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Anyone here follow the NHL. I've taken a bit of an interest this year, and following the Penguins. Unfortunately Fox Sports only show the 2-3 games a week, so most of it is live scores online and YouTube clips after the event.

This morning Pittsburgh got killed by the New York Islanders (the South Adelaide of the NHL) 3-9, but the game will be more remembered for the continued fighting and brawling throughout the game.

Here's one from the third period

Results from 11/2/11 (home teams on the right)

Detroit 6 - 1 Boston
San Jose 1 - 2 New Jersey
Pittsburgh 3 - 9 New York Islanders
Colarado 1 -3 Columbus
New York Rangers 2 - Atlanta 3
Minnesota 5 - 4 St Louis
Chicago 3 - 4 Dallas
Anaheim 5 - 4 Calgary

Standings - http://www.nhl.com/ice/standings.htm?se ... 1&type=DIV

Some more footage of the earlier carnage. For the record Pittsburgh finished the game with just 2 players on the bench (and 4 on the ice)!

http://www.foxsports.com.au/Other+Sport ... =FoxSports

Match summary, including penalty summary (some light reading there lol) - 303 minutes in penalties handed out (not bad for a 60 minute game)

http://www.nhl.com/ice/recap.htm?id=2010020823

Brucetiki wrote:Results from 11/2/11 (home teams on the right)

Detroit 6 - 1 Boston
San Jose 1 - 2 New Jersey
Pittsburgh 3 - 9 New York Islanders
Colarado 1 -3 Columbus
New York Rangers 2 - Atlanta 3
Minnesota 5 - 4 St Louis
Chicago 3 - 4 Dallas
Anaheim 5 - 4 Calgary

Standings - http://www.nhl.com/ice/standings.htm?se ... 1&type=DIV

As a Boston fan all I can say is OUCH

Strawb wrote:

Brucetiki wrote:Results from 11/2/11 (home teams on the right)

Detroit 6 - 1 Boston
San Jose 1 - 2 New Jersey
Pittsburgh 3 - 9 New York Islanders
Colarado 1 -3 Columbus
New York Rangers 2 - Atlanta 3
Minnesota 5 - 4 St Louis
Chicago 3 - 4 Dallas
Anaheim 5 - 4 Calgary

Standings - http://www.nhl.com/ice/standings.htm?se ... 1&type=DIV

As a Boston fan all I can say is OUCH

As a Penguins fan, I share that pain today. However, the footage of the brawling has eased that pain somewhat.

Nothing beats a good Hockey Brawl. So who do you go for in the NBA there Bruce and I take it you are a pirates man in the Baseball?

Strawb wrote:Nothing beats a good Hockey Brawl. So who do you go for in the NBA there Bruce and I take it you are a pirates man in the Baseball?

Don't really follow the NBA, though I was a Sonics fan before they disappeared (and only found out a few weeks ago they no longer exist - shows how much I follow it ). Now that they're gone, I dont follow any team. Also never really followed any particular Major League side, but keeping with my Pittsburgh theme will probably loosely follow the Pirates this season.

Brucetiki wrote:

Strawb wrote:Nothing beats a good Hockey Brawl. So who do you go for in the NBA there Bruce and I take it you are a pirates man in the Baseball?

Don't really follow the NBA, though I was a Sonics fan before they disappeared (and only found out a few weeks ago they no longer exist - shows how much I follow it ). Now that they're gone, I dont follow any team. Also never really followed any particular Major League side, but keeping with my Pittsburgh theme will probably loosely follow the Pirates this season.

I got for all Boston teams bar the Patriots I cannot stand them.

12/2/11 Results

Calgary 2 - 4 Vancouver
Los Angeles 4 - 1 Washington
Ottawa 5 - 3 Edmonton
Toronto 0 - 3 Montreal
Carolina 3 - 4 Tampa Bay (OT)
Colorado 3 - 5 Nashville
Chicago 2 - 3 Pheonix (SO)
St Louis 1 - 3 Minnesota

The NHL has handed out its punishment for the Pittsbugh v New York Islanders brawls - http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=552570

Pittsburgh's Eric Godard got an automatic 10 game suspension for leaving the bench to become involved in a fight. New York Islanders Trevor Gillies got a 9 game suspension and New York Islander's Matt Martin got 4 matches, both for repeated blows to the head of Pittsburgh players. New York Islanders have been seen as the cheif instigators of the brawling throughout the match and copped a $100 000 fine as a result.

