Hockey

[ET Warrior]

Ah, so that's why i've had no responses......it's an empty thread! Well this thread's purpose is to talk about all things hockey, favorite teams, players, how your team is doing....etc. etc.

I'm an avalanche fan myself, been on since 95 when they first came to colorado....i actually got to see the opening game which was a blast :D

One of my favorite players is Radim Vrbata, even though he's really young and new i think he has great potential, and being surrounded by greats like Joe Sakic and Peter Forsberg he has some great mentors.

We just beat the San Jose Sharks 6-1 tonight! w00t!!!

[DarkSaber-<ZeN>]

Colorado! :D I like Sharks too.

but my favorite player is Sakic, although i dont watch hockey anymore, go colorado! w00t w00t

[Darth Groovy]

Chicago Blackhawks for me, I'm loyal. I used to play right wing in high school. I still adore the sport, but I have to admit, I don't follow it as closely these days. I never turn down the opportunity to go to a game! :D

[BigTeddyPaul]

My St. Louis Blues who scored 2 short handed goals tonight in the same penalty and beat the Lightning 5-1. Poor Khabibulian got pulled after the 4th.

BigTeddyPaul

[-s/<itzo-]

personally i don't like hockey maybe because i can't skate.

but i do like playing it for PS2.

[Dark Warrior]

Colarado Avalanche have been my team since they started. Patrick Roy was my favorite goalie at the time and I was so happy when he got traded to Colorado. They have my favorite players, logo, and jersey, plus they are a good team.

My second favourite team would have to be the Ottawa Senators because I live in Ottawa. You gotta like your home team. Sens are doing really well this year. Sadly, they always crumble in the playoffs.

Edit: 400th post woot!!:D

[Pad]

avalanche all theway for me. ive been a fan of them since i started playin hockey at the center spot ;) i stopped playin a while ago due a wrist that doesnt want to heal :(

and a player to who i look up to => pavel bure ;)

[Skate Boy]

Bluejacket dude here. What can I say? I live right next to Columbus.:) My teams not doing to good, but they're an expantion team, so they can't be to good.:D

[BigTeddyPaul]

What is up with those two idiots who were fighting near the edge of the ramp and knocked eachother 15 feet to the groud at the Columbus game yesterday? Some people are such idiots.

2-0 Deins gets a shutout. He hurt me in my fantasy hockey.

BigTeddyPaul

[Toonces]

I really don't follow Professional Hockey as much as I used to, but I root for Philadelphia. I also follow the Blackhawks to some extent, but not as much now that all the players I loved on that team have moved on.

Favorate players: I like the kids for some reason so Simon Gagne is probly my favorate player now. I got a Gagne jersey made up durring his 1st season.

I spend much more time playing it than I ever do watching it :)

[Dark Warrior]

Originally posted by Toonces
I really don't follow Professional Hockey as much as I used to, but I root for Philadelphia. I also follow the Blackhawks to some extent, but not as much now that all the players I loved on that team have moved on.

Favorate players: I like the kids for some reason so Simon Gagne is probly my favorate player now. I got a Gagne jersey made up durring his 1st season.

I spend much more time playing it than I ever do watching it :)

Same here.

There is nothing and I mean NOTHING like the feeling of lacing up your skates outside in the cool winter weather and playing pick-up hockey on your hometown rink organizing friendly tournaments.

Ah, the memories....
:)

[ET Warrior]

If only we had an ice rink in my town..:(

i've only played ice hockey 3 or 4 times in my life...but luckily there will be intramural ice hockey or club hockey up at college next year, which makes me happy.

Most of the time my hockey is in-line....which is okay, but after ice-hockey you feel like you're dragging.....

[Dark Warrior]

Originally posted by ET Warrior
If only we had an ice rink in my town..:(

i've only played ice hockey 3 or 4 times in my life...but luckily there will be intramural ice hockey or club hockey up at college next year, which makes me happy.

Most of the time my hockey is in-line....which is okay, but after ice-hockey you feel like you're dragging.....

Yea, inline hockey is cool, but it is nothing when compared to ice hockey.:)

[ET Warrior]

Originally posted by Dark Warrior
Yea, inline hockey is cool, but it is nothing when compared to ice hockey.:)

Agreed.

Well the avs are still in 3rd in the northwest, but we are gaining ground on minnesota....just as long as we keep winning...

[Dark Warrior]

Originally posted by ET Warrior
Agreed.

Well the avs are still in 3rd in the northwest, but we are gaining ground on minnesota....just as long as we keep winning...

Yep:)

BTW: Minnesota, man that is a story. They are one hell of an expansion team. I mean at the beginning of the year, would any of you have said Minnesota of all teams would dominate the NHL. I mean when you read off their players they seem like the worst team in the rule. But hockey is a team game and if you watch them play you can see why they are winning.:)

[TheJackal]

Ottawa Senators (home team). they are doing amazing (i think they're currently in 1st place :D

Unfortunantly they are deep in money problems right now.

Also, the Canadian junoir hockey team lost today. 3 to 2 vs the Russians. The worst game they played so far in the tournament. What pure crap.

[Pisces]

Ottawa Senators. All the way. First place in the Eastern division, and tied for first in the entire league.

But yeah, their money problems are exceedingly bad, as in they may not be able to pull out :(

And I just saw that junior loss to the Russians. Damn it, that was harsh. :mad:

[ET Warrior]

Originally posted by Dark Warrior
Yep:)

BTW: Minnesota, man that is a story. They are one hell of an expansion team. I mean at the beginning of the year, would any of you have said Minnesota of all teams would dominate the NHL. I mean when you read off their players they seem like the worst team in the rule. But hockey is a team game and if you watch them play you can see why they are winning.:)

They certainly did start of the season with a bang....now they've kind of leveled off and moved down to 4th in the west, which is still amazing....I am most amazed at the fact that Vancouver is actually currently ahead of the red wings......i mean, i HATE detroit but they're a solid team and they're in 3rd...........boy i love hockey, standings can change so quickly....Avs are in 6th right now but i could see them pulling into 1st in a month if they keep playing like they have been, we're only 8 points out :D


The teams to pity this year are nashville, atlanta, and buffalo. If anyone you know is a fan of one of those teams, give them my condolences ;)

[WolfmanNCSU]

I love hockey. One of my fav sports. I pull for the canes here since I live in Raleigh and watch them all the time. I even work the concessions at some of the games for various fund raising events. I used to pull for the penguins pre-canes day since I really liked the players and they were an awesome team, but now since hockey has moved to the carolinas, I gotta support my home team.

I wish we were playing better right now though. :)

[greedo626]

flyers for me, but if there's a team called the blackhawks I might just have to change my allegiance:D

[ET Warrior]

well Chicago is the Blackhawks......

[adillon]

Originally posted by Toonces
I root for Philadelphia
DITTO!

as for fav players? no question ... Donald Brashear. not an overly talented guy, but talk about an enforcer! that man can sure kick some a$$.

which reminds me of a joke ...

i went to a fight, and a hockey game broke out.
(i know, it's lame, but it still makes me laugh).
:D

[Dark Warrior]

Originally posted by TheJackal
Ottawa Senators (home team). they are doing amazing (i think they're currently in 1st place :D

Unfortunantly they are deep in money problems right now.

Also, the Canadian junoir hockey team lost today. 3 to 2 vs the Russians. The worst game they played so far in the tournament. What pure crap.

Yes, they are in serious money problems. (They are my home team too.) They didn't even get their paycheck last week. The Sens payroll has gone up but ticket prices have dropped. BAD COMBINATION.

btw: I go to alot of their games, I support them as much as I can. You gotta have hope they will pull it out. It is kinda sad too. The sens have finally become one of the powerhouses of the league and noone comes to see them anymore.:(

[Bungalow]

Cauncks 4 life man
all the way!!!

[Andy867]

Colorado All the way here. I went to their game in St Louis back in Nov (Nov 23rd) and they won 3-1:) That was a great game!!! Too bad my company wanted to leave the game after the Avs scored their 3rd goal.. Wonder why. Could it have been his Blues jersey... Naw... He just wanted to beat traffic ;)

[BigTeddyPaul]

Never leave the game before it is over. This past week in football proved just that. Plus I remember a certain Blues game about 2 years ago against the Maple Leafs where they won 6-5 in overtime after being down 5-0 in the 3rd. NOW THAT WAS A GAME. The Blues beat the Avalanche last time they played too (I will not mention though that Forseverg or Sakic were not in the lineup however so this proves nothing).

BigTeddyPaul

[Skate Boy]

Originally posted by BigTeddyPaul
Never leave the game before it is over. This past week in football proved just that.
BigTeddyPaul


Go Bucks!







The Latest Bluejacket game I went to was crappy. It was the one against Detroit not too long ago. It was horrible.

[ET Warrior]

Originally posted by adillon
as for fav players? no question ... Donald Brashear. not an overly talented guy, but talk about an enforcer! that man can sure kick some a$$.

I hate Brashear.....he's a big goon:p

[Hyperglide]

Wtf no Toronto Maple leafs fans here?? Man the Leafs are GODS team in the National Hockey League, sure he hasn't given us a Stanley cup in 34 years (correct me if i'm wrong) but it's coming I can feel it.

We are doing all right but got lots of injurys right now (just like the sad ass Toronto Raptors i'm a fan of them too), Eddie Belfour saved that game vs the Devils the other day 51 SAVES WOOT!! Screw Cujo the Eagle is the MAN!!

I just can't wait till we get Brad Boyes and Carlo Colaiacavo (sp?), up on the big team for good then we'll have a semi good defense lol...

Oh and whoever said Brashear is the best fighter you don't know crap about hockey. He deserved that stick over da head by Mcsorley he's a big ass whiner and loser, and Tie Domi kicks his ass every time they go at it...

GO LEAFS GO!!

[ET Warrior]

Ed Belfour has the WORST glove of any goalie in the entire national hockey league....I swear he can't catch a puck to save his life........of course i'm biased, he makes saves that are above his skill level whenever he plays the avalanche :p

[Dark Warrior]

Originally posted by ET Warrior
Ed Belfour has the WORST glove of any goalie in the entire national hockey league....I swear he can't catch a puck to save his life........of course i'm biased, he makes saves that are above his skill level whenever he plays the avalanche :p

lol I agree.

I live in Ottawa, Ontario and basically you either like the Leafs or you hate em and well, I hate em. I'm a avs fan here, but I like Ottawa more then Toronto. I despise Belfour, (Cujo was ok), there team isn't doing well this year yet their fans still say the sens suck which is funny if you compare their statistics.

This post is my opinion, so Leaf fans, don't go hating on me:p

[BigTeddyPaul]

Originally posted by Hyperglide
Eddie Belfour saved that game vs the Devils the other day 51 SAVES WOOT!! Screw Cujo the Eagle is the MAN!!


Oh and whoever said Brashear is the best fighter you don't know crap about hockey. He deserved that stick over da head by Mcsorley he's a big ass whiner and loser, and Tie Domi kicks his ass every time they go at it...

I thought it was 50 saves? And speaking as a Blues fan who gave CuJo his starting job I would rather have him than Eagle.

