The NHL thread

[Trainer Monkey]

I dont need to follow the NHL,Im an Islanders fan

[Von Milash]

I like the Isles a thousand times more than the Rangers.

But it looks like my team'll shit the bed this year. The Leafs aint looking too fuckin good....on paper, anyway. But that's why you play the games, as they say...

[amat]

Luongo is captain I don't think I've ever heard of the goalie being the captain? That's pretty cool I mean he is their best player but that's interesting.

Boyle is looking fairly awesome thus far, hopefully worth all that money he's due for. Looks like his biggest contribution will be on power play and Ludowich's will be on the kill, both areas which bit us in the ass in the playoffs last year. Warriors and Sharks, can't wait. If one makes the playoffs I'll be happy, the other's expectations are just a little higher lol

[CFH]

Luongo is captain I don't think I've ever heard of the goalie being the captain? That's pretty cool I mean he is their best player but that's interesting.

Boyle is looking fairly awesome thus far, hopefully worth all that money he's due for. Looks like his biggest contribution will be on power play and Ludowich's will be on the kill, both areas which bit us in the ass in the playoffs last year. Warriors and Sharks, can't wait. If one makes the playoffs I'll be happy, the other's expectations are just a little higher lol

Honestly, I think the Luongo captaincy is nothing more than a very thinly veiled attempt to feed his ego and thus help to convince him to resign here.

I wonder if the Sharks not being favored to win the cup this year (for the 1st time is 3 years) will help them get over the hump. That and the fact that they got rid of that douchebag Ron Wilson.

I'll be happy if the Canucks make the playoffs, but if not I hope they come in dead last, which will never happen with Luongo, so they can actually get a blue-chip prospect in the draft (though Schnieder and Hodgson are looking like great picks so far).

[Youngblood]

Go Pens.

I've officially had the transition from angry year end to hopeful new season again and again Leaf fan...to the Pens.

Yea I know. Wesrman and likely a few others will call me a bandwagon jumper, but the truth is, the Leafs consistant bad management and bad trades and bad performance, in the richest market in Canada has sent me packing. I went shopping for a team, and that team largely due to Sidney Crosby and it's youthful influence and talent, is now the Pittsburg Penguins.

Sorry Leaf fans. I still hope you do okay, but when our teams line up...no longer will I cheer under of the veil of "Maybe this year." Been too many.

[CFH]

Go Pens.

I've officially had the transition from angry year end to hopeful new season again and again Leaf fan...to the Pens.

Yea I know. Wesrman and likely a few others will call me a bandwagon jumper, but the truth is, the Leafs consistant bad management and bad trades and bad performance, in the richest market in Canada has sent me packing. I went shopping for a team, and that team largely due to Sidney Crosby and it's youthful influence and talent, is now the Pittsburg Penguins.

Sorry Leaf fans. I still hope you do okay, but when our teams line up...no longer will I cheer under of the veil of "Maybe this year." Been too many.

Join the rest of us in hating the Leafs Youngblood. Join us.

[amat]

You're 14 Youngblood I think you can get away with it. A few years ago when the Warriors were absolutely unwatchable, with Baron and J Rich injured, when Troy Murphy, Mike Dunleavy and Adonal Foyle were running the show , I went shopping for a team to root for aswell. Not that I became a non-Warriors fan, it's just that their brand of basketball was absolutely unwatchable. I loved them with all my heart but with not much time to dedicate to basketball I couldn't waste it on the garbage they yielded every night so I became a huge LeBron James fan. Not really a Cavs fan but a James fan. Still am, except for the past few years the Warriors have actually been fun to watch so I was able to actually get behind a team that would make it worth my effort. I can definitely see why someone would be drawn to Sidney Crosby and the Pens were great last year.

[CFH]

The Canucks just DOMINATED Calgary (fuck Calgary). 6-0, Luongo gets a shutout, great game. This team in noticable tougher than last year, noticably faster, and they're actually playing like a team. They out player, out hit Calgary, and just generally beat the shit out of them.

They had a tear-jerking tribute to Luc Bourdon before the game. If you don't know, he was one of their highly touted young prospects who was poised to make a big impact on the team this year, but he died in June in a motor-cycle accident (with his girlfriend watching ).

[wesrman]

Go Pens.

I've officially had the transition from angry year end to hopeful new season again and again Leaf fan...to the Pens.

Yea I know. Wesrman and likely a few others will call me a bandwagon jumper, but the truth is, the Leafs consistant bad management and bad trades and bad performance, in the richest market in Canada has sent me packing.

LOL we made the playoffs 9 years in a row, then we have 4 bad years and everyone wants to jump ship. Just be thankfull you werent around for the 80s.

BTW how did i miss this thread

[CFH]

Go Pens.

I've officially had the transition from angry year end to hopeful new season again and again Leaf fan...to the Pens.

Yea I know. Wesrman and likely a few others will call me a bandwagon jumper, but the truth is, the Leafs consistant bad management and bad trades and bad performance, in the richest market in Canada has sent me packing.

LOL we made the playoffs 9 years in a row, then we have 4 bad years and everyone wants to jump ship. Just be thankfull you werent around for the 80s.

BTW how did i miss this thread

1967.

St. Louis made the playoffs something like 20 years in a row, but they never won anything. I'm not trying to pick on you or the Leafs, I'm just saying that making the playoffs is not the only thing a team should strive for. Vancouver consistently made the playoffs under Burke, but they never had a chance to get beyond mid-rounds and, despite the propaganda we were fed, they were never a team that could contend for the cup.

However, as a Canucks fan I can't really talk shit about other teams histories and failures, even the Leafs.

At least Toronto is doing what needs to be done, a full-scale rebuild. Schenn is going to be great one day, and Toskala is as well. I hate Wilson though, he's terrible at developing young players and his hiring sure looks suspicious considering all the Burke rumours (they're best buddies). I hope for your sake wesrman that the Leafs don't hire Burke and that they go in a different direction. He's an incredibly overrated GM. The state he left Vancouver in in regards to the future of the team speaks to his short-sighted approach.