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| 5/13 |
TOR 4 at BOS 5 |
Lost |
OT |
| 5/12 |
BOS 1 at TOR 2 |
Won |
F |
| 5/10 |
TOR 2 at BOS 1 |
Won |
F |
| 5/8 |
BOS 4 at TOR 3 |
Lost |
OT |
| 5/6 |
BOS 5 at TOR 2 |
Lost |
F |
| 5/4 |
TOR 4 at BOS 2 |
Won |
F |
| 5/1 |
TOR 1 at BOS 4 |
Lost |
F |
| 4/27 |
MTL 4 at TOR 1 |
Lost |
F |
| 4/25 |
TOR 4 at FLA 0 |
Won |
F |
| 4/24 |
TOR 2 at TBL 5 |
Lost |
F |
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| Pittsburgh’s Gulf Tower turns into goal light for Penguins’ playoff run (Video) (Puck Daddy) |
| Via Penguins WhoSay
Besides being able to have their team advance out of the first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs, the city of Pittsburgh has also made it possible to turn one of its buildings into a goal light.
A Toronto Maple Leafs fan petition to turn CN Tower into a goal light for each playoff game didn't succeed. In Pittsburgh, however, it took a round, but the top of Gulf Tower will light up red every time the Penguins score in for the rest of the playoffs.
Ian Walsh, an executive with Rugby Realty, who control Gulf Tower, met with the Penguins on Wednesday to discuss another idea when the goal light conversation came up. After figuring out a way to control the lights remotely, the plan was put into place for Game 2 on Friday.
Here's a view from inside CONSOL Energy Center after Brenden Morrow's goal in Game 2:
From the Rob Rossi of the Pittsburgh Tribune Review :
There was no test run, and Crosby's goal early in the first period on Friday night turned the Gulf Tower into a rotating red light for the first time. However, because there was still daylight when Crosby scored around 7:50 p.m., few people noticed.
That was not the case about 30 minutes later when Crosby scored his second goal. A darker sky provided the perfect backdrop for the Gulf Tower to stand out.
During the game, Wareham received word from Penguins employees that fans were posting photos of the rooftop goal-light on Twitter, but even he was surprised how quickly the idea became a success.
The Penguins’ director of event presentation controls the lights via an iPhone and beginning with Sunday night’s Game 3, there will be 20 rotations of the lights for each goal scored, up from 15 used during Game 2.
Follow Sean Leahy on Twitter at @Sean_Leahy |
| Posted: 05/19/2013 |
| Leafs fan loses bet to Bruins fan, wears his shame on sandwich board (Photos) (Puck Daddy) |
| Sports editor Josh Lewis of the Estevan Mercury in Saskatchewan is a big Toronto Maple Leafs fan. The kinds that had his hopes and dreams crushed by a three-goal rally by the Boston Bruins in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference quarterfinals.
Alas, Lewis is also the kind of Leafs fan who was willing to make a bet with a coworker at the weekly paper: Chad Saxon, an editor and a massive Boston Bruins fan. So after seeing the Leafs lose Game 7 in embarrassing fashion, Lewis suffered another embarrassment, as per the wager:
Ouch.
From Saxon, via email:
We bet on the series and the punishment was the loser had to wear a sandwich board and stand on the boulevard of our busiest street for half an hour at noon. The winner got to choose what went on the sign.
Obviously it was looking like I was pretty much screwed up until the comeback. Josh, who we had under suicide watch for a couple of days was a good sport and paid off his debt on Friday.
But wait, there’s more:
Writes Saxon:
“We are big supporters of humiliating Leafs fans so we were hoping you could throw this on the blog.”
Well, Josh Lewis – oh, by the way, you can tweet at him here – you boldly accepted your defeat after a valiant effort, much like the Leafs did. And like the Leafs, we hope you learned lesson from this defeat. Like, for example, never betting on the Leafs. Ever. |
| Posted: 05/18/2013 |
| Eulogy: Remembering the 2012-13 Toronto Maple Leafs (Puck Daddy) |
| (Ed. Note: Well, here it is. The long gestating Toronto Maple Leafs Eulogy. Usually, we have the fans that hate eliminated teams the most be the ones to remember them fondly. But since the Leafs making the playoffs was such a monumental deal, we decided to go in another direction: Allowing the caustic Leas fans from Pension Plan Puppets to eulogize their own team. Here’s what happens when year of cynicism collides with sudden adoration for a Leafs team that lost in seven to the Bruins.)
By Pension Plan Puppets
Today we say goodbye to the 2012-13 Toronto Maple Leafs.
We come not to mourn their passing, but to celebrate how the 2012-13 Toronto Maple Leafs lived, loved and were led by a great man known as Randolph Robert Carlyle.
The world will long remember these Leafs for their ability to generate quality shots and for limiting their opponents’ quality chances .
