Re: All Hockey talk all the time

by **wprager** on Thu Jun 25, 2009 11:17 am

Better yet:

by **SensFan71** on Thu Jun 25, 2009 1:34 pm

wprager wrote:
SensFan71 wrote:
Neely4Life wrote:Comrie wont be a Sen next week, so...

won't be shedding a tear over that one.

N4L means Duff, not Mike.

We still have Carrie Underwood and Campoli's GF:
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http://images.google.ca/images?hl=en&safe=active&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=2yq&q=gia%20allemand&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi[/quote[/url]]

Hilary Muff can still come visit if she like, pillow fights at Spezza's manor could be arranged. :^^^^:

by **wprager** on Fri Jul 17, 2009 2:29 pm

This is somewhat bizarre:
http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/news/story?id=4336607&campaign=rss&source=NHLHeadlines

A shoplifting charge against former NHL player Chris Nilan has been dismissed.Braintree
police say Nilan and another man were arrested Wednesday at a mall
after Lord & Taylor security guards accused Nilan of walking out
with a bathing suit under his clothes.Police say the 51-year-old Nilan denied stealing and scuffled with the guards.The case was dismissed Thursday after Nilan agreed to stay out of the store and paid $100 court costs.

$100 is a lot to pay for a bathing suit. He took a lot of hits to the head, he could have pleaded temporary memory loss, say that he forgot to take it off after trying it on.

by shabbs on Fri Jul 17, 2009 2:35 pm

wprager wrote:This is somewhat bizarre:
http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/news/story?id=4336607&campaign=rss&source=NHLHeadlines

A shoplifting charge against former NHL player Chris Nilan has been dismissed.Braintree
police say Nilan and another man were arrested Wednesday at a mall
after Lord & Taylor security guards accused Nilan of walking out
with a bathing suit under his clothes.Police say the 51-year-old Nilan denied stealing and scuffled with the guards.The case was dismissed Thursday after Nilan agreed to stay out of the store and paid $100 court costs.

$100 is a lot to pay for a bathing suit. He took a lot of hits to the head, he could have pleaded temporary memory loss, say that he forgot to take it off after trying it on.

That is bizarre... kind of reminiscent of the Winona Ryder shoplifting incident...

http://news.scotsman.com/winonaryder/Chrissy-Iley-on-Winona-Ryder.2380360.jp

by shabbs on Sun Jul 19, 2009 3:20 pm

Hilarious pic, looks like the player's about to karate chop the goalie...

But of couse, the player is behind the goalie and off balance.

by **Cap'n Clutch** on Fri Aug 21, 2009 6:42 pm

hey boys coming to you from Paris on the final leg of my trip. damn those french keyboards.

by **marakh** on Fri Aug 21, 2009 6:59 pm

Nice, Hope you're having a blast.

by **beedub** on Fri Aug 21, 2009 8:04 pm

Cap'n Clutch wrote:hey boys coming to you from Paris on the final leg of my trip. damn those french keyboards.

Hey Clutchie!

Thought for a second you were back. Enjoy the end of your trip, see you this weekend

by **Cap'n Clutch** on Sat Aug 22, 2009 6:04 am

beedub wrote:
Cap'n Clutch wrote:hey boys coming to you from Paris on the final leg of my trip. damn those french keyboards.

Hey Clutchie!

Thought for a second you were back. Enjoy the end of your trip, see you this weekend

Not this weekend. I leave Monday the 24th... at 10:00 am! Ahhhhh!

by **Cap'n Clutch** on Sat Aug 22, 2009 6:07 am

marakh wrote:Nice, Hope you're having a blast.

I've had a great time and my wife has been able to visit a lot of her family. Also the little one is doing extremely well all things considered. Her schedule? Lets just say it's all over the map.

by **wprager** on Sat Aug 22, 2009 8:13 pm

And this is "All Hockey" because ...?

Sorry, couldn't resist. You've been missed. Sepz has become a real dictator in your absence.

jk

by **caissie_1** on Tue Oct 06, 2009 6:45 pm

Emery or Gustavson who to start in my fantasy tonigth?

by N4L on Tue Oct 06, 2009 6:47 pm

Gustavson.

by **caissie_1** on Tue Oct 06, 2009 7:24 pm

Yeh thats what i tought to gotta stay away from the capitals.

by Hockeyhero22000 on Tue Oct 06, 2009 8:36 pm

Philly leads the caps right now 4-3 and richards has 3 goals and carle has assisted all 4 goals for philly

by asq2 on Tue Oct 06, 2009 9:48 pm

See-saw match in Philly. Briere wins it in over-time for the Flyers on his birthday.

