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Topic: The NHL Thread
Posted By: AtLossForWords
Subject: The NHL Thread
Date Posted: October 04 2006 at 17:39
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With all of our soccer threads in this forum, I thought it would be a good idea to make about my favorite sport, hockey. It's NHL opening night, so I felt today would be a good day to open this thread. So, let's talk hockey! My favorite team is the Canucks, and I'm an angry Blackhawks fan. I live in Denver now where no one likes either team. I do however have NHL Center Ice from Directv to watch the teams I like. -------------  
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Posted By: Jimbo
Date Posted: October 04 2006 at 17:59
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I used to be a huge NHL fan when I was 10 or so, I still have a massive collection of ice hockey cards somewhere! NHL doesn't interest me much anymore, but I still try to watch the Olympics and the World Championships whenever they're on. I'm still pissed that we lost the final against Sweden in the Olympics!  My favorite NHL team is possibly Colorado Avalanche. Don't know why though. ------------- 
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Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: October 04 2006 at 18:02
| Go Flyers! |
Posted By: Gravity Eyelids
Date Posted: October 04 2006 at 18:05
Hockey... My favorite sport. 
Devils for me. Season opener against Carolina, it's time for us to get some revenge...
 I also play hockey for my high school. ------------- Into this wild Abyss the fiend Stood on the brink of Hell and looked a while, Pondering his Voyage. |
Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: October 04 2006 at 19:23
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I am a rabid Penguis fan and yearn for them to return to their former greatness,but that might take awhile.The Pens are also BADLY in need of a good goaltender.
Wait till Sydney Crosby really develops as a player,he is the next Mario Lemieux. -------------  |
Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Date Posted: October 04 2006 at 19:24
I was born and raised in Detroit, so the Red Wings are my #1.
I moved to California in 1984 and live two hours from San Jose, so the Sharks are my #2 team.
 Both should have good years, but I think the Sharks may take it all.
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: October 04 2006 at 19:37
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Yay hockey!
Rangers fan here (please no jokes.  )------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Gravity Eyelids
Date Posted: October 04 2006 at 19:54
I Think the Penn's will have a good team this year, espeacialy w/ the amazing rookie, Malkin who was second pick in the draft last year (He dindn't want to play pro just yet last year), and of course Crosby.
I'll be rooting for 'em too, except when it will hurt the Devils of course. ------------- Into this wild Abyss the fiend Stood on the brink of Hell and looked a while, Pondering his Voyage. |
TheProgtologist wrote:Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: October 04 2006 at 20:20
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I couldn't care less which group of millionaires (who aren't even from the cities they represent) can put the rubber disk in the net more often.
But enjoy your season. ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: Zoot Allures
Date Posted: October 04 2006 at 22:06
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I'm watching the Ottawa VS Toronto Game at the moment. 3 period. 3-1 Ottawa.
I'm a Bruins fan
 but cheer for the Sens since I live in the region and watch most of their games. I'm all for hockey being played 12 months of the year!
 ......As for the previous post. Don't be shy to get some help with that. No point in going through life bitter and unhappy.
 ------------- The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side. - Hunter S. Thompson |
Posted By: memowakeman
Date Posted: October 04 2006 at 23:06
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I used to watch hockey games long time ago when they were on mexican TV or another system, now i dont really know much about it, i remember i simpathize for Pittsburgh Penguins, i loved Jaromir Jagr , now i dont know if he is still playing... ------------- Follow me on twitter @memowakeman |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: October 05 2006 at 03:39
Maybe because they are the descendent team from the Quebec Nordiques who were the first team to open the market to Czechs with the Statsny brothers.
I still root mainly for the Montreal Canadians even when I lived in Toronto. I hated the Leafs when they were under old bugger owner Harold Ballard, he was their main problem.
