Hockey Fans - What's your Team?
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- BrutherSuperior
Do they own a calender and understand that the real season starts in May?
Do they understand that the real award is given out at the end of the last game of the playoffs and not during the summer in Las Vegas? Probably not.
I bet all those Bruin fans are real jealous that Vancouver won the regular season championship.
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Kesler is one of the most over-rated players in the game. Look up his stats when he's facing a playoff team. You gotta remember that Vancouver is in a division with perennial lottery draft pick teams; Edmonton, Colorado, Minnesota. It's the weakest division in the West and is why all their stats are so inflated. Against REAL competition, they don't do so well.
Datsyuk can cut apart any team and any defensive pair (except Weber/Suter)...Kesler can't score in the playoffs or when he's drawing the top defensive pairing. He's good...just not as good as everyone thinks (including Van's GM).
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Joel
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I think the Sedins are among the most talented players in the NHL, as you can see from the scoring trophies and whatnot. But they just don't ever seem to show up in the playoffs when it's most needed. Luongo's even worse, once the regular season ends he turns into a sieve.
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Did you guys watch Kesler in the playoffs? Had nearly 0 points against the Sharks sure but how did Heatley, Thornton, and Marleau do that series? I believe Heatley was traded wasn't he? Then when given free range against a team with no stars he lit it up. Funny how stats are the argument.
He doesn't play the same game as Datsyuk so that's a pointless argument.
The riots sucked and I did not take part, I had friends and a couple family members hurt in them because they were watching the game on a big screen downtown and trying to get to our sky train actually so you may not want to come after me about that.
Edit: Come play in the defensive minded west and tell me it's easy competition. East is the scoring conference, west is the defense. Don't even try and make that argument because last year actually they all sucked against Edmonton. Check out their stats against the East then try and make that argument.
He doesn't play the same game as Datsyuk so that's a pointless argument.
The riots sucked and I did not take part, I had friends and a couple family members hurt in them because they were watching the game on a big screen downtown and trying to get to our sky train actually so you may not want to come after me about that.
Edit: Come play in the defensive minded west and tell me it's easy competition. East is the scoring conference, west is the defense. Don't even try and make that argument because last year actually they all sucked against Edmonton. Check out their stats against the East then try and make that argument.
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- BrutherSuperior
Your division is easy competition. Minnesota was a whisker above .500 and Colorado & Edmonton were terrible last season and will be for a while. Your division has 2 of the 3 teams in the west below .500.
If Van gets moved to the Pacific, like they should, you won't sniff a President's Trophy for the next 10 years and the Sedins' point totals will plummet.
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BrutherSuperior
Well that shows how much you know about hockey right there. They were 13-5-2 against the pacific division last year by the way. I'll take that 65% winning percentage any day. Plus the extra ties. If my math is correct there that's 53 wins and 8 ot losses giving a 114 point season.
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BrutherSuperior
Did you realize we came within a game of winning the Stanley Cup?
Pick what point you'd like to debate please, I'm telling you it doesn't matter if we were in the Pacific division.
And yes they are beefing up. This is the era of the salary cap. You've got a few years with a real shot and then that's it. They are making their push and we'll see if it works. They are screwed in a few years if it doesn't. The only ones who have figured it out are Detroit and even they are having issues now with all the long term contacts they dished out to keep their core together. Nobody knows the best way yet. We've still got a good team here this year and with some better play from Luongo and a piece here and there we should be good to make a good run. Injuries may play a big factor again though...
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BrutherSuperiorWill you be raising a banner for that?
Your team sucks. If they had talent, they wouldn't need to dive, flop, bite, blindside, and elbow their way past opponents.
Haha sucks doesn't mean second in the league and a president's trophy. You said try winning a president's trophy in the pacific division to which I proved it could be done.
By the way we had a president's trophy, division banner, and conference championship to our name last year. What'd yours have?
Someone who calls a Stanley Cup finalist a crappy team loses a ton of credibility. Oh and if you'd like I can find clips like those for any team in the league, just brutal you think that is a bad thing.
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- BrutherSuperior
No you didn't. You just proved you have a calculator and can look up stats from the past. If/when your team is moved to the Pacific div. b/c of Winnipeg, you're screwed.
This happened last year.
Vancouver is a disgrace to the sport. From management, to the locker room, to the fanbase; you all suck.
The team bites people, attacks fans, pulls hair, dives, embellishes, and has ZERO class. The management not only pays the players but fully supports that type of behavior. When Eager of SJ played like an ape; he was scratched. When Torres was taking runs at people's head; your GM defended him.
And the fans? Well, you have some explaining to do why you set your city on fire b/c the highest scoring forwards, a selke & Vezina finalist, and the President's trophy winning team choked. By looking at the stats; it should have been a cakewalk...but you nearly got bounced in the 1st round by a team that only made the playoffs b/c someone else lost.
The Hawks were bad last year. Call it a hangover, roster turn-around, or whatever. Doesn't matter as the cup is what you play for. Consider your new banners a consolation prize for coming in 2nd place.
But don't fret, I'm sure you'll read here & there that Vancouver is still a contender. I mean, after all you still have Ballard locked up long term (
) When Bieksa is your #1 d-man (Hamhuis would be a #3-4 on the Hawks just like he was in Nash), you're in a world of hurt. Salo will fall apart sometime and Luongo will still wilt under pressure. The Sedins will still have their asses handed to them by Bolland (and Hamhuis for that matter) and Kesler will disappear as usual. Vancouver had their chance and blew it. 2011/12 looks like it'll be SJ's year...their lineup is scary and LA is might be equally frightening.
Joel
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I think Heatley for Havlat was a phenomenal trade. They shed 2.5M of salary, picked up a great defensive forward, and lots of speed for their top 6. Marleau, Thornton, Havlat, Clowe, Couture, Pavelski,
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Max Powers
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loLOLOLOLOLOLOL
KYLE WELLWOOD??? Really. Sharks are a good team but Kyle Wellwood is a complete joke.
the only thing kyle wellwood is good at is eating his body weight (thats a lot) in cheetos.
KYLE WELLWOOD??? Really. Sharks are a good team but Kyle Wellwood is a complete joke.
the only thing kyle wellwood is good at is eating his body weight (thats a lot) in cheetos.
Joel
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http://www.downgoesbrown.com/2009/04/kyle-wellwood-is-fat.html
I don't know why I said Wellwood...He doesn't even play for the Sharks any more. I must have been thinking of someone else...or thinking of when he scored 40 points in like 50 games for the Leafs before he got fat.
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Max Powers
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Hahaha love it. I always used to dominate in that game with a team of fat guys.
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Well on a sad and unfortunate note Rick Rypien has passed away. Found in this home in Alberta yesterday. Police are saying it's not a suspicious death and he did suffer from depression.
He had just signed with the new Winnipeg Jets. This is why he had taken most of the year off with Vancouver last year and the team had kept it very quiet. Speculation here was drug or alcohol abuse but I guess in this case it's unfortunate that wasn't so.
He had just signed with the new Winnipeg Jets. This is why he had taken most of the year off with Vancouver last year and the team had kept it very quiet. Speculation here was drug or alcohol abuse but I guess in this case it's unfortunate that wasn't so.
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