2009-10 NHL Thread

[Brill Weave]

We'll see, we'll see. When the man is healthy he's a top ten forward. Those are for the rare times he's actually healthy though. Hopefully the man can stay healthy because I would like to see what he can do with a full season under his belt. The weird thing is when he first came into the league he was surprisingly durable. He played 71, 78, and 81 games his first three years in the league. After that he played 65, 65, 48, 77, and 17. Just for my own shits and giggles I worked out his average games per year. He checks in with a 62.75 average. He's almost a point per game player, he consistently a + player and isn't a penalty risk. If he could get a full season in I would not be shocked to see 90 points from him.

[BadKarma]

God I hope so. I'd also be suprised if anisimov doesn't end up with 25 goals or so this year. With the pens I think it all depends if fleury can stay awesome. When he first came into the league his 5 hole was miles wide. He fixed that last year.

[Sepukku]

Montreal vs Toronto, first is close towns, 2) Games are always full of actions and tigh score, aka lots of intensity. And in season when they play like 8 games against each other it's always like 5win 3 loose or 4-4 for both teams, which of course makes the fan go we are better blah blah.

But there's no TALENT on Toronto and Montreal. Its like watching 2nd rate players play. Whos the best player left on the Habs these days? Andrei Markov? He's good, but hes not even one of the best at his position. He maybe clings on the fringe of the top 10 defenseman. Whos the best player on the Toronto Maple Leafs? Phil Kessel, and he wasn't even playing for them last season and won't be playing come Thursday night.

I wouldn't call watching Calgary-Vancouver being biased to a non-Vancouverian, non-Calgarian, yet still Canadian resident, because those are two very talented playoff teams, but Toronto and Montreal are going nowhere with their nobodies.

[Brill Weave]

Fleury is still prone to huge mental collapses in judgement. Like anytime he ever leaves the crease to play the puck. Ask any Penguins fans here and they will tell you what they scream at the tv when he does it. GET THE FUCK BACK TO THE NET!!! He's absolutely horrible with the puck. He tries to be sneaky and will pull all kinds of silly little backhand passes and stuff but most teams know he does this. So he ends up giving away the puck and a scoring chance.

Ansimov I'm not 100% sold on yet. He has the potential to be a sixty point a season type guy. But I think that maybe that's a few seasons away yet. It's a bit of a stretch to predict what he's going to do when he's only played one game in the NHL. Add on top of that the fact that he's a bigger guy and will most likely be asked to fill a power forward role for the blueshirts. Most power forwards take a lot longer to develop, especially when they are younger because they are still filling out. Look at Ryan Malone for an example. Jordan Staal is another one. I'm not just picking Penguins, they are just the ones who come to mind the quickest. The other potential problem to him filling that role is that he doesn't have a particularly nasty streak in him. Nice power forwards don't last too long.

But I will agree the combination of size and talent make him a very intriguing player to watch. He definitely has the potential to be a top six, possibly top three. Just don't expect him to blow the doors off this year. I'll make the prediction of 17-20 goals and a total of 40-45 points.

[Ratatapa]

But there's no TALENT on Toronto and Montreal. Its like watching 2nd rate players play. Whos the best player left on the Habs these days? Andrei Markov? He's good, but hes not even one of the best at his position. He maybe clings on the fringe of the top 10 defenseman. Whos the best player on the Toronto Maple Leafs? Phil Kessel, and he wasn't even playing for them last season and won't be playing come Thursday night.

I wouldn't call watching Calgary-Vancouver being biased to a non-Vancouverian, non-Calgarian, yet still Canadian resident, because those are two very talented playoff teams, but Toronto and Montreal are going nowhere with their nobodies.

In this game the fans dont care bout talent

They just wanna win against toronto if possible physicaly too (which is lol for mtl team but yeah)

So as resume

Against any team they want talent, against toronto they just want MTL to kill toronto

[Brill Weave]

Tanguay.

[Ratatapa]

Eaton

[Sepukku]

Gill.

[Brill Weave]

When I think of the Canadiens this year I imagine a bunch of gnomes(Cammalleri, Gionta, Plekanec, and Gomez) skating around a giant tree(Hal Gill) in the middle of a snow covered meadow(the Bell Centre.)

[Sepukku]

And two Russian Mafia gangsters.





.....and a terrible goalie.

EDIT: I realize I'm being brutal on the easy target Habs, but its only cause Abraxas is nowhere to be found with his favorite band, Kimmo Timmonen & The Bloodclot Gang.

[Brill Weave]

Boom! The opening salvo has been fired. No surprise coming from Sepukku first! Rata just got hit harder than Pearl Harbor.




Not really though.

[Sepukku]

Ratapata isn't American. He got hit harder than.....





That moose?

[Abraxas]

and a blood clot

[Ratatapa]

And two Russian Mafia gangsters.





.....and a terrible goalie.

EDIT: I realize I'm being brutal on the easy target Habs, but its only cause Abraxas is nowhere to be found with his favorite band, Kimmo Timmonen & The Bloodclot Gang.

3 mafia gangster

[Brill Weave]

This page has taken a bit of a dark turn.

[Ratatapa]

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_fw7iF68JR8...s400/eaton.jpg

[Brill Weave]

Well done Rata. You obviously must be as bored as I am today.

[Ishido]

Wings vs Farjestad live stream on NHL.com... weird as hell watching an NHL play on a euro sized rink. Nice to see Zata finally playing in preseason, and scoring no less.

[Thoronas]

Montreal is down a russian mafia ganster.
Sergei Kostitsyn suspended by Habs; requests trade

Anyone dumb enough to draft him in the pool?

[Ratatapa]

let's hope he gtfo with andrei