NHL Discussion Thread

[clashcityrocker10]

No offense taken, I can understand where you're coming from (and not to worry, not many people are fans of any Philly teams ). My only argument to your assessment would be that it's philly's power play and penalty killing teamwork that's driving the games. No doubt that some of he goal tending has been a bit lackluster, but the fighting from my perspective has been out of Pittsburgh's frustration and inability to stop the flyers "special teams" play. Of course after a while, Philly was going to respond to the aggressive play from Pitt...but there were a couple of fights that did belong in a school playground.

That's a possibility, but I feel that this has been brewing since the regular season, but it's really just been media buildup of a rivalry (partially fed by the players and coaches, undoubtedly) and not things that have happened either in-game or in a prior game. I'd contrast this with, say, this game last year, which, while being a bit overboard at parts on both sides, was purely a result of what had happened in the last game and a (generally-speaking) good example of when and why to fight, plus some really good fights.

[BachiG]

Yay, B's. Let's go Sharks!

[BevoTheWarrior]

Yay, B's. Let's go Sharks!

BRUINS!!! And now back to our regularly scheduled discussion...

[BachiG]

Not much regularly scheduled discussion going on in here atm.

[BevoTheWarrior]

Or ever, as I've noticed.

[BachiG]

True that. Maybe when the finals start there will be some more people posting.

[BevoTheWarrior]

Hopefully. Playoffs have brought in a bit more traffic so that'd make sense.

[BachiG]

Yeah, I'm guilty myself of hardly watching any regular season hockey this year. Of course with a son who's only now 16months, I have some excuse.

[BevoTheWarrior]

That's definitely a good excuse. My excuse, as you may well know, is that during the regular season we just don't get many games broadcast in Texas.

[BachiG]

Yep...unless you're a stars fan.