NHL 09-10 season

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As the training camp are in full swing and the exhibition games have started, it is now time to start talking about the season. Which team will aspire to the top honors?

All you hockey fans, come talk about hockey with me, damn it!

 

Hockey's the sport they play on horse's with those long sticks? And there's a ball too, IIRC.

 

pfff, to answer your little joke, we have a saying where i'm from :

 

Haha no idea what that means, but as I am trying to watch more types of sports, I am going to try and get into NHL this season. I doubt I will know any players, but I will certainly start watching games.

 

LMAO, that phrase meant nothing, it's still Splunge's random generated sentence. I'm having waaay too much fun with that...

Cool! We're gaining a new fan! First things first : The Montréal Canadians are lawful good. All the other 29 teams are chaotic evil!

Do you have any questions about the sport? Do you understand the rules and everything? Knowing the rules makes the sport more enjoyable, I always think...

 

No, no Tri, my Flyers are defintiely CG! And the Devils are the LE. The Rangers too!

 

Oh no, Blades! Here, we were getting along and everything! Now, I have to stop being your friend because of the Flyers...

No, seriously, I hate the Flyers (that goes back before Philly eliminated Montréal two years ago). I don't like overly physical teams like Philly and Toronto. They have a lot of brutes... I don't like the way Bobby Clarke built this team. With Pronger, it'll get worst. Even Emery is known to be a brute. And Brière, that freaking coward! Don't make me start on him

But I still respect you opinions...

 

Will do, thanks for the advice.

I understand the basic rules, although I am sure most of the penalties will escape me at first (hell, I'm a huge fan of American football and some of those penalties are still confusing (although for a good reason - some of them are crap) ).

I am probably going to be a Bruins fan because they're the most accessible. They've been decent over the last few years, so it should be more exciting than watching a team that is useless at the sport.

 

I can speak for the entire Flyer Fan Nation when I say that Bob Clarke is a butthole. Everyone hated him. It was amazing that the Flyers would compete some years, he made so many boneheaded trades. Always right at the deadline and would just kill any team continuity that existed. He only kept his job aslong as he did because he was married to Ed Snyder's daughter. Ed is the President of Comcast, who owns both the Flyers and the Sixers.

 

So, Phil Kessel was traded to Toronto.... Am I the only one who thinks thgis is a dumb move by the Bruins? You don't trade a 30-40 goals scorer to a team in your own division!! Boston will face Toronto 6 times this year. If Kessel shines, it might hurt Boston a lot!

 

No need to worry. With Leafs Kessel will most likely reduce to a 15-20 goal underachiever .

 

So, Gretzky stepped down as the coach for the beleaguered Coyotes. Don Cherry doesn't like it. As far as I'm concerned, Cherry can kiss my hairy white backside and stop being a sanctimonious prick. Seriously. Wayne has earned his rest and has proved his grit many times in the past.

 

Greztky was an incredible player who deserves the title "the great one". As a coach... well... it's another story. Yes he didn't have a great team in a market who could care less about hockey. However, he still didn't win anything. He never made the playoffs and he lost more games than he won.

Sometimes, a lot of ex-players become coaches because of their reputation, but they don't necessarily have the right set of talents for that job.

A coach I'm really really looking foward to see in the NHL is Guy Boucher. He was the head coach of the Drummonville Voltigeurs in the minor leagues in Québec. In the summer, he was named head coach of the Hamilton Bulldogs, the habs team in the AHL. Keep an eye on him. A lot of professionals in the NHL refer to him as a next all star coach in a few years. I haven't seen him in action, but everytime I read interviews with in the media, I'm always amazed at his values and his intelligence (ex. he recruted two very experienced assistant-coaches for the bulldogs and said he wanted people with enough experience to challenge him and his decisions to not let him get lazy and to help him grow)

 

Argh, Markov was injured in Montréal's first game of the season. He will be out of a four months period... god, the habs are out of the playoffs right there...

 

Well, given the Oilers' performance on Saturday, dropping their season at home opener, it looks like they'l be out of the playoffs again, too. What a bunch of clowns. I've gotta find a real team to root for, either that or travel back in time to when the Oil was a team of real hockey players rather than just a bunch of dorks.

 

hahaha, what dumb play Khabibulin did in the last minute. What was he trying to do? At least two Edmonton players were nearby. He didn't need to be afraid of a breakaway. And if he was trying to send the puck to the fowards to try for a quick goal, well that's a risky play and with 30 seconds left on the clock before your team gets at least one point in the team rankings. We saw it wasn't worth it...

It kinda reminded me of Conklin in the cup final a few years back... The Oilers are cursed I tell you...

 

The habs lost 4-3 to the Flames, even though they played their best game yet. Oh well, sometimes you win games you should have lost, and sometimes you lose game you deserved to win...

 

Woooo! The habs won last game in a shoot out. So they snap their 5 game losing streak...