2009-10 NHL Thread

[Brill Weave]

There was a clip I had watched last year, but now that I really sit and think about it, it was a younger kid. I wonder if it's the same kid, just a year older doing it again?

[Absolutely Virtue]

Why you gotta hate on the kid so much? Dag, recognize game already.

[Brill Weave]

Oh no, definitely not hating. It's fucking impressive as shit a kid that young is able to pull off a move like that. It's just really bothering me that I can't remember if it was the same kid or not. This would be where my OCD kicks in and I slowly go insane.

[Sepukku]

If I was that goalie's dad I'd be waiting in the parking lot for that boy and his parent or guardian. What an ass.

[lolBST]

My fantasy team just went apeshit with that 6-0 win, considering I have 4/6 of Dallas' top forwards on my team. Too bad I also have Arnott and Weber and my +- evened out!

Great win for the Stars. Great to see a shutout for Turco who's been struggling. True test comes against Boston and Chicago this weekend. If we win even one of those, I'll be pretty happy with the state of our team atm.

Turco is mine, him and Nabokov tearing it up for me so far this week. 1 win, 0.00 Goals against, 1.000 save% and 2 shutouts

Hoping Nabokov can get me a win against the Caps and not drop the save/goals against totals too bad tonight.

[Absolutely Virtue]

Hoping Nabokov can get me a win against the Caps and not drop the save/goals against totals too bad tonight.

You have just made a powerful enemy, my friend.

[Bweigelt]

Oh no, definitely not hating. It's fucking impressive as shit a kid that young is able to pull off a move like that. It's just really bothering me that I can't remember if it was the same kid or not. This would be where my OCD kicks in and I slowly go insane.

I don't think it's the same kid. The kid from last year was from Ontario I believe.

[Dolmen]

My fantasy team suddenly has fallen off a cliff. I was in 1st with 96 points like 3 games into the season, and now I'm in 10th (out of 12) with 55. Any thoughts on my team?

C - Nicklas Backstrom
C - Henrik Sedin
LW - Michael Cammalleri
LW - Slava Kozlov
RW - Alexander Semin
RW - Michael Ryder
D - Niklas Kronwall
D - Kimmo Timonen
D - Andrei Markov (The injury has killed me)
D - Marc-Edouard Vlasic
G - Cam Ward
G - Chris Mason

Bench:
C - Saku Koivu
LW - Andrei Kostitsyn
LW/RW - Guillaume Latendresse
D - Mike Komisarek

Komisarek I just kind of chose because I didn't see anyone I wanted. Kostitsyn I don't know if I'll ever play.

[lolBST]

You have just made a powerful enemy, my friend.

Caps are allowed to score a couple goals so long as they lose...and Semin gets the goals...

[Absolutely Virtue]

This is unacceptable. Although Semin always scores when he's with me.

[lolBST]

Fine. lolvechkin can score, but Semin gets to assist

[Ishido]

Lidstrom scores his 1,000th career point tonight, an assist on an nice goal by Zetterberg.

[Sepukku]

My fantasy team suddenly has fallen off a cliff. I was in 1st with 96 points like 3 games into the season, and now I'm in 10th (out of 12) with 55. Any thoughts on my team?

C - Nicklas Backstrom
C - Henrik Sedin
LW - Michael Cammalleri
LW - Slava Kozlov
RW - Alexander Semin
RW - Michael Ryder
D - Niklas Kronwall
D - Kimmo Timonen
D - Andrei Markov (The injury has killed me)
D - Marc-Edouard Vlasic
G - Cam Ward
G - Chris Mason

Bench:
C - Saku Koivu
LW - Andrei Kostitsyn
LW/RW - Guillaume Latendresse
D - Mike Komisarek

Komisarek I just kind of chose because I didn't see anyone I wanted. Kostitsyn I don't know if I'll ever play.

Out of 12th, what did you pick? I'm guessing you drafted near the end of round 1 and took Backstrom & Semin with homer picks almost back to back. Bad call. You're gonna live or die by the Caps offense. If they have an offnight, or if your in H2H and they only play twice in a given week, you're gonna suffer.

Your goalies are obviously weak, probably cause you didn't draft one til at least the end of round 3. Beyond them, the rest of the team is pretty weak too. Losing markov hurts - trust me, I know. Komisarek isn't bad if your league has Hits and PIM. You definitely drafted to fail. You have a lot of room for improvement in your offense, D, and goalies, but have little in trade value. I'm afraid youre sunk unless you really watch for sleepers and rookie upstarts like I got Steve Mason last year.

[Dolmen]

Out of 12th, what did you pick? I'm guessing you drafted near the end of round 1 and took Backstrom & Semin with homer picks almost back to back. Bad call. You're gonna live or die by the Caps offense. If they have an offnight, or if your in H2H and they only play twice in a given week, you're gonna suffer.

Your goalies are obviously weak, probably cause you didn't draft one til at least the end of round 3. Beyond them, the rest of the team is pretty weak too. Losing markov hurts - trust me, I know. Komisarek isn't bad if your league has Hits and PIM. You definitely drafted to fail. You have a lot of room for improvement in your offense, D, and goalies, but have little in trade value. I'm afraid youre sunk unless you really watch for sleepers and rookie upstarts like I got Steve Mason last year.

I picked something like 7th I think. A lot of people weren't there for the draft, so it was auto-picking based on performance rank from last year. I don't do the head to head, so that should save me in regard to weekly stuff. What the draft basically came down to was I had my team planned out, but then the auto-pick would grab everything I wanted. It became a matter of "I know the auto-pick is going to grab this person for this person, so who can I get instead."

[Sepukku]

Well H2H reduces some of the pain, but your team still has more holes than swiss cheese and I don't see where you could make improvements. Read around for certain sleeper picks to shore things up like Milan Michalek or Brooks Laich are turning into pretty decent scorers this season so far.

At the very least, I'd get rid of all your bench forwards (and Komisarek if you league does not have PIM/Hits as a stat category), as well as probably even Slava Kozlov. Also, did you IR Markov and pick someone up? You seem to have no 17th player mentioned for his IR stint. Lastly, you ought to see what you can do about Chris Mason. Goalie replacements are generally pretty slim, but see what you can do.

[Brill Weave]

I'll trade you Vesa Toskala for a slinky, straight up.

[Abraxas]

I'll trade you Vesa Toskala for a slinky, straight up.

ill trade you a red bull for that slinky

[Dolmen]

Markov finally got moved to the IR as he kept being listed as on the bench up until today, so thankfully I can pick someone up. Admittedly I'm clueless when it comes to fantasy hockey, but I find it helps me keep up more with the game. I spend more time playing hockey than watching it, so I don't know who a lot of players are.

[Ratatapa]

/sigh i wonder if habs will win another game this year

[Brill Weave]

ill trade you a red bull for that slinky

I'm listening