Chill Murray
get well soon jacoby..
Isles still suck but at least we can beat the Blues!
That and they said how they were showing off Halak to other teams.Likely the same reason Price (Montreal) didn't play. If you open the season with 2 games in 2 nights, most coaches will opt to give each of their goalies a start.
In any case, its about time that rule came, we were already using it in college so...except this should all be in past tense because thats not the rule now
the burrows trip should've been called, but so should the bertuzzi elbow to sedin's head and conroy's interference on luongo behind the net (where luongo was actually called for a dive instead, if you can believe it)Just went to the flames home opener. Wow, what a shock, the flames are off to a slow start.
The officiating was...unfair to say the least. Say what you will, that I'm biased, but a blatent trip is a blatent trip even if you happen to be vancouver. I'm so sick and tired of Mary-Kate and Ashley Sedin dismantelling everyone in the fucking NW division. The only purpose the canucks seem to serve is leeching all the interdivisional poinst away from teams that will actually make the playoffs.
As a side note, there was some AWESOME heckling at the game. Vancouver fans are now officially the worst fans in the NHL though, they started all kinds of actual fights all over the dome. Not even Edmonton and Toronto is this bad :(
NE division is always quite competitive, too.Thanks Arti. Yeah, I'm pretty sure the NW division will be the most competative again this year. Looking forward to it!
I dont disagree that Budaj isnt the best goalie in the history of the sport, but he certainly doesnt suck...Colorado is fucked if they can't get a decent goalie soon, Budaj just sucks.
The Coyotes are really good for having a few rookies/2nd year players. Turris and Porter are both going to put up solid numbers this year I think, and Gretzky really knows what he is doing with putting his team together. Porter is definitely going to be a pretty good assist man I think and from playing with and against him I can tell you he is hard as fuck to play against because he has a wicked shot as well. On a side note, I wish Gretzky would have sent Carcillo out against Anaheim though because fuck Anaheim...I'm guessing a healthy Jovanovski and the development of Mueller / Turris along with continued expected contributions from Jokinen and Doan determine this year for the Coyotes.
That's Atlantic. I was talking Ottawa/Montreal/Toronto/Buffalo/Boston.Regarding the competitive division note, it depends on what you mean by competitive.
The Northeast division by far has the best teams competing against each other for the top spot (New Jersey, New York, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia), but the Northwest division could feasibly see ALL of its teams vying for the top spot.
Pretty sure there was a Montreal/Ottawa/Buffallo/Boston play-offs once. I know 2 years ago Ottawa/Boston/Buffallo made the play-offs with Toronto 0 points back and Montreal 1 point back.cone division has only had four teams make the playoffs once(last year) since they changed the divisions, but I think both of those divisions have a decent shot this year - all eight of those teams are great.
Very sad news to hear, especially since his main reason to come to the NHL was to play with Jagr. At least he got the chance to...New York Ranger prospect Alexei Cherepanov died after accidentally getting elbowed by teammate Jagr in the chest.
http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=252547&lid=headline&lpos=topStory_nhl
QFTVery sad news to hear, especially since his main reason to come to the NHL was to play with Jagr. At least he got the chance to...