Barret Jackman is a beast when it comes to fighting. If you don't know him he was the 17th overall pick in the 99 draft by the Blues. Big Strong White D who has had a nice rookie year next to MacInnis.

BigTeddyPaul

[ET Warrior]

Wow.....i was at last nights avs game against the flames. :(

That was so depressing.....altough i'm going to blame our loss on Martin Skoula.....i really dont like that guy and i hope we trade him soon.

It was neat that Detroit lost to the lightning.....heh heh heh....stupid redwings....


And i personally think that Scott Parker is one of the best fighters in the league. I saw him actually split a guys face open after a couple solid punches......he was bleeding all over the ice. He is a tough dude.

[Hyperglide]

Originally posted by BigTeddyPaul
I thought it was 50 saves? And speaking as a Blues fan who gave CuJo his starting job I would rather have him than Eagle.

Barret Jackman is a beast when it comes to fighting. If you don't know him he was the 17th overall pick in the 99 draft by the Blues. Big Strong White D who has had a nice rookie year next to MacInnis.

BigTeddyPaul

No it was 51 but thats beside my point. My point is that I was a huge "Cujo" fan as well as the majority of the Leafs fans, and when he "betrayed us," by signing with the "Dead thangs," we all felt dejected as Leaf fans (as i'm sure diehard Dallas Stars fans felt when then lost "The Eagle," or any team loses a marquis player). But what made me say that comment was the fact that us Leaf fans, like other fans around the NHL knew of Belfours immense baggage he brought with him, plus he had a terrible season last year, so we knocked him based on his bad reputation. But hell he's been doin' GREAT, early on it looked downhill but he's been our MVP the past 2 months so even though i'm still a huge "CUJO" fan, I gotta give the props to "the Eagle."

lol I agree.

I live in Ottawa, Ontario and basically you either like the Leafs or you hate em and well, I hate em. I'm a avs fan here, but I like Ottawa more then Toronto. I despise Belfour, (Cujo was ok), there team isn't doing well this year yet their fans still say the sens suck which is funny if you compare their statistics.

This post is my opinion, so Leaf fans, don't go hating on me

Nah I don't hate you, I despise you, condemn you, and are utterly revolted by you lol... Seriously I love the big rivalry we got going here it's great. Still even though Ottawa is the best team in the NHL right now (dunno how they are playing for charity lmao), they will choke like they always do in the playoffs vs the Leafs (that's if they play 'em boy I hope they do). It just sucks that another Canadian team besides the Leafs, are doing consistently (Canucks and Oilers aren't bad but c'mon lol) well but are 160 million dollars in debt.

And whats with all the Ed Belfour bashing? I mean I know he's an idiot for the most part, but judge him by what he does on the ice, not off of it.

One last thing great game vs the Bruins. 3 goals in like 2:30 WOOT!! Gotta love Alex Mogilny...

[ET Warrior]

I'm AM bashing his on-ice performance........pay attention to the next game he plays in and see just how often he catches the puck in his glove.....chances are you'll be able to keep track on the fingers of one hand. Even when the puck hits his glove it bounces right out because he doesn't know how to close it, and because of that he gives up rebounds like nobody's business.

Now maybe THIS year he learned how to do it, i dont know i haven't watched the leafs. But on dallas he practically gave up as many rebounds as the other team had shots on goal.

[Hyperglide]

Originally posted by ET Warrior
Now maybe THIS year he learned how to do it, i dont know i haven't watched the leafs. But on dallas he practically gave up as many rebounds as the other team had shots on goal.

Well i've watched a lot more Leafs games this year then you have, and I have to say he's quite good with the glove (I haven't seen him bobble any pucks). I think your quick conclusions are ill concieved. Maybe you've only watched liked several Stars games, and in them he was having a bad game it happens it's coincidence. But you don't win 3 Vezinas, a Stanley Cup, and the Calder by going your whole career with the "worst glove in the NHL."

[ET Warrior]

Well, i watch a LOT of hockey...especially Western Conference hockey, and i guarantee that in years past Ed Belfour could not catch a flying puck to save his life. He covered the lower half of the goal like a machine, and his team was good enough to prevent other teams from taking good shots. Nearly every goal scored on Belfour was scored top shelf glove side, because his glove was crappy.


(i'll bet it still is, you just dont notice)

[BigTeddyPaul]

Has anyone else been fed up with the officiating. In the beginning of the season like all seasons they called all the penalties. Now they are getting more laxed in the calls. The thing that peeves me the most is when they no call a penalty and then the other team does an infraction and they do not call that one to balance out teh first no call. (Did that make sense?) The worst part is that then everyone gets heated thinking they can get away with murder and withing 10 seconds there are about 5 infractions happening and there each team is given a misconduct or only one.

Anyone?

GO BLUES! Beat them bastard Sharks.

BigTeddyPaul

[Andy867]

I agree, the officiating in general has begun to lack or become to relaxed. I mean look at the Avs/Blues games in November alone. where there were obvious fights and infractions, they called it roughing and gave them only 2 minutes for ROUGHING. ROUGHING?! The guy pelted the other for a good 10-15 seconds! And you call that roughing? Anyways, the refs need to open their eyes in time for the playoffs, or there will be bloodshed in the playoffs.

GO AVS!

[ET Warrior]

Yeah.....officiating will probably always be like that.....they start off with strict enforcement but they loosen up halfway through.


I HATE THE MIGHTY DUCKS!!! Stupid gigeur and his amzing best game of his career almost.....:( Unbelievable...all the bad bounces go our way...like the second duck goal bouncing in off Blake...:mad:

[Hyperglide]

Sweet Leafs win yet again, this is great. I'm glad Lemieux was out this one, course we were without Sundin, Renberg, Corson, and other's as well but it was a great game. Considering Pittsburgh had like frickin' 9 pp's and Toronto only had like 1-2 pp's (don't remember the exact figure but it was lopsided). So I agree with what you guys said earlier about the penalization skills of the current ref's. The reason the penaltys were obsurd early in the season was to try and crack down heavily on obstruction. But now the NHL ref's are getting NBA ref ideas where if they make one bad call they make up for it by omitting another one that could've been considered legit by most (bigteddypaul brought this up), and this doe's happen a lot in the NBA, the "make up" (non)foul/(non)penalty.

[BigTeddyPaul]

I guess you didn't see any one of his THREE consecutive shut outs this year. I watched one and a half of them and they were pretty good.

Also, having Blake take a penalty in the winding minutes didn't help since the Ducks got a PP and had their best D off the ice the enitre time.

Trivia: Who stopped Giguere's longest shutout streak?

Why the Blues of course off a goal by Al MacInnis.

BigTeddyPaul

[ET Warrior]

Yeah.....gigeure is good, i will give him that....but i dont have to be happy about it ;)

[Hyperglide]

Originally posted by BigTeddyPaul
I guess you didn't see any one of his THREE consecutive shut outs this year. I watched one and a half of them and they were pretty good.

Also, having Blake take a penalty in the winding minutes didn't help since the Ducks got a PP and had their best D off the ice the enitre time.

Trivia: Who stopped Giguere's longest shutout streak?

Why the Blues of course off a goal by Al MacInnis.

BigTeddyPaul

Whose 3 consectutive shut outs?

[BigTeddyPaul]

Originally posted by Hyperglide
Eddie Belfour saved that game vs the Devils the other day 51 SAVES WOOT

HAHAHA! I was right. Look at the link and recognize: http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/boxscore?gameId=230104021

He had 51 SA but 50 saves. I thought I was right.




I was talking about Giguere. Look at the links. His 3 straight shutouts were from December 8th to December 15th. His opponents were the Predators (3-0), Washington (3-0), and the Penguins (5-0). The Blues ended the consecutive shutout but lost behind 2 MacInnis goals 5-2.

Started: http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/scoreboard?date=20021208

Ended: http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/recap?gameId=221218025

Have fun all and LONG LIVE HOCKEY!

BigTeddyPaul

[BigTeddyPaul]

Holy SHIZNIT! 12-2 Washington over the Panthers! Crickey. I think we all wish our teams had games like these.

7 pts for Jagr. There is the superstar we all know.

BigTeddyPaul

[Darth Simpson]

I don't really follow NHL anymore, but I used to like Florida Panthers.

[ET Warrior]

Well the avs have lost again....this time to the Stars.....they were completely outplaying them in the first, made a couple mistakes, and ended up down. Then it just went downhill from there :(

[Andy867]

Yea, and unfortunately I couldn't watch the game to cheer on the AVS until there was like 5 minutes left in the game, and then the new coach pulled the backup and let in the 6th goal:)

[ET Warrior]

Yeah, an overtime win today against the 'canes.....that should boost morale some....:D

[Andy867]

Did anyone see that St Louis Blues player who broke his leg in the game against I think it was the Ducks...

Originally said by the two-headed creature in Episode 1

I don't care what galaxy you're from, that had to hurt

[BigTeddyPaul]

I DID! Royally pissed me off but in hockey people get hurt. He has a fractured fibula http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/clubhouse?team=stl . For a NHL rookie he has done superbly this season. Out 4-6 weeks is going to suck majorly. Maybe Podein will get to play now?

Grahme sent to Tampa? I did not see that one coming.

BigTeddyPaul

[ET Warrior]

Podein eh? I sure did like him when he was on the avalanche......too bad he has to go play with one of those sub-par teams ;)

[BigTeddyPaul]

Any Blackhawk fan want to bet some credits on the game this weekend against St. Louis? 25 or 50 pts I am willing to bet on my Blues and I accept all challenges against all teams.

Any takers?

BigTeddyPaul

[BigTeddyPaul]

Since no one dares make a bet agianst my invincible Blues what does everyone think about Mogilny and Hejduk not making the All Star Team? That was just wrong. Mogilny should have taken Sundin's spot and Hedjduk should have taken practically any other persons spot on the Western Conference (namely Iginla). And Why is Brewer on that list? I do not like Brewer.

If no one replies this time I will let this thread drift aimlessly into the night.

BigTeddyPaul

[ET Warrior]

Milan Hejduk NOT being voted into the all-star game is a crime against humanity.

Well, shoot....the Avs dont' play the blues the rest of the year...i would've bet a 100 creds on that game.....BUT if they both make playoffs and if the Avalanche play the blues, i'd be willing ot make a large wager on the outcome of that series.....if you're interested.

(and if st. louis plays the Wild later this year i'll bet on that game as well ;))

[Andy867]

The voting system is all screwed up to not add Hejduk. He is a rising star, yet they don't add him.. What is up with that! The avs will just have to beat everyone in the playoffs and win the stanley cup (again)

[BigTeddyPaul]

Originally posted by ET Warrior

Well, shoot....the Avs dont' play the blues the rest of the year
(and if st. louis plays the Wild later this year i'll bet on that game as well ;))

Well the Blues' last game is against the Avalanche so that is a long wait. However, the Blues play the Wild 3 or 4 more times. In fact there are 2 games in about a month between the Wild and Blues. I will bet a 100 if that is the wager. If I do not have enough points to pay you off then you will have to wait until I can get them (I will not spam the boards one day to ge the required credits to pay you off). But the Blues are not going to lose so I do not have to worry about this.

How about instead we do incentive betting.

