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[Manics]

Just realized when the Monster is in net on TSN broadcasts, Pierre Mcgwire is gonna have a field day.

 

[fallout]

Dude that was the only breakaway all game - Detroit was getting outworked, and the neutral zone was congested all game long

Heh, just trying to get in a quick one before the season started. Gotta get warmed up, you know?

 

[MPW]

All the Leaf bashers better wake the fuck up cause we got a team here. The Leafs are back and we're not going away.

plan the parade, amright?

Just realized when the Monster is in net on TSN broadcasts, Pierre Mcgwire is gonna have a field day.

whenever he's on, i press mute

 

[darkwings]

the thing about the monster is that he is great mentally. He doesnt let a few bad pucks behind him get off his game. His mother also died this year, so I guess that will get him stronger going through something like that.

 

[sefskillz]

all the preds goal song hate has led to them abandoning it. last night at least, it was replaced with pennywise 'bro hymn', which is already used by every other fucking team in the world. you're all a bunch of bastards.

 

[Kave_Man]

Just realized when the Monster is in net on TSN broadcasts, Pierre Mcgwire is gonna have a field day.

Oh god I forgot about that. He might literally die right there on air as he yells "HE'S A MONSTER! HE'S A MONSTER! HE'S A MONSTER!"

 

[fallout]

Oh god I forgot about that. He might literally die right there on air as he yells "HE'S A MONSTER! HE'S A MONSTER! HE'S A MONSTER!"

I'm not really looking forward to: "I KNOW THEY CALL HIM THE MONSTER, BUT THIS MONSTER IS REALLY A MONSTER! ... MONSTER!"

 

[Solo]

Pierre Maguire is the main reason I cant tolerate TSN broadcasts. The rest of the panel is pretty shitty too.

 

[darkwings]

Pierre Maguire is the main reason I cant tolerate TSN broadcasts. The rest of the panel is pretty shitty too.

atleast TSN is better then CBC with senile Cherry. TSN is more objective too.

 

[baultista]

atleast TSN is better then CBC with senile Cherry. TSN is more objective too.

Dregyr and McKenzie are the best analysts in the business, and they're both on TSN.

On the other hand, TSN has Pierre McGuire. At times Don Cherry actually makes a lot of sense. McGuire is just an idiot 24/7.

 

[R_GILL]

With the regular season less than a week away, the Toronto Maple Leafs reduced their roster by four players on Sunday.

First round draft pick Nazem Kadri was returned to the London Knights of the Ontario Hockey League, Christian Hanson and Jonas Frogren were assigned to the Toronto Marlies of the American Hockey League and Andy Rogers was released.

More roster moves are expected to be made following Sunday's preseason finale against the Buffalo Sabres.

.

 

[Kave_Man]

I'd be very happy to see Bozak still kept up.

 

[Solo]

atleast TSN is better then CBC with senile Cherry. TSN is more objective too.

Well, on TSN you've got to put up with Pierre Maguire and James Duthie, but then they've got MacKenzie. On CBC, you've got to put up with Bob Cole and Don Cherry, but then they've got Jim Hughson and Ron MacLean. Whoever wins, we lose.

 

[R_GILL]

I'd be very happy to see Bozak still kept up.

I'd like to keep him for the simple fact that he and Stalberg seem to have good chemistry.

 

[Pochacco]

Don Cherry's the man. I love that pimp.
Are you guys even Canadian?

You might not agree with him any/all the time, but he's entertaining as hell and is one of the few "personalities" the hockey world (and Canadian media) has.

 

[Buba Big Guns]

James Duthie is pretty awesome. Also, Pierre Mcguire is very good on the radio; always has something interesting to say. The TSN panel is good, its just that when the leafs dont have a team that is complete dog turd, but only half dog turd, they will talk about them forever.

 

[Solo]

Don Cherry's the man. I love that pimp.
Are you guys even Canadian?

You might not agree with him any/all the time, but he's entertaining as hell and is one of the few "personalities" the hockey world (and Canadian media) has.

