The Official 2017-18 NHL thread

gaby said:

Très bonne réflexion Doc.....vrai que c'est triste de voir des dynasties comme celles des Wings et des Habs s'écrouler de pareille facon.........espérons que la roue reparte dans l'autre sens MAIS cela risque de prendre beaucoup de temps et la mise en place de nouvelles directions et LEADERS.

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The fact is....THE HABS ARE AN AWFUL TEAM. But one thing habs fans do not realize is that they've been as AWFUL for the past few years but that fact was hidden due to the fact Carey Price singlehandedly won game after game for them in many games they had no business of winning. He was surreal!!!!!

But Price has come back to Earth and he isn't getting any younger. His life has changed and it may have affected his focus. He's also become somewhat injury-prone and it won't get any better as he ages. It's unbelieavable that Marc Bergevin and Geoff Molson granted him that huge contract so soon!!!!! They at least could have waited until the halfway point of the season!!! But then again, nothing surprises me anymore about this once-great organization, which has become a Mickey Mouse operation!

The Winnipeg Jets are expected to be without Patrik Laine for up to two weeks as the star winger recovers from a foot injury. As Eagerbeaver would say....Laine is injury prone.

gaby said:

Leafs....impressive win 5-2 on Preds..wow...Mattews was back et en très grande forme...one goal..Andersen did well....vraiment à prendre au sérieux ces Leafs.

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Did you see Matthews' goal??? Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What's more impressive is that the Leafs win was on the road and that it came against the league's hottest team right now. The Preds were 14-0-1 going into last night's game.

Subban hasn't changed much. Still has a big shot and good offensive skills but he's still the king of giveaways, having several last night which led to both goals and good scoring chances.

gaby said:

et que dire de JVR...toujours on fire...son but était quelque chose à voir aussi....les Leafs devront y penser à 2 fois avant de le laisser partir.....évidemment il va exiger beaucoup.

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The Leafs would love to keep JVR but it's almost impossible due to the cap with other players needing to be re-signed. JVR would also love to stay but he totally understands the situation the Leafs are in. Bozak is another player who will likely be moving on. Who knows maybe there's a team out there who might want to sign them both and immediately will end up with a very productive line.

Leafs have won 13 in a row at home after coming back to beat the Red Wings last night.

Hopefully they're peaking at the right time and they'll need all the momentum they can get in order to beat either Boston or Tampa in the first round of the upcoming playoffs.

Strange to see only two Canadian teams making the playoffs (Toronto and Winnipeg). For me the more Canadian teams involved the better it is. Looks like there'll be a lot of afternoon hockey games being shown on tv this year.

gaby said:

Don't like the way Tampa is playing récemment..il y a un peu de relâche....alors attention aux Bruins et Leafs qui sont dans un momentum et qui jouent du hockey inspiré .

On another note Doc....am sure Betman is quite happy that only 2 Canadian teams are doing the playoffs...and Toronto is one of them.

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The problem with Tampa is that their starting goalie (Vasilevsky) is burnt out and the other guy is just average. By the way i've never bought into the paranoia that Gary Bettman was anti-Canada. He's done a hell of a job as Commissioner and deserves every penny the owners are paying him. He's done a lot to improve, enrichen and expand the game of hockey all over the world.