2010 - 2011 NHL Thread

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Finally some Hockey to watch.

I was watching a top 10 plays of the week last night and the number one pot was this player getting his jersey ripped off and donkey konging the other guy. His name might have been Seline but I can't find a video of it. Was glorious.

[Pentegarn]

I wonder if the Flyers will make another big run at the cup?

I wonder if the Blue Jackets have a chance?

I wonder if I will be as excited about the postseason as the Flyers and their spunkiness made me last season?

[The Doctor]

I wonder if I will be as excited about the postseason as the Flyers and their spunkiness made me last season?

They have the coolest named goalie since
Nikolai Khabibulin


and he is

Sergei Bobrovsky


Also anyone like Wisniewski's hand gestures to Avery?

dI1Q2AY1-Eo

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Even though we're already losing bad this season its still better that hockey is on.

[The Doctor]

Even though we're already losing bad this season its still better that hockey is on.

Who is the team in question?

[Colonel Flagg]

Sergei Bobrovsky



Bob. Bob! BOB!! BOB!!!!!!!!

:)

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

http://www.winterclassicjerseys.com/images/pic-2008-buffalo-replica-lg.jpg

[The Doctor]

Ahhhhh, I have Pomminville on my fantasy team, cant even take a hit....

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

lol, you bastard.

[The Doctor]

Ba-zing! As long as he's not the next Brett Lindros Ill be happy

[Colonel Flagg]

Or even the next Eric Lindros. :(

[The Doctor]

Or even the next Eric Lindros. :(

Every time you turned around they were concussed. The worst was the big deal Lindros made when he would not sign with the Nordiques and then he turned out to be a flop.

[Kitsa]

I actually changed the channel on the Jackets-Blackhawks game tonight. I don't know what's wrong with me.

[The Doctor]

Mason let in another 4 before he was pulled lastnight

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Sabres fell apart too this season so far. Lordy lordy look who's 40 :(

[The Doctor]

Millers out with a lower body injury

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Our backup goalie Lalime isn't terrible but not great. I still wish we had Martin Biron.

[Colonel Flagg]

And in other news, the Flyers are kicking some serious tail lately. :)

Now, if they could only sign Ville Leino ....

[Colonel Flagg]

Rather a spectacular collapse by the Flyers last night. :(

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I was at applebees with the MISSES last night and they had the flyers game on. Except I could only see it by looking out the window and seeing the reflection. Taunting me.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

The IHF is going to be here in a little over a week. I really want to see a few matches.

[Kitsa]

I love that we're already at the Winter Classic (postponed due to warm weather btw) and this thread hasn't even broken the one-page barrier.

[Zhukov]

I want to be an ice hockey fan :(

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Roy is out for the rest of the season. :(

I was kind of upset at having to work today because I just wanted to watch the winter classic but I saw its postponed till 8pm tonight :)

[Kitsa]

I got so bored with the winter classic that I fell asleep in the third period. Then I woke up during the pointless free-for-all at the end.

[Colonel Flagg]

I love that we're already at the Winter Classic (postponed due to warm weather btw) and this thread hasn't even broken the one-page barrier.

:(

There's been such a lack of consistency with the Flyers lately, and they're still just a few points out of first place. WTF?

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Have you guys read about the Guardian Project between Stan Lee and the NHL where every team gets their own comic book character?

Ridiculous

http://www.nhlsnipers.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/G30_Reveal_Sabre.jpg

[Dimnos]

:(

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I read into it a little more when I got home last night. I guess theres going to be a showdown between all of them at the allstar game.

[Colonel Flagg]

HULK SMASH!

[Zhukov]

That's so much kak

[Kitsa]

I don't know why I love this, but I do.

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[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Hockey is going on. Sabres got a new owner. Hopefully we'll be good again. The Flyers have been looking nice this season.

[AChimp]

I think my Jets might be coming back really soon. :O

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

They should have never been moved. Do you think the Jets will come from the Coyotes or the Thrashers though?

[AChimp]

If the bonds don't sell then it will be the Coyotes and they'll have to announce it within a couple of weeks because they make the schedules for arenas like a year in advance. Having the Coyotes makes it the best chance for team to be called the "Jets" again.

