Stanley Cup Final: Pittsburgh Penguins vs. Nashville Predators

[Kin]

Headline over at ESPN:

Stopping Crosby-Malkin combo key for Predators

That's what I call journalism.

 

[Zee]

Yay, the playoffs are coming to an end soon.

 

[Kin]

Man, if the Penguins win the Cup with this group on defense...that would be a real accomplishment.

 

[CarltonTheBear]

Game 1 of the Stanley Cup finals gets a "start time" of 8:00pm. The puck drops at 8:25pm. Do other sports have this same issue? Especially for big games?

 

[Kin]

Game 1 of the Stanley Cup finals gets a "start time" of 8:00pm. The puck drops at 8:25pm. Do other sports have this same issue? Especially for big games?

Yeah, it's a little different because it starts on the West Coast but even the Cleveland games of the NBA finals are at 9 pm.

 

[CarltonTheBear]

I'd rather get rid of offsides entirely than sit through one more of these awful reviews.

 

[Kin]

I'd rather get rid of offsides entirely than sit through one more of these awful reviews.

It's really going to be a mystery when the ratings come out and it turns out 16 people are watching.

 

[CarltonTheBear]

Game 1 of the Stanley Cup finals gets a "start time" of 8:00pm. The puck drops at 8:25pm. Do other sports have this same issue? Especially for big games?

Yeah, it's a little different because it starts on the West Coast but even the Cleveland games of the NBA finals are at 9 pm.

My bad, that's not what I was asking about. I don't actually have a problem with the "late" (for us) starts. I actually quite like 8pm starts. It's the advertised vs. actual start times of games that I have an issue with. You generally know exactly when the Super Bowl coin toss is going to happen. For NHL games there's like a 20-minute window when a puck drop can realistically happen based on the advertised start time.

 

[CarltonTheBear]

Bettman was adamant today that the review process was going exactly as everyone intended it to and that there aren't any issues. He also probably muttered something about fans not caring about cap sites after the media left.

 

[CarltonTheBear]

3-0 Pens. The overturned goal dramatically changed this game.

 

[AvroArrow]

It used to be when a Leaf game started at 7:30, pick drop was at 7:38... No idea when that changed, but we need to get back to that.

 

[Kin]

The penalty call on Neal, to me, is the perfect example of why penalty calls should be context-free. I'm sure the complaints are about it being the sort of thing that maybe shouldn't give a team a two man advantage but it absolutely was a crosscheck and it was really dumb. I don't know why you'd give a team a break on something like that because it's more likely to hurt them.

 

[Kin]

I really don't like how Nashville's big "tradition" of throwing Catfish on the ice is such a clear and obvious rip-off of our own team's proud waffle-throwing history.

 

[CarltonTheBear]

Pretty incredible that somebody like Carl Hagelin would be a healthy scratch for Pittsburgh. And Conor Sheary, who was 4th on the team in scoring, sat at one point too last round.

But Matt Martin has to play every single game.

 

[ZBBM]

0 SOG for the Pens that frame.  This is compelling sport.

 

[CarltonTheBear]

Well, that period kinda sucked.

#StanleyCupFinal

 

[bustaheims]

0 SOG for the Pens that frame.  This is compelling sport.

Second team to have a 0 shot period in these playoffs. It happens every few years, but, twice in one? With the team not getting a shot likely winning both games? Crazy.

 

[ZBBM]

0 SOG for the Pens that frame.  This is compelling sport.

Second team to have a 0 shot period in these playoffs. It happens every few years, but, twice in one? With the team not getting a shot likely winning both games? Crazy.

I dunno.  I'm beginning to think that Nik might be on to something about these playoffs sucking.

 

[CarltonTheBear]

Well at least the score of this game is interesting now.

 

[CarltonTheBear]

3-3!

What a weird game.