NHL Off-Topic thread

[Money99]

Quote: Originally Posted by pietasterp

Are you kidding me right now? http://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/1...-patent-office Don't you usually clear this sort of thing well BEFORE you announce to the world that it's your team name? This couldn't possibly be off to a more comically bad start...

LOL! That's the NHL for you.

However, I believe the NHL will win this case as there are a number of teams that share the same moniker.
But nothing would make me happier than to see the NHL have to name a team twice before they even stepped on the ice!
I know, maybe name the team the Roughriders! (Or is it Rough Riders)

[AccordingtoJane]

I watched my first NHL game with my boyfriend and my friend. Hurricanes at LA Kings. It was great.

[Stormyhog]

Quote: Originally Posted by AccordingtoJane

I watched my first NHL game with my boyfriend and my friend. Hurricanes at LA Kings. It was great.

First welcome to the OS team. I love the sport & have been a fan for many years now. Glad to hear you enjoyed it. I'm a canes fan so I was happy to see my team come out on top.

[AccordingtoJane]

Quote: Originally Posted by Stormyhog

First welcome to the OS team.

Thank you! Very much off topic, but when will I be able to make threads?

Quote: Originally Posted by Stormyhog

I love the sport & have been a fan for many years now. Glad to hear you enjoyed it.

I love how fast it is. All those shots make me nervous.

Quote: Originally Posted by Stormyhog

I'm a canes fan so I was happy to see my team come out on top.

Me too. My boyfriend's a North Carolina native, and my home state doesn't have an NHL team. I figured they were a good team to follow. Do you think they'll get into the playoffs this year?

[Speedy]

Quote: Originally Posted by Stormyhog

I'm a canes fan so I was happy to see my team come out on top.

Hey Stormy...you watch every Canes game?

I used to watch them when they were good during the Staal/Cole era right after '06 but my interest has tailed off considerably. Carolina is LAST in the league in attendance this year too, barely filling over half of their home games up.

http://www.espn.com/nhl/attendance

Curious what your thoughts are? I've seen a few articles during the summer and creeping up more about them relocating because of said waning interest (as well as poor team play).

[rdnk]

Quote: Originally Posted by Majingir

They really could use a guy like Holland. Of all their regulars, he'd be the 5th youngest forward on their team, and 3rd biggest forward.

You will take your conditional pick from Arizona and like it.

[Majingir]

Leafs are technically icing a team with a cap hit under 50M(fyi, the cap FLOOR is 54M). But their cap hit is so high simply because of the buried contracts among other things(over 8M in buried contracts alone).

They're projected to finish the year at 85 points right now(3rd in their division is projected for 91pts).

That's a nice sign for the future. A young team who technically is under the cap floor, can average in the mid 80s in points. As things stand right now, going into the offseason, they could end up having over 15M in cap space, while really only needing 2 top 4 dmen and that's really it.

[Majingir]

Leafs are listening to offers on JVR.

Sharks and Kings as teams I could see as good fits for JVR. Though neither team I really see having any NHL ready dman they could trade for him, so it'd have to be prospects.

Or if Jets want to get in on it, Trouba would be a real good fit for the Leafs, and we all know he's not staying with the Jets long term either, maybe we could get a JVR-Trouba type deal.