So, The NHL...
HAZ
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...will be back in business this October. The last week has been full of trades & free agent signings. Does anyone stateside still care - or even Canadians for that matter (besides Aser & I)?I feel bad for you Toronto folks - the season is a few months off & it looks like its gonna be an unavoildable disaster.Edmonton Oilers rule!!!!!Peaceh
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don't like 3/4ths of the teams make the playoffs in hockey ?
if you don't make it you suck.
Flyers have made some nice moves, but there has been so much league-wide reassigning of talent, with more to come, that you can't call anybody tops right now. It would be easy for the fans of half the teams in the league to only look at the players they just got and say, "we have the illest line-up, holy shit!" So many hot shit players on new teams, it's crazy. I'm a Bruins fan, and we seem to be only signing dudes over 32 years old (McEachern, Murray, Brian Leetch, Zhamnov) but we also have a core of young players in place, including good young goaltending, Thornton, Bergeron, etc.
As far as changes, the fact that Thornton and Samsonov are now going to have unlimited free agency next season, instead of three years from now, was a hard pill to swallow. Since I'm usually a stuck up and sentimental traditionalist, I expected to hate the rules changes - but I'm actually down with almost all of them, even shootouts don't bother me much, because the regular season is an overlong farce to begin with. I'm psyched to have touch-up offsides back, and although I hate goal-hangers, no red line will be a welcome change.
I'm not coming running back with my wallet open, like, "all is forgiven, take it, take it all!!" but I'm pretty amped to watch a damn hockey game at last!
Letterman last night.
McCarty? What are they thinking?
Lol, just kidding - McCarty was a playoff monster for those guys. I've noticed NHL teams - as much as everyone talks about the playoffs being the only thing that matters - will cut the lunchpail dudes who come up huge in the playoffs, cause they don't think they deserve the pay raise a veteran earns with their low scoring during the season...yet their $7,000,000 per year superstar withgaudy reg season numbers will go invisible in the postseason, as the real hockey players scrape and fight for every point. Lame.
ps: the quebec nordique logo is my favorite in sports, so simplistic and tough
REPRESENT!
ps: i haven't been much into hockey the last two years, but im definitely catching it this year, with the new rules, i think the stars will shine, plus i want to see the hype about "The Next One" Crosby...irony would be if he won the Lady Byng trophy cause then the headlines write themselves: "Byng Crosby"...heyoooooo....(retracts from displaying his hockey knowledge)
Exactly. As much as I like watching Datsyuk play, it doesn't feel right to see a proven playoff warrior like Yzerman getting one mil while Pavel holds out for four.
Yes, that was an insane goal. Shootouts in the NHL this year, like I said I resisted that shit, but there will be some night my team wins on the final shot of the shootout with a move that has the goalie so twisted his helmet flies off, and I will like shootouts for that night, at least. That goal is on like postage stamps and cottage cheese tubs in Sweden and shit!
the trick would be to make Kariya not look like a girl!
I play a lot of pick-up hockey, and I got this jersey from eBay a few years ago that was so ill, it was the "Cornwall Aces" and they were the Nordiques' AHL team, and the jersey was the Quebec design, with a logo of four playing card aces in the center...it was so sick...and it got GANKED from the front hall of my house, while drying out...dope jersey or not, who steals someone else's sweaty clothes??
haha no way, you saw the goal too? it was crazy man, the phucking dude shifted his momentum while in full stride to reach backwackwards almost as if delaying physics and inertia! that goal transformed me. that's an ill jersey, my most prized possessoin is my OG nordiques cap seen here(i'l gonna score me a forsberg nordique jersey off the ebay when i have $ to burn which will probably be next life):