yeah...or on the players head. And the offender comes from behind or just to the side. I believe they actually call it a tripping penalty but it is noted as a slew foot? The problem with it is that it sends the guy falling backwards with his legs up in the air landing on either his tailbone/ass or more dangerously, his head
ever see the movie Youngblood? Swayze kind of gets slew-footed, but I believe Racki uses his stick to take the feet out from under him. Swayze lands on his head gets a concussion. The Deaner then gets revenge by learning to fight, Rocky-style and kicks his ass after winning the game.
Slew footing is a bitch-move
If a man speaks in a forest and there is no woman around to hear him, is he still wrong?
ever see the movie Youngblood? Swayze kind of gets slew-footed, but I believe Racki uses his stick to take the feet out from under him. Swayze lands on his head gets a concussion. The Deaner then gets revenge by learning to fight, Rocky-style and kicks his ass after winning the game.
Slew footing is a bitch-move
Nope.
Just saw the highlight though, wasn't that bad. Was a trip, yup, but hardly suspendable.
He had a hook shortly after.
Just saw the highlight though, wasn't that bad. Was a trip, yup, but hardly suspendable.
He had a hook shortly after.
true...but it is a bitch-move and has potential for more serious injury. Come on down 2 goals, the game is pretty much over and you pull this shit? classless
If a man speaks in a forest and there is no woman around to hear him, is he still wrong?
true...but it is a bitch-move and has potential for more serious injury. Come on down 2 goals, the game is pretty much over and you pull this shit? classless
Potential but it didn't, and Malkin doesn't have a reputation for dirty bs (I don't think?). The league reviews every game, that's probably why it went unpunished.
Potential but it didn't, and Malkin doesn't have a reputation for dirty bs (I don't think?). The league reviews every game, that's probably why it went unpunished.
yeah...kind of surprising he would pull that crap.
If a man speaks in a forest and there is no woman around to hear him, is he still wrong?
no. and from one replay i saw, you see the ref looking right at it.
the " slew foot " actually happened twice on that play, once as they entered the zone over the blueline, then again at just above the hash marks.
Malkin also held his arm out, so as to cushion the resulting fall. ( he showed his guilt there )
and, by the way , Malikn was assessed a 10 minute misconduct penalty after that brilliant move of his.
fucking dirtbag.
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'Classless' Evgeni Malkin shows frustration in Game 4
BY KRISTIE ACKERT
DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER
Friday, May 2nd 2008, 12:40 AM
The series between the Rangers and Penguins had been billed as the savvy veteran Blueshirts who would rankle the talented, emotional and young Pens. With 13.6 seconds left Thursday night in Game 4, young Penguins star Evgeni Malkin finally showed some frustration.
As he and Paul Mara raced back toward the Rangers' net, Malkin kicked the legs out from under the defenseman while pushing him back with his arm. Malkin was whistled for a 10-minute misconduct penalty, capping the frustration of the Penguins' first loss in the playoffs.
"He did it twice - right at their blue line going into their zone and then right in our zone right in front of the ref," said Mara, who also received a 10-minute misconduct plus an extra minor penalty for roughing. "That's a classless act by a superstar. And there's no need for that in our game. We're up (3-0) and it's not like it's a little slew-foot - it's a full kick if you watch the replay. There's no need for that in our game."
The Penguins, who started the playoffs winning seven straight games, have another chance to eliminate the Rangers Sunday in Pittsburgh. The Penguins have not lost two games in a row since March 1.
For the first time in this series, however, the Penguins were unable to capitalize on their chances. The Pens, who had 29 shots on goal, were also unable to convert on four power plays.
"I don't feel they were frustrated, it just didn't go our way," Penguins coach Michel Therrien said. "You've just got to keep your composure, and I am sure the next game as a team we will be better."
Still, it seemed the Penguins' frustration after missing out on scoring chances in the first two periods - most notably a badly missed penalty shot by Malkin - started to show in the third. Before Malkin's misconduct penalty, the Penguins had both Malkin and star center Sidney Crosby in the penalty box for roughing after a hard, seemingly clean hit by Dan Girardi on Marian Hossa with 6:28 to play. (Girardi was called for roughing for the hit.) The Penguins were called for seven penalties in the third, including another 10-minute misconduct in the final seconds.
"Well, obviously we don't want to be in the penalty box. Our job is to score goals," Crosby said. "But there comes a point where you have to stick up for each other."
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Rangers have to keep hitting Malkin early and often. That happened either earlier this year or last year the more they check him the more flustered he gets and loses focus.
Also, next time Crosby actually challenges someone to a fight how about dropping the gloves? That keeps him off the ice for five minutes.
Jw
Rangers have to keep hitting Malkin early and often. That happened either earlier this year or last year the more they check him the more flustered he gets and loses focus.
Also, next time Crosby actually challenges someone to a fight how about dropping the gloves? That keeps him off the ice for five minutes.
Jw
That won't work, Crosby would end up getting 2 for roughing while the other player would get 5 for fighting plus 2 for instigating and wouldn't be surprised if also a 10 minute misconduct.... have to protect the "golden boy"
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You take one part power play, two parts Jagr, and three parts Lundqvist. Mix them in a very large bowl shaped like a perfect circle, sprinkle in a healthy does of timely penalty killing, a pinch of gutty play by injured players and players replacing injured players, and a dash of frustration on the other side, and you have a recipe for winning that keeps the Rangers alive for one more game in their second round series -- not only keeps them alive, but gives them something to build on while sowing seeds of doubt in Pittsburgh to go along with those sprouts of frustration.
