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NHL 2013 regular season thread!

#161
burk48237 said:
Yeah, I'm not so worried about the Wings Post Lidstrom. I realize they aren't as good of a team. But the best team doesn't win the Stanley Cup. If any one thinks they do just look at the Kings record this season. The Wings healthy have about as good of a chance as anyone. Right now in the west Chicago seems to be the class of the conference, but that won't mean much in the second season.

One question, has goalie become the hardest position to fill in the sport and the one least worth making a large investment in with the cap?

Think about this, with the exception of Martin Brodeur what goalie in this league has put together a great run for 3-5 years? The reality is while you need a superior goalie capable of making a great playoff run to win the cup, last years hero, tends to be this years nightmare? Luongo? Giguere?
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Throw Thomas in there.

Goalie does seem to be the hardest position to fill. Even the B's Chiarelli who has been on a good run recently with Thomas, Rask and its early but Khodobin; admited that he was the one that went out got Manny Fernandez for 2 years at 4.5M per. It reminds me of closers in baseball.

That said, I think you have to make the investment - no risk, no reward. Maybe try to limit the years, but good goaltending gives you a chance every night and that is worth a premium price. Like A-rod's salary, it is not the per year that kills you, it is all the years of premium pay after the production has peaked.
 
#162
Flyers stunk up the place last night in their 5-2 loss to Toronto. The Leafs outworked and out-hustled them most of the game.

They atoned for it tonight in Winnipeg. They played a solid game and came away with a 3-2 win.
 
#164
Loved watching that Flyers/Jets game last night. Great fans up there at the 'Peg. Noisy building! Bryzgalov was outstanding!

Heard he was in the Leafs game as well except he really got hung out to dry. Didn't see much of that game except for last half of the third period.

Flyers and Rangers are slowly climbing up the standings in the Atlantic, Isles have dropped to last, Penguins are fading leaving Devils to pull away at the top.
 
#166
mkandolf said:
Loved watching that Flyers/Jets game last night. Great fans up there at the 'Peg. Noisy building! Bryzgalov was outstanding!

Heard he was in the Leafs game as well except he really got hung out to dry. Didn't see much of that game except for last half of the third period.

Flyers and Rangers are slowly climbing up the standings in the Atlantic, Isles have dropped to last, Penguins are fading leaving Devils to pull away at the top.
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Yeah, Bryz didn't play badly at all in the Leafs game; but the defense was non-existent. Giveaways/turnovers/sloppy puck-handling out the ying and the yang. I thought Grossmann, especially, played one of his worst games in Toronto. Looked much better against the Jets.
 
#167
Exciting end to the B's game. Down by 3 with 18 minutes left in the 3rd, they scored once and then with 2 minutes to go, pulled the goalie and scored twice in 48 seconds to force OT.

They lost in the shootout, but they stole a point in a game where their opponent was outplaying them most of the night.

Some uncharacteristic sloppy D and Rask was not sharp on two of the three goals to put the B's behind the 8-ball. But they did show some character in coming back.

I'd love to see some Rangers-Bruins playoff action this year - two strong and evenly matched teams.
 
#170
Well, Karlsson out for the season with a sliced achilles heel. I felt awful for him, until the Sens outright said that Cooke did it on purpose. Anyone who thinks Cooke did that on purpose is crazy. Ignoring his past history, I find it borderline impossible that an NHL player could actually attempt to do that on purpose and pull it off.

Well, I take that back. I still feel bad for him, that's a horrible injury. But the Sens reaction was comical.
 
#173
And they were for two periods, only by the grace of Ryan Miller was the score 2-1 in favor of the B's. The Sabres home crowd was booing and giving mock cheers, it had to be brutal for the players. However, the Sabres came out in the third with some real fire and caught the B's flatfooted - it was a hockey version of Ali's Rope-A-Dope and my B's were the dopes. :(

The lesson, as always, for the B's, play 3 periods of hockey and when you have a chance to put a team away, step on their necks and put them away. The only bright spot was that rookie D-phenom Dougie Hamilton scored his first goal - I have a feeling it won't be his last.

That said, the Sabres showed some intestinal fortitude by keeping in close in the face of an overwhelmingly negative atmosphere in their own building and then some true grit in scoring three unanswered goals. I understand that the coach and GM are under fire, but they have taken 2 out of 3 from the B's - so that can't be that bad, can they?
 
#176
Broadstbully22 said:
I'm beginning to realize that we just are not very good this season.
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Afraid you're right. It's a shame, because Bryz has been solid despite the lack of production in front of him. I think Giroux needs to grow his hair back. Maybe it's the "Samson Syndrome". Last year he was awesome. I know he had a couple assists last night, but all-in-all, he's been mighty quiet. Giving up 4 goals (granted, one was an open-netter) after having a 3-1 lead is not good...
 
#179
I saw them win their two cups. Since then, I've been living with one disappointing season after another. Lots of very good seasons, but never could close the deal after '75. So I'm used to it; but I keep watching them anyway hoping that it will all come together again one of these years...
 

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