Hockey talk 2015

[Mudcat]

They say he is out for monthS.

I repeat: monthS

 

[Mudcat]

Habs Winter Classic attire

 

[Matty]

Ew.

 

[reno cool]

the Colorado one sucks also.
To think there are people making big salaries, having board meetings, power(?) lunches, to create and/or pick this garbage

 

[Mudcat]

I like the hell out of those Habs sweaters.

 

[Matty]

It would look fine with red as the main color. 1916-17 home jersey.

 

[Mudcat]

There is a formal explanation of where the design came from. I even read a little bit of it. Combination of this former jersey and that.

But I don't care. I just like the look of it.

All wintery.

 

[roguejuror]

I just like the look of it.

All wintery.

Christmas-y.

 

[Mudcat]

I wonder if Subban will be on the World Cup team. Might be the same situation as Sochi where he is at the end of the bench. We still got Doughty, Keith, Weber. The St. Louis pair.

 

[Matty]

That's a lot of superpremium Canadian D-men right there.

I could see him not making the team here too. He's not enough of a defensive D.

You need your defense to play good defense.

 

[Matty]

Ovechkin ties Fedorov for the most goals by a Russian-born player in the NHL. 483.

Ovechkin is only 30.

Ovechkin has a higher rate of goals-per-game than Gretzky who played through the stupidly high-scoring 80's.

Ovechkin seems to have fixed his defensive woes.

Ovechkin is a motherfucking boss.

 

[reno cool]

Ovechkin got robbed of an amazing backhanded goal. (bogus call, if the goalie encounters trouble outside crease thats his own fault)

Ovechkin got the game winner in the shootout anyway

 

[Mudcat]

I don't look upon Gretzky as someone who benefited from playing in a high scoring era. I look at him more as the primary reason for the high scoring era.

 

[Mudcat]

I could see him not making the team here too.

Sorry if I'm getting into fussy corrections mode here, but he did make the Olympic team but just didn't have a regular shift throughout.

 

[FreeFall]

I have been having a hard time with nhl dogs this year

 

[bacon]

Only one goalie in the league with 3 shutouts, and he's going to win the Vezina.

 

[Matty]

Sorry if I'm getting into fussy corrections mode here, but he did make the Olympic team but just didn't have a regular shift throughout.

Forgot aboat that.

 

[Matty]

I don't look upon Gretzky as someone who benefited from playing in a high scoring era. I look at him more as the primary reason for the high scoring era.

In 1983-84, the year the Oilers scored 446 goals, 14 teams scored over 300 goals.

Last year, the highest-scoring team, Tampa Bay, had 262 goals.

You saying that Gretzky made all teams play balls-out offense? But then what happened in the 90's? (The trap happened. Gretzky was still dominating the league, just not at a 200-point-a-season clip.)