Caps had a powerplay with a minute to go in the third, which carried over for a minute of OT, but failed to generate much on it.

by spader on Tue Oct 06, 2009 9:53 pm

I wouldn't be surprised for a second to see the Flyers finish top in the East.

by **hemlock** on Tue Oct 06, 2009 10:01 pm

spader wrote:I wouldn't be surprised for a second to see the Flyers finish top in the East.

Neither would I. They are my pick for the top of the East. Washington should cruise to the division title, but Philly is finishing first imo.

by **wprager** on Wed Oct 07, 2009 7:19 am

hemlock wrote:
spader wrote:I wouldn't be surprised for a second to see the Flyers finish top in the East.

Neither would I. They are my pick for the top of the East. Washington should cruise to the division title, but Philly is finishing first imo.

If the Caps cruise then they should have more points that the Flyers. While the SE has improved, Washington is still head of the class, there; Philly goes up against the Stanley Cup champs, King Henrik and that goalie who likes his sister-in-law and has more wins than anybody else, ever.

by **caissie_1** on Sun Oct 11, 2009 11:11 am

What do you guy's expect from Regin... Should I pick him up in the my yahoo pool. Is he good to get me alot of faceoffs. I havent watched alot of the sens so far this year and im wondering if he would be a good add. Im getting killed in the faceoff department. My centers are Zetterberg, Gagner, Cullen and Sharp! I dont even think Sharp is playing center so that's really hurting me that he's posted as a center. So anyway would Regin be a good add?

by **wprager** on Sun Oct 11, 2009 1:18 pm

wprager wrote:
hemlock wrote:
spader wrote:I wouldn't be surprised for a second to see the Flyers finish top in the East.

Neither would I. They are my pick for the top of the East. Washington should cruise to the division title, but Philly is finishing first imo.

If the Caps cruise then they should have more points that the Flyers. While the SE has improved, Washington is still head of the class, there; Philly goes up against the Stanley Cup champs, King Henrik and that goalie who likes his sister-in-law and has more wins than anybody else, ever.

Caps lost again. If it wasn't for the extra games played they'd probably be second in their division. And that's with Ovechkin and Backstrom tied for the league lead in points. Yikes.

by **SpezDispenser** on Sun Oct 11, 2009 2:51 pm

caissie_1 wrote:What do you guy's expect from Regin... Should I pick him up in the my yahoo pool. Is he good to get me alot of faceoffs. I havent watched alot of the sens so far this year and im wondering if he would be a good add. Im getting killed in the faceoff department. My centers are Zetterberg, Gagner, Cullen and Sharp! I dont even think Sharp is playing center so that's really hurting me that he's posted as a center. So anyway would Regin be a good add?

What are your other choices?

The way I would look at Regin is: he's got 3 points in 4 games but he won't continue at quite that clip. It's likely that if he continues to see full time action centering line 3 and unit 2 of the PP that he gets a point every 2 games - so in the low 40s and will end up with an above 50% face off %. He was up against D.Weight against the Isles and was dominated, while Spezza took the face off rookie in Tavares and scored 60+ % against him.

The hope would be that in future Regin can take back the second line C position and win 55% of his faceoffs, score 15 goals and get 25 assists (or somewhere in there). He's got the talent IMO.

by **SpezDispenser** on Sun Oct 11, 2009 2:59 pm

Wow, I think D.Sedin has a broken foot. Out 4-6 weeks? I'll look for the story.

That was easy, it's the lead story on TSN:

http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=294545

by **wprager** on Sun Oct 11, 2009 4:11 pm

So, SD, you're saying that most likely Regin will continue to center the 3rd line and see 2nd unit PP time, and get a point ever second game to get in the low-40s. Yet longer-term, you'd see him centering the *2nd* line and still get that same 40 points. Care to comment which part of the above was off?

by asq2 on Sun Oct 11, 2009 7:12 pm

SpezDispenser wrote:
caissie_1 wrote:What do you guy's expect from Regin... Should I pick him up in the my yahoo pool. Is he good to get me alot of faceoffs. I havent watched alot of the sens so far this year and im wondering if he would be a good add. Im getting killed in the faceoff department. My centers are Zetterberg, Gagner, Cullen and Sharp! I dont even think Sharp is playing center so that's really hurting me that he's posted as a center. So anyway would Regin be a good add?

What are your other choices?

The way I would look at Regin is: he's got 3 points in 4 games but he won't continue at quite that clip. It's likely that if he continues to see full time action centering line 3 and unit 2 of the PP that he gets a point every 2 games - so in the low 40s and will end up with an above 50% face off %. He was up against D.Weight against the Isles and was dominated, while Spezza took the face off rookie in Tavares and scored 60+ % against him.

