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11-29-2011, 03:19 PM | #502 |
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Yup, The Great One done....well, Great.
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11-29-2011, 07:16 PM | #504 |
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Traveling this week...staying in a hotel room alone. If you would have told me before I left that Tuesday night's inspiration would have come from the NHL thread on FOFC...wow would I have been worried about myself.
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11-29-2011, 08:15 PM | #506 | |
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Indeed. Those were my exact thoughts on him yesterday further up the thread. I like him a lot when he was on the PK line with Betts, but Read and Cooter have been excellent on the PK this year.
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11-29-2011, 08:43 PM | #508 | |
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Agree with this completely. I just wish Homer would've at least tried to get a draft pick for the guy. I know cap space is pretty rare with the Flyers, but letting someone, anyone (other than Shelley/Walker) go for nothing is borderline unacceptable.
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11-29-2011, 09:42 PM | #509 |
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The Blues are freaking hot.. and with many injuries to boot.
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11-29-2011, 10:04 PM | #510 | |
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11-29-2011, 10:09 PM | #513 |
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New coach, SOS. This team is seriously hurting in the confidence department right now. Carolina played with good intensity and had a fair number of chances, but still lost to Florida, 3-1. As has been the case for much of the season, they are their own worst enemy with an ineffective power play and then mental mistakes resulting in opposing goals scored (Kaberle with another lapse on defense on the second goal though Ward should have made that save and then Ponikarovsky with a nifty fail at the blue line that resulted in an empty net game-clincher).
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Saw my second regular season Jets game tonight, unfortunately another loss to the Sens. I felt the game could have gone either way, and that the Jets played pretty well after an ineffective first period. Refs made a couple questionable decisions that went the wrong way for us and ended up being game changers.
Regardless, it was so much fun! I took my Dad, I think it might have been the first hockey game I've been to with him since I was about 10 years old. I love you, Winnipeg Jets.
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11-30-2011, 09:58 AM | #518 | |
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11-30-2011, 08:40 PM | #519 |
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Bruins beat the Leafs tonight, and finish the month of November without losing a game in regulation, going 12-0-1.
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I heard the Ducks' GM and two scouts were at the Sabres-Islanders game last night, and got a booth right next to the Sabres' booth. It sounds like the two teams have had some conversations. Miller was also in a trade rumor, but not sure to where and where that rumor is coming from. Last edited by Galaxy : 11-30-2011 at 10:03 PM. |
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Boudreau replaces Carlyle as Ducks coach. Pleasantly surprised, with all his faults his style of play fits the current roster way better than Randy's did. Thanks for the cup but this team has been underperforming for years.
Very interested to see what this means for Bobby Ryan, I can't imagine Boudreau is going to be happy to see the first thing that happens is one of his best offensive players get dealt. Doesn't really make sense, I'm almost wondering if it isn't a crazy scheme by Murray to keep the Boudreau deal quiet, maybe he was worried another team might try a coaching switcheroo first? |
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12-01-2011, 11:15 AM | #528 |
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Red Wings are expected to host one of the next two Winter Classics. The Rangers are the other team in line. Seeing that the Rangers are playing in this years it reasons to think Detroit holds it next year. The NHL is also considering playing the game at the Big House in an effort to break the attendance record. I'd imagine Detroit vs Toronto would easily do that, but I can't see NBC being too thrilled in having a Canadian team playing the game.
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12-01-2011, 11:20 AM | #529 |
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I have to think that Winnipeg will get an outdoor game in the next 2-3 years. We have the new team, we're building a new football stadium, and we have the climate. Seems like a perfect fit, to me.
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12-01-2011, 11:54 AM | #533 |
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I doubt the Rangers get to host it next year, but whenever they do, please NHL, don't give in to pressure to host it at "historic" Yankee Stadium. Only baseball should be played there. It needs to be at a football stadium for the better viewing angles and increased capacity.
As an aside, is there anything that prevents a team from planning/playing an outdoor game on their own? Obviously it would be very expensive to host, but I'm thinking about a team like the Devils who would be pretty far down the list of being a team involved (both in general and as a NY area team). Could they give up a home game versus the Rangers, play at MetLife Stadium, charge their season ticket holders a premium, charge Rangers fans a higher premium, and get some extra money from NBC to offset the costs by scheduling it as a primetime event? There's no doubt some of the buzz will be gone by not having it branded with the Winter Classic and what comes with it, but I'm just wondering. |
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Bruins re-sign David Krejci for 3 yrs at 5.25/yr.
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I assumed that he was the first U.S. born black player to make it, so I figured the headline made sense. The article only refers to him as "one of the first", so it's a bigger reach IMO if that's the case.
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TB extended Hedman too, $4M per for 5 years.
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12-01-2011, 04:23 PM | #544 |
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An very interesting interview with Scotty Bowman:
Red Light » Posts It’s the time of the season for NHL coaching upheaval « Here are some quotes: Bowman on the Caps: “I don’t know how good that team is,” he says of the Capitals, wondering if they might have been long overrated. “They’re always in a weak division. They’re always with teams that have no money or don’t spend to the salary cap. They get in the playoffs and their competition is tougher. “I think what happened with Boudreau, he replaced Glen Hanlon, and they weren’t playing for him,” he continues. ”They bought in Boudreau, some guy from the minors, and they started to win by playing all-out offense. They didn’t play any defense. Then they started to lose in the playoffs and he tried to change,” alluding to Boudreau trying to get his players to become more defensively responsible after having some regular season success playing another way. “I don’t think you can change. It’s too bad for Boudreau, but he bounced back right away.” Bowman on the Ducks: “Carlyle, I don’t understand. He was a big matcher. He always had a defensive line. The year they won the Cup (2007), it was Sami Pahlsson, Travis Moen and Robbie Niedermayer. He changed on the fly (to get them out against their opponent’s best forwards) and they played a very disciplined game.” But those three players are all gone now, the Ducks defense corps is not what it was, and Carlyle seemed to have taken a different approach by playing his best forwards in situations where he previously used checkers. “I’ve been watching them the last month and a half,” Bowman said. “The goalie wasn’t what he was, but their defense corps is horrible. And Perry, Getzlaf, and Ryan, they weren’t good in their own end. I know he didn’t have a checking line anymore because all those guys are gone. You know when you get star players, you can’t ever get them thinking that you want them to fail. You got to make them believe you’re always in their corner, you’re always trying to insulate them. I don’t know what he was doing.” Bowman on the Hurricanes: As far as Carolina goes, the Hurricanes are in that Southeast Division of lower payroll teams and it’s reflected by their roster as far as Bowman is concerned. “They got Eric Staal and Jeff Skinner. Tuomo Ruutu’s OK. But they don’t have any other forwards. Their defense corps, he keeps getting recycled guys. How can you keep winning with recycled players? You click for a while, eh? They have a goalie (Cam Ward) who’s very good. He’s going to need some relief, though. They get a lot of shots against them.” Will that doom Muller, Maurice’s replacement? “I don’t know much about him,” Bowman says, ”A lot of people swear by him. They say he’s going to be offensive-minded. Kirk Muller worked with Jacques Martin (in Montreal), and he’s a defensive guy. It’ll be interesting to see what he can do.” Bowman on the Blues: What about the Blues, who have certainly had success after replacing Payne with Ken Hitchcock? “I just find they’re working,” Bowman says. ”They’re on top of the other team. They’re always chasing the puckcarrier. He’s got a guy whose always chasing the puck. They’re playing an uptempo game.” He likens it to the way the Red Wings have played successfully under Mike Babcock, who always has a forechecker going full tilt at the puckcarrier.
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I love Brian Burke.
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