2013-2014 NHL Thread

[atomic charvel guy]

they look even softer than the Rangers.

[leftykingv2]

Here's another novel idea...shut yer perogie hole

After 5 straight days of running through 3 sets of material and a 4 hour gig on Saturday night, playing guitar on Sunday wasn't happening. Nice thought though

I don't have a Pierogi hole I am 100% Irish not Polish.

[leftykingv2]

they look even softer than the Rangers.

They are! And they're absolutely disgusting.

[Sephiroth]

I guess I am the only one here that likes Olympic hockey.


It's a shame about Crosby though. The Canadian girls were too mean and had balls too big for him, so they ended up having to put him on the men's team.

[atomic charvel guy]

heee heee heeee heeee!! (i'm giggling like a schoolgirl myself)

[Shawn Lutz]

seriously? I got up at 4am today...watched USA vs SVK and RUSS vs SLO at 6:30am

fixing to watch Team Canada at 11. Watched Sweden yesterday

I watch whatever I can live utik I go back to work next Tuesday

[Sephiroth]

What in blueberry fuckmuffins is Canada doing struggling against Norway? That's like struggnling against the Mexico of hockey.

[Shawn Lutz]

http://mweb.cbssports.com/olympics/eye-on-olympics/24409161/olympic-hockey-tv-schedule

Babcock will take the team with the most talent and make them play unskilled game, dumbed down hockey.

[Sephiroth]

Russia was disappointing and I am sure Ovechkin is gonna take a pay cut the next time he signs a contract............assuming he's still alive after a very angry Putin saying the hockey gold was the only medal that mattered.


So it looks like the US-Canada game is the big game of this Olympics. I am betting on the US. last time in Vancouver Canada only barely won, and that was in OT. This time the US has a much stronger team while Canada albeit has been winning but just barely against lesser teams. So the possibility is there that the US could take this one, even though it's possible Canada was just holding back until the big game, and will get all sorts of ugly tomorrow.

[atomic charvel guy]

Canada is loaded, but I guess there is always something to say about having chemistry. on paper they should never lose, but they have to still play and win the games.

[Mudlark]

Perfectly summed up Sephiroth, I can't friggin' wait to see the game.
Meanwhile...Tavares gets injured and misses the rest of the NHL season. What could be worse for an Islander fan?

This time the US has a much stronger team while Canada albeit has been winning but just barely against lesser teams. So the possibility is there that the US could take this one, even though it's possible Canada was just holding back until the big game, and will get all sorts of ugly tomorrow.

[Shawn Lutz]

Canada will show up tomorrow, count on it. The USA look good at times but I have a felling they'll need to steal it with goaltending and win 1-0 or 2-1.

Russia is a surprise for me. They are uber offensive stacked and thought they'd score goals in bunches but it never happened. They were not what I call a team...too many one way players aside from Dats. Ovechkin will never win a cup as a leader of his club unless he puts forth an effort to play on both sides for the puck but he just wants to score goals. He could care less of being a -17 but that is a liability....he has 40 goals, 20 assists and 60 points, knock the - its 43 pts and he isn't worth the kind of coin he gets in my opinion.

[atomic charvel guy]

Perfectly summed up Sephiroth, I can't friggin' wait to see the game.
Meanwhile...Tavares gets injured and misses the rest of the NHL season. What could be worse for an Islander fan?

that's a bingo mudlark! my biggest gripe about nhl players in the Olympics right there. if I was an owner of an nhl team i'd be lobbying hard to end the participation of any player of mine or any other team in the Olympics. it's a stupid risk, and it also goes against the whole spirit of the Olympics in general as it is supposed to be amatuers not professionals.

[leftykingv2]

that's a bingo mudlark! my biggest gripe about nhl players in the Olympics right there. if I was an owner of an nhl team i'd be lobbying hard to end the participation of any player of mine or any other team in the Olympics. it's a stupid risk, and it also goes against the whole spirit of the Olympics in general as it is supposed to be amatuers not professionals.

+1 I said the same thing as well. It's just bad business to give a player millions of dollars and then have them go off and risk getting injured playing for another team.

[ZL1hawk]

+1 I said the same thing as well. It's just bad business to give a player millions of dollars and then have them go off and risk getting injured playing for another team.

What's funny is all those players are injured by now. They were hurt before they flew to the games. The demands on these players are already extremely high then the big brains shut the NHL down for 3 weeks, killing any momentum good teams have built up to that point, send most players home to get bored, and the rest head off to Russia and see if they can get hurt even worse.

Team Canada has had multiple roster changes due to health concerns, 2 of their players could barely forecheck since hand injuries prevented them from holding on to their sticks, it's a big reason why Canada seems a step slower than the competition. Like you guys I wish they would keep the pro's where they belong and send the college kids off to the Olympic games.