NHL 2008-2009 Thread
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I somewhat agree with you, but sean avery is a low class bafoon who is out of control! both on the ice and off! he has no respect for the game of hockey and he doesn't follow the code of honor recognized amongst his fellow players, teammates and opposition players alike!!
I imagine their is an unwritten rule what you can chirp about on the ice before it gets disrespectful and uncool!
Why should an NHL game get ugly and out of hand because of a tiff between 2 guys chirping about girlfriends and ex-girlfriends?!?
What plax did was ILLEGAL and very IGNORANT! YOU DON'T PUT A GLOCK WITH ONE IN THE CHAMBER IN YOUR FUCKIN WAIST BAND OR POCKET!!THATS A HOLSTER GUN!! duh too plax!! why cuz the safety is on the fuckin trigger sherlock...
Avery should thank the NHL for suspending him. From what I understand, Phaneuf is 6-3 and 215 pounds of bad ass. If he had gotten his hands on Avery, he would have rearranged some of Avery's body parts.
This situation may not be over yet. The NHL players union may look and see if the NHL had just cause in suspending Avery. Stay tuned.
Maybe the Stars can send Avery to New York. Maybe he can room with Marbury and Burress. They can commiserate with each other about how their respective teams don't want them around anymore.
NY Rangers 2 vs Montréal 6
Yes, 6 goals against the Rangers and Henrik Lundqvist
Our 4th line produced 2 goals - Big Georges Laraque got 2 assists in the game!
The rookie Matt D'Agostini might be told to look for an appartment in Montreal soon. 2 points tonight, a goal and an assist.
A vintage performance by the Habs. :nanner:
Official scoresheet: http://www.nhl.com/scores/htmlreports/20082009/GS020366.HTM
Yes, 6 goals against the Rangers and Henrik Lundqvist
Our 4th line produced 2 goals - Big Georges Laraque got 2 assists in the game!
The rookie Matt D'Agostini might be told to look for an appartment in Montreal soon. 2 points tonight, a goal and an assist.
A vintage performance by the Habs. :nanner:
Official scoresheet: http://www.nhl.com/scores/htmlreports/20082009/GS020366.HTM
PlasmaTwa2
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Columbus is leading San Jose 1-0 at the end of the third. Hopefully they can hold on to the lead.
And right now, Toronto is getting raped by Phoenix, of all teams. Way to go Coyotes.
And right now, Toronto is getting raped by Phoenix, of all teams. Way to go Coyotes.
Wings win a goal fest against the Canucks. Meech scored career goal number 1 tonight.
Hockey maybe canada's National sport but 4 of the original six were US cities! Detroit, Chicago, NYRangers, Boston, with toronto and montreal being the only 2 canadien teams!
*the city of Detroit, a river between Detroit and Windsor,Ontairio the river is maybe an 1/8 of mile wide between the 2 countries for those that don't know*
So not taking any credit away from canada or your passion, but I as a life long Detroit resident that can cross into canada in 15 quick minutes from my front door and I have loved hockey just as and every bit as much as any canadien has since I discovered hockey when I was a child!
Canada despite it being the national sport is poorly sponsored or should I say supported in canada! Quebec, Winnipeg, and Ottawa lost their NHL franchise's / teams, I feel the US market has both helped and hurt the NHL!!
the NHL has flourished in the USA despite poor choices of where to allow expansion teams too take root!!
I think where the US influence has hurt the NHL is because of the cities that have a poor fanbase / attendance and for the most part up until the salary cap / market sharing (which is absoluteIMO) its the only reason the newer expansion teams still exist!
I liked hockey when it was the NASTY HOCKEY LEAGUE, the real NHL per say, not this NO HIT LEAGUE or these insitagator rules and all the pansy penalties that are drowning the game as tradition meant the game too really be played!! die hards remember, cherish, and pray that NHL comes back sooner rather then later!!
We definitely have a watered down NHL thanx too SCARY BETTMAN trying too shove the watered down PC friendly version of the NHL, which was otherwise a very violent exciting game up AMERICANS ASSES by introducing hockey too cities its never really been too popular!!
I respect your enthusiasm for the game Marlo, and I do believe you have just as much love for the game as some Canadians. However, some of the points you're trying to make here are either erroneous or misinformed.
The NHL has NOT flourished in the US. It has survived and in some cases done very well in places where hockey has been a tradition for a long time, like your hometown of Detroit. Expansion in the US has been a monumental failure in the past decade and a half.
