The 2015-2016 season will soon be upon us - training camps are starting up, preseason opens Sept 21.
Come complain about your team being terrible or brag about how they're wonderful. Wonder how many games are going to be resolved in 3 on 3 overtime this year (St. Louis' Hitchcock is saying that defense will essentially be impossible because of the long change and number of 2 on 1 rushes), and decide whether this means the shootout will essentially disappear. Speculate on whether Patrick Kane will be allowed to play for Chicago with a court case hanging over his head. Predict whether the LA Kings will be able to get out of the terrible Richards contract unilaterally or if the NHLPA will win their case to make them pay him, even if he's found guilty of a drug offence.
Or don't. I intend to watch everything the Leafs do and try not to get too depressed when they fail.
I favourited this thread but let it be known that unless the Canucks choose to fire their coach and GM quickly, I will have little-to-no excitement. 'Tis a barren wasteland on the west coast.
Or just cheer for the players young enough to still be around when the Canucks fire Benning and Desjardins.
They'll be traded for "character" players and to "get younger" despite their replacements being older.
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ugh
The Devils will play spoilers, but our goalie will be good.
The Devils will play spoilers, but our goalie will be good.
God damn it!
Props to PK Subban for donating $10M to Montreal Children's Hospital. As much as it's hard to like this guy, it's hard not to like this guy now.
Wait. OT is going to be 3 on 3 instead of 4 on 4 now? That will definitely change up the strategies for who's on the ice during OT.
Canucks, somehow, won 5-1 and looked REALLY good doing it. Makes some sense considering the Sedins are still the Sedins and Edler-Tanev is one of the best pairings in the NHL. Decent depth too.
I'm watching the Avs game right now, and can someone tell me what's up with that REALLY annoying "woot woot!" thing the PA announcer keeps doing?
I was tempted to turn off the game after it went to 4-1 figuring the Wild had blown their chance to come back with the quick Avs answer to the first goal, glad I stuck it out.
Wait, the Avs lost?
:looks:
Holy hell, they did. Did Varly poop the bed?
They still get a cap hit but it's far less than a buy-out would have incurred. Apparently several teams are pissed off.
So far they've managed to get rid of Richards' and Voynov's cap hits.
I'm just gonna leave this here. I was lucky enough to be at the game yesterday (my seats were basically right next to the camera from the first replay). Eichel is such an exciting player.
My wife surprised me with tickets to the Flyers game tonight. Hopefully their offense can get going early because they're gonna need it. Chicago has nine goals in three games, and we have a whopping four in three games.
3-0 baby, Stanley cup here we come!
Great game last night. Flyers get their second straight shutout.
Canucks are off to a surprisingly strong start. Think there's going to be points coming from up and down the lineup instead of just the top this year.
Canucks are off to a surprisingly strong start. Think there's going to be points coming from up and down the lineup instead of just the top this year.
We'll see. I expect regular production from Hansen, Burrows, Higgins, Horvat, and Vrbata but Sutter has never been a point producer and I'm not even sure which rookies will stick for the full season. Another worry is that Miller will drop off like he's done the last two seasons. Hutton, and to a lesser extent, Bartkowski have done wonders for the puck moving from the defence. That alone should help the offence. I think they're an 6-10 range team but with some poor goalie play and injuries, they'll be a bottom tier team.
They still get a cap hit but it's far less than a buy-out would have incurred. Apparently several teams are pissed off.
So far they've managed to get rid of Richards' and Voynov's cap hits.
Well, if it makes those teams feel any better, LA's the worst team in the league through 3 games. 0-3, a measly 2 goals scored to 12 yielded. Of course, Anaheim has only scored 1 goal, but they're 0-2-1.
Must be because we have no water out here to make ice. We're skating around on concrete or something.
It's Fischler and he commits all of two lazy sentences to the story. I'd add stupid to your already accurate list of adjectives.
DoPS is back to using the NHL Wheel of Justice again.. after weeks of boarding and charging calls(some of which caused injury) being ignored, they're now handing out multi-game suspensions for accidental collisions.
I'm sure that Crosby piece is all sorts of awful.
There's a Toronto Star piece about intangibles where the reporter asked hockey people to define intangibles.
Ray Ferraro's definition of "grit" is recovering loose pucks. That means Patrice Bergeron's the grittiest forward in the NHL with Joe Thornton and Scott Gomez right up there with him. If you look only at recovering loose pucks in the offensive zone for some arbitrary reason Semin is one of the best. So that's pretty fun.
DoPS is back to using the NHL Wheel of Justice again.. after weeks of boarding and charging calls(some of which caused injury) being ignored, they're now handing out multi-game suspensions for accidental collisions.
Now I haven't watched an NHL game since the season opener last season so maybe things have changed but if you replaced NHL referees with random number generators making penalty calls I don't think anybody would notice much of a difference. So much stuff is let go again these days that who knows whether or not they'll actually blow a whistle for an infraction.
It's not even a piece. It's just a bunch of bullet points and puts the most controversial at the beginning. Fischler has been a sh*tty writer for a while, though.
I actually really like Ray Ferraro and is one of the few talking heads in hockey that is able to back up what he says. I get what he's trying to say his definition of "grit" is and it's less of trying to get the loose puck and more "doesn't give up". Both are dumb explanations and intangibles are usually part of an argument made by someone who doesn't fully grasp what they are talking about but really thinks they do.
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