But in general I root for all the Canadian teams. (although there are less of them after the Winnipeg Jets and the Nordiques moved to US cities)
Ottawa Senators, Toronto Maple Leafs
Edmonton Oilers, Calgary Flames and Vancouver Canucks. ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Gravity Eyelids
Date Posted: October 05 2006 at 06:25
He plays for the Rangers now.  ------------- Into this wild Abyss the fiend Stood on the brink of Hell and looked a while, Pondering his Voyage. |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: October 05 2006 at 06:52
I did not know this guy was still playing. He was a Gretzky teammate with the Oilers , if I remember well. He must be close to 40, then!! ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: October 05 2006 at 07:40
Jaromir Jagr never played with the Oilers. He's played with the Penguins, the Washington Capitals, and now the NY Rangers. |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: October 05 2006 at 08:17
ooops
he played with Mario Lemieux in the Penguins, did he not then??
that would make more sense with the age thing ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: October 05 2006 at 10:10
He did indeed, and helped the Pens win back to back Stanley Cups. |
Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: October 05 2006 at 10:16
Good times....good times.  ------------- |
Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: October 05 2006 at 10:19
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Used to play EA NHL Hockey a lot on the Mega drive and Playstation.
For some reason I always played as Chicago and Jeremy Roenick was my top scoring player.. Great game,two player or against the "computer". |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: October 05 2006 at 10:29
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^^^ forgive my ignorance, but is the NHL hockey which is played on grass or ice??
seriously, I'm not trying to be sarcastic; I genuinely have no clue...  ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: October 05 2006 at 10:31
| ^^^ The NHL is a professional ice hockey league. |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: October 05 2006 at 10:36
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^^ ah thanks for that.... that's not implicit in the title 'National Hockey League' so I didn't know.... do they play on grass too?? ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: October 05 2006 at 10:38
No,its a prohibited substance...
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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: October 05 2006 at 10:39
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might enhance their performance round the rink.... ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: October 05 2006 at 10:42
| fandango, two types of "grass hockey" in the US: field hockey and lacrosse. The former is played almost exclusively by women and is closer to traditional ice hockey in that a ball is hit with sticks between players and then shot at the net, whereas lacrosse involves the sticks with nets and the ball is carried around and passed through the air. I think there may be a professional or semi-pro men's lacrosse league, but the popularity of it is quite small, much less than the NHL, which itself has become a very minor sport in the American sphere. |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: October 05 2006 at 10:48
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^^ thanks for that; very helpful.
Yes, I was aware of lacrosse as a separate sport. In the UK, we get practically no coverage of either kind of hockey (unless you can find it on an obscure satellite channel)....
but we tend to cheer on our teams (mens and womens) every 4 years at the Olympics (on grass) until we get knocked out. We then briefly wonder why we aren't any good at it, declare that more investment should go into the grass roots of the sport, then promptly forget about it for another 4 years...  ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: October 05 2006 at 10:56
There is Major League Lacrosse here in the States. http://www.majorleaguelacrosse.com/ It is really popular here on the East Coast,and HUGELY popular in my state of Maryland.Baltimore has it's own pro team,the Baltimore Bayhawks,and we go to games pretty regularly. I played alot growing up,and played for my HS for four years.Great game,pretty fast paced and high scoring,it can also be really rough. Great game ------------- |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: October 05 2006 at 10:58
Field Hockey is played around the world by men. Pakistan is one of the stronger nation and The Netherlands are quite good at it too. But among male sports, it is over-run bu mùany other sports.
Which is not quite the case for women. It appears a bigger sport for them because football, rugby etc.. are not in vogue between them.
And Lacrosse is quite different. You never hit the ball with the cane, the way you do in hockey as in a slapshot. The Lacrosse cane is more used as a glove than a stick. ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: October 05 2006 at 11:06
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C'mon enough of this sqabbling now.... I feel responsible for ruining a perfectly good NHL thread by asking dumb questions...now where were we...
Go Seahawks, Go!!! ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: October 05 2006 at 11:14
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Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: October 05 2006 at 11:40
Your team is the Phildelphia Barrage,who we have a fierce rivalry with.
