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  1. Yeah it looked like he hit the turbo button in NHL11 on that goal :lol: God, I've been waiting for this Kovy to show up. He's finally looking like the dominant player of the past over the last few games.

    Wait...there's a turbo button in NHL11?

  2. So if you're the kinda person who saves their tickets, I guess you gotta hand them over to relinquish that free game thing maybe. The seats should suck...I don't think people are really entitled to a cheaper game or a free game. They should just hand out free stuff on Sunday and call it a day. I wonder if people will be in Sunday at all.

  3. im an NHL noob still, but what determines if we keep it a tie or go for a shootout?

    The Case For the Shootout:

    # Nothing matches the tension, anticipation and thrill of a shootout. Considering the price of an NHL ticket these days, fans deserve great entertainment, and the shootout is a heck of a great show.

    # Does the NHL want more people in the seats and more fans watching at home? The shootout is fast, exciting, delivers immediate results and is easy for casual fans to follow.

    # The NHL needs goals. Scoring has declined since the 1980s and most teams play a boring, defense-first style. Hockey is supposed to be about scoring. The shootout returns goal-scoring to its rightful place at the center of the game.

    # What's wrong with change? Hockey is an evolving game. The forward pass was illegal until 1911. Regular season overtime began in 1983. Change is good, especially if it makes the spectators happy.

    # The shootout could be accompanied by other changes, which would encourage teams to win the game in regulation time. For example, what if every game is worth three points? If it's decided in overtime or in a shootout, the winning team gets two points and the losing team gets one. But if a team wins the game in regulation time it gets all three points.

    # The shootout would not replace overtime in the Stanley Cup playoffs. It would only be used to decide regular season games, and only after five minute of overtime.

    The Case Against the Shootout:

    # The shootout may be fun, but it isn't hockey. Hockey is a team game, not a series of breakaways. Players have to earn scoring chances by outworking and out-skating opponents.

    # The shootout is a gimmick, the equivalent of deciding a baseball game with a home run contest or breaking a football tie by having quarterbacks throw the ball through a tire.

    # Martin Brodeur works his butt off all night, stops 40 shots and salvages a 1-1 tie for his team. Two minutes later he's a loser because he couldn't stop a couple of guys on free breakaways. How fair is that?

    # What's wrong with a tie? If teams can't decide a winner after 65 minutes of hockey, a tie is a just result.

    # The shootout is a great novelty, nothing more. That novelty would soon wear thin and players and fans on the losing end of shootouts would feel cheated.

    # Another change to the game means more complications in the NHL standings. SOL (shootout losses) would replace ties. More points would be handed out, making historical comparisons between teams even more difficult. Player stats would require yet another category for shootout goals and saves.

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    I like the shootout....I don't like how the deciding factor of a game lies on the shoulders of a handful of teammates when this is a team sport.

  4. shoulda went to the game....it sucks cuz u go to so many bad ones and then you're turned off...well, some people...and then you don't go to a bunch unless its college/family night or a Cup game or something....I started watching during the Shootout and im getting texts saying we shoulda went.

  5. Section 109 was pretty bare...I hear people always leave their seat and sit in the company seats down below after the 1st period.

    The puck to the face of the Ottawa player looked bad, I felt bad for the player...I liked when Marty was helping clean the blood off the ice in 3rd or 2nd period for another bloody Ottawa incident though.

    Man the game was exciting.

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