Quebec City and Winnipeg lost their teams because they were losing money. They didn't have any trouble getting fans to come out to their games. The fact of the matter is that Canada's economy was pretty bad back then and the NHL was being run on the American dollar, at a time when the Canadian dollar was 62 cents to one American dollar on a good day. Yet Canadian teams obviously still sold their tickets and merchandise in Canadian dollars while having to pay their players in American dollars. Plus, they're much smaller cities than Detroit and Boston and Chicago and almost every other American NHL city. They didn't have the money to build new stadiums, market effectively, etc. They were doomed. Even the Flames and Oilers almost folded, but were saved by DONATIONS. That's right, fans from Edmonton and Calgary gave money out of their own pockets to help save their franchises. That kind of thing would never happen in 90% of American NHL cities.
Also, consider the fact that America's population is over ten times as much as Canada's and yet, over 60% of the players in the NHL are Canadian. The US has its diehard hockey fans, but as a whole, Americans just don't care about hockey. They have baseball, basketball, and football. Hockey is just a sideshow, like soccer, but more popular and established.
I do remember when I had to explain the setup of divisions and conferences to you as well Marlo, and I'm not trying to rag on you for that at all because as long as you watch hockey and love it then you have the right to call yourself a hockey fan, but there aren't too many true Canadian hockey fans who wouldn't consider that common knowledge.
A lot of people who comment on this board on Tampa Bay Lightning fans and American hockey fans and how great and intense they are are ignorant of what hockey really means to Canadians. If you were to have been in Edmonton during their ill-fated 2006 Stanley Cup run you would have had the opportunity to witness exactly what it is I'm talking about. It's just at a whole different level in places like Edmonton, Montreal, Toronto, and Calgary. Like European and South American soccer.
Hockey, despite being very global these days, is still Canada's sport. It is not a North American sport when 80% of the North American players are Canadian.
Also, just as a sidenote, Wisconsin, despite being sparsely populated, deserves an NHL team. Hockey is HUGE in Wisconsin. If Minnesota can support a team then maybe they can too.
Marlo Manson
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Indeed, I didn't take the dollar value differential in canadain dollars into consideration, MY bad! and the reason canadian cities had / have too help support (via donations) too their teams, is because (the communities) didn't help with supporting the NHL, (via donations on there behalf) they would have lost the teams otherwise! I don't know if that would happen in ALL the american cities? maybe the 4 of the original six, and minessota and a few others but past that I can't be certain!!
In my defense that was a momentary lapse of displeasure with the current state of the game.
I am very critical of what SCARY BETTMAN has done too the NHL game, and IMO he has changed the game so much, in order too market the NHL in cities that have never really been interested in hockey!
I was / am sick of the watering down effect it had on the general state of the game and I lost my NOCTURNAL instincts and knowledge of every little facet and detail regarding the structure of the NHL and its divisions and conference's! so you didn't bail me out or describe anything I didn't already know before all the changes were made by a long shot rod!
I do thank you for setting me straight about that again! but I was kind of rebeling against the league in my own way! by my own ignorance of certain changes that were taking place that I really disliked and my not knowing every detail about the league and all else was my own way too deal with the unwanted changes!
I know despite any soon to be additions too the western conference via lost teams from the eastern conference relocating in the west, Detroit CANNOT leave the western conference because DETROITS the western conferences HIGHLIGHT TEAM.. so despite my wishes its gonna be a long time before Detroit will be an eastern conference team. :thumbsup::hatsoff:
Fair enough Marlo. And I couldn't agree more that Bettman is to blame for the league's shotcomings.
Detroit being in the West obviously makes no sense in a sense, since it's an Eastern city, but it keeps an even number of teams in each conference and it is further west than any team in the Eastern Conference, so I guess it's just going to have to stay that way. I'd love to see them in the Eastern Conference though because to me the West is so much stronger and moving the Red Wings to the East would really even things out.
rodfarva: You know your NHL :hatsoff:
Did you know that even Montreal, not long ago, was bleeding money? No one wanted to buy the franchise when Molson was selling it. The old Forum and afterwards the Bell Center were full. There is two citizens of the Quebec Province out of seven that were watching the game. That was not enough income to assure Montreal Canadien survivability when the dollar was at 62cents...
