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The Everything NHL Thread
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me too :( Anaheim's GM is trying to get it changed so that teams are allowed to maintain portions of the salaries of players they trade to make it more likely for that sort of thing to actually happen in the NHL. Evidently it is too hard to move players who actually count as players rather than prospects because of the salary cap right now... I am hoping he gets that passed. For the GM of a team I have absolutely no respect for he really does a lot of pretty intelligent things, and I have to respect he himself at least for the Bryzgalov thing...
It was too cheap too pass on, don't blame me for it ;) It's not like I live for the penguins now, but its just a cool looking jersey.
at some point in some league I am going to put together this roster to see if anyone gets the joke... sure wish there were more centers and D though !!
C Hanzal
C, LW Straka
LW Gelinas
RW, LW Erat
RW Havlat
RW Lapointe
RW St. Louis
D Rucinsky
D Skoula
G Brodeur
G Biron
G Gerber
To get to four defensemen I'd have to cheat and add Paul Martin and Radek Martinek, haha. I'm not sure if Turco counts although he'd be a good addition if eligible, wonder what his legal name is... Even with those guys I'd have to add a NA dude to hit 16 players though, haha
C Hanzal
C, LW Straka
LW Gelinas
RW, LW Erat
RW Havlat
RW Lapointe
RW St. Louis
D Rucinsky
D Skoula
G Brodeur
G Biron
G Gerber
To get to four defensemen I'd have to cheat and add Paul Martin and Radek Martinek, haha. I'm not sure if Turco counts although he'd be a good addition if eligible, wonder what his legal name is... Even with those guys I'd have to add a NA dude to hit 16 players though, haha
dont get the joke :) blame it on my dutchness i suppose
The flames aren't nearly as dirty or cheap as the oilers. I think tanguay needs to go. He takes crappy penalties, doesn't produce and is just a bitch in general. Trade him while his stock is high.
Also Huselius is lazy...he never takes that last step to get the puck and loves dumping it in. I guess he IS european though...
Also Huselius is lazy...he never takes that last step to get the puck and loves dumping it in. I guess he IS european though...
It'd be a bit more obvious on a roster screen since more than just the last name is visible green, heh heh.
I don't see too much of the Oilers to compare(although I've been enjoying them embarrassing the ducks lately!) but while I don't see more than three or four of their games a month it seems like I see something that I find particularly dirty in at least half of them. I expect it from people like Iginla and Phaneuf at this point, which is unfortunate since they're both really good at hockey and should probably focus on that instead of doing stupid shit. I'm still pretty annoyed about that whole 'send out the backup goalie to fire a cheapshit with the goal stick' in the playoffs last year, but at least the coach got axed since I think it's fairly obvious it was his fault. I'm not big on Tanguay or Huselius either though(looking at skill rather than class), but I'm a bit biased on the former since he is one of those players that has been on my shit list for about a decade now.
On a lighter note, in spite of being in 12th place in the Eastern Conference, the Thrashers have both the Player of the Month and the Rookie of the Month in Ilya Kovalchuk and Tobias Enstrom. Obviously I am enjoying this because both of them are on my fantasy team currently, but I'd check out Enstrom if you guys get a chance. I'm not sure how much the mostly Canadian smogon hockey fanbase gets to see of him since he plays in the Southeast, but I'm really impressed by him. I watch the Thrashers a lot since they tend to have pretty interesting games, and I've really liked what I've seen from Enstrom. Statistically he looks good(leads team with 25 minutes of ice time per game, 10 points in november and 16 in 26 games on the year), but I don't think that really tells the whole story for him. He's pretty sound defensively but the main thing I like about him is his passing - on more than a few occasions I've seen him string it through multiple defenders in a single pass to get his teammates great scoring chances. I think as long as Atlanta manages to keep Kovalchuk and Hossa in town for him to work with he'll be a one of those perennial all stars assuming he continues to improve.
On one more random note - evidently the NHL set a record for average attendance in November. I guess that's at least somewhat reassuring with all the negativity about the game's lost popularity(somehow I doubt there were any TV records set), although for the most part it looks like it nearly goes up every year so I don't know how impressed I am.
I don't see too much of the Oilers to compare(although I've been enjoying them embarrassing the ducks lately!) but while I don't see more than three or four of their games a month it seems like I see something that I find particularly dirty in at least half of them. I expect it from people like Iginla and Phaneuf at this point, which is unfortunate since they're both really good at hockey and should probably focus on that instead of doing stupid shit. I'm still pretty annoyed about that whole 'send out the backup goalie to fire a cheapshit with the goal stick' in the playoffs last year, but at least the coach got axed since I think it's fairly obvious it was his fault. I'm not big on Tanguay or Huselius either though(looking at skill rather than class), but I'm a bit biased on the former since he is one of those players that has been on my shit list for about a decade now.
On a lighter note, in spite of being in 12th place in the Eastern Conference, the Thrashers have both the Player of the Month and the Rookie of the Month in Ilya Kovalchuk and Tobias Enstrom. Obviously I am enjoying this because both of them are on my fantasy team currently, but I'd check out Enstrom if you guys get a chance. I'm not sure how much the mostly Canadian smogon hockey fanbase gets to see of him since he plays in the Southeast, but I'm really impressed by him. I watch the Thrashers a lot since they tend to have pretty interesting games, and I've really liked what I've seen from Enstrom. Statistically he looks good(leads team with 25 minutes of ice time per game, 10 points in november and 16 in 26 games on the year), but I don't think that really tells the whole story for him. He's pretty sound defensively but the main thing I like about him is his passing - on more than a few occasions I've seen him string it through multiple defenders in a single pass to get his teammates great scoring chances. I think as long as Atlanta manages to keep Kovalchuk and Hossa in town for him to work with he'll be a one of those perennial all stars assuming he continues to improve.
