The Official 2017-18 NHL thread

[gaby]

,,,,et le capitaine CHARA est sûrement capable de le prendre par le collet et lui dire de mettre fin à ses singeries....il a toute l'autorité pour le mettre à sa place.

 

[tiga]

J'ai entendu dire que Chara l'avait pris de côté pour lui dire de modérer, Campbell lui a depuis parlé, on va voir mais il me semble incapable de s'empêcher...
De toute façon je pense que René Rancourt a chanté son dernier hymne national à Boston...ça se termine en cinq.

 

[tiga]

Je veux aussi ajouter combien c'est agréable les entractes avec Brian Burke un homme modeste et qui connait le hockey d'aujourd'hui de l'intérieur, contrairement a un certain Don C.

 

[EagerBeaver]

This seems like a rather big game for Ovechkin to have spent already 4 minutes in the penalty box halfway through the game, for hooking Dumoulin and slashing Malkin. You can't score from the penalty box, can you?

 

[gaby]

Caps 6-3.....big big win..exciting game...bonne décision de Trotz de changer S.Pelley pour Vrana sur le 1er trio...joueur beaucoup plus rapide et talentueux....c'est d'ailleurs lui qui a compté le but vainqueur sur toute une passe de Ovi.......Holtby a dû se surpasser....et on retourne à Pittsburg.

 

[gaby]

Oh boy....wow... 4-2 Jets after 2 periods in Smashville.....les Preds ne peuvent pas l'échapper....20 minutes encore pour se sortir d'une sérieuse impasse.

 

[gaby]

Omg....quelle soirée misérable pour les Preds et Rinne 6-2....6 buts sur 20 tirs....les Jets ont le vent dans les voiles....vraiment impressionnant.

 

[EagerBeaver]

Winnipeg is gonna win this baby in 6 and go on to win the Cup. The only thing that stands between the Jets and the Cup is Vegas and the ghost of Elvis. Gallant will have to go from coach of the year to coach of the century to come up with a blueprint to stop this Jets team from rolling into the finals.

NHL does not want to see a Stanley Cup being paraded in Winnipeg but could very well happen.

 

[Doc Holliday]

The best part about the Peg winning the Cup is that they won't have to suck up to Donald Trump on a White House visit which past American-based NHL teams have done in the past. Canadian politicians don't usually receive championship teams at the Canadian Parliament. The Prime Minister usually places a congratulatory phone call to the winning team after the game's over.

These playoffs have turned out to be a breath of fresh air where the majority didn't predict several of the teams advancing. No one could see Vegas performing as well as they did. Same thing with Washington and Winnipeg.

Many experts have said that PK Subban's previous game was the best game he ever played in his entire career. This is quite a statement. He's had a terrific season and an even better playoffs. No wonder he's one of the Norris trophy finalists this season. At first i thought his trade to Nashville was a good move by the habs but now i'm starting to wonder if it's not the worse trade they ever made. And that list is long!

Tampa-Washington should be a very exciting series. Same thing with Winnipeg-Vegas.

But it's never over until it's over and the Penguins/Predators could come back and win their series. However i don't see the Sharks and Bruins being able to prevail. Sadly it seems evident that Rene Rancourt has sung the anthems for the final time.

 

[Halloween Mike]

Evertime you think you seen everything from Marchand, he manage to do another clownery... I can't stand that guy.

Hopefully it ends next match, Bruins out and done !!

After that honestly i have no real preference... all teams could be interesting to see win. Must admit despite liking the fact that Vega is an expension team and basically full of "left overs" that other team didn't protect and yet they perform super well, at the same time it would hurt if they would go on to win the cup... i mean i think Quebec should had got a team long before Vegas... But the team itself and the players i like them...

Could it be the year of the caps finally? We say this every year lol. But got to admit Winnipeg is impressive. Who would had tough a few years ago that team, the former trashers (lol), could go that far.

 

[Doc Holliday]

Black NHL hockey players have really made their mark this season in the NHL. I love Dustin Byfuglien. I love PK Subban. I love the speed and power of Evander Kane. These three players would definitely be on anyone's all-black NHL all-star list in my opinion. Between the pipes i'd have Grant Fuhr as starter and Ray Emery as back-up. Joel Ward would definitely have a spot on my team. Johnny Oduya would be PK's defence partner. Or would it be Darnel Nurse? Would Mike Marson (who played for the Caps back in the late 70's) have a spot? Who else? What would be your picks for an all-black NHL all-star team?

 

[str8flash]

My top 3 forward : Jarome Iginla, Tony Mckegney and Wayne Simmonds.

 

[Titilleur]

"Blacks" pêle-mêle... other than those already mentioned

Kyle Okposo
Reginald Savage
Chris Stewart
Claude Vilgrain
Pierre-Édouard Bellemare
Francis Bouillon
Fred Brathwaite
Anson Carter
Trevor Daley
Nigel Dawes
Jason Doig
Anthony Duclair
Jamal Mayers
Sandy McCarthy
Bryce Salvador
Kevin Weekes

You could make a pretty decent team with those guys... Strong and quick.

Add those for muscle:
Mike Greer
Donald Brashear
Peter Worrell
and the infamous George Laraque...

 

[EagerBeaver]

Brashear was the best black goon in NHL history. A mean and tough dude and instilled fear.

 

[EagerBeaver]

Of the black players mentioned above I think Simmonds is the most underrated. He can play, can score and is very tough. I saw a Habs - Flyers game in Montreal around 4 years ago, was 10 Rows up from ice, and Simmonds and that gritty little bastard Gallagher were going at it all game. The chippiness, the continual attempt to one up the other guy with semi cheap shots led to several fights between the two. I liked that neither backed down or tried to behave himself.

 

[gaby]

YES...done...TBay en 5....la meilleure équipe a gagné....beaucoup plus de profondeur en attaque....Pens ou Caps on devrait avoir une super finale de conférence...plus électrisant avec les Pens....mais j'ai choisi les Caps.....

 

[EagerBeaver]

Marchand will have to lick his golf clubs!!!!

 

[Sol Tee Nutz]

^^^^^ As a spectator I thought that was funny as fuck, would be different if it happened to me, I used to do that to my future ex, I laughed and laughed, her not so much.

 

[tiga]

I found it funny the first time, now I'm just happy he Is gone, lost respect for him.

 

[EagerBeaver]

We at one time saw similar behaviors from Sean Avery, who was not nearly as talented a hockey player as Marchand but was a similar smaller player who liked to agitate opponents and get them off their game. This even extended to comments he made to the media about opposing players. I came to the conclusion that Avery was mentally ill on a certain level but in the case of Marchand, I think he stumbled upon a loophole in the rules on licking and wanted to see how far he could push it. In the end, hockey is a team sport and agitation of individual players does not work as well as it once did. I can remember a time in the late 1970s, probably before some of you were born, when Mike Bossy, a very talented 50 goal a year scorer for the NY Islanders Cup champions of 1980-1983, would regularly be bullied by the Philadelphia Flyers. They would send guys like Dave Schultz out to harass and bully him and it largely worked because Bossy was not a fighter and seemed to abhor violence. So what happened that changed all that is Clark Gillies, who was the toughest player on the Islanders, one game went after Schultz and broke his jaw and after that the Flyers were very hesitant to bully Bossy. That is sort of when everything changed for the Islanders.

Nowadays that kind of thing never happens. And guys like Nick Fotiu, a long time goon with the NY Rangers, don't even make an NHL roster. NHL teams just cannot keep a player on the roster whose only talent is to throw a punch.