No way! Vancouver was down two goals near the end of the third against the best team in the league and tied it!!
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The Hawks, 2 goals up, are just flying out there, yet the Canucks find a way to scrap back to a tie and force OT. Bieksa sure knows when to shoot the puck.
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Canucks didnt play that well but Schneider was excellent in net. Lucky to get a point.
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Galchenyuk actually leads the Habs in ES pts with 10 (tied for 19th in the NHL:cheers:). Gallagher is second with 8 followed by Pacioretty and Bourque at 7.
If someone told me before the season started that 2 rookies will be leading the team in ES pts AND that we'll be first in the East, I would have send him in the hospital to get checked.:haha: Seriously though, I knew last year was a fluke but I was not expecting us to be that good lol.:P -3 lines that can score (only the Habs, Tampa and St. Louis have 6 players or more with 10+ pts), -Markov-Subban are both rock solid even if they play on different pairs (and at least 1 of them is on the ice for basically 80-85% of the game:D) -Price solid as usual back there. Hopefully we keep it up.:tup: |
As a neutral I would freakin' LOVE a Toronto - Montreal playoff series!!!!
Out of the Canadian clubs I'd choose Ottawa, gotta back the home town Head Coach, what a beauty! |
Haha definitely saving a screenshot of that post for the end of the season.
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God, I hate watching Sutter-coached teams.
Even when the Oilers beat the Kings I feel like I wasted a few hours of my life watching such a slow, choppy, snoozer of a game. i am sure most Flames fans can sympathize. |
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Well, until we play Phoenix. ZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz............................ |
Oh and PS: I didn't realize the league considers suspensions for tripping these days. What a joke. One of our guys has a broken hand from a vicious slash and they're worried about tripping.
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It was a long run... Sabres fire Lindy Ruff
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Normally I would have the Leafs jump all over picking up Ruff, but Carlyle looks to be doing a pretty good job.
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Ruff wont stay available for long, wonder who will take him.
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Crazy game between Philly and Pittsburgh...
We keep our first place with now a game in hand on the Pens (and a pt ahead).:tup: Crazy stat: The Habs are 2-4-1 vs the Northeast but 9-0-0 against the 2 other divisions. |
Once again, the Flames get to play against a backup goalie after the Oilers had to try and score on the Vezina-quality starter the night before.
What the hell. |
flames and oilers, bottom two teams in the west this year? looking so.
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Ugh this team. |
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It's going to be good having 4 picks in the first 2 rounds this year in a deep draft. |
i think the jets will wind up getting a top 10 draft pick this year - maybe even top 5....unless they play well like they did against the sabres
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Keep in mind that unless you're pricing in the top few picks, the draft is mostly a crap shoot. |
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If you go by the experts predictions that a team in the west will need around 57 points to make the playoffs.....it means the Flames will have to have a record of 22-11 for the remainder of the season...... |
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Generally speaking, Timmins is good at finding late round gems. Gallagher (5th round), Sergei Kostitsyn (7th round), Mikhail Grabovski (5th round), Mark Streit (9th round), Jaroslav Halak (9th round) are just a few examples. We'll see how it goes though, those 4 picks in the top 60 can also be used to trade up the draft. |
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I'll be rooting for a #1 pick if that's the case. The last 2 games were completely worthless from an entertainment perspective (and from a winning perspective). Obviously I'd love to have a Pittsburgh here, but failing that: I can handle a team that's entertaining but terrible (Oilers in recent years), or boring but successful (Phoenix, Flames immediately post-2004 lockout). Having boring and unsuccessful is the straw with me. Destroy this team if that's what we're doing. And by god, SOMEONE has to figure out a way to end D-first hockey once and for all. It's completely ruining the game. |
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I think Carlyle doing "well" is more due to actually getting above average goaltending for the first time in years, and less to do with him. Looking at some of his baffling coaching decisions (13 mins for Colton fucking Orr???, less than 15 for Grabovski??? 27 minutes for Mike Kostka???), I'm really starting to not like him as a coach quick. In fact, if Wilson was getting this kind of goaltending I doubt he would have been torn up as much as he was. |
And for the love of God give Dion a non-AHL defense partner! Holzer was terrible last night.
