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You're bragging about this? This is a fucking joke. It takes the NHL embarrassing itself in spectacular fashion (as only the NHL can do) for the Sabres to win.
They didn't win. The Sharks won. The league is a disaster.
No they didn't. The Sharks scored a goal in overtime. When that happens, you win the game.
The fact that the NHL is able to screw up something as simple as making toast doesn't change the rules of hockey, and they can write whatever they want in the win and loss columns, but the Sharks won that game.
Uh, yes, I can. There's a difference between "should have" and what we have here. If a team has 5 breakaways in overtime and misses all of them and then their goalie lets in a shot from centre ice I might say, "they should have won that game". If a team scores more goals than their opponents, they did win the game, whether the officials screwed up or not.
If in the Rangers / Pens game tonight the Rags score 5 goals and don't let any in, and after the game the NHL decides to record it as a Penguins win, that's just numbers on paper that don't reflect what happened on the ice.
If you score in overtime, you win. The Sharks scored in overtime. Therefore, they won. It's pretty simple.
This is just nonsense. Lots of times there's a goal when the red light doesn't go on. A goal occurs when the puck enters the net in a legal manner (i.e. not kicked or gloved in) during play. That is what occurred. The red light is only there to let everyone know the puck went in - it's just a convenient notification. Since video review it's basically an anachronism.
Those two points on paper are arbitrary numbers that the NHL uses to assign playoff position. They have no bearing on the game of hockey itself. The NHL can fuck up all it wants to but it cannot alter reality.
Your criminal law analogy is not only stupid, it's also wrong. By definition, if I did not commit the actus reus of a crime, I am innocent of the crime even if convicted. A verdict doesn't alter reality either.
I'm mostly just pissed because it cost my fantasy team 2 points. But I'm also right.
Shut up. You've admitted to not knowing hockey so talking about this incident is beyond your understanding of the code. You do not get to taunt the other team by referring to an assault. This is like if someone wanted to taunt the '04 avs for being pussies because Steve Moore got his neck broken by a cheap shot, or the 1996 Wings pussies because Draper got run from behind into an open bench.
That episode was an embarrassment to the league and certainly to the Flyers organization. As a Flyers fan that should prompt you to fold up your jersey and put it at the back of your closet in shame, not try to brag about it to other fan bases.
I just had a long post responding and then newschoolers ate it. But yeah, he could have turned around. He could have made sure Holtby wanted to fight before ever going down there (you get the guy's attention, challenge him, and he either nods or shakes his head). He could have gone down there, been turned down, and found another Caps player to fight. He could have tied someone up. He could have stood there and watched one of the other fights. Beating up a guy who hadn't done anything was not on his menu of options.
There is no proper protocol for what to do in this situation because it's not part of hockey and has no place in the game. It's like asking what the proper protocol is when a guy comes at you swinging his stick at your head. The only time there's supposed to be an unwilling combatant in a fight is when that combatant has taken a run at the other team's players or delivered a dirty hit, in which case he's tacitly issued an open challenge to fight and should stand up and take his medicine.
No one would've blamed Holtby for turtling there, probably, but his hesitation to do so is understandable. People look down on that in hockey. Look at Claude Lemieux, that one incident followed him for his whole career.
You really didn't realize that players agree to fight before they drop the gloves??
Seriously, go to http://www.hockeyfights.com/videos/nhl/ and watch how it works. Here's one where Laraque was mic'd up before so you can see what he says to Ivanans before the fight at :40.
Perhaps more surpsing on NHL jersey sales: Panthers' Tim Thomas ranks 5th among all players. One of 2 goalies in top 25 (Lundqvist No. 14)
— Austin Karp (@AustinKarp) November 6, 2013 
