Comments on: Knee-jerks: @ Buffalo, 12/26/06

By: Capsaholic

Capsaholic — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 02:21:00 +0000

Ovie’s goal celebration was GREAT. Had nothing to do with the game, it’s was between him and the whining slugs fans.

By: Gustafsson

Gustafsson — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 13:52:52 +0000

Video from ComcastSportsNet

http://www.youtube.com/v/hxi77lWJdaw

Video from TSN SportsCentre

http://www.youtube.com/v/yo3DXqPnqv4&NR¬†

By: GoBucks9

GoBucks9 — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 05:59:51 +0000

I love his reaction. I never want him to play without emotion.

By: pepper

pepper — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 05:19:20 +0000

the cupping his ear gesture of ovechkin strangely, and eerily, reminded me of a game during the dark “jagr era” where the quitter jags put together a solid effort on a particular (and unique, for him as a cap) night, and scored the overtime winner at home and gestured to the fans in a similar fashion (was it jan 03 against the isles?). i agree that it was a bit out of line for having it handed to them the period before and being down still by four.

ideally it seems hanlon wants to keep semin and ovie on separate lines, but keeps throwing the two out together when he feels the circumstances dictate. perhaps at some point soon “the exception will create the rule.” i am concerned that a pettinger/beech/clark 2nd line becomes a checking line in character, without any one player to attract the defense and make plays to the net or get nifty SOG, and leaves us with a single crafty scoring line, like last season.

i won’t try to analyze the defense with such a lopsided first half of the game, except to say that i hope, as i think all of us do, that schultz establishes himself this year the way green did last year.

By: odessa steps magazin

odessa steps magazin — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 03:06:18 +0000

By the time I got home from work, Buffalo had just scored goal 6.

Seems like a good time to watch Leafs/Wild instead.