Sunday, January 30, 2011

All Star Game - The Game!

6:56 - Team Lidstrom wins the All-Star Game 11-10
-Team Lidstrom came back from a 4-0 start to the game to win 11-10
-Thomas is mic-ed up so you get to hear all the guys congratulating each other
-3 Stars of the game:
  1. Patrick Sharp (MVP!! and with it, a newww carrrrr)
  2. Eric Staal
  3. Loui Eriksson


6:54 - Team Lidstrom leads 11-10
-Captain Staal puts his team within one with his second goal of the night!
-34 seconds to go!!
-crowd is going wild for their hometown captain
-Skinner is out on the ice for one last chance at a goal
-Eric Staal mic-ed up "COME ON SKINNY!!"


6:53 - Team Lidstrom leads 11-9
-Lundqvist left the net to give Team Staal an extra attacker but within a few seconds, Eriksson gets his second of the night - an empty netter - to put Team Lidstrom up 2 goals

6:50 - Team Lidstrom leads 10-9
-Ovechkin had a bad giveaway and Kaner snapped it up for a breakaway but Lunqvist made the save


6:49 - Team Lidstrom leads 10-9
-big play by Keith to block Eric Staal's shot from Letang to keep his team in the lead


6:47 - Team Lidstrom leads 10-9
-Rick Nash scores to make it a one goal game
-Unfortch, Lidstrom was on the ice so he's back down to an embarrassing +7. Tsk, Tsk




6:45 - Team Lidstrom leads 10-8
-Marty St Louis beats Lundqvist to give Team Lidstrom a 2 goal lead
-Lidstrom was on the ice for the goal - he is now +8. Holy. Crap.

6:41 - Team Lidstrom leads 9-8
-Danny Briere's kid is getting interviewed - he looks SO MUCH like his dad!
"Did you think your dad was going to score two goals in the game"
"No"

6:38 - Team Lidstrom leads 9-8
-I couldn't even finish writing about Briere's goal when Captain Serious scores!
-Toews does a nice lil' spin-o-rama, kick to stick and goal on Lundqvist
-holy crap, Weber and Lidstrom were both on the ice for Toews' goal - they are both sitting at 
+7 now!!


6:37 - Teams Tied 8-8
-Team Staal didn't hold that lead for long - Danny Briere gets his second of the night as well
-on the goal, Weber gets his fourth assist of the game, giving him a +6 rating (also gives Lidstrom a +6 rating as well)

6:35 - Team Staal Leads 8-7
-LETANG SCORES HIS SECOND!!!
-looked like Letang was going to pass to Skinner who was in on the rush but he whipped it past Thomas
-Skinner got an assist to give him at least a point in his first all star game, the youngest player ever to play in an all star game of the four major North American sports

6:29 - Teams Tied 7-7
-HNIC was chatting with Price and they asked about his conversations with Fleury yesterday, makingly regarding the game winning celebrations
-Price said that they were just making light of it and that they were planning on both doing it at the end of the breakaway challenge (but never got the chance)

6:27 - Teams Tied 7-7
-Duchene got a break away and Ovechkin decided to try and stop him....by just chucking his stick at him hahaha
-needless to say, Duchene is getting a penalty shot
-Lundqvist makes the save!

6:26 - Teams Tied 7-7
-Ovechkin took a little tumble crossing the blue line


6:25 - Teams Tied 7-7
-Tim Thomas made a huge save on Skinner before but the hometown crowd got their excitement with a big goal from Eric Staal, tying up the score (assisted by Perry and Nash)
-HUGE cheer for the announcement of Staal's goal

6:23 - Team Lidstrom leads 7-6
HNIC - "You know how badly they want that kid to score right?"
Thomas - "I know! I just don't want to look too bad!"

6:19 - Start of the Third - Team Lidstrom leads 7-6
-here we goooooooo
-Lundqvist and Thomas are in net
-Thomas is mic-ed up and doing some commentary for HNIC. He is just chatting up a storm - focused on stopping goals and talking it up, what a superstar.