Something like:

25 for a win
25 per short handed goal (empty netters are excluded)
25 per 2 power play goals (empty netters are excluded)
25 per hat trick
25 for a shutout
25 if no penalties are called on your team through the entire game
25 if your team scores 5+ goals (empty netters excluded)

Something like this. Or we could just do whoever wins gets an easy 100. Again this bet is open to anyone who thinks they can take on the Blues. I will bet a maximum of 100 credits per bout but if we do incentive then I will pay whatever everything adds up to it.

Anyone besides ET Warrior that wants to defend their team as the best in the NHL or should the Blues just claim that prize?

BigTeddyPaul

[ET Warrior]

I'm not too big a fan of the incentive betting.......i'd rather just put the money on the win or loss of the game. And i'm not as confident in the Wild as I am in my Avalanche..........so I will wager 50 points on the Wild versus Blues on February 23rd if that's alright with you.

[BigTeddyPaul]

I will do that. The only reason that this isn't PMed is because I want a record. Not that I don't trust you but well ummmm better to be safe than sorry.

Easy 50 points.

BigTeddyPaul

[ET Warrior]

Well, now that the bets have started rolling.....are there any Stars fans willing to put 50 points on the outcome of tonights match against the avs? I realized the game starts really soon.....so in 2.5 hours i need a response ;)

[ET Warrior]

WOOOOOOOOOEEEEEEEEE!!!

Boy the avs sure did pick up the pace eh? Two shut outs in a row....and against the leafs and belfour no less.....mwahahahahahahaha.

[Darth Groovy]

Grahm Fluery needs to get his ass kicked. :mad:

[git_sum_stuka]

toronto sucks and so does Ed Belfour

[ET Warrior]

Originally posted by git_sum_stuka
toronto sucks and so does Ed Belfour

:thumbsup: Any enemy of Ed Belfour is a friend of mine ;)

[git_sum_stuka]

Originally posted by ET Warrior
:thumbsup: Any enemy of Ed Belfour is a friend of mine ;) :)

[Pisces]

Originally posted by git_sum_stuka
toronto sucks and so does Ed Belfour

Now now. We're not supposed to diss other teams, just say which team we like.

I like Any team that's against Toronto

Mainly Senators. 71 points. Yeah baby. :D

[Darth Groovy]

And any team that is not St. Louis!

[ET Warrior]

Wow, the Avs are REALLY rolling now.......9 game unbeaten streak......that's so cool.....beating the redwings twice in a row...oh man.....I'm so excited! :D:D:D

[ET Warrior]

Well, crap, i'm sorry i made that bet on the wild.....i dont want them to win because i want the avs to pass them in the rankings, but i dont want them to lose because i dont want to lose my 50 points........arrrrr.....

Any New Jersey or Vancouver Fans our there willing to bet on the Devils or Canucks against the Avs this week?

[BigTeddyPaul]

You mention the Wild and Avs and neglect to mention Brett Hull's 700 goals?!? I must say that most of those are from St. Louis too back when Oates was pretty darn good even though he did have Hull to finish it off.

Blues are riding their nice mostly winning streak here and thanks to the Red Wings recent skid they are now in 3rd place 3 points ahead of the Wings.

Me so happy.

BigTeddyPaul

[ET Warrior]

I didn't mention his 700 goals because, i rather dont like Brett Hull. Mostly because he played for Dallas and now Detriot, both teams i hate. but i also think he's a goon ;)

Yeah, the avs have a 6 game winning streak with 10 games in a row going undefeated......no big deal. :D

Your blues best watch out, if the avs continue the way they're playing, St. Louis will lose their 3rd place to them.

[Andy867]

I used to like the blues until "Iron Mike" traded off Joseph and Shannahan, thats when I found refuge with the Avs, and have been with them since, well Quebec to Colorado, but still, all the same, with the addition of Patrick Roy, thank you Montreal. So, Colorado, 10-game undefeated streak... I love the sound of that.. :D

[git_sum_stuka]

Jarome Iginla has like some sort of bump on his head. LOL:p

[BigTeddyPaul]

He might have a bump but he still scored 4 goals the other day. A shorty, a power play, an even strength, and an empty netter. That is basically all the different types.

DAMN YOU ET Warrior. You will get your 50 credits when I get them. How about double or nothing. I know they are playing at St. Louis soon and Tkachuk and Weight will not be there. Huh? Interested?

BigTeddyPaul

[ET Warrior]

I'll do a double or nothing on the blues vs. avs game at the end of the year if you'd like.....but not on the next wild vs. blues game ;) It's up to you.

[BigTeddyPaul]

Chicken! Even without Weight and Tkachuk and we are having a goalie in net who has played like 2 NHL games. He is our 4th goalie because for some reason Johnson has a groin injury, Brathwaithe is either hurt or they want Sanford to get some time in, and Divid our umber 3 guy has been hurt since the beginning of the hockey season when he played 1 NHL game for us. Up to you.

I will pay you the 50 when I get the credits now AND I will expect to be paid when the Blues beat the Avs at the end of the year.

BigTeddyPaul

[ET Warrior]

It's not a matter of fear, i think the wild will win, i just dont want to bet for them, because i want them safely behind us in the standings. Since you are so confident in your blues, how does 100 points on the avs blues game sound?

[BigTeddyPaul]

You are on Buckey Boy.

Tkachuk suspended 4 games. I could see 2 games but not 4. What total BS.

BigTeddyPaul

[ET Warrior]

Woah, avs down 0-1 going into the third and ending up 4-1, now THAT was a fun third period to watch!!!

And now vancouver's lost bertuzzi and cloutier to injury.....if we can win tomorrow that'll bring us to only 4 points behind vancouver for division lead......C'MON AVS!!!!!

[BigTeddyPaul]

Alrigth I paid you your 50 credits even though we should be even because if you were man enough you would have bet on the Wild a few days ago. The Blues lost MacInnis in the first 4 minutes and they had a goalie who has only played less than 5 NHL games and we shut you out! MWhahahaha. Demitra was the only all star (from the past few years) left on the team. Gone: Tkachuk, MacInnis, Pronger, Weight. And Demitra scored the goals.

Have fun everyone. Trade deadline in a week. I am getting chills.

BigTeddyPaul

[ET Warrior]

Meh, i didn't vote on the wild because they're not my team, and i personaly would rather them NOT win, so they can't sneak up behind us in the northwest ;)

You'd best start getting some points, as you'll owe me 100 in a month. :D

[BigTeddyPaul]

All you Colorado fans should love this link.

From a Red Wings fan (http://cfapp.rockymountainnews.com/drew/index.cfm?Month=2&ID=257&year=2003)

BigTeddyPaul

[ET Warrior]

Heh, stupid Redwings.......................;)



Well, if the Red Wings an Canucks and Stars would just STOP winning the avs could take over the west, but NOOOOOOOOOOooo they've just GOT to keep on winning.......idiots.

[Andy867]

Just remember ET Warrior, The Avs can actually win the Cup, unlike the blues who as of late, can't even make it past the 2nd round :D Just remember that ;)

[BigTeddyPaul]

We made it to the Conference finals just two years ago. That is pretty recent. (Does not mention the fact that they lost to the Avs who won the cup that year).

Here is a pretty good compliment: MORE THAN LIKELY whoever does not win the Central Division (Blues or Wings) will face the Avs. We are almos tguaranteed the playoffs each but we are fighting for the division for home field advantage throughout the playoffs but more importantly to not face Roy, Foresberg, Blake, Sakic, Hejduk, Foote, and Tanguay?!?!

BigTeddyPaul

[BigTeddyPaul]

Got to look at these. There were like 8 game suspensions, and a couple hundred grand lost becuase of these two incidents between the Leafs and the Senators.

Fight #1 (http://pages.infinit.net/nonorobo/OttawaToronto.wmv)

Fight #2 (http://pages.infinit.net/nonorobo/DomiArvedson.wmv)

BigTeddyPaul

[ET Warrior]

Originally posted by BigTeddyPaul
Here is a pretty good compliment: MORE THAN LIKELY whoever does not win the Central Division (Blues or Wings) will face the Avs. We are almos tguaranteed the playoffs each but we are fighting for the division for home field advantage throughout the playoffs but more importantly to not face Roy, Foresberg, Blake, Sakic, Hejduk, Foote, and Tanguay?!?!

That is in fact a perdy good compliment......seriously, if I were any other team in the NHL I would be terrified of the Hejduk Forsberg and Tanguay line......they are BAD BAD people.....although forsberg took a DeVries shot straight to the junk in last nights game....he was out of commission the rest of the 3rd period...he'll be back for tomorrow nights game though....

[TheJackal]

stupid leafs.


sens will WIN THE STANLEY UP! :)

[BigTeddyPaul]

They will win the Sanley UP? As long as the Blues win the Stanley CUP you can have as many UPs as you like.

Not stupid Leafs. More stupid Domi.

BigTeddyPaul

[TheJackal]

bah! I'm tired and I was in a hurry :p

The Sens will win both cups and you know it too!

[BigTeddyPaul]

Unfortunately the Sens seem to care the same stigma that the Blues have the past few years. They are a great team that plays well during the year but almost always seems to choke in the playoffs.

I like them and TB this year in the East. If was not a Blues fan I would be a TB fan. Gotta love our boy Khabi.

BigTeddyPaul

[ET Warrior]

Meh, you're both dreamin, the Avs are going to win the cup, no big deal ;)

[Andy867]

Amen ET:D Gotta love them Avs. I mean, who can't love Roy, who was the all-time win record, especially at his age displaying all this skill. Thats why he is the #1 goaltender in the history books. Even better than Terry Sawchuk, who I might add was red wing and bruin. Roy even holds this record

Tied Colorado Avalanche franchise postseason record with 31 penalty minutes at Detroit, April 1, 1998. :D now thats a goalie:)

[ET Warrior]

Not to mention the fact he beat up both Osgood and Vernon in a couple of goalie fights :D

[BigTeddyPaul]

Originally posted by Andy867
Amen ET:D Gotta love them Avs. I mean, who can't love Roy, who was the all-time win record, especially at his age displaying all this skill. Thats why he is the #1 goaltender in the history books. Even better than Terry Sawchuk, who I might add was red wing and bruin. Roy even holds this record

Tied Colorado Avalanche franchise postseason record with 31 penalty minutes at Detroit, April 1, 1998. :D now thats a goalie:)

I still think Dryden is the best goalie ever. Roy is the best goalie of my parents generation and he is the best goalie now. For some reason though every time I think of Roy in the postseason I always remember him doing the Statue of Liberty when the puck was still in his crease and the Red Wings score. Can't seem to get that out of my mind.

I have everysingle one of Roys fights. I love them to death. I can never get enough of goalies trying to kill eachother.

The Avs have a chance as do most teams. I just like the view of you throw a penny in the air 100 times, call heads 100 times, eventually you will get a heads. Since it is now 36 years and going we will get our heads.

Big game tonight. Red Wings against the Blues. I am getting shivers.

BigTeddyPaul

[Bob Gnarly]

Originally posted by TheJackal
bah! I'm tired and I was in a hurry :p

The Sens will win both cups and you know it too!