If somehow they find some crazy people with $100M to throw together to buy junk bonds, then the Thrashers will probably be quietly sold and move next season or the season after that.

Lots of people in the AZ news are laughing about how Winnipeg couldn't support a team in the past, so how could they do it now? The main thing that screwed Winnipeg over originally was the low Canadian dollar (70 cents instead of on par like now) and the fact that the team was basically just renting the arena; the company that owned the arena (which has also gone bankrupt since 1996) didn't allow the team any part of the concession or parking revenue that they pulled in.

The new potential owners of the team also own the arena, which is the #3 busiest arena in ALL of North America. Even if the team loses money, the team owners can make up for it with all of the other things that go on throughout the year at the arena. There's at least one big concert per week, conventions, trade shows, etc. Plus, one of the partners is Canada's richest person with a $19 BILLION fortune. He has more money than all of the other team owners combined.

[AChimp]

BTW, no one in Winnipeg ever thought that a bunch of right-wing nuts like Goldwater Institute would helping a bunch of pinko commies like us to get our team back. ;)

[AChimp]

Uh oh... the weasely guy is gonna come up with a way to screw it all up! :(

Bettman is the only businessman I've ever heard of who literally runs away from guaranteed money.

EDIT: No news is good news!

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I thought that said Batman.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Last home game of the year....hopefully until the playoffs. The new Sabres owner is having a fan appreciation event tonight and invited any Sabres Alumni who wanted to come and the owner will pick up the tab(flight, train, hotel, food beverage) which is awesome.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Playoff time!

http://cdn2.sbnation.com/entry_photo_images/1023720/52104_sabres_flyers_hockey_large.jpg

[Colonel Flagg]

GAME ON 10K. Buffalo-Philly.

[Zhukov]

So are you allowed to pick up the puck and throw it around?

[Pentegarn]

The goalie might be, but with those gloves it wouldn't be convenient

[Colonel Flagg]

So are you allowed to pick up the puck and throw it around?

No, that's only in Ruckby. :x

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I guess the Sabres are starting their first game next season in Finland. Rankeri....I am making you a Sabres fan if you read this.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

This is fucking intense flagg

[Colonel Flagg]

That was some goaltending clinic.

Flyers NEED Prongs.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

That game was intense. I'm going to be extra worried if Pronger comes back too now. Philly has awesome special teams I've noticed. Whenever we seem to get on the power play we could barely make it pass the blue line.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Game 3 tonight Flagg. I hope Buffalo doesn't get as many penalties as they did during the 2nd period of game two. That was a lot on our end but to me it just seemed like the reffing was completely different than from game 1 where they barely called anything.

[Esuohlim]

red wings all the way fucktraps no contest see you next year

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

My friend is all like "The greatest thing for me would be to see the Flyers and the Sabres in the finals." I feel like he is just trying to save face though. He also like the Dallas Cowboys, Miami Dolphins and the Boston Red Sox. He is also obnoxious about it.

[Colonel Flagg]

I'll be watching, 10K. Good times! :FLYERSSCORE!

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Aww yeah! Game time indeed. These off days in between games get me all worked up and anxious waiting for the next one.

I'll try and find a clip of Buffalo's color analyst. I love him but he seriously will give you repeated heart attacks just listening to him call a game.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Wow, when briere scored the 2nd goal he almost knocked the refs head off with a mortal kombat uppercut.

[Colonel Flagg]

I was busy celebrating the 3rd Flyer goal when I looked up and saw Buffalo scored again. Geez, you snooze, you lose. >:

Nice save right there @1:07

[Colonel Flagg]

On to period #3.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Good period so far. I never realized how scummy hartnell was either. He's been sitting on picks like a turtle.

[Colonel Flagg]

There've been no-calls both ways, methinks.

[Colonel Flagg]

Gooooooooooooooooooal!!!!!!!!

(Empty netter, but still, it puts the game away.)

Exciting finish.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Damn damn damn. Good game though. Flyers definitely capitalized on opportunities.

[Colonel Flagg]

What I can't understand is how much better the Flyers seem to play away from the "Farg"? They looked like a completely different club out there, especially on the penalty kill.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I know. They made our 5 on 3 look like a 5 on 5.

[AChimp]

One more game till the Jets come back :O

[Colonel Flagg]

:lol

[AChimp]

SWEEP!!

