Comments on: Holding Serve http://www.tedstake.com/2009/05/09/holding-serve/ Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:26:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jen http://www.tedstake.com/2009/05/09/holding-serve/#comment-16469 Jen Mon, 11 May 2009 13:46:14 +0000 http://www.tedstake.com/?p=3853#comment-16469 Everyone who has ever watched playoff hockey knows that penalties are called differently in the playoffs than in the regular season. The games are not fixed or predetermined. Quit whining, stand up, and support your team. You may not like the calls, but on the other hand, you can't win a series with only 2 or 3 players actually playing. Everyone who has ever watched playoff hockey knows that penalties are called differently in the playoffs than in the regular season. The games are not fixed or predetermined. Quit whining, stand up, and support your team. You may not like the calls, but on the other hand, you can’t win a series with only 2 or 3 players actually playing.

]]> By: Josh http://www.tedstake.com/2009/05/09/holding-serve/#comment-16468 Josh Mon, 11 May 2009 01:30:06 +0000 http://www.tedstake.com/?p=3853#comment-16468 Ted, why do my "Go Pens" comments not get posted, but a Caps fan whining endlessly about the officiating and how the NHL is like staged wrestling does? Do you think that the team your own is participating in a staged sport??? (And will you post this???) Ted, why do my “Go Pens” comments not get posted, but a Caps fan whining endlessly about the officiating and how the NHL is like staged wrestling does?

Do you think that the team your own is participating in a staged sport???

(And will you post this???)

]]> By: Sue http://www.tedstake.com/2009/05/09/holding-serve/#comment-16467 Sue Sun, 10 May 2009 22:50:23 +0000 http://www.tedstake.com/?p=3853#comment-16467 Jon - You asked who gets the benefit? The season ticket holders that support the team all year - not for just a few games and some playoff games - when I tell my family who are season ticket holders in other areas how little we pay for our tickets - they are amazed! If you love the Caps so much - support them! Buy a season ticket and reap the rewards of much more than low prices. Jon –
You asked who gets the benefit? The season ticket holders that support the team all year – not for just a few games and some playoff games – when I tell my family who are season ticket holders in other areas how little we pay for our tickets – they are amazed! If you love the Caps so much – support them! Buy a season ticket and reap the rewards of much more than low prices.

]]> By: Andy http://www.tedstake.com/2009/05/09/holding-serve/#comment-16466 Andy Sun, 10 May 2009 22:37:48 +0000 http://www.tedstake.com/?p=3853#comment-16466 Elsa, again with the excuses. Ice, Yanni, Refs... you have to OVERCOME in the playoffs, Folks. If there really was no line because there is little precedent for a 'home and home', and if Vegas can't shift the risk they don't take the bet. This is heresay, and seemingly third-hand heresay. I hear caps fan were pretty tough on Pens fans that made it through your gates at the VC. Care to comment, Ted? I mean it IS your example of mistreating hockey fans in general and poor sportsmanship they are following. Elsa, again with the excuses. Ice, Yanni, Refs… you have to OVERCOME in the playoffs, Folks. If there really was no line because there is little precedent for a ‘home and home’, and if Vegas can’t shift the risk they don’t take the bet. This is heresay, and seemingly third-hand heresay.

I hear caps fan were pretty tough on Pens fans that made it through your gates at the VC. Care to comment, Ted? I mean it IS your example of mistreating hockey fans in general and poor sportsmanship they are following.

]]> By: Scai http://www.tedstake.com/2009/05/09/holding-serve/#comment-16465 Scai Sun, 10 May 2009 20:07:46 +0000 http://www.tedstake.com/?p=3853#comment-16465 Come on guys, officiating wasn't the reason the Caps lost yesterday. The reason is that they're playing a goalie who spent almost the whole season either in the minors or on the bench. Varlamov was great for a few games but he simply isn't where he needs to be for the Caps to beat such a formidable foe. In a few years that will be different. The tripping call was definitely warranted. In OT the refs will only call the most blatant of fouls and such was the trip, while those minor things Ted and Bruce were referring too weren't. The Caps had luck on their side the first two games as well as in regulation of game three, that has since changed. The series isn't over yet, so it might change again. You're still in it, let's go Caps! Come on guys, officiating wasn’t the reason the Caps lost yesterday. The reason is that they’re playing a goalie who spent almost the whole season either in the minors or on the bench. Varlamov was great for a few games but he simply isn’t where he needs to be for the Caps to beat such a formidable foe. In a few years that will be different.
The tripping call was definitely warranted. In OT the refs will only call the most blatant of fouls and such was the trip, while those minor things Ted and Bruce were referring too weren’t. The Caps had luck on their side the first two games as well as in regulation of game three, that has since changed. The series isn’t over yet, so it might change again.
You’re still in it, let’s go Caps!