Hockey fans, no matter their allegiance, will recall this team for the terror they struck in the hearts of the opposition by playing not one, but two enforcers for a few short minutes each night.
The 2012-13 Leafs will be remembered for changing their culture. They will be, and should be, remembered by the Jack Adams-worthy work of Coach Randy Carlyle. |
| Posted: 05/17/2013 |
| Bruins 3, Rangers 2 (OT) (The SportsXchange) |
| BOSTON - Brad Marchand scored his first goal of the playoffs 15:40 into overtime to give the Boston Bruins a 3-2 victory over the New York Rangers in the first playoff game between the two old rivals in 40 years Thursday night. |
| Posted: 05/16/2013 |
| Fearing the Jinx (Rotoworld) |
| This week's Dose is all about the facts (and a superstition or two) when it comes to the first-round results. |
| Posted: 05/16/2013 |
| Rangers to play two outdoor games at Yankee Stadium in 2014 (Reuters) |
| (Reuters) - The New York Rangers will play two outdoor games at Yankee Stadium early next year as part of the National Hockey League's (NHL) Stadium Series, the league said on Wednesday. The Rangers will face off against the New Jersey Devils on January 26 and then battle the New York Islanders on January 29 in the first hockey games to be played at the Major League Baseball stadium which seats over 50,000 people. ... |
| Posted: 05/15/2013 |
| NHL-Rangers to play two outdoor games at Yankee Stadium in 2014 (Reuters) |
| May 15 (Reuters) - The New York Rangers will play two outdoor games at Yankee Stadium early next year as part of the National Hockey League's (NHL) Stadium Series, the league said on Wednesday. The Rangers will face off against the New Jersey Devils on Jan. 26 and then battle the New York Islanders on Jan. 29 in the first hockey games to be played at the Major League Baseball stadium which seats over 50,000 people. ... |
| Posted: 05/15/2013 |
| Selke Trophy Finalists: Patrice Bergeron vs. Pavel Datsyuk vs. Jonathan Toews (Puck Daddy) |
| The NHL announced the finalists for the Selke Trophy on Wednesday, as centers Patrice Bergeron of the Boston Bruins, Pavel Datsyuk of the Detroit Red Wings and Jonathan Toews of the Chicago Blackhawks will contend for the award given "to the forward who best excels in the defensive aspects of the game," as voted on by members of the Professional Hockey Writers' Association.
The Selke Trophy is ripe for application of advanced stats, which would then lead to off the radar choice like Boyd Gordon of the Phoenix Coyotes for example. Alas, it still seems like the "Best faceoff guy" and "Most takeaways" award these days.
Also, wingers can't win. Ever. Sorry Marian Hossa.
Who wins the Selke?
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| Posted: 05/15/2013 |
| Game 7 loss ‘will haunt’ Lupul; Ovechkin joins Team Russia at Worlds (Puck Headlines) (Puck Daddy) |
| Here are your Puck Headlines: a glorious collection of news and views collected from the greatest blogosphere in sports and the few, the proud, the mainstream hockey media.
That hockey game will haunt me until the day I die...
— Joffrey Lupul (@JLupul) May 14, 2013
• Joffrey Lupul on the Game 7 collapse.
• Interested in seeing an entire gallery of disappointed Maple Leafs fans? It's your lucky day. [ Windsor Star ]
• "'Just wait for next year!' was always a phrase that was said with nervous, half-hearted undertones. This time around, everybody will be coming back with a taste of what's possible, and wanting a buffet." [ Leafs Nation ]
• Ahead of Wednesday night's Game 1 versus the Chicago Blackhawks, Detroit Red Wings head coach Mike Babcock is keeping mum on how his fourth line will look. [ MLive ]
• Torey Krug is up for the Boston Bruins as insurance after defenseman Dennis Seidenberg played only 37 seconds in Game 7 before leaving with a leg injury. [ Boston Globe ]
• Who is the best goalie of the remaining eight playoff teams? [ Edmonton Journal ]
• Fresh off a first-round exit, Alex Ovechkin will join Team Russia at the World Championships. [ Capitals ]
• Brandon Worley on the firing of Glen Gulutzan : "In the end, his team never seemed to really be able to gain the upper hand when the stakes were at their highest and it's likely that Gulutzan needs a few more years of coaching experience before he's ready to take over an NHL team again." [ Defending Big D ]
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| Posted: 05/14/2013 |
| Eulogy: Remembering the 2012-13 Washington Capitals (Puck Daddy) |
| (Ed. Note: As the Stanley Cup Playoffs continue, we're bound to lose some friends along the journey. We've asked for these losers, gone but not forgotten, to be eulogized by the people who knew the teams best: The bloggers who hated them the most . Here is Puck Daddy’s own Ryan Lambert , fondly recalling the Washington Capitals . Again: This is a roast and you will be offended by it , so don't take it so seriously.)
