2009-10 NHL Thread

**Brill Weave** · 2009-09-09 07:37

God I missed you guys lol.

**Izzy** · 2009-09-09 08:00

Originally Posted by BrillCS

God I missed you guys lol.

hahahah

I can't wait for the inevitable "our fans are still better" fights :*

**Sepukku** · 2009-09-09 08:19

Originally Posted by BrillCS

God I missed you guys lol.

I miss doing this:
http://i26.tinypic.com/31526xh.jpg

But I was actually in Millvale for a show yesterday Brill and a passing thought of you occured to me hahaha

**Abraxas** · 2009-09-09 08:21

dont get ahead of yourself Sepu. the pwnage of flyers by the penguins will come at a much greater cost this year.

flyers signed Blair Betts to tryout contract

**Sepukku** · 2009-09-09 08:27

Hey Abraxas, who burned the playoffs up with an defenseman-leading 4 goals in the 2009 NHL playoffs, including 3 on your Flyers?

**Izzy** · 2009-09-09 08:28

YESSSSSSSSSSS I missed this shit rofl

**Ratatapa** · 2009-09-09 08:50

Originally Posted by Sepukku

I miss doing this:
http://i26.tinypic.com/31526xh.jpg

But I was actually in Millvale for a show yesterday Brill and a passing thought of you occured to me hahaha

i don't see Mark Eaton in that picture

**Sepukku** · 2009-09-09 09:09

Originally Posted by Ratatapa

i don't see Mark Eaton in that picture

You don't know what Mark Eaton looks like then: He's the blonde American boy between Crosby and [barely pictured] Kunitz.

**Arnwulf** · 2009-09-09 09:28

Bluejackets are reportedly talking with Carolina about Anton Babchuk. Would be a good pickup for us I think, hopefully they'll take a winger off our hands as I'm still unsure who our Top 6 will be with so many.

**Brill Weave** · 2009-09-09 10:15

But I was actually in Millvale for a show yesterday Brill and a passing thought of you occured to me hahaha

Gaslight Anthem? I thought about going but I had to go to the Shaler magistrate to get points taken off my speeding ticket. Which I did. So many Mark Eaton references, my brain is going into overload. I laughed my ass off when I read this.

Hey Abraxas, who burned the playoffs up with an defenseman-leading 4 goals in the 2009 NHL playoffs, including 3 on your Flyers?

**Ratatapa** · 2009-09-09 12:27

Originally Posted by Sepukku

You don't know what Mark Eaton looks like then: He's the blonde American boy between Crosby and [barely pictured] Kunitz.

sorry i dont learn ever team player's faces

**Sepukku** · 2009-09-09 12:33

Hell yes Gaslight Anthem!! The Loved Ones were pretty amazing too. Gaslight Anthem was so good last night, even better than last time back in March, shame on your ticket D:

Also, Columbus WOULD do good to have an amazing offensive D-man, Babchuk can really blast it, he had like 15 goals last year, and hes on the younger side too, IIRC.

**Brill Weave** · 2009-09-09 12:40

sorry i dont learn ever team player's faces

I'll bet Tanguay's face haunts your dreams at night Rata

**Abraxas** · 2009-09-09 12:59

so this year are you going to compare Eaton to Pronger?

on a serious note, i cant wait to see how Crosby and Malkin react to Pronger's abuse.

**Bweigelt** · 2009-09-09 13:25

Were he to play in a larger market more US media covered city he would probably be widely recognized as one of, if not the best goalie in the league right now.

This is such a strange statement. Kipper gets more attention because he plays in Calgary, at least up here in Canada. Having seen him a ton every year, he has really fallen off in the past few seasons. He makes spectacular saves, but then lets in some really easy goals. I use a game against Vancouver last year as an example, it was one of the single greatest goaltending performences I've ever seen from a goaltender (he made at least two save of the year candidates in the third period alone) and yet at the same time he let in two soft goals and ended up losing the game in a shootout, where he looked brutal. He's been played too much over the past four seasons and really has looked worn down the last two years. Calgary still hasn't signed a respectable back up that can take some pressure off him, and they are going to be in the battle with Vancouver till the end of the year for the division so I don't see that problem getting rectified this year. He's still a top 5 goaltender, but barely at this point.

I would put Luongo, Brodeur, Lundqvist, and Thomas ahead of him for sure at this point. Ward, Kipper, Backstrom, and Fluery would battle it out for the fifth spot. All four of them have bouts with inconsistency even the context of one game that is definately concerning. If I had to do a list it would probably be:

1a. Luongo
1b. Brodeur
3. Lundqvist
4. Thomas
5. Kipper
6. Backstrom
7. Fluery
8. Ward
9. Turco
10. Nabakov
11. C. Mason
12. Vokoun
13. S. Mason
14. Price
15. Hiller

**Ratatapa** · 2009-09-09 13:44

bw i think you put the mason in wrong other

Steve (columbus) > Chris (st-louis)

and brill

die

**Thoronas** · 2009-09-09 13:50

It was said earlier on that Brodeur shouldnt be number 1 or even close to it anymore. Last year when he was out for months with the bicep injury New Jersey still won games and some of their back up goalies ended up looking really good. But a lot of people were questioning if that was more about the system than the individuals.

When Vancouver lost Lubongo for those month or so they started to tank badly. He's much more of a game changer than Brodeur is right now. I think Kipper is as well, but he needs more help than the Flames were giving him. Plus he needs a back up goalie who can win a game.

**Bweigelt** · 2009-09-09 13:50

No I have them in the right order. People are jumping on the S. Mason bandwagon too quickly, he had a good season in columbus, but so did Pascal Leclaire while playing behind Hitchcock's suffocating defensive Scheme. He also looked way over his head in the playoffs. Andrew Raycroft is a perfect example of why you need to temper expectations after just one good season before proclaiming him an elite goaltender.

C. Mason is also very underrated, he carried an injury plagued St. Louis team that lost Paul Kariya, Andy MacDonald, Erik Johnson, and Erik Brewer for most of the season, to the playoffs.

**Bweigelt** · 2009-09-09 13:53

Originally Posted by Thoronas

It was said earlier on that Brodeur shouldnt be number 1 or even close to it anymore. Last year when he was out for months with the bicep injury New Jersey still won games and some of their back up goalies ended up looking really good. But a lot of people were questioning if that was more about the system than the individuals.

When Vancouver lost Lubongo for those month or so they started to tank badly. He's much more of a game changer than Brodeur is right now. I think Kipper is as well, but he needs more help than the Flames were giving him. Plus he needs a back up goalie who can win a game.

New Jersey only saw success with Brodeur out because Parise turned into a superstar out of nowhere, and Clemmensen played way over his head. He is still a top 2 goaltender no question. In the Canada red-white game him and Luongo both looked like they had been playing hard all summer and showed why they are the best two goaltenders in the world.

**Richybear** · 2009-09-09 13:59

Rata, I never understood the obsession with Tanguay.
Sure he's a decent player when he's healthy. But let's face it, Montreal hasn't had a great French Canadian forward since Stephane Richer.

IIHF officially approved the move of Hudler to the KHL.

Nice ballsy move from Oval-chicken today, stating he'll play for Russia in 2014 whether the NHL approves their players being there or not.

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