When we saw that an American buisnessman was buying the team and the Bell Center, people in Montreal almost rioted. We had in mind what Jeffrey Loria did with the Expos...
Hopefully, that American buisnessman is a true hockey fan. A true gentlemen. I can't remember an owner which was more proud of the Montreal Canadien traditions. George Gillett didnt saved our franchise, i would'nt go that far, but he surely assured his future.
When you are saying hockey is canadian, i agree to some extent, but Americans have played an important role in all the NHL history. George Gillet is just another example of that. I'm still thinking it's a North American league... even if it's a religion in Canada and not even a major (NFL, MLB, NBA) sport in USA.
Canada fill the league with players, of course. We even fill stadiums in the USA (there is between 100 and 500 Habs fans which travels to see games on the road). The support we give to our teams can match the kind of support Boston gives to the Red Sox. Or Green Bay gives to the Packers. Few markets in USA provides that kind of support to their hockey teams.
When Habs are playing in Florida, there is more Habs fans in the stadium than Panther's...
Anyway, i don't know exactly where i was going with all that. :o
Let's say that the cradle of hockey is a geographical triangle between Montreal, Toronto and Detroit. Hockey is born around the Saint-Lawrence and the Great Lakes.
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New Jersey Devils at the Bell Center tonight. Game is about to start. Go Habs Go!
Did you know that even Montreal, not long ago, was bleeding money? No one wanted to buy the franchise when Molson was selling it. The old Forum and afterwards the Bell Center were full. There is two citizens of the Quebec Province out of seven that were watching the game. That was not enough income to assure Montreal Canadien survivability when the dollar was at 62cents...
When we saw that an American buisnessman was buying the team and the Bell Center, people in Montreal almost rioted. We had in mind what Jeffrey Loria did with the Expos...
Hopefully, that American buisnessman is a true hockey fan. A true gentlemen. I can't remember an owner which was more proud of the Montreal Canadien traditions. George Gillett didnt saved our franchise, i would'nt go that far, but he surely assured his future.
When you are saying hockey is canadian, i agree to some extent, but Americans have played an important role in all the NHL history. George Gillet is just another example of that. I'm still thinking it's a North American league... even if it's a religion in Canada and not even a major (NFL, MLB, NBA) sport in USA.
Canada fill the league with players, of course. We even fill stadiums in the USA (there is between 100 and 500 Habs fans which travels to see games on the road). The support we give to our teams can match the kind of support Boston gives to the Red Sox. Or Green Bay gives to the Packers. Few markets in USA provides that kind of support to their hockey teams.
When Habs are playing in Florida, there is more Habs fans in the stadium than Panther's...
Anyway, i don't know exactly where i was going with all that. :o
Let's say that the cradle of hockey is a geographical triangle between Montreal, Toronto and Detroit. Hockey is born around the Saint-Lawrence and the Great Lakes.
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New Jersey Devils at the Bell Center tonight. Game is about to start. Go Habs Go!
On the ice? I can't read it even when i have my glasses on
I will try to find the answer tho.
On the ice? I can't read it even when i have my glasses on
I will try to find the answer tho.
yeah, it's bugging me.
I had to call a friend who is watching to know what is written... :o
It's written Match Des Étoiles (All-Star Game in english).
ahhhh. thanks!
TB game report, at the end of 2, it's 3-3. there have been 4 fights including Gaustad vs. Lecavalier :fight:
New Jersey 2 - Montréal 1 OT
Is it the team who beaten NYR 6-2 earlier this week? Same players but not same commitment. When your team is loosing 2-1 and the first star of the game is your goaldtender, it speaks volumes on the type of game offense had... 4! 4 freakin shots on Clemmensen in the 3rd period :eek:
The Habs rookie Matt D'Agostini is on fire: he scored again tonight. Again a solid game on both side of the ice for him.
Official scoresheet: http://www.nhl.com/scores/htmlreports/20082009/GS020381.HTM
Is it the team who beaten NYR 6-2 earlier this week? Same players but not same commitment. When your team is loosing 2-1 and the first star of the game is your goaldtender, it speaks volumes on the type of game offense had... 4! 4 freakin shots on Clemmensen in the 3rd period :eek:
The Habs rookie Matt D'Agostini is on fire: he scored again tonight. Again a solid game on both side of the ice for him.
Official scoresheet: http://www.nhl.com/scores/htmlreports/20082009/GS020381.HTM
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