Author Topic: NHL open thread (lets go ahead & throw international hockey in here too) (Read 115715 times)

joda · « **Reply #950 on:** March 30, 2016, 02:07:09 PM »

Quote from: MakeItRain on March 30, 2016, 11:39:14 AM

He should get 20+ games

Should but won't. I'd guess 5, maybe 6 if the NHL season wants to say "see, we came down hard on a Blackhawk"

8manpick · « **Reply #951 on:** March 30, 2016, 02:23:58 PM »

Quote from: joda on March 30, 2016, 02:07:09 PM

Quote from: MakeItRain on March 30, 2016, 11:39:14 AM
He should get 20+ games

Should but won't. I'd guess 5, maybe 6 if the NHL season wants to say "see, we came down hard on a Blackhawk"

It will be 10+. He has at least one (maybe more?) extended suspension in his past

MakeItRain · « **Reply #952 on:** March 30, 2016, 05:54:19 PM »

Uh, Nashville has always been in the west, they've faced the sharks twice in the playoffs

Sharks fans, SMDH

star seed 7 · « **Reply #953 on:** March 30, 2016, 07:31:45 PM »

not during my sharks fandom (that i remember)

0.42 · « **Reply #954 on:** March 31, 2016, 08:53:33 PM »

joda · « **Reply #955 on:** April 01, 2016, 07:58:24 PM »

Quote from: joda on March 30, 2016, 02:07:09 PM

Should but won't. I'd guess 5, maybe 6 if the NHL wants to say "see, we came down hard on a Blackhawk"

8manpick · « **Reply #956 on:** April 02, 2016, 06:45:36 AM »

Bqqkie Pimp · « **Reply #957 on:** April 02, 2016, 10:09:07 PM »

Enjoyable season, gentlemen...

joda · « **Reply #958 on:** April 13, 2016, 11:05:45 PM »

Blues/Blackhawks going to OT in the playoffs. Shocking I know.

joda · « **Reply #959 on:** April 13, 2016, 11:41:03 PM »

Lol what a lucky goal but I'll take it.

MakeItRain · « **Reply #960 on:** April 14, 2016, 12:45:44 AM »

That was awesome, grats joda. BTW I have the Blues and the Caps in the cup finals, but TB will win the east if they can get Stamkos and Stralman back.

joda · « **Reply #961 on:** April 14, 2016, 09:01:55 AM »

Quote from: MakeItRain on April 14, 2016, 12:45:44 AM

That was awesome, grats joda. BTW I have the Blues and the Caps in the cup finals, but TB will win the east if they can get Stamkos and Stralman back.

It was really a great game. I wish I could watch these Blues/Hawks series as just a hockey fan because they're always entertaining, but as an actual Blues fan they've been frustrating up to this point. Blues have to be a lot more aggressive offensively if they're going to win the series. The Blues may be the best all around team in the league, but they have to get over the mental part of the game.

8manpick · « **Reply #962 on:** April 14, 2016, 10:48:24 AM »

Booooooo

114Hickory · « **Reply #963 on:** April 14, 2016, 04:28:09 PM »

Quote from: joda on April 14, 2016, 09:01:55 AM

Quote from: MakeItRain on April 14, 2016, 12:45:44 AM
That was awesome, grats joda. BTW I have the Blues and the Caps in the cup finals, but TB will win the east if they can get Stamkos and Stralman back.

It was really a great game. I wish I could watch these Blues/Hawks series as just a hockey fan because they're always entertaining, but as an actual Blues fan they've been frustrating up to this point. Blues have to be a lot more aggressive offensively if they're going to win the series. The Blues may be the best all around team in the league, but they have to get over the mental part of the game.

Same except I'm on the other side. It should be a great series. I think this is the year that the Hawks realize they can't just turn it on any time they want to. That was a great game last night.

8manpick · « **Reply #964 on:** April 14, 2016, 04:31:06 PM »

It's hard to play ~200 hockey games over 2 years. There is a reason it's so rare for a team to reach back to back finals.

MakeItRain · « **Reply #965 on:** April 15, 2016, 12:06:36 AM »

It's tough as hell when you get as beaten and bloodied as St. Louis left Chicago last night, that was brutal. I am quite surprised that the Blues didn't take more penalties for as much as they played the body. The lightning didn't hit Detroit as much as the Blues did the hawks but they seemed to hit a fraction of a second late several times. If the hawks somehow win this series the Blues will have their pound of flesh and I can't possibly see Chicago winning another series.

Joda, watching as an impartial fan is great but I miss the playoff intensity, we'll be back next year.

Winters · « **Reply #966 on:** April 18, 2016, 03:57:05 PM »

Quote from: MakeItRain on April 15, 2016, 12:06:36 AM

It's tough as hell when you get as beaten and bloodied as St. Louis left Chicago last night, that was brutal. I am quite surprised that the Blues didn't take more penalties for as much as they played the body. The lightning didn't hit Detroit as much as the Blues did the hawks but they seemed to hit a fraction of a second late several times. If the hawks somehow win this series the Blues will have their pound of flesh and I can't possibly see Chicago winning another series.

Joda, watching as an impartial fan is great but I miss the playoff intensity, we'll be back next year.

Feel free to cheer on the lightning in this edition of the stanley cup playoffs

joda · « **Reply #967 on:** April 18, 2016, 08:35:34 PM »

Blues/Lightning would be my ideal SC matchup. Favorite team vs 2nd favorite.

star seed 7 · « **Reply #968 on:** April 18, 2016, 08:37:18 PM »

sharks/lightening would be party central

joda · « **Reply #969 on:** April 18, 2016, 09:21:06 PM »

Quote from: libliblibliblibliblib on April 18, 2016, 08:37:18 PM

sharks/lightening would be party central

Sharks/Blues would be WCF choice

joda · « **Reply #970 on:** April 20, 2016, 12:25:46 AM »

It's a lot of fun watching the Blackhawks (ok, mainly just Shaw, but whatever) meltdown.

As long as no Blue gets hurt I'd love to see them go nuclear in game 5

8manpick · « **Reply #971 on:** April 20, 2016, 12:39:03 AM »

Yeah... Steen absolutely instigated the one at the final whistle, but Shaw had already gone off the deep end by then

114Hickory · « **Reply #972 on:** April 20, 2016, 10:02:10 AM »

Quote from: joda on April 20, 2016, 12:25:46 AM

It's a lot of fun watching the Blackhawks (ok, mainly just Shaw, but whatever) meltdown.

As long as no Blue gets hurt I'd love to see them go nuclear in game 5

For me I'm . . . sad, really.

MakeItRain · « **Reply #973 on:** April 20, 2016, 11:17:44 PM »

Shaw is such a piece of crap, speaking of which...

I cannot watch the kings sharks series, tried, can't do it. I watched about 10 minutes of game 3. In that 10 minutes I saw Thornton hit Dustin Brown while he was on the ice then talked crap when Brown got up to retaliate Thornton as usual found courage when the linesman intervened. Then a few minutes later Hertl slashed someone small and unassuming and acted like he wanted to fight. About two minutes later Milan Lucic tried to fight someone who doesn't fight at all like Matt Nieto. Then to top it off the camera caught Drew Poughty crying to the refs and banging his stick on the ice like a child.

Shaw, Thornton, Lucic, and Poughty make me angry just seeing them, shitheads, the lot of them.

joda · « **Reply #974 on:** April 21, 2016, 11:25:23 PM »

Give up a goal with .4 left in the second to go to the intermission down 2, then tie it up and force OT? No way the last few year's Blues teams do that.