2014 / 2015 Official NHL Thread

[marc7]

11 victorys for the cup !
3 fast goals against a team that did not give more than 2 per game ! So are we back ... One game at the time , will see!

 

[Doc Holliday]

Nice job of sticking the blade deep into the back of your own team which has been a total failure since the same time.

What can i say? I've always spoken the truth, even when it concerns my own interests.

I do speak my mind & out of turn sometimes, but 99.9% of the time, it'll be the truth.

"I tell it like it is" is & has always been my motto.

 

[Doc Holliday]

So, how did you do?

Won $200 with the Hawks win, and the other $1000 is on hold for now.

 

[Doc Holliday]

Nah, firing GMs is reserved for people like Burke and Nonis.

And Peter Chiarelli.

 

[Doc Holliday]

Hey I think that skeleton was one of the many ex-Leaf fans who threw away their jerseys in disgust this season. Maybe Kadri will try to get the poor stiff (literally!) arrested.

Not me. I had $500 on the Leafs missing the playoffs since a couple of insiders close to the team told me in January that they had been told the coach (Carlyle) would get canned if the team didn't start losing soon. The Leafs' intent from day 1 into the season was to try to position themselves into having a chance at drafting Connor McDavid. That's why they fired all the assistants & retained Carlyle. I was told two of the assistant GMs were totally against this and were fired for lack of cooperation. Whether i believe this is irrelevant.

 

[Doc Holliday]

He knows it better than anybody else. That's the reason why he hates them so much...

For exemple look at the player he hates the more... The worst ? Noooo, one of the best : Subban...

Jealousy is the engine of the hatred.

I don't hate the players. I just hate most of their nutty fans. They embarrass the franchise. They're also the ones who hate the habs as much as anyone else, which no one seems to realize. Win one game, they're great. Lose to in a row, they want the coach fired, Bergevin sucks and they want Plekanec, Markov & Eller (among others) traded or released. No wonder they're the most despised fans in professional sports. And the most misinformed.

p.s. I'd take Subban & Price on my team ANYTIME.

 

[Doc Holliday]

11 victorys for the cup !
3 fast goals against a team that did not give more than 2 per game ! So are we back ... One game at the time , will see!

Typical habs fan. I'll bet you that you were among the thousands of habs fans who dumped on their team after game 3 and wanted Therrien fired & hoped they cleaned house next season, only to get back on the bandwagon after last night's game.

Habs fans are typically the biggest bandwagon jumpers in the history of professional sports.

 

[G1GBallday]

The Leafs' intent from day 1 into the season was to try to position themselves into having a chance at drafting Connor McDavid.

Based on their success in last 48 years, we can already predict they will be strong contenders for Connor McDavid III at the 2065 draft. :nod:

 

[Doc Holliday]

Based on their success in last 48 years, we can already predict they will be strong contenders for Connor McDavid III at the 2065 draft. :nod:

It depends how you define success. Many delusional habs fans consider the habs to be a successful franchise. At one time maybe. But they haven't won anything in over 22 years. Many of their current fan base weren't even born when they last won the cup. Is that success??

Again, it all depends on how you define success.

I may not be a Leafs fan, but i believe that the Cliff Fletcher/Pat Burns/Pat Quinn years were extremely successful. Then there was the 2004 lock-out and nothing's been the same since. But i believe that Brian Burke had the team on the right track until he was unceremioniously fired by the MLSE board (the Bell Media guy didn't like him because he didn't fit the corporate profile).

Speaking of the Leafs, Detroit finally gave Mike Babcock permission to talk with any teams of his chosing today. No doubt he'd love to coach the Leafs, but he may be tempted by a better monetary offer from elsewhere....such as Buffalo, Philly and Edmonton. But personally, the Leafs should hire Todd McLellan. He'd be a better fit for the Leafs. Babcock may have become too big/too popular and may not be a good fit for the Leafs right now due to this.

Go Rangers!! Go Bolts!!

 

[G1GBallday]

It depends how you define success

Most sane people would consider post expansion championships as the definition.

No doubt he'd love to coach the Leafs

Make you wonder why the highly respected Shanny contacted Guy Boucher.

Keep going Leafs, keep going.

 

[Doc Holliday]

Most sane people would consider post expansion championships as the definition.

It depends how you define sanity.

Make you wonder why the highly respected Shanny contacted Guy Boucher.

It depends how credible rumors are. I also heard one the other day that Guy Boucher had recently been approached about joining the habs organization next season. Rumors are rumors.

 

[Merlot]

It depends how you define sanity.

Now we agree. Here's something especially for those like you:

Strange Fans and The Maple Leafs’ Losing Legacy

https://www.dundurn.com/news/strange_fans_and_maple_leafs’_losing_legacy

Maple Leafs fans are a strange breed indeed. It’s been more than a decade since the Leafs made the playoff cut, and the moon landing is still more recent than their last Stanley Cup victory. What then compels Leafs fans year in and year out to set themselves up for yet another Sisyphean season? Personally, the reason I’ve tuned in (at least for the start of the seasons) these past years has, admittedly, less to do with any lingering trace of hope than it does with my fascination with epic tragedy on an historical scale. The eleven-game losing streak that began last year’s season fascinated me to no end and, I confess, I was secretly dismayed when it finally came to end with a win against the Buffalo Sabres, opening the doors to what would be just another season of old fashioned mediocrity. At any rate, it’s fairly plain that being a true Leafs fan requires some form of aberrant psychology.