This was the Rangers' recipe for success even before losing Sean Avery and Blair Betts, along with some of Chris Drury's effectiveness, to injury -- we'd already gotten an article ready for the upcoming May issue of Blueshirt Bulletin that outlined just how important it was for the Rangers to have Jaromir Jagr and Henrik Lundqvist, their two most important players, carry them through the playoffs, with the power play chipping in the goals that win games. Against the Devils, it all clicked, even if the power play wasn't there for the first two games and Lundqvist had a couple of games he'd like to have back.
But against the Penguins, there was always something missing. The power play got a huge goal early in Game 1 with Lundqvist keeping the Rangers afloat, but everything went AWOL in blowing a 3-0 lead. Lundqvist sparkled in Game 2, but Jagr and the offense were blanked, with the power play denied the goal that would have sent the game into overtime by a quick whistle. In Game 3, Jagr was a beast, but Lundqvist could not make a game-saving stop and the power play was once again blanked and humiliated, as was the penalty killing for a third straight game. The Pens are to be credited for taking an essential ingredient or two out of the Ranger attack for all or part of those games.
But this time, it all came together for the Rangers. Lundqvist kept the Rangers in a scoreless tie through the first half of the game (31 minutes, actually) when the Pens outshot the Rangers 15-10, including a pair of stops on Evgeni Malkin that had him banging his stick in frustration. But as valiantly as he was playing, the depleted Rangers didn't appear as if they had what it took to score a goal, especially with Scott Gomez having an off game skating with Nigel Dawes and Ryan Callahan, Drury clearly hampered centering Brendan Shanahan and a dynamic Petr Prucha, and Martin Straka losing the handle every time he had a play on his stick (including a breakaway) despite having a good game otherwise.
Jagr took over at the exact moment one would think that it was going to be up to him to do it himself. Surely everyone at the Garden believed just that as he streaked up the left wing on a solo rush, cut to the middle, and whipped a whistler past Marc-Andre Fleury to break the scoreless tie. He lay on the ice for a long time afterwards, unable to celebrate his goal after being laid out with a hit to the head by Brooks Orpik -- he was lying there wishing he could do the celebration scene from "Jerry Maguire", he told reporters later. But he got back up and assisted on Brandon Dubinsky's goal early in the third period and scored the empty netter to seal the deal late in the game -- both of them power play goals, the special team finally coming through after an 0-for-15 streak of futility.
But it wouldn't have held up without Lundqvist's continued heroics. In addition to some flurries around his net and help from one crossbar, Lundqvist stopped a pair of breakaways and a penalty shot -- a shorthanded breakaway by Ryan Malone and one by Malkin that led to his penalty shot. He had help from his defense, with the Rangers outshootiing the Pens 21-8 between the middle of the second period and the last five minutes of the game -- Paul Mara had his best game as a Ranger, aided by some timely plays by Jason Strudwick, playing in place of the Chirstain Backman turn-it-over machine. But the saves on Malkin and Malone were huge, keeping the Pens from striking at the Rangers the way they had in the first three games even when the Rangers were outplaying them.
The penalty shot call was a mystery. Dan Girardi, chasing Malkin without a stick, pushed him lightly in the back with his hands. Somehow, Malkin's legs went out from under him feet-first, defying the laws of physics for a check from behind, but not the dynamics of diving. It was a check from behind, but that penalty is a major penalty designed for dangerous plays where a player can be injured, not the kind of light pushes from behind designed to separate a player from the puck that one sees all game long -- one would think that a major penalty, if warranted, would supersede a penalty shot. Curiously, even though he was not called for diving, an apparent goal was denied Malkin on the continuation of the play because he pushed Lundqvist into the net after the save was made -- but if he went into Lundqvist because of a penalty, it shouldn't have been considered a push. All in all, a series of calls and non-calls that were all wrong.
The game got ugly once the Penguins fell behind 2-0. Apparently believing it their birthright to win every game, to not get hit, and to not have any calls go against them, the Pens lost their cool, beginning with Sidney Crosby, who went after Girardi after a clean check to Marian Hossa, with Malkin, a sore loser after being sportsmanlike in victory, joining in. Both Penguin stars sat in the box together as the Rangers went on the power play, certainly not a recipe for success for Pittsburgh. Then, at the end of the game, as Jagr scored an empty netter, Malkin slew-footed Mara twice, the second time touching off a melee. Drury may have been slew-footed too. Malkin was not penalized for his acts, even after being the beneficiary of the phantom penalty shot call.
But one win does not negate the hole the Rangers are still in. They cannot lose a single game more in this series. Can they recreate their recipe for success again three times in a row, beginning Sunday afternoon in Pittsburgh? On the Rangers side of the ledger, Jagr and Lundqvist will have the biggest say, along with the special teams. The Penguins will have something to say about it too, but if their say is no more than the frustration they showed in losing this game, the Rangers will have a good chance to extend the series one game at a time, which is all they're looking for at this point.
