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[El Kabong]

Don't know who I'd want from Toronto. Their draft picks maybe but other than that Kessel or shit I guess Phanuf would be ok for the Canes.

[palmerq]

I think carolina would be able to extract a first round draft pick from the leafs a young talent(leafs must have something there !) and some middle of the road journeyman... would be a potentially good deal.

[Beanflicker]

Kessel is a goal scoring machine, Kadri is decent, but Phaneuf is a bust I think. A few years back his fellow NHLers voted him as the #1 most overrated in the NHL.

[El Kabong]

Yeah the Canes need goals ASAP and Kessel would be a brilliant add, but that won't happen. Phanuef is a bust no doubt, he's got decent skills, but he is just meh....might play him on the wing on a more physical line but on D? Meh. Semin has been awful so far this season. Skinner has been hurt...the team is just rudderless right now and they have a lot of dead weight to get rid of.

Keepers: Skinner, Faulk, Lindholm, Murphy, Nash, Rask

I think everyone else should be fair game to trade

[palmerq]

Phaneuf would be bad for the hurricanes I think, he hits hard but I think he just isnt worth the money and years his contract has right now.... Better to swipe picks and prospects from toronto .. Toronto has insane media and fan pressure to win games and get to the playoffs(even if they do bugger all there), so I think toronto would be a greta victim to rob in a trade.. I also guess if eric staal leaves then jordan staal would leave too, as I'm pretty sure he only wanted to go there because of eric.. I'd trade em both, rob some desperate teams blind and rebuild for a fresh assualt on the cup in 5 years !

[Beanflicker]

Yeah they need to shake things up and rebuild, they are Sabres shitty right now.

[El Kabong]

Phaneuf would be bad for the hurricanes I think, he hits hard but I think he just isnt worth the money and years his contract has right now.... Better to swipe picks and prospects from toronto .. Toronto has insane media and fan pressure to win games and get to the playoffs(even if they do bugger all there), so I think toronto would be a greta victim to rob in a trade.. I also guess if eric staal leaves then jordan staal would leave too, as I'm pretty sure he only wanted to go there because of eric.. I'd trade em both, rob some desperate teams blind and rebuild for a fresh assualt on the cup in 5 years !

There's also Jared Staal (not the best of the brothers to be honest) but yeah I'm thinking the Staal experiment has run it's course.

The Hurricanes have started off very poor, the coach I guess is trying his best, I don't know. I think we're just in a state of transition at the moment. We don't have the top veterans we had with Francis, Brind'Amour, Doug Weight, Cory Stillman, Glen Wesley, Gary Roberts, Kevyn Adams, Eric Cole, Mark Recci, Aaron Ward, Bret Hedican et al.

We've got Eric & Jordan Staal, Tim Gleason, John-Michael Liles, Tlusty, and Semin and that's 100% it for "veteran leaders" (who are any good)...now Carolina does have some great youthful players who need to be given the reigns as soon as possible: Skinner, Faulk, Murphy, Lindholm, Rask....those guys will be very good but we need to add players that help them develop or get the best out of them.

I think we could have added guys in the offseason who would have helped but our cap is tight at the moment. Still can't buy a win for the moment

[Beanflicker]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWjy1OpLo0I#t=26

Nice minor league KO

[El Kabong]

I'm so psyched, I get to use my new skates tonight! I've got them sharpened and although my game starts at 10:50 tonight I am still really excited about the new skates...well new/used really.

I wear a size 12 shoe I had been cramming my feet into size 9 1/2 CCM's and now I've got a nice pair of 11 1/2 Bauer's to try out.....luckily if they don't work out I'll only have wasted $30. But really my feet should feel a lot better playing tonight. With my old skates I felt like I had my feet bound like some Chinese woman from the 1800's...I would assume that these new skates will improve my game all around, but then again it's been so long since I've had new skates to try out so I don't even remember what it's like breaking them in.

[superheavyrhun]

Do they have a slo-mo version of ice hockey - I can never see the puck for long enough in ice hockey to properly figure out what's going on. It isn't really on TV over here either, so I mainly only get to watch during the winter olympics. There's not enough fighting to really make that the main part of the entertainment, and when there's three or four guys around the goal, its a case of waiting until the action replay to figure out what's happened.

[El Kabong]

There's not much fighting at all in Olympic hockey because it's not a penalty it's an immediate game misconduct which is not really the best option...plus the Olympic teams don't have goons for the most part as they are basically all star teams.

If you can get the NHL over there maybe you can try to catch the KHL or one of the leagues in Europe.

[Beanflicker]

Do they have a slo-mo version of ice hockey - I can never see the puck for long enough in ice hockey to properly figure out what's going on. It isn't really on TV over here either, so I mainly only get to watch during the winter olympics. There's not enough fighting to really make that the main part of the entertainment, and when there's three or four guys around the goal, its a case of waiting until the action replay to figure out what's happened.

In the 90s they introduced a "puck trail" on one of the all star games for people who complained they they couldn't see the puck moving, it was kind of funny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grOttsHuuzE

[superheavyrhun]

That is the kind of innovative idea that works for me! As long as the players aren't given lightsabers, it could work really well.

[El Kabong]

Well the Hurricanes have finally started to win a few matches and that's nice (although it fucks them up for the #1 draft pick), but oh well...hopefully they can make a playoff push.

As for my beer league hockey...I've been busting my ass to make a difference but just can't seem to mesh with my teammates. I've only got 1 goal and 4 assists, but have been getting to play center more and that's nice. Granted my typical role on a hockey team is the enforcer but I like to grind and I like to be a power forward as well, but I'm not as good at those things because I grew up playing defense and doing nothing but hitting. I am most impressed with this stat though 0 .....those are my PIMs....which is MIGHTY impressive since I used to average (average mind you) 4 minutes a game (depending on the ref).

[TitoFan]

Not really a hockey fan, but saw this on SportsCenter the other day and thought it was pretty spectacular.



Griffith scores no-look between the legs goal Video - NHL VideoCenter