Yes, Im Canadian. Born, raised, lived here my whole life. Don Cherry is a total douche. He is not entertaining, unless watching a grumpy old fart spout his irrelevant stance on EVERYTHING, whilst ballwashing "good Canadian boys" and hating on foreigners entertains you. It gets even worse when he starts jawing on about the military and how proud he is of the people fighting overseas. Great, Don, but what does that have to do with the game Im watching? Whenever Im forced to watch him, Im always hoping MacLean will finally lose it and clock him.

 

[sefskillz]

fantasy draft reminder. 20 minutes!

 

[Marvie_3]

all the preds goal song hate has led to them abandoning it. last night at least, it was replaced with pennywise 'bro hymn', which is already used by every other fucking team in the world. you're all a bunch of bastards.

It was for the best.

 

[TemplaerDude]

James Duthie is pretty awesome. Also, Pierre Mcguire is very good on the radio; always has something interesting to say. The TSN panel is good, its just that when the leafs dont have a team that is complete dog turd, but only half dog turd, they will talk about them forever.

duthie? are you fucking kidding? everytime he is on screen i want to punch his stupid unfunny face. and he never has anything useful to add to any conversation.

 

[Razorskin]

Good draft guys.

 

[kassatsu]

I did you proud manics

C Evgeni Malkin
C Mikhail Grabovski

LW Chris Kunitz
LW Andrew Ladd
LW Viktor Stalberg

RW Nik Antropov
RW Blake Wheeler
RW Mikael Samuelsson
RW Scottie Upshall

D Shea Weber
D Christian Ehrhoff
D Kris Letang
D Matt Niskanen

G Semyon Varlamov
G Jonas Hiller

 

[sefskillz]

C Anze Kopitar
C Brandon Dubinsky
C Derick Brassard

LW Milan Michalek
LW Steve Sullivan
LW Rick Nash
LW James Neal
LW James van Riemsdyk

RW Bryan Little
RW Devin Setoguchi

D Dennis Seidenberg
D Kimmo Timonen
D Adrian Aucoin

G Miikka Kiprusoff
G Dan Ellis

oof, can't say im overly thrilled. got a cluster at LW too. looking for D and a goalie, just like every other year

 

[aidan]

My team for the GAF Fantasy league:

C Jason Arnott
C Patrick Sharp
C T.J. Oshie
C David Krejci

LW Milan Lucic
LW Ryan Clowe

RW Steve Bernier
RW David Backes
RW T.J. Oshie

D Dan Boyle
D Zdeno Chara
D Denis Grebeshkov
D Ian White

G Martin Brodeur
G J.S. Giguere

I'm pretty happy with it. No superstars on Forward, but if a couple of guys have breakout years (Bernier, Oshie, Okposo) or keep improving (Krejci, Backes, Lucic, Clowe) then I think I'm in pretty good shape.

 

[pringles]

I'm happy with my team, but Gustavsson better take the starting job from Toskala QUICK or I'm fucked in the goaltending department.

C
Pavel Datsyuk
Mikko Koivu

LW
Daniel Sedin
Loui Eriksson

RW
Ryan Callahan
Daniel Cleary

D
Niklas Kronwall
Tobias Enstrom
Johnny Oduya
Jonathan Ericsson

G
Jonas Gustavsson
Antero Niittymaki

Bench:
Erik Karlsson (D)
Brooks Laich (C)
Fabian Brunnstrom (LW)

 

[Razorskin]

I'm pretty happy with mine, should payoff big in the penalty minutes catergory.

C Vincent Lecavalier
C Dave Bolland

LW Scott Hartnell
LW Daniel Carcillo

RW Cory Perry
RW Drew Stafford

D Kevin Bieksa
D Bryan Mccabe
D Jaroslav Spacek
D Willie Mitchell

G Nikolai Khabibulin
G Kari Lehtonen

Bench
Toni Lydman
Owen Nolan
Adam Mair

 

[Entropia]

I didn't do too terrible...