Game reports: Daily News, Journal News, Newsday, Times, Post, Record, Star-Ledger, Vancouver Sun, AP, Toronto Sun, Toronto Star, Globe and Mail, National Post, FoxSports, Yahoo! Sports, CBC, NYR.com. More on Jagr's heroic game: Daily News, Journal News, Newsday, Post, Record, SI.com, ESPN, CBS Sports, TSN, Post-Gazette, Tribune-Review, Beaver County Times. More on Lundqvist's heroic goalkeeping: Newsday, Times, Post, Record, ESPN, NHL.com. More on Malkin's heroic slew-foots: Daily News, Record, Star-Ledger, Toronto Sun, Tribune-Review.
Avery, the internal bleeding stopped, has been released from intensive care, but is unable to eat. See Daily News, Newsday, Blueshirts Blog, AP, Toronto Sun, ESPN. Post-game from reporters' blogs: Rangers Report, Blue Notes, Slap Shot, Blue Seats, and Prospect Park. Live game blog: Blue Notes. Pre-game from reporters' blogs, with Lauri Korpikoski not getting into his first NHL game: Blueshirts Blog, Rangers Report, Blue Notes, Slap Shot. A few other late pre-game entries from yesterday from the Post here and here and the Globe and Mail. From Pittsburgh here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.
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That was easily the best game lundqvist has played during the playoffs....hes honestly been shaky, i love him but its true...even with the devils he wasnt making amazing stops, even though majority of their goals were deflected in
the save he made in the 1st with the kick save out of no where was amazing
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That won't work, Crosby would end up getting 2 for roughing while the other player would get 5 for fighting plus 2 for instigating and wouldn't be surprised if also a 10 minute misconduct.... have to protect the "golden boy"
don't forget about the 3 game suspension
If a man speaks in a forest and there is no woman around to hear him, is he still wrong?
That was easily the best game lundqvist has played during the playoffs....hes honestly been shaky, i love him but its true...even with the devils he wasnt making amazing stops, even though majority of their goals were deflected in
the save he made in the 1st with the kick save out of no where was amazing
the wrap around attempt?
when he scooted over from right to left & got his pad down against the post. That was crazygood.
also of note, the only New York Ranger goaltender to ever stop 2 penalty shots in 2 consecutive rounds in one playoff season.
That penalty shot by malkin was ridiculous- the way he slowed down , thinking Henrik might budge first-
but no no no,.... not to be ,..
Post game interview Hwenrik mentioned Michael Nylander at practices and how he used to come up the way uip to the crease, forcing the goalie ( henrik) to go down firstly, then Nylander would make a move .
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That won't work, Crosby would end up getting 2 for roughing while the other player would get 5 for fighting plus 2 for instigating and wouldn't be surprised if also a 10 minute misconduct.... have to protect the "golden boy"
Now you just sound retarded.
If Crosby gets in a fight, he will get the same treatment as everyone else and you fucking know it.
There has never been ANY evidence to support these ridiculous theories so why don't you guys just grow up and get over it. He gets no more preferential treatment than Jagr gets and that is fact, not opinion.
If Crosby gets in a fight, he will get the same treatment as everyone else and you fucking know it.
There has never been ANY evidence to support these ridiculous theories so why don't you guys just grow up and get over it. He gets no more preferential treatment than Jagr gets and that is fact, not opinion.
i agree with this- he has matured much since his arrival
but at the same time,
he has been known to cry to refs a bit more then the average guy in the league.
that doesnt diminish his skills.
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The Rangers have asked the NHL to clarify the infraction that led to the penalty shot, but have not asked the league to review Malkin's slew-foots (no suspension), all according to Rangers Report.
Apparently the John Amirante theory many of you have applied to the Rangers loss in Game 3 is shared by Tom Renney.
“I’m superstitious about a number of things,” the coach remarked, “and that is one of them.”
No truth to the rumor the team will be stowing Amirante on its flight to Pittsburgh for Game 5.
As for the Rangers, they held a team meeting at 11 today, followed by an optional skate, but only Jaromir Jagr and Marek Malik took to the ice. The entire team will skate tomorrow before jetting to Pittsburgh.
In other news:
Outside of assorted bumps and bruises, the team emerged from Game 4 intact. That includes Jagr, who said he felt fine today; and Chris Drury, who not only played 20 minutes last night with a rib injury, but was a willing participant in the last minute fireworks.
Renney says the team has been in contact with the league not so much about both Evgeni Malkin’s actions late in the game—where there was no suspension levied— but the ruling on the penalty shot awarded to the center in the second period.
“They’re getting back to us. It was a penalty of some kind. I don’t know. It has to be a trip, hook, cross-check, whatever,” Renney said. “It doesn’t say that in the rulebook at all…Glen can take care of that area and has.”
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Malkin is a dirty player.
I remember before anyone really knew about him,before he
was even drafted,he was playing in the world championships and fucking kicked Vincent Lecavalier on the shoulder as they were both sprawled out on the ice in front of the net.
He was suspended for the next game of that tourney.
Hated the fucking bastard ever since.
Hollweg should pummel him.
"they don't give a shit Keith Moon is dead,
is that exactly what I thought I read?"
You take one part power play, two parts Jagr, and three parts Lundqvist. Mix them in a very large bowl shaped like a perfect circle, sprinkle in a healthy does of timely penalty killing, a pinch of gutty play by injured players and players replacing injured players, and a dash of frustration on the other side, and you have a recipe for winning that keeps the Rangers alive for one more game in their second round series -- not only keeps them alive, but gives them something to build on while sowing seeds of doubt in Pittsburgh to go along with those sprouts of frustration.
