Coyotes 3 Canucks 2 (SO)
by Sean Zandberg on Dec 29, 2009 10:25 PM PST
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There was once a time when Jason LaBarbera, who then played for the Canucks, had basically said: "Let me know how to win in a shootout because I have no fucking clue." Well that was not the case tonight, as Barbie was heroic in the shootout. You could tell that he was pumped after stopping the final shooter, Mikael Samuelsson probably because:
1. He defeated his former team
2. He won in a shootout, which is a rare occurrence for him even though he has done so for the Coyotes earlier in the year.
That was a chess match if I've ever seen one. Both teams played so well, but now you can see the defensive game that Phoenix employs. It's money. It's also something that I wish the Canucks would get back to.
Hey! We got the loser point in the shootout! This really isn't so bad. However, this puts the Canucks in a 3-way tie in the Western Conference standings. Could have been a lot worse. Finally, the goose egg in the OTL column is gone.
-Christian Ehrhoff played more than any other player tonight (except Adrian Aucoin) and was a +2.
MY 3 STARS
1. Mikael Samuelsson
2. Jason LaBarbera
I have no clue. It was a tight game.
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If you watched the Coyotes’ style of hockey for more than a week, you’d gouge out your eyes.
Please allow me to adjust my pants, so that I may dance the good time dance, and lead the onlookers and innocent bystanders into a trance.
Even tho their style of hockey has them kicking everybody’s ass?
by Sean Zandberg on Dec 29, 2009 10:35 PM PST up reply actions
That was hardly an ass kicking tonight. It’s the same style the Devils have always used, the Wild have used ( until recently), and any other team short on imagination have used. I went to the Memorial Cup in Vancouver a few years ago and watched Medicine Hat and the Giants play the most stifling, boring hockey I’d ever seen. That kind of constant defense is not the kind of hockey I want to watch.
Please allow me to adjust my pants, so that I may dance the good time dance, and lead the onlookers and innocent bystanders into a trance.
Have to agree with Smo’. That Total Trap is bullshit. Sure, we can play like that, and have in the past. But I would rather have a team that opens it up sometimes too. The ’Yotes may be doing OK with that style now….but its a long season.
“If you want to crown their asses, crown ’em…we knew who the ’Yotes were…and we let em off the ice”…(just channelling my inner Dennis Green from when he coached the Cardinals !)
They got the point tonight, but really, both goals had a bit of a stink. One off a PP where Burr’ took a stupid penalty and Bolduc broke his stick on, leading to the running around that let Jovo put it in the empty net, and another on a play where the defenseman that was supposed to be covering Prucha having a hard time moving cuz he was injured!
It was a more entertaining game than I thought after the first though!
Channel that anger into St. Loo and put those guys in their place on Thurs!
The earliest use of the word with the spelling we recognize today is found in "L'Acadie: or Seven Years' Exploration in British America" by James Edward Alexander, published in 1849:
We also met a lusty fellow in a forest road with a keg of whisky slung round him who called to us 'Come boys and have some grog, I'm what you call a canuck"
Hip check!
I missed most of the game, but did happen to see Ehrhoff paste Lombardi into the boards with a great hip check. Hope it’s on a highlight reel somewhere.
Burr'
Um, that was a really, really stupid stunt he pulled. He’s lucky that ended up being just a stinger, or it would have been an early shower for him.
I like the edge, but a line got crossed there.
Unleash the Alex!
Check this one out: http://www.sportsnet.ca/video/?bcpid=53099105001&bctid=59576519001
by Sean Zandberg on Dec 30, 2009 10:05 AM PST up reply actions
Ok ok try this then: http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/2009/12/30/coyotes_canucks/
by Sean Zandberg on Dec 30, 2009 10:30 AM PST up reply actions
Didn't see
anything on Burr there, gotta love Kes’s intensity though, hates to lose, always a great thing.
WTF is with Wellfed getting the shootout over the twins???
Typical cluelessness and guessing by AV.
Welly’s puck skills have always been good, it’s his ability to compete that’s always held him back.
Please allow me to adjust my pants, so that I may dance the good time dance, and lead the onlookers and innocent bystanders into a trance.
No way! Wellwood is awesome in the shootout. I agree with the decision.
by Sean Zandberg on Dec 30, 2009 12:11 PM PST up reply actions
Not sure if the shootout stats are completely up to date but:
Daniel: 3/16
Henrik: 0/2
Welly: 5/17
Welly is the better statistical bet and he was having a good game at the time, too. Good decision, bad outcome.
The opposite of serious is not funny; the opposite of serious is unserious.
Barbie schooled him with that poke check didn’t he? “No dangle for you!!”
by Sean Zandberg on Dec 30, 2009 12:47 PM PST up reply actions
I seem to remember, in pre-shootout days, that the odds of a goal on a penalty shot were about 50/50. These days, they seem to run about 2:1 in favor of the goalie.
I think it’s cuz the goalies get way more practice at it than any single shooter does.
The opposite of serious is not funny; the opposite of serious is unserious.
That’s what I remember, too, but it was close to 50/50. And nowhere near as low as today.
Whatever the precise numbers, the trend is clear: goalies have improved more than shooters have. Makes sense, since they get more practice. Scouting reports on shooters’ moves prob help, too.
The opposite of serious is not funny; the opposite of serious is unserious.
I hate to bag on you, but I found a good link for history of penalty shots in the playoffs. From 1937-2008, there were 51 penalty shots awarded. Only 17 goals were scored for a 33% scoring rate.
Sorry buddy ;)
by Sean Zandberg on Dec 30, 2009 1:48 PM PST up reply actions
Well, you’re right as rain. The stats you cite are for playoffs only, but I looked around and found that the penalty shot sucess rate in the last year prior to the shooutouts was also about the same at 32%.
