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NHL April 2014 |OT| Waiting for the playoff thread...
- Thread starter Kave_Man
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I cant Hertling believe it!!
That oversight was some shameful shit, like making a list of worst dictators and leaving Hitler off your first draft.
He's so adorable ;_;
dem groupies
http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=713861&navid=DL|NHL|home
NHL.com Power Rankings, now based on advanced stats:
1. Boston
2. SJ
3. Chicago
4. LA
5. St.Louis
6. Anaheim
7. NYR
8. Pittsburgh
9. Colorado
10. Detroit
11. Montreal
12. Tampa
13. Columbus
14. Dallas
15. Minnesota
16. Philadelphia
Decimated Wings 4th best team in the loleast.
NHL.com Power Rankings, now based on advanced stats:
1. Boston
2. SJ
3. Chicago
4. LA
5. St.Louis
6. Anaheim
7. NYR
8. Pittsburgh
9. Colorado
10. Detroit
11. Montreal
12. Tampa
13. Columbus
14. Dallas
15. Minnesota
16. Philadelphia
Decimated Wings 4th best team in the loleast.
lol. that interview was one of the best things of this season.
Simon Belmont
Banned
30.6 KM/h is definitely not a ticket in a school zone. Get your facts, Healy.
SmackCrackleNPop
Member
hertl's going to score 5 goals today, start making up for lost time.
It's okay. I try to block him from my memory, too.
Kid is the best thing about this season for us.
He needs to retake his rightful spot as the Calder winner before Brown took it from him.
Vlasic and Nieto are getting rest tonight. Will be fun to see how awful our defense is without Pickles.
Man, their comments on Brian Boyle in the "disappointments" section for the Rangers are utterly boggling and tell me that they must barely be paying attention to the games. Boyle has been a vital part of what has become one of the best 4th lines in the NHL and a huge part of a PK that is 93.8% with 7 shorthanded goals in the last 19 games. He's slow as shit, couldn't hit the net even if it was twice as big, and is a giant pussycat, but he's been an excellent defensive forward all season. He rarely shows up on the scoresheet, and he's rarely going to be a guy you talk about the next day, but he's been an important role player for the team.
You want to talk about disappointments? How is Michael Del Zotto doing in Nashville right now?
Freyjadour
Member
Simply not happening with an AHL roster and Halak Reborn. Sorry friend.
I could get behind this.Yep, I've really liked some of the things the Flames have done this year, I don't think they'll be terribly improved in the standings next year but the rebuild may actually not be as long or painful as I would have thought this time last year.
I feel like Flames and Jets fans should have a summit this summer, where basically everyone gets drunk and laughs at how awful the Oilers are and takes great joy in what happened to the Canucks and Leafs. I'm booking my hotel for the conference now!
If I had endless time at work instead of nearly endless time, I'd love to sit down and hash out a definitive "biggest asshat in hockey media" list. Make a category for print, one for TV/radio, etc. But I'd have to do it soon, if only so I could give the Damien Cox Memorial Award for Print Douchbaggery to Damien Cox in his last year of eligibility.
Off the top of my head morons:
- Cox
- Simmons
- Lawless
- PJ Stock
- Mclean/Kipper
- 90% of the former players on any NHL panel in Canada
Watched some of the oilers game last night. These guys have packed it in, pathetic.
ZeroGravity
Member
IT'S HAPPENING
CrazedArabMan
Member
All of our injuries were a blessing in disguise and this hits that right on the head. Maybe this will finally be that turning point that Holland needs to see that some vets are not worth keeping even for their leadership skills. Also like the little bit on Luke. Kid was mostly just a plug but showed he has a lot of heart and a knack for shutting down other teams top guys on the PK and 5v5. He has earned Babs trust and really is Clear 2.0 back when Cleary could you know, actually skate.
O'Neil is like a much dumber version of Aaron Ward, which is impressive.
Where did you read this? AFAIK Prust & Moen will be back for the playoffs. The bigger issue is the fact that Therrien insist on using the leagues worst defesneman when we have Beaulieu rotting in the minors.
In other news, the Rangers want to re-sign Benoit Pouliot (he's on a 1 year deal currently), and Pouliot wants to stay with the Rangers. So that's good news.
After being frustratingly inconsistent in the first two months of the season (I'm being super generous here), since about mid-December Pouliot has played his way into being a must sign for next season. He has twice put up career high 7 game point scoring streaks, one of which is currently ongoing. He also has the top Corsi rating among forwards on the team.