Center
Zetterberg
Elias

Left Wing
Slava Kozlov
Rene Bourque

Ring Wing
Michael Ryder
David Clarkson

Defense
Andrei Markov
Duncan Keith
Brent Seabrook
Paul Martin

Goalies
Tim Thomas
Jon Quick

Bench
Cody Hodgson
Michael Backlund
Josh Gorges

 

[Socreges]

Don Cherry's the man. I love that pimp.
Are you guys even Canadian?

You might not agree with him any/all the time, but he's entertaining as hell and is one of the few "personalities" the hockey world (and Canadian media) has.

Christ, Pochacco, really?? :/

 

[Sibylus]

All I know is that after he's gone, I'll miss the way he yelled.

Spoiler

At everything.

He says his fair share of dumb things but the old guy's still amusing to watch.

 

[Pochacco]

Really! I love the guy.
I even like it when he rants about the Canadians fighting oversea or about some sick kid that has died. It's great. Somebody needs to remind Canadians about the important things going on in the country and about feel-good stories. He has like a 5 minute segment that's on for once a week. Come on guys

Btw. Here's my team:
1. (9) Dany Heatley LW
2. (32) Ryan Miller G
3. (49) Chris Pronger D
4. (72) Chris Mason G
5. (89) Sergei Gonchar D
6. (112) Pascal Leclaire G
7. (129) Danny Briere C
8. (152) Jose Theodore G
9. (169) Paul Kariya LW
10. (192) J.P. Dumont RW
11. (209) Chuck Kobasew RW
12. (232) Steve Ott C
13. (249) Erik Johnson D
14. (272) Derek Morris D
15. (289) Dustin Penner LW

The good: Heatley (65+ goals guaranteed), Miller, Pronger, Gonchar (steal!), Chris Mason, Briere (another steal), Kariya (has potential, maybe...), Johnson (potential...)
The bad: everyone else.

 

[sefskillz]

Hook me up with one of those goalies Pochacco

 

[alexthekid]

Of course my internet connection was down so i missed the draft, but it doesnt matter the autodraft probarbly worked better anyway:lol

C Nicklas Backstrom
C Derek Roy
LW Ryan Smyth
LW Kristian Huselius
RW Patrick Kane
RW Martin Havlat
D Nicklas Lidstrom
D Pavel Kubina
D Zach Bogosian
D Steve Montador
BN Nikolai Zherdev
BN Ethan Moreau
BN David Legwand

Trends Goaltending
Pos Edit Goaltenders Edit Opp Status % Started W GAA SV% SHO
G Ty Conklin
G Brian Boucher

I am really excited about this team, it may not be the best team but it is filled with personal favourites, gonna be a good time following it!

 

[sefskillz]

we all got a nice laugh when zherdev went to you alex. but the bogosian pick was pretty impressive by the autodraft!

 

[BigJonsson]

1. (4) Ryan Getzlaf
2. (37) Cristobal Huet
3. (44) Ray Emery
4. (77) Alex Kovalev
5. (84) Brad Boyes
6. (117) Kris Versteeg
7. (124) Alex Burrows
8. (157) Stephen Weiss
9. (164) Tomas Kaberle
10. (197) Mattias Ohlund
11. (204) Shane O'Brien
12. (237) Luke Schenn
13. (244) Christopher Higgins
14. (277) Andy McDonald
15. (284) Martin Erat


Eh, we'll see

 

[Spl1nter]

Well I missed the first 5 rounds of the draft but the computer did a decent job selecting for me and then I took over and felt I did well with what I had to fill up.

Center
Sidney Crosby
Marc Savard
Patrice Bergeron
Patrik Berglund

Left Wing
David Booth
Marco Sturm

Right Wing
Martin St. Louis
Shane Doan
Peter Mueller

Defence
Ryan Suter
Brent Burns
Dan Hamhuis
Sami Salo

Goalie
Dwayne Roloson
Craig Anderson

Pretty happy with the team. Burns (9), Sturm (11) and Bergeron (12) were great late pick steals. Will see what I can do with one of the extra centers to upgrade either my D or Goalie.

