Re: 2013 NHL thread
Posted: Fri May 30, 2014 10:05 pm
Chicago forced a game 7 on Sunday with a 4-3 come from behind victory over Los Angeles. Patrick Kane with the winner. He's money when it comes to clutch goals.
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Win/Win from my perspective. Mitchell or AV get themselves a ring. As long as it wasn't the Hawks, I'mWestCoastJoe wrote:Good. The Kings put a stake through the hearts of the Hawks.
Great respect for Toews. But not exactly a fan. They showed no respect for the Canucks. Put the Hawks up there with the Bruins.
Would not mind seeing Vigneault winning it all.
The Kings have an amazing collection of talent. Size. Skill. Goaltending. All of it. Amazing leadership. Throughout the lineup.
It is hard to see how the Rangers can compete. But they will.
These old throwback guys might miss things and screw things up but I'm old enough to recall that despite these issues these guys are more than nice smooth tv and radio voices but guys who lived and breathe these sports.TheLionKing wrote:Best part of tonight's game is that we don't have to listen to Bob Cole again. He broadcast his last game.
Martinez's shot wasn't particularly hard but the adage applies: Put it on the net, anything can happen.Toppy Vann wrote:
LA got a goal off DEF that to me should have not been blocking his Goalee. He seemed to be puck watching and while goal side of the LA forward was nothing more than the guy who blocked the vision of his Goalee.
You and me both thought Torts would not work out here. The irony was he was pretty okay with the media but seemed disconnected from his team and even the organization.notahomer wrote:I was NOT a Torts fan when the discussion was about whether he'd be the next Canucks coach last summer. I was dissappointed he got hired. I also feel AV had outlived his time behind the Canucks bench. Sure I'm glad he's made it to another Cup Final but I doubt the Canucks would have made the playoffs with AV behind the bench either. Of course I don't know, no one can.
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I'm just glad that neither of the big cheapshot artist teams, IMO, (Chicago & Boston) made it to be able to win the Stanley Cup. The game winner for the Kings was an ugly one, IMO, but it went in. I wonder how the handshake line went for the two goalies?
At first I thought you meant EVER, but that's apparently not the case as he will be returning next season.TheLionKing wrote:Best part of tonight's game is that we don't have to listen to Bob Cole again. He broadcast his last game.
Bob Cole, who owns perhaps the most distinctive voice in Canadian sports broadcasting, was in Florida on Tuesday, near a beach and near a golf course, but no closer to retiring.
Jim Hughson will be the lead play-by-play voice when Rogers Communications assumes control of National Hockey League rights in Canada next season, with Bob Cole, Dave Randorf and Paul Romanuk also signing on, the company announced Tuesday morning.
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“I don’t think anybody wants to work as long as I have,” he said over the phone. “But I do. I don’t know what I would do if I didn’t work. What would you do?”
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Cole, who turns 81 this month, has never embraced the idea of retirement, suspecting that a television executive would make the decision on his behalf, some day. That day felt like it was creeping closer last year.
“I was getting a funny feeling from the management of sports at CBC,” Cole said. “I was getting vibes. I don’t know if they had plans for me. It didn’t sound like they did. And so, when Rogers made the announcement that they were taking over, I said to myself, ‘you know what? This is probably good.’”
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Cole said he has a one-year deal with Rogers, which is fine with him, because he said he has never signed for more than two years at a time. He said his last contract was for two years.
“Other than that, I’ve signed every October,” Cole said on Tuesday. ...
... he was surprised on Sunday night when MacLean announced his new deal on the air, shortly after Hockey Night in Canada signed on for Game 7 of the Western Conference final between the Chicago Blackhawks and the Los Angeles Kings. With Hughson calling the Stanley Cup final, it was Cole’s final game of the playoffs — and without word on whether Rogers was signing him, there was a chance it would have been his final game behind the microphone for a national broadcast.
“They got inundated here, with calls,” Cole said of the CBC. “People were kind of upset that I wasn’t going to be working after [Sunday night]. They decided that they’d better say something.”
Cole has enjoyed a resurgence in popularity over the past few springs, with the power of social media fueling both his ardent fans and legion of critics. It has not been unusual for Cole’s name to trend on the social media website Twitter during games, right alongside the names of the players he is describing.
“You’ve got to be thick-skinned, which I don’t think I am, one-on-one,” he said. “If somebody were to walk up to me and say, ‘you’re just nuts, I don’t know why you got this job.’ I’d have to respond. But if it’s stuff like this, what are you going to do? You’re doing your best.”
He chuckled: “Listen, people criticized Sinatra — you can’t be all that bad.”
Cole said he is not on Twitter, but receives occasional updates from his daughter.
NOOOOOOOOOOOO. Please retire and take Cherry with yousj-roc wrote:At first I thought you meant EVER, but that's apparently not the case as he will be returning next season.TheLionKing wrote:Best part of tonight's game is that we don't have to listen to Bob Cole again. He broadcast his last game.
National Post: Hockey Night in Canada’s Bob Cole no closer to retiring despite Rogers takeover: ‘I don’t know what I would do if I didn’t work’
Excerpts:
Bob Cole, who owns perhaps the most distinctive voice in Canadian sports broadcasting, was in Florida on Tuesday, near a beach and near a golf course, but no closer to retiring.
Jim Hughson will be the lead play-by-play voice when Rogers Communications assumes control of National Hockey League rights in Canada next season, with Bob Cole, Dave Randorf and Paul Romanuk also signing on, the company announced Tuesday morning.
...
“I don’t think anybody wants to work as long as I have,” he said over the phone. “But I do. I don’t know what I would do if I didn’t work. What would you do?”
...
Cole, who turns 81 this month, has never embraced the idea of retirement, suspecting that a television executive would make the decision on his behalf, some day. That day felt like it was creeping closer last year.
“I was getting a funny feeling from the management of sports at CBC,” Cole said. “I was getting vibes. I don’t know if they had plans for me. It didn’t sound like they did. And so, when Rogers made the announcement that they were taking over, I said to myself, ‘you know what? This is probably good.’”
...
Cole said he has a one-year deal with Rogers, which is fine with him, because he said he has never signed for more than two years at a time. He said his last contract was for two years.
“Other than that, I’ve signed every October,” Cole said on Tuesday. ...
... he was surprised on Sunday night when MacLean announced his new deal on the air, shortly after Hockey Night in Canada signed on for Game 7 of the Western Conference final between the Chicago Blackhawks and the Los Angeles Kings. With Hughson calling the Stanley Cup final, it was Cole’s final game of the playoffs — and without word on whether Rogers was signing him, there was a chance it would have been his final game behind the microphone for a national broadcast.
“They got inundated here, with calls,” Cole said of the CBC. “People were kind of upset that I wasn’t going to be working after [Sunday night]. They decided that they’d better say something.”
Cole has enjoyed a resurgence in popularity over the past few springs, with the power of social media fueling both his ardent fans and legion of critics. It has not been unusual for Cole’s name to trend on the social media website Twitter during games, right alongside the names of the players he is describing.
“You’ve got to be thick-skinned, which I don’t think I am, one-on-one,” he said. “If somebody were to walk up to me and say, ‘you’re just nuts, I don’t know why you got this job.’ I’d have to respond. But if it’s stuff like this, what are you going to do? You’re doing your best.”
He chuckled: “Listen, people criticized Sinatra — you can’t be all that bad.”
Cole said he is not on Twitter, but receives occasional updates from his daughter.
AV is used to quick starts in the Stanley Cup finals. He wants to win the last game......TheLionKing wrote:Rangers got off to a quick start only to see the Kings come back with 3 straight goals including the winner in overtime to take game 1