The hope would be that in future Regin can take back the second line C position and win 55% of his faceoffs, score 15 goals and get 25 assists (or somewhere in there). He's got the talent IMO.

More like 45-50 assists.

by **SpezDispenser** on Sun Oct 11, 2009 9:02 pm

wprager wrote:So, SD, you're saying that most likely Regin will continue to center the 3rd line and see 2nd unit PP time, and get a point ever second game to get in the low-40s. Yet longer-term, you'd see him centering the *2nd* line and still get that same 40 points. Care to comment which part of the above was off?

All of the line where I said 'in future'. :^^^^: I would expect he can top out at 60 points, but who the heck knows. I meant that IMO he's good for 40 points this year - and I really believe that, and as some of you, have believed that for a while.

15 goals and 45 assists like Asq was saying? Something like that would be the ceiling I would imagine, but if he pans out, that should be fairly reasonable.

by **SpezDispenser** on Sun Oct 11, 2009 9:04 pm

asq2 wrote:More like 45-50 assists.

Hopefully. I shouldn't have brought the future into this because Regin's a hard guy to project. He has speed, he has creativity with the puck, but he's also injury prone and only has 15 NHL games to his credit.

Soon he'll learn to shoot more and that will create more rebounds, which will create more assists, so yeah, hopefully.

by **wprager** on Mon Oct 12, 2009 8:36 am

He's shown good hands, and should be able to get Fisher/Vermette type of goal production, so 20-25 with an potential upside to 30 if all goes well. And if he's playing center then he should get even more assists, to the tune of around 35-40. So 55-65 points down the road is what I expect from Regin.

by asq2 on Sat Oct 17, 2009 11:28 am

Brian McGrattan had a Gordie Howe Hattrick.

'Grats for Grats.

Also, most of the smileys don't seem to be working for me.

by **hemlock** on Sat Oct 17, 2009 7:20 pm

asq2 wrote:Brian McGrattan had a Gordie Howe Hattrick.

'Grats for Grats.

Also, most of the smileys don't seem to be working for me.

Me either, nor are any of the avatars showing. I can see sigs though....strange.

by **wprager** on Sat Oct 17, 2009 8:46 pm

Hey, that's true -- the images in the sigs are still there.

by asq2 on Sat Oct 17, 2009 9:52 pm

Duchene with his first NHL goal!

Against the Red Wings. Fitting.

by **PKC** on Sat Oct 17, 2009 9:56 pm

asq2 wrote:Duchene with his first NHL goal!

Against the Red Wings. Fitting.

Kid should have had 4 or 5 by now the way he's been playing.

by **PKC** on Sat Oct 17, 2009 10:08 pm

Phoenix just scored, up 2-0 on Boston almost halfway through the second period. There's another team struggling out of the gate.

by **PKC** on Sat Oct 17, 2009 10:14 pm

Also as a side note, I believe the announced attendance in Phoenix is 6900 tonight.

That team can't possibly survive there with that happening.

by davetherave on Sun Oct 18, 2009 12:04 am

PKC wrote:Also as a side note, I believe the announced attendance in Phoenix is 6900 tonight.

That team can't possibly survive there with that happening.

Haven't you heard? The Coyotes are moving to Quebec.

by **M_Christopher** on Sun Oct 18, 2009 12:12 am

PKC wrote:Also as a side note, I believe the announced attendance in Phoenix is 6900 tonight.

That team can't possibly survive there with that happening.

I can't believe they bother announcing that attendance

by davetherave on Sun Oct 18, 2009 12:19 am

M_Christopher wrote:
PKC wrote:Also as a side note, I believe the announced attendance in Phoenix is 6900 tonight.

That team can't possibly survive there with that happening.

I can't believe they bother announcing that attendance

Hey Mark, where ya been?

by **wprager** on Sun Oct 18, 2009 6:41 pm

M_Christopher wrote:
PKC wrote:Also as a side note, I believe the announced attendance in Phoenix is 6900 tonight.

That team can't possibly survive there with that happening.

I can't believe they bother announcing that attendance

Those numbers are padded as much as 4K -- they give away alot of tickets, sell tickets at huge discounts). For certain games they win they give away tickets to all ticket holders, and they've been winning a lot!

by **wprager** on Sun Oct 18, 2009 6:43 pm

If a 5-2 team, leading their division, cannot even sell as many tickets as the Sens did when they were playing at the Civic Center, then there is no hope whatsoever for that franchise in that location. The writing isn't just on the wall, it's a freaking flashing neon sign.