http://lastwordonsports.com/2013/02/...5-celebration/

I don't think Subban/Price's low 5 celebration after a win was a big deal really but I agree with the coach to a large degree. The message he's trying to convey is 'Be humble and show class and respect for your opponents' and I think that's the kind of thing that used to be prevalent in the league but that has largely been lost...and a lot of players need to learn that lesson, otherwise you get nonsense like that joker Yakupov pulled this year.

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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

Need to let the players celebrate to some degree to enjoy their success and achievement. They battle for 60 minutes in a war night in and night out, and having a little 2 second triple low five is not showing any disrespect to anyone, its congratulating your teammate in a hard fought win. It's not " in your face" or over the top celebrations. It also can create some buzz among the teammates and get even more excitement going. Some celebrations are good.

No Fun League

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Scoring Cats - G, A, P, +/-, PIM, PPP, SHP, GWG, SOG
Goalie Cats - W, SV%, SO, GAA, SVS Made
Start - 3 C, RW, LW, F, 4 D, 2 UTIL, 2 G

C - Getzlaf, E Staal, Marleau, Elias, Eller
LW - Pacioretty, Vanek, Dubinsky, Raymond, Glencross
RW - Perry, Kane, Pominville, Simmonds, Clarkson, Stewart, Dupuis
D - Chara, Muzzin, Gardiner, Irwin
G - Lundqvist, Schneider, Biron

The real question here is how do you define excessive? Is the Jagr salute excessive? Obviously, I think Yakupov's celebration was a bit much but...

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W 5 OTL 1 SO 6 SV 0.25 L-1 GS 1

F:Stamkos, C Stew, R Johansen, B Dubinsky, Max Pac, Umberger, B Ryan, D Backes, T Ruutu, Lucic, Ott, MSL, Heatley, C Kunitz, J Benn, L Adam

D: C Fowler, Kronwall, A Goligoski, JM Liles, M Giordano, K Letang, N Nikitin, R Josi

G: J Quick, A Niemi, C Anderson, Rinne

Their "low 5 three times" was almost as dumb as Therrien banning it.

Seriously, who cares.

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Stamkos, Tavares, Hall, Couture, Hanzal, Wheeler, Stastny, Versteeg, Fisher, Hornqvist, Eriksson, Hodgson, Setoguchi, Turris, Steen, Letang, DRoy, Yakupov, Grabner, Byfuglien, Baertschi

G-Rask, Halak, Schneider

Good lord, just let them celebrate. It's bad enough that every hockey player comes off as a robot during interviews. Let them at least have personalities on the ice!

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3LW-Ovechkin/Lucic/Pacioretty/Ryan (RW)/Hagelin
3RW-Sharp (C)/St. Louis/Stewart/Brunner/Neil/Gallagher
4D-Pietrangelo/Goligoski/Ekman-Larsson/Leddy/Phaneuf/Beauchemin/Corvo
1G-Rinne/Ward/Anderson/Bishop
+1 Util

This is stupid.

Granted, Yakupov is a young clown who thinks he's as good as a young ovechkin (*he's not), so I'll give him a pass this year, but I don't see anything wrong with other celebrations like the Jagr salute or subban's low fives

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Year 2 = 13/16
Last year = 4/16

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G-Fleury, Bryzgalov, Ward, S.Mason, Enroth,

The Cincinnati Bengals rode the " Ickey Shuffle" all the way to the Super Bowl. Hey just saying...

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Anyone remember Selanne's 'shooting the glove' celebration? Yeah, I don't know that anyone would say that Selanne 'lacks class' or 'is bad for the game'.

If you aren't mocking your opponent and it takes less than 10 seconds there's nothing wrong with it.

Why does Montreal seem obsessed with generating bizarre stories? I thought turfing that past GM who shall not be named would have settled things down.

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... and anyway, I make a damn good cynic.

When teams win they should have to apologize to the other team now.

And when players score a goal, they shouldn't be allowed to raise their sticks, and should also apologize to the goalie.

And when they are interviewed after the game while riding the exercise bike, they should only talk in monotone and spit out cliche's.


That Yakupov celebration was classic. He'll grow up and you'll never see him do that again though, even if he scores a game 7 overtime winner.

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