NHL Hockey thread

[Barrister]

I just don't understand's Cheveldayoff love his Atlanta core of players. He should have Jetstison that after the first season.

Disagree.  It's a reasonably talented team (with bad goaltending).  Never been any need to blow it up.  All that would do is have us become like Edmonton and be out of it by December.

Now Chevy is probably a little TOO conservative (he's still never made a NHL player-for-player trade!) but slow-and-steady is the way to do it.

[PRC]

btw, remind your GM that the Habs is always ready to embrace your great black players in exchange for Rene Bourque.

Remembering Bourque from his days in Calgary I can confirm he is an invisible floater more often than not... but he did seem to deliver for you guys in the playoffs last year.

[Grey Fox]

I just don't understand's Cheveldayoff love his Atlanta core of players. He should have Jetstison that after the first season.

Disagree.  It's a reasonably talented team (with bad goaltending).  Never been any need to blow it up.  All that would do is have us become like Edmonton and be out of it by December.

Now Chevy is probably a little TOO conservative (he's still never made a NHL player-for-player trade!) but slow-and-steady is the way to do it.

Now it is! but the Atlanta core after the first year was full of no work ethics players.

[Barrister]

I just don't understand's Cheveldayoff love his Atlanta core of players. He should have Jetstison that after the first season.

Disagree.  It's a reasonably talented team (with bad goaltending).  Never been any need to blow it up.  All that would do is have us become like Edmonton and be out of it by December.

Now Chevy is probably a little TOO conservative (he's still never made a NHL player-for-player trade!) but slow-and-steady is the way to do it.

Now it is! but the Atlanta core after the first year was full of no work ethics players.

Other than Antropov, the core is pretty much unchanged...

[Grey Fox]

WHeeler gets a pass.

Only Little, Kane & Big Buff, Enstrom, Bogosian, Pavelec remain.

Oh, damn you are right.

That's such a bad team.

[HVC]

God fucking dammit

[PRC]

God fucking dammit

It begins...

[Neil]

That was a really good hockey game.  You really saw how Montreal was a much better team than the Leafs.  They really know how to close out games and win, whereas the Leafs know how to let their fans down.

In fact, the game was a microcosm of the Leafs seasons in general:  Promising start, followed by a bit of a letdown, followed by a hopeful surge, followed by crushing defeat and humiliation.

[katmai]

Is it still preseason?

[Neil]

Is it still preseason?

No, tonight was the first night of the regular season.

[Valmy]

No, tonight was the first night of the regular season.

And the Leafs' season is already over.

[HVC]

I hate you all

[Grey Fox]

HVC, last year at the same time (and the previous 3) you were planning a Stanley Cup Parade. A Change of pace is a good thing.

[HVC]

HVC, last year at the same time (and the previous 3) you were planning a Stanley Cup Parade. A Change of pace is a good thing.

I was never planning  a parade. I was just having fun with Josephus. As a leafs fan I know my fate

[Grey Fox]

Cautious optimism for a Leafs fans = SC parade.