Podcast - December 5th Edition

Podcast - December 5th Edition

Between The Pipes - December 5th Edition

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In this edition Nick, Ross and Junaid go over the weeks headlines, our picks for goals and saves of the week, and make our prediction league picks for this week. In "Four Teams" we talk about Ottawa, Philadelphia, St Louis and Washington. Ross gives us his "Things that happened since the Red Wings last missed the playoffs" stat.

Save of the week

Josh Harding - MINNESOTA WILD vs Philadelphia Flyers



Goals of the week

Darren Helm - DETROIT RED WINGS vs New York Islanders



Max Pacioretty - MONTREAL CANADIENS vs Toronto Maple Leafs




Prediction League

TABLE

Nick - 6/12
Ross - 6/12
Junaid - 3/12

This weeks games/picks:

Boston @ Montreal
Carolina @ Nashville
Phoenix @ Vancouver
Toronto @ Ottawa
New Jersey @ NY Rangers
Calgary @ Edmonton

Nick: MTL, CAR, PHX, OTT, NJ, CGY
Ross: MTL, CAR, PHX, TOR, NYR, CGY
Junaid: BOS, NSH, VAN, TOR, NYR, EDM


THINGS THAT HAPPENED SINCE DETROIT LAST MISSED THE PLAYOFFS
by Ross Chaplin

Australia cricket legend Shane Warne had yet to make his International debut. Sachin Tendulkar was yet to make his first International test match century.

And, finally......

A couple of the New York Rangers "Welcome to Rangerstown" commercials...

NEXT WEEK....... We are doing our NHL themed 12 Days of Christmas. Email or tweet us any suggestions. Our email address and twitter handles are below.

Email us any questions you'd like us to answer at betweenthepipespodcast@hotmail.com and we will answer them during recording. Also you can direct anything our way on twitter, @NickVarney90, @j_hussain & @MasonCooper4.

Stars - best of Saturday 30th November

Stars is our daily look at the previous night's action in the NHL and who stood out amongst the rest.


FIRST STAR

 

Chris Kreider - NEW YORK RANGERS vs Vancouver Canucks

Kreider scored his first career NHL hat trick against the team now coached by his favourite man the man who dropped him to the AHL for much of last season, John Tortorella. As John was run out of town by the Rangers for the 2nd time in 2013.




SECOND STAR

 

Max Pacioretty - MONTREAL CANADIENS vs Toronto Maple Leafs

Max continued his recent goal scoring form picking up two more goals and an assist. His first was from an fantastic breakout pass from P.K. Subban. His 2nd was this awesome short handed effort.




THIRD STAR

 

Evgeni Malkin - PITTSBURGH PENGUINS vs Florida Panthers

"Geno" had a goal, the game winner, and three assists in the Penguins 5-1 rout of the Panthers.




Honourable Mentions

Penguins backup goalie, Jeff Zatkoff, had 40 saves in the Pens win over Florida..... Semyon Varlamov had 37 saves in Colorado's 3-2 win against Minnesota.....

Subban had a nice goal.....



Tomas Plekanec also scored on a nice move.....



Alex Ovechkin scored, again.......




Look Away Moment of the Night

After all his brilliance recently, against Calgary, Ben Scrivens reminds us that he's just a man god damnit!!!

Stars - the best of Friday 22nd November

Stars is our daily look at the previous night's action in the NHL and who stood out amongst the rest.

FIRST STAR

 

Chris Kunitz - PITTSBURGH PENGUINS vs New York Islanders

Kunitz had a brilliant night at the Consol Energy Center last night. Picking up two goals and an assist. He had his hat trick goal waived off for a high stick penalty on Evgeni Malkin that shouldn't have been called a penalty. He went on to continually harass the Isles D and with 1:16 left in the game, tied at 3-3, he crashed Radek Martinek into the boards behind the Isles goal, tapped it off to Pascal Dupuis who slid it to Sidney Crosby for the game winner. Also Crosby's 250th NHL goal.

SECOND STAR

Daniel Sedin - VANCOUVER CANUCKS vs Columbus Blue Jackets

Daniel picked up three points in this 6-2 Canucks win, one goal and two assists. His goal tied the game at 1-1 after some nice work behind the net he skated to the front and let rip towards Bobrovsky. He had his shot saved and brother Henrik put in the rebound for 3-1. Then midway through the 3rd he had a shot from the blue line tipped in for Henrik's 2nd of the night.

THIRD STAR

 

Sidney Crosby - PITTSBURGH PENGUINS vs New York Islanders

As mentioned above, Sid had the game winner which was also his 250th NHL goal. He also assisted on Kunitz's first goal and would have had the primary assist on Kunitz's hat trick goal if the refs didn't make the "high stick" call on Malkin.

Honourable Mentions

Henrik Sedin had a two goal night off his brother Daniel's rebound and then tipped in one of Daniel's shots.

Thomas Vanek also had two goals in the Islanders loss to Pittsburgh. With Kyle Okposo picking up as assist on each.

Alex Ovechkin scored two against the Canadiens. He isn't amongst the stars as he routinely scores on the Habs. He now has 34 points in 32 games against them.

Josh Gorges had two assists in the Habs 3-2 win at the Verizon Center, including on Briere's game winner and on the Habs 2nd which was David Desharnais' first goal in 26 regular season and playoff games.

Ben Bishop. 41 saves for the Tampa Bay Lightning against the Anaheim Ducks remarkably wasn't enough for the toothless Bolts. He unfortunately had a big gaff too. Letting a Ryan Getzlaf shot sneak under his glove and bounce goalwards. No thanks to defenseman Richard Panik who lived up to his name and in the heat of the moment used his stick and inadvertently stopped Bishop making a routine goal line glove grab and giving Anaheim the win with 5 seconds left in OT.

MY PICKS

Last night I went 3-2 in my picks with Calgary and Montreal pulling out wins.