Official 10-11 NHL Western Conference Regular Season Thread

Post by **philou21** » Fri Sep 24, 2010 4:40 pm

A message from the TBL Moderating Team:

Owing to the enormous popularity of last year's NHL Regular Season Thread, we have decided to split the discussion for this season into three threads. We hope that by doing this we will be able to encourage greater discussion and build upon the popularity of last season's discussion. We're going to give it a trial run - if things work fine then we'll stick with it. If they don't then we'll merge it all back into one thread.

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1) Official 10-11 NHL Eastern Conference Regular Season Thread - Use this thread to discuss anything relating to Eastern Conference Teams.

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Original message by Philou21:

Magnus Pa...Paarjvi? whatever.

Did a good game last night! Maybe finally the Oilers will get some success!

Oh and this is not a surprise, 3 days after a standing ovation at the local training Price as been booed in the game agaisnt Boston......I am bored of those fans omg...

leafsnation · Post by **leafsnation** » Sat Sep 25, 2010 3:02 am

Peter Mueller out indefinitely...

http://www.denverpost.com/sports/ci_16156269

Post by **timmy_t** » Sat Sep 25, 2010 3:21 pm

leafsnation wrote:Peter Mueller out indefinitely...

http://www.denverpost.com/sports/ci_16156269

That's just great.....

Post by **philou21** » Sat Sep 25, 2010 10:23 pm

$:\$ Sucks for the Avs....I was eager to see him start the season after what he'd done at the end of last year.

By the way Svatos as sign in the KHL with the team Jarg is in. Good riddance! He will be happier there.

foxlockbox · Post by **foxlockbox** » Tue Sep 28, 2010 10:15 pm

batdad wrote:B72--Of course the Laffs are 15 . ANd Philou...Montreal only gets up that far because the rest of the teams, in my mind, ABSOULTELY SUCK...Yes Manimal, including the Rags. You do know what Rags are used for right?

As for the Wild...give me one good reason they are better than any of the teams above them. There is just no reason to rank them any higher. None.

I think Canucks are gonna finish bottom in the NW. Yes I said it, its only preseason and blahblah, but come one they even lost the divided squad game against Cgy with their better half playing against Cgy's worse half. Luongo is overrated, they haven't that solid D, atleast its prone to injuries.

Wild are only depended on some things, Bäcks needs to pick up his game from last season, but he should be solid, Havlat hopefully will have better year and well Koivu isin't the one of the Sedins but damnit I wanna see him beat 'em swedes hard.

Post by **batdad** » Wed Sep 29, 2010 5:57 pm

foxlockbox wrote:
batdad wrote:B72--Of course the Laffs are 15 . ANd Philou...Montreal only gets up that far because the rest of the teams, in my mind, ABSOULTELY SUCK...Yes Manimal, including the Rags. You do know what Rags are used for right?

As for the Wild...give me one good reason they are better than any of the teams above them. There is just no reason to rank them any higher. None.
I think Canucks are gonna finish bottom in the NW. Yes I said it, its only preseason and blahblah, but come one they even lost the divided squad game against Cgy with their better half playing against Cgy's worse half. Luongo is overrated, they haven't that solid D, atleast its prone to injuries.

Wild are only depended on some things, Bäcks needs to pick up his game from last season, but he should be solid, Havlat hopefully will have better year and well Koivu isin't the one of the Sedins but damnit I wanna see him beat 'em swedes hard.

Heh. That may be the worst prediction ever. Wild are dependent upon alot of things. And none of them are any good. These are guys that they always "have to hope" have a good year, no matter what team they play on. And the Sedin's are the Sedin's. They will score. And to be honest...they look like they are skating even better right now.

And anyone who can suggest a roster (when healthy) that looks like this would finish last in ANY division in the NHL is nuts:

Sedin-Sedin-Burrows
Raymond-Kesler-Samuelsson
Torres-Malhotra-xxxxx
Hansen-xxxx-Tambellini
Hordickuck-Rypien

RW xxxx--Cody Hodgson, Tambellini.

C xxxx-Alex Bolduc, or Brendan Morrison if Canucks sign him.

Hamhuis-Erhoff
Edler-Ballard
Salo-Bieksa
O'Brien-Alberts

Lebongo
Schneider

Post by **philou21** » Wed Sep 29, 2010 6:02 pm

Looks good to me for a bottom NW team. I hope Raymond will still improve, I like him.

Between, Swedens players always powned Finns.