On one more random note - evidently the NHL set a record for average attendance in November. I guess that's at least somewhat reassuring with all the negativity about the game's lost popularity(somehow I doubt there were any TV records set), although for the most part it looks like it nearly goes up every year so I don't know how impressed I am.
All of the player's first names is Martin, that's my name in my French IV class.
Anyway, yeah, sorry about Boyes. I decided that now was the time to shake up my team a bit. I've been very strong in the goaltending department but just mediocre everywhere else. I'm hoping that I'll start getting higher +/- and penalty minute scores.
Oh, and what's the blockbuster trade that you guys were talking about?
lol, Boyes is my own fault for dropping him to begin with - clearly if I wanted him badly enough I would have held on to him. I was justly burned for trying to exploit the system, just frustrating!
I think part of the URL is a number that is assigned per team so I probably can't succesfully link it but the one he was talking about was me trading zerowing Kovalchuk, Drury, and Ward for Luongo, Morrow, and Markov.
Seems like a lot of people have really shook their rosters up in the last week and a half or so(not counting the perpetually fluid roster Vineon has, Carl, 5k, Zerowing, WER, and I all switched at least three players recently), hopefully that helps make the second halfish of the season exciting!
I think part of the URL is a number that is assigned per team so I probably can't succesfully link it but the one he was talking about was me trading zerowing Kovalchuk, Drury, and Ward for Luongo, Morrow, and Markov.
Seems like a lot of people have really shook their rosters up in the last week and a half or so(not counting the perpetually fluid roster Vineon has, Carl, 5k, Zerowing, WER, and I all switched at least three players recently), hopefully that helps make the second halfish of the season exciting!
end of this week i'll be on the switched 3 players list (Lidstrom - Naslund first) and me and WER are switching goalies and LW's (WER gets DiPietro and Wolski, I get Smyth and Huet) after proposing several offers on irc, this one we could both agree on.
good question, not sure how I pulled that one off since I was just transcribing the results of the player search thing!
In other news Wednesday night was the only night so far this season where the NHL was playing games and I didn't see at least one which is sort of depressing :( At least I can take solace in having not missed a minute of the wings so far this year.
As an aside I am hoping the games tonight are a little more interesting than last nights, I am currently DTD with a sprained foot(at least it isn't one of those terribad groin injuries. . .) and last night DM's Sabres being terrible did not entertain me enough to keep me in bed at ALL.
EDIT: also this caught my eye on yahoo http://messages.fantasysports.yahoo...orner&tid=891&mid=891&tof=-1&rt=2&frt=2&off=1
In other news Wednesday night was the only night so far this season where the NHL was playing games and I didn't see at least one which is sort of depressing :( At least I can take solace in having not missed a minute of the wings so far this year.
As an aside I am hoping the games tonight are a little more interesting than last nights, I am currently DTD with a sprained foot(at least it isn't one of those terribad groin injuries. . .) and last night DM's Sabres being terrible did not entertain me enough to keep me in bed at ALL.
EDIT: also this caught my eye on yahoo http://messages.fantasysports.yahoo...orner&tid=891&mid=891&tof=-1&rt=2&frt=2&off=1
Yeah what the hell was with that Sabres beating? I checked my stats today to find that Miller was put in during the first and let in 4 the rest of the game. I figured if he was going to play it would be late and he'd you know stop a few shots to boost my goalie stats instead of essentially playing back to back nights. It's the fucking LA Kings, too..
lol I enjoyed the Gaborik thing so much live, still don't think that should have been a penalty but for all of his terrible mistakes so far this year I have to give Hasek credit - he makes sure the game is never boring, hahahaha. I was kinda worried Gaborik would find a way to get injured but he seemed to have only hurt his pride which is good.
Looks like it was lucky for you Backstrom didn't play though, lol.
Looks like it was lucky for you Backstrom didn't play though, lol.
That was so awesome. I seriously thought that he had hit his head until I saw the replay. A complete flip, that was insane.
Possibly even more awesome than that Hasek/Gaborik thing yesterday, the most epic moment I have ever seen in regular season hockey just occured. Crosby vs. Luongo, Penalty Shot, Overtime. This is why I buy center ice, hahaha. Does it get any better than that? No, because it didn't go in. Luongo sure is something else... I'm not going to give in on Brodeur being the best in the league(and all time!) but I love watching Luongo. I've always been a goalie guy, and with guys like him and Kipprusoff and Miller poised to be around for a while I have a lot to look forward to.
As far as fantasy we'll see if I have anything to look forward to, two injuries and my roster being kinda fluid because of trades made for a bad week for me (also my opponent has had ridiculous goaltending but at least nabakov blew it tonight), hopefully next week is a little better ><
As far as fantasy we'll see if I have anything to look forward to, two injuries and my roster being kinda fluid because of trades made for a bad week for me (also my opponent has had ridiculous goaltending but at least nabakov blew it tonight), hopefully next week is a little better ><