NHL Thread

calvegas04 · Sep 22, 2016

The world cup of hockey is a joke

NorthDakota · Sep 22, 2016

TorontoGold said:
USA hockey needs a complete overhaul. What a joke, torts and dean need to fired into the sun.

Usually the Canadian/American rivalry is quite heated, however last Friday at the WCOH kickoff in Toronto when the American team got introduced nobody seemed to care. It was shocking to see the crowd just let a collective "meh" out. Even the Russians got booed more!

Time to get rid of the old dinosaur's in charge and bring in the new blood.

(First post about hockey, typical Canadian hoser)

Make American Hockey 1980 Again!

IrishinSyria · Sep 22, 2016

TorontoGold said:
USA hockey needs a complete overhaul. What a joke, torts and dean need to fired into the sun.

Usually the Canadian/American rivalry is quite heated, however last Friday at the WCOH kickoff in Toronto when the American team got introduced nobody seemed to care. It was shocking to see the crowd just let a collective "meh" out. Even the Russians got booed more!

Time to get rid of the old dinosaur's in charge and bring in the new blood.

(First post about hockey, typical Canadian hoser)

WCOH is a terrible idea and needs to be killed quickly. Olympic hockey is where it's at, so the collective not giving a crap on the part of the US was strategic. US hockey is producing world class players, so it's not a talent or development issue.

TorontoGold · Sep 22, 2016

IrishinSyria said:
WCOH is a terrible idea and needs to be killed quickly. Olympic hockey is where it's at, so the collective not giving a crap on the part of the US was strategic. US hockey is producing world class players, so it's not a talent or development issue.

I think you missed the point here. It's not the talent or development that's the problem, it's the decision makers that are picking and deploying the teams. On a talent level the US team should be competing for a top 3 finish every time.

Also, there is a better than 50% chance NHLers won't be at the next Olympics.

calvegas04 · Sep 22, 2016

TorontoGold said:
I think you missed the point here. It's not the talent or development that's the problem, it's the decision makers that are picking and deploying the teams. On a talent level the US team should be competing for a top 3 finish every time.

Also, there is a better than 50% chance NHLers won't be at the next Olympics.

Olympics will still be the best hockey tournament around

arndtjc · Sep 24, 2016

calvegas04 said:
Olympics will still be the best hockey tournament around

After the Stanley Cup Playoffs...

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TheSunIsRising · Sep 24, 2016

calvegas04 said:
Olympics will still be the best hockey tournament around

without the NHL players?? ummmmm, no

ickythump1225 · Sep 28, 2016

I don't understand the hate for the WCOH. It has been a very entertaining tournament. Of course the U.S. was an embarrassment and does not an overhaul. I wouldn't say that didn't give a crap, the players seemed to and Torts certainly did, they just had poor strategy.

Anyway, the season is starting soon. The Ducks will either flourish without BB or they will decline this season. The Wild will either flourish with BB or they will decline because their core is getting long in the tooth.

aubeirish · Sep 28, 2016

Tournament has been great so far. I got to give props to ESPN or whoever is responsible for multi-cams view. That is pure awesomeness. I would love every game to be shown that way. It's as if you were in the best seat in the house all the time.

ACamp1900 · Sep 28, 2016

I honestly did not watch one second... which is odd for any international tourney in either soccer or hockey... love both on that stage.

As far as the Olympics go... I'd still be all in on a non NHL group of players.

calvegas04 · Sep 28, 2016

TheSunIsRising said:
without the NHL players?? ummmmm, no

Yeah it still will be

TheSunIsRising · Sep 30, 2016

calvegas04 said:
Yeah it still will be

Did you watch Olympic hockey in 1992 and 1994? Not even close to the level of play in the World Cup, nor was it as good as the World Hockey Championships.

The World Junior Championships is more exciting than Olympic Hockey without the NHL

KPENN · Oct 11, 2016

Opening night tomorrow night!

Crazy Balki · Oct 11, 2016

The Blackhawks are realistically my last hope to salvage this nightmare 2016 sports year.

IrishSteelhead · Oct 11, 2016

Crazy Balki said:
The Blackhawks are realistically my last hope to salvage this nightmare 2016 sports year.

Right there with you. I think the Bulls will look ok until the locker room turns into a toxic mess around December.

ozzman · Oct 11, 2016

Crazy Balki said:
The Blackhawks are realistically my last hope to salvage this nightmare 2016 sports year.

now now. we still have the giants, dodgers/nats, jays/jndians to help turn the 2016 sports year around.

