewitt in Toronto and Danny Gallivan in Montreal. They had a particular cadence to their announcing.
Emrick, who is about 14 months older than me, obviously listened to them too and I often can hear echoes of Hewitt and Gallivan in his announcing. It just sounds right to me. Sam Rosen is a different kind of announcer: you hear the streets of NYC in his voice. Although I've heard all the great Ranger announcers over the years: Marv Albert on radio in the early 60s, Win Elliot, and Jim Gordon (who was great), it is Sam's voice that I hear in my head when I think of the Rangers. In the middle of July and August, it is his voice that I crave hearing.
Eddie O. I can live without. One of my complaints with the national broadcasts from MSG is how they turn down the crowd mikes. You loose some of the feel for how passionate the Garden crowd is and lose some of the emotion of the game. I hate how they lower the volume on the goal song.
Although I like Emrick a lot, I wish we could keep Sam and JM for however long we stay in the playoffs. One of the great things about 1994 was having Sam and JD broadcasting Game 7 vs. the Canucks and listening to how ecstatic they were at the end. They captured what all us long suffering fans were feeling.
But, Emrick, he's fine in my book.
LORDE
I am Lorde, YA YA YA
Yes, and I would advise all of you to stay out of it. You'll just create trouble for yourself if you go off and get dragged down into that insanity.
The Dark Passenger
HFNYR Blues GM
You know the saying.
"Never argue with an idiot. He'll drag you down to his level and beat you with experience."
You do realize that years ago the blocker on the stick hand was referred to as a "waffle" or "waffle-board" or "Waffle-blocker"? They were brown and looked like a waffle.
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