MDSF: (1) Pittsburgh Penguins vs (4) Columbus Blue Jackets

[From.The.Point]

Go BJ's!!!

Game has a good pace to it, if Columbus can keep it up this game is theirs!

[mephnick]

Yeah I know some people who live in Columbus, they and all their friends are psyched about the playoffs.

There's actually a lot of interest there, it's not Phoenix or Atlanta.

[Tangelos]

Yeah I know some people who live in Columbus, they and all their friends are psyched about the playoffs.There's actually a lot of interest there, it's not Phoenix or Atlanta.

Hockey is pretty big in northern US

[MJDDawg]

lol could bob cole be nuthugging the pens any harder?

trying to say Neal put it off the post when it was clearly stopped by Bobrovsky

Nah.

That's just his senility.

[MJDDawg]

Yeah I know some people who live in Columbus, they and all their friends are psyched about the playoffs.

There's actually a lot of interest there, it's not Phoenix or Atlanta.

Isn't hockey pretty well the only pro game in town?

I think they're a big college sports town though.

[-Vintage Canuck-]

Great crowd.

[MJDDawg]

Anyone else find it strange when the crowd starts chanting "De-Fence" when it's just 5 on 5 play?

Must be football on the brain.

[canucks.brad]

I am so happy for Columbus right now. They are a great hockey town that has been the home of crappy teams for years. Good to see them finally having a decent team.

[Dragonfruits]

come on refs

[Madness]

Awful call.

[Dragonfruits]

great period by CBJ and especially Bob

[Jiggs50]

Look for the refs to try to get Pittsburgh back in the game..

[Ghostsof1915]

Anyone else find it strange when the crowd starts chanting "De-Fence" when it's just 5 on 5 play?

Must be football on the brain.

They think it's the Ohio State Bluejackets playing.

[Madness]

Great crowd In Columbus tonight.

[Tearloch7]

Look for the refs to try to get Pittsburgh back in the game..

They already are .. that call on Johanson .. pfft!

[Bure to Mogilny]

I missed the first howd the bj's look? Shots favur pitts quite a bit but what people think can bj's win the series? I hope so!

[Dragonfruits]

holy crap refs Sutter pushes him in this is beyond stupid now

[surtur]

bad call

[UFCanuck]

Never said there wasn't legit calls in the game.

If you have been watching the playoffs, and even the regular season, there's an obvious trend for refs to make poor calls when one team is down late, despite ignoring those same calls the rest of the game.

It's not a trend, that's every year in the playoffs if you can remember.

[Down by the River]

Crosby and to a lesser extent Malkin really forcing things. The refs in this series have a completely different rule book from every other series (not that there is much consistency between the others series either...).