2013 NHL Free For All Thread

[lgna69xxx]

Leafs last season, 3 playoff wins, habs 1.... so much for that fluke of a first place finish by the soft scabitants who were fading fast the last 2 weeks of the season and getting pushed around more than ever.... cant wait to see them after 48 games this coming season!

Last season was a mirage for Les Scabitants, this season, just wait and see... way to soft, way to few skilled players and Carey RED LIGHT Price in net. :wave:


Is it Oct 1 yet? :thumb:

It's not just that the Leafs haven't won a Cup or been to the finals since 1967, but: The leafs have never won a third round in the playoffs -

 

[joelcairo]

Leafs last season, 3 playoff wins

Yes 3 playoff wins...and...FOUR playoff LOSSES....one FIRST ROUND EXIT....and one historic, groundbreaking, cowardly epic collapse in game 7...all contributing to the ongoing continuation of 46 YEARS of complete and utter failure!

I can see why you're bragging though: those paltry and pathetic 3 playoff wins were the ONLY playoff wins (in the only playoff APPEARANCE!) of the sad sack leafs in the last freakin' decade!

 

[lgna69xxx]

baby steps bro, it takes time to recover from the mess JFJ brought to the Centre of the Hockey Universe and things have finally been turned around....If the dead things can go yrs and years of failure and turn things around, then ANYONE can! Is it Oct 1 anytime soon? (btw cairo, that is when the season opens, not when your next VP concert is)

GOLEAFSGO!

Yes 3 playoff wins...and...FOUR playoff LOSSES....one FIRST ROUND EXIT

 

[lgna69xxx]

Shameless promotion to sell tickets... guess times really are tough in the motor city, they will stoop to all new lows to fill that dump known as the JOE... they should rename it the JOEL.

Wings to Retire Lidstrom's Number 5

 

[joelcairo]

they should rename it the JOEL.

Good idea! Naming it after the most knowledgeable hockey expert in North America would be very wise.

 

[lgna69xxx]

I said joel, not DOC :lol:

Good idea! Naming it after the most knowledgeable hockey expert in North America would be very wise.

 

[joelcairo]

.If the dead things can go yrs and years of failure and turn things around, then ANYONE can!

As usual you are exposing your lack of knowledge regarding hockey (although I must confess that you do seem to have a remarkable knowledge about your beloved disco music).

The Wings won the Cup in 1955 and did not win another until 1997 - 42 years. The stinkin' leafs have ALREADY gone 46 YEARS with no Cup...and more importantly with no Cup EVER AGAIN in sight!

The Wings subsequently DOMINATED the NHL with an amazing FOUR CUPS in the next decade and a half - that's FOUR AND COUNTING after 42 years, compared to ZERO AND NOT COUNTING for the stinkin' leafs after 46 YEARS.

Also, in the Cupless years between 55 and 97, the Wings reached the FINAL SIX TIMES (56, 61, 63, 64, 66, 95). That's SIX final appearances in 42 years, compared to ZERO (!!!!) final appearances in 46 YEARS for the stinkin' leafs.

Players for the Wings in the Cupless years included such all-time greats as Howe, Lindsay, Delvecchio, Ullman, Sawchuk, Yzerman, and on and on and on.

Players for the leafs in their ONGOING Cupless years have included Brian Spinner Spencer, John Kordic, Jiri Tlusty, Laurie Boschman, Phil Kessel, Captain Pylon, Andrew Raycroft and a whole platoon of other rejects with no talent and no guts.

The only half decent leafs since 67 have been Sittler and MacDonald (who both left on bad terms), Sundin (who never reached his true potential because he played for such a crappy team) and Little Dougie Gilmour (who travelled through a whole bunch of teams in the NHL). Don't even think of mentioning overrated casualties like Borje Salming. (Ian Turnbull was okay.)

The Wings never had the type of sex scandals that brought shame to all of Toronto in the Maple Leaf Gardens years.

The Wings had Bob Probert as an enforcer - probably the best ever. The leafs have an ineffectual and untalented punching bag like Colton (definitely NOT Bobby!) Orr.

No comparison: even in their WORST years the great Detroit Wings were 100 times better...and a THOUSAND times classier...than Canada's National Embarrassment.

But don't cry too hard: you've still got your cowboy pictures to cheer you up.

 

[smuler]

The Wings had Bob Probert as an enforcer - probably the best ever

Pound for pound, I thought Joe Kocur was the man

Instant change in the mood at MSG when he donned the Ranger jersey

Best Regards

Smuler

 

[lgna69xxx]

"Howdy Partner" (that is how you guys talk right?)

Seems you do not know me very well broskie, trust me, when reading your posts i am never sad, actually very much 100% opposite, unless you consider laughing so hard that the eyes water from it as sad Bwhahahahahaahahahahahaahaha............. Man, is it Oct 1st yet???? And it is gonna suck having to wait until Dec 21 until the Leafs get a looksie at that soft team from that horrible city in Michigan, but all good things come to those who wait, and a win by the Leafs will certainly be a very Good Thing, at the expense of the DEAD THINGS!