This was the Rangers' recipe for success even before losing Sean Avery and Blair Betts, along with some of Chris Drury's effectiveness, to injury -- we'd already gotten an article ready for the upcoming May issue of Blueshirt Bulletin that outlined just how important it was for the Rangers to have Jaromir Jagr and Henrik Lundqvist, their two most important players, carry them through the playoffs, with the power play chipping in the goals that win games. Against the Devils, it all clicked, even if the power play wasn't there for the first two games and Lundqvist had a couple of games he'd like to have back.
But against the Penguins, there was always something missing. The power play got a huge goal early in Game 1 with Lundqvist keeping the Rangers afloat, but everything went AWOL in blowing a 3-0 lead. Lundqvist sparkled in Game 2, but Jagr and the offense were blanked, with the power play denied the goal that would have sent the game into overtime by a quick whistle. In Game 3, Jagr was a beast, but Lundqvist could not make a game-saving stop and the power play was once again blanked and humiliated, as was the penalty killing for a third straight game. The Pens are to be credited for taking an essential ingredient or two out of the Ranger attack for all or part of those games.
But this time, it all came together for the Rangers. Lundqvist kept the Rangers in a scoreless tie through the first half of the game (31 minutes, actually) when the Pens outshot the Rangers 15-10, including a pair of stops on Evgeni Malkin that had him banging his stick in frustration. But as valiantly as he was playing, the depleted Rangers didn't appear as if they had what it took to score a goal, especially with Scott Gomez having an off game skating with Nigel Dawes and Ryan Callahan, Drury clearly hampered centering Brendan Shanahan and a dynamic Petr Prucha, and Martin Straka losing the handle every time he had a play on his stick (including a breakaway) despite having a good game otherwise.
Jagr took over at the exact moment one would think that it was going to be up to him to do it himself. Surely everyone at the Garden believed just that as he streaked up the left wing on a solo rush, cut to the middle, and whipped a whistler past Marc-Andre Fleury to break the scoreless tie. He lay on the ice for a long time afterwards, unable to celebrate his goal after being laid out with a hit to the head by Brooks Orpik -- he was lying there wishing he could do the celebration scene from "Jerry Maguire", he told reporters later. But he got back up and assisted on Brandon Dubinsky's goal early in the third period and scored the empty netter to seal the deal late in the game -- both of them power play goals, the special team finally coming through after an 0-for-15 streak of futility.
But it wouldn't have held up without Lundqvist's continued heroics. In addition to some flurries around his net and help from one crossbar, Lundqvist stopped a pair of breakaways and a penalty shot -- a shorthanded breakaway by Ryan Malone and one by Malkin that led to his penalty shot. He had help from his defense, with the Rangers outshootiing the Pens 21-8 between the middle of the second period and the last five minutes of the game -- Paul Mara had his best game as a Ranger, aided by some timely plays by Jason Strudwick, playing in place of the Chirstain Backman turn-it-over machine. But the saves on Malkin and Malone were huge, keeping the Pens from striking at the Rangers the way they had in the first three games even when the Rangers were outplaying them.
The penalty shot call was a mystery. Dan Girardi, chasing Malkin without a stick, pushed him lightly in the back with his hands. Somehow, Malkin's legs went out from under him feet-first, defying the laws of physics for a check from behind, but not the dynamics of diving. It was a check from behind, but that penalty is a major penalty designed for dangerous plays where a player can be injured, not the kind of light pushes from behind designed to separate a player from the puck that one sees all game long -- one would think that a major penalty, if warranted, would supersede a penalty shot. Curiously, even though he was not called for diving, an apparent goal was denied Malkin on the continuation of the play because he pushed Lundqvist into the net after the save was made -- but if he went into Lundqvist because of a penalty, it shouldn't have been considered a push. All in all, a series of calls and non-calls that were all wrong.
The game got ugly once the Penguins fell behind 2-0. Apparently believing it their birthright to win every game, to not get hit, and to not have any calls go against them, the Pens lost their cool, beginning with Sidney Crosby, who went after Girardi after a clean check to Marian Hossa, with Malkin, a sore loser after being sportsmanlike in victory, joining in. Both Penguin stars sat in the box together as the Rangers went on the power play, certainly not a recipe for success for Pittsburgh. Then, at the end of the game, as Jagr scored an empty netter, Malkin slew-footed Mara twice, the second time touching off a melee. Drury may have been slew-footed too. Malkin was not penalized for his acts, even after being the beneficiary of the phantom penalty shot call.
But one win does not negate the hole the Rangers are still in. They cannot lose a single game more in this series. Can they recreate their recipe for success again three times in a row, beginning Sunday afternoon in Pittsburgh? On the Rangers side of the ledger, Jagr and Lundqvist will have the biggest say, along with the special teams. The Penguins will have something to say about it too, but if their say is no more than the frustration they showed in losing this game, the Rangers will have a good chance to extend the series one game at a time, which is all they're looking for at this point.
Game reports: Daily News, Journal News, Newsday, Times, Post, Record, Star-Ledger, Vancouver Sun, AP, Toronto Sun, Toronto Star, Globe and Mail, National Post, FoxSports, Yahoo! Sports, CBC, NYR.com. More on Jagr's heroic game: Daily News, Journal News, Newsday, Post, Record, SI.com, ESPN, CBS Sports, TSN, Post-Gazette, Tribune-Review, Beaver County Times. More on Lundqvist's heroic goalkeeping: Newsday, Times, Post, Record, ESPN, NHL.com. More on Malkin's heroic slew-foots: Daily News, Record, Star-Ledger, Toronto Sun, Tribune-Review.