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Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: October 05 2006 at 11:59
Apparently there is more than one lacrosse league!  The Wings are a team in the National Lacrosse League ( http://www.nll.com - http://www.nll.com ). |
Posted By: Dalezilla
Date Posted: October 05 2006 at 14:19
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Go Canucks go!!
Yeah so I'm a Canucks fan, but you already knew that Tlossy.
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Posted By: AtLossForWords
Date Posted: October 05 2006 at 14:45
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I went to the opening night game at the Pepsi Center here in Denver. The Stars came back 3-2 to beat the Avalanche in overtime. It was an exciting game, but once Dallas got their offensive game going in the third period, Theodore couldn't make a clutch save.
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"Mastodon sucks giant monkey balls." |
Posted By: Gravity Eyelids
Date Posted: October 05 2006 at 21:37
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Pens winning 4-0 at the moment. Rangers won 5-2  ------------- Into this wild Abyss the fiend Stood on the brink of Hell and looked a while, Pondering his Voyage. |
Posted By: Minimalist777
Date Posted: October 05 2006 at 22:16
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GO CAPS! We suck, but at least we have Ovechkin ------------- WWOSD? What Would OliverStoned Do? |
Posted By: Logos
Date Posted: October 06 2006 at 00:19
| I've been a Flyers fan all my life. |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: October 06 2006 at 09:06
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God the Flyers sucked last night. They are not ready to play, that much is clear (and Bobby Clarke said as much in an interview recently). Worst part is I'm going to have to hear it from Jody now.
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Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: October 06 2006 at 10:19
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Yeahhhhhhhhh baby!!!!!!!!!!!!Being a Pens fanatic you have to know I cannot stand the Flyers(sorry Flyers fans,but it's the truth)
I hope that game was a portent of good things to come this year.I was complaining about terrible goaltending and Fleury stopped FORTY shots!!!!  ------------- |
Posted By: Gravity Eyelids
Date Posted: October 06 2006 at 16:29
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^^ I didn't see the game because it did not air in NJ, must have been good though. And Fleury w/ forty saves!!!........ NJ Devils vs. Carolina tonight......... I will not be able to see because I'm going to a PT concert, but I am recording it, so please no one post the score here. ------------- Into this wild Abyss the fiend Stood on the brink of Hell and looked a while, Pondering his Voyage. |
Posted By: Melomaniac
Date Posted: October 07 2006 at 16:03
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I'M from Montreal, so guess what team I root for. Many good transactions since Theodore : Zednik's gone, Ribeiro's gone, Niniima is now here, a nice battle for #1 goalie will take place between Huet and Aebischer, Koivu started his season in full force, as did the #1 trio, Komisarek will develop into one hell of a defenceman, Ryder will surprise many. I think the Habs will be able to finish at least in the 5th slot for the playoffs. ------------- "One likes to believe in the freedom of Music" - Neil Peart, The Spirit of Radio |
Posted By: Melomaniac
Date Posted: October 07 2006 at 16:05
So glad Denver is caught with Theodore, good thing we no longer have to bear with him in Montreal! ------------- "One likes to believe in the freedom of Music" - Neil Peart, The Spirit of Radio |
Posted By: AtLossForWords
Date Posted: October 10 2006 at 20:04
Yeah, the Avs got the bitter end of that deal, Theodore sucks. My Canucks have Luongo in goal, so we have nothing to worry about in the crease. -------------
"Mastodon sucks giant monkey balls." |
Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: October 11 2006 at 10:49
I have Luongo in my fantasy hockey league.First time in awhile I had a decent goalie. ------------- |
Posted By: AtLossForWords
Date Posted: October 11 2006 at 17:43
oooo You're lucky, he's playing really great. I've been watching the guy, and it seems like a conventional shot never beats him. A team has to bank one in off a defender's skates or tip a slapshot to the top corner. -------------
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Posted By: Dalezilla
Date Posted: October 19 2006 at 11:36
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Vancouver has had a decent start.
Wow Minnesota and Buffalo are doing good.
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