2013 NHL Off-Season Thread: Bluefan's Own Personal Crying Game!

[Richybear]

http://www.hanginglanterns.co.uk/sit..._watermark.jpg
It's a blue fan.jpg

[Ishido]

Jagr rumored to be close to signing with the Devils. Could be why the Expected Brunner signing didn't happen immediately.

Will be awesome if he passes Lemieux in points this year (needs 35 points to tie)

[Richybear]

Still crazy to think Mario never even hit the 1,000 game mark

[bluefan]

Still crazy to think Mario never even hit the 1,000 game mark

OMG don't get Sep started. I know it's been kinda slow, but nooooooo.

[Sepukku]

the players ahead of him range from 433-852 games played more. stat of the day? Lemieux has a career 19% shooting percentage. Mike Bossy is the only player in the 42-man 500 goal club with a higher shooting percentage.

[bluefan]

[Brill Weave]

Lest I bet accused of drinking the steaming Koolaid I have to say Lemieux was the best offensive player ever. Had he played a full career without losing time to Hodgkin's Disease and back issues he would have wrecked Gretzky's records without breaking a sweat.

[Aksannyi]

I didn't know that talking about how great Mario Lemieux is/was constitutes as a shitstorm.

Sure, I do have some bias as a lifelong Pens fan, but even non fans have to admit the greatness that is Super Mario.

[Sepukku]

In their 2 year history, after failing to overcome a weak Canadian dollar, the new Winnipeg Jets have scored 347 career goals as a franchise. Mario Lemieux overcame cancer and scored 690 goals by himself.

[Richybear]

I'd always take Mario as my #1 C over anyone else in history.
It's glorious telling that to the crowds around here.

[Brill Weave]

I don't know why but I have this stuck in my head today.

[Ishido]

Lemieux's wikipedia entry for NHL records is like 1/4 of a page long.

Gretzky has his own page for records, that is about 2 pages long.

QED

[Richybear]

But Gretzky's name doesn't translate into English as "The greatest" (or the best, whatever way you wanna go with it.)
I know we did it before in a hockey thread, but now I totally wanna make my all-time team again.
Wayne might be my 4th line center... maybe

[bluefan]

By shitstorm I just meant Sep motoring on, not the Lemiuex facts.

How about this one?

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__...en_record2.jpg

[Palin]

I heard Lemiuex smells funny. Discuss.

[Ishido]

Lemieux does hold the record of "best career cut short by cancer" though.

[Judai]

I heard Lemiuex smells funny. Discuss.

Mario LePew

[Judai]

lol

Bruins Bieber-proof locker room

Justin Bieber committed a hockey no-no when he stood on the Chicago Blackhawks' logo in their dressing room at the United Center, where Bieber performed July 9.

The 19-year-old Bieber, from Canada and a known hockey fan, should have known that NHL teams have an unwritten rule that no one is permitted to step on their logo in the dressing room.

Bro no stepping on the logo @justinbieber that's money on the board! #gutty pic.twitter.com/DtgRo4loMn
— Andrew Shaw (@shawz15er) July 10, 2013

So with Bieber scheduled to perform Saturday night at TD Garden in Boston, the Bruins took measures to make sure Bieber didn't stand on their logo.

They roped it off.

Players have been known to scold people for accidentally or purposely stepping or standing on the team logo. What upset some Blackhawks fans on Twitter was a picture of Bieber standing on the team's Indian head logo while he was taking his own picture of the Stanley Cup.

The Bruins made sure Bieber didn't upset another throng of hockey fans.

http://espn.go.com/boston/nhl/story/...-justin-bieber

[Ratatapa]

ah bieber such a canadian

[Sepukku]

ah bieber such a canadian

5'4", claims to like hockey, annoying, bad sense of style, sounds canadian to me.