NHL season 2017/2018 - Page 16

SkahHigh · #**301** Posted **Oct 16, 2017, 1:16 PM**

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I make a point of avoiding that site at all costs, good interface or not.

People are weird over there...

Coldrsx · #**302** Posted **Oct 16, 2017, 2:31 PM**

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Originally Posted by Mrs Sauga

When do the Oilers hit the panic button?

We went 4-0 one year and then were last in the league by 15-20pts.

Call me in mid-Nov.

Calgarian · #**303** Posted **Oct 16, 2017, 4:13 PM**

I think a lot of people expect Edmonton to take a step back this year, looks like it may be the case. Still far too early to judge, but the Oilers don't seem to have the same mojo they did last year.

Can't believe Ottawa outscored the Alberta teams 12-1, that's not going to happen very often with both teams in this province on the way up lol.

Anyone who's talking about hitting the panic button in the first week and a half of the season must not watch much hockey. Sounds like a Leafs fan! lol.

ExcaliburKid · #**304** Posted **Oct 16, 2017, 4:49 PM**

No panic yet, 4 games in does not a season make
This isn't unusual, Anaheim went 1-3-1 in their first 5 games last season and made the WCF, so really just need some polish to the team game and should start turning things around

Oilers are averaging 38.75 shots per game, they just can't buy a goal right now. A lot of guys need to be better but teams seem to go through stints like this every year where nothing's going right. Hopefully this is the one and only for the Oilers

ToxiK · #**305** Posted **Oct 16, 2017, 4:50 PM**

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What about your own cup-less streak? It's at a quarter century after this season.

There are university graduates out there who've landed jobs, bought homes, and started families that weren't alive for the Habs last cup.

Welcome to the club!

And in many cases, even their parents are too young to remember the last Stanley Cup of the Leafs...

suburbanite · #**306** Posted **Oct 16, 2017, 5:26 PM**

I'll have you know my parents were a mature 1.5 years old when the leafs won. My father still speaks of it fondly.

Black Star · #**307** Posted **Oct 16, 2017, 7:01 PM**

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Originally Posted by Calgarian

I think a lot of people expect Edmonton to take a step back this year, looks like it may be the case. Still far too early to judge, but the Oilers don't seem to have the same mojo they did last year.

Can't believe Ottawa outscored the Alberta teams 12-1, that's not going to happen very often with both teams in this province on the way up lol.

Anyone who's talking about hitting the panic button in the first week and a half of the season must not watch much hockey. Sounds like a Leafs fan! lol.

A hand full of games in...not worried at all. Its gonna be OK hockey fans.

do-not-panic by BLACK STAR III, on Flickr

TownGuy · #**308** Posted **Oct 16, 2017, 10:31 PM**

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Originally Posted by ToxiK

And in many cases, even their parents are too young to remember the last Stanley Cup of the Leafs...

Yes but Leafs fans have come to terms with this a long time ago whereas there's a segment of Habs fans that still have illusions of grandeur about their franchise. Bottomline is they are coming up on a quarter century without doing anything and the current team is no man's land and it looks like they'll be stuck there for while. Basically they're a bubble team that needs to rebuild but can't (Carey Price, Shea Weber, etc) like the Leafs were in the Phil Kessel era. Soon it'll be 30 years and so on.

SkahHigh · #**309** Posted **Oct 16, 2017, 11:27 PM**

The fan of a 50-year cupless team giving lessons to fans of a 24-year cupless team... Hmmm.

Mrs Sauga · #**310** Posted **Oct 16, 2017, 11:59 PM**

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Originally Posted by SkahHigh

The fan of a 50-year cupless team giving lessons to fans of a 24-year cupless team... Hmmm.

Leafs drought is embarassing.

Ironically, eventhough the Habs were the most recent Canadian team to win the cup, I feel they will be the last to do so going forward. Leafs, Oilers, Jets, etc are all looking promising. While the Habs are stuck as a bubble team for at least the duration of Price's contract. It will be a very long time before they realize they have to blow it up and rebuild. And even if they finally decide to do it, they will always chose the best available French guy to manage or coach their team.

