Great move. Not classless like that Yakupov BS, but they should celebrate as a team.

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I'll second this sentiment. Good Lord, taking away the pure joy of scoring by punishing those who dare show some emotion. Playing hockey should be fun and clamping down on celebrating after goals and even winning a hard fought emotional game will have a negative effect in some players minds.

Staged celebrations like Ovechkin warming his hands over his stick and the NFL's Sharpie-gate are way too over the top for me. I'd even say that what Yakupov did was a little excessive for scoring a game tying goal, but I watched that game and the Oilers were having some tough luck with the officials making questionable calls and even calling a goal back earlier on a bogus goalie interference call. It was an emotional goal, I mean I literally jumped off the couch and yelled. So I can see how excited the kid was to be the guy who scored that goal.

I'm not sure I follow why opponents feel disrespected when someone scores on you. Yeah, you feel horrible because you were just scored on/beat, but it just comes off as poor sportsmanship to beak off about a player celebrating a goal they just scored on your team. Disrespectful would be if they were to do it right in your face or say something inflammatory after scoring.

I would hate it if after every goal, team mates simply smiled touched gloves and went back to the face off dot to drop the puck again. Players need to enjoy the game, otherwise it becomes passionless and this game is anything but passionless.

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4C-Kopitar,M.Koivu,Stepan,Matthias,Prospal
4L-Marleau,Steen,M.Foligno,N.Foligno,Morrow,Umberger
4R-Hossa,Hornqvist,Little,Alfredsson,Oshie
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Holy shit folks.
THIS IS AN ENTERTAINMENT PRODUCT. That is all the NHL is. That's why it's a business. That's why we line up to see it. The game is changing. Society is changing. If people find it entertaining, let them do it.

You folks denouncing things like "triple-low-fives" and saying Yakupov's celebrations are BS sound like parents in the 50's complaining about Elvis's dancing.

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(G, A, +/-, PIM, PPP, SOG, GWG, W, GAA, SV%)
Keepers
C: Tavares, Benn, Stepan
LW: Galchenyuk, Parenteau, Ryan.
RW: Brunner, Conacher.
D: Pietrangelo, Subban, Schultz.
G: Price, Dubnyk.

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Keepers
C: Duchene, B. Richards
LW: Skinner, Ovechkin,
RW: Ryan, Eriksson
D: Subban, Shattenkirk,
G:Halak, Quick

Something about this reminds me of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7gP1xgRDJ4

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I don't get why nobody was offended when Couture pulled a Kaepernick and kissed his bicep after a goal? How was that ok but Yakupov was bs? Just a guess, but I'd go and say it has to do with their nationalities. At least be consistent.

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G,A,P,PIM,PPP,SHP,GWG,+/-,FW,Shots, Hits - GP,W,L,GAA,SV%,SV,SA,SO

C: Stamkos, Berglund, Gagner (RW), Turris, Zibanejad
LW: Kovalchuk (RW), Benn (C), Kunitz, Lupul (RW), Mcdonald (C)
RW: Iginla, P. Kane (C), Oshie (C), Pominville
D: Phaneuf, Shattenkirk, Kulikov, Leddy, Carlson, Faulk, Kindl
G: Fleury, Lehtonen, Anderson

Farm: Niederreiter, Kuznetsov, Connolly, Soderberg, R. Murphy, Morrow, Gardiner, Rielly

Didn't see that but I would be pissed at him too. Couture is a huge douchebag in real life as well.

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Here's the video, he did it last game. Again, I don't care much either way, just found it odd that nobody was offended by this but Yakupov. . . and I could see that about Couture. That mustache makes him look like a . . . weirdo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=u-d9SNBi7V4

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G,A,P,PIM,PPP,SHP,GWG,+/-,FW,Shots, Hits - GP,W,L,GAA,SV%,SV,SA,SO

C: Stamkos, Berglund, Gagner (RW), Turris, Zibanejad
LW: Kovalchuk (RW), Benn (C), Kunitz, Lupul (RW), Mcdonald (C)
RW: Iginla, P. Kane (C), Oshie (C), Pominville
D: Phaneuf, Shattenkirk, Kulikov, Leddy, Carlson, Faulk, Kindl
G: Fleury, Lehtonen, Anderson

Farm: Niederreiter, Kuznetsov, Connolly, Soderberg, R. Murphy, Morrow, Gardiner, Rielly

The 'mocking the opponent' part is the key here, that kinda shit is for douchebags and showboaters...the whole Yakupov celebration was in that vein, there's just no need of that nonsense. I don't think its fair to equate stuff like that with the normal celebrations you see after a goal or after a win, I can't imagine why anyone would take exception with that, I certainly do not and that's why I said I had no problem with the Subban-Price tradition

But I think that is the core of what the coach is trying to accomplish here, he's trying to get them unified as a team because that's how you win championships, you don't win with a bunch of guys all obsessed with themselves, you win with a close knit team that is all on the same page. He probably recognizes that Subban is already somewhat of a chemistry problem in the locker room so he's seeking to move past that and get all the guys on the same page. Its Draconian and excessive I agree but considering what a mess the team was last year, I don't disagree with him in this situation

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P=1 DPts=1.2 +/-=.32 PIM=.08 PPP=.4 SHP=.6 S=.015 Blk=.2 Hit=.08
W=2 OTL=.8 GA=-.64 SV=.08 SO=3

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C- Filppula,Turris,Stastny,Backstrom
D-Boyle,MDZ,Karlsson,Robidas,Goligoski,Schenn,Seiden berg
G-Anderson,Hiller,Rinne
LW-Malone,Parise,Rolston,Eriksson,Ruutu
RW-Alfredsson,Callahan,Setoguchi,Brown,Ryder,Vrbata

Farm (9 keep all, max 200 GP, 100 Goalies)
Colborne,Leblanc,Loktionov,Perreault,Tangradi,Blum ,Poulin,Markstrom

IMO players should hug and hold hands as they skate back to the bench after they score a goal.

Agree with this in many ways, and completely appreciate where Therrien is coming from.

Subban will probably be too paranoid to celebrate anything soon.

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