HEY.....oh yeah we do suck....

[BigTeddyPaul]

Make a great story if the Sens did win. Lalime deserved it because he is a big pimp daddy. Can't even pay your players but you can win the most coveted cup in sports?

BigTeddyPaul

[Pisces]

I don't think they'll take it. I'm for the sens and I tend to laugh at my friends when they tell me Leafs will beat them (:p) but they always wind up choking in the playoffs, but hey, here's hoping.

[ET Warrior]

Originally posted by BigTeddyPaul
I still think Dryden is the best goalie ever. Roy is the best goalie of my parents generation and he is the best goalie now. For some reason though every time I think of Roy in the postseason I always remember him doing the Statue of Liberty when the puck was still in his crease and the Red Wings score. Can't seem to get that out of my mind.

I have everysingle one of Roys fights. I love them to death. I can never get enough of goalies trying to kill eachother.

The Avs have a chance as do most teams. I just like the view of you throw a penny in the air 100 times, call heads 100 times, eventually you will get a heads. Since it is now 36 years and going we will get our heads.

Big game tonight. Red Wings against the Blues. I am getting shivers.

BigTeddyPaul

That was among the crappiest moments in hockey EVER...poor Roy, he thought he had it....:(

You get the shivers alot, dontcha BTP? Too bad they were for naught, you guys got messed up hardcore tonight ;)

Although who am I to talk? We blew a 3 goal lead :(

[BigTeddyPaul]

Your boys lost it tonight too. 3-0 lead and then give up 4 straight goals. Khabi is on my fantasy team so I was really happy when I heard that happen. Joseph was actually REALLY good tonight. It also didn't help that our D were asleep out there tonight and the Red Wings knew it was game time. I can tell you right now if we trade for a goalie we are still going to be in the same problem. Our goalies were not the problem tonight (yes I used goalies). It was the D. 2 of Federov's goals were on breakaways. One of them was a full one and the other one was mostly uncontested. Almost every other single goal besides the one Lindstrom and Federov assisted on was scored because our D cannot clear the net. Our D is the problem not our goalie.

There is one last thing I remembered and that was that most playoff teams like to rest their guys 1 of the last two games so our 100 point game might not be true to word. I remember last year we faced the Wings as the last game and we only had Weight and Mac in if I remember correctly.

I don't want to face the Avs.

BigTeddyPaul

[ET Warrior]

The trick to beating the avs to to just let them have the lead after the first period. EVERY time that happens we come out in the second period flat and back on our heels, and tonight it came back to bite us in the ass......we couldn't recover from it....:(

[Andy867]

Tonight was just not our teams' night. I was with my girlfriend up at the US Ice Sports complex where the blues sometimes practice, and there were blues fans there almost in tears after I walked in with them already down 4 nothing and I just watched as withing 15 minutes real-time, 3 more goals were scored. I just looked at my girlfriend and told her that Quennville should just throw in the towel and save something for the next game. I didn't get a chance to hear about the Avs until looking on here and saw ET's remark. Doh. Well, we can see why though. Roy wasn't in goal. Oh well, we'll get them next time and the time after that, and so forth:) But ET, this was only the first time this season where the Avs were up after the first period, and ended up losing. So, we had a bunch of factors working against us. Roy being givne a night off, Adam Foote was out with a pulled hamstring. So, we'll just have to win like, 7-0 next game. that should make up for it;)

[BigTeddyPaul]

If it was any other team I wouldn't mind losing 7-2 as much but those bastards always rub it in our faces and we will always be known as those people who can't beat the Redwings.

The one thing that I hate about hockey is that sometimes I get so into it that if we lose I get depressed for a while. I get pissed off and hate everyone. Tonight was not a good night.

I thought Abeschier (sp) was your goalie of the near future.

BigTeddyPaul

[Andy867]

Not for me, I have always been only for Roy. I didn't even like Craig Billington when he played. I just wanted Roy to play every game, even though we know what happens when goalies play every game, right BTP? Goalies tend to get hurt, oh like a certain goalie for the blues not too many years ago.

[ET Warrior]

I believe that aebischer will in time be a really good goalie, but right now he's just not quite there....he plays a lot like Roy, but he's not as good at it. He doesn't handle the puck as well behind the net, and often times when he slides across the goal in the butterfly he ends up way out of position. He's also not quite as quick and able to spot the puck.....He'll be good once Roy's gone and he gets a lot of experience.

The problem last night wasn't aebischer though, Tampa Bay outshot us 35 to 25, and 3 of their 4 goals were because our defense didn't pick up the open guy in the slot and he had an easy shot on goal. Once we got that three goal lead we didn't play as hard, and it came back to haunt us.

[BigTeddyPaul]

Fleury has been put on waivers by the Hawks. Wow! I wonder if the Rangers want him back? They could afford another 4 million.

BigTeddyPaul

[BigTeddyPaul]

Now you Avs got that Bastard of a D Marchment on your team. I hate that guy. He always tries to injure people. Morris, de Vries, Morris, Blake, Foote, and ? awww who cares. With those 5 you guys are looking pretty good.

BigTeddyPaul

[ET Warrior]

Originally posted by BigTeddyPaul
Now you Avs got that Bastard of a D Marchment on your team. I hate that guy. He always tries to injure people. Morris, de Vries, Morris, Blake, Foote, and ? awww who cares. With those 5 you guys are looking pretty good.

BigTeddyPaul

We have TWO morris's on our team? wow.................We must've picked up the second one with Marchment.....;)

Perhaps you meant to put Skoula in that list? Or Smith? I personally hate Skoula, he's playing a LOT better under Granato, but he played SO bad early this year.:mad:

Yes, a nice overtime win tonight to put us only 4 points behind vancouver with one game less played........excellence....

[BigTeddyPaul]

It was a good thing your dude accidently ran into one of the Flyers that was heading back in the zone to get the puck otherwise Foresberg wouldn't have scored (atleast not as easily). I watched that game and it had some good moments. Wanted a little more scoring but oh well.

Morris is so good he counts as two D don't ya know. I will always think Skoula is a center. Don't know why. Any way you put it you improved your D and are just going to be that much harder. Dang you.

I don't wanna play the Avalanche Mommy. Why can't we play the Ducks or someone like that?

BigTeddyPaul

[ET Warrior]

You know, i think the team i want to go against in the playoffs the VERY least is the ducks.....why you might ask? The ducks are not a great team, but they play like ALLSTARS whenever the avs play them. I swear, we can never beat the freaking mighty ducks of anaheim.....stupid ducks

[BigTeddyPaul]

Ducks would suck without Giguere and Karyia. They have gotten a lot better but out of all the playoff teams they are probably the ones I want to face the least except the Oilers only because Salo is not playing well. St. Louis can beat any team if they have an average goalie.

BigTeddyPaul

[ET Warrior]

Do you mean the ducks are the ones you'd like to face the MOST? NExt to the oilers........Well, good news avs fans, Detroit got beat up by the ducks tonight, 4-1....putting us within 2 points of detroit, and only 4 points behind vancouver......it's gonna be close...but if we win tomorrow night and detroit loses it puts us even with detroit and only 2 points behind vancouver.........oh man, i'm so excited for tomorrow!!!!!

[BigTeddyPaul]

My team list is:

#1 Edmonton
#2 Wild
#3 Ducks
#4 No one else in the West top 8. They are all great and could very well be number 1.

The ducks are good because of Giguere. He posted the longest consecutive shutout streak this season at like 3 and 3/4 of a game. He made something like 38 saves tonight. If the Blues beat Giguere the Blues beat the Ducks. It is a little bit different for teams like Chicago. Their goalies are pretty good but they can afford to give up some goals because they have some proven goal scorers (even though that has not been the case as of late).

BigTeddyPaul

[Andy867]

Yea, speaking of which, whats up with the Senators and their motion of kicking NHL @$$. I mean, back in the 90's they could barely win 50 games in a 4-season stretch, more less make the playoffs. And now look at them with 94 points as the NHL standing leader. I think the avs need a repeat Cup-winning Playoff run:) And that;s all I gotta say bout that.

[ET Warrior]

The sens certainly did surprise me this year...i would never have picked them for number one in the East, let alone the NHL before the season started......

I'd like the avs to play the oilers first round.....but that probably won't happen.....:(

[BigTeddyPaul]

Bates Battaglia? Why would you Avs people want him? Osgood better be damn good! Johnson gave up 4 goals on 8 shots today against Vancouver. We limited Vancouver to like 16 shots. GOD JOHNSON soooo sucks right now. Johnson is the Blues goalie. Tkachuk also got hurt and I hope he isn't gone too long.

BigTeddyPaul

[ET Warrior]

You know the worst thing about this trade? I own a Radim Vrbata Jersey. :( But really, we got Battaglia to give us a power forward on the sakic line, someone who will take the punishment in front of the net and open up opportunities for sakic......and sakic got a hat trick last night so maybe it worked :D

Seriously though, why the heck did the blues have to tie the canucks? I would have LOVED for them to beat vancouver, but noooo. ;)

[Andy867]

Sakic is just merely getting his edge back. He has been hailed more than once as having probably the best wrist shot in the league, among retired and active players. His is so quick and so accurate and his hat trick poves it:)

[BigTeddyPaul]

Don't you hate that when they trade a player and you have his jersey? I will be getting a MacInnis one here soon and since St. Louis will keep him until he retires it is a sure thing. I would hate to have owned like a Nolan jersey or something. I probably would still wear it because I like Nolan.

No one is disputing Sakic's abilities Andy. His 3 goals yesterday against Denis proved that for like his 12 or 14th hat trick.

I pray Tkachuk isn't hurt too badly. That would soooo screw us over.

BigTeddyPaul

[ET Warrior]

Yeah, I knew buying the jersey the odds of us keeping Vrbata were pretty slim, but I'll still wear the Jersey, because I really like Vrbata.

[git_sum_stuka]

Flames beat leafs 4-3 against leafs yesterday.

[BigTeddyPaul]

Off Hockey god's pass. I still don't know if that was a good trade. Drury was the man.

BigTeddyPaul

[TK-99]

i like the Dallas Stars even doe i live in toronto

[Darth Groovy]

The worst thing about being a Chicago Blackhawks fan is this:


Theo Fleury......


And they let Tony Amonte Go!? :eek:

[BigTeddyPaul]

They let a lot of people go. It makes me sick stilllll to look at Chelios in a Wings jersey.

He was put on waivers so if anyone wants him they can have him.

BigTeddyPaul

[ET Warrior]

I get sick looking at anyone in a redwings jersey.............2 hours till game time, avs at wings.........HERE WE GO AVS!!!

[Elessar-Eärfalas]

go wings! :eek:

[ET Warrior]

Originally posted by Elessar-Eärfalas
go wings! :eek:

Why you little.........:mad: :D


Rotten freeking wings......and rotten freeking capitals....man, stupid forsberg.....getting hurt......:(


Well Paul, it's looking like the Avs will most likely play the blues first round......exciting.....

