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All-purpose hockey thread...

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by hockeybeat, Nov 2, 2005.

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How do you like the new NHL, compared to what the sport used to be?

  1. I love it!

    39 vote(s)
    38.6%
  2. I hate it!

    4 vote(s)
    4.0%
  3. I could not care less!

    11 vote(s)
    10.9%
  4. They're playing hockey? When did this happen?

    10 vote(s)
    9.9%
  5. I don't like hockey, but I love the fights.

    2 vote(s)
    2.0%
  6. Is Wayne Gretzky still playing?

    1 vote(s)
    1.0%
  7. Is Sidney Crosby a girl?

    5 vote(s)
    5.0%
  8. I like what I've seen so far but I'm not sure if I love it yet

    29 vote(s)
    28.7%
  1. Beef03

    Beef03 Active Member

    Re: New NHL vs. the old NHL

    Nothing to be ashamed about, you forgot the godless Flames' one Stanley Cup. Very easy mistake to make. I personally make an effort to blot that one from memory.
     
  2. Double J

    Double J Active Member

    Re: New NHL vs. the old NHL

    Hey, you can't tell me that Hanna native Lanny McDonald, who played Junior A in Medicine Hat, didn't deserve to go out as a Stanley Cup champion.
    And godless Flames? The team they beat that year is the true hockey Satan. If you lived in Ontario and grew up as a Leafs fan, you'd know that.

    Ah, but will he win another Cup before he retires? He has two rings, but so does Mario so that one is a push.
     
  3. Beef03

    Beef03 Active Member

    Re: New NHL vs. the old NHL

    Lanny McDonald is the one reason I have trouble forgetting that truely terrible final. Shit it was a situation where you cheered for the Refs. Besidesi, as an Oilers fan, the Flames are the NHL's Satan, their name is the Flames, does that not remind youof a place you might find Satan? I lived in Calgary for two years and it definitely fits the bill as hell, meanwhile Montreal is a great party town. Visited once, had a blast, want to go again.
     
  4. Double J

    Double J Active Member

    Re: New NHL vs. the old NHL

    Never been to Edmonton, Calgary or Montreal, and I usually try to judge cities I haven't been to on the merits (or lack thereof) of their hockey teams. That's a pretty good way to judge, isn't it?
    Because I have a brother and a sister who live in Calgary, that sort of tips the scale in the Flames' favour. Plus my dad served in Korea with a battalion whose HQ at the time was Calgary and he trained at a base in that city.
     
  5. hockeybeat

    hockeybeat Guest

    Re: New NHL vs. the old NHL

    If the Red Wings cannot beat the sorry, no account, lazy New York Islanders, they cannot win the Cup. So let it be written, so let it be done.
     
  6. Beef03

    Beef03 Active Member

    Re: New NHL vs. the old NHL

    You can forget about this year for the Wings or any team not named the Senators for that matter. I don't give any team a snow ball's chance in a best of 7 series against Ottawa.
     
  7. fleishman

    fleishman Active Member

    Re: New NHL vs. the old NHL

    that was a nice goal by mike york today...
     
  8. hockeybeat

    hockeybeat Guest

    Re: New NHL vs. the old NHL

    Ottawa has to be considered the front-runners for the Cup. That first line is amazing. Alfredsson (20 goals, 20 assists, 40 points), Spezza (11 goals, 32 assists, 43 points) and Heatley (19 goals, 21 assists, 40 points.) have combined for 123 points in 24 games.

    Yes, Yorkie's quite good. As a Rangers fan, it warms the cockles of my heart to know that Glen Sather traded York for the useless sack of dried fucking dogshit known as Tom Poti.
     
  9. fleishman

    fleishman Active Member

    Re: New NHL vs. the old NHL

    it was described nicely by the islanders radio announcers also..
     
  10. Beef03

    Beef03 Active Member

    Re: New NHL vs. the old NHL

    Oh come on, Bobby Orr once called Poti the next Bobby Orr, he can't be that bad, can he   ::)
    Don't worry I know he is, I was at the front of that line that ran him out of Edmonton on a rail. On the flip side of it all, I'm not so impressed with what we got in return for York when we dealt him to Long Island. It's not every day the Oilers have a $4-mil fourth line centre. Where the hell has his game gone? Peca used to have drive and determination to fall back on, but that doesn't even seem to be there any more.
     
  11. hockeybeat

    hockeybeat Guest

    Re: New NHL vs. the old NHL

    The Rangers lost a game! The sky is falling! Oh, woe is the little team that could! [/drippingwithsarcasm]

     
  12. fleishman

    fleishman Active Member

    Re: New NHL vs. the old NHL

    good to see an article mentioning turnovers by current rangers then mentions a guy like nedved, who had quite the number of turnovers with his head down in his last stint with the rangers...
     
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