[NHL] HOCKEY'S BACK!!!!

[Timmus]

When the Leafs win the Stanley Cup do you really think the parade will be limited to just Toronto? Psshhh, the parade will be the entire length of the Trans-Canada.

BC, Alberta, and Quebec would beg to differ.

The only positive in this scenario is that tsn will spend the majority of their time talking about a team worth talking about for once.

 

[HCGLNS]

You don't get an opinion. Toronto is the centre of the universe.

 

[Frank]

Whew! Edmonton fans can finally breathe easy. Relatively speaking, of course.

Breath easy. Fuck off. We capitulated to that shit head owners bullshit threats. Where was he going to take the Oilers where every game would still be sold out? Where. The tax burden of that fucking place is going to cost the city billions in the end from all the shitty loans they have to take out.

 

[jwhouk]

Oooh, I think I hit a nerve.

 

[Covar]

Eric Staal gets a hat trick against buffalo to lock in a 6-3 victory over the Sabres. The hurricanes first win of the season.

 

[checkeredhat]

Turns out the watermelon fucked the woodchipper up.

And then smashed by Gallagher the next night.

 

[jwhouk]

Let's take a look at where everyone is by month's end before we start planning Stanley Cup Parade routes.

 

[Covar]

Canes sweep the Sabres to move up to .500, and nearly as sweet, move Buffalo down to .500.

 

[Timmus]

I

Let's take a look at where everyone is by month's end before we start planning Stanley Cup Parade routes.

I don't think anybody was...

 

[jwhouk]

Well, you never know about those GTO types.

 

[checkeredhat]

Well, you never know about those GTO types.

GTO?

 

[Timmus]

Geez you act as if TDot was the team that offer sheeted webber and Schneefed all your free agents.

 

[jwhouk]

Greater (their term, not mine) Toronto Ontario.

 

[jwhouk]

As much as I take potshots at the Leafs, I am growing increasingly frustrated with my own team.

48 points is not going to get us into the playoffs.

 

[Charlie Don't Surf]

As much as I take potshots at the Leafs, I am growing increasingly frustrated with my own team.

48 points is not going to get us into the playoffs.

They would probably have a better record if points were decided by hockey instead of the fucking skills competition.

 

[checkeredhat]

Greater (their term, not mine) Toronto Ontario.

Ah, I think the term you are looking for is GTA: Greater Toronto Area.
I've lived in Ontario my whole life (actually, I guess technically I've lived in the GTA my whole life, though I disagree with the boundaries extending that far north into York Region), and have never heard GTO or Greater Toronto Ontario before.
Also the only person who even made what was clearly a joke about a parade in this thread, is from Halifax. Roughly 1800 km (~1100 miles) away from the GTA, and 1300km (~800 miles) East from the Eastern most point of Ontario.

 

[jwhouk]

See, I'm in preseason form, just like the boys in Nashville. I'd have used the correct acronym if this season had started on time.

 

[jwhouk]

I am really starting to wonder if the Nashville Predators will ever win another hockey game.

And do you know how embarrassing it is to not only get shut out for your fifth loss in six games, but to do so in front of less than nine thousand fans???

 

[checkeredhat]

I am really starting to wonder if the Nashville Predators will ever win another hockey game.

And do you know how embarrassing it is to not only get shut out for your fifth loss in six games, but to do so in front of less than nine thousand fans???

*points at self*
Leafs fan.

 

[blotsfan]

Well this season has turned to shit.

And Nashville only has 9000 people? I thought they were supported pretty well.

 

[Timmus]

season's barely a week old ya bunch of chicken littles!

 

[jwhouk]

The sub-9k, 4-0 shutout loss (not "shootout", which we've done three times this year) was in Glendale, Arizona. Home of an NHL hockey team, but not much else.

 

[Charlie Don't Surf]

I'm holding out hope the Preds will figure out how to score goals sometime before they're 15 points back of a playoff spot

 

[jwhouk]

That might be sometime next month, at this rate.

No Horny = very listless offense.

 

[blotsfan]

Thats how you break a 4 game losing streak. Vanek has been so good this season.

 

[jwhouk]

Jamison is less than two hours away from blowing his shot at owning an NHL franchise completely.

 

[jwhouk]

Da, Sergei! That is how we win shootouts!

 

[Piotyr]

@nhlrulebook: Congratulations to Gary Bettman on his 20th anniversary of officially becoming NHL commissioner! What a wonderful 18 seasons it's been!

 

[Timmus]

I know you guys hate the Canucks but this game against Chicago is quite good.

 

[jwhouk]

Well, anyone who whips on the 'Hawks is okay in my book.

I prefer it to be MY boys, of course.

 

[Timmus]

Well, anyone who whips on the 'Hawks is okay in my book.

I prefer it to be MY boys, of course.

Nowhere near a whipping yet but all the history makes any meeting between these teams pretty great IMHO.

 

[Charlie Don't Surf]

Chicago / Vancouver games are always a delight

 

[checkeredhat]

Not really a Luongo fan (don't hate the guy or anything, but I'm not like "woo, Luongo rules"). However, seeing his performance so far this season has been pretty awesome, and I'm glad that it's more or less shut the Toronto media up up the trade rumours THEY started. Every game Luongo goes out there and performs like he has been, Damien Cox looks like more of an idiot for suggesting Vancouver is desperate to get rid of him.

Guys, I'm scared. Toronto plays the Bruins on ACC ice tonight. Torontos home record, and Toronto's record against Boston....it's going to be a massacre.

 

[jwhouk]

I guess you don't want to know that the "move the Coyotes to Hamilton" rumors have started again, hey?

 

[HCGLNS]

Hamilton? Dude, Markham is building a state of the art stadium just for shits and giggles. A second NHL in Toronto has been roaring for months now. Hamilton? Seriously, do you even google?