Iron Crotch

Hey, this team needs all the breaks they can get! :P

Gotta be honest... I have absolutely no indication that JBot is any better as a GM than Murray just yet. Seem to me that pretty much every single player JBot acquired this off-season is terrible (with the exception of Pommer who has been solid thus far).

Ah, I actually think there is a legit reason for the discrepancy between our interpretations. I think you're thinking of possession in the delayed penalty sense in which case as soon as it touches the penalized team's stick they have "possession" and the play is blown dead. On rushes across the blue line "possession" has a completely different definition. Always has (at least in my 40ish years of playing and watching hockey).

There wasn't possession. That's a play that is called offside 99.9% of the time. The NHL is just making ###### up like they always do to fabricate a reason for why they completely botched a call.

Chad Johnson should just start punching guys in the room between periods.

Our bottom two lines are terrible. Ditto for just about all of our defensemen.

Argh. This team.

If the puck is in first it doesn't matter. If your skates are in first then the puck must be on your stick. That's the rule.

Yep, this is the rule. If the puck is separated from your stick when your skates are in the zone then it constitutes no control.

These linesmen are on the take. I want a full league investigation. :devil:

How in the flying is that onside? you refs!

My God we suck defensively. Argh.

It definitely looks pretty slow tonight.

He is really bad. Game in and game out. No wonder Montreal got rid of him for a bag of pucks.

6th short-handed goal against in 8 games?!

McCabe drew a call. Nice.

Yeah, you see that all over the league these days. As soon as a guy feels a stick in their midsection they grab onto it to draw a call. At some points the refs need to catch on to that tactic.

The Sedins are 52 years old, I think.

Happy Jack!!!

Ack. Power outage. This stuff happens constantly in New Orleans, city of broken infrastructure.

We never break out of our own zone with any sort of speed.

Blech. Not good.