2009-10 NHL Thread

If only it were that easy.

 

Adrian Dater from the Denver Post is saying that Matt Duchene won't be sent back to Brampton. Not much of a surprise to anyone including Huggy and Stan Butler, the Battalion GM & coach.

http://blogs.denverpost.com/avs/2009/10/18/duchene-will-stay/

 

It was around Christmas last year that I said if a healthy Matt Duchene got sent back to junior, I'd be shocked.

 

The question is whether Ryan O'Reilly will go back to Erie.

 

Did y'all know the French are discriminated against in the NHL?

http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2117879

 

It's going to be a long winter in Montreal.

 

How can that be? I mean, the French have Connections!

 

I could probably slog through it in French but I'll wait until the English translation comes out--if there is one.

 

And Rypien kicks the crap out of the great Stortillini

 

Oilers barely hold on to beat the Canucks. Whew that was a close one.

 

So long as the Canucks lose, y'all do whatever you need to do up there.

 

Didn't watch any of it, was it a good game? I hear Khabibulin stood on his head.