FlexMyHead wrote:I got tickets for my GF and I to go see the Lightning's season opener against the stinking Philly Flyers this Thursday. Hopefully Tampa's season will pick up where it left off!
danny wrote:we should have a daghouse hockey fantasy league.
pedro wrote:I think they should follow the EPL (and other soccer leagues) scoring format of 3 points for a win, 1 point for a tie and zippo for a loss. If they want to have OT (10 minutes at 5-5) I'm fine with that. I'll even go winner in OT gets 2 points and loser gets 1. But I really have no issues with ties. The 4-4 OT is bad and a 3-3 is bound to be worse. The shootout is a joke.
I have low expectations for the Bruins this year. I still can't believe they gave Dougie away. Our D is razor thin. If Chara gets hurt we're screwed. And really, what could happen to a 38 year old physical, defenseman who has played about a billion minutes over the course of his career? He'll be fine.
Eeek.
lewdd wrote:FlexMyHead wrote:I got tickets for my GF and I to go see the Lightning's season opener against the stinking Philly Flyers this Thursday. Hopefully Tampa's season will pick up where it left off!
Flyers 3
Tampa Bay 2
lewdd wrote:I was close. 3 on 3 was pretty exciting if you were a TB fan.
earthdog70 wrote:Go Caps!
lewdd wrote:I gotta believe that any healthy guys that have been scratched recently for the Flyers will be in the lineup tomorrow. I am pretty sure that they play Neuwirth in goal instead of Mason as he has played in 10+ straight games since Neuwirth had been hurt. Neuwirth needs to get some rust off too before the playoffs in case they need to play him.
danny wrote:i'm not sure if the flyers are a good enough sparring partner for the caps. i was hoping they would be a bit better so the caps could hone their skills en route to the actually good teams in the east. but i suppose we will have to make do. holtby absolutely owns the nhl right now. for all goalies with 35+ games under their belt in the post season, holtby owns the best GAA and save% in nhl history. And that's with only 2+ years experience! i'm hoping that the flyers can try to win at least one game, so I can catch game 5 at the verizon center on Friday. But at this rate, the series will be over by Wednesday.
lewdd wrote:danny wrote:i'm not sure if the flyers are a good enough sparring partner for the caps. i was hoping they would be a bit better so the caps could hone their skills en route to the actually good teams in the east. but i suppose we will have to make do. holtby absolutely owns the nhl right now. for all goalies with 35+ games under their belt in the post season, holtby owns the best GAA and save% in nhl history. And that's with only 2+ years experience! i'm hoping that the flyers can try to win at least one game, so I can catch game 5 at the verizon center on Friday. But at this rate, the series will be over by Wednesday.
It will be a different game tonight in Philly. I am expecting someone taking out a top Caps player like what happened to Couturier. I hope it goes to at least 6 games so I can go see the game next Sunday in Philly.
earthdog70 wrote:That hit that sent the Caps player into the board head-first was pretty cheap. We will see what happens Wed.
lewdd wrote:I think the NHL needs to work on consistency of their calls. They are becoming as inconsistent as NFL tackling rules.
If the refs are not consistent in their calls and the league is not consistent in their suspensions, I think it is challenging to expect the players to change how they play.
Again, I am not saying what transpired was right in any fashion. I am just saying I think it is hard for the players to change how they play without their being clarity and consistency. Make it so that if you hit a player at any time in the back it is a 5 minute penalty, and add a game misconduct depending on the severity of the hit. Suspensions should also be a certain minimum amount of games and up to the amount of time that the player you hit can not play. If the player is concussed and can't play for 20 games, the guy that hit him should sit 20 games. Again, I am making things up as examples, but the league needs to do something extreme to change player behavior.
danny wrote:tonight, the caps will put the flyers out of their misery. and even though i am a temperamental quaker, i hope tom wilson cleans ryan white's clock (within the rules, of course).
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