Now the waiting begins and Winnipeg can stop cheering for the Wings.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I can't believe the Rangers lost with a 3-0 lead in the 3rd period.

[Colonel Flagg]

Buffalo took the 3 goal lead in Period 1, Flyers change goalies, get two back in the 2nd.

WTF?

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I don't know why buffalo has bad 2nd period s. Laviolette must kick people in the ass between period s.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Fuck

[Colonel Flagg]

WTF was that? A clearing pass? My grandmother could have kept that puck in the zone. Mental mistake costs the Flyers dearly. >:

Great head's up play by Ennis to get the rebound. And spectacular goaltending by Miller in the last 15 minutes of play - seemed like every minute he was diving to the right or left to block something.

Congrats Sabres and 10K - Hope we can come back in Game 6.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

This has been a hell of a series flagg. Ennis had a good heads up play on the rebound.

Just good fucking hockey by both clubs. I haven't even been following the rest of the league besides hearing about the jets coming back from achimp.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Damn. I see pronger is playing.

[Colonel Flagg]

About GOD DAMNED TIME! >:

[Colonel Flagg]

Tied in the closing minutes. Why am I not surprised?

[Colonel Flagg]

Leino!!!! On to Philly for game 7. Doesn't get much better does it, Bill?

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Crud! Its game time for real on Tuesday Flagg. Really good game though yesterday.

[Colonel Flagg]

This series has been great. Only one decided by more than 1 goal (and that was an empty-netter). Two 1-0 shutouts courtesy Ryan Miller. Two overtime wins (one by each team). And they're developing a history of dislike.

In other words, this is HOCKEY! :rock

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Fuck. Flyers killed us the first period. Then the 2nd too.

[Colonel Flagg]

This game is actually boring. Fun, but boring. Sorry 10K, the Sabres played well, but I think this is it.

[Colonel Flagg]

On to Round 2 ....

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Son of a bitch. Good series flagg. The thing that really sucks about the sabres not getting to the 2nd round is that its even further until they play hockey again.

Gerbe is one scrappy bastard too.

Good luck in round two. Please kill ovechkin.

[Pentegarn]

Better hope the Flyers goalies get their shit together in round 2 though

[Colonel Flagg]

Yeah, P. No more "let's have a sucky first period then swap goaltenders." Boucher better be consistent ... assuming Laviolette will stick with him against the Bruins.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Every time they swapped goaltenders though it kind of gave a kick to their off and def.

[Colonel Flagg]

Well, that was fugly. :(

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Didn't get chance to watch it. Wanted the gnt frying trbtcg2

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Wow, The Flyers and the Caps got sweeped second round.

Coyotes signed another one year deal to stay in Arizona too. :( No Jets yet Achimp

[Colonel Flagg]

My only reason for watching the playoffs now is to see the Redwings lose. :(

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

:lol I hear that. Going to root for the lightning now myself.

[Colonel Flagg]

Go Sharks!

[AChimp]

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/hockey/atlanta-thrashers-moving-to-winnipeg/article2029179/

An agreement to sell the National Hockey League’s Atlanta Thrashers to a Winnipeg group which plans to relocate the franchise to the Manitoba capital is done.

Sources confirmed tonight that preparations are being made for an announcement Tuesday, confirming the sale and transfer of the Thrashers to True North Sports and Entertainment, which owns and operates the Manitoba Moose of the American Hockey League and the MTS Centre arena, which would become the NHL team’s new home.

Gary Bettman, the commissioner of the National Hockey League, is expected to travel to Winnipeg to make the news official.

The announcement would end months of speculation about whether one of the NHL’s financially-troubled American sunbelt teams might move north, filling the void left when the Winnipeg Jets packed up and left for Phoenix in 1996, where they became the Coyotes.

Much of the talk this spring had centred on that failing franchise, which was bought by the league after being placed in bankruptcy by its former owner Jerry Moyes in 2009.

But sources in Winnipeg suggest that the Thrashers had in fact been the primary target of potential owners Mark Chipman and David Thomson all along, and that some months back, the NHL board of governors quietly approved the sale and transfer of the team, pending the negotiation of a purchase agreement between Atlanta Spirit LLC, the Thrashers’ owners, and True North.

