2008/09 NHL Thread

If it had happened years ago, Dominik Hasek would have brought it up. For all his unorthodox brilliance, think of many of those unimaginable saves and how many times his stick was under some snow in the corner.

 

I posted last night that I thought the Mike Smith call was BS. No way he was throwing the stick. I notice that the NHL Live! guys both agreed that it was a horrible call.

 

Isn't Sundin to Vancouver eerily similar to Messier? Old. former captain brought in for leadership and scoring-- maybe they'll give him number 11 too.

 

I don't think so. I don't think Sundin has had as many injuries as Messier had (prior to signing with the Canucks). Also, Sundin isn't going to be the No. 1 center, like Messier was. Finally, I don't think the Canucks are going to give Sundin the 'C.'

 

I hope not. Sundin was still productive last year, not just living on reputation.

 

Pat Quinn made the comment last night ( being interviewed about the junior team) that Sundin won't try and impose himself on the room or consider himself special. He'll be low key and just try and be a good teammate

 

He was, after all, the reason Bure high-tailed it out of Van.

 

They do. For goals.

 

I know. But expand the replay for plays such as what happened last night in St. Petersburg. The point of replay is to get the calls right. Then get the calls right.

On a completely unrelated note, how impressive did the Red Wings look in stomping the Sharks 6-0 last night?

 

Was Nabokov even awake for this game? Let in some real easy ones.

Conklin made some great stops, especially in the first to keep it scoreless.

 

Somewhat impressive, but might have been a combination of things.

San Jose was on the last game of a road swing and had played the night before and Nabokov was in net too. He let in a couple of easy ones and then it started going downhill and the Sharks lost a lot of their fight.


It was just like when the Wings played at San Jose last month. Then, the Wings were the one coming off a long West Coast road trip, having played the night before. And they lost that one, 4-2.

Also, the Wings haven't played very well the last couple weeks, so they might have looked at this one as a type of "mission game."

 

I don't like Clarke, but he won the Masterton honestly (from a perseverance and dedication standpoint) for making it to the upper echelons of the NHL despite his diabetes. He should have been a top-three pick in the 1969 draft but everyone shied away in the first round. Obviously diabetes was seen very differently back in the '60s and '70s.

In fairness to Wayne Maki, it's not like he jumped Green, who had been engaging in shit like that for years. Green lost the stick fight - it could just as easily have been Maki lying on the ice.

Only a year-and-a-half earlier, Eddie Shack of the Bruins and Larry Zeidel of the Flyers tried to kill each other with their sticks. Both were able to skate off the ice, blood streaming down their faces. I don't want to trivialize Green's injury, but it really was just one of those things.