2010 NHL Offseason Thread

[Sepukku]

How did the WBS Penguins do this year?

IDK, IDC. I don't live in, or relate to, the city of Wilkes Barre, PA.

[Sepukku]

What qualities are you looking for Ishido? Furry eyebrows? Knowledge of the Russian strip district? Bad haircuts?

http://www.topnews.in/files/images/Pavel-Datsyuk2.jpg

He doesn't even know how to stand like a man! Its like hes trying to shit out the Rosetta Stone while standing for pictures.

[Bregor]

IDK, IDC. I don't live in, or relate to, the city of Wilkes Barre, PA.

Damn, I was hoping you could pick me up some paper.

Spoiler: show

http://mitcho.com/blog/wp-content/up...5/micahel1.png

[Sepukku]

Damn, I was hoping you could pick me up some paper.

Spoiler: show

http://mitcho.com/blog/wp-content/up...5/micahel1.png

I don't get it.

[Selamis]

Jack Skille has had numerous shots over the past three years to get out of Rockford and into Chicago full time, and he keeps getting sent back down. I don't see him stepping up this year either lol. He's fun to watch but I dunno, he should have improved his play enough by now to stay.

Predictions are that we lose Kim Johnson, Ladd, Eager, and Nick Boyton to FA, and perhaps Versteeg in a trade. Someone will buy out Huet, or he'll go to the minors.

[Bregor]

I don't get it.

Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins

Wilkes-Barre/Scranton

Scranton

setting of "The Office" company Dunder Mifflin

Dunder Mifflin is a paper company

[Sepukku]

Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins

Wilkes-Barre/Scranton

Scranton

setting of "The Office" company Dunder Mifflin

Dunder Mifflin is a paper company

What does Mark Eaton, Stone Cold, and I have in common?

Spoiler: show

We all don't watch queer sitcoms.

[Bregor]

What does Mark Eaton, Stone Cold, and I have in common?

Spoiler: show

We all don't watch queer sitcoms.

Also I'm guessing you all conjugate verbs incorrectly and use words like "queer" as derogatory.

[Sepukku]

Damn fucking right, we're Texans. We smoke beers and shoot queers.

[Callisto]

Jack Skille has had numerous shots over the past three years to get out of Rockford and into Chicago full time, and he keeps getting sent back down. I don't see him stepping up this year either lol. He's fun to watch but I dunno, he should have improved his play enough by now to stay.

I think Skille was more a financial issue this year, they kept sending him back to Rockford on non-game days when Toews was hurt because they couldn't fit his full NHL salary under the cap. He probably would have been a bit better if he actually got to practice with the Hawks, but he kept having to practice with the Hogs > drive 2+ hours downtown > play game for Hawks > drive back to Rockford.

[Callisto]

Stars news: http://www.thehockeynews.com/article...ee-agents.html

Not sure if Climie is expected to be Lehtonen's backup or what, and they put out their RFA offers to their major ones, including Neal, Niskanen, and Grossman.

[Ivaden]

All right Sepukku, our Penguin-alliance ends here. No one badmouths The Office.

[Ishido]

Ishido, you're a fucking retard if you think Datsyuk is the best forward in the game. Even claiming he's "Easily" third behind AO/Crosby at the worst is a fucking moronic thing to say.

Here are some forwards at least on the same level as Datsyuk, most better than him:
Sidney Crosby
Alexander Ovechkin
Evgeni Malkin
Nicklas Backstrom
Marian Hossa
Jonathan Toews
Patrick Kane
Ilya Kovalchuk
Jarome Iginla
Rick Nash
Marian Gaborik
Steven Stamkos
[sigh]Dany Heatley
Sedin Twins (both of them, the other one probably woulda finished w/ ~100 points if not for his foot injury)

rofl

pts aren't the only thing in the NHL, and even then outside of this season Datsyuk still beat almost all of those players. He's also better defensively than every single one of those that you listed.

Crosby and Ovechkin, maybe Iginla are the only players that every logical person would take over Datsyuk 100% of the time. I would maybe give you Malkin but he looked so bad this year that it is hard to say. Outside of that most of those players have only matched or beaten Datsyuk's point total once, if ever, and outside of this year none have beaten him in +/- or taken less PIMs.

I know you hate the Red Wings for whatever reason, but you should have tried harder with your list if you wanted to make it seem like you knew what you were talking about.

[Thoronas]

Iginla is better than Datsyuk? I'm a Canadian and love Canadian players but that made me face palm. Hell even the Sedins, while being great players, don't have the complete all around game that Datsyuk has.

I think Stamkos could prove to be a better player in the future but right now I'm not so sure. I have no idea if Stamkos has any defensive game in him.

[Bregor]

There's really only two forwards clearly better than Datsyuk. I'd take a few others over him (Toews, Malkin, Iginla, probably a Sedin or two, maybe Gaborik when healthy) but like I said, he's clearly top ten.

[Callisto]

I think if nothing else Datsyuk is the only Russian player other than Ovechkin who actually looks like he wants to play hockey every single night, if he was the same age as Malkin the two of them wouldn't even be discussed together.

[Tythera]

Random question that popped into my head with Iginla, anyone else ever heard him called creaseface (because he has that giant ass crease along his forehead)? It's what a couple friends of mine always referred to him as and now I immediately think of that whenever I see him/his name >.>

[Bregor]

Just read on ESPN that Caps could be interested in Matthew Lombardi for 2C. Didn't see much of him this year, so any west coast people please chime in, good signing or no?

[Sepukku]

Ishido, I love how you downplayed the value of points and then used points as evidence in your argument.... really bright. Moron.

Also... the Office is gay. Scrubs is the only sitcom ever worth watching. JD makes my life complete. Him+Elliot make the best couple ever... I had to hold back a tear in the presence of my gf during the final episode, I'm man enough to admit.

;_; Manly tears! Manly tears!:

Spoiler: show

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiJGk3Rzbvs

[Snick]

Scrubs is the best show you're not watching.