2013 NHL Season Thread: TUUKKA RASK, HE'S FROM FINLAND, AND IS INELIGIBLE TO BECOME MAYOR

[Brill Weave]

lol more teeth than I thought he would have left

[NynJa]

http://www.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=h...9QEwAQ&dur=210

I dunno if that will link properly, but the image was taken down from the photobucket, and looks like a pretty poor photoshop.

[bluefan]

Buff playing forward tonight.

I guess we really are that desperate now hahahaha.

[Bregor]

Been doing wedding planning for the last 48 hours, finally saw hackey news, saw the trade:

[Sepukku]

Talk to us when your team doesnt fill their rafters with bullshit "scoring title" and "season MVP" banners. Makes the Pens look like a bunch of chokers ("we have this great team, but we can never seem to win the big one")

http://www.onlyinpgh.com/wp-content/...4/Penguins.jpg

http://media.canada.com/fae0b6fd-d28...c674c/rink.JPG

I'd post MSG, but they hang them around the border for some reason it seems instead of in the middle.

btw maybe I should jog your memory?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Stanley_Cup_playoffs
(W1) Detroit Red Wings vs. (E2) Pittsburgh Penguins
Detroit won series 4–2

I'm glad you brought this up; I will disregard your raw title count as its already been beaten like a dead horse how winning all those titles versus 5 other teams really isn't impressive and is reflected by your subpar share of championships in the past 25 years (aka, our life times).

But note that we made the finals 4 times and won 3 times for a 75% win rate.

Based on my research, the Canadiens have won 23 of 32 finals appearances, for a win rate of 71%.

Nice job choke artists, can't even win three-fourths of the time even though your teams finals appearances were in a parity-free era.

[Sepukku]

Art Ross winners:

Canadiens (around since trophy debuted in 1947): 9
Penguins (only formed in the 1967 expansion 20 years later): 14

Why didnt Rocket Rachel and Girl Lafleur win it 35 times?!

[NynJa]

Im in my car so ill e-joust when i get home, but ill leave u with this:
If its "so easy to win when theres only 6 teams", how come the hawks rags and bruins COMBINED have a bit more than half the cup wins the habs have? The wings n leafs both have about half the cup wins the habs have?

[Ratatapa]

Plekanec not tplaying tonight and maybe Pacioretty either

gonna be a boring game

[Cail]

Been doing wedding planning for the last 48 hours, finally saw hackey news, saw the trade:

Please elaborate on our new 3rd line foward

[bluefan]

Plekanec not tplaying tonight and maybe Pacioretty either

gonna be a boring game

Then concede the game and give us the 2 points!

[Aksannyi]

NynJa is like that Fkwhads guy who hates kids only with the Penguins, it's like okay, we get it, you hate the Pens. STFU already. XD

[Sepukku]

Im in my car so ill e-joust when i get home, but ill leave u with this:
If its "so easy to win when theres only 6 teams", how come the hawks rags and bruins COMBINED have a bit more than half the cup wins the habs have? The wings n leafs both have about half the cup wins the habs have?

Cause as I said, the league had no parity back then. Or do you not know what the word parity is? Did they not teach you that in your english as a second language classes?

[NynJa]

Why wont patches b playin? Ugh thats no good
This game is no longer a free 2 points

[isladar]

When there isn't a game on I'd appreciate it if people didn't type as if they were functionally retarded.

[bluefan]

Wearing the Habs jersey tonight just to jinx them.

MWAHAHAHAHAHA.

[BadKarma]

Nynja you realize the Habs won all those titles because the QMJHL was basically their farm system

[Ratatapa]

Finally pacioretty is playing

Also according to Pierre Lebrun on rds the possible luongo trade was funny

1) Canucks asked for Ben scrivens + 2 drafts. Toronto said no
2) Toronto said we will accept if Canucks pay a little of the contract Vancouver said no.

Then he said that nonis said I don't know why Vancouver want so much for a goalie that no one except us wants and that they want to trade badly


Lol

[Bregor]

Please elaborate on our new 3rd line foward

I got shit to do tonight so I'll post my full ragemode tomorrow. It's not a terrible deal since Erat is signed to a mid-size contract until 2015 but I think the organization gave up on Filip Forsberg too early. He has a great skill set and while he hasn't had eye-popping numbers in Europe I think the Preds got a very good player for 2014 and beyond. The Caps might make the playoffs, and they might win a series or two. I just don't think Erat is the missing piece to get them into Cup contention, and it seems like a move that McPhee makes hoping to keep his job.

[Bregor]

Yep. Man, Bregor is gonna be mad!

BOY, YOU AIN'T KIDDIN'

Once again, Erat is a fine player and I'll like to see how he fits into the Caps lineup. I just don't think they're a Cup contender now or in 2014 with him, and beyond that I think Forsberg will be the better player, with the caveat that Ishi mentioned before of prospects never being a guarantee to pan out.

[NynJa]

I'm glad you brought this up; I will disregard your raw title count as its already been beaten like a dead horse how winning all those titles versus 5 other teams really isn't impressive and is reflected by your subpar share of championships in the past 25 years (aka, our life times).

But note that we made the finals 4 times and won 3 times for a 75% win rate.

Based on my research, the Canadiens have won 23 of 32 finals appearances, for a win rate of 71%.

Nice job choke artists, can't even win three-fourths of the time even though your teams finals appearances were in a parity-free era.

First of all, the pens have been around since the 67-68 season...but since you're american, I'll forgive your inability to do math, but I'm pretty sure 2012-1967 = 45, NOT 25, and in that time, the habs have won 10 stanley cups, not 5. Since the pens were integrated into the NHL, the habs made the cup finals 12 times (83% win rate). Also, I dont know where you get your numbers from, but the habs have 24 stanley cups, not 23.

The habs have made it to the cup finals 34 times in 101 years (34% of the time). I'll be nice, and give the Pens 10 years adjustment to the NHL (even though I shouldnt since when they integrated in their division was all 6 expansion teams, so theres no excuse to NOT make the finals), and have made it to the finals 4 times in 35 years (11.4%).

Manipulating numbers to work to your favor ("I'm only counting years where we had lemieux/jagr and crosby/malkin healthy") makes you look like a tool.

Finally pacioretty is playing

Good, back to 2 free points