Go Rangers

Really got into the NHL a while ago. Always been a Predators fan. They've never been particularly good but came into existence around the time I started following the sport.

Also liked the story behind their name (apparently they found the fossilised bones of a 'predator' while they were building their arena).

This thread has sparked my interest again, might have to keep a bit closer eye on things this season.

Gingernuts wrote:Really got into the NHL a while ago. Always been a Predators fan. They've never been particularly good but came into existence around the time I started following the sport.

Also liked the story behind their name (apparently they found the fossilised bones of a 'predator' while they were building their arena).

This thread has sparked my interest again, might have to keep a bit closer eye on things this season.

went and saw the rangers play at the garden last month... amazing...
goin to watch anaheim play next week sometime too.. very much enjoy ice hockey...

woodublieve12 wrote:

Gingernuts wrote:Really got into the NHL a while ago. Always been a Predators fan. They've never been particularly good but came into existence around the time I started following the sport.

Also liked the story behind their name (apparently they found the fossilised bones of a 'predator' while they were building their arena).

This thread has sparked my interest again, might have to keep a bit closer eye on things this season.

went and saw the rangers play at the garden last month... amazing...
goin to watch anaheim play next week sometime too.. very much enjoy ice hockey...

Lucky bugger. Seeing an ice hockey game is on my bucket list.

Results from 13/2/11

Anaheim 4 - 0 Edmonton
Boston 2 - 4 Detroit
New York Islanders 7 - 6 Buffalo (OT). I wonder if the Islanders came out swinging this time again
Pittsburgh 3 - 5 New York Rangers
Columbus 2 -1 Dallas
Los Angeles 1 - 0 Philidelphia
Carolina 3 - 2 Atlanta
San Jose 2 - 3 Florida

Standings - http://www.nhl.com/ice/standings.htm?ty ... av-stn-div

Following on from the US-based Winter Classic, it's now Canada's turn to host an outdoor hockey match with their Heritage Classic between Montreal and Calgary on 20 February. This will be the second time ever an outdoor NHL game has been played in Canada (the only other one was the inaugral Heritage Classic back in 2003).

http://www.nhl.com/ice/eventhome.htm?lo ... assic/2011

With the game being shown on Versus there's a chance that the game may be televised here (Fox Sports over here only shows the games Versus covers, although they did do the NBC-covered Winter Classic).

Brucetiki wrote:Results from 13/2/11

Anaheim 1 - 0 Edmonton (19:45 left 2nd period)
Boston 2 - 4 Detroit
New York Islanders 7 - 6 Buffalo (OT). I wonder if the Islanders came out swinging this time again
Pittsburgh 3 - 5 New York RangersColumbus 2 -1 Dallas
Los Angeles 1 - 0 Philidelphia
Carolina 3 - 2 Atlanta
San Jose 2 - 3 Florida

Standings - http://www.nhl.com/ice/standings.htm?ty ... av-stn-div

Gingernuts wrote:

woodublieve12 wrote:

Gingernuts wrote:Really got into the NHL a while ago. Always been a Predators fan. They've never been particularly good but came into existence around the time I started following the sport.

Also liked the story behind their name (apparently they found the fossilised bones of a 'predator' while they were building their arena).

This thread has sparked my interest again, might have to keep a bit closer eye on things this season.

went and saw the rangers play at the garden last month... amazing...
goin to watch anaheim play next week sometime too.. very much enjoy ice hockey...

Lucky bugger. Seeing an ice hockey game is on my bucket list.

its awesome mate... probably one of the most entertining sports to watch live... just dont go grab a beer when a bloke scores his hat trick goal!!

Massive nhl fan. Been a mad caps fan for years. I thought years of pain would be erased last year after we went in number 1 seed for finals but alas another early play offs campain.
In the mix this season hoping to go a little deeper into play offs this time around. Very high on my to do list when i get to the us

Results 14/2

Calgary 9 - 1 Colorado
Vancouver 2 - 3 St Louis
Washington 2 - 3 Phoenix