Nhl thread

[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.