NHL 2017 -Official Discussion Thread

[SilverEagle]

The Pens could've won game 3 if the call was made correctly and the Caps could've won game 4 if that play was called correctly. So in this case it evens out.

The Capitals penalty came at much more crucial time in the game, a missed slash in the first period is nowhere close to the same thing. Like I said two wrongs don't make a right. A missed slash is not as bad as calling an imaginary penalty in the last two minutes of a one goal game. So if anything the Caps have a bigger beef with the refs than the Pens do, not even at all.

Make up calls are stupid, they should not be championed just because your team was the beneficiary of that make up call this time.

You're right. The Pens biggest beef is with the NHL for not suspending Niskanen for the remainder of the playoffs in what should've been a 20 games suspension.

[StCapps]

You're right. The Pens biggest beef is with the NHL for not suspending Niskanen for the remainder of the playoffs in what should've been a 20 games suspension.

They have no beef with them either because Niskanen didn't even deserve to get thrown out of the game, let alone face supplemental discipline. A 20 game suspension, is the sort of opinion that only someone blinded by love of their team would think is proper justice. You're on crack.

Niskanen used to play for the Pens, he wasn't out to kill Crosby, Crosby just stumbled into his stick head first and he's fragile fuck. You're just in denial about Crosby's fragility and want to blame someone else for it, so you blame Niskanen and the NHL for not suspending him just because Crosby got hurt. It's not Niskanen or the NHL's fault that Crosby can't take a shot to head without missing 20 games. It really isn't, your boy just has a glass skull, that's the reality.

[SilverEagle]

You're right. The Pens biggest beef is with the NHL for not suspending Niskanen for the remainder of the playoffs in what should've been a 20 games suspension.

They have no beef with them either because Niskanen didn't even deserve to get thrown out of the game, let alone face supplemental discipline. A 20 game suspension, is the sort of opinion that only someone blinded by love of their team would think is proper justice. You're on crack.

Niskanen used to play for the Pens, he wasn't out to kill Crosby, Crosby just stumbled into his stick head first and he's fragile fuck. You're just in denial about Crosby's fragility and want to blame someone else for it, so you blame Niskanen and the NHL for not suspending him just because Crosby got hurt. It's not Niskanen or the NHL's fault that Crosby can't take a shot to head without missing 20 games. It really isn't, your boy just has a glass skull, that's the reality. Um...no its fucking not!

You are so full of shit man. He absolutly meant to injury Crosby. His goddamn hands went from spread out to narrow for a goddamn crosscheck. There are a number of retired players that said, yep Niskanen meant to do that. That was a dangerous and stupid play that Niskanen did on Crosby. Oh and that fucker has a history of playing dirty, yes he was a dirty player when he played for the Pens as well. He was dirty in Dallas, Pittsburgh, and now Washington. Fucker needs to be made an example of, I mean for fuck sake it doesn't matter who he hit, take Crosby out of the equation and put in any player...It's still a very dangerous play and worthy of a lengthy suspension. Quit being fucking retarded with your "old Canadian" so called hockey logic.

[StCapps]

You are so full of shit man. He absolutly meant to injury Crosby. His goddamn hands went from spread out to narrow for a goddamn crosscheck.

You spread your hands out to crosscheck, not narrow them. You don't know shit about hockey, you've clearly never played competitively before.

There are a number of retired players that said, yep Niskanen meant to do that. That was a dangerous and stupid play that Niskanen did on Crosby. Oh and that fucker has a history of playing dirty, yes he was a dirty player when he played for the Pens as well. He was dirty in Dallas, Pittsburgh, and now Washington. Fucker needs to be made an example of, I mean for fuck sake it doesn't matter who he hit, take Crosby out of the equation and put in any player...It's still a very dangerous play and worthy of a lengthy suspension. Quit being fucking retarded with your "old Canadian" so called hockey logic.

It isn't dangerous at all, he tried to push him away and protect himself, he only caught Crosby in the head because he fell. Watch it at regular motion, you've seen too much slow mo, it only looks intention in uber slow mo, it's an optical illusion created by distorting time to make it seem like NIskanen had way more time to react than he actually did. Even if Niskaned did do it on purpose, he sure as fuck made it look like a complete accident, and you have no proof and neither does anyone else talking out of their ass saying he meant to do it because he finished a check on Crosby earlier in the game, Don Cherry is almost as bad as you with that nonsense.

History this, history that, look at specific circumstance, it looks a hell of a lot more like he's trying to avoid hitting Crosby in the head, than he is intentionally aiming for it. If he wanted to cross check Crosby in the head at maximum force then it would have looked a hell of a lot more vicious than it did. Just because the Caps made a point of getting to Crosby physically doesn't mean they were trying to take him out with illegal headshots and the second Niskanen got the opportunity he pounced on it.

There would be no outrage if this happened to someone like Hornqvist, but because it happened to Crosby the outrage has gotten seriously out of hand. Bunch of babies butthurt that Crosby is out just when he was on top of his game, that's all it is, and they are venting on Niskanen to cope. Hockey media faggotry of the highest order.

[SilverEagle]

You are so full of shit man. He absolutly meant to injury Crosby. His goddamn hands went from spread out to narrow for a goddamn crosscheck.

You spread your hands out to crosscheck, not narrow them. You don't know shit about hockey, you've clearly never played competitively before.