We are gathered here today to mourn not only the loss of the Washington Capitals, but also the loss of their chances of reasonably competing for a Stanley Cup any time in even the relatively near future.
You tend to hear a lot of talk about how one team or another has a "window" in which they can reasonably win the Stanley Cup. San Jose, for example, has had its window open and close so many times — by the media's reckoning — that Doug Wilson finally installed a revolving door to save on energy.
Another team for whom we hear entirely too much about their "window" is the Washington Capitals.
But the thing about that is if it was open at all any more (and frankly, it probably wasn't), it was open in the way that smokers crack their window on the highway, and that horrible high-pitched sound of wind rushing in so loud that you can't hear the radio any more was the voice of a thousand Alex Ovechkin apologists who wanted nothing more than for that incredible back half of the season to once again be reality, rather than outlier.
Just as death is inevitable, so too was this result; the kind of slow, heavy train you could feel coming miles away if you touched your hand to the track, its whistle a deep and mournful cry carried to you by the wind.
Of course the Capitals were going to trip in the first round. It couldn't happen any other way. Because, with the Capitals goes the Southeast Division, and nothing in the history of hockey has ever been more fitting than the last-ever champion of the worst division in the history of professional sports than losing at home to a six-seed that finished the regular season with one fewer point.
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| Posted: 05/14/2013 |
| Watch Maple Leaf Square’s agonizing reaction to Bruins’ tying, winning Game 7 (Video) (Puck Daddy) |
| On Monday night, thousands who gathered in Maple Leaf Square thought the Toronto Maple Leafs had Game 7 in the bag. That was until the Boston Bruins became the first team in NHL history to win a Game 7 after trailing by at least three goals in the third period. "Stunned" doesn't do it justice.
Ecstasy quickly became agony, and YouTuber ‘Averagegamercabby’ captured it brilliantly on video during the game. Here’s how the crowd reacted to Patrice Bergeron’s tying goal at 19:09 of the third (around the 4:50 mark):
Here’s the stunned reaction from the crowd when Bergeron won the game at 6:05 of overtime; watch its hasty departure as well (goal is around the 2:50 mark):
Now, do yourself a favor and read Bruce Arthur’s incredible column on Game 7 , which is twice as emotional as any moving image you just watched here. |
| Posted: 05/14/2013 |
Yahoo!Sports
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| GAME STATS |
|
GP |
W |
L |
OT |
| HOME |
27 |
14 |
10 |
3 |
| AWAY |
28 |
15 |
9 |
4 |
| TOTAL |
55 |
29 |
19 |
7 |
| MAY STATS |
|
GP |
W |
L |
OT |
| HOME |
3 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
| AWAY |
4 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
| TOTAL |
7 |
3 |
2 |
2 |
| NORTHEAST DIVISION |
| Team |
GP |
W |
L |
OT |
PTS |
GF |
GA |
| MTL |
48 |
29 |
14 |
5 |
63 |
149 |
126 |
| BOS |
48 |
28 |
14 |
6 |
62 |
131 |
109 |
| TOR |
48 |
26 |
17 |
5 |
57 |
145 |
133 |
| OTT |
48 |
25 |
17 |
6 |
56 |
116 |
104 |
| BUF |
48 |
21 |
21 |
6 |
48 |
125 |
143 |
| EASTERN CONFERENCE |
| Team |
GP |
W |
L |
OT |
DF |
PTS |
| 1. PIT* |
48 |
36 |
12 |
0 |
46 |
72 |
| 2. MTL* |
48 |
29 |
14 |
5 |
23 |
63 |
| 3. WSH* |
48 |
27 |
18 |
3 |
19 |
57 |
| 4. BOS |
48 |
28 |
14 |
6 |
22 |
62 |
| 5. TOR |
48 |
26 |
17 |
5 |
12 |
57 |
| 6. NYR |
48 |
26 |
18 |
4 |
18 |
56 |
| 7. OTT |
48 |
25 |
17 |
6 |
12 |
56 |
| 8. NYI |
48 |
24 |
17 |
7 |
0 |
55 |
| 9. WPG |
48 |
24 |
21 |
3 |
-16 |
51 |
| 10. PHI |
48 |
23 |
22 |
3 |
-8 |
49 |
| 11. BUF |
48 |
21 |
21 |
6 |
-18 |
48 |
| 12. NJD |
48 |
19 |
19 |
10 |
-17 |
48 |
| 13. CAR |
48 |
19 |
25 |
4 |
-32 |
42 |
| 14. TBL |
48 |
18 |
26 |
4 |
-2 |
40 |
| 15. FLA |
48 |
15 |
27 |
6 |
-59 |
36 |
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