Shocked about Boogaard. RIP big guy.

Most surprising part of game 1?

It took 59+ minutes for Lucic to act like a jackass.

That was a shithole of a 90-second span that cost the Bruins Game 1. Serious fucking ugh.

Hey, at least they got 2 sucker punches in with 30 seconds left. If you can't beat em, beat em up cheaply.

Complete bullshit from Lucic. I'm a big Bruins fan. I used to like him back in his rookie season but no longer. The guy doesn't know the difference between playing with an edge and doing stupid things like that. It was the same thing that Scott Walker did to Aaron Ward in the playoffs a few years ago, completely uncalled for and a stupid cheap shot. It made me angry to see him do that, especially at that point of the game. I can't root for a guy like that anymore.

Meh. Sharks fail to play a complete 3 period game again. They came out in the third in the "prevent" defense which we all know prevents you from winning.

Wow Brian Burke looks like a genius right now.

Seguin making Julien look like a moron for not playing him earlier. 2 goals tonight after 1 in game 1.

Two things:

1) While I love hockey, I'm still learning the strategies of the game and figuring out which guys execute and which ones don't. That said, I think I understand enough to know that kid is going to be a star in this league. Wow.

2) Not caring who wins or loses, that was one of the most exciting periods of hockey I've seen. That was amazing.

Yeah - Seguin definitely arriving tonight I gotta say. They've definitely treated him with kid gloves all year, which might not be a bad thing in the long run I admit. He's only playing tonight (and only played in Game 1) due to an injury to their #2 center. Otherwise he would have been a healthy scratch.

5 goals in a period...that was pretty intense. Especially loved the Bruins getting one in the last minute to answer Tampa Bay's goal in the last minute in the first period.

No excuse for Julien to sit Seguin after that four point second period. He's been the best offensive Bruin this whole series.

Fortunately for Seguin, and for us.

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Did anyone else see that broad flash Ben Eager in the penalty box last night?

No. And why have I still not Sak?

well played

Antti Niemi needs a benchin.

NSFW.. hello penalty box!

http://deadspin.com/5803385/heres-your- ... with-video

Video
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xislae ... ager_sport

I want to go in the penalty box but not the FOFC one...

Why would she flash a guy on the opposing team? That doesn't seem to make sense...

Depends on whether or not she's hot (I haven't seen it yet, since it is NSFW).

Only saw it once, but yeah she's not bad

Then DT's right, it doesn't make sense, unless she's hoping it will serve as a bit of a distraction.

Or maybe she's just a whore. That's always a possibility.

That's what I'm thinking

Why not? :D

Maybe she showed the other teams player, a bottom shot?

Guess nobody is going to see it: YouTube removed it.

I found it. It was copied a million times on youtube, so will take them some time to get it down.

Sounds like Patrice Bergeron will return to the Bruins lineup tonight

It does, though after following Shaq day-to-day and NHL players with concussions over the last few months, "Patrice Bergeron expected to play" sounds kind of like "Patrice Bergeron doubtful to play, but if he does, he'll go 5 minutes and then leave for good after his first hit". But I'm hoping for the best.

Anyone have any insight as to why McLellan kept Niemi in there after about the 5th goal? The only thing I could come up with was he was trying to avoid the goalie controversy talk that happened in the Kings series, but it was beyond over at that point.

Fucking pathetic call on Bergeron. 5 years time there will be no hitting in this game at all.

Officials are afraid of being on the wrong side of a hit that results in an injury. Clean or not, they'll call what they think could have happened.

These are the same guys who watch 10 guys shove after a whistle and arbitrarily choose an odd number of guys who went too far.

Love the replay of the ref not catching the goalie touching the puck outside the trapezoid despite being right there. But on a closer look, which the announcers didn't mention, you see the ref put the whistle in his mouth as he starts to lift his arm...only to have to duck quickly when the puck is fired at his head.

Woah?

Is this true?

Atlanta is moving to Winnipeg?

Atlanta Thrashers moving to Winnipeg - The Globe and Mail

Atlanta Thrashers moving to Winnipeg

By STEPHEN BRUNT
Globe and Mail Update
Globe Exclusive: North Sports Entertainment secures rights to NHL franchise

An agreement to sell the National Hockey League's Atlanta Thrashers to a Winnipeg group which plans to relocate the franchise to the Manitoba capital is done.


Sources confirmed tonight that preparations are being made for an announcement Tuesday, confirming the sale and transfer of the Thrashers to True North Sports and Entertainment, which owns and operates the Manitoba Moose of the American Hockey League and the MTS Centre arena, which would become the NHL team's new home.


Gary Bettman, the commissioner of the National Hockey League, is expected to travel to Winnipeg to make the news official.


The announcement would end months of speculation about whether one of the NHL's financially-troubled American sunbelt teams might move north, filling the void left when the Winnipeg Jets packed up and left for Phoenix in 1996, where they became the Coyotes.


