Running 2007 NHL regular season thread

Pascal Leclaire with his fifth shutouts in nine games to start the season, CBJ beats the Blues 3-0.

 

I don't believe so, Larry Moberg is their head coach this year. He just got promoted from AC, but I think Howell was gone before the season.

 

I missed it because of no power. Noel paid me a visit. Anyway, can someone tell me what the final score was and anything notable that may have happened in the game?

 

Grapes is old, bordering on senile and largely irrelevant. Has been for quite some time. I don't even watch his drivel anymore.

 

This guy?

http://www.westsidewarriors.ca/leagues/custom_page.cfm?clientid=1414&leagueid=3597&pageid=1779

 

That would be him.

 

After his comments about Crosby, I am not surprised that he continues to spew out crap.

 

End of an era. Sherwood is going to outsource production of all their wooden hockey sticks to focus on the copmposites.

http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/273561

Montreal Canadiens legend Guy Lafleur – the word "hero" only begins to describe his importance to much of Quebec – recently recalled using Sher-Wood sticks to pepper goalies with pucks en route to 618 career NHL goals.

"I find it really sad that wood hockey sticks are disappearing. It bothers me," Lafleur told Sherbrooke's La Tribune newspaper in a recent interview.

"The P.M.P. 5030 was the best stick in the world."

Lafleur, a member of hockey's Hall of Fame, derided one-piece composite models as "crap," adding "maybe your shot is harder, but what does an extra 20 miles an hour matter when the puck goes 50 feet wide of the net?"

And Parliament should pass a bill outlawing the use of composite sticks by anyone in Peewee or younger.

Spending $200 on a stick for your ten year old is obscene.

 

I agree one hundred percent about the composite sticks. They're shit.

After watching my Gophers take it in the shorts this weekend, I had a couple thoughts:

1. This might be the year they simply cannot reload.

2. The Bozac kid Denver got from the BC junior league is a serious stud. Hope he's only there a year or so.

 

Ladies and gentlemen, the best goalie in the world is:



That is all.
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Is this just your opinion or did some place get commissioned to do a survey?

 

I disagree completely. Composites (I play a Mission Pulse) have added another level to my shot from the point and my ability to do some things with the puck. That said, when I play forward, I go back to my Koho wood.


And gentlemen, hockey in the courts:

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/calgary/story/2007/11/01/simard-guilty.html?ref=rss

A hockey player, banned for life from organized hockey in Alberta, has been found guilty of assaulting a linesman after a junior game last year.

Judge Ian Kirkpatrick convicted Robert Simard, 22, of assault Thursday, calling the former player's testimony a "ludicrous attempt to avoid liability."

Police were called in after a fight at a junior B hockey game at the Stu Peppard Arena in southwest Calgary October 2006. The on-ice altercation carried over off the ice as players and officials headed to the dressing rooms. Linesman Rory McCuaig tried to break up the brawl.

As many as five people jumped McCuaig, who was knocked unconscious from a kick to the face and suffered minor injuries. During the trial, he identified one of his attackers as Simard.

Simard, who had been ejected from the game earlier for slashing, testified that he was trying to break up the fight. His lawyer, Alain Hepner, maintained there was reasonable doubt it was his client who attacked the linesman.

But in handing down his verdict Thursday, the judge said, "I'm sure it was the accused who wound up and kicked the linesman in the face as he was lying on the ground."