Avery, the internal bleeding stopped, has been released from intensive care, but is unable to eat. See Daily News, Newsday, Blueshirts Blog, AP, Toronto Sun, ESPN. Post-game from reporters' blogs: Rangers Report, Blue Notes, Slap Shot, Blue Seats, and Prospect Park. Live game blog: Blue Notes. Pre-game from reporters' blogs, with Lauri Korpikoski not getting into his first NHL game: Blueshirts Blog, Rangers Report, Blue Notes, Slap Shot. A few other late pre-game entries from yesterday from the Post here and here and the Globe and Mail. From Pittsburgh here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.
Jagr is a beast....in new york. He can't take the booing in pitt and the last line change hurts him too. he's gotten points in pittsburgh but he wasn't dominating like he was at MSG.
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That was easily the best game lundqvist has played during the playoffs....hes honestly been shaky, i love him but its true...even with the devils he wasnt making amazing stops, even though majority of their goals were deflected in
the save he made in the 1st with the kick save out of no where was amazing
He gets beaten on bad angle goals..I dont understand why. Hossa in game 3 right away, Ruuttu I believe it was in Game 1 the 2nd goal and then again n the tying goal? and few other ones. But he's also had his brilliant moments cant take that away...I just hope we get that same performance on Sunday...we're gonna need his A+ game. Also like other said, we gotta keep hittin em...the 1st few games its been just too easy for them to enter our zone at will..the defens hasent taken the body until the other nite with Girardi and Mara and Staal finnaly goin back to the physical play we needed like in the Devils series.
AND I still think Drury will have something to say b4 this series is over...hopefully another clutch game winner ...c'mon boys, the Sharks just won, we can do it too !
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Butt-Push Trumps Slew-Foot
In the bass-ackwards Orwellian world of the NHL, one player can do a strange, probably unsportsmanlike, but at that time legal dance in front of a goalie and in the process be speared in the groin by that goalie, and the league ignores the dangerous, definitely unsportsmanlike, and highly illegal spear while creating a new rule to avoid a recurrence of the strange dance routine. And in the bass-ackwards Orwellian world of the NHL, one player can run around the ice in the final minute of a frustrating loss and twice commit the dangerous, definitely unsportsmanlike, and highly illegal act of slew-footing an opponent (and for good measure target the ailing ribs of an opponent, albeit with a legal check), but the only thing the league has to consider the next day is how to explain why a legal push by a defenseman led to a penalty shot (because the referee on the ice never explained what the infraction was).
So Martin Brodeur is allowed to freely spear Sean Avery and Evgeni Malkin is allowed to freely slew-foot Paul Mara (not once, but twice), but new rulings have to be created to keep Avery out of Brodeur's face and to give Malkin a penalty shot when no discernable infraction was committed. And on top of that, Penguin coach Michel Therrien, who was whining to the officials even before the series began and whined some more after last game when an apparent Malkin was disallowed because he slid into Henrik Lundqvist (a bad call, by the way, if Girardi was in fact guilty of something in taking Malkin down), thinks it's OK to dismiss Malkin's slew-footing as being competitive.
Therrien, adding to the Penguins' classy image, also thinks it's OK to kick a man when he's down. In excusing Malkin's acts, which Mara called "classless", Therrien takes a potshot at Avery, who is lying in intensive care due to internal bleeding from a lacerated spleen, saying that Malkin's pair of slew-foots was nothing compared to Avery's slash to the back of Marc-Andre Fleury's leg at the end of Game 2. Of course, in the bass-ackwards Orwellian world of the NHL, all that will be remembered of that incident is Avery's slash, not Fleury's spear to Avery's groin -- courageously, from behind -- or George Laraque courageously being third man in on Avery after Hal Gill already began exacting a pound of flesh from Avery.
But unless the NHL creates a new rule to rationalize the erroneous call against Girardi, all of that is water under the bridge -- no harm, no foul after Malkin's "competitive" penalty shot was stopped in his sleep by Lundqvist -- heading into tomorrow afternoon's Game 5 in Pittsburgh. The Pens are still in a playoff series, but the Rangers have just one game to play. And that game has to be a repeat of Thursday, when they hounded Malkin and Sidney Crosby into frustration and Marian Hossa into his annual playoff invisible man disappearing act.
In the news today, Larry Brooks writes in the Post that the refs must allow the Rangers to play that game as long as they do it legally, which to the credit of the officials was the case in Game 4. Blueshirts Blog and Newsday address the forthcoming new "Girardi Rule", the Record, THN, and NHL.com take a closer look at the Beast, Jaromir Jagr, the Daily News has a brief update on Avery, and Stan Fischler describes how the Rangers can win Game 5 here and here.
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we didnt deserve to win this game.
outhit 11-0 in the 2nd period.
outshot by a large margin-
JAGR = 0 shots on goal, Malkin = 10 shots on goal ,...
How many power plays are going to have to go before we actually score on one ?
There was absolutely NO urgency in our game .
And our defense was just horrible.,
Girardi- on the game winning goal- trying to kick it ? - and then did a
pirouette right in front of Hossa,.....
