[OT] Hockey Fever: The NHL Playoffs Thread

[Teflon Billy]

Teflon Billy:
By "crash the net" I meant going to the goal hard. Bertuzzi, Keith Tkachuk and John LeClair (the current playoff series aside) are all excellent in this regard. It's an element that the Wings sorely lack, and I hope they manage to address this off-season.

Yeah, not too many guys witht he Wings who can go in front of the net and not have either Jovanovski, Ohlund or Bertuzzi himself hammer like a wrecking ball.

Chelly is good at taking the body when he feels like it, but Lidstrom is less aggressive. Don't get me wrong, Nicklas is perhaps the best all-around defenseman in the NHL...

For my money that's Rob Blake, but I digress....

...but checking is not his forte. For all their size and strength, Krupp and Fischer are less physical than Theo freaking-Fleury, and our other blueliners are marginal at best.
Playing the man may not always lead to big dollars, but it's still the best way to do your job on defense.

I agree, but keep in mind that these guys have, like, ten years to make their fortunes. I don't blame them for showboating. Makes you appreciate a guy like Chelios all the more though: he is the ultimate "stay at home" defenceman. Waht's he get in a season? like 5 goals, 10 assists and sits somewhere around +40 as far as +/- goes.

He contributes in a non-scoring capacity. it's what a defenceman should be doing.

You have a bet my friend. I will address the Wings attempts to purchase The Cup should they lose.

I should clairfy this one more time: You must address the Wings attempt to buy the cup negatively

I'm glad that you feel the officiating hasn't been biased against Vancouver, because I think Brian Burke's dog and pony show was totally transparent and contrived. Bad calls have gone both ways in this series, and you didn't hear Scotty Bowman crying to the media after losses in Games One and Two.

Don't misunderstand me...I don't think the officiating has been good. It hasn't. It's been awful. But it has (to my eye) benefited us about as often as it has harmed us. This is almost never the case. Vancouver is generally over-penalized. It's considered a joke here in Vancouver that referree Don Koharski is the visiting team's 6th man on the ice.

Burke's act will garner an extra call or two for the Canucks tonight, but I'm hoping our four goal first period will remove any element of suspense from the action .

I wish Vancouver would wake up and stop trying toplay the Wing's style of game. we should be hitting, hitting hitting.

If Detroit wins game 5, we should make damn[/i] sure they are in a world of pain for game six

So far we've faile to do that to Team Methuselah

 

[Lady Dragon]

I didn't say that Yzerman was better than lemiex only that he had scored more points.I'm sure that if lemiex hadn't taken so many years off he would be up their too.

What I was referring to was the lack of national recoginition of his being one of the greatest players in history especially in the earlier years.I guess his numbers are getting so high now that you just have to notice him.

And you are right Quickbeam It has been a privalage to watch him play for the last 2 decades.Heck I had a crush on him in high school all the girls did.

 

[cjyoung1]

Hey Lady Dragon - it wasn't only the girls who had a crush on Stevie Y...

Naw, I'm just kidding, but I know growing up I wanted to be a center just like him (too bad that when I finished growing I ended up 6'2, 230 and one of the slowest guys I know on the ice).

Game starts in less then an hour - must finish reading posts and turn on the tube...
Go WINGS!

 

[Chairman_Kaga]

Ah, blow it out yer ear, squid-boy.

Here friggin' here...


I'd also like to point out one interesting little fact to all the people who claimed that the Lindros trade was a disaster for the Rangers. I believe that Lindros is still playing for the Rangers and had 37 goals 36 assists and was a +19. Kim Johnson is the only ex-Ranger still playing for the Flyers. Brendl=minors, Hlavac traded to the Canucks...

I'm laughin' I tell you....laughin'...




If we can land a real coach for next season and dump the dead weight...all will be good in Ranger Country!!

 

[KChagga]

Red Wings took the Canucks 4-0! Now just to beat them on their home turf again.

GO WINGS!

 

[turtle]

ngah ngah... go wings... some of my friends were at that game...

 

[Lady Dragon]

The Wings played flawless hockey tonight.Fedorov was in MVP form.He is capable of incredible greatness when he applies himself.Hasek was incredible,can't wait till saturday night.

 

[Agamon]

Bruins = Dead Men Skating

All these years and all the different faces and nothing has changed, the Bruins still figure they need to cheat to win. Take out the Habs' hottest player with a cheap shot? S'okay, the Canadiens may not be big, but they carry big sticks.

McLaren better get the closest thing the NHL can come to the chair.

 

[skulrik]

Scuse me, but I will post in french, because I have too much to say, and I want to be clear. Maybe someone will be able to read it.

Ce que les Bruins (ark!!) ont fait ce soir, c'est innacceptable. C'est laid, et c'est cheap. J'adore le hockey. Je suis un partisan du hockey physique et virile. J'aime les mises en échec solide, et j'aime les bagarres. J'aime les entraineurs émotif et démonstratifs.

Mais je n'ai aucun respect pour les coups de cochon et les tentives de meurtre. Je n'ai plus aucun respect pour Kyle McLaren, plus aucun respect pour Robbie Ftorek, et plus aucun respect pour les Bruins (ark!!). Si j'étais un partisan des Bruins (ark!!), j'aurais honte.

Si l'honneur est encore importante, et s'il reste encore un peu de justice, les Bruins (ark!!) mérite de perdre la série, et mérite de se faire huer pas ses partisans.

J'espère que la ligue nationnale va mettre ses cullotes. Assez c'est assez. Attendront-il qu'un joueur meurt vraiment pendant un match !!

C'est sur que le fait que ce soit un joueur de mon équipe, les CANADIENS DE MONTRÉAL !!, une équipe glorieuse et honorable, que les Bruins (ark!!) ont tenté d'abbattre influence un peu ma réaction, mais soyez assuré que j'aurais le même discours si cela aurait arriver à un joueur de l'Avalanche, l'équipe que je détestait le plus (ancienne rivalité Canadiens-Nordiques). Maintenant, c'est les Bruins (ark!!) que je déteste.

Je suis frustrer et écoeurer, que le plus beau sports au monde, le hockey, soit ainsi sali par des idiots comme McLaren et Ftorek. Et il y en a d'autre. Ces sans génies devraient être expulsé de la ligue, à vie. Peu importe leur statut: vedette, goons, ou inconnu.

Si y'a une chose que je n'aime pas, c'est les blessures. Je trouve dommage que des équipe comme les King et les Maple Leaf perde leur joueur vedette suites a des blessures. Mais c'est encore pire quand le joueur est blessé par exprès.

J'espère que Zednick pourra s'en remettre. Et j'espère que tous les partisans des Bruins (ark!!) se sente mal !!

Go Habs Go !! Répliquer avec votre coeur, pas avec vos poings.

May the Bruins (ark!!) die in Hell !!

 

[skulrik]

Oh, et j'ai oublié une chose. Les arbitres de la Ligue Nationnal de Hockey sont vraiment les pires arbitres au mondes. C'est aussi de leur fautes, si tous ces gestes violent et illégal se prosuisent. S'il étaient sévère, et toujours égal, de match en match, et même d'une période à l'autre, cela règlerait bien des problèmes. C'est quoi cette idée de toujours vouloir égaliser les pénalité entre les équipes ??? Si une équipe jous cochon, elle mérite d'être plus punis que l'autre, un point c'est tous.

Now, that's over. And I will post in english in the futur.

Go Habs Go !! For Zednick, and for Captain Koivu !!!