5:57 - End of the Second - Team Lidstrom leads 7-6
-Rude! They took away an assist from Patrick Sharp!
-despite the robbery, Sharp still leads in points with 3 (1G,2A)
-Shea Weber and Nick Nidstrom are both +5
-Marc Staal is -4 (during the game, they played Eric yelling at someone for being "at least -5" [I think was the number he used], pretty sure it was broskie ribbing)
-shots are 31-30 for Team Lidstrom

5:52 - Team Lidstrom leads 7-6
-breakaway central! Eriksson gets a breakaway one way and his denied and then Nash gets a breakaway the other way and is robbed as well



5:51 - Team Lidstrom leads 7-6
-Jeff Skinner had a quasi-break away and almost got that goal but Hiller denied him. Give him a goal!


5:50 - Team Lidstrom leads 7-6
-Danny Briere gives Team Lidstrom their first lead of the game on a goal assisted by Captain Canuck

5:47 - Teams tied 6-6
-Stamkos gets his first all-star goal of his career for Team Lidstrom assisted by TB teammate Marty St Louis (and Brad Richards)

5:46 - Staal's Team leads 6-5
-Eric Staal is a jack-of-all-trades for this game - he's giviner on the ice and he is also mic-ed up and is an on-bench AND on-ice commentator (at least for HNIC)
-the commentators joked that they were going to get Staal to do this for the playoffs and he just laughed: "Yeah that's not gonna fly"

5:44 - Staal's Team leads 6-5
-during the commerical break, Letang went over to apologize to Hiller for the accidental face shot. What a classy guy!


5:42 - Staal's Team leads 6-5
-right after getting hit in the face, Hiller makes a huge save on Jeff Skinner
-Team Staal REALLY wants to get Skinner a goal



5:40 - Staal's Team leads 6-5
-wow a 3-0 for Team Lidstrom leads to an easy goal for Kopitar but Price nearly makes the save!!
-it's Kopitar's second goal of the game
-Letang tried to get his second goal of the gae and hit Hiller RIGHT in the face. Whoops.

5:36 - Staal's Team leads 6-4
-Carey Price has already made 10 save so far. He's a wall!
-Toews almost ruined Price's 1.00 save percentage thus far but he hits the post!



5:33 - Staal's Team leads 6-4
-TANGER SCORES!!!!
-Oveckin fired down the ice, passed to (Daniel) Sedin to passed it to Tanger who whipped it past Hiller to give his team a 2 goal lead!

5:28 - Staal's Team leads 5-4
-Patrick Sharp gets his first goal of the game to add to the 3 assists he has to give him at least a 4 point game for today - he is on fiiiiiiiiiiiire!
-TEAM THUNDER BAY!

Sharpie deserves some stars for the game today for sure!

5:26 - Start of the Second Period
-here we gooooooo
-Carey Price is on for Team Staal; Jonas Hiller is in net for Team Lidstrom

5:00 - End of the First - Tied 4-4
-teams are tied 4:4 after Team Staal had a 4-0 lead and Team Lidstrom battled back
-Game leaders thus far: Patrick Sharp with 3 assists; Paul Stastny with 1 goal and 1 assist; David Backes with 2 assists
-shots are tied at 14 for each team
-first intermission entertainment is 3 Doors Down

4:55 - Tied 4-4
-Ward and Fleury are now both 8/12 on saves (each has allowed 4 goals on 12 shots)
-Team Staal really wants to get Jeff Skinner a goal - he has had some great opportunities and shots but Fleury has denied him. The arena is going to go NUTS if he scores!


4:52 - Tied 4-4
-Duchene brought Lidstrom back into the game!! Assisted by his capitano!
-Team Staal has now "squandered" a 4-0 lead (as HNIC says - in an all star game, I don't think a 4 goal lead means much, they are *all stars*, stuff happens quick)
-Fleury has made some big saves since letting in the original 4 goals, allowing his team to come back

4:51 - Team Staal leads 4-3
-Team Lidstrom is fighting back
-Fleury made a huge save on Kesler and Ovechkin coming at him

4:38 - Team Staal leads 4-0
-WHERE ARE FLOWER'S D-MEN!!
-Sharpie is already at 3 points in the game (3A)

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