[BigTeddyPaul]

Exciting and not. I hope Tkachuk gets healthy in time. Such a freaky hit that just seemed to jam his wrist. Bastard May. Then he got hurt his next game. Hit his head on the ice. Felt sorry for him. 3-4 weeks is a lifetime. It will be good. I wonder if Osgood and Roy will go at it? I would love to see that. I really want Osgood to face them damn Red Wings though AND WIN. In a way spit in their face and show them just what they missed out on. Probably won't happen becase we will probably lose to the AVs (they are just that good) and another year will go down the drain. Is Blake alright? I saw that hit he did at 1:00 AM last night on ESPN2. Whiplash man and then a goal was given up the next shift or two.

BigTeddyPaul

[ET Warrior]

Blake's fine, he played again maybe 4 minutes later.

Forsberg is the weird one, he's missed one and two thirds of a game and his hit looked completely normal and harmless. He just hit the guy kinda hard into the boards, then limped off the ice and was not seen again....CRAZY!

The blues have a chance in the playoffs against the avs if we play anything like how we've played the last two games...HORRIBLE....it makes me so sad :(

Hopefully wednesday we'll pick up when Forsberg returns.

[git_sum_stuka]

I checked out Bret Hull's profile and it says he was born in Ontario,Canada.But why did he played for the americans in the olympics?

[Andy867]

He probably claimed US citizenship so that he could play for the u.s.a. team

[BigTeddyPaul]

The Brett Hull story: Brett Hull was Canadian born. When the Olypics came around the Canadiens slighted him and did not choose him to compete on the team. He was however legally able to play for the US (I believe because his place of residence was over like 2 years or something) and since the US cannot compete with the skill of Canada we asked if he would be on our team. He accepted and the rest is history. I believe he had a chance to play for Canada the next Olympics but instead choose the US because they picked him.

I will never forgive the leadeship of the Blues! They had to give up 4 or 5 first round picks for signing Scott Stevens when it was illegal. THEN there was something illegal about getting Pronger which sent Shannahan away. AND they choose to not sign Hull. IDIOTS!

Hull is magic.

No offense to all you Avs fans out there but I am praying for a 11 game winning streak from the Wild and take over that 5th spot from a struggling Avs team. I realllly don't want to play the Avs. Even if we do win we will be so beat up and tired it will suck. Kind of like that series last year between the Kings and Avs and then the Avs and Wings. 7 hard intense games was not good.

BigTeddyPaul

[ET Warrior]

Not to mention that we played Vancouver in a tough hard hitting 7 game series, then 7 games against LA..and finally 7 games versus detroit....MAN, that was rough on us......


And I'm sorry to disappoint, but we're not giving up our 5th place for ANYTHING. ;) Mebbe we'll move up to 4th, we'll see ;)

[BigTeddyPaul]

Vancouver's number two isn't out of reach either. You guys have one or two more games in hand over Vancouver.

WE BEAT VANCOUVER! MWahhaah. Punks. That was the best game I have seen all year.

BigTeddyPaul

[ET Warrior]

Ahh, thank you St Louis!!! Way to give up your 2 goal lead so that we can increase our distance from you!! ;)

Now if Vancouver could just lose ONE MORE GAME this year we've got the chance we need to take the division......C'MON AVS!!!

[BigTeddyPaul]

Ahhh screw you! I mean that nicely. Lucky bounces I tell ya. Osgood let a few rebounds out and the Khavanov/Pronger duo didn't play too well. We should have won that one but I had a sneaky suspicion we would have lost or tied that one when they made it 5-4.

It is the playoffs that count anyways. I want to see Roy be a fan or Miss Liberty again. Ahh fond memories and they will be even fonder when it is the Blues who demolish them. I actually want to see an Osgood Roy fight. You have the hottest team right now IMHO. Screw the Wings. They are good but the way Colorado has been I am scared.

Was it 50 or 100 points on the last game and how many for the series? I have a couple hundred to burn.

Where did you get such a kick rear avatar? That thing is awesome. Inaccuarte but awesome.

BigTeddyPaul

[ET Warrior]

Chief Made me the avatar as per my request........the bet was 100 on the end of year game, 200 on the series. IF we play, I mean, we've still got potential to pass vancouver.............


Why is the avie innacurate? eh?

[BigTeddyPaul]

You aren't going to win the cup St. Louis is that is why so you shoud just get rid of the Stnaley Cup.

Awww. I am still mad about that tie with Edmonton. Erg. I get so into it that I get a little depressed and pissed. Must win so I can be happy.

BigTeddyPaul

[ET Warrior]

Whaaaaaaaaaaatever, you know your Blues can't hack it against the Avs :D


I understand what you mean, i get all sad after the Avs lose.... it gets me down

[Chewbacco]

I live near LA and the Kings didn't make the playoffs since most of our players were injured.:(

[ET Warrior]

Yeah, i think the Kings had the most man-games lost due to injury in the entire league....

Losing Alison and Deadmarsh early in the season really messed you guys up.

Avs are playing the Kings tomorrow........you guys better lose!!! ;)

[BigTeddyPaul]

I think man games lost are 1 Kings 2 Phoenix 3 St. Louis.

LA got royally screwed this year by having A LOT of their guys out. Atleast the Blues were able to keep up with everyone but Allison and Deadmarch, both +point per games players, hurt their offense soo badly. Then Potvin and your D went. Atleast you know how your farm team is.

Go Avs and BOOOOO Canucks. Don't want to face hottest team. Don't want to face hottest team.

BigTeddyPaul

[BigTeddyPaul]

OMG! I cannot belive this is true but it was on ESPN and TSN so I believe them.

Apparently Domi is beig sued because some fat man fell into the penalty box with him when he was taunting Domi. Domi sprayed him with water and the fan came at him. Then his huge gut made him fall in. On top of this the event happened like 2 years ago.

ESPN Link (http://espn.go.com/nhl/news/2003/0402/1533251.html)

Domi Incident (http://www.geocities.com/bigteddypaul/hockeyincident)

BigTeddyPaul

[Andy867]

That's pathetic.. I wouldn't be surprised if the NHL commissioner steps in and rules the suit invalid since the fan reacted to the water spraying and his own fat ass made him fall in..

[ET Warrior]

HOLY CRAP DO YOU BELIEVE IN MIRACLES?!?!?!



Amazing, The Colorado Avalanche have clenched their 9th consecutive division title to make NHL history!!

(And Paul owes me 100 Points!!!yeah)

[Andy867]

WEll, looks like the Blues are playing the Canucks in the first round, and NOT the Avalanche, so BTP got a break for his Blues. But playing against a team that has a better record than the Avs.. Is that necessarily a good thing?

[Pisces]

Whoohoo!

And the President's trophy goes to *drumroll* the Senators.

With 113 points after their 3-1 win against the Leafs the Sens are officially untouchable.

Just thought I'd submit that little piece of info

:D

[git_sum_stuka]

I don't mean to go off-topic here but nice site in your link Neo. Canadians invented football and baseball?!!:confused:

[ET Warrior]

Originally posted by Andy867
WEll, looks like the Blues are playing the Canucks in the first round, and NOT the Avalanche, so BTP got a break for his Blues. But playing against a team that has a better record than the Avs.. Is that necessarily a good thing?

Not really a better record.....more wins, yes.....but not as many points as the avalanche!!! :D:D:D

[Andy867]

Originally posted by a soon to be updated Yahoo! Sports NHL Standings Page

Vancouver:
GP 82
W 45
L 23
T 13
OTL 1

Colorado:
GP 82
W 42
L 19
T 13
OTL 8








they have 3 more wins than the Avs, and the Wins in the end get you the Cup, not points from Regular season. :D (but we all know that, just make a valid point/opinion)

If Colorado had won those 8 OTL, then maybe I'd consider any team in trouble, even though any team that does play Colorado is in trouble.. But I am also a statistical guy, and 90 Win points beats 84.. but if it were 90 win points against 100 win points (from the 8 OTL, then that would be another story. ) Speaking of which, if they are going to give someone a point for an OT loss, then why not bump wins to 3 points, ties to 2 points, and keep OTL at one point... Cuz saying that an OTL is the same as a tie in the statistics book just doesn't seem right.

[.:Solusar:.]

Red Wings was my favorite team in hockey. But since a lot of my relatives live in Colorado, i decided to change teams. I like a lot of the team members on the team like roy <---- don't know if i spelled it right. hes the goalie, and yes it does suck that forsberg got injured. but there are still other good hockey players on the team. heheh too bad im not good at remembering names.

[ET Warrior]

Woah, redwings fan to an avs fan!!!! HE'S SEEN THE LIGHT!!!! HE HAS BEEN SAVED!!!! Congratulations on your switch Cybernetix. Roy is in fact the way it's spelled.....and i'm not sure why you think Forsberg is hurt........because he's not. We are currently not suffering from any injuries.....luckily..


And BigTeddyPaul is Hiding from me I think..he's embarrased that his Blues got beat ;) :D

[Andy867]

Well, he should be glad though that the Avs won and that the Blues Lost and that Vancouver lost... Even the guy here at one of the news stations is glad that the blues lost, because he said in an odd turn of events to happen, it would allow St Louis not to face the Avs.

Welcome aboard Cybernetix.. Glad you saw the light and you made the right decision...

[BigTeddyPaul]

I NEVER HIDE! I am a Blues fan. Being one and proclaiming to the world that fact is proof enough of my devotion (36 year losers). I just haven't been on in a few days. Sheesh! Can't a guy take a break once in a while.

I was actually happy for the loss. We now face Vancouver who we are still POed about by that injury to Tkachuk from May. The last time we played them it was the best game I have watched in years since playoff hockey to be exact. If we can stop Bertuzzi and Naslund we can handle the twins and the occassional other peon goals.

It is nice to know it takes a full roster to beat a depleted Blues team. I wish only Hejduk got the 50 and not Forseberg with teh scoring title. I am happy for him and all but I wish Nasland could have kept one of them. He deserved it with his overall points (like 48 goals and 55 assits or something compared to Peter's 28 goals and 77 assists). <---- Those stats are not confirmed just a rough estimate.

I still don't know how a guy who has the Rockey Richard Trophey for first to fifty goals does not make the playoffs. Screw the fact that they had Blake, Sakic, Forsberg, and Roy going. If Tkachuk, Demitra, Weight, Pronger, and MacInnis were all going and someone like Stillman was having a stellar season already I wouldn't care. The all-star game is to see the best!

Forsberg was hurt last year and in my opinion was a good thing. He was a monster in the playoffs. Peter the Spleenless.

You will get your credits soon although I still don't think it is entirely fair. If you sat Sakic and Blake or someone else I would think it was more fair but a bet is a bet.

BigTeddyPaul

[ET Warrior]

I think Forsberg deserved points wins, simply because he makes goals happen. Those 77 or so assists are because he's approximately the greatest hockey player in the NHL. The assist for Hejduk's 50th goal was just plain great. He was getting knocked over and managed to kick the puck RIGHT to Hejduk just as he was getting smashed by two guys!!! YEAH-HA!!!


We would have sat some people if that game hadn't meant so much to us.........

Doesn't look like the avs will face the blues unless it's in the western conference finals

[BigTeddyPaul]

Bring it on BABY! That 50th by Hejduk was rather sweet AND if I had to choose one person to be on my professional hockey team I would choose Peter first.

