Nail Yakupov scores and acts like an idiot once again.

[Bertuzzied]

Originally Posted by stang

So a wager? More points Yakupov vs Sven?

Sure if Sven gets the same minutes and pp time as the Nail.

[Stay Golden]

Originally Posted by Bertuzzied

Sure if Sven gets the same minutes and pp time as the Nail.

well played

[cubistcastle]

My thinking wrt goal celebrations is let your play speak for you. You just beat someone else, no need to overreact and rub it in more - they already don't feel good about it and if anything will only be fired up after seeing you act like a jackass. That said, it's not really anything to get worked up over. Didn't like the celebration, wouldn't have liked it if a flame player did it. Fist bumps and back to the bench is more my style.

Also don't agree with the argument that players who celebrate flamboyantly have more heart or more drive to win. Some guys just show more emotion than others it's as simple as that.

[stang]

Originally Posted by Bertuzzied

Sure if Sven gets the same minutes and pp time as the Nail.

Well that will never happen...

[Caged Great]

Hotdog player hotdogs and people are surprised.

[Ruttiger]

Originally Posted by Bertuzzied

Sure if Sven gets the same minutes and pp time as the Nail.

Gets, or earns?

[keenan87]

Originally Posted by Ruttiger

Gets, or earns?

It isn't like Nail earned any of his minutes.

[Bertuzzied]

Originally Posted by stang

Well that will never happen...

well then why would i bet? I bet you Wideman will get more points than Nick Schultz.

28 more hours until no more Stang until June when it's cup day for the Oilers.

[Lithium]

Originally Posted by Bertuzzied

well then why would i bet? I bet you Wideman will get more points than Nick Schultz.

28 more hours until no more Stang until June when it's cup day for the Oilers.

Nick Schultz has never had more than 20 points in a season in the NHL, who would ever take that bet?

[puckluck2]

Originally Posted by North East Goon

This board is going to be interesting if we get beat convincingly on Saturday.

We've dominated them for more than 5 years. They'll be our bitch on Saturday night and Easter will rain down on the hillbillies up North.

[Ruttiger]

Originally Posted by keenan87

It isn't like Nail earned any of his minutes.

2 goals in 3 games - matter of opinion I suppose.

[blankall]

Originally Posted by Playfair

I had always thought hockey was supposed to be fun!! What Yakupov did was pure emotion, an 18 year old kid having fun! He brought the house down with Oiler fans having fun! There is nothing wrong with that in my books!! I hope the Flames can recapture the fun of Theo again!

Exactly.

The crowd was into it just as much as he was. Sports are entertainment. There's nothing wrong with making them entertaining. The guy slid on his knees on the ice....big woop. I would prefer more of this, as oppossed to the usual emotionless and totally generic post-game hockey interview.

[stang]

Originally Posted by Bertuzzied

well then why would i bet? I bet you Wideman will get more points than Nick Schultz.

28 more hours until no more Stang until June when it's cup day for the Oilers.

Make it Justin Schultz and ill do it...

[gildo]

No issue with it at all, even as a die hard Flames fan. It is a different era, I am old enough to be some of these kids Dad now. The fans desperately missed hockey for so long it's nice to have it back and why the hell not a little bit of excitement never hurt anyone, it was in his home rink, in front of the home fans and he sent them home happy. If he did that on the road, then maybe it's an issue or if he pulled a Kovalchuk that time at the World Juniors and was celebrating on the way to an empty net then it's different. The team (from their perspective) were getting screwed all night, they got slaughtered a few days earlier by the Sharks so there was a lot bottled up inside.

[Caged Great]

Yak to the future.

[jayswin]

Originally Posted by Captain_Obvious

As for the celebration, it was way over the top. But what are you going to do? Not a big deal.

The "bull ####" chant and raining trash all over the ice was over the top as well.

It's Edmonton.

None of this is unexpected.

There's been tons of bull**** chants at the Dome over the years, it was our go to chant whenever we felt like we were getting screwed. Thankfully we've replaced any spontanious emotional outbursts with sitting quietly in our seats until the game ends.

[getbak]

Cory Sarich and Dennis Wideman talk about the celebration.


They don't say that they'll take his head off if he does something like that against the Flames...but they don't say they won't take his head off.

[stang]

Link? Doesn't show on ipad

[Hockey]

I wonder if he would have done the same thing if the game was in L.A.

[Brick]

The kid was excited, no problem with it.