Nhl thread

[El Kabong]

...now I've just got to come up with a decent original goal celebration

[Beanflicker]

just studs on every single team.....bar Ottawa for the most part though, they ALWAYS sucked out loud! They had Yashin & Alfredsson and that was it!

Yeah that's my team hahah. Yashin was good but he was an unlikable asshole who everyone (including Ottawa press) hated.

Ottawa really got fucked by Alexander Daigle, who is probably the biggest draft bust in any sport ever. I don't know if you remember him (why would you or anyone else) but he had INSANE numbers in the minors and was projected to be the next Mario Lemieux, picked 1st overall in the 93 draft (over guys like Paul Kariya, Pronger, Arnott, ect), but turned out to be a mediocre bum.

Ottawa had a good 2000's though. Heatley/Spezza/Alfredsson was, at one time, the best line in the NHL IMO.

[Beanflicker]

Canes lost vs the Habs the other night but they've been in good form recently. Hopefully that continues. Anton Khudobin is solid at making saves, but he spills too many rebounds. Jay Harrison has been weak in the last few matches but our attack looks sharp and we're getting lots of shots on goal....maybe Muller knows what he's doing after all.

It'll be interesting to see if they end up dealing Cam Ward and what they can get for him if they decide to go that route.

Jeff Skinner is coming along nicely too.

[El Kabong]

The Canes have a great minor league system! I was talking with my friend about Ward and if we should trade him. Khudobin is awesome but he gives up loads of rebounds. I would not mind swapping Ward for Miller, but I think Peters should be the one dealt. Ward can still get hot for the playoffs.

Yeah Ottawa was great in the 2000's very strong.

[Beanflicker]

Cam's a vet but I think they're paying him $7 million a year. If they can get good value for him and free up some cap space for free agency it might be worth the gamble.

[El Kabong]

Cam's a vet but I think they're paying him $7 million a year. If they can get good value for him and free up some cap space for free agency it might be worth the gamble.

I'm not opposed to that. We need some help on D and I think we can challenge. The Gleason for Miles deal has been great!

[Beanflicker]

You see Edmonton/San Jose the other day? Scrivens set the post-expansion shutout record at 59 saves. He was unreal, especially against a team like San Jose.

[Beanflicker]

Karlsson's back on top of the defenseman scoring race with 51 points in 54 games, too. And the Turris/Ryan/MacCarthur line is on fire, so Sens fans have something to be thankful for.

As bad as the Daigle draft pick was, picking Karlsson 15th overall was an amazing pick. In hindsight, he should have went 2nd overall after Stamkos.

[El Kabong]

You see Edmonton/San Jose the other day? Scrivens set the post-expansion shutout record at 59 saves. He was unreal, especially against a team like San Jose.

Wow, that's very impressive. And you're right SJ have some top rate goal scorers.


Carolina have very good youth on their team: Justin Faulk 21, Elias Lindholm 19, Jeff Skinner (obviously...such a talent and only 21), Ryan Murphy 20 (who reminds me a little bit of Paul Coffey), Jared Staal 22 or somewhere around there.

[palmerq]

The olympics are coming soon, who does everyone think is going to win ? canada have to be favourites surely but russia being at home will surely be motivated.. Russia will have a few problems though, kovalchuk doesnt seem to be on top form in the khl and he wasnt great in his final season with the devils either, although he does seem to be getting more assists these days than he used to.. his goal out put has dropped a lot though.. Ovechkin and malkin really dont like each other, ovechkin slashed malkins hand a week or two ago :S... and I think the russians want to showcase the khl has being a great league so they will rely on some players from there that they really shouldn't.. bobrovsky is on top form though..

I will be supporting my fellow europeans though, hoping for finland or maybe sweden to win it.

[palmerq]

I have phoenix v pittsburgh on just now... and there was an amazing dive from james neal :S vermetter touchs his back and neals throws himself face first into the glass.... amazing.. weird how they deal with diving in the nhl, they give both the players a penalty (so its 4 on 4) but neal was clearly the one doing sometihng wrong

[Xwetie]

I have phoenix v pittsburgh on just now... and there was an amazing dive from james neal :S vermetter touchs his back and neals throws himself face first into the glass.... amazing.. weird how they deal with diving in the nhl, they give both the players a penalty (so its 4 on 4) but neal was clearly the one doing sometihng wrong

Good game! Thanks to Oliver Ekman-Larsson even tho he got outboxed and starred

[Beanflicker]

The olympics are coming soon, who does everyone think is going to win ? canada have to be favourites surely but russia being at home will surely be motivated.. Russia will have a few problems though, kovalchuk doesnt seem to be on top form in the khl and he wasnt great in his final season with the devils either, although he does seem to be getting more assists these days than he used to.. his goal out put has dropped a lot though.. Ovechkin and malkin really dont like each other, ovechkin slashed malkins hand a week or two ago :S... and I think the russians want to showcase the khl has being a great league so they will rely on some players from there that they really shouldn't.. bobrovsky is on top form though..

I will be supporting my fellow europeans though, hoping for finland or maybe sweden to win it.

Of course as a Canadian I'll go going for Canada, but as a betting man I'm picking team Sweden.

They have insane depth, incredible scoring power and fantastic goaltending.

[El Kabong]

As an American I'm choosing the US. I want to see the US vs Canada, bad blood between us. Russia has a squad... no defense but a shitload of scoring talent. Sweden is always the darkhorse

[El Kabong]

Did stick and puck today. I've still got it! My back is hurting but it's because I haven't swung the stick recently. I was going top shelf pretty good. Slapshot wasn't there but it'll come around.