In Hope and Heartbreak in Toronto: Life as a Maple Leafs Fan, CBC columnist Prospects Canada editor Peter Robinson explores this strange culture of Maple Leafs fandom. What impels diehard fans to shell out hard-earned cash and spend countless hours glued to their TVs and radios in support of a losing team? Is it just blind optimism? Or is there more behind this unflinching faith? Robinson tackles the phenomenon head on as he looks into the past, present, and future of legions of Blue and White fans.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13571824-hope-and-heartbreak-in-toronto

False hope, hollow promises, and a mind-numbing lack of success - these words describe the Toronto Maple Leafs and the hockey club's inexplicable mediocrity over much of the past decade.

Author Peter Robinson has attended some 100 games over the past six seasons and has little to show for it except an unquenched thirst that keeps him coming back. Why does a team that hasn't won a Stanley Cup since 1967, long before many of its followers were even born, have such a hold on its fans? Robinson tries to answer that question and more while detailing what it's like to love one of the most unlovable teams in all of professional sports.

Being a Leafs fan requires a leap of faith every year, girding against inevitable disappointment. This book tells what that's like, how it got to be that way, and what the future holds for all who worship the Blue and White.

It must be something like self-generating masochism to take a beating for 48 years and come back each time loving them more.

[video=youtube;r0Tc5D0jY3Y]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0Tc5D0jY3Y[/video]

Leafs Humiliating Collapse After Being Up 4-1

BRUINS 5 LEAFS 4

Cheers,

Merlot

 

[Doc Holliday]

How are the Bruins making out during these playoffs, my friend? :lol: :lol: :lol:

p.s. Too bad for Bruins fans that it's much harder to get away with cheating in hockey.

 

[gohabsgo]

How are the Bruins making out during these playoffs, my friend? :lol: :lol: :lol:

p.s. Too bad for Bruins fans that it's much harder to get away with cheating in hockey.

2005–06 Did not qualify
2006–07 Did not qualify
2007–08 Did not qualify
2008–09 Did not qualify
2009–10 Did not qualify
2010–11 Did not qualify
2011–12 Did not qualify
2012–13[shortened season] EPIC CHOKE AND FAIL
2013–14 Did not qualify
2014–15 Did not qualify

2015-16 Will not qualify

 

[gohabsgo]

Pylon wants out

Simmons: An NHL executive claims Dion Phaneuf wants out “of that nut house in Toronto.”

http://www.torontosun.com/2015/05/09/a-lot-of-factors-will-weigh-on-babcocks-big-decision

Can't say I blame Celine Sloppy Seconds for wanting out from the worst and most embarrassing NHL franchise.

 

[man77777]

it all depends on how you define success.

Well, not like that :

2005–06 Did not qualify
2006–07 Did not qualify
2007–08 Did not qualify
2008–09 Did not qualify
2009–10 Did not qualify
2010–11 Did not qualify
2011–12 Did not qualify
2012–13[shortened season] EPIC CHOKE AND FAIL
2013–14 Did not qualify
2014–15 Did not qualify

2015-16 Will not qualify

 

[Doc Holliday]

What i meant is that each person has his own perception of success.

For example, a guy who never has to pay a hooker for sex may consider himself very successful for not falling into that trap. However, some other dude may figure he has enough spare money lying around to allow himself to indulge himself once in a while, so he may consider himself successful for this reason....he's been able to afford this privilege.

It's all very subjective. Just like what the meaning of life is to each different individual.

 

[anon_vlad]

For once I agree with Doc. For some players, getting paid a full salary and getting one or two more months more vacation year after year than their colleagues is a success.

 

[Doc Holliday]

For once I agree with Doc. For some players, getting paid a full salary and getting one or two more months more vacation year after year than your colleagues is a success.

Of course. And they'll be rested come next season.

I don't blame many of the european players for not giving their all during the playoffs. Most habs fans i know have trashed Markov, Plekanek and Galchenyuk thoughout the playoffs. But these guys leave their homeland in order to come here and make more money playing in the NHL. And since players don't get paid during the playoffs (the owners pocket most of the playoffs revenue), how can you be motivated to play better when they could be back at home with their families, lying on a beach in the Bahamas or spending their days playing a round of golf in South Carolina?

Trust me, most people i know would actually rather be out of the playoffs than in the playoffs. Only one team wins the Stanley Cup and for all the other teams making the playoffs, the entire tournament seems like a total waste of time once the season is officially over.

 

[Sol Tee Nutz]

And since players don't get paid during the playoffs (the owners pocket most of the playoffs revenue), how can you be motivated to play better when they could be back at home with their families, lying on a beach in the Bahamas or spending their days playing a round of golf in South Carolina?

That is wrong no matter how you look at it. Something called pride should take over plus those people make enough to play well during the playoffs.