And trust me, i dont have ANY pics of you in your hat and chaps, save that scary site for you and your mirror :wave:

But don't cry too hard: you've still got your cowboy pictures to cheer you up.

 

[joelcairo]

And trust me, i dont have ANY pics of you in your hat and chaps, save that scary site for you and your mirror :wave:

I think you're confusing me with the good doctor, who as you WELL know is the only cowboy on this board. Please confine your imagination to your "friend" and leave me out of your fantasies. Until I read your scary post I thought you were over that.

 

[joelcairo]

Pound for pound, I thought Joe Kocur was the man

Instant change in the mood at MSG when he donned the Ranger jersey

Best Regards

Smuler

I think Kocur was the best pure puncher but Probie could take him because he had a better hockey fighting technique (sort of like George Foreman, Earnie Shavers and Sonny Liston were better punchers but Ali could take them because he had a better boxing technique). But yeah, Kocur was one tough dude!

 

[joelcairo]

Oofff! Poor dead things...... Dec 21!

Yeah the LEAFS have been dead for 46 YEARS and should have been booted from the League long ago.

The great Detroit Red Wings and the 28 other respectable teams in the NHL have been playing kickball with the wretched corpse in TO for 46 YEARS and quite frankly it would be more amusing if Captain Pylon, the Invisible Man and the other no-talent cowards on the roster could at least give them a BIT of competition once in a while. But their succession of inept GMs has ensured that that will never happen. The only thing the stinkin' leafs are good for is the occasional laugh!

 

[joelcairo]

The sooner it starts the sooner the leafs extend 46 YEARS to 47 YEARS.

Can't wait to see the Wings enjoying their piece of cake after the realignment!

 

[joelcairo]

One of the great injustices in hockey:

Why in Hell is Rick Middleton not in the Hall of Fame...ESPECIALLY when you consider that the HoF DOES have Borje Salming!!!

 

[lgna69xxx]

Q. How did the Detroit Red Wings fan die from drinking milk?
A. The cow fell on him!

 

[Doc Holliday]

One of the great injustices in hockey:

Why in Hell is Rick Middleton not in the Hall of Fame.

Agreed, but why are the likes of Clark Gillies, Bob Pulford, Bernie Federko & Joe Mullen also in the HoF??

Why aren't Paul Henderson & Pat Burns not in the HoF?

Geraldine Heaney is more worthy of them??

The Hockey Hall of Fame is a joke!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[anon_vlad]

Paul Henderson is famous for having scored the deciding goals in the last three games of the Canada-Russia series. He scored 236 goals in a 700 game NHL career. He didn't even average 20 goals a season at a time when the average number of goals per game was about 50% higher than now. His results were better than average, but hardly dominating. At least a couple of hundred others should be added to the Hall of Fame if he gets in. It isn't false modesty when he says that he wouldn't vote for his own induction.

Pat Burns was a colorful character, but not an extraordinarily successful coach. He won exactly one Stanley cup in a long coaching career. Toe Blake had 8 in a much shorter career and Scotty Bowman 9.

Are you suggesting that Pat Burns and Paul Henderson should be given special consideration due to their common terrible handicap which no human being could possibly have surmounted - their association with the Toronto Maple Leafs?

 

[joelcairo]

Q. How did the Detroit Red Wings fan die from drinking milk?
A. The cow fell on him!

That is udderly unfunny.

 

[Doc Holliday]

Paul Henderson is famous for having scored the deciding goals in the last three games of the Canada-Russia series. He scored 236 goals in a 700 game NHL career. He didn't even average 20 goals a season at a time when the average number of goals per game was about 50% higher than now. His results were better than average, but hardly dominating. At least a couple of hundred others should be added to the Hall of Fame if he gets in. It isn't false modesty when he says that he wouldn't vote for his own induction.

So why is Vladislav Tretiak in the HoF?? Valery Kharlamov? How many NHL games did they play? Henderson's goals alone during the 72 Summit Series changed the face of hockey both in Canada and in the Soviet Union.

Why are Cammi Granato and Angela James in the Hall of Fame? Why was Bob Pulford ever elected as a player? Geraldine Heanie?

Pat Burns was a colorful character, but not an extraordinarily successful coach. He won exactly one Stanley cup in a long coaching career. Toe Blake had 8 in a much shorter career and Scotty Bowman 9.

No different than Fred Shero, Bob Johnson or Herb Brooks. All in the Hall of Fame.

 

[joelcairo]

The biggest joke in professional sports just became even funnier: The wretched leafs, who already have the highest ticket prices in the NHL, are making them even higher.

Poor gullible leaf fans (and are there any other kind?) will have to pay a premium to see top teams such as the Red Wings and the Hawks. I guess in a perverse way it makes some sense, because the only time the poor gullible leaf fans ever get to see QUALITY hockey is when good teams visit their barn.