Wild Bill · Oct 11, 2016

ozzman said:
now now. we still have the giants, dodgers/nats, jays/jndians to help turn the 2016 sports year around.

Ha.

How you guys feelin about the hawks this year?

Irishman77 · Oct 12, 2016

LETS GO BLUES!!!!!!

going to the home opener tomorrow night

#1rish · Oct 12, 2016

2016 #1 overall pick Auston Matthews with 4 goals so far in his NHL debut. Damn impressive.

BobbyMac · Oct 12, 2016

#1rish said:
2016 #1 overall pick Auston Matthews with 4 goals so far in his NHL debut. Damn impressive.

Unbelievable. Historic unbelievable. The pride and joy of Scottsdale, AZ. He played on the AZ Bobcats with a buddy or mine's kid. If he would have been 1 or 2 days older he would have qualified for last year's draft where he probably would have gone #3 to the Coyotes.

Financially, the Leafs are the Cowboys of the NHL and they are dying for a winner. He couldn't be in a better place to become the next great one.

BobbyMac · Oct 12, 2016

Bwahahaha!
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">COULD ALABAMA BEAT AUSTON MATTHEWS</p>— Pete Blackburn (@PeteBlackburn) <a href="https://twitter.com/PeteBlackburn/status/786370071014674432">October 13, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Are you kidding me?
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Auston Matthews gets his second goal of the first period. Unbelievable. <a href="https://t.co/Z1hAct2TSL">pic.twitter.com/Z1hAct2TSL</a></p>— Pete Blackburn (@PeteBlackburn) <a href="https://twitter.com/PeteBlackburn/status/786352677743656962">October 12, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

ozzman · Oct 12, 2016

Tonight during the Hawks game they said that there are 7 nd players starting tonight in the nhl. That has to be a record.

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ACamp1900 · Oct 12, 2016

And Toronto still lost..........

ACamp1900 · Oct 29, 2016

Pens score three goals in less than one minute,.... Would have been super cool had it not been against a minor league hockey team.

NorthDakota · Oct 29, 2016

ACamp1900 said:
Pens score three goals in less than one minute,.... Would have been super cool had it not been against a minor league hockey team.

Wish I could smack but the flyers have been weak since 2010ish

KPENN · Oct 29, 2016

Will wait to see this team at full strength before I just but Hakstol has got to get better at player usage and Lineups. No way Bellmare should be your 3C, that is a huge, huge problem. Consistently dressing Vandevelde is another. They played well tonight but it seemed every mistake went into the back of the net.

KPENN · Oct 29, 2016

NorthDakota said:
Wish I could smack but the flyers have been weak since 2010ish

2012 they had a really good team, if Pronger doesn't get hurt I truly believe that team contends for a cup, him getting hurt and retiring really set them back. Holgren had this franchise spiraling straight into the ground, thank goodness for Hextall.

TheSunIsRising · Oct 29, 2016

KPENN said:
2012 they had a really good team, if Pronger doesn't get hurt I truly believe that team contends for a cup, him getting hurt and retiring really set them back. Holgren had this franchise spiraling straight into the ground, thank goodness for Hextall.

This is true, but Holmgren was given a head-start by Bobby Clarke and Russ Farwell.

NorthDakota · Oct 29, 2016

KPENN said:
Will wait to see this team at full strength before I just but Hakstol has got to get better at player usage and Lineups. No way Bellmare should be your 3C, that is a huge, huge problem. Consistently dressing Vandevelde is another. They played well tonight but it seemed every mistake went into the back of the net.

Vandevelde! He's a local boy. Unfortunately a North Dakota Fighting Siou....I mean Hawk.

I know very little about hockey. It's not very big here. I'll defer to you on that! Would love to see the Flyers make a run at the Cup though. Giroux is a great player and they are going to waste his career.

KPENN · Oct 29, 2016

TheSunIsRising said:
This is true, but Holmgren was given a head-start by Bobby Clarke and Russ Farwell.

The thing is though, Holmgren had them in really good shape. He got great value for Carter and Richards, cleared cap space, they had a good defense, great depth upfront, then it started going downhill.

Traded for and signed Bryzgalov which was dumb when they had Bobrovsky.
Traded for Nick Grossmann who, just isn't good.
He traded JVR for Luke Schenn,
Signed Lecavalier.
Traded for and signed Andrew MacDonald to an absolutely dumb contract.

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