NHL 2009-2010 Season

[charliebear]

Hawks just beat the Sharks 4-3 in OT in a fucking barn-burner of a game.  Sweet.

You must be loving this season.  Congrats to the Blackhawks, they are now my 2nd favorite team.

[Delirium]

Gah, I hate it when ESPN America has reruns of games where teams have already played again after that. Wings at Pittsburg this morning, tsk tsk.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

Phaneuf is an over-rated idiot.

I don't know if he's an idiot or not, but he has been somewhat overrated.  He's a serviceable defenceman, but the real idiot is the one who paid him $6.5 million.  He wasn't even the best defenceman on the Flames.

Now Jokinen is gone. man that's an entirely different look team in Calgary now. But will they gel?

[Neil]

Phaneuf is an over-rated idiot.

I don't know if he's an idiot or not, but he has been somewhat overrated.  He's a serviceable defenceman, but the real idiot is the one who paid him $6.5 million.  He wasn't even the best defenceman on the Flames.

Now Jokinen is gone. man that's an entirely different look team in Calgary now. But will they gel?

I think it's a good thing.  They're rooting out the big-name guys who weren't performing, and have brought in more supporting talent.  It's closer to the Flames team that went to the finals, although they'll need to up their work ethic.  It's a shame they don't have Lombardi anymore, as he was one of the best (and fastest) energy guys around.

[PRC]

Flames won't make the playoffs and GM Sutter will be fired when the season is over.

[Grey Fox]

What about Coach Sutter?

[Neil]

Flames won't make the playoffs and GM Sutter will be fired when the season is over.

But at least the players and fans have heart, something that the Canucks crowd never has had, and never will.

[PRC]

But at least the players and fans have heart, something that the Canucks crowd never has had, and never will.

The players don't have heart - if they did none of these trades would've happened.  They've tanked the season because of internal rifts.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

Flames won't make the playoffs and GM Sutter will be fired when the season is over.

But at least the players and fans have heart, something that the Canucks crowd never has had, and never will.

That old saw is no longer true. Lots of gutsy gritty play from the Canucks team this year.

[Strix]

Canadian teams and heart do not go together. If it did, they'd have had a Stanley Cup winning team from Canada more recently than 1993!

[BuddhaRhubarb]

Canadian teams win every year except when those Swedish(Detroit) teams win. Most players are Canadian.

[Strix]

Canadian teams win every year except when those Swedish(Detroit) teams win. Most players are Canadian.

Canadian mercenaries win the Cup. Not Canadian teams. There is a difference. The mercs lack the heart to bring it home to the motherland.

[Delirium]

Well, you have three of the six Canadian teams playing for the Cup in three out of the five last finals, I wouldn't say Canada's chance of winning is that remote.

[Grey Fox]

Kovie is now a Devils.

Hopefully only a rental. I hope he goes back to Russia.

[Delirium]

Why? He's clearly a world class player, 58 points in 47 games for Atlanta? Come on.