I lived in Edmonton in 2008-2009. It was a shitty place. Granted, I lived downtown in the concrete wasteland, so my view might be tainted.
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NHL February 2013 |OT| A Black History Month "Miracle in the Making"
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I lived in Edmonton in 2008-2009. It was a shitty place. Granted, I lived downtown in the concrete wasteland, so my view might be tainted.
Simon Belmont
Banned
Reimer out for a minimum of 1 week. The fact they're saying minimum makes me lean more towards at least 2 weeks of him being out.
I think Scrivens can carry us for 6 or 7 games. He's looked, at very least, competent behind the net. So far he hasn't seemed to be made of holes like Gus.
oh... Well...
wsoxfan1214
Banned
You should get your tag changed to "I <3 Justin Schultz" if you guys lose.
bonesmccoy
Banned
Reimer out for a minimum of 1 week. The fact they're saying minimum makes me lean more towards at least 2 weeks of him being out.
Scrivens will Gustavssonize our season in the meanwhile. At least Lupul won't have to witness it this time.
Does anyone else have NHLXM? I can't get over how terrible its shows are.
lupul was injured when the leafs went off the cliff last season....
Kuro Madoushi
Unconfirmed Member
I lived there for 15 years. It's a shitty racist city with crappy weather and my friends and family hate it there and always talk about moving to Calgary or Vancouver.
bonesmccoy
Banned
Don't make me post the Gustavsson own goal. The Leafs implosion began before the trade deadline.
Socreges, Lupul spent I think nearly a year and a half on the LTIR. Back surgery and then a career threatening infection, iirc. The Ducks just reasonably assumed there wasn't much player left after that.
From what I see with his injury history, he had back surgery two times while with the Ducks.
Basically he had this surgery done, it was suppose to be a routine surgery, taking weeks to heal. For some reason, he had to go back in and do it again.
After recouping from that, he developed a blood infection which takes several months to take care of. Then after that, he developed a second blood infection. All in total, he was out for almost a year.
Seems like the Ducks thought he couldn't be the same player again and sought to "dump" him onto a team.
He has had two major prior injuries. One from back surgery and than this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDCmAIw9kqc. All of them have been extremely unlucky, nothing recurring.
Dubbedinenglish
Banned
Please do.
Cats need to play D like their lives depended on it. After Clemmer's disaster of a performance vs the Jets he can't be trusted to limit any kind of rebound.
SuperSonic1305
Member
Bustchemin for Gardiner AND Lupul?
Haha I don't think bish would accept tag bets. That tag is a little too cruel anyway!
I don't think that's enough to get Kessel.
Looking forward to Thrower joining the team in a few years.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=cupLUO8DePA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=cupLUO8DePA
Eric Cole for Ryane Clowe. Team can save some money not having to buy W's anymore.
He's not very big, and has been having a pretty bad season so far. He and Dietz should both be in Hamilton next season regardless.
He's not very big, and has been having a pretty bad season so far. He and Dietz should both be in Hamilton next season regardless.
There's going to be a log jam at D in 2-3 years, but he has the skill and grit combo we've been missing on the back end for a while now.
RaySpencer
Member
Oh, yeah our downtown sucks. Haha.
eeeeeeeh
Pretty awesome burbs though?
Hopefully Therrien address the D pairings soon, Subban cannot be on the 3rd pairing, and Markov shouldn't be playing 20-24 mins a night.
Is that Corey Booker in your avatar?
Yeah buddy.
Nice. Is he photoshopped into it, or was he actually involved with some Devils stuff?
I guess Schultz was too impressionable.
OriginofHysteria
Banned
Devils arena is where Cory booker is the mayor
It's a real photo. He was mayor for the inauguration for the Prudential Center and despite his beef with our owner Jeff Vanderbeek, he always heavily supports the Devils on his Twitter. I remember him talking shit with LA's mayor for the Finals last year.
Newark opened it's first hotel since the 60's recently and now there are bars and restaurants popping up around the arena all the time.
I actually like Vancouver's downtown, the only thing that's a bit sad about it is that there's pretty much NO "historic" buildings, apart from the 2 churches or so I can think of that are recognisable. It's all very, very modern and glass-only.
Yeah but there's hardly any cities in the West with historic architecture other than San Francisco.
I knew that, just wasn't sure how much he supported the team.
That's awesome, not surprising because he's already such a cool dude.
That's true, fair enough. It's just such a complete contrast to where I'm originally from (Zurich), where there's hardly ANY glass-only buildings and 95% of the buildings are old buildings made of stone and 4-ish stories tall.
He's the man. Can't wait to see how Newark will look like in 5 years.
I feel like an architecture snob being from the New York area when I go to the West Coast. I can only imagine being from Europe and living there.
alexthekid
Member
The thing about the Western US cities that I missed the most from Europe was not that how the buildings looked(although I appreciate older buildings, especially churches) but rather how they were not built for so much for being able to get around in by feet or bike.
Come on, 35 goal power forward, you know you want it. Clowe is the kind of guy I'd love in Montreal in the top 9, but they've got a bunch of inconsistent scorers in their top 6 too. Is San Jose actually looking to get rid of him, or are you just throwing his name out there?
RaySpencer
Member
I really like all the little areas that make up Edmonton, we have so many trees all over the place to keep everything looking a little small towny plus our river valley is outstanding.
Honestly though I'm just super biased since I've lived here for 23 years of my life, haha. It's not like I would put Edmonton in the top 10 cities in the world or anything (like Vancouver or Montreal could be), but it gets a lot of shit cause its so far north, so it's cold as balls lots of the time. Plus it's close to the shithole of the world called Ft.McMurry.
Ft. McFlurry, Deadmonton, Hellberta
Yep, this is huge. I never owned a car in Europe and never suffered for it. Transit was excellent and I walked a ton. North American cities were largely built around the car, though.
Hey, Vancouver is now totally bike-friendly! TOTALLY. -shoots self-
Lone_Prodigy
Member
Looks like Harding will not start tonight for the Wild. Darcy Kuemper was called up and may start (since Backstrom played yesterday).
Nice. Did you go to any games?