Much of the talk this spring had centred on that failing franchise, which was bought by the league after being placed in bankruptcy by its former owner Jerry Moyes in 2009.


But sources in Winnipeg suggest that the Thrashers had in fact been the primary target of potential owners Mark Chipman and David Thomson all along, and that some months back, the NHL board of governors quietly approved the sale and transfer of the team, pending the negotiation of a purchase agreement between Atlanta Spirit LLC, the Thrashers' owners, and True North.


In the meantime, no potential owner materialized who was prepared to keep the team in Georgia, and local governments there showed no interest in propping up the Thrashers.


"There seems to be a consensus there is going to be a team in Winnpeg," former major league pitcher Tom Glavine, who had tried unsuccessfully to find new ownership for the hockey team in Atlanta, acknowledged last week. ""The question is who, and unfortunately the bullseye seems to be on the Thrashers' back."


When it appeared this spring that the Coyotes might also be in play, after a deal to sell the team to Matthew Hulsizer underwritten by a municipal bond issue fell apart in the face of political opposition from the Goldwater Institute, the Winnipeg group sought to take advantage of what suddenly seemed a buyers' market, with two teams available and no other potential owners or relocations sites on the horizon.


After the City of Glendale agreed to cover $25-million of the Coyotes losses for the 2011-2012 season, and the NHL opted to operate the club in Arizona for at least one more year, True North's full focus returned to Atlanta, and a deal was hammered out this week.


Even before those final negotiations took place, the potential Winnipeg owners concluded an agreement with the Manitoba government which will allow revenues from a sports bar with slot machine to be used for improvements to the arena, and to be used towards the debt service on the building.


That's consistent with what Manitoba premier Greg Sellinger told reporters earlier this week, when he said that the provincial government had no interest in subsidizing an NHL team, but that the province had financially supported the renovation of the MTS Centre in the past, and would continue to be willing to do so.

Can we move to the East, please?

NHL coming back. Fans are gathering at Portage & Main as I type. I just heard fireworks. So awesome!

Important to note that David Thompson owns Globe and Mail, the outlet reporting the deal. Thompson will be the main money behind the Thrashers purchase. No way the Globe prints this story unless they are certain, and they definitely are the ones in a good position to scoop the other outlets.

Welcome back to the NHL, Winnipeg Jets!

Atlanta is now 0-for-2 in keeping NHL franchises in their city.

Anyone wanna take bets on Bettman trying a 3rd time in Atlanta sometime before 2020? :D

NHL is very adamantly denying it... please be true please be true please be true

Bettman will deny while the moving truck drives by him into downtown Winnipeg. His ego will not allow for an expansion team to relocate to a city that lost a bonafide NHL franchise. He lost twice in this case: when his expansion Thrashers failed in Georgia, and again with the return of a team to a Canadian city that lost a team to relocation and is also doing poorly (Phoenix).

So I guess Bettman was dropping some hints that the planned fan rally on Saturday was still really important to keeping the Thrashers in Atlanta?

I guess I see 2 options:

1) He's hoping a miraculous turnout will convince some unnamed buyer to put in a last minute bid to keep them in Atlanta or

2) He's setting up using the fans as an excuse ("I did everything I could but when only 800 people show up to a fan rally to save the team...")

Hmm, which do I think is more likely?

It seems the only real source not denying it at this point is the newspaper owned by the guys trying to buy the Thrashers. Hmm. They might have a good source on this one.

I've always hated that Columbus and Detroit play in the West.

800? I would bet they would be lucky to get half that.

This wouldn't be a problem if it was just named the Campbell Conference like it's supposed to be.

I keep seeing that DET sort of has 'dibs' on moving East in any re-alignment...but how true is this? Is this some back room dealing that Bettman offered Illitch to keep him quiet on the whole Crosby to Pittsburgh fix?

The move that makes the most sense is Nashville to the SE to replace Atlanta.

Otherwise, if it's Detroit or Columbus, where do they fit? If Detroit goes to the Northeast, who gets bumped...and to where? Or either team to the Atlantic, who is getting bumped from there between the NY area teams and Pittsburgh/Philly?

Rallies can help... in '95 hundreds of us (maybe thousands?) marched from Portage and Main to the legislature grounds, and then a couple weeks later 35,000 showed up at a rally at The Forks. The end result, if I remember correctly, was the delay of the sale of the team and the chance for new local ownership to be found. We got another season of hockey but eventually it didn't work out, but it could have had someone with some cash stepped up during that interim.

I think the problem here is that it's too little too late. We rallied and marched as soon as we heard the team was for sale... the Thrashers have been on the market for 3 years with hardly any noise. At this point any deal that will be done is pretty much done, and IMHO a few hundred people showing support won't change a thing.

As for Winnipeg, my wife drove through Portage and Main last night around 11:00pm and said there were about 100 people hooting and hollering.


Here is also a video of a spontaneous street hockey game that broke out (I can't seem to embed):
yfrog Video : http://yfrog.com/2chv1z - Uploaded by dylan_smith