reminds me of this...
ryan smyth gets destroy feelsgoodman
ryan smyth gets put on strecher feelsbadman

Dan Hanhuis must be a shy guy. He scores a OT game winner and he barely even celebrates. His face prob turned red knowing he played the hero tonight.

friend met him at a autograph session said hes a shy guy

I guess they can curve the glass or angle it. Bottom of body is kept in line with boards and glass is introduced gradually in line with the boards later on. At least you won't go head on with an object that isn't gonna move.

Did you guys see the Rick Rypien interview? He's looking good. Can't wait to see him back in the lineup.

our bottom 6 looks stacked with rypien, lappierre, higgins, tambellini.... but can they play hockey when it matters? :whistle:

I didn't even noticed that was Rypien after they showed his name. I was like "really that's Rypien?" Looks funky with his beard.
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Holy balls, that Chara hit looked brutal. If he didn't know that turnbuckle was there...

Looks like Bettman is finally giving up on PHX. Let's go GOLDWATER!

Rick Rypien speaks to the media for the first time

http://video.canucks.nhl.com/videoce...id=0&id=101870

Canucks Celebration 03/08/11

http://video.canucks.nhl.com/videoce...=805&id=101979

I wonder if Pacioretty's visor helped in any way?

his neck still snapped way back :/


when i saw rypien it reminded me of that time brock lesnar had a beard.. hope he doesnt suck and get knocked out too..

Probably helped a bit?! Looked brutal though.. news is broken vertebrae and a severe concussion.

http://img849.imageshack.us/img849/592/254939843.jpg

Was there any drama going on?
I heard maybe some sort of retaliation... but I don't really follow Boston or Montreal.

^It had something to do with an OT goal that Pacioretty scored sometime back.

The picture looks pretty bad. Look at where Chara's hands are. To me it looks like the intent to injure was there.

Yep, from this game earlier in the year

Not sure if there's really bad blood between them, but SERIOUSLY??? :eek:

He's no friendly giant. That's for sure
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So Pacioretty suffered a severe concussion and non-displaced fracture of 4th cervical verterbrae. Looks like he'll be out close to a year and who knows if he ever returns or how he'll be after. Erik Cole hasn't really been the same since his fractured verterbrae.

If you were retired, would you want to stay in Canada where the air is cold and dry and you have to shovel your driveway of all that snow?
Don't just think of Vancouver, but every other province in Canada.

All you need to do is be in Cananda for half the year and you can collect your CPP and old age pension. Rest of the time, you can be in sunny FLorida, Arizona, or California hence why Bettman thought it would be a great idea to have NHL hockey teams in these locations.

And you can buy travel insurance in CAnada, and then live 5-6 months in the US and be covered for health care.

rypien with a beard looks like billy mays

Sad thing about all of this is that Chara will get nothing but a slap on the wrist because of his star status.

Why am I not surprised? /picard

http://tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=357209

Yup, you're correct, NHL just announced no suspension or fine for Chara.

I wonder what he would have gotten if say he hit Crosby or Ovy like that...

either way.. this is a joke... not even a fine... unbelievable

Chara gets no further punishment. To me, it looks pretty obvious he knew what he was doing and he knew where he was and thus where the turnbuckle was. He's been playing hockey for how long and he claims he didn't anticipate such a collision? Factor in the history between the 2 players, the domination by the habs in that game, and the late timing of the incident and it seems he was even motivated by anger.