Who'd have expected that?
After being frustratingly inconsistent in the first two months of the season (I'm being super generous here), since about mid-December Pouliot has played his way into being a must sign for next season. He has twice put up career high 7 game point scoring streaks, one of which is currently ongoing. He also has the top Corsi rating among forwards on the team.
Who'd have expected that?
John Lu during the game last night said Prust is skating with the team now and HOPEFUL for the playoffs and Moen isn't even skating with concussion symptoms, and that with AGally out, LW depth is now Patches -> Gio (who played with Pleks and BGally last night) -> Bourque -> Bournival. Yikes.
Make sure Torres takes out Brown so there's no repeat of the hertl tragedy
Ah, I see. I missed that, but I'm pretty confident Prust will be back. Moen isn't a huge loss, and Bourque has played really well these past 3 games or so. It probably won't continue but hopefully he can maintain it. Eller can play LW too once he's back if need be, he can be on a shutdown line with Pleks, while Briere centers an offensive line.
Lindros always wanted to a Hab. Seriously though, he said in that ESPN piece a year ago that if he'd been drafted by Montreal instead of Quebec, he would have played there.
What could have been. With LeClair still there, WE would have had the two important thirds of the LoD line.
What could have been. With LeClair still there, WE would have had the two important thirds of the LoD line.
Pretty amazing post on how many players (542) were affected by the Lindros trade:
http://hfboards.hockeysfuture.com/showthread.php?t=1644263
http://hfboards.hockeysfuture.com/showthread.php?t=1644263
Yea but it keeps crashing for me on iPhone. Why can't they make a nice app that works? Why does it have to be one or the other?
Yea I'm happy to hear this. I hope Boyle and Doninic Moore get the same treatment too. I wanna keep that 4th line intact
SmackCrackleNPop
Member
Maybe try rebooting or removing Spotify and reinstalling?
Been extremely solid for me
I'll give it a shot. Hope it works!
Wow that is amazing. Interesting way to use your spare time
What a waste of time. Can't you pretty much track any multi-player trade and keep going as to a) was traded for b) and c), b) and c) were traded for d), e), f), ...and so on. I'm sure you can build a ludicrous list of "tracing" players for pretty much any multi-player deal in history.
Freyjadour
Member
JR hinting Pietrangelo is hurt as well.
Just kill it.
Just kill it.
It'd be interesting to see this compared to other trades of a similar age.
Damn what horrible luck.
We'll take Miller off you're hands in the summer. You can have Hiller
The Avs are successful because they are built for how they get things done. Score first and play strong team defense including goalie and forwards regardless of how many shots that means. If they get behind, they have the firepower and team culture to keep them in most games they play.
Real men only use +/- to assess defensive proficiency!
After all those concussions he probably doesn't even dress himself anymore.Who's this dirty Habs fan?
Its really funny how people get so scared and defensive about things they don't understand.
The playoffs will still be a huge test for them. No doubt Roy has the experience as a player to try to prepare them but you never know. How many of their players were on the 2010 team?
I agree. They're also extremely fast on the counter so they'll bury you if you make a mistake in the offensive/neutral zone.
Very true. The playoffs for them could go any way for them. Anyone trying to predict it going any one way is being foolish.
As for players on their last playoff team... The big ones would be Duchene, Stastny, and O'Reilly. Given how much turnover there has been, probably no one else too.
Unhandled Exception
Member
I honestly don't know what to expect out of this team in the post season. We've had our meltdowns and our nights of not giving any fucks, but overwhelmingly we've stayed with the games that we get down in and find ways to win. There has been no shortage of intensity in the group, but those few meltdown games still linger in the back of my mind. Our defensive core is really where the question marks land the most.
edit: I think one of the more impressive things about this season is how well the Avs have responded to losing Duchene who is a PPG player this season. The emergence of Barrie as a clutch player has also been a huge highlight.
edit: I think one of the more impressive things about this season is how well the Avs have responded to losing Duchene who is a PPG player this season. The emergence of Barrie as a clutch player has also been a huge highlight.
CrazedArabMan
Member
I don't know what is more amazing, the number of players affected or that he actually went through the work to figure all that out, I'm going to go with the latter.
Brown didnt understand Hertl
I'm not quite sure Brown understands much of anything
I would take this if it also applied to Marvie, Dastardly, 19&21, Red_Man, wsox, Templar, Cake Boss, and throw in Smiley for good measure
SmackCrackleNPop
Member
Classic Dustin Brown