2009-10 NHL Thread

[Sepukku]

Kessel
Sjostrom
Kulemin
Grabovski
Stempniak
Ponikarovsky

Phaneuf
Kaberle
Komisarek
Schenn
Beauchemin
Exelby

Gigure
Gusstavsson

Sounds like a legitimate lineup now. I just don't know what they're going to do for 3rd and 4th lines. But their D and Goaltending is solid now.

Another Caps player dirties himself into Bettman's jail cell. Green just elbowed his way into a 3-game suspension. Bunch of fucking thugs, you'd think they'd take a page of class from the CHAMPIONS' book, but instead they're trying to emulate the Flyers this year.

Pens up 1-0. Crosby from Malkin, fuck yeahhh, Howard just shit his pants. You literally can see a brown streak along the ice in the wrong direction he slid off to as Crosby put it into an open net the size of Panama Canal. Teddy Roosevelt would be proud.

[Sepukku]

The Panama Canal: The world's largest manmade object until Crosby made that open net.

[BadKarma]

The Panama Canal: The world's largest manmade object until Crosby bent over for Tyrone the first time.

I agree.

[Sepukku]

Shitty joke, shitty penalty. At least my team is in a playoff spot.

[BadKarma]

Shitty joke, shitty penalty. At least my team is in a playoff spot.

The Rangers don't deserve to make the playoffs. Also shitty comeback.

[Ishido]

The Panama Canal: The world's largest manmade object until Crosby made that open net.

Fluery just opened up something wider, and Filpulla missed it.

Hilarious goalie interference, should never be a penalty on that (though with how bad the Wings PP is I might try to take penalties) didn't see Millers so can't really comment, though it was funny when the NBC guys said "a penalty on Drew Miller for standing in front of the net" because only Holmstrom gets those penalties.

[Sepukku]

Its not intended to be witty or degrading. Cause the thing that will affect you the most is your team's performance coming up short. Just a friendly reminder in their pursuit of that letdown.

[Sepukku]

Yeah Cooke's goalie interference was a joke, so Miller's was a very laughable penalty too, even up call basically.

[Ishido]

Who was Crosby talking to on the bench in that clip they showed... he has no idea wtf Crosby was talking about lol

[Ishido]

OH MY GOD THE WINGS SCORED

I would be so happy if the Wings got any points from this game, they sure don't deserve them.

[Thoronas]

Woooooow Brian Burke is a freakin retard. I can't wait to see Phaneuf dog it in the biggest hockey market in the world. If they end up getting the first overall pick this year Leafs fans may actually physically run Burke out of town.

[Ishido]

lol, they got the teams wrong on the OT/SO stats in the Det/Pit game.

[Sepukku]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!! I held the O key aslong as it took Malkin to do that!! Jimmy Howard just got beat by like the worst shootout regular in the entire league. He's like 6/31 lifetime now if you count penalty shots (and I was honest to god suprised when Doc said hes 5/25 on shootouts, its always seemed like hes a lot worse than that).

[Ishido]

worst shootout regular in the entire league

You are wrong, that is the collective title held by everyone in the Wings besides Datsyuk.

How'd you like that shot by Williams STRAIGHT into Fluery's glove, huh?!?

[Sepukku]

Why doesn't Babcock use Zetterburg?

More importantly, why don't the Wings give Howard any help? Hes the reason you guys even got the 1 point you needed.

[Ishido]

Zetterberg is usually the 2nd shooter, but he hasn't been great in shootouts so far this year other than 1 which he had the winner. Williams had a few good shootouts before his injury, but I have no idea why he was 2nd.

Howard is the reason the Wings are even competing for a playoff spot right now, easily the MVP of the team thus far. The goalscoring situation is terrible right now, the top line is the only one that looks consistently good, but for whatever reason hasn't been scoring very well.

1 point is fine from that game though, even moreso when the Wings were outplayed so badly by the Pens.

Wings 3 stars:
1. Howard
2. Crossbar
3. Goal post?

[Sepukku]

Wings 3 stars:
1. Howard
2. Crossbar
3. Goal post?

Sounds about right - I remember at least 3 specific times Pens caught the metal, probably 4-5 though.

[Ishido]

Staal alone got the crossbar twice in the same play, I would not be surprised if it was around half a dozen for the team.

[vagus]

Phaneuf is overrated. Which means he'll fit perfect into the Leafs lineup. Jiggy vs Toskala is a moot point. Not sure why he made the deal.

[Oxyminus]

I couldn't care if the Rangers miss the playoffs. They don't deserve to get in. If they did, they'd get wrecked in the first round anyway