]]> By: dave http://www.tedstake.com/2009/05/09/holding-serve/#comment-16464 dave Sun, 10 May 2009 19:33:49 +0000 http://www.tedstake.com/?p=3853#comment-16464 The blog is a joke. I bet on the game. Caps were favored The blog is a joke. I bet on the game. Caps were favored

]]> By: bill http://www.tedstake.com/2009/05/09/holding-serve/#comment-16463 bill Sun, 10 May 2009 16:39:38 +0000 http://www.tedstake.com/?p=3853#comment-16463 Tough loss (but a great game)last night, Ted. The series is not over by a long shot. Let's Go Caps! Tough loss (but a great game)last night, Ted. The series is not over by a long shot. Let’s Go Caps!

]]> By: Ginger http://www.tedstake.com/2009/05/09/holding-serve/#comment-16462 Ginger Sun, 10 May 2009 15:22:35 +0000 http://www.tedstake.com/?p=3853#comment-16462 That was heartbreaking. :( I am fine to lose when it is because the Capitals mess up but to be screwed over by the refs (and I hate pulling that card but that is what happened & this isn't the first time in the series it has happened.) is just wrong & beyond frustrating. And I am only a fan I can only imagine how the team feels. Something needs to be done about this officiating it is so obviously bias. It is to the point where if I didn't love the Capitals so much I would say forget it and never watch or go to another nhl game again. Of course that won't happen because I love the Capitals so much that I travel over 500 miles just to see them play but I feel like I am watching the WWE and not hockey because everything is pre-determined. I am not giving up on the Capitals because I will always believe in them and it's not over until the pens win 4 but a part of me is telling me even though I believe in the Caps and never will stop believing in them that I should prepare for heartbreak again because the refs are helping the pens out big time. But I will worry about that if it happens until then Let's Go Caps!!!!! That was heartbreaking. :( I am fine to lose when it is because the Capitals mess up but to be screwed over by the refs (and I hate pulling that card but that is what happened & this isn’t the first time in the series it has happened.) is just wrong & beyond frustrating. And I am only a fan I can only imagine how the team feels. Something needs to be done about this officiating it is so obviously bias. It is to the point where if I didn’t love the Capitals so much I would say forget it and never watch or go to another nhl game again. Of course that won’t happen because I love the Capitals so much that I travel over 500 miles just to see them play but I feel like I am watching the WWE and not hockey because everything is pre-determined. I am not giving up on the Capitals because I will always believe in them and it’s not over until the pens win 4 but a part of me is telling me even though I believe in the Caps and never will stop believing in them that I should prepare for heartbreak again because the refs are helping the pens out big time. But I will worry about that if it happens until then Let’s Go Caps!!!!!

]]> By: Sapper http://www.tedstake.com/2009/05/09/holding-serve/#comment-16461 Sapper Sun, 10 May 2009 14:23:45 +0000 http://www.tedstake.com/?p=3853#comment-16461 Ted, We, a non-original 6, non-Canadian team will never get past a team with a Canadian star (Crosby/Lecavalier etc) as long as Don Cherry's zebra-striped disciples patrol the ice. If you're waiting for that OT PP in the playoffs, keep waiting, it'll never happen. Make a stink. Make a big stink. We've been getting screwed for far far too long. Sapper Ted,

We, a non-original 6, non-Canadian team will never get past a team with a Canadian star (Crosby/Lecavalier etc) as long as Don Cherry’s zebra-striped disciples patrol the ice. If you’re waiting for that OT PP in the playoffs, keep waiting, it’ll never happen.

Make a stink. Make a big stink. We’ve been getting screwed for far far too long.

Sapper

]]> By: Tim Tags http://www.tedstake.com/2009/05/09/holding-serve/#comment-16460 Tim Tags Sun, 10 May 2009 13:34:12 +0000 http://www.tedstake.com/?p=3853#comment-16460 whats ted take from game 5? whats ted take from game 5?

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