There are a number of retired players that said, yep Niskanen meant to do that. That was a dangerous and stupid play that Niskanen did on Crosby. Oh and that fucker has a history of playing dirty, yes he was a dirty player when he played for the Pens as well. He was dirty in Dallas, Pittsburgh, and now Washington. Fucker needs to be made an example of, I mean for fuck sake it doesn't matter who he hit, take Crosby out of the equation and put in any player...It's still a very dangerous play and worthy of a lengthy suspension. Quit being fucking retarded with your "old Canadian" so called hockey logic.

It isn't dangerous at all, he tried to push him away and protect himself, he only caught Crosby in the head because he fell. Watch it at regular motion, you've seen too much slow mo, it only looks intention in uber slow mo, it's an optical illusion created by distorting time to make it seem like NIskanen had way more time to react than he actually did. Even if Niskaned did do it on purpose, he sure as fuck made it look like a complete accident, and you have no proof and neither does anyone else talking out of their ass saying he meant to do it because he finished a check on Crosby earlier in the game, Don Cherry is almost as bad as you with that nonsense.

History this, history that, look at specific circumstance, it looks a hell of a lot more like he's trying to avoid hitting Crosby in the head, than he is intentionally aiming for it. If he wanted to cross check Crosby in the head at maximum force then it would have looked a hell of a lot more vicious than it did. Just because the Caps made a point of getting to Crosby physically doesn't mean they were trying to take him out with illegal headshots and the second Niskanen got the opportunity he pounced on it.

Their would be no outrage if this happened to fourth liner, but because it happened to Crosby the outrage has gotten seriously out of hand.

Your position is killing hockey. Fucktards like you should stay away from the game and just watch MMA and have a circle jerk.
You confirmed yourself to be fucking retarded. Congratulations on that.

[StCapps]

Hockey isn't for pussies. If you don't like it, go watch Basketball faggot. In that sport the defenders have to get out of the way of the offense or they take a foul, if you want all offense and minimal grit, that's where it's at, stars can't get touched without giant heapings of outrage. That's the sport for you. You are not psychologically built to enjoy hockey, especially when you have a fragile superstar playing for your team, and the rest of team has minimal size and physicality while emphasizing speed, you are doomed to go through life perpetually butthurt about hockey. People like you are why the NHL has become the No Hit League, you fuck heads are ruining hockey and you can fuck right off with your pussy bullshit.

[Smitty-48]

Basketball Faggots notwithstanding, even if Niskanen was primed for the crosscheck on the way in, there's no way he could have known that Crosby would slide into it on his knees, there's no way for him to have the "mens rea" to crosscheck Crosby in the face from the get go, it was a reflex, now, he's still responsible for his stick, so I would still suspend him for a game or two, just by the standard that they suspend people these days, but the idea that he is going to get a twenty game suspsension or something like that, is indeed Basketball Faggots up to their usual hyperventalating faggotry, mostly in the liberal media.

In the end, the Toronto Maple Leafs are propping up the entire league, if Americans go full on Basketball Faggot and stop watching because they're a buncha pussies, Leaf fans can still maintain an NHL without them, and a smaller league, without the American Basketball Faggots, would actually result in better hockey.

The Basketball Faggots and their hyperventilating enablers in the liberal media, are the reason it has become the No Hit League, would be perfectly happy to be rid of them, we don't need 31 teams.

[SilverEagle]

Hockey isn't for pussies. If you don't like it, go watch Basketball faggot. In that sport the defenders have to get out of the way of the offense or they take a foul, if you want all offense and minimal grit, that's where it's at, stars can't get touched without giant heapings of outrage. That's the sport for you. You are not psychologically built to enjoy hockey, especially when you have a fragile superstar playing for your team, and the rest of team has minimal size and physicality while emphasizing speed, you are doomed to go through life perpetually butthurt about hockey. People like you are why the NHL has become the No Hit League, you fuck heads are ruining hockey and you can fuck right off with your pussy bullshit.

Hockey is dying a slow death because of retarded Canadian's like you. There is nothing wrong with physical play but if you make a head shot, intentional or not, you need to have the book thrown at you because guess what you retarded ass pirate, the NHL will be going to court just like the NFL and the NHL will lose just like the NFL. You confuse tough play with head shots and you are wrong fuck head.

[Smitty-48]

Hockey is dying a slow death because of retarded Canadian's like you.

Fake news. And this is why everybody cheers when Crosby gets smoked, because everybody in the league despises Pens Faggots and their ceaseless blubber whining, who knew?

Nobody is crying for you, in Nashville, nobody is crying for you in Edmonton, nobody is crying for you in New York, they might be crying for you in Ottawa, but that's mostly Justin Trudeau.

[SilverEagle]

Hockey is dying a slow death because of retarded Canadian's like you.

Fake news. And this is why everybody cheers when Crosby gets smoked, because everybody in the league despises Pens Faggots and their ceaseless blubber whining, who knew?

Nobody is crying for you, in Nashville, nobody is crying for you in Edmonton, nobody is crying for you in New York, they might be crying for you in Ottawa, but that's mostly Justin Trudeau.

You're part of the problem too Smitty. Guess what. In the end I'm right and the league is and will be moving away from the retarded Canadian hockey mentality and the sport will be better off for it and more importantly so will the players which is what matters most. Now it might take a lawsuit to make that happen but its coming.