In the meantime, no potential owner materialized who was prepared to keep the team in Georgia, and local governments there showed no interest in propping up the Thrashers.

“There seems to be a consensus there is going to be a team in Winnpeg,” former major league pitcher Tom Glavine, who had tried unsuccessfully to find new ownership for the hockey team in Atlanta, acknowledged last week. ““The question is who, and unfortunately the bullseye seems to be on the Thrashers’ back.”

When it appeared this spring that the Coyotes might also be in play, after a deal to sell the team to Matthew Hulsizer underwritten by a municipal bond issue fell apart in the face of political opposition from the Goldwater Institute, the Winnipeg group sought to take advantage of what suddenly seemed a buyers’ market, with two teams available and no other potential owners or relocations sites on the horizon.

After the City of Glendale agreed to cover $25-million of the Coyotes losses for the 2011-2012 season, and the NHL opted to operate the club in Arizona for at least one more year, True North’s full focus returned to Atlanta, and a deal was hammered out this week.

Even before those final negotiations took place, the potential Winnipeg owners concluded an agreement with the Manitoba government which will allow revenues from a sports bar with slot machine to be used for improvements to the arena, and to be used towards the debt service on the building.

That’s consistent with what Manitoba premier Greg Selinger told reporters earlier this week, when he said that the provincial government had no interest in subsidizing an NHL team, but that the province had financially supported the renovation of the MTS Centre in the past, and would continue to be willing to do so.

[AChimp]

Some other news outlets are claiming that this is false and that there is no final deal yet.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I read about that this morning. I also read somewhere that the owner of the globe news that it was leaked through is also one of the people trying to buy the thrashers and bring them to winnipeg. So that kind of makes sense. Feel kind of bad for the people who actually want to keep the thrashers in atlanta, hate seeing a team move elsewhere but I'm glad that the jets might be back.

[AChimp]

People in Atlanta just don't care about hockey. I read in some article where they interviewed one of the "fans" there and this guy said something like "Atlanta is a hockey town; people may not like the Thrashers, but they still like hockey so the team should stay."

WTF?

[Colonel Flagg]

San José had a nice run, but it looks like Vancouver has the better team.

I still can't decide who to root for in the finals ... probably either Tampa or if Boston wins, the Canucks.

[Pentegarn]

I can't root for Vancouver, I am still in stitches about how long it has been since a Canadian team has won the cup and would hate for the laughs to end

[Colonel Flagg]

Nope. Can't root for the Bruins. Won't. Sorry Geggy.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Thrashers are being bought by winipeg. Officially anounced now.

[AChimp]

The city has gone crazy with the news. There have been spontaneous parties everywhere. They closed Portage & Main (Winnipeg's busiest intersection... it's world famous in Canada) for a few hours for street hockey games in the middle of the day. Cars are honking at people wearing Jets jerseys.

I skipped out of work for a bit today with a whole bunch of my coworkers to watch the announcement live. There were several thousand people gathered at the place I was at, all chanting "GO JETS GO," and there were a bunch of other locations around the city with just as many people. There was a big party at the Forks (our big Downtown park area) for most of the day with bands and lots and lots of beer.

I also snapped a really blurry picture of Gary Bettman with all of the other members of the ownership group and the NHL brass as they were walking through the arena. Bettman is not as short as he looks on TV.

[AChimp]

http://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/stanleycup/story/2011/05/31/sp-nhl-winnipeg.html

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I'm interested in seeing how the rezoning goes now too.

[AChimp]

All the information that I've heard so far says that they're not going to realign the divisions this year. Winnipeg will be in the Southeast for one season, and they're going to take proposals from a bunch of teams who will need to justify why they should be the team to move to the East. Places like Detroit and Columbus really want to be in the East due to the time differences and travel distance right now.

They also need to wait to see if anything happens with Phoenix, which still has a very good chance of moving. The most likely place would be Quebec City, but they don't have a new arena yet and likely won't for a few years.

I think the plan is to eventually have Winnipeg in the Northwest with Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton and Minnesota.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

That would make sense. I was thinking of them having Columbus move to the east.

[Colonel Flagg]

Makes sense, but which team goes to the Southeast?

