Red Wings

[chemiclord]

CGVT, when you start bawling about people not posting the way you want them to post, you really shouldn't leave your webcam on.



Seriously... so undignified.

[froot loops]

In regards to the backhand goal by Kane, it was a great shot. Top shelf, short side on a backhand is no cheapie.

[chemiclord]

More Chemi not caring.

As long as he keeps being wrong, who cares what he puts in the game thread.

Pretty much. I love being wrong at times like this.

[chemiclord]

In regards to the backhand goal by Kane, it was a great shot. Top shelf, short side on a backhand is no cheapie.

Are you serious?

That is the definition of a soft goal. Short angle, off a backhand, no screen or deflection? Come on... Osgood has to make that save. He was late getting to position and dropped down too quickly (my guess was he was anticipating a back door pass that wasn't there). It was a bad play in an otherwise exceptional performance.

Not saying it wasn't a good shot, because it was... about the only chance Kane had scoring from that position. But that's also a save Osgood should make.

[CGVT]

I don't wreck shit... you just don't like reading people who don't ride the wave of optimism. I don't care that you don't like it. Too bad; cry some more, you whiny bitch. Your constant complaining, bitching, and whining about other posters wrecks threads a lot more than any comments I made, because they inevitably devolve into tit for tats like this.

Guess what? I can say what I want within the bounds of the moderators. Since you aren't a moderator, you can't do shit about it. Deal with it, crybaby.

Wow, that was quite childish. (but not unexpected) Ha!

[froot loops]

If you run a backhand at that point of the net you are going to score 90 percent of the time. Its while the old timers bemoan the lost art of the backhand. With the curves on the stick people don't use the backhand like they use to but goalies always have trouble on those.

[chemiclord]

Wow, that was quite childish. (but not unexpected) Ha!

Coming from the guy whining like a baby about people ruining the threads he follows, you're hardly one to talk about "childish."

[chemiclord]

If you run a backhand at that point of the net you are going to score 90 percent of the time. Its while the old timers bemoan the lost art of the backhand. With the curves on the stick people don't use the backhand like they use to but goalies always have trouble on those.

I highly doubt that 90% is accurate, but I suppose this is something we'll just have to disagree on. I don't see goalies have nearly as much trouble on those shots as you do unless they are out of position or drop to the ice too quickly.

[froot loops]

At the OT intermission Kelly Hrudey was expounding on the backhand point. You don't see goalies have that much trouble because you don't see that type of backhand shot. If you see the shot like that you are going to see a goal.

[chemiclord]

At the OT intermission Kelly Hrudey was expounding on the backhand point. You don't see goalies have that much trouble because you don't see that type of backhand shot. If you see the shot like that you are going to see a goal.

I don't see that. I see a shot that Osgood handles easily if he doesn't drop down before the shot even is released. It barely goes over his left shoulder... hell, you could see where it brushed his sweater.

It was a good shot. It wasn't an unstoppable shot.

Goddamn it, I'm doing it again. I'm going to stop now before someone accuses me of "wrecking the thread". Osgood had a phenomenal game, regardless of how you might feel about the one goal he allowed. I'm just going to leave it at that.

[SeattleLionsFan]

What shot is unstoppable?

[chemiclord]

Oh, I'm sure you can think of a whole bunch of unstoppable shots if you put your mind to it. There's a lot of shots you can't pin on a goalie if he doesn't make the save.

Any shot that comes off a 2 on 1 is an example.

[FVD]

I've always thought backhands were tough for goalies to pick up because its hard to see how much lift the shooter is going to get on the puck.

Ozzie played his ass off. So did Huet for that matter. A great game to watch, very entertaining. Hope we can get everybody healthy by Saturday night.

[Malto Marko]

Wow. What a great game.........

While the series with the Ducks was more physical, I believe the series with the Blackhawks was more difficult. Three OT games.......yowser!

I gotta agree with Chemi on this one. I too, thought Osgood went down too early then I thought to myself, how many stand up goalies are there in the NHL? I started paying closer attention to both goalies and realized they do exactly what I kept telling my goalies not to do which is hit the butterfly prior to the shot being taken. I tried to train my goalies to be stand ups but they have a propensity to want to hit the ice when shots are coming at them. It is to cover more of the net on a rebound, which I understand but I feel that if you stand up more often, there either is no rebound or you can direct your rebound to the corner which is more difficult to do in the butterfly position.

12 down, 4 to go.

PS
I have mixed feelings about moving the starting of the Cup series by the NHL. I am not a proponent of long lay offs but, I do not like the idea of back to back games in the most difficult series in sports. These guys spend a lot of energy during a game and they need more than 20 hours to refresh.

[Rocky Bleier]

Freakin' Bettman looked at the Wings' depleted lineup and decided that 4 games in 6 days was the best way to beat 'em.