( Dan- where the fuck was your stick ? )
Pitts 0-3 against Flyers in playoffs.
battle of Pennsylvania for the EC Finals- sdhould provbe to be a good series.
ron dugay said it best on MSG Postgame - we need another Beukeboom type of player to clear the fuck out of our crease - if youre gonnba come over here, you're gonna get hurt.
An element of physicality .
we'll be back next year.
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Slew footing is a bitch-move
no. and from one replay i saw, you see the ref looking right at it.
Just saw the highlight though, wasn't that bad. Was a trip, yup, but hardly suspendable.
He had a hook shortly after.
the " slew foot " actually happened twice on that play, once as they entered the zone over the blueline, then again at just above the hash marks.
Malkin also held his arm out, so as to cushion the resulting fall. ( he showed his guilt there )
and, by the way , Malikn was assessed a 10 minute misconduct penalty after that brilliant move of his.
fucking dirtbag.
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If he held his arm out to cushion the fall maybe it was an accident that time?
'Classless' Evgeni Malkin shows frustration in Game 4
BY KRISTIE ACKERT
DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER
Friday, May 2nd 2008, 12:40 AM
The series between the Rangers and Penguins had been billed as the savvy veteran Blueshirts who would rankle the talented, emotional and young Pens. With 13.6 seconds left Thursday night in Game 4, young Penguins star Evgeni Malkin finally showed some frustration.
As he and Paul Mara raced back toward the Rangers' net, Malkin kicked the legs out from under the defenseman while pushing him back with his arm. Malkin was whistled for a 10-minute misconduct penalty, capping the frustration of the Penguins' first loss in the playoffs.
"He did it twice - right at their blue line going into their zone and then right in our zone right in front of the ref," said Mara, who also received a 10-minute misconduct plus an extra minor penalty for roughing. "That's a classless act by a superstar. And there's no need for that in our game. We're up (3-0) and it's not like it's a little slew-foot - it's a full kick if you watch the replay. There's no need for that in our game."
The Penguins, who started the playoffs winning seven straight games, have another chance to eliminate the Rangers Sunday in Pittsburgh. The Penguins have not lost two games in a row since March 1.
For the first time in this series, however, the Penguins were unable to capitalize on their chances. The Pens, who had 29 shots on goal, were also unable to convert on four power plays.
"I don't feel they were frustrated, it just didn't go our way," Penguins coach Michel Therrien said. "You've just got to keep your composure, and I am sure the next game as a team we will be better."
Still, it seemed the Penguins' frustration after missing out on scoring chances in the first two periods - most notably a badly missed penalty shot by Malkin - started to show in the third. Before Malkin's misconduct penalty, the Penguins had both Malkin and star center Sidney Crosby in the penalty box for roughing after a hard, seemingly clean hit by Dan Girardi on Marian Hossa with 6:28 to play. (Girardi was called for roughing for the hit.) The Penguins were called for seven penalties in the third, including another 10-minute misconduct in the final seconds.
"Well, obviously we don't want to be in the penalty box. Our job is to score goals," Crosby said. "But there comes a point where you have to stick up for each other."
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Also, next time Crosby actually challenges someone to a fight how about dropping the gloves? That keeps him off the ice for five minutes.
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That won't work, Crosby would end up getting 2 for roughing while the other player would get 5 for fighting plus 2 for instigating and wouldn't be surprised if also a 10 minute misconduct.... have to protect the "golden boy"
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This was the Rangers' recipe for success even before losing Sean Avery and Blair Betts, along with some of Chris Drury's effectiveness, to injury -- we'd already gotten an article ready for the upcoming May issue of Blueshirt Bulletin that outlined just how important it was for the Rangers to have Jaromir Jagr and Henrik Lundqvist, their two most important players, carry them through the playoffs, with the power play chipping in the goals that win games. Against the Devils, it all clicked, even if the power play wasn't there for the first two games and Lundqvist had a couple of games he'd like to have back.
But against the Penguins, there was always something missing. The power play got a huge goal early in Game 1 with Lundqvist keeping the Rangers afloat, but everything went AWOL in blowing a 3-0 lead. Lundqvist sparkled in Game 2, but Jagr and the offense were blanked, with the power play denied the goal that would have sent the game into overtime by a quick whistle. In Game 3, Jagr was a beast, but Lundqvist could not make a game-saving stop and the power play was once again blanked and humiliated, as was the penalty killing for a third straight game. The Pens are to be credited for taking an essential ingredient or two out of the Ranger attack for all or part of those games.
But this time, it all came together for the Rangers. Lundqvist kept the Rangers in a scoreless tie through the first half of the game (31 minutes, actually) when the Pens outshot the Rangers 15-10, including a pair of stops on Evgeni Malkin that had him banging his stick in frustration. But as valiantly as he was playing, the depleted Rangers didn't appear as if they had what it took to score a goal, especially with Scott Gomez having an off game skating with Nigel Dawes and Ryan Callahan, Drury clearly hampered centering Brendan Shanahan and a dynamic Petr Prucha, and Martin Straka losing the handle every time he had a play on his stick (including a breakaway) despite having a good game otherwise.
Jagr took over at the exact moment one would think that it was going to be up to him to do it himself. Surely everyone at the Garden believed just that as he streaked up the left wing on a solo rush, cut to the middle, and whipped a whistler past Marc-Andre Fleury to break the scoreless tie. He lay on the ice for a long time afterwards, unable to celebrate his goal after being laid out with a hit to the head by Brooks Orpik -- he was lying there wishing he could do the celebration scene from "Jerry Maguire", he told reporters later. But he got back up and assisted on Brandon Dubinsky's goal early in the third period and scored the empty netter to seal the deal late in the game -- both of them power play goals, the special team finally coming through after an 0-for-15 streak of futility.
