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The 2009-10 NHL regular season thread: Slightly less meaningless hockey

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state of hockey said:
Well, the Wild managed to let a team that wasn't really in the game whatsoever get a point.
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Maybe 2.

Of course, if it goes to a shootout, Tampa hasn't scored a shootout goal this year. Something about strip shots in practice or something? ;)

EDIT: You're welcome for the reverse-jinx there, Bolts :)
 
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redheadzeb said:
Maybe 2.

Of course, if it goes to a shootout, Tampa hasn't scored a shootout goal this year. Something about strip shots in practice or something? ;)
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I'm finally gonna just say it. Havlat sucks.

Maybe they'll ****ing stop taking penalties in the last god**** minute now, Christ.
 
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state of hockey said:
I'm finally gonna just say it. Havlat sucks.

Maybe they'll ****ing stop taking penalties in the last god**** minute now, Christ.
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Havlat has yet to figure out this year he is supposed to be playing NHL hockey.

Niittymaki made the difference in this game. There is no way it is as close as it is at the end without some spectacular saves. The Wild played about 58 minutes of good hockey and come up with only 1 point. So it goes this season for the Minnesota Wild :(
 
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Rangers/Thrashers game was wide open entertaining hockey.

Unfortunately the Rangers lost 5-3 :(

Missing Drury and Dubinsky's presence on the ice.
 
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did drury **** in your cereal at college or something? you really seem to dislike the guy. for all you know, he could have made the day of some kid with terminal cancer.
 
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unh_hockey said:
did drury **** in your cereal at college or something? you really seem to dislike the guy. for all you know, he could have made the day of some kid with terminal cancer.
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Him missing games to make a kid with cancer happy (especially if they put him on LTIR) would be more helpful to the Rangers than having him eat up 7M in salary cap space to notch 50 points. :D
 
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unh_hockey said:
did drury **** in your cereal at college or something? you really seem to dislike the guy. for all you know, he could have made the day of some kid with terminal cancer.
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Drury's Rangers tenure has been fairly unimpressive, why do I have to dislike the guy? On a personal level there's no beef. But he's getting paid too much to do too little.

Overreact much?
 
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Dallas high sticks their own player...the refs don't even see anything...see the Stars player on the ice holding his mouth.....and who gets the penalty.......the Sharks!


Heatley and Thornton on the PK? What the hell is going on this year?
 
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Rimbaud said:
Dallas high sticks their own player...the refs don't even see anything...see the Stars player on the ice holding his mouth.....and who gets the penalty.......the Sharks!


Heatley and Thornton on the PK? What the hell is going on this year?
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How close was a Shark to him when it happened?
 
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The Paragon of Virtue said:
How close was a Shark to him when it happened?
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Pavelski was basically fighting for the puck against the guy that got high sticked. It was pretty clear at full speed that Pavs' stick was about a foot off the ice at the time.
 
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Terrierbyassociation said:
Drury's Rangers tenure has been fairly unimpressive, why do I have to dislike the guy? On a personal level there's no beef. But he's getting paid too much to do too little.

Overreact much?
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think you are reading too much into sarcasm. It happens.

based on his point totals alone, I would also agree he is getting paid too much. But there could be intangibles he brings to the team and the locker room that no one here has a clue about that make him valuable to club owners and coaches. There is no way to know watching from a chair like all of us do.
 
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Eagles said:
I heard the 2nd period on the radio and watched the 3rd period to the end on TV. They had so many weak shots, Vokoun barely had to try. Wideman skates with the puck end to end and puts a lazy wrister on net. Several odd-man rushes with no shots on net. I am sick of this team playing lazy hockey. Way too many neutral zone turnovers, no hustle, no life in them.
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That's what happens when you can't count on anybody to score. It hurts particularly in the shoot outs.

The B's problem is the same problem BU hockey had in their dark years. The coach in that case, and the B's management in this case, want every player to play the same way. They want to roll out 4 checking lines filled with grinders who are looking to play skating backwards defending their own zone instead of attacking in the offensive zone. The problem is, some d@mn good players who can do your team a lot of good just don't fit that style, and the team is worse off trying to force them to do so, or trading them away (see Kessel, Phil or Thorton for example). If Wayne Gretzky came along today, the B's would have him setting on the bench on in Providence because he wasn't out there checking people or looking to play defense first. They've got to chance their whole approach to developing players if they're ever going to win anything.
 
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Marc Savard's agent is sitting back and chuckling watching the last few weeks unfold. Guy's due to make some big money next year. I hope it's in Boston.
 
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Rover said:
That's what happens when you can't count on anybody to score. It hurts particularly in the shoot outs.

The B's problem is the same problem BU hockey had in their dark years. The coach in that case, and the B's management in this case, want every player to play the same way. They want to roll out 4 checking lines filled with grinders who are looking to play skating backwards defending their own zone instead of attacking in the offensive zone. The problem is, some d@mn good players who can do your team a lot of good just don't fit that style, and the team is worse off trying to force them to do so, or trading them away (see Kessel, Phil or Thorton for example). If Wayne Gretzky came along today, the B's would have him setting on the bench on in Providence because he wasn't out there checking people or looking to play defense first. They've got to chance their whole approach to developing players if they're ever going to win anything.
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I just don't but the argument that its management's fault. You could argue that years ago but Chiarelli did a good job putting a competitive team on the ice. At some point the blame falls on the players.

All of the guys that the Bruins need to score aren't. Blake Wheeler and David Krejci are shells of themselves from last season. Michael Ryder is hardly the sniper he was last season. Dennis Wideman looks horrible and Andrew Ferrance is a 6th d-man at best.
 
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Eagles said:
I just don't but the argument that its management's fault. You could argue that years ago but Chiarelli did a good job putting a competitive team on the ice. At some point the blame falls on the players.

All of the guys that the Bruins need to score aren't. Blake Wheeler and David Krejci are shells of themselves from last season. Michael Ryder is hardly the sniper he was last season. Dennis Wideman looks horrible and Andrew Ferrance is a 6th d-man at best.
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I just don't think these guys are all that talented. Maybe they got lucky last year. Maybe they played way over their heads. Maybe its Savard making some of these guys have a career year, but I don't consider Wheeler, Krejci, Ryder, Wideman or Ferrance that good of players. Its fine to have a couple of them skating for you as complimentary players to some stars (say Krejci and Lucic), but when they ARE the best players on the team, you get what you're seeing this year. Its too many role players, not any difference makers and I put that on Chiarelli. I can't say enough how bad he got rolled on the Kessel deal. You never put yourself in a position where you're forced to trade your top young scorer and take less in return because you have no room to sign him back due to overpaying lesser players. Did he forget the guy's contract was up or something? That was O'Connell-esque and I fear a few more of these deals happening soon (for example, when Savard is up).
 
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