DIVING RIGHT IN

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Hey, don't forget: it's an afternoon game today
Published 4/27/2008 by Dave & Aziz Nekoukar at NJ.com blog: Rangers
... can't bounce back. The team just needs to get back to the team-oriented, Henrik-protecting defense that it's been pretty good at for most of the year. Instead, in Game 1 they decided to allow the Pens to create a Western Conference shootout atmosphere, and really, how many teams in the entire league could keep up with the Pens in a shootout? Yep, probably none. And so this is the world the Rangers are living in: no matter what Pens coach Michel Terrien says and while a potential war of words continues to brew , the league has some special Sidney Crosby rules. ...

Pens coach rips skeptical Rangers
Published 4/27/2008 by Fraser at The Hockey Herald
via New York Post: The subject of the debatable interference call Crosby drew on Martin Straka at 16:40 of the third that produced the power play on which Evgeni Malkin got the winner at 18:19 was not raised with Therrien at yesterday’s press briefing, yet the Pittsburgh head coach took the offensive. “Where I’m kind of disappointed is that there’s gamesmanship before the series about Sidney drawing penalties. And I’m disappointed. I’m kind of disappointed,” Therrien said. “We all know what Tom Renney ...

Pot Meet Kettle
Published 4/28/2008 by FlyersFan25 at The Broad Street Blog
... the score. The Flyers defeated the Penguins 8-2 in December. In March, the Penguins ran up the score against the Flyers, the Sabres and the Devils all within a 10 day period. Now he’s complaining and calling NY Rangers coach Tom Renny a whiner because he called Sidney Crosby a diver. Wouldn’t Therrien’s complaining about Renny’s whining amount to whining itself? During his conversation with the media, Therrien also asserted that Crosby doesn’t dive. This is all while others, such as the New York Post , claim that after last season, Captain Crosby was talked to by the NHL ...