Well i think that all depends on Fleury. I dont want the leafs to face Pitts or boston. Give me Winnipeg or ottawa or whoever the fuck else. Stay away from 7/8 and i think they have the best shot of making the 2nd round.
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NHL March 2013 |OT| Black History Forever
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Well i think that all depends on Fleury. I dont want the leafs to face Pitts or boston. Give me Winnipeg or ottawa or whoever the fuck else. Stay away from 7/8 and i think they have the best shot of making the 2nd round.
Brendan Morrow is slow as shit
Murray is slow as shit
Iginla has lost a step the past 2 years.
Zaraki_Kenpachi
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Again, they're not the stars of the team. The Lakers stars are slow and old. It's not the same.
KernelPanic
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I might be wrong but I think Hossa is the only trade deadline acquisition that actually made a real difference in recent memory.
Hockey's not played on paper.
Hockey's not played on paper.
They are still 3 guys looking to play important minutes in the top 6 and the top 4.
Boston would most likely destroy us.
Pittsburgh and Montreal I think we could take to 7 games but we'd still lose.
Ottawa if they get back a lot of their guys I'd expect to beat us in 5 or 6 somewhat easily unless their playoff curse against us sets in again.
Winnipeg I think we could beat as they would be just as inexperienced as we are with the playoffs (as a team).
okay tabris.
Carolina got Recchi from Pittsburgh in 2006 and won the Cup... but that's all I can think of post-2004 lockout.
Who said Murray is playing top 4 minutes? If that's their plan then yeah lolololol.
CrazedArabMan
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We are all "ca-whoeverplaysthepens-ucks"
I dunno if Boston would destroy us. I think they would beat us but not easily. I think Pitts would be a lot tougher than them. Both these depend on Reimer standing on his head though.
Ott, MTL, id give it 50/50 honestly.
Winnipeg id give it more like 70%
But then again, playoffs are a whole different animal.
The Leafs are the only team I can imagine the Jets beating to be honest. Every other potential playoff team matches up poorly over a 7 game series for us... mainly due to the Jets being an occasionally good, sometimes terrible but fragile and kinda flawed team. Again, god bless the SE.
Not with Letang on IR, he will get top 4 minutes.
And Morrow on the 3rd line? yeah ok.
It's obvious that we must keep our positioning.
But I'm sure you're in the same boat as me: "I just want to make the playoffs!"
Marrow isn't going to be in the top six. I doubt Bylsma is going to mess with the top line seeing how well they are playing. In which case that puts puts Iginla on the second line with Malkin and Neal, and Marrow back on the third line with Sutter and Cooke.
Zaraki_Kenpachi
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They're still not the main stars which is different then the lakers. Their core guys are old, their version of malkin, crosby, neal, etc. And just because other players are pylons doesn't mean much.
Morrow isn't top 6 at all and the other is a D man...
brucewaynegretzky
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It's either this or the Leafs for me.
Zaraki_Kenpachi
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You just jinxed us you stupid bastard...
Simon Belmont
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Hahaha, I think every Leafs fan is looking at the jets thinking the same thing. I hope it does go that way. Would probably be the last Jets/Leafs playoff meeting in...ever?
Pretty jinxed as is, no?
Haven't read anything about Malkin for a while.
Anyway, let's focus on tonight. Go Pens. Bring the streak up to 14.
We were talking about this at work last week - we don't even care about what happens beyond making the playoffs, we will be fucking thrilled just to be there. The Jets *struggled* to make the playoffs at all in the '90s, so I personally wouldn't be terribly upset if we got pumped 4-1 in the first round by some much better #6 seed.
bonesmccoy
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This feels like Lance Berkman signing for the Yankees.
Feaster's certainly doing a poor job as GM, but not because of this trade. He should have made this deal 1-2 years ago, and swapped Iginla for a top-10 pick and prospects. You have to think that he would have if he'd been given ownership's blessing (then again, it's Feaster).
Feaster's certainly doing a poor job as GM, but not because of this trade. He should have made this deal 1-2 years ago, and swapped Iginla for a top-10 pick and prospects. You have to think that he would have if he'd been given ownership's blessing (then again, it's Feaster).
is he not playing tonight?
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@EricFrancis: Iginla will not join the Penguins for tonight's home game against WPG.
i guess not
Leafs need to acquire a quality defenceman. That would make the team so much better since Phaneuf would finally have a stable partner, pushing Gunnar down to create a great second pairing with Franson or Gardiner.
Nonis should be spamming Feaster with calls about Bouwmeester. Burns would be a great addition as well, but I'm not sure if he's available.
Nonis should be spamming Feaster with calls about Bouwmeester. Burns would be a great addition as well, but I'm not sure if he's available.
Lets hope it turns out better than that. Berkman never really felt right on the team. He never seemed to fit in with NY. On the other hand he signs with the Cards and seems to really fit in well there. Midwest city seems to do well for him.
you said quality, no?
That should be one of the main priorities for the offseason, getting an actual NHL quality top 4 defenseman to go alongside Dion.
He is definitely doing way too much during the game since he knows he has to protect one of the scrubs.
Unhandled Exception
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Duchene won 24/29 faceoffs last night. If we ever fix this bullshit system of ours that could actually turn out to be pretty dangerous.
You get the idea.
I like this presser, Iggy isn't doing the Messier-fake-bawling thing and he's being gracious and honest about the process and his feelings about the team etc. Actually thoughtful answers instead of the easy way spouting cliches about loving the fans and so on.
Other than I guess Teemu, he's about the best guy in the league no doubt.
Other than I guess Teemu, he's about the best guy in the league no doubt.
I get the comparison, but I still can't ever compare the two. There will never be another player of that caliber.
Indeed. Kinda glad its not all teary eyed.
Unhandled Exception
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I'm just excited to see all of the Chicago bandwagoners around here jump ship as their jersey orders arrive over the coming days.
I'd take him if he comes cheap. Overpaid, but he would probably play better if he was the #2 guy rather than the #1 guy.
Yeah, definitely. It's too bad Gunnarsson is playing injured. He played very well with Dion last season. Either way, bumping him down to the second pair in favour of a quality NHLer rather than Kostka/Holzer makes this team a lot better.
Fuckin' sweet, man. Feels so good. Why support a loser, right?
Lemieux through the legs. Top shelf on Moog. Wooooo.
Don't worry, that streak ends TONIGHT.
uh probably not shit
Actually thrilled Montoya is starting and Pavs is getting the night off. Hopefully when Malkin's arms are getting tired from celebrating his standard 6th point versus us Pavs is on the bench getting ready mentally for a super important game against the Canes.