I don't know why you want to be an Avs fan now when Roy might only have one more year left if you are luke-warm about them already.

BigTeddyPaul

[ET Warrior]

I don't know why you want to be an Avs fan now when Roy might only have one more year left if you are luke-warm about them already.

Probably because the Avs are the best team in the NHL.......;)

[Andy867]

My guess is that Roy will stay only another 2 seasons, and then he will go from there and decide what to do...

[BigTeddyPaul]

Well . . .

If there is no agreement with the players association and the league in 2004 I think Roy will just call it quits. If there is an agreement I do see him for one more year after next.

BigTeddyPaul

[ET Warrior]

I am not too worried about Roy's retirement.......I mean, he's AWESOME, but I think once Aebischer gets more experience and confidence he shows promise of being pretty good himself.

[BigTeddyPaul]

17 hours and 11 minutes left. 17 hours and 11 minutes left. 17 hours and 11 minutes left. 17 hours and 11 minutes left. Ohhh I can't wait. 17 hours and 11 minutes left. 17 hours and 11 minutes left. 17 hours and 11 minutes left. 17 hours and 11 minutes left. Ohhh I can't wait. 17 hours and 11 minutes left. 17 hours and 11 minutes left. 17 hours and 11 minutes left. 17 hours and 11 minutes left. Ohhh I can't wait. 17 hours and 11 minutes left. 17 hours and 11 minutes left. 17 hours and 11 minutes left. 17 hours and 11 minutes left. Ohhh I can't wait. 17 hours and 11 minutes left. 17 hours and 11 minutes left. 17 hours and 11 minutes left. 17 hours and 11 minutes left. Ohhh I can't wait.

17 hours and 10 minutes left. 17 hours and 10 minutes left. Ohh I can't wait. 17 hours and 10 minutes left. 17 hours and 10 minutes left. Ohh I can't wait. 17 hours and 10 minutes left. 17 hours and 10 minutes left. Ohh I can't wait. 17 hours and 10 minutes left. 17 hours and 10 minutes left. Ohh I can't wait. 17 hours and 10 minutes left. 17 hours and 10 minutes left. Ohh I can't wait.

I am not excited am I? Luckily I can pick to watch any game I want so who should I watch:

N.Y. Islanders at Ottawa
Boston at New Jersey
Toronto at Philadelphia

All those start at 4 for me. I am thinking Toronto and NJ but I really want to see Samsonov play. I love that guy.

BigTeddyPaul

[ET Warrior]

I have 35 hours until Avalanche game time:D:D:D


I dont know if i'll get any of the games on my TV......but if I do i'll probably be watching whichever one I get tonight!!!

[BigTeddyPaul]

Boston and NJ on ESPN2
and
Toronto at Philley on ESPN.

4 hours and 31 minutes.

Must hit head with hammer and wake in 4 hours and 29 minutes (I do need to pee).

BigTeddyPaul

[ET Warrior]

I'm watching ALL of them :D except the stars game, i'm not getting that one, but i'm watching the other three.:D:D:D


AVS TOMORROW!!! WOOOEEEEE


Anyone else amazed that the islanders are winning 3-0?

[BigTeddyPaul]

anyone else amazed the WON 3-0? How about Edmonton up 2-1. And that Toronto Philley game was the best.

Avs, Detroit, and Blues tomorrow. Sooooo many games.

BigTeddyPaul

[ET Warrior]

wow, all the number 1 seeds lost their first game......that's CRAZY.......and that's why I love the playoffs!! You never know what's going to happen!!

(and not to nitpick, but I'm pretty sure our bet on that last game of the season was 100 points BTP....i only got 50;))

[BigTeddyPaul]

Be glad that you didn't face my Blues. A very bold 6-0 win over the Canucks. Hopefully it isn't a one hit wonder. If you guys lose to the Wild I will laugh so hard.

I ALSO HATE THIS! I don't care whos team the want to win but when the Avs fans started leaving when the score was 4-1 with 4 minutes left I got pissed. They must think it is impossible for the Avs to score 3 in 4 minutes. I hate those so called fans.

Good:
Blues won 6-0 over Vancouver
Ducks won 2-1 over Wings in TRIPLE OVERTIME
Avs lost 4-2 by the Wild.
Dallas lost 2-1 to Edmonton
Isles won 3-0 over Ottawa

Bad:
Lightning lost 3-0 to Washington
Boston lost 2-1 to the Devils

Too close to be either:
Toronto won 4-3 over the Flyers

BigTeddyPaul

[ET Warrior]

Wow, the avs outshot the friggin Wild almost 2-1 the ENTIRE game. After the first period shots were like 17-4. But then, as usual, Colorado is the worst second period team EVER, and the Wild capitalized on that.

I was glad that the blues beat the canucks, and that dalls and detroit lost. but MAN I wish that the freeking avalnche could have pulled that one off.


(I also hate those fans that leave that early. I won't leave a game early unless we're down by like, 20 goals)

[ET Warrior]

.........So the mighty ducks on anaheim go up 2-0 in the series against the RedWings........AMAZING.....just...AMAZING...

And then the Avs beat the Wild.......oh.....wow, today was a GREAT day for hockey!!

[BigTeddyPaul]

This was some funny stuff. I found this off the ESPN boards by BLOODWINGZ the one Red Wings fan I actually respect.

http://www.welovetheiraqiinformationminister.com/images/wirq13.jpeg Spokesman for the Detroit Red Wings

He used to work for Saddam, but now he's all ours!

His first Official Press Release:

"I NOW INFORM YOU THAT YOU ARE TOO FAR FROM REALITY."

You think Wings are losing? You are hilarious!
They are in our trap, now, the infidel Ducklings. They will roast on spits, in Hockeytown Hell.
Don't believe anything you've heard, from liars like the satanic fool Melrose, or that sissy Maclean! We will chase the rascals back to Detroit, and then back to Anaheim, and finally we will trap them in Detroit, and kill them without mercy. Slaughter them like the barnyard animals they are, for our Sunday dinners.

We're now trying to exhaust them, until our leadership decides the time and method to clean our territory of their desecration. That time is coming soon, very soon. We are surrounding them and pounding them. The whole trend has changed and we are going to finalize this very soon. We're giving them a real lesson, in every game. Heavy doesn't accurately describe the level of casualties we have inflicted.

Do not believe this lie, you see on your televisions, your state-run ESPN, which is a tool of the Disney Empire! We are winning, and winning big. Brett Hull has not even been used yet. Sergei Fedorov is relaxing in the wings, heheh, no joke intended. How will the Ducks handle them, when we finally unleash their awesome power? They cannot. No one can.

We will push those crooks, those mercenaries back into the smoggy swamp of California, where the women are all superficially pretty, and thin. They can chase those women around then, all summer, and golf with them, while the Red Wings are drinking fine Scotch whiskies from the Stanley Cup.

When we were making the laws of hockey, when we were writing the history and the legends of hockey, the grandfathers of Babcock and little Kariya, and that stumpy little Steve guy, were scratching around in caves. We invented the game. These mercenaries have no right to our property.
These Detroit fighters are slapping those Disney gangsters on the face, and then when they flee, they will kick their backsides. Four times in a row, and it will be easy. No contest.

Come and see me next week, at my pool in suburbs of Detroit. I will be the one laughing, with a meaty blonde woman rubbing my tan and happy shoulders. The Disney tools will be crying, in their golf carts, perfecting their short games. You will see.

BigTeddyPaul

[ckcsaber]

Wow. I've never been in this thread before, mainly because some hockey fans scare me :p, but since I have ventured here, I would like to say "Go Caps!"

Wohoo! Washington in the playoffs!

[Mandalorian54]

GO SENATORS!!!


Mondays game was nerve recking though. HOLY S**T what was up whith the reffing? Think some bribage is going on.

The Devils are doing amazing, boston could be out 4-0. Or are they already and I'm just not up to date?

Detroit is loosing? realy? hmmm, that surprises me.

I hope toronto looses. And I hope vancouver beats the blues.
I wouldn't mind the oilers beating dallas, but I think dallas will probably still win despite edmonton's lead.

And the sens RULE!

I think this year is our year finaly. Can't wait for tonights game, Ilanders are going down baby!

[ET Warrior]

Sorry to disappoint you mandalorian, but I dont really see any way for the East to compete with the West.......the west is just better. And the senators are struggling against islanders right now............i personally think it'll be either the Devils or the Caps in the finals for the East......


But the Avalanche will win the cup no matter what happens. ;)

I hope that the blues win their series against Vancouver and the avs get to play them next round........:)


And yes. Detroit is down 0-3 in their series with the ducks. They're basically done for.

[Toonces]

Recchi!!! :thumbs1:

[coupes.]

Hey, i'm a Canadiens fan, i live near Montreal (like 15 mins away) but we havent had a decent team in a couple of years...

since they're not in the playoffs, i'm cheering for Detroit, but i'm kinda scared about how they are doing right now. so far it's 3-0 for Anaheim in the series. And they're going to overtime right about now...:(

if it wasn't for Giguere though it wouldn't be the same...
have you ever noticed how much goalies from Québec there is in the NHL? I guess there still is some positive elements about this situation.

[ET Warrior]

Giguere = Uber Bad Dude.

No way around it. HE is the reason the ducks are doing so well. PLEASE LET THE DUCKS SCORE IN OT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



(and BTP, i'd make the font in your avvie Bold....it looks kinda scrawny as is.....unless you really like it then you can leave it.)

[coupes.]

No way it won't hapen.. the wings are gonna bounce back and own all the way to the stanley cup, like they did last year...













maybe not...


edit: NO WAY!!! how could they lose in 4 games!!!

[BigTeddyPaul]

Blues win. YEAH!
Wings lose. YEAH!
Wild lose. Boo!
Philey wins. Yeah?
Lightning win. Yeah!
Who did I miss?

Belfor makes 72 saves, twice as many as Chechy, and he still loses.

I wonder if Bertuzzi likes golf or tennis better.

ET Warrior: I knew something wasn't right with my text. I tried to make it big but couldn't figure out how you did it.

BigTeddyPaul

[Andy867]

It looks like Anaheim clipped Detroits' wings. And with the blues up 3-1, the question remains for the Avs, can they do it in 5 games?!

















OF COURSE THEY CAN.. DUH! I mean this is the avalanche we are talking about... They are the best team in the league now. They will defeat the Wild, triumph over the Blues, silence the Ducks, and whip the Senators and win The Cup... Simple as that...

[ET Warrior]

Originally posted by BigTeddyPaul
Blues win. YEAH!
Wings lose. YEAH!
Wild lose. Boo!
Philey wins. Yeah?
Lightning win. Yeah!
Who did I miss?


Ottowa won ;)


And just but [ b ] [ /b ] around every letter of text you're using and that should fix the look.....just don't put spaces between the brakets and the b :D




I'm glad that the Blues are winning though, they'll be an easier opponent than the canucks :p Although the way things are going it's quite possible we'll end up playing the oilers next round, if they can pull off victory against the stars.......that's been a pretty even looking series....

[ckcsaber]

Aww man, Tampa Bay tied up the series last night:mad: . The Caps will pull out though. Jagr is looking awesome despite his bad wrist.........

