dom

dom

Skating backwards without falling? Maybe.....

Until the Penguins stop choking in the playoffs who gives a crap who they have on their top lines. If the don't win the Cup next season they should start the rebuild.

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I never really cared about Teemu Selanne much, didn't dislike him, didn't like him. From what I understand, not ready to retire to playing golf, this is how he announced he was coming back this season, I like him now.

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Yumcha

That was awesome...!

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Funny stuff! Never liked golf either......

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Well, we're getting closer to the start of hockey. Time for Sidney Crosby's tips on how to be successful in the coming season.

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Yumcha

Puzzled by this move: Hawks sign Crawford to a 6 year, $36M contract. Don't think he's worth that much at all...

CCColtsicehockey

that is great

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He's gone from a no-name to a name-brand goalie, your arguments are no longer valid

Moog-Type-S

Pens will choke again this season....stay tuned for the meltdown and rebuild.

Teemu coming back....who cares? He's a Duck.

Hawks signing Crawford..... Does that contract come with a cutting torch to get his leg off the near post so he can get to the far post for the wrap around attempt?



....can we get the season started already?

Moog-Type-S

Kings introduce baseball into hockey by adding home plate to center ice.


Don't take your eyes off the puck at center ice, for you may lose site of it for a split second as the puck passes through all the black paint.

Fibonacci

That's funny, I thought the same thing when Howard signed his big $ extension, and he hasn't backstopped his team past the 2nd round yet.


Cue the Statler/Waldorf dance-off...

Fibonacci

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In total homer news, Loui Eriksson has chosen to wear number 21 in Boston as he did in Dallas. As a Boston homer, it's tough to see someone take Andy Ference's number right after he was left as the free agent we couldn't afford any more. Boston has high hopes for Loui but now he's got even bigger shoes to fill.

Early prediction, Edmonton's prospects turn the corner this year when Ferknuckle makes them a team.

Yumcha

We'll see if all that talent finally puts it together in Edmonton. From what I can observe, they seem to want to use the all-offense model (which worked great for Washington when they tried and Pens last year) because overall team D is going to be a major work in-progress. There's also very little size in the Top 6.

I only see Ference being the only proven D-man who can play defense.

And yet another new head coach.

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It's more about Ference's heart than his skills. He's not the kind of guy who backs down from a challenge and his attitude was infectious in Boston. We won't be missing his "shut down" defensive skills in Boston, we'll be missing his locker room presence and what he brings in intangibles.

Yumcha

I dunno if it will be missed too much in Boston as the team has it in spades with Campbell, Chara, Thornton, and Bergeron.

dom

Caps only going up from here. That will look like a cheap contract IF he and/or the team defense can keep it up.

Moog-Type-S

The Cap is going up?!?!? The heck you say?!?!?!

I thought the lock-out solved all of this?!?!?!?!

Yumcha

Yup, that would appear why Chicago decided to toss $6M per season at Crawford...it may look "cheap" in a quick couple of years for a starting goalie.

Still, I think it is a steep price. Whatever. Chicago seems to have a plan since they also just locked up Hjalmarsson today.

The management seems to have identified their core and will just use interchangeable parts for the others and try to contend for a Cup every 2-3 years...Given how they gutted the last team and then won again just this year, it seems like a workable plan.

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http://msn.foxsports.com/nhl/story/n...to-fans-090413 #goperdsgo

Moog-Type-S

I always enjoyed the quite frequent misspellings of the California or Los Angeles of Anaheim "ANGLES"

Yup, the local rags type it wrong quite often.

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Not discounting the character of those you mentioned but every "star of the game" item that gets passed aroun the bruins locker room was acquired by him. He started that whole tradition with the b's.

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Perds

Yumcha

Ah...well, then, his leadership is badly needed on that young Oilers squad. Just not sure if those #1s will listen (i.e. Nugent-Hopkins, Hall, Yakupov)...

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We'll also possibly find out if he was behind this website, it had to be someone in the locker room, no one has accepted responsibility. Ference was always a prime suspect.

http://shawnthorntonsays.tumblr.com/

Some of his better ones,

-“I could be playing with Bergy and Rex, and it would be the fourth line. I could be centering Looch and Krejci, and it would be the fourth line.”

-“I can’t stand those guys because they sent me to the minors fifteen times over three years. I can’t stand them.”
Shawn Thornton, on the Chicago Blackhawks

-“He does whatever I tell him to, he’s essentially my chauffeur, man-servant, whatever I need him to be.”
Shawn Thornton, on Tuukka Rask

-“He would absolutely fucking destroy me.”
Shawn Thornton, on fighting “The Fighter” Micky Ward

-“I think that anybody that puts gaming as his favorite hobby probably hasn’t matured enough to be in that issue.”
Shawn Thornton, on Brad Marchand’s selection as one of the Most Eligible Bachelors in Boston by Improper Bostonian


-“I’m very unselfish. The linesman was surprised. I was like, ‘Fuck- you must not watch practice, I guess. I do it all the time.’ He didn’t think I had that in the bag. He thought that club was left at the golf store.”
Shawn Thornton, on his assist to Gregory Campbell against the Canes

-Cabbie: Is there such a thing as getting too many girls?
Shawn Thornton: No, there's never too many, I suppose. There can never be too many. For the single guys. For Mark Stuart and David Krejci, those are the only two single guys we have. So they actually get all the tap-ins from our wives, too. They all want to set them up with their friends.
Cabbie: So, just like, hot tub parties every night.
Shawn: Every night, at the Thornton residence. Mark Stuart. Naked.

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Who would have thought that a goon like Ference would be so revered in Boston...

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He was the first guy in the league to fight Pretty Boy Crosby and lets not forget he flipped off the entire Montreal forum and Habs fan base for the city of Boston.

Take everything else off his resume and those 2 acts make him a Boston Bruins legend. He gets to take his spot somewhere between Bobby Orr flying through the air and John Wensink openly challenging the entire Minnesota bench.

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Sarcasm > You

Don't forget he played here first. I will ALWAYS love him for flipping off the Habs Fans

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The at the end made me think you were serious.

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In the world of "things that would have been scary"...

http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=6...id=DL|NHL|home

dom

As far as Canada??? seriously?

dom

Brian Burke to be name President of the Calgary Flames. Just when you thought the Flames couldn't be run anymore poorly....

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Moog-Type-S

Sloppy seconds will be traded back to the Flames.

....just watch.


...and speaking of sloppy seconds, Avery is allegedly engaged to some dude. :gheylaugh:

Yumcha

Avery is of the :ghey:...?


I shall now refer to him as Gheyvery.