Nhl thread

[Beanflicker]

Great bench-clearing brawl from the '87 world juniors, Canada vs Russia

[El Kabong]

My winter hockey season starts up this Tuesday night, I will be playing for a new team (one with a few more ringers ) and hopefully we will be ready to compete for the cup.

I've got my sights set on a hatty for the first match...I will of course get disappointed if I don't score, but I really just hit my stride at the end of last season.

#98 in your program but #1 in your hearts!

[Beanflicker]

Canada wins a nail biter in the world juniors and breaks the drought!

[El Kabong]

Lost a close one in the first game, I notched an assist but that was just about it. I skated well, we had a good full team and we hustled, just have to hone our chemistry a bit and we'll be set.

[El Kabong]

Next game coming up Sunday vs a team we really should beat, I was disappointed not to get a goal the last game, but I'm going to really gun for it Sunday....see if I can't get 2-3 in there


Been watching The Don Cherry Story on Netflix....good old Grapes, what an institution that guy is. Love him or hate him he's a lively dude.

[El Kabong]

Won last night 4-2. I scored the goal to tie things up and that really shifted the momentum of the game. I got an outlet pass on my blue line, there was a forward just turning to skate backwards, I deked him and skated past, I then was 1 on 1 vs a defenseman I deked under his stick, squeezed between him and the other d-man that was collapsing down on me, ripped a shot off that went 5 hole and lit the lamp.

I had a few passes which should have been converted as well, gave a beauty of a centering pass that the goalie luckily stopped the shot on.

[Xwetie]

[Beanflicker]

Ooh thats embarrassing hahahaha, he knew it and just ran off.

[El Kabong]

I've had my moments ont he ice but at least I've never done that.....hahahaha poor fella

[El Kabong]

Lost our game 4-0 last night. There was a guy for the other team who kept diving...flopping on the ice like a fish and my team racked up 22 penalty minutes....over an entire period of 4 on 5 hockey

Good news is I got 0 penalties and I got to blast that diving piece of shit two different times, I just ran him over.

[El Kabong]

Big win last night 4-3, I had a garbage goal. The puck was nestled right in front of the goalie's skate but under his pad so he couldn't see it. I got to the crease and was thinking "You're not going to cover that" and was like "OK then" I picked the puck out and swept it in through the 5 hole. I really should have had more goals though, the goalie made a big save one time on me, then I lost my edge and took a spill another time, and one other chance I had I was looking for a pass when I should have turned and shot.

I felt great on the ice though and that's important

[Beanflicker]

Brodeur is finally retiring and taking a behind the scenes job with the St. Louis Blues.

Mike Richards cleared waivers lol

[Beanflicker]

Ovechkin becomes only the 5th player in NHL history to score 30 goals or more in his first 10 seasons, behind only Bossy, Gretzky, Kurri and Gartner. What makes it even more amazing is the fact that one of those years was a shortened 48 game season (32 goals in 48 games), and thinking all of the amazing goal scorers who weren't able to achieve that feat - Hull, Lemieux (would have done it if he was healthy), Howe, Dionne, Esposito, Jagr, Yzerman, Messier, ect ect.

Especially doing it in an era were goalies are so much better, pads are bigger, and is generally tougher to score.

[Beanflicker]

Huge trade between Winnipeg and Buffalo, I was hoping the Sens would make a play for Kane but it is what it is.

Apparently Kane was in the dog house with the team, he showed up to a team meeting wearing a track suit instead of a real suit (against team rules) and big Buff threw all his shit in the shower haha.

[El Kabong]

Won our last game 4-3, I had no points, but should have at the very least had an assist but the dude I passed the puck to shat his pants instead of just easing the puck into a relatively empty net. I had this beautiful tape to tape pass diagonally from the slot over to the right hand side of the net....all the puck needed was a clean tap to go in and the guy fanned on it after he accepted the pass. Oh well, a win is a win. I did have a few looks at net, but the goalie made some good saves....also it had been about 3 weeks since our last game. We're 3rd in the league right now, tied with the perennial league leaders who are having a shitty season for some reason.

As for the NHL, I WOULD normally be excited about the trading window and all but the Hurricanes won't be trading anyone of note (maybe Tlusty....maybe) because of the cap hits the teams would have to endure. Cam Ward and Eric Staal are just getting paid too much. Same with Jeff Skinner who hasn't been himself recently. And Alexander Semin is just GARBAGE. What is the deal with some of the Russian players being so fucking flakey? You look at the first series of Ruskies to come over and they were extremely good: Federov, Bure, Alexander Mogilny...great players, great...then you get guys like Alexei Yashin, Maxim Afinogenov, and Ilya Kovalchuk.....fucking WEAK that they can't play their best in the NHL. All the talent in the world, but they are flakes....Ovi is pretty damn good though....wouldn't say he's better than Federov was though or Bure when he was healthy. Both those dudes could FLY on the ice! And that was well before getting rid of the 2 line pass.