But it wouldn't have held up without Lundqvist's continued heroics. In addition to some flurries around his net and help from one crossbar, Lundqvist stopped a pair of breakaways and a penalty shot -- a shorthanded breakaway by Ryan Malone and one by Malkin that led to his penalty shot. He had help from his defense, with the Rangers outshootiing the Pens 21-8 between the middle of the second period and the last five minutes of the game -- Paul Mara had his best game as a Ranger, aided by some timely plays by Jason Strudwick, playing in place of the Chirstain Backman turn-it-over machine. But the saves on Malkin and Malone were huge, keeping the Pens from striking at the Rangers the way they had in the first three games even when the Rangers were outplaying them.
The penalty shot call was a mystery. Dan Girardi, chasing Malkin without a stick, pushed him lightly in the back with his hands. Somehow, Malkin's legs went out from under him feet-first, defying the laws of physics for a check from behind, but not the dynamics of diving. It was a check from behind, but that penalty is a major penalty designed for dangerous plays where a player can be injured, not the kind of light pushes from behind designed to separate a player from the puck that one sees all game long -- one would think that a major penalty, if warranted, would supersede a penalty shot. Curiously, even though he was not called for diving, an apparent goal was denied Malkin on the continuation of the play because he pushed Lundqvist into the net after the save was made -- but if he went into Lundqvist because of a penalty, it shouldn't have been considered a push. All in all, a series of calls and non-calls that were all wrong.
The game got ugly once the Penguins fell behind 2-0. Apparently believing it their birthright to win every game, to not get hit, and to not have any calls go against them, the Pens lost their cool, beginning with Sidney Crosby, who went after Girardi after a clean check to Marian Hossa, with Malkin, a sore loser after being sportsmanlike in victory, joining in. Both Penguin stars sat in the box together as the Rangers went on the power play, certainly not a recipe for success for Pittsburgh. Then, at the end of the game, as Jagr scored an empty netter, Malkin slew-footed Mara twice, the second time touching off a melee. Drury may have been slew-footed too. Malkin was not penalized for his acts, even after being the beneficiary of the phantom penalty shot call.
But one win does not negate the hole the Rangers are still in. They cannot lose a single game more in this series. Can they recreate their recipe for success again three times in a row, beginning Sunday afternoon in Pittsburgh? On the Rangers side of the ledger, Jagr and Lundqvist will have the biggest say, along with the special teams. The Penguins will have something to say about it too, but if their say is no more than the frustration they showed in losing this game, the Rangers will have a good chance to extend the series one game at a time, which is all they're looking for at this point.
Game reports: Daily News, Journal News, Newsday, Times, Post, Record, Star-Ledger, Vancouver Sun, AP, Toronto Sun, Toronto Star, Globe and Mail, National Post, FoxSports, Yahoo! Sports, CBC, NYR.com. More on Jagr's heroic game: Daily News, Journal News, Newsday, Post, Record, SI.com, ESPN, CBS Sports, TSN, Post-Gazette, Tribune-Review, Beaver County Times. More on Lundqvist's heroic goalkeeping: Newsday, Times, Post, Record, ESPN, NHL.com. More on Malkin's heroic slew-foots: Daily News, Record, Star-Ledger, Toronto Sun, Tribune-Review.
Avery, the internal bleeding stopped, has been released from intensive care, but is unable to eat. See Daily News, Newsday, Blueshirts Blog, AP, Toronto Sun, ESPN. Post-game from reporters' blogs: Rangers Report, Blue Notes, Slap Shot, Blue Seats, and Prospect Park. Live game blog: Blue Notes. Pre-game from reporters' blogs, with Lauri Korpikoski not getting into his first NHL game: Blueshirts Blog, Rangers Report, Blue Notes, Slap Shot. A few other late pre-game entries from yesterday from the Post here and here and the Globe and Mail. From Pittsburgh here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.
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the save he made in the 1st with the kick save out of no where was amazing
the wrap around attempt?
when he scooted over from right to left & got his pad down against the post. That was crazygood.
also of note, the only New York Ranger goaltender to ever stop 2 penalty shots in 2 consecutive rounds in one playoff season.
That penalty shot by malkin was ridiculous- the way he slowed down , thinking Henrik might budge first-
but no no no,.... not to be ,..
Post game interview Hwenrik mentioned Michael Nylander at practices and how he used to come up the way uip to the crease, forcing the goalie ( henrik) to go down firstly, then Nylander would make a move .
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Now you just sound retarded.
If Crosby gets in a fight, he will get the same treatment as everyone else and you fucking know it.
There has never been ANY evidence to support these ridiculous theories so why don't you guys just grow up and get over it. He gets no more preferential treatment than Jagr gets and that is fact, not opinion.
i agree with this- he has matured much since his arrival
but at the same time,
he has been known to cry to refs a bit more then the average guy in the league.
that doesnt diminish his skills.
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Rangers Report
Apparently the John Amirante theory many of you have applied to the Rangers loss in Game 3 is shared by Tom Renney.
“I’m superstitious about a number of things,” the coach remarked, “and that is one of them.”
No truth to the rumor the team will be stowing Amirante on its flight to Pittsburgh for Game 5.