 

[Razorskin]

Of course my internet connection was down so i missed the draft, but it doesnt matter the autodraft probarbly worked better anyway:lol

I am really excited about this team, it may not be the best team but it is filled with personal favourites, gonna be a good time following it!

Luckily the auto draft picked up Zherdev late for you.

 

[Buba Big Guns]

Round Pick Player Position
1. (18) Jeff Carter C
2. (23) Marc-Andre Fleury G
3. (58) Henrik Sedin C
4. (63) Scott Niedermayer D
5. (98) Alexander Frolov LW
6. (103) Lubomir Visnovsky D
7. (138) Nathan Horton C,RW
8. (143) Drew Doughty D
9. (178) Keith Ballard D
10. (183) Carlo Colaiacovo D
11. (218) Milan Hejduk RW
12. (223) Erik Cole LW
13. (258) Sam Gagner C
14. (263) Nikita Filatov LW
15. (298) Brian Elliott G

Alright team I guess. Will probably finish middle of the pack. Hopin Horton and Gagner step it up. Defence should be pretty good though. I wanted to take Foligno instead of Filatov but the internet died right before my pick :/

The good: Heatley (65+ goals guaranteed), Miller, Pronger, Gonchar (steal!), Chris Mason, Briere (another steal), Kariya (has potential, maybe...), Johnson (potential...)
The bad: everyone else.

I was really surprised when I saw Briere picked so low. Really wanted Leclaire and Kariya but you took em right when I was about to

 

[Pochacco]

C Nicklas Backstrom

I was SO confused about that.
The auto-draft explains things.

Spoiler

Don't get me wrong, Backstrom's gonna be awesome this year

I was really surprised when I saw Briere picked so low. Really wanted Leclaire and Kariya but you took em right when I was about to

Hehe. Sorry about that.
The guys I targeted to "steal" included: Gonchar, Brendan Morrow, Briere, Kaberle, and Brent Burns.

I was bummed about missing out on Brendan Morrow, but at least I got Gonch and Briere.

 

[kassatsu]

Pens and Wings time.

 

[Slurmer]

My draft was hampered by me getting flustered. At least 5 times I had my guy taken within 3 picks before me

C Scott Gomez (Mon - C)
C Jordan Staal (Pit - C)
LW Patrick Marleau (SJ - LW)
LW Ryan Malone (TB - LW)
RW Mike Knuble (Was - RW)
RW Claude Giroux (Phi - RW)
D Brian Rafalski (Det - D)
D Rob Blake (SJ - D)
D Joe Corvo (Car - D)
D Cory Sarich (Cgy - D)
G Niklas Backstrom (Min - G)
G Steve Mason (Cls - G)
BN Valtteri Filppula (Det - C)
BN Keith Tkachuk (StL - LW)
BN Colton Orr (Tor - RW)


Oh well, I like my goalies and my Giroux pick.

 

[kassatsu]

God, Howard is horrible :x

Fleury's weak glove returns.

Pens fail at breakaway :lol

 

[Brian Fellows]

Nice throw Seneca you retard.

 

[ForzaItalia]

:lol Manics' avatar....

:lol

 

[kassatsu]

:lol Manics' avatar....

:lol

 

[Plinko]

I just realized that DirecTV is feuding with Comcast (who owns Versus Channel) and, as a result, I get to miss every game on Versus this year--including the season opener in Sweden.

Words cannot express my rage right now.

 

[kassatsu]

I just realized that DirecTV is feuding with Comcast (who owns Versus Channel) and, as a result, I get to miss every game on Versus this year--including the season opener in Sweden.

Words cannot express my rage right now.

Yea it sucks, =\

Seneca Wallace plays hockey now?

2012 Seattle expansion team.

 

[Marvie_3]

Nice throw Seneca you retard.

Seneca Wallace plays hockey now?

 

[Marvie_3]

2012 Seattle expansion team.

No more expansion please.

 

[SuperSonic1305]

Wow Stalberg is tied for the lead in preseason goals.

 

[Kave_Man]

Stalberg with another goal.