Anyway, I'm going to the game tonight vs. Buffalo so I hope I get to see a win again. |
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As someone who openly despises the Leafs (for various reasons I've articulated in the past and aren't really relevant here) ... Toronto fans should be ECSTATIC about Carlyle. He's probably the best thing to happen to the franchise in over a decade and it actually looks possible that they may make the post-season this year as a result.
Much to my complete and utter disgust, of course. But I have to give the man tremendous credit for what he's done and may well do come May. I'll die a little inside, but I can't question his results so far. This Leafs team is actually... not horrible. Which is about as close to grudging respect as you'll get from me ... for the moment. :haha: |
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If the Habs knew at the time how PK Subban would turn out they would have picked him in the first round instead of Ryan Mcdonough. :) Same for Mark Streit and Jaroslav Halak.
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Watching Philadelphia is so frustrating. I don't get how a team can be such polar opposites from day to day. I thought they were finally turning it around and then they go and get completely shut down by one of the worst teams in the conference. They need some serious rebuilding on the blue line if they're going to have any chance of making the playoffs.
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These kind of losses are so frustrating...
We dominate 2-0 (shots are 14-2) after the first period so we decide that we have to stop playing D because it's the Islanders. :no: Take the point and go hide... that was a HORRIBLE third period. Anyway not the end of the world, we're still first in the East.:P I know we're probably not going to finish 1st but the team is still 11-4-2 which a lot better than I expected.:) BTW-Max Pacioretty is the real deal. 10-11: 14 goals, 24 in 37 games (31 goals and 53 pts pace) 11-12: 33 goals, 65 pts in 79 games this season: 13 pts in 13 games so far No more fluke... this guy is really good. |
I do not expect the Habs to finish in first either. However, like the Blue Shirts last year, who rode Lundqvist from start to finish, I feel that Montreal can do something similar this year with Carey Price.
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The team doesn't randomly chose players after the first round... Subban was known to be very skilled offensively but scouts were criticizing his defense. I remember reading somewhere that one scout said about him that he didn't know what D was...:haha: Timmins liked his skill set and we selected him. After all, you can teach D, you can't teach talent. Turns out to be a pretty good risk.:) |
Brutal Edmonton, brutal.
Yay schmitty, happy birthday. |
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO not Anderson!!!!! :(:( Just when I thought the Sens situation couldn't get any worse....
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The Sens must have really pissed the hockey gods.:(
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Even with their injuries the sens are keeping the Northeast the tightest division in the league. Four teams within 2 points of each other and all of them looking solid.
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I'm loving Boston though, despite how little they've played compared to other teams in the division. 4 games less than Toronto and Ottawa, yet still tied. Only two points behind Montreal, who has three more games than them. The Northeast Division is a blast to watch, and as a Boston fan, I couldn't be happier with how its going. The boys are playing great. :cheers: |
Stupid 3 point games. :hell: When is this league going to smarten up and make all games equal? 3-2-1-0 system makes sense if this league wants to hand out a loser point.
It's amazing the Leafs haven't had a single shootout so far, and have only played a single game that goes into overtime. Apparently when they lose they really like to lose. Not that I'm complaining about the ROW wins, those will help in a tiebreaker at the end of the season (if they get that far). |
How many games for Hall's hit... 2-3 is my bet.
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And guaranteed, if that was Taylor Hall who got creamed while skating across the ice like that, everyone around the league would be saying "This kid needs to learn to keep his head on a swivel, not skate so recklessly into dangerous areas, etc." Clutterbuck is the type of turd that the NHL needs less of anyway. Every other team in the West should thank Hall for that hit. |
Hall shouldn't be suspended, he meant to hit Clutterbuck with his shoulder and actually almost missed, the result was his thigh hit Clutterbucks knee.
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Overall Montreal picked well in the draft that year, but looking at picks from the first two rounds in other years....not so the same success.
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He's also 6'1", 196 lbs already!!! His latest goal is a beauty and if you watch closely, the whole play starts with him in the defensive zone. He's really good defensively for a kid learning the game (leads the team with +8). He took Callahan out of the play.:haha: |
Wow, congrats to Chicago for their 17th straight game with at least a pt to start a season, a new NHL record!
They look unstoppable... |
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