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[Quick]

Fuck Quebec City. These fucbois got a brand new empty arena. financed in part by the government, AKA by the taxes of the biggest city in Quebec and the people who actually care about hockey. You had a team, you couldn't even fill it up every night and you lost your team, get fucked.

fuck
quebec
city

Salt. But I also don't like how the financing for the arena came together, and I don't even live in Quebec.

 

[Curufinwe]

Vegas expansion for 17-18 makes sense. That would make the conferences more even.

 

[imBask]

Salt. But I also don't like how the financing for the arena came together, and I don't even live in Quebec.

400M CAD total, 50% from our government. The other half was paid by Quebecor, who had some weird and presumably illegal agreement with the city, but the government passed a law just to circumvent the issue

it was a shit show, still is now that that stupid arena is empty

 

[zroid]

blessed :')

Marlies need him back ASAP, they're running on fumes atm. Got dominated by the babby Nucks last night (but still won in a shootout thanks to Bibeau)

 

[Samyy]

According to Lou Nylander should be back soon, nearing end of concussion protocol, yay!
edit: DAMMIT ZROID!

 

[Cake Boss]

loooooool

So much AHL talent into one picture.

 

[Quick]

Will Ny returning soon? Blessed. Blessed be.

400M CAD total, 50% from our government. The other half was paid by Quebecor, who had some weird and presumably illegal agreement with the city, but the government passed a law just to circumvent the issue

it was a shit show, still is now that that stupid arena is empty

I remember there being some massive fuckery when the arena financing was on the news.

 

[Yawnier]

Snizzbone!!!!!

 

[shadowkat]

Will Ny returning soon? Blessed. Blessed be.

Is he your new boo?

 

[Quick]

Is he your new boo?

We gon see.

 

[Marvie_3]

Alan Rickman/Snape died

Bowie, Snape, who's next...

Stoll

/Acid

So... What's everyone's take on the Quebec bid and the bottoming out CAD?

I think it's put an already iffy bid firmly in the 'Ha Ha, Wow' friendzone of NHL expansion candidates.

LV gets picked, and then the league waits for Seattle to sort out its arena.

Yotes to Vegas. Expansion on hold for a bit until Seattle gets its arena figured out. Then the NHL expands to Seattle/QC. Detroit back to the West to even things out.

 

[MetatronM]

Girardi is out tonight, McIlrath in. (Yay!)

Brassard is also ok today after taking a maintenance day yesterday, so he's in and Lindberg sits for the second straight game.

 

[Lone_Prodigy]

Why is Lindberg sitting? Isn't he doing well or was it just a hot start?

 

[Chris R]

Yotes to Vegas. Expansion on hold for a bit until Seattle gets its arena figured out. Then the NHL expands to Seattle/QC. Detroit back to the West to even things out.

Does the NHL have the power to force Detroit back west? Or could Columbus move maybe?

I think basically everything is in place for the Seattle Arena, just need final approval, but I don't think that comes without a team :\ Chicken and Egg situation.

 

[MetatronM]

Why is Lindberg sitting? Isn't he doing well or was it just a hot start?

Hot start. He's still generally been pretty good for the most part, but he's slid into more of a typical rookie cycle. He went a good month there without scoring before finally bagging one in the game against Washington (the last game he's played in), and he's been a penalty machine lately. Bad penalties, offensive zone penalties, clumsy stick work kinda stuff. The types of things that you know are going to happen to a young player but still hurt your team over time.

Other players have struggled significantly worse (like Kreider and Hayes, for example), but it's important for AV to have those guys in to try to work through their problems, and both of those two guys in particular have had their days in the press box recently, so now they need to put it together on the ice. For what it's worth, Hayes' game has been showing some signs of life the last few games. Meanwhile, Jayson Megna is making that second line suddenly viable, and the 4th line has actually been chugging along really nicely since it finally stabilized somewhat as Glass-Moore-Stalberg.