[BigTeddyPaul]

I haven't watched any of TB and Caps games but stats wise Jagr has been okay. Not really good for him but better than last year. Bondra is the man right now. Him and Kolzig that is.

Ottawa shmottica. They are playing the Islanders who aren't that great and are barely beating them from their gameplay although yesterday Ottawa played like they wanted to win.

BigTeddyPaul

[ET Warrior]

Well, you did ask who you missed....and so I pointed it out ;)

I dont really care about them either. Going into the playoffs I said that the only Eastern team the West has to worry about is the Senators....but with their post-season play so far I'm personally not even worried about any of em! :p

[BigTeddyPaul]

Wild still alive.
Blues better win tomorrow or they are in a little bit of trouble.

Thought this was funny.

http://home.istar.ca/~geoffm/infominister1.jpg

BigTeddyPaul

[BigTeddyPaul]

Here is another one. I don't think I need to tell what this means to you Avs fans but to everyone else this signifies Forsbergs diving ability.

http://www.divealanche.com/imagefiles/1_floppadive.jpg

Hahahahah. Look at those legs.

BigTeddyPaul

[ckcsaber]

Noooooo. Caps lost:cry6: Damn Refs! Damn Tampa Bay! Damn You ALL! Damn you to HELL!!!

[.:Solusar:.]

Tampa bay won!! :mad: Brah! i thought they suck!, grr that gets me angry. yea i hated that game too, i agree with you cksaber. :cry6:

[coupes.]

Go Tampa!! lol
ah! those quebeckers! Lecavalier! St-Louis! Richards!

sorry ckc but i can't stand Jagr without Lemieux(quebecker:D) he's just not the same player.

[ckcsaber]

Ahh screw you Coupe! :swear:
















j/k:p

Lemiux and Jagr were great together.....

[ET Warrior]

Diving? You accuse Forsberg of DIVING?!??!? I will fight you so fast...;)


Seriously though, Peter Forsberg is, in my opinion, the best player in the NHL right now, and the only reason he EVER goes down is when he's getting mauled, which is always. Even when he's getting drug down he's still fighting to stay up and push his way to the net.............Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Looks like your Blues are trying to blow it eh?


Hopefully the Avs will finish the series tonight....PLEASE let them finish it tonight.


Edit- I dont believe it. I dont FREAKING believe it. To overcome a 2 goal deficit with 3 minutes left, only to lose it in OT....I swear they Avs can't win unless they're facing elimination themselves.......BAH (But we're facing elmination tomorrow night, so we'll win :))

[KaBuTaR]

okie, pokin ma head in from the KOTOR forums... ur local canadian hockeyfan here...

the way i see it it will be interesting to see how:

1. blues-canucks
2. toronto-philly
3. avs-minnesota

plays out... specially considering they're all tied 3-3...

i'd like to see someone beat the avs for once but not coz i hate them... no question they're a good team - i know that if toronto and vancouver are ousted then i'd be rootin for the avs all the way :P always have :P

i'd like to see a canadian team win tho somehow i doubt it'd be ottawa - they always seem to choke up...

it will be a finale... ;)

ET Warrior, is ur game tomorrow nite? or wednesday nite?

i know vancouver and toronto are playing tomorrow... if the avs are playin too that'd make one hell of a hockey nite...

[ET Warrior]

Tomorrow night! 9 30 Eastern Time.............AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH we better freaking win....i swear...

[KaBuTaR]

OH SERIOUSLY!!!!

well that's one hell of a hockey nite then... :P

DAMN I WISH EXAMS WERE OVER!!!!!!

:snow:

[.:Solusar:.]

Jagr and lemiux? they were like the best two people on the team, anyway i agree with ET Warrior that forsberg is the best, but what about Joe Sakic! hes still good isn't he??

[KaBuTaR]

forsberg and sakic have always been two of the best players the avs had...

[BigTeddyPaul]

All games down to the wire. I pray the Blues win. They can beat anyone left. I was only worried about the Wings and now they are gone. Cannot believe we were up 3-1 and now it is tied IN VANCOUVER! Pretty please win. Avs are home too so that is in their favor. Whoever wins the eastern game 7 will likely come out of the East. Them or NJ. Blues can beat any of them.

Pretty please win tomorrow. A whole season down to one game. Unbelievable.

BigTeddyPaul

[ET Warrior]

Originally posted by BigTeddyPaul
All games down to the wire. I pray the Blues win. They can beat anyone left.


........I think you're forgetting that Colorado is still in this one.......now if we lost tonight, which won't happen, but IF we did, THEN the blues COULD win it all.........

[Andy867]

According to Yahoo! ET, the game is at 10:00, not 9:30. (just helping out a fellow Avs Follower)

[KaBuTaR]

when the canucks get going, they can really get going though... :P let's see if they get going tonight...

[BigTeddyPaul]

Don't know about the rest of you but I slept three hours last night. I could not sleep for the life of me and now I am paying for it. I am off to take a two hour nap and then watch the Wild win 4-3. Hehehe.

I will make God and you Avs fans a deal. If the Avs win the Blues have to win. Only way I accept a Wild loss.

Three game sevens and like 7 OT games! What a great playoff year. Ohh and the Wings lost in 4. Hahahahah!


EDIT: Life as a Blues fan:

The Blues lost 447 man games to injury in the regular season, second only to Los Angeles, and still ran off 99 points.

Job, the Biblical victim, has nothing on Joel Quenneville. The Blues coach has weathered every affliction but a plague of locusts.

This season, due to injuries and ineffectiveness, the Blues tied an NHL record by using seven goalies. A week before camp, starting goalie Brent Johnson went down with a high ankle strain suffered during a shinny session. He missed the first 27 games, plus another five later with a groin strain, and was mostly ineffective when healthy.

With Johnson out early, the Blues won four straight games with an NHL-record four different goalies -- three of them rookies. One of them was Reinhard Divis, the best goalie in all of Austria. He promptly pulled a muscle, missed half the season and was about to be recalled from the minors when he was shelved again ... by a spider bite.

Scoring leader Pavol Demitra missed four games with the chicken pox.

Center Doug Weight, who missed two games after taking a shot off an ankle at the All-Star Game, missed 10 games after a rival goalie cleared the puck off his face near the net.

A bout of food poisoning sidelined five players, weakened up to 10 others and left only 18 players on skates for a December loss in New Jersey.

Power forward Keith Tkachuk missed 26 games from injury and suspension, and still scored 31 goals. If he played 82 games he would be projected to have 48 goals!!!

Defenseman Jeff Finley was suspended four games for reaching out of the penalty box to stop Derian Hatcher from pounding Demitra, a pacifist, during a melee with Dallas.

All-Star defenseman Chris Pronger, the incumbent captain, missed the first 77 games after radical knee and wrist surgeries.

Bruising winger Jamal Mayers has been out since November after knee surgery.

Winger Martin Rucinsky missed a dozen games with a bum shoulder.

Rookie center Petr Cajanek missed two dozen games with a broken leg, got back in gear, missed three weeks with a head injury and just returned during Game 6.

Center Steve Dubinsky, who was emerging as the team's best faceoff man, has been out for three months with a concussion. Coincidentally or not, the Canucks are beating the Blues to the draw, 58 percent to 42 percent, the best and worst faceoff rankings in the first round.

Decently good article.

http://www.stlouisblues.com/images/miscellaneous%20action/jackman_bertuzzi.gif Lets Go Blues!


BigTeddyPaul

[KaBuTaR]

BTP, that's quite the record loL!

well the leafs sucked today didnt they... :P oh well... lol

this van-stl game is shaping up to be a wild one... extremely exciting! :D:D

[coupes.]

the canucks are gonna win it!!! it's already 3-1 :D
I also get the feeling the Wild are gonna eliminate the avs... bye bye Roy (sorry i hate the guy) !

well, 3 7th games tonight, 3 loosers, but ,illions of happy hockey fans.

[KaBuTaR]

we'll see what happens... i've noticed the canucks have a tendency to blow it in the 3rd... let's hope they don't...

[.:Solusar:.]

Originally posted by .:CoupeS:.
the canucks are gonna win it!!! it's already 3-1 :D
I also get the feeling the Wild are gonna eliminate the avs... bye bye Roy (sorry i hate the guy) !

well, 3 7th games tonight, 3 loosers, but ,illions of happy hockey fans.

What the heck in god name are you talking about? Roy is the best goalie ever!:D Well there is one other that is better but i forget who he is lol well I hope avs win it!.:D

[BigTeddyPaul]

Not necessarily the Canucks to blow it in the third as opposed to the Blues coming alive in the 3rd. If you look at their record most of the goals are in the 3rd. We wake up as the game goes along but this game is making me depressed right now.

A whole season based on one game which turned into three.

BigTeddyPaul

[coupes.]

i'm not saying i hate Roy because he isn't good... i just don'T like the guy that's all..:o

[Andy867]

Karry Frasier is the one killing the Avalanche in the game... 2 of the 3 Power Plays since the 2nd period have led to Wild goals... But I still have faith that an Avalanche will get the game-winner to pit the Avalanche against the Canucks, unless the Blues get their act together.

I still want to argue the Wild goal back in the 2nd period.. the Wild offense guy had a skate in the crease before the puck entered the crease, and I believe Tony Granto should have argued the call, in which case the Avs would have won, but like I said, KARRY *%*%#( Frasier killed the Avs. (pulls out shotgun, races to Denver colorado and pops Frasier in the heart for killing the avs race for the cup.

[coupes.]

WILD WINS 3-2!

andrew brunette scored in OT and the Wild win the series 4-3.

omg! did you see that goal! the colorado defence was weak on that play... too bad for them.

yay for the underdogs.

the canucks win it also! this is a great day for me in hockey, all my predictions were correct today.

Sorry Andy, ET and BigTeddyPaul, but it feels good after my team lost in 4..:D

btw:don't take anything personally

[KaBuTaR]

YEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA CANUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

omg... they did it! after being down 3 games - 1!!!! YEAAAAA!!!

man i would give ANYTHING TO BE BACK IN VANCOUVER RITE NOW! damn the place must be crazy... i'd just like to see the streets and the partying!

omg and minnesota won too... OMG! wow what a day. THAT was a serious upset! :P

ok, sorry... must calm down - i'm just on cloud nine rite now... i didn't want to get my hopes up in case of disappointment... but nevermind that!!!!! :D:D

YEAAAAA!!! go canucks! knew you could do it!

*ahem*

EDIT: talked to a friend in vancouver and she said the place has gone pretty wild... damn wish i was there!!!!!

[coupes.]

i know a couple of swampies who are gonna have to change their avatar today...:D

[KaBuTaR]

heh, heh, ho...


i should make mine with a canucks background...

hey! idea!

*runs to fiddle*

;)

[Andy867]

I already called the National Referee's Association and filed a formal complain that Karry Frasier made terrible calls, and didn't call the in the crease, which the representative said that they already heard about which means other Avs fans have called in, and that Karry's actions are being under review due to the high volume of complaints, so. Hopefully the a$%*hole won't be back next year to kill the avs again.. Maybe he will get in a car accident(what's the number for that Voodoo caster person in Tijuana?)

