Nhl thread

[palmerq]

just now I live in burnaby near the edmonds skytrain, work out in langley but the drive is pretty good going as I am not so far from the patullo bridge I quite like it here although tarffic can be awful, so are you in north vancouver or still in actuall vancouver? north van is a lovely place

[CFH]

just now I live in burnaby near the edmonds skytrain, work out in langley but the drive is pretty good going as I am not so far from the patullo bridge I quite like it here although tarffic can be awful, so are you in north vancouver or still in actuall vancouver? north van is a lovely place

At least you're going against traffic.

We're in Lower Lonsdale in North Van. We moved from Vancouver because I got a job on the North Shore and didn't want to deal with the horrendous bridge traffic.

It is okay here, but it's so incredibly white, middle-class, and boring. I much prefer East Van.

Burnaby is okay in some areas, I just got back from dinner on Hastings and I love running around Deer and Burnaby lakes. I used to work by SFU when I was with the Red Cross.

[Nameless]

Boston should be quite solid this team, pretty excited and believe that they have everything necessary to make another superb year and who knows, perhaps pull the great honors in the end.

[El Kabong]

I'm going to bump this thread #1 because I'm following hockey closer again and #2 I'm preparing myself to start playing again......yeah AGAIN. Born and raised in the South and I played growing up and will hopefully get back on the ice soon.

I've been reminiscing with one of my friends who was on my team back in the day about all our favorite players, the GOLDEN ERA of the NHL (1980's up to the strikes for the most part), and of course the games we played in growing up.

I'm not certain that guys like Crosby or Ovechkin would be stars back in the day just because the league has changed so much. Yeah you have oversized goalie pads and no calls against 2 line passes, but back in the day there were some greasy quick players and their acceleration was so amazing. Bure and Federov alone were just magical on the ice.

[palmerq]

I'm going to bump this thread #1 because I'm following hockey closer again and #2 I'm preparing myself to start playing again......yeah AGAIN. Born and raised in the South and I played growing up and will hopefully get back on the ice soon.

I actually came looking for this thread just now .... good bump :S As for your points I won't pretend I really dont know much about ice hockey at all... I just follow it as I am in a hockey country just now...

I did try ice skating this year for the first time:S..... i was terrified.. I even hit a child with a plastic walking frame.... i was using the walking frame :S................. I can't even imagine playing ice hockey.




anyway after I started the season of saying I wont be going to any games due to the price I have been to two so far and bought tickets for a 3rd in march. Even though it is crazily over priced, I paid about 90 dollars for the last row behind the goal for a game v new jersey, I really like going, I like going to teh games a lot more than watching on tv so once every couple of months I will fork out the money and get myself down to rogers arena.
So I saw the canucks play new jersey back in october was good to see jagr score, even though he was the enemy that day and of course corey schneiders return ! Saw florida in november which was a pretty crap performance from the canucks allround but they managed to get a point from it and at the end of march I'm going to the buffalo game, hopefully buffalo stay as crap as they have been and kassian and hodgsons get in a fight !

As for the canucks :SS:... What a terrible run, constantly losing to la even though la have been crap recently too, all the talk on the radio was about moral victories and playing with fire ... but you've got to score sure they roughed la up but where's the points ? and then following it up with a 9-1 loss ! anaheim are good but not that good. Not that I am an expert on the canucks( been following them since 2009) but I think this current team has found it's level , I think the stanley cup run was half luck the players are good but for those president trophy winning seasons I think a few fellows played above them selves and now everything is reverting to normal coupled with the sedins aging, fight for the wildcards in the west sounds about right..

As for the sedins.... what a disaster since they signed the contracts, I think teh contracts are a disaster too, point output has dropped a lot I guess henrik has never been a big goal scorer so I am more disapointed with daniel but to be fair it may not all be their fault. I remember at the start of the season tortarella was playing the top guys for a lot of minutes each game and then going on to say it won't tire the out and good teams will find a way to win... it's possible he got that wrong and he's worn out his stars..

canucks are crap this season but I'll still go along to games when I can and watch em on tv .

[El Kabong]

[El Kabong]