Friday afternoon notes: Goalies are the talk of the Central
by Dirk Hoag on Feb 3, 2012 4:49 PM EST
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PrintOur afternoon hockey notes today contain an unusual amount of focus on the goaltenders within the Central Division. While earlier this week Pekka Rinne was named the NHL's 3rd Star of the Month for January, today we have speculation about what Chicago should do about their subpar netminding, an injury in Detroit to Jimmy Howard, and rumination in Columbus over how Steve Mason's career has been handled.
While reading, listen in as Rob Vollman was interviewed by Willy Daunic yesterday, providing his analytical view on what the Preds need to address at the trade deadline. At first blush, I think I'd be very much on-board with his suggestion here:
Rob Vollman on 1025 2012-02-02 (mp3)
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I wouldn’t say they have a wide array of Preds products….
TN Sports fan in Hoosier Country....
I visited New York back in August as I visited the NHL store, they had ZERO Predator jerseys. They kept stock of every jersey except for the Preds. The only Predators product available was a grey Weber T-shirt.
Disappointing.
Preds fan from Hamilton, Ontario!
Maybe they were just too popular?
So sexy, they couldn’t keep them on the racks…that has to be it!
- History will be made. Our time is MEOW. -
by Smashville HockeyCat on Feb 3, 2012 11:10 PM EST up reply actions
AGREED
i like the gill idea. he fills an experience and big, crease cleaning dman. still want bobby ryan
Wow
Its still amazing to me how little respect we get in national media. Vollman had to be called out by Willy Daunic to seriously sound like he thought the Predators had a really good shot at making the playoffs. I understand we probably will not go 19-5 in our next 20+ games but thats saying something to think we’ll slide enough to drop to being in question for making the playoffs when 9th is 12 points behind us.
He's a hockey writer for ESPN.
Need I say more?
- History will be made. Our time is MEOW. -
by Smashville HockeyCat on Feb 3, 2012 5:52 PM EST up reply actions
here is a super bowl ad in canada from bedweiser
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0qZYqdsYAg&sns=em thought i would share it with you guys. (using my phone here so if it dosnt work im sorry)
by Shadow23 on Feb 3, 2012 5:30 PM EST via iPhone app reply actions
THAT IS AWESOME.
Seriously, that’s one of the best Budweiser ads I have EVER seen. I’m gonna bookmark that one and share it around.
Hands go uuppp..... AND THEY STAY THERE!
-nashvillepredators-
Seriously. Good for them for road-tripping down to support their team, but bringing this whole pedophiles thing into it? REALLY? I hope someone calls them out on that.
Hands go uuppp..... AND THEY STAY THERE!
-nashvillepredators-
We use the Predobear? I don’t see the difference.
"We want to keep beating them...to break their pride and break their season...is a huge thing for us." - David Legwand
Yeah, I know it sounds hypocritical...
The difference, at least for me, is that Link has mentioned several times that he does not want Predobear to be seen as the same thing as Pedobear. When posted here, Predobear is associated with generic sexual innuendo and humor; Pedobear is associated specifically with age-inappropriate sexual innuendo (and… humor? I guess? I don’t find it humorous, but different strokes…). The later of these two is not condoned here. Maybe it seems like a minor or insignificant difference, but to me it does make a big difference. Link (I guess? Is he the one who officially started Predobear? It’s all kinda vague lore to me; sorry, Link, if it isn’t you!) took a well-known meme and adapted it for our purposes, and I think the largest of those adaptations was the separation from “pedo” part of “Pedobear”. The issue I have with Blues fans bringing a Chris Hansen picture is that Chris Hansen is associated with nothing BUT age-based sexual predators. There is no “generic sexual innuendo” about him. I get the joke, and I find it vaguely amusing on the various NHL SBN blogs, but it’s very different to bring an actual picture of a person whose job it was to catch sexual predators to a sports game, despite the word play. It just seems blatantly inappropriate and wrong. Maybe I’m overreacting and it really isn’t that big of a deal, but to me it’s crosses the line.
