Re: NHL season 2008-09

[sneakypower]

i don't think that's possible

 

i'll be at the game though, i'll let you know how it went :D

[NewUserName]

i don't think that's possible

 

i'll be at the game though, i'll let you know how it went :D

 

 

THTHTHTTHPPPPTTTTT!!!!!!!!!

[17 Seconds]

wow the rangers are a mess

[sneakypower]

i think we saw last night the big difference between the Sharks and Wings. Detroit can split up their lines, and they still function well but when San Jose had their top line split up it was an unproductive mess.

 

the Whitney trade smacks of desperation for Pittsburgh

 

oh, and give Steve Mason the Vezina or something

[NewUserName]

i think we saw last night the big difference between the Sharks and Wings. Detroit can split up their lines, and they still function well but when San Jose had their top line split up it was an unproductive mess.

 

the Whitney trade smacks of desperation for Pittsburgh

 

oh, and give Steve Mason the Vezina or something

 

I dont think there is any question which team has better and more inter changeable forwards. If the Wings arent forced or dont feel obligated to play Chelios, they also have better dmen. I think the question that will arise in a 7 game series is going to be goaltending. Nobokov is clearly better than anyone the Wings have.

 

I think the trade was probably desperation by both teams. I dont think either of them is top 8 in their conferences right now.

 

give Steve Mason the Venzina. Columbus scares me as a playoff team.

[TruffleShuffle]

oh, and give Steve Mason the Vezina or something

 

he made 19 saves for the shutout. give ken hitchcock the jack adams. tim thomas should get the vezina.

 

and btw mason allowed 5 goals on 13 shots two games ago. just sayin.

[TruffleShuffle]

danny briere coming back is causing all kinds of problems because his salary will now count against the cap - the flyers waived glen metropolit (not a huge deal, but he's fine as a third or fourth line two-way center) and ossi vaananen (he should be playing ahead of andrew alberts, but john stevens is an idiot and likes north americans more than euros). meanwhile stevens' butt buddy from the minors, randy jones, continues to play half his shifts with his head up his ass, but stays on the first pairing. instead we're waiving metropolit, vaananen and probably sending down powe when we could have just shipped jones out to the phantoms.

 

john stevens is just a disaster. can't believe we fired hitch and hired stevens, that's the nhl equivalent of canning schottenheimer and hiring norv turner.

[Post Count Padder]

Brodeur gets a shutout in his return. Welcome back Marty.

[Drew Doughty]

oh, and give Steve Mason the Vezina or something

 

he made 19 saves for the shutout. give ken hitchcock the jack adams. tim thomas should get the vezina.

 

and btw mason allowed 5 goals on 13 shots two games ago. just sayin.

 

or give terry murray the jack adams, because apparently the qualifier for that is low shot totals against.

 

thomas should win the vezina though. i thought he had split starts with fernandez a little more, but he's started a lot more games lately. he'll probably end up around 55 starts which is good enough with the numbers he's putting up.

 

and i'd give claude julien the jack adams, just so we're clear. probably would give chara the norris too.

[NewUserName]

I think Julien is going to win the Adams

 

Chara will probably win the Norris

 

As for the Venzina, I think I will go with Ty Conklin!! :)

 

I like the Hitchcock to Shottenhiemer analogy. I think Hitchcock is a great coach who gets his teams to play inside his system and they do well. He has not had great playoff success however. Though he does have a Stanley Cup. I think Hitchcock wears out his welcome over time.

 

Who do you guys see winning the Lady Bing?

[sneakypower]

Avery.

 

as for Thomas getting the Vezina, Mason should receive less credit for his system but Thomas doesn't get marked down for playing behind two strong Norris contenders? Fernandez (2.24/.921) hasn't had a hard go of it either, when he's been in net.

[Drew Doughty]

Avery.

 

as for Thomas getting the Vezina, Mason should receive less credit for his system but Thomas doesn't get marked down for playing behind two strong Norris contenders? Fernandez (2.24/.921) hasn't had a hard go of it either, when he's been in net.

 

he has a .934 save percentage. that's just ridiculous.

[TruffleShuffle]

or give terry murray the jack adams, because apparently the qualifier for that is low shot totals against.

 

i do think hitchcock deserves some consideration for the jack adams, because that team is performing much better than the level of talent on the roster.

 

i like thomas for the vezina because his save % is outstanding (.007 better than anyone else) and while i haven't seen a lot of b's games this year, the ones i saw, he looked great - not just a product of the team in front of him.

 

and if mike richards is not at least a finalist for the selke i will poop a brick.

[Cynosure]

Game of the week on NBC sucks again. Bruins vs. Rangers.

[TruffleShuffle]

yay we lost to montreal in overtime after scotty upshall gets called for a phantom interference penalty! good times.

[Cynosure]

yay we lost to montreal in overtime after scotty upshall gets called for a phantom interference penalty! good times.

 

DUDE LIEK STOP COMPLANIN BOUT REFS LAWL!!!11

 

Nah... the Habs are notorious for this crap. Diving/embellishing to get calls. Habs are my all-time most hated team in any sport.

[TruffleShuffle]

we had more pp's during the game, and i didn't see most of the game, but i do know that the call in overtime was God-awful.

 

montreal tends to get a whole lot of home cookin, that's what bothers me about them. it happened during our playoff series with them last year, but fortunately carey price was so bad that it didn't matter.

[Cynosure]

http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/attendance?year=2009

 

Pretty surprising, look at Pitt.

[kujay]

http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/attendance?year=2009

 

Pretty surprising, look at Pitt.

 

What is surprising? That so many people are going? I don't follow. They are at 103% of capacity. They just have a small building.

 

I know Washington had a decent sellout streak going (I mean, for them -- I think was like 10 games) a few weeks ago. And the Blues drawing over 18K/game is pretty solid. They are creeping up too.

 

The only real surprise to me is Boston. Great team, only 90% full.

[Cynosure]

http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/attendance?year=2009

 

Pretty surprising, look at Pitt.

 

What is surprising? That so many people are going? I don't follow. They are at 103% of capacity. They just have a small building.

 

I know Washington had a decent sellout streak going (I mean, for them -- I think was like 10 games) a few weeks ago. And the Blues drawing over 18K/game is pretty solid. They are creeping up too.

 

The only real surprise to me is Boston. Great team, only 90% full.

 

I didn't even look at the %, that was my fault... just saw the average attendance.

 

I can't believe the Hawks are ahead by that wide of a margin.

[TruffleShuffle]

yeah what a shame that people stopped coming out to the games because they could watch them on tv, right bill wirtz?

[Cynosure]

 

Ott gets his ass kicked!

[TruffleShuffle]

 

Ott gets his ass kicked!

 

and then a match penalty for eye gouging. what a douche.

[Cynosure]

Wings getting smacked 5-0 in the 1st so far.

[sweetpeteman]

http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/attendance?year=2009

 

Pretty surprising, look at Pitt.

 

What is surprising? That so many people are going? I don't follow. They are at 103% of capacity. They just have a small building.

 

I know Washington had a decent sellout streak going (I mean, for them -- I think was like 10 games) a few weeks ago. And the Blues drawing over 18K/game is pretty solid. They are creeping up too.

 

The only real surprise to me is Boston. Great team, only 90% full.

 

 

My only question to this chart is does it include the game at Wrigley for the home stats? Since they had 40,000+ people there, that would skew the total upward, as you are getting nearly two games' attendance for one game.

 

(Without the Wrigley game (25 games), the avg attendance falls to 21776, still in first, but not as far away).