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Devils maybe

[Colonel Flagg]

One can only hope.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I hate every team that has red in its colors. They just rub me the wrong way.

[AChimp]

http://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/story/2011/06/04/sp-thrashers-tickets.html

Season tickets sold out within a few minutes of going on sale to the general public. The presale for existing season ticket holders from our AHL team went on for three days and sold 7100 of the available 13,000 tickets. The official sell-out time is 17 minutes, but I know a lot of people who had the website tell them that nothing was available within 5 minutes of the tickets going on sale.

I worked it out with a few friends to all try different numbers of seats in different sections, and I was the only one able to get any because I'm really good at the Internet.

I'd love to see the NHL make a bunch of the southern teams do a ticket drive like this one. :lol

[AChimp]

Also, there's an 8000 person waiting list.

[Colonel Flagg]

Please don't keep the name "Thrashers". Please. :begging

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

lol, definitely not. How were the teams alligned before the thrashers came to be? I don't have NHL 97 anymore.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I'm watching the replay of game 2 on nhl. it seems sped up. Not like munster sped up but still.

[AChimp]

I think there's a really good chance that they're going to use the Jets name again. Like maybe 75%.

[Colonel Flagg]

Against my better judgement, this is shaping up to be a fine series-even has a healthy dose of controversy.

[Geggy]

Sometime I forget who the bruins' opponents were inthe last two games, because its been all bruins :thumbs up

They knocked boucher out of the game twice in Philly series. I'm betting they will knock out luongo again like they did last night

[AChimp]

The last two games, the Bruins played against an empty net. Vancouver didn't even bother showing up. :(

[Colonel Flagg]

Vancouver should take that Schizophrenia test - they looked like the New York Islanders out there.

[Colonel Flagg]

They knocked Boucher out of the game twice in Philly series. I'm betting they will knock out Luongo again like they did last night

Vancouver will live and die with Luongo. If they take him out it means they've given up.

[Geggy]

I called it bitches haha. You can write off luongo as finals MVP candidate haha

[Colonel Flagg]

I think this will be the first Stanley Cup Finals where one team scores over twice as many goals as the other over the course of the series, and still loses the cup. :kreskin

[Pentegarn]

Congrats to Canada for managing to fall short of yet another Stanley Cup, keeping it Stateside where it apparently belongs :lol

[Geggy]

I'm glad to see Boston winning the cup tonight. They were more deserving in this series.
Another championship parade for boston, no wonder this city is going broke

[MarioRPG]

Behold, the fierce Canadian rioter:

http://nationalpostnews.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/riot5.jpg

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

USA! USA! USA! USA!

:(

I hate the bruins. Their jersey's last night were like super sonic gold though. They definitely outplayed the Canucks.

[AChimp]

The Canucks were so bad in the last two games. Boston totally deserves the win.

[Colonel Flagg]

Oh, Canada. :tear

[Kitsa]

Those riots are crazy, stupid, or crazy stupid.

[Kitsa]

Just found my 2008 Blue Jackets team poster. I've got to frame that shit...last time they had a group I really liked.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Maybe this year?

[AChimp]

Officially the Jets! :O

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

:Highfive

[Kitsa]

Has anyone heard anything more about Leclaire? I know that he was suing Ottawa, but hadn't heard anything after that. I really feel bad for the guy.

http://www.silversevensens.com/2011/3/26/2073749/door-hits-leclaire-on-way-out-goalie-suing-sens

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Fuck that guy. From everything I've read so far he's just sue happy. I'm surprised he's not american.

Also, holy fuck with Sabres signing Erhoff and Regehr.

.......Richards?????

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Flyers got Jagr.

[Kitsa]

In recent years, Pazzy has reminded me of Glass Joe from Punch Out :/

[Colonel Flagg]

Flyers got Jagr.

And dumped Richards, Carter & Leino.

[Colonel Flagg]

An interesting off-season to say the least.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Yeah. We got leino. We need to win stanley this year or next. I'm boner happy about our new owner. leafs signed connolly.

[AChimp]

http://2.cdn.nhle.com/jets/images/upload/gallery/2011/07/identity-unveil-7-20_small_revised_July22_1-4170506139_slide.jpg

NEW LOGO!

[Pentegarn]

Ima start the new 2011-2012 thread now that the season has been over for a bit