So it's mostly a matter of there being 13 guys and somebody has to be the odd man out. Right now it's Oscar Lindberg. It probably won't be for too long.

 

[Coldnoodle]

 

[KingBroly]

So Chimera for MVP?

 

[Smiley90]

That republican debate OT is a thing of beauty

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1169340

Quick, you got your template for the next OT, don't let us down

 

[Red_Man]

Renaud Lavoie saying that Drouin could be moved in the next 24 hours

Mentions a strong link with the Blues which has been rumoured for a while now

 

[Kuro Madoushi]

D: Where's Dopeystats to tell us why Holland sucks!?

 

[MultiJhonny]

That republican debate OT is a thing of beauty

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1169340

Quick, you got your template for the next OT, don't let us down

My mom wants me to watch it with her... I made up an excuse and now I am just on gaf.

 

[zroid]

Oh shitttttt

who needs the trade deadline anyway

 

[MultiJhonny]

Would Tarasenko and Drouin be on the same line?

 

[Kave_Man]

Is he your new boo?

We gon see.

This would follow Quick's MO.

He stole Kessel from me, now he'll steal Nylander from Samyy!

 

[Red_Man]

Would Tarasenko and Drouin be on the same line?

Fuck that

 

[zroid]

So many Ovi feels.

 

[zroid]

that gold stick is hot

 

[MetatronM]

There you go, Tanner. You show that SUV who's boss!

 

[MultiJhonny]

There you go, Tanner. You show that SUV who's boss!

That's Marvie's car!

 

[Dubbedinenglish]

Marvie on the phone with Geico right now.

 

[MetatronM]

Dylan McIlrath already causing havoc.

 

[Marvie_3]

There you go, Tanner. You show that SUV who's boss!

That motherfuu.....

 

[MultiJhonny]

Habs it feels like you haven't played in forever

 

[CreeperBlocks]

Okay Habs... We can beat Chicago... lets do this right.

 

[MetatronM]

This could already be about 4-1 Rangers.

 

[Red_Man]

Netflix should pay the Barclays center to have a blue RAV 4 put there for a few games

Habs it feels like you haven't played in forever

It's been nice not having to watch loses all week, not going to lie

 

[Marvie_3]

Crazy that the Isles/Rags game is still 0-0. :lol

 

[Bobs Big Boy]

After getting the gal a Canucks jersey over the holidays, have wound up watching a lot of them. A good thing to encourage her interest in the sport but aren't there enough Penguins games to last me through the year.

 

[MultiJhonny]

It's been nice not having to watch loses all week, not going to lie

Drinking helps

 

[Red_Man]

Drinking helps

It sure does

 

[imBask]

why are the Hawks so stacked year after year

why can't we do the same

why

 

[CreeperBlocks]

I'm gonna need a few Drinks

The Hawks are too fucking good.

The San Antonio Spurs Of the NHL

 

[Simon Belmont]

why are the Hawks so stacked year after year

why can't we do the same

why

Remember how long they sucked? Habs aren't willing to going through that sort of process.

 

[zroid]

soften up the Hawks for us for tomorrow pls

 

[Acid08]

TMac's first game back at the Tank this year, hopefully we completely smash him!

 

[Red_Man]

"Like everyone else, he hasn't put up many points " - Scott Morrison on Galchenyuk who's lead the team in points during this slump at almost a PPG pace.

10 more years of this shit.

 

[trifelife]

Etem seems infinitely more useful than Jensen

 

[imBask]

Remember how long they sucked? Habs aren't willing to going through that sort of process.

yeah but... but...

Leafs have been doing that for years now, and they still got nothing to show for

 

[CreeperBlocks]

If Galchenyuk doesn't do ANYTHING tonight. I'm gonna be very disappointed.

 

[Red_Man]

Now they're pushing a fabricated story of tension between Patches and Subban. It's no wonder players don't want to play in places like Montreal and Toronto.