As for the Rangers, they held a team meeting at 11 today, followed by an optional skate, but only Jaromir Jagr and Marek Malik took to the ice. The entire team will skate tomorrow before jetting to Pittsburgh.
In other news:
Outside of assorted bumps and bruises, the team emerged from Game 4 intact. That includes Jagr, who said he felt fine today; and Chris Drury, who not only played 20 minutes last night with a rib injury, but was a willing participant in the last minute fireworks.
Renney says the team has been in contact with the league not so much about both Evgeni Malkin’s actions late in the game—where there was no suspension levied— but the ruling on the penalty shot awarded to the center in the second period.
“They’re getting back to us. It was a penalty of some kind. I don’t know. It has to be a trip, hook, cross-check, whatever,” Renney said. “It doesn’t say that in the rulebook at all…Glen can take care of that area and has.”
More in a bit…
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I remember before anyone really knew about him,before he
was even drafted,he was playing in the world championships and fucking kicked Vincent Lecavalier on the shoulder as they were both sprawled out on the ice in front of the net.
He was suspended for the next game of that tourney.
Hated the fucking bastard ever since.
Hollweg should pummel him.
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Jagr is a beast....in new york. He can't take the booing in pitt and the last line change hurts him too. he's gotten points in pittsburgh but he wasn't dominating like he was at MSG.
an accident ?
hardly.
check it for yourself buddy
http://youtube.com/watch?v=DN99_E0tLhg
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accident my ass!
if that was avery, people would be calling for his head.
AND I still think Drury will have something to say b4 this series is over...hopefully another clutch game winner ...c'mon boys, the Sharks just won, we can do it too !
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Butt-Push Trumps Slew-Foot
In the bass-ackwards Orwellian world of the NHL, one player can do a strange, probably unsportsmanlike, but at that time legal dance in front of a goalie and in the process be speared in the groin by that goalie, and the league ignores the dangerous, definitely unsportsmanlike, and highly illegal spear while creating a new rule to avoid a recurrence of the strange dance routine. And in the bass-ackwards Orwellian world of the NHL, one player can run around the ice in the final minute of a frustrating loss and twice commit the dangerous, definitely unsportsmanlike, and highly illegal act of slew-footing an opponent (and for good measure target the ailing ribs of an opponent, albeit with a legal check), but the only thing the league has to consider the next day is how to explain why a legal push by a defenseman led to a penalty shot (because the referee on the ice never explained what the infraction was).
So Martin Brodeur is allowed to freely spear Sean Avery and Evgeni Malkin is allowed to freely slew-foot Paul Mara (not once, but twice), but new rulings have to be created to keep Avery out of Brodeur's face and to give Malkin a penalty shot when no discernable infraction was committed. And on top of that, Penguin coach Michel Therrien, who was whining to the officials even before the series began and whined some more after last game when an apparent Malkin was disallowed because he slid into Henrik Lundqvist (a bad call, by the way, if Girardi was in fact guilty of something in taking Malkin down), thinks it's OK to dismiss Malkin's slew-footing as being competitive.
Therrien, adding to the Penguins' classy image, also thinks it's OK to kick a man when he's down. In excusing Malkin's acts, which Mara called "classless", Therrien takes a potshot at Avery, who is lying in intensive care due to internal bleeding from a lacerated spleen, saying that Malkin's pair of slew-foots was nothing compared to Avery's slash to the back of Marc-Andre Fleury's leg at the end of Game 2. Of course, in the bass-ackwards Orwellian world of the NHL, all that will be remembered of that incident is Avery's slash, not Fleury's spear to Avery's groin -- courageously, from behind -- or George Laraque courageously being third man in on Avery after Hal Gill already began exacting a pound of flesh from Avery.
But unless the NHL creates a new rule to rationalize the erroneous call against Girardi, all of that is water under the bridge -- no harm, no foul after Malkin's "competitive" penalty shot was stopped in his sleep by Lundqvist -- heading into tomorrow afternoon's Game 5 in Pittsburgh. The Pens are still in a playoff series, but the Rangers have just one game to play. And that game has to be a repeat of Thursday, when they hounded Malkin and Sidney Crosby into frustration and Marian Hossa into his annual playoff invisible man disappearing act.
In the news today, Larry Brooks writes in the Post that the refs must allow the Rangers to play that game as long as they do it legally, which to the credit of the officials was the case in Game 4. Blueshirts Blog and Newsday address the forthcoming new "Girardi Rule", the Record, THN, and NHL.com take a closer look at the Beast, Jaromir Jagr, the Daily News has a brief update on Avery, and Stan Fischler describes how the Rangers can win Game 5 here and here.
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outhit 11-0 in the 2nd period.
outshot by a large margin-
JAGR = 0 shots on goal, Malkin = 10 shots on goal ,...
How many power plays are going to have to go before we actually score on one ?
There was absolutely NO urgency in our game .
And our defense was just horrible.,
Girardi- on the game winning goal- trying to kick it ?
pirouette right in front of Hossa,.....
( Dan- where the fuck was your stick ? )
Pitts 0-3 against Flyers in playoffs.
battle of Pennsylvania for the EC Finals- sdhould provbe to be a good series.
ron dugay said it best on MSG Postgame - we need another Beukeboom type of player to clear the fuck out of our crease - if youre gonnba come over here, you're gonna get hurt.
An element of physicality .
we'll be back next year.
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