The Official 2008-2009-2010 NHL Thread

Roland113 wrote: Is it me or do the Penguins seem to be perennially battling with the Devils.  I swear, every year, our main competition in the Atlantic Division is the Devils, regardless of what the point totals are, we always seem to be within two points of them.  The Penguins are having a pretty good year this year . . . but ohhh, look at that the Devils are one point ahead.  Don't get me wrong, I'm a fan of Martin Brodeaur, I'll just be glad when he decides that he's had enough . . . granted, that will probably be in 2020. Go Pens!

 

the Devils' style of hockey is disguisting, all interference, all the time, and it's never called.  How can a team this short on talent win so many damn games?  Modern NHL my ass.

Rush and hockey fans might find this of interest:

^ playoffs are a loooong way away for your two stat cupcake

better practice playing defense

Edited by manofmystery - January 22 2010 at 01:28

rushfan4 wrote: Unfortunately, I missed the Wings/Caps game, but I did catch the post-game wrap-up and the way our announcers were talking you would have thought that the Wings won the game.  They said that the Wings really outplayed the Caps but lost as a result of a couple of early fluke type goals.  Not having seen it, I can't judge, but it is nice to see/hear that the Wings are starting to play better.  They looked really good against the Wild last night until they gave up the two late goals that sent the game to overtime.

yeah.. the Red Wings are definitely suffering the '40 minute' syndrome.  Didn't they give up 2 late ones again the other night.

as far as the Caps defense.... it's good enough... roughly 2 goals a game against top flight teams this week, with that offense  ....   they have 2 top flight goaltenders.. and another waiting in the wings getting significant playing time from the minors while Simeon, who nearly beat the Pens singlehandedly last year until he had one bad game (game 7 of course ) is healing up.  The Caps are a much better team this year from the one that nearly knocked out the eventual champion.  Look at their record when Ovie was out for injury/suspension.  That team is loaded.... and probably a good defenseman away from being THE odds on favorite to win it all.  They'll probably address that before the end of the season.. even if not...  they look like the class of the east at this point.


Edited by micky - January 24 2010 at 11:00

Ah well.  No surprises.  The Wings suck at shootouts and the Penguins are lights out in them.

10-0 for the Caps....

let's see if the idiots from ESPN.com finally move the Caps to the top of the rankings this week hahha....  though it is funny to talk about a 'western bias' for once in sports haha.

You can be pretty certain that the Wings aren't going to be the team to stop the Caps this time.

The next NHL season opens in Helsinki  Wild and Hurricanes are playing about five kilometres away from my home on October 7th and 8th next autumn, very very tempted to get a ticket...

Sigh, I miss Olympic rules and officiating