TownGuy · #**311** Posted **Oct 17, 2017, 12:11 AM**

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Originally Posted by SkahHigh

The fan of a 50-year cupless team giving lessons to fans of a 24-year cupless team... Hmmm.

You'd better start taking notes. Gonna need them.

Trevor3 · #**312** Posted **Oct 17, 2017, 12:45 AM**

Here's the thing about decades long cup droughts: They're going to be really common.

If every team wins a cup before repeating, with equal time in between each win, each team would only win once every 31 years. Obviously that won't happen, strong teams have a tendency to repeat - something which wasn't supposed to be common in the parity age. Yet, we have only had 4 teams (Pittsburgh x3, Chicago, x3, Los Angeles x2, Boston x1) win in the last 9 years. Every time a team repeats or wins a second cup in quick succession, another team has to be bumped from winning within the next 31 years. Pittsburgh has bumped 2 teams out, Chicago has bumped 2 teams out, LA has bumped 1 team out. This means that at least 5 teams are going to go more than 31 years without a cup from the time of Pittsburgh's 2009 win.

Since 2009, 4 teams have won, 26 still need to win (not counting Las Vegas since they just started) in the next 21 seasons which is obviously impossible. So at least 5 teams need to go 30 seasons from 2009 without a Cup. Anytime a team wins a multiple cups after 2009, everybody else's chances of winning within the next 30 years takes a hit. For teams with lengthy droughts like Toronto, New York Islanders, Philadelphia, Calgary, Edmonton and yes, Montreal (now 6th longest drought) This increases the odds of each drought lasting another 21 years from today (30 from 2009). Not to mention teams that have never won, some dating back to 1967-68 expansion like St. Louis or early 70s like Vancouver and Buffalo.

SkahHigh · #**313** Posted **Oct 17, 2017, 2:27 AM**

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Originally Posted by TownGuy

You'd better start taking notes. Gonna need them.

About? Tanking lol? Lucking out on the first overall? No need to take notes

Denscity · #**314** Posted **Oct 18, 2017, 3:30 AM**

The Canucks get three of a possible four points off of hot Ottawa. And after seeing what the Senators did in Alberta this result seems pretty impressive.

Coldrsx · #**315** Posted **Oct 18, 2017, 3:46 AM**

50+ shots against CAR and we lose 5-3.

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TorontoDrew · #**316** Posted **Oct 18, 2017, 11:22 AM**

Another great Leaf game last night.

suburbanite · #**317** Posted **Oct 18, 2017, 11:27 AM**

Kucherov becomes the only person since Lemieux to score a goal in the first seven games. That line has to be the best in the league right now, but he's also going to get paid. $8.5 - $9 mil probably?

Edited - he probably could score a girl every night too.

TownGuy · #**318** Posted **Oct 18, 2017, 1:43 PM**

Lucky guy!

lrt's friend · #**319** Posted **Oct 18, 2017, 3:32 PM**

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Originally Posted by Denscity

The Canucks get three of a possible four points off of hot Ottawa. And after seeing what the Senators did in Alberta this result seems pretty impressive.

The Senators were shut out even though they were dominant for much of the game. Got to give the Canucks credit for not giving the Sens those dangerous second chances and for having a hot goaltender. The third goal was a dagger and was lucky after Karlsson hit the goal post on a wicked shot that rebounded to the perfect place giving a break away. But that is part of the game.

Although Karlsson was not in midseason form, he still made 2 great plays that in other games may have resulted in goals and the Sens had some great power plays that also didn't produce anything.

Calgarian · #**320** Posted **Oct 18, 2017, 4:16 PM**

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Originally Posted by Denscity

The Canucks get three of a possible four points off of hot Ottawa. And after seeing what the Senators did in Alberta this result seems pretty impressive.

Don't get excited, it's going to be a long season for the Canucks.

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50+ shots against CAR and we lose 5-3.

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Outshoot them 51-21 and lose 5-3, maybe I'm not disappointed that we sent you guys Brossoit for a bag of pucks...