Happy Monday!
This week on the show we’re talking NHL playoffs & suspensions, along with some of the first teams to move on to the next round and another clock controversy from last week’s action. Also: we discuss a perfect game in the MLB and a legend leaving women’s basketball.
In the GABBYs: Martin Brodeur, Jamie Moyer, Washington Capitals fans, an Alabama parent, the Charlotte Bobcats and the Orlando Magic. The Punchline this week is high school baseball player Jameson Painter.
It seems like over-celebrating has been all the rage in the world of sports over the past few months, and that trend continued on Thursday night in the NHL!
From “Tebowing” and “The Burris” in the NFL, to Arron Asham’s controversial “Go to Sleep” move earlier this season, it seems like guys just keep on finding new ways to express themselves out there. Well, you can add New York Rangers “sniper” Artem Anisimov to that list!
Things got ugly at MSG after Anisimov scored a beautiful shorthanded goal to put his club up 2-1 over the visiting Tampa Bay Lightning. As he skated away from the net, Anisimov morphed into a Teemu Selanne/Tim Tebow hybrid, flipping his stick around, dropping to one knee and pretending to “shoot” Bolts goalie Mathieu Garon! (VIDEO after the jump!) (more…)
Happy Tuesday!
This week on 15 Minutes of Fame we discuss the latest in the Oilers arena negotiations and the team’s start to the season, the Arron Asham “go to sleep” incident, and we go through some stats in a new feature we like to call “Early Season Stats Are Stupid!”
In the GABBYs: The Edmonton Eskimos, Anthony Calvillo, the Tampa Bay Lightning, Rick DiPietro, Rob Sloan, and the Chicago Blackhawks. This week’s Punchline is the Tiger Woods hot dog guy!
The Washington Capitals and the Pittsburgh Penguins renewed pleasantries on Thursday night, and while the Caps may have won the game, it was the Pens who won the war.
James Neal scored twice for Pittsburgh and Alex Ovechkin notched his first goal of the season for Washington in the 3-2 overtime win, but none of the post game conversation centered on either of those things.
All people wanted to talk about afterwards was the game’s only fight, a short scrap between Pittsburgh’s Arron Asham and Jay Beagle of the Caps.
Beagle got Asham’s attention with about six minutes gone in the third stanza when he gave Pens defenceman Kris Letang a bit of a retaliatory shot along the boards. Within seconds, the mitts hit the ice and we had ourselves a good old-fashioned donnybrook!
The Caps fourth-liner got things going with a crisp right hand, then missed with two more as the pair spun around just outside the Pittsburgh blue line. As Asham tried to shake the elbow pad off of his right arm, Beagle got him with three more shots (well, two and a half), including a pretty nice looking one to the side of the helmet. If that was where it had ended, there wouldn’t be much to talk about, but things quickly turned in the Portage la Prairie product’s favour. (VIDEO after the jump…) (more…)
Roberto Luongo (Matt Boulton, Wikimedia Commons)
The tension in Vancouver right now must be astronomical. Sunday night, the Vancouver Canucks will try to avoid becoming only the fourth team in NHL history to blow a 3-0 deficit in the Stanley Cup Playoffs as they travel to Chicago to take on their arch-nemesis, the Chicago Blackhawks (Game Six, Sunday, 5:30pm, CBC). They have two chances to prevent history, but the tension should be significantly more if they have to go back to Vancouver for game seven.
If Chicago wasn’t in Vancouver’s head to begin the series, they certainly are now. That’s what happens when one team beats another by a combined score of 12-2 in 120 minutes of hockey action.
Roberto Luongo needs to simply be better as well. He had a save percentage of .786 in Game four and a save percentage of .667 in Game five. That’s what happens when you give up ten goals on forty shots. But, according to TSN, Canucks’ head coach Alain Vigneault hasn’t given up on Luongo just yet. He’s giving Luongo the Game six start.
But Luongo has not been the only Canuck off his game. The Sedin twins have been a combined -9 over the last two games.
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