The Official 2012 Stanley Cup Playoffs Thread

[BunnyHardaway]

Just saw the Turris winner...nasty. I love A) when the Canadian teams do well (sans TOR and MTL) and B) when the Rangers lose.

[SidVish]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports...,3885739.story

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So, Adrian Aucoin, have you seen a replay of the Raffi Torres hit on Marian Hossa in Game 3? "Yep," the veteran Coyotes defenseman said Wednesday. Any thoughts on that? "Nope," Aucoin replied. And so it went through the visitors' dressing room at the United Center, with the Coyotes to a man refusing to comment on a hit that earned Torres an indefinite suspension pending a face-to-face meeting in New York with the NHL's discipline honchos. Torres was unavailable for comment Wednesday. Only coach Dave Tippett addressed the hit specifically and defended Torres' intentions while he was at it. "I've seen a lot of other hits like it around the league," Tippett said. "The thing about TV is, you can slow it down and click it and click it and click it -- when you're out there on the ice, it's not slowed down and click, click, click. It's a fast game. I don't think there was any malicious intent on Raffi's part. He's a hard hitter. That's the way he plays the game. "He turns, goes full speed, catches a guy right in the chest. Unfortunately the player was injured. I don't think there was a malicious intent. You see some of the cross-checks to the face or (Duncan) Keith's elbow a few weeks ago to (Vancouver's Daniel) Sedin, there was no malicious intent like that. It's out of our hands, it's in the league's hands and we'll deal with whatever comes." So the Coyotes moved along, with Tippett saying there was no talk in the room about the hit or the loss of Torres on Thursday. And while there was sympathy for Hossa -- who got stretchered off the ice -- there certainly weren't apologies. "We're playing a contact sport," veteran forward Ray Whitney said. "It's a high-paced, contact sport. If you don't want to get hit, if you don't want to get hurt, there are other sports you can play. Yes, we don't want to injure people. But if you don't finish your checks and you don't play hard, you're probably not going to play. You're going to watch the game from the press box. "There's a fine line. We certainly don't want the best players in the league getting injured. That's certainly not the intent. But there is a certain way you have to play in the playoffs and finishing your checks is one of them. It's just kind of the nastiness of being in the playoffs. Nobody said winning the Stanley Cup was ever going to be easy. ... It's not like we're out there trying to hurt each other. But we are out there trying to hit as hard as we can and play as hard as we can."

http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2...d-of-children/

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Phoenix Coyotes GM Don Maloney delivered quite the sound bite today while opining on all the outrage in Chicago over Raffi Torres’ hit on Marian Hossa. “You would think Raffi murdered a bus load of children the way he’s portrayed here in Chicago,” Maloney said, as reported by Sarah McLellan of the Arizona Republic. Not that Maloney thinks the hit was clean. He concedes that Torres “made an error in judgment,” but he thinks the “outcry on so many different fronts is over the top.” “Obviously an offense occurred,” said Maloney, “but it was not a situation where he took his stick and hit someone in the head. Probably two hundredths of a second it went from being a regular hit to being a little late hit.” Now, many would argue it wasn’t the lateness of the hit that upset people the most; it was the fact Torres left his feet to deliver it. But let’s not that get in the way of what Maloney is implying – essentially, he’s saying the local media is blowing the whole thing out of proportion because it was a Blackhawks player that got hurt. Maloney wasn’t alone in condemning all the attention Torres’ hit is receiving in Chicago. Coyotes coach Dave Tippett came out and said what a lot of Canucks fans are thinking in the wake of the Torres hit. “[Duncan] Keith’s hit on [Daniel] Sedin a few weeks ago there was none of the hoopla,” said Tippett. “There was people saying it was a bad hit, but not to the extent this is. “Every team and every team’s media protects its own team. That’s the nature of the beast here. You ask people in Vancouver right now what they think of the Keith hit, they’re probably thinking the same thing you guys think of the Torres hit.”

Wow just wow.

[SidVish]

Quote: Originally Posted by CardsFan27

That girl in the yellow shirt jumping up and down after the Canucks goal, I'm a fan.

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[ASB37]

Being a Rangers fan has taken years off my life.

[FlyingFinn]

Quote: Originally Posted by SidVish

Wow just wow.

I don't have a dog in the fight and I don't see anything wrong with anything said in those statements.

[pietasterp]

So now that the possibility of sweeps is out of the way (big ups to Pittsburgh and Vancouver for not rolling over), who do you guys think will be the first team to be eliminated this year? Virtual chocolate-chip cookie for the winner.

[Kobalt]

Quote: Originally Posted by pietasterp

So now that the possibility of sweeps is out of the way (big ups to Pittsburgh and Vancouver for not rolling over), who do you guys think will be the first team to be eliminated this year? Virtual chocolate-chip cookie for the winner.

Detroit

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[Perceptor]

Looking forward to Bruins/Caps tonight. B's need to continue playing like they did on Monday.

As for the Ottawa/Rangers series, Ottawa has really impressed me with their attitude. I didn't think this series would go more than 5. Even though they haven't played with the lead once in this series, they're somehow tied at 2

Gotta give this team some props. I still think they're a rebuilding team and they could pull a Colorado and stumble next season. For now, though, I'll sit back and see what they do