Brian Gionta been officialy named Habs captain. Great choice.

foxlockbox · Post by **foxlockbox** » Thu Sep 30, 2010 7:13 am

batdad wrote:
foxlockbox wrote:
batdad wrote:B72--Of course the Laffs are 15 :-D. ANd Philou...Montreal only gets up that far because the rest of the teams, in my mind, ABSOULTELY SUCK...Yes Manimal, including the Rags. You do know what Rags are used for right?

As for the Wild...give me one good reason they are better than any of the teams above them. There is just no reason to rank them any higher. None.
I think Canucks are gonna finish bottom in the NW. Yes I said it, its only preseason and blahblah, but come one they even lost the divided squad game against Cgy with their better half playing against Cgy's worse half. Luongo is overrated, they haven't that solid D, atleast its prone to injuries.

Wild are only depended on some things, Bäcks needs to pick up his game from last season, but he should be solid, Havlat hopefully will have better year and well Koivu isin't the one of the Sedins but damnit I wanna see him beat 'em swedes hard.

Heh. That may be the worst prediction ever. Wild are dependent upon alot of things. And none of them are any good. These are guys that they always "have to hope" have a good year, no matter what team they play on. And the Sedin's are the Sedin's. They will score. And to be honest...they look like they are skating even better right now.

And anyone who can suggest a roster (when healthy) that looks like this would finish last in ANY division in the NHL is nuts:

Sedin-Sedin-Burrows
Raymond-Kesler-Samuelsson
Torres-Malhotra-xxxxx
Hansen-xxxx-Tambellini
Hordickuck-Rypien

RW xxxx--Cody Hodgson, Tambellini.

C xxxx-Alex Bolduc, or Brendan Morrison if Canucks sign him.

Hamhuis-Erhoff
Edler-Ballard
Salo-Bieksa
O'Brien-Alberts

Lebongo
Schneider

Don't take me too seriously heh, you stated it right I'm more hoping here than predicting here I guess :P

Post by **philou21** » Fri Oct 08, 2010 4:38 pm

So what about that nice goal from Eberle.

This kid is good! Best first NHL goal I saw so far.

Post by **McQwak** » Wed Oct 13, 2010 9:31 am

I'm still here, phil

Nice shootout tonight between COL and DET. An Colorado won

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EGxhqOVP8c

Post by **philou21** » Wed Oct 13, 2010 5:52 pm

I know I can count on you McQwak.

Good for the Avs.

Post by **McQwak** » Tue Oct 19, 2010 3:22 pm

Good goal by Hossa http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGBO1P4f_RE
Although he's not my favorite player I have to admit he really started well. At least good for the Hawks.

Post by **McQwak** » Tue Oct 19, 2010 4:01 pm

Doan is suspended for headshot

http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=540911

Post by **philou21** » Wed Oct 20, 2010 4:56 pm

"Decent" suspension at least...finally!

Post by **philou21** » Wed Oct 20, 2010 6:40 pm

Rick Rypien as been suspended indefinitely by the league until he meets Campbell. Good thing! That was such a stupid thing to do by him.

Steve Begin sign a 1 year contract with Nashville.

Post by **McQwak** » Thu Oct 21, 2010 11:21 am

Rypien just grabbed Wild fan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NrPP2CnidI But poor fan, he was kicked out of the arena. Although he did nothing

Post by **CeeBee** » Thu Oct 21, 2010 1:04 pm

McQwak wrote:Rypien just grabbed Wild fan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NrPP2CnidI But poor fan, he was kicked out of the arena. Although he did nothing

Sometimes it's not what you do but what you say. My question is why there is no glass barrier there? Just asking for something like this to happen.

Post by **philou21** » Thu Oct 21, 2010 4:51 pm

The guy as been kicked out? Why? Maybe he said something to Rypien and the players told that to the security.

Post by **Manimal** » Thu Oct 21, 2010 6:39 pm

Someone on another forum said he got new seats.

Post by **philou21** » Fri Nov 05, 2010 7:38 pm

Thornton as beend suspended two games for his shoulder check on Perron. Still not enough for me! The beginning of the season is disastrous so far! There's already alot of dirty hit and alot of suspensions too!

Post by **philou21** » Tue Dec 14, 2010 9:44 pm

Wow......almost one month and a half without any posts on the NHL thread.

Time to end this! Jonathan Quick made an outstanding performance against Detroit. Good job.

Post by **McQwak** » Thu Dec 16, 2010 11:52 am