Live NHL Thread--Week 3

11/3/2006 | G8 Diplomat

[G8 Diplomat]

Well this sucks--the Caps are playing the Thrashers tonight but since it's a home game it's blacked out to me on my computer (Caps are my local team). But they're playing the Flyers tomorrow in an away game so hopefully they'll show it. Everyone else who actually has cable--have fun watching it!

[G8 Diplomat]

Go Ovechkin!!

[CardShark]

No Center Ice? I couldn't live without it...

[CardShark]

Never mind; must be blacked out too. Since I support an out of market team I don't have to worry about blackouts.

Sorry...

[G8 Diplomat]

Yeah I wish like crazy I had Center Ice...

[GlennLivett]

GO STARS>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

[G8 Diplomat]

Check scores here:
http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/scoreboard;_ylt=AjrI9gJzIbzcskKhrvOTplc5nYcB

[G8 Diplomat]

Sabres vs. Rangers tonight. Sabres have lost their leading scorer Maxim Afinogenov due to a separated shoulder injury last night. He was checked hard into the wall and is expected to be out for 2-3 weeks. Without Afinogenov, it'll be tough to defeat the team of Jagr and Lundqvist, but the Sabres still have Spacek and Numminen (who is approaching the record for most NHL games ever played by a European, BTW), Drury, and Kotalik, so there's still hope.

[G8 Diplomat]

Oooh! Buffalo already up 1-0!

[G8 Diplomat]

Kotalik just got swarmed by a bunch of Rangers. Commercial break came right after the refs separated them.

[G8 Diplomat]

First period over. Still 1-0 Sabres.

[G8 Diplomat]

Insteresting interview with Henrik Lundqvist--he was fishing for tarpon down in Florida, but a 12-foot hammerhead shark came up and got attached to the line along with the tarpon! The shark was only a tad smaller than the boat, and for tarpons you need a large boat. (But I guess if you've lived most of your life in Sweden you just don't know these things). Anyway, the shark unattached itself and they reeled in the tarpon, which weighed 160 pounds, but it wasn't over yet--another shark, a smaller 5-foot one, got stuck on the hook and they ended up catching a tarpon and what looked like a juvenile mako shark!

[G8 Diplomat]

Jagr scores! 1-1 now.

[G8 Diplomat]

Two Sabres palyers get penalties simultaneously. Two refs raised their hands at two separate times about a second apart. Buffalo's really fighting tonight, this is gotta be their fifth or sixth penalty tonight. Guess they're trying to win this one for Afinogenov.

[G8 Diplomat]

Petr Prucha just scored. Rangers lead now, 2-1.
Better try harder Sabres, Affy expects more of you.

[G8 Diplomat]

Fedor Tutin made an awesome hip check..sent his opponent toppling over him practically doing a summersault against the wall and on the ice, LOL.

[G8 Diplomat]

Paetsch just got injured as a stick slams into his face, giving him a bloody nose. Good grief, first Afinogenov now Paetsch! And Spacek got a minor injury last night too! The Sabres aren't doing so well on the medical front lately...

[G8 Diplomat]

The Rangers are getting another power play after this commercial break. They've scored both their goals on PPs, something tells me they'll score a third...

[G8 Diplomat]

Poor Marty Straka got slashed twice in the fingers, and while he gets and ice pack his team gets a power play. Kotalik is in the penalty box, and--GOOD GRIEF! now Petr Prucha gets his in the face with a puck! "This is Jaroslav Spacek", the announcer says. Spacek fired the puck at Prucha, and now his nose is bleeding. Geez how many players are going to get injured in this game?! Looks like the Rangers aren't doing so well on the medical front either.

[G8 Diplomat]

Petr Prucha gets his in the face with a puck

My bad, he gets hit in the face...aaaaand I was right, the Rangers did indeed score their third goal on this power play. 3-1.

[G8 Diplomat]

Ah, 3-2 now. Buffalo scores.