How 'bout them Penguins? How 'bout them Penguins!

Bathgate66 wrote:

even the old lady who crosby delivered the season tickets to her front door said

the fans show no class when they boo jagr
they won 2 cups with the guy.
what the fuck ?



good win tonight
lots of crazy bounces and deflections
see you guys sunday .

Jagr was different back then.

And that is as much as I should say about that.

Lets go penguins.

rangers played very well too...just took too many penalties. They fell asleep during the PP that the pens scored on...but besides that I thought both sides played evenly

i think that no-goal call was bs....fleury never had control of the puck and the whistle was called while the puck was on the line....not as bad of a call as strakas at the end of game 1 though

Cowardly Avery tried to take out Crosby

By Joe Starkey
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Adam Graves all over again.

That's what I was thinking as I watched replays of Sean Avery's assault on Sidney Crosby with 6 seconds left in the first period Sunday.

It happened in the neutral zone, away from the puck.

Avery, the New York Rangers' resident coward, came up from behind -- as cowards often do -- and took two chopping slashes at Crosby's left wrist.

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Neither hack was the kind of baseball-style swing that Graves took on Mario Lemieux in Game 2 of a 1992 playoff series between these teams -- the one that broke Lemieux's left hand -- but Avery obviously intended to inflict some damage.

The first slash connected. Luckily for Crosby, the harder second one did not, only because he'd whipped his smarting wrist out of the way.

Avery wasn't penalized.

Crosby didn't make an issue of it on the ice. He didn't mention it after the game or when he addressed reporters at his locker Monday.

Nobody asked Crosby about the incident, either, which means a lot of people probably didn't see it. Sneak attacks are designed that way.

In a quieter moment after yesterday's media session, I asked Crosby if he thought Avery was trying to injure him.

"He wasn't going for the puck," Crosby said. "He was going for my wrist."

A call to the Rangers' media relations office yesterday seeking comment from Avery wasn't returned.

Carefully choosing his words, Crosby went on.

"Obviously, he was trying to make me feel it a bit," he said. "I don't know if it was a direct intent to hurt me or anything. ... I guess he was just letting me know that he's there."

How's the wrist?

"I felt it," Crosby said, smiling. "It's just sore, nothing major."

Penguins coach Michel Therrien said he was well aware of the incident and added, somewhat cryptically, "I'm working on that right now."

Asked if that meant he was going to send a tape to league headquarters, Therrien said no.

I asked NHL spokesman Frank Brown if the league was reviewing Avery's actions.

"We review everything, every play of every game," Brown said.

But is the league reviewing that particular play for the purpose of possibly suspending Avery?

"If there is any action that is needed that would cause this person not to play (tonight), it will be announced before the game is played," Brown said.

In Game 1, Avery raked his stick across Crosby's face and wasn't penalized.

It's not exactly news that Avery is a league-wide joke. Or, as Penguins winger Gary Roberts put it a few weeks ago, "an idiot."

Roberts was speaking in the aftermath of Avery's ridiculous face-guarding act against New Jersey goaltender Martin Brodeur.

You might have heard what Avery did at the Rangers' next practice, when he realized a television camera had caught him re-enacting his face-guarding routine. He made an obscene gesture to the camera.

This is the kind of maladjusted mental midget you're dealing with.

Before this series, one Penguins player told me many of Avery's teammates on the Los Angeles Kings despised him and were thrilled when he was traded to the Rangers.

In a recent Sports Illustrated poll of 365 NHL players, Avery was voted the league's dirtiest player by a wide margin. He garnered 24 percent of the vote, compared to 11 percent for Anaheim's Chris Pronger and 10 percent for Penguins winger Jarkko Ruutu.

Who knows why this obnoxious little gnat is such an attention seeker? Maybe Penguins defenseman Hal Gill got it right in Game 2, after the benches exchanged words.

NBC analyst Pierre McGuire, stationed between the benches, said, "Hal Gill just said to Avery, 'You just weren't hugged enough as a child. That's why you've got issues.' "

Should be an interesting atmosphere tonight at Madison Square Garden, what with a blood-thirsty crowd harassing Crosby and Penguins goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury, who traded slashes with Avery at the end of Game 2.

At least those slashes were exchanged in plain sight and not in the shadowy outskirts, where cowards love to roam.


But Crosby is a diver!
Hopefully we'll be up by a couple goals and Laraque or Gill can give him some payback.

I don't have any facts or anything but I am from Pittsburgh and I remember well Jagr pulling a Chad Johnson type move and making it VERY clear he didnt want to be in Pittsburgh anymore, not trying, and even refusing to play.

He deserves to be boo'd.

turnedmyworldtoblack wrote:

I don't have any facts or anything but I am from Pittsburgh and I remember well Jagr pulling a Chad Johnson type move and making it VERY clear he didnt want to be in Pittsburgh anymore, not trying, and even refusing to play.

He deserves to be boo'd.

I agree that he was moody here, and said some stupid things, but I will disagree with him not trying or refusing to play.

The 1999 Devils series alone should put to rest the idea that he didn't try.

He did help damage the team late in his career though, but part of that was the organization caving in to his every demand (Hlinka coaching, keeping Kip Miller, etc.)

turnedmyworldtoblack wrote:

He deserves to be boo'd.

the guy loves pittsburgh still.
He learned to play nhl hockey there, under the wing of no querstion one of the top players in the world.
That was then , this is now,....
He understands the fans booing .
He has chatted about this to Scott Gomez who shares in this experience- ..... ( every game at NJ the Newark Fans boo'd ) \
Oh and guess whos house Sykora is living in since his arrival in Pitts ?
Yep ,.....you guessed it , Jagrs .( Jagr still owns his home in Pitts )


It just makes the Pitts fans look silly when they boo him,...
the guy contributed lots to those 2 cups, even with Mario .
Mario wiould be the first guy to tell you the same,...


somethings going to change tonight.
either the 0-4 at The Garden,
or the 6-0 in playoffs.
im hoping to god its not 3-0 after , but anything can happen in the playoffs.

heres to a good game


cheers

Another great game!!

jackrabbit slim wrote:

Wow this is crazy! I never in my wildest dreams thought the pens would be 7-0 at this point. There really are no flaws with this team. To the finals we go!

Yeah, it's pretty sweet. I think the most surprising thing has been the penalty killing and defense in general. I'm loving these playoffs.

Sweep on my b-day!

jackrabbit slim wrote:

kindly float black to the blueshirts thread if you're going to spout such nonsense.

um im a Leafs fan, btw i guess my team does wear blueshirts hehe