Hands go uuppp..... AND THEY STAY THERE!
-nashvillepredators-
For example, this was said on the St. Louis GDT:
let’s steal one back from these pedophiles take their candy bag and run
Not cool.
Hands go uuppp..... AND THEY STAY THERE!
-nashvillepredators-
Well, they are pretty classless.
"We want to keep beating them...to break their pride and break their season...is a huge thing for us." - David Legwand
I rarely call people out of what they say on their blogs/GDTs, because it’s not my business, but I called them out on that one. They apologized, which was good, but it still shouldn’t have been said in the first place. The guy who wrote that ALSO suggested that the Blues run Rinne down if necessary, and shoot the puck at his head so that we would have to put Anders in net. The sad thing is, I can’t tell how much of that was him joking around with the frustration of having to play against Pekka RInne, and how much of it was slightly serious.
Hands go uuppp..... AND THEY STAY THERE!
-nashvillepredators-
There is an enormous difference between making jokes about sex with adult hockey players and calling someone a rapist of children.
R.I.P. Belak, Rypien, Boogaard, Lokomotiv.
"You don’t motivate people; you activate something in them that already exists." -Guy Boucher
" I saw it, I called it, I still don't believe it!"--Pete Weber
Poor Dex.
http://www.bluejacketsxtra.com/content/blogs/puck-rakers/2012/02/dekanich-done-for-the-year.html
Now having ankle surgery. Concussion, groin, ankle injuries all this season.
"We want to keep beating them...to break their pride and break their season...is a huge thing for us." - David Legwand
Ouch. I thought Dex was going to get his chance soon.
by TootooReigns on Feb 3, 2012 10:17 PM EST via iPhone app up reply actions
Alright, go Calgary!
"We want to keep beating them...to break their pride and break their season...is a huge thing for us." - David Legwand
Yep, and Calgary won in regulation
"We want to keep beating them...to break their pride and break their season...is a huge thing for us." - David Legwand
Let’s hear it for regulation games in the conference!
Beer... Now there's a temporary solution.-Homer Simpson
0-3 on the 9-game roadtrip for Chi-town so far.
"We want to keep beating them...to break their pride and break their season...is a huge thing for us." - David Legwand
WooHoo
Let’s hope they can hold on. I think I might have to go over to the Hawks GDT for some perspective on “freaking out.”
Too bad STL gets another 1-0 win.
Apparently Howard is out 2 weeks not 2 games per ESPN
Beer... Now there's a temporary solution.-Homer Simpson
BJ's win a game
The Ducks got a point but it still puts them one step closer to doom and gloom. I could really see Ryan in Predator gold.
I like this thought! :)
Thought the Ducks might get on a run and get back into the playoffs, but it doesn’t seem to be. Gotta think Ellis would have to be part of the package if we had any chance of landing Ryan. Would hate to lose Ellis, he’s been good so far in his short stint up with the big club, but for Ryan I’ll drive him to the airport. :)
The Hawks look really bad right now. Have to think that roster is gonna get a shake up before the month is over. Still think they and the Canes may make a deal with each other, Rutuu and Allen are possibilities there.
Defense keeps you in games........offense wins them!
by Grizzledbear on Feb 4, 2012 12:53 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
I am hoping the Ducks are sellers. I would love to see Ryan as a Pred. Might as well dream big, right?
Pierre LeBrun is saying that the Wings are after Rutuu. I don’t know what his track record is for predicting trades though.
Beer... Now there's a temporary solution.-Homer Simpson
The Hawks seem to have better trade bait in their prospect pool to get a deal done with a team like the Canes, but Rutuu would make either the Wings or Hawks a better team. Yet another reason not to stand still at the trade deadline.
Defense keeps you in games........offense wins them!
by Grizzledbear on Feb 4, 2012 1:58 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
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