[KaBuTaR]

Originally posted by Andy867
I already called the National Referee's Association and filed a formal complain that Karry Frasier made terrible calls, and didn't call the in the crease, which the representative said that they already heard about which means other Avs fans have called in, and that Karry's actions are being under review due to the high volume of complaints, so. Hopefully the a$%*hole won't be back next year to kill the avs again.. Maybe he will get in a car accident(what's the number for that Voodoo caster person in Tijuana?)


whoa - those are some serious steps being taken there! :P though i understand... it's gotta suck.

as for the skate in the crease thing - didn't they totally scrap that rule a couple years back? the one where if you have a skate in the crease the goal is disallowed? or am i thinking of something else?

[Andy867]

Ok, so maybe the call to the National Referee's Association was a bit over the edge and hasty, but if it would prevent Karry Frasier from Reffing again, then I am up for any option...

[KaBuTaR]

Perhaps, but it's understandable all the same. :P

So who are you rooting for now that the Avs are out?

[Andy867]

For vancouver to knock out minnesota in 4 games, all shut-outs.

[KaBuTaR]

I second that :D:D:D

but for different reasons, obviously...

The only reason I'm happy Minnesota won was b/c the Canucks won. Otherwise, I'm sad the avs are out.

[BigTeddyPaul]

I piss on the Canucks! They go down in 6. Goalies rule!

We FINNALLY GET HEALTHY AND WE GET THE FLU!!! We dominated all of 5 minutes yesterday and then nothing. Another year down the crapper.

I am actually rooting for an eastern team. I have always liked the TB Lightning. Probably won't win but either them or Philley. I love an American who wins. Go Roenick.

I am still wallowig (sp?) in self-hatred/everytihng else that is bad and might not be in a good mood for a few weeks so I spologize for everything in advance.

BigTeddyPaul

[KaBuTaR]

well me is happy but it could very well have been the other way... it was last year - so i understand what you mean :(

[ET Warrior]

I'm with you Paul, the avs were TOTALLY dominating the ENTIRE game, but we had 2 bad penalty kills which led to those 2 goals to tie, and then in OT we made one bad defensive play at the blue line, and they scored.......SUCK!!!!!

[KaBuTaR]

well i have to say... it was a rather random goal... it didn't look like the type of goal u'd expect to go in... sucks though.

[ET Warrior]

It was actually a pretty nice move by the Wild player who scored it.....I don't know many goalies who would've gotten that one.....arrrrrrrrrrr

[KaBuTaR]

It was a nice move, but you wouldn't have expected it... it looked kinda choppy from what I saw.

[Andy867]

it was a nice move going in, but 99% of the time, the puck hits a groove in the ice since the skates dig a lot near the crease, and will bounce off the stick, causing the player to lose control, therefore, be unable to score the goal. not to worry, I played the Avs in my NHL 2003, and won the series in a sweep.. 4-2, 5-1, 6-2, 11-0... :) and then I beat Vancouver 9-4 so far.

[KaBuTaR]

LOL

how is NHL 2003? any good?

hehe i remember getting NHL 98 and how i was so excited at that time... lol

then again... human players are ALWAYS better than AI... I remember playing vancouver and beating teams 8-0 with 50 shots on goal with the skill level set on All-Star...

then again that was NHL 98. :P

[ET Warrior]

NHL 2003 is pretty good, I personally prefered 2002 better......and 03 does not have a shootout mode....which bothers me......

[KaBuTaR]

they DONT have a SHOOTOUT MODE??????

omg how could they DO that?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

I've heard a lot of people say they preferred NHL 2002 tho in everything from gameplay to AI to graphics...

maybe i'll go scrounge it from somewhere. god knows i could use a good game rite now especially considering i can't play jk2 :rolleyes:

[ET Warrior]

The ONLY thing that I thought NHL 2003 did better than 2002 was their Breakaway Camera......it felt more natural and less......strange.......But if I were to buy a hockey game now it woudl be 02

[BigTeddyPaul]

NHL games suck. They all do. I do not care what settings are on them they bite the big one. For my 1998 N64 one if you do a slap shot near the red line while moving you have like an 80% to score. In NHL 2003 on XBox all you had to do was go from the left of the goalie to his right in a few seconds and shoot at the net. In NHL 2002 on PS all you had to do was hold deke right before and you scored most of the time.

I haven't played since I scored over 90 in a 60 minute game. Just not realistic. AND the worst is when you go to fight if you do nothing or don't do any haymakers you only get a 2 minute roughing while the opposing team gets a 5 minute major leaving you with a 3 minute PP. Just too many bad things about hockey which makes me mad. They finally made drafting but only like 2 rounds. There is no farm team to help development. If you spend enough time you can work around the trading block (Modano for Domi). All you have to do is trade a 56 for a 58 and then a 58 to a 60 and a 60 to a 63 Etc Etc Etc. I have been able to get EVERYONE except Rob Blake. For some reason D men are unattainable. Him and Pronger but since I was the Blues I didn't need to get Pronger. I offered Sakic and Lemieux for Blake and still nothing. Stopid computer.

BigTeddyPaul

[KaBuTaR]

Originally posted by BigTeddyPaul
NHL games suck. They all do. I do not care what settings are on them they bite the big one. For my 1998 N64 one if you do a slap shot near the red line while moving you have like an 80% to score. In NHL 2003 on XBox all you had to do was go from the left of the goalie to his right in a few seconds and shoot at the net. In NHL 2002 on PS all you had to do was hold deke right before and you scored most of the time.

OMG i SO know what you mean about the 98 one! I would just skate up the right wing and take a slapshot and the goalie would just collapse. It was SERIOUSLY sad.

I think there was one game I played where I had like 70 shots or something... that was interesting. I'd just ram into players and they'd cough up the puck like anything. pathetique! :P

[Andy867]

I remember the old Stanley Cup game for the super nintendo I believe it was. You just skate to the red line push up and shoot, and 80-90% of the time, it would go in.. or you just deke left twice and bam, goal EVERY time.

[KaBuTaR]

seriously though with the level and quality of programming/AI these days like we see in JO or upcoming in KOTOR and JA... the depth and development of the character and responses based on development and choices you take... it surprises me that it's so hard to program a good sports game... am i missing something?

[Andy867]

Mighty Ducks 4, Stars 3, 5OT

Now that's what you call one LONG game. 4th Longest in NHL History. the game went like an extra 80 minutes and so many seconds. In real-time, it lasted 5 hours, 52 minutes long.. 6:40PM on Thursday the 24th of April to 12:32AM CST onn Friday, the 25th of April, 2003. Geez. 8 periods of hockey. Now thats what you call talent, but it must have been a bummer for Steve Thomas, who had a goal disallowed because the goal net was dislodged from its morrings. And Also for the Dallas player who scored, only to have it disallowed because a Dallas player was offsides. only 6 penalties were called the entire game. Good thing the players were well rested. 8 days for Anaheim, 4 for Dallas.

[ckcsaber]

That was an amazing game. I would love to see the Ducks in the Finals.

[KaBuTaR]

oh, but I agree... it was pretty damn cool... i had something to keep me company while studying at 3 AM! :p


EDIT: COOKE TIED IT WITH 1.2 SECONDS LEFT!!!!! YEA!!!
EDIT#2: they WIN!

[Luc Solar]

OMG hahahaha! You Americans suck! How could you lose to Denmark!? You're, like...in the same league with Japan and Botswana! Hahahaha! :D :D

Ok.

Now I know some of you might have heard this silly rumour about Finland losing to their arch-enemy Sweden after being up 5 to 1. That's just pure bs. Never happened.

*nervous laughter*

It's not true. It's not true. It's nothing but lies, evil propaganda. We won. We.... it didn't happen...it couldn't have happened...*sob* no-one loses a game at that level after being up 5 to 1.
Ridiculous lies, I tell you.. Finland was NOT utterly humiliated. Our spirit was NOT crushed. These falsehoods do NOT make us lose our will to live.

The Truth (http://www.theinformationminister.com/press.php?ID=612340053)

[Pad]

lol @ solar :p:D

i tell ya, never mess with sweden or they mess with you :p

btw, how is the avalanche doin?


and about those nhl games, i playe dem all with my friend starting from 96-97 till 2002 and the one that we tought was the best was 99 (same for fifa).

[ET Warrior]

Yeah the avalanche.....are......uhh......well.............k nocked out in the first round to the wild :(

[ckcsaber]

Wowsers. I really think the Ducks can go all the way.

My predictions for the finals are:

Anaheim vs. Ottawa

[BigTeddyPaul]

Since I have voted against the Ducks every single time I will not change now because I am stubborn. Wild Rule all! Boring 1st period and it just got better after that. I even watched the 3rd period again at 3 AM just so I can watch the disappointment in all teh Canuck fans. MWahahahaha. I love other teams pain.

Just goes to show you how good the west is. #6 and #7 in the West while #1 and #2 in the East. East are pansies except for about 4 teams. West dominates all.

I am glad someone else went fishing for this thread. I was going to but you saved me the time.

BigTeddyPaul

[ckcsaber]

Muhahah! Ducks beat Wild in 2nd OT!

Giguere was friggen amazing! Right now he is 3rd in consecutive shutout minutes for Playoffs.

[BigTeddyPaul]

Holy !@#$ Holy !@#$ Holy !@#$ Holy !@#$ Holy !@#$ Holy !@#$

Roy to retire! That is right boys and girls he will officially announce tomorrow that he is gone. Good for us Blues fans but bad for hockey in general. Who thinks Abeschier (guess I need to learn how to spell that) will get the starting position?

Lets see how many people will remain Avs fans now. Stupid bandwagon people.

BigTeddyPaul

[ET Warrior]

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I love Roy too much for him to leave! We want one more year, JUST ONE MORE YEAR ROY!!!!

[Andy867]

I was an Avs fan before Roy was even given a contract since Sakic and Forsberg were with the team. Also, there's still Abeischer.. Sure it won't be the same, but just because a living legend retires, doesn't mean I am going to give up my loyalty.

[Pisces]

Sigh. Well, Ottawa's out. But I'm still faithful too them, I want Jersey to take the Ducks, just so I can say that while Ottawa may have lost, they lost to the best.

[Chewbacco]

I can't believe that Anahiem beat all these teams and they are now in the finals.
Anahiem lost there first game in the finals 2-0 New Jersey.

The city won the World Series and now they have a shot at the Stanely Cup.

[ET Warrior]

Originally posted by Andy867
I was an Avs fan before Roy was even given a contract since Sakic and Forsberg were with the team. Also, there's still Abeischer.. Sure it won't be the same, but just because a living legend retires, doesn't mean I am going to give up my loyalty.

What he said, I've been a fan since our goalie was Stefan Fiset, a goalie change will not change my loyalties even the tiniest amount. I think Abeischer has potential to be good, he needs more experience........whiche he will get if he starts next year.

[Andy867]

When Abeischer did get to play, he definitely had his moments that proved that he belonged here, and was able to play with the Pros, and with Patrick Roy helping his son Jonathan with his goaltending in a minor league in Quebec, Abeischer will have much more playing time, and will definitely get the experience to shine with the rest of the Avs as the Elite of the NHL.