2010-2011 NHL season

Considering he'd been a healthy scratch throughout most of December (before being briefly put on IR for what was believed to be a minor lower body injury last week), I'd say there's a chance he may get a permanent vacation from ATL soon.

 

Well I guess after the Leaf game last night the rest of the country can look forward to 6 hours of intense leaf coverage on HNIC tonight.

Interesting how Eager gets 4 games while keeping his glove on, Jody Shelley gets 2 and Lucic gets fined. they guy who keeps his glove on gets a bigger suspension than the 2 who sucker guys barefisted. NHL justice for you.

 

Maybe Ramsay asked the league to give him four.

HNIC features Boston at Montreal. Lots of bad blood there.

 

Sweet winner in OT by Tavares.

 

good point. Eager's a piece of shit. Nobody picks their spots like he does, it's just consistent NHL discipline again

 

Don't know why you would ever expect the NHL's discipline system to make any sense at all.

 

Habs come back from a 2-0 deficit against the Bruins with about three to go in the third, tie it up and then win in OT.
Sweet

 

Second time in a week the Bruins have thrown away two points against a division team by giving up a lead in the final minute.

Getting outshot 2-1 in the third period -- which has been the Bruins' M.O. of late -- isn't exactly going to put them in good playoff position. Tim Thomas can't win every game by himself.

 

Western Conference is just nuts right now. Five teams tied for the final playoff spot, and another just one point behind.

 

Steve Simmons of the Toronto Sun is speculating that if Dave Cameron can win the Memorial Cup as coach of the Mississauga St. Michael's Majors, Majors owner Eugene Melnyk will reward him by making him coach of the other team Melnyk owns - the Ottawa Senators.

Moot point, of course, because I don't believe the Majors will win the Memorial Cup, even if they do have an automatic berth as the host team.

I also don't believe Cameron has ever done anything to prove he can be an NHL head coach.

On a different tangent of incompetence, remember that big 9-3 win for the Leafs over the Thrashers? Yeah.....Toronto defenceman Brett Lebda was -3 in that game. Wow. Captain Dion Phaneuf was also among the minus players that night for the Leafs. Pathetic.

 

Simmons, like his predecessor Strachan, is a friggin' idiot.

In the OHL I think the Champion will come out of the Western Conference--Saginaw, Kitchener, or your guys, Owen Sound. Troops played Kitchener this afternoon. Brampton lost 2-1 on a goal by the Rangers in the last 30 seconds of the third. Huge team with two guys at 6'5" but the Battalion did not back down.

Mississauga is in town next Thursday night and I may go check them out. I think I've only seen them once and can't remember them. So even though they're the host team, I'm not sure they have the guns to beat the guys in the West. But Huggy or Sea Bass may have another opinion

BTW, Owen Sound is in Brampton next Sunday afternoon. If it's not snowing, perhaps you should make the trek.

 

Didn't Simmons mention in the same column today that Pierre McGuire might be among those considered if the Ottawa GM spot some open? Don't know about that, McGuire would be nuts to leave the gig he's got.

As for the O, Missy is a strong team at both ends and adding Maxim Kitsyn from the Russian junior team is huge for them. Missy doesn't scare anyone like Windsor, Kitch and London might have in the past. To me, they are missing that pure, gamebreaking sniper, but maybe Kitsyn is a solution there. But Niagara and Ottawa will not go quietly in the Eastern Conference.

Out west, JJ's Attack's chances are considerably slimmer with the loss of Scott Stajcer in goal. Kitchener is very good and will be a factor down the stretch, especially when Gabriel Landeskog comes back. Saginaw is very strong, especially with the addition today of overage Dalton Prout. Don't discount Windsor, which just added offensive guy Taylor Carnevale from Barrie, and, as of this writing, still has Ryan Ellis and Zack Kassian (if those guys get traded they will have decided not to go for it). Jack Campbell is the goalie I'd want on my team right now. Kitch and Saginaw don't have anyone in his league.