So either I am misremembering the success rate from the old days or the goalies were getting better at it long before the shootout came along. Maybe the bigger pads or something?
The opposite of serious is not funny; the opposite of serious is unserious.
Ah ha, some stats (presuming he author got them right in the first place):
Here’s 20+ years worth of penalty shot numbers
1983-84 10 goals/18 shots 62.5%
1984-85 9 goals/19 shots 47.3%
1985-86 6 goals/15 shots 40.0%
1986-87 13 goals/25 shots 52.0%
1987-88 9 goals/21 shots 42.9%
1988-89 8 goals/26 shots 30.8%
1989-90 6 goals/14 shots 42.9%
1990-91 9 goals/20 shots 45.0%
1991-92 12 goals/29 shots 41.4%
1992-93 14 goals/30 shots 46.7%
1993-94 11 goals/27 shots 40.7%
1994-95 3 goals/17 shots 17.6%
1995-96 5 goals/27 shots 18.5%
1996-97 10 goals/24 shots 41.7%
1997-98 16 goals/34 shots 47.1%
1998-99 11 goals/27 shots 40.7%
1999-00 16 goals/40 shots 40.0%
2000-01 9 goals/32 shots 28.1%
2001-02 11 goals/46 shots 23.9%
2002-03 9 goals/39 shots 23.1%
2003-04 18 goals/57 shots 31.6%
2005-06 35 goals/103 shots 34.0%
2006-07 25 goals/70 shots 35.7%
2007-08 19 goals/64 shots 29.9%
Lots of zigs and zags along the way. I wonder what the percentages from the 60s and 70s were? Maybe I’m just stuck w/an impression garnered from single era.
The opposite of serious is not funny; the opposite of serious is unserious.
Now where did you pull that info from? Beauty!
by Sean Zandberg on Dec 30, 2009 5:24 PM PST up reply actions
Look at the drop at 2000 and after….I blame Garth Snow
by Sean Zandberg on Dec 30, 2009 5:24 PM PST up reply actions
So
if making the playoffs is on the line you choose Wellfed over either Sedin? Even the Way they are scoring this year and he is not?
Why the heck not Raymond on the shootout? He’s playing so well these days that one could imagine he’d score on most any shot in the SO.
by Bobby Canuck on Dec 30, 2009 11:39 PM PST up reply actions
He was in the s/o Bobby…he hit the post
The earliest use of the word with the spelling we recognize today is found in "L'Acadie: or Seven Years' Exploration in British America" by James Edward Alexander, published in 1849:
We also met a lusty fellow in a forest road with a keg of whisky slung round him who called to us 'Come boys and have some grog, I'm what you call a canuck"
The incident in question was the slash that led to the Coyote’s first (I think) PP. Burr slashed Vrbata behind the knee behind the play (the puck was on the boards and those two were up at the top of the circle and Vrbata went down and had to be helped off the ice. it was called as a 2 minute slashing minor, but slashing is one of those penalties that can be called as a major and if it is comes with a game misconduct.
Unleash the Alex!
Well…sorta. I totally agree…dick move and dirty by Burr’. But Vrbata was back after missing maybe one shift. The way he was working it with the trainer on the ice, putting no weight and dangling his leg…you’d have thought his leg was broken.
So, yes, dirty. Yes, line crossed…but you can’t tell me Vrbata was trying to influence the refs to think just what you did sparkly…that it was a major.
Just a bit of gamesmanship there.
Besides, Kesler getting his face raked twice with a stick in 3-4 shifts without a call on either kind of evens up the ledger a bit!
And yes, Jovo has always had that edge to his game…like he wants to be Scott Stevens, but has no sense of timing or how to do it without the penalty.
Still loved him…but yeah. Though, he did nail Hank with a clean hit earlier, and got another penalty for going after him too.
Which begs the question…why Hank and not Danny?
The earliest use of the word with the spelling we recognize today is found in "L'Acadie: or Seven Years' Exploration in British America" by James Edward Alexander, published in 1849:
We also met a lusty fellow in a forest road with a keg of whisky slung round him who called to us 'Come boys and have some grog, I'm what you call a canuck"
Maybe he doesn’t know there’s two? :)
The opposite of serious is not funny; the opposite of serious is unserious.
Most of y'all have been watching the Canucks longer than I have, has Jovo always been such a goon/douche?
Like when he dragged Hank down in front of the goal late, and was jawin to the official that he got a penalty for it.
Falling, fallen, we all fall down, it only really matters how we stand our ground
If and when we rise to our feet again, we'll be on our own
-Tomas Kalnoky/Streetlight Manifesto, If and When We Rise Again
What was the deal with the atrociously sung anthems pregame? That lady was awful; not only was she consistently out of key and sounded like Dolly Parton circa 1979 (except outta key like crazy) but she got the words wrong in both anthems. Anthem Fail!
Kentcheesehead… yes…thats how Jovo plays. It’s why u love him when he’s on your team, but shiver slightly whenever he steps on the ice. He’s kinda like Burrows, only his goals were more spectacular and his fuckups more dangerous. When Jovo was on the ice, something was gonna happen. Thing is, u never knew if it was gonna be something awesome for your team, or something awesome for the other team.
anyone else think that game was poorly reffed?
so many missed calls, including 2 obvious high sticks on kesler, a couple boardings, a ton of interference, an elbow and some other shenanigans. really surprised there wasn’t a fight given the amount of physicality.
in a related note, not at all happy how the canucks kept trying to make pretty plays with the puck right to the end of the game when phoenix was clearly not falling for dekes and taking the body at every chance. at some point don’t you figure out that making a move isn’t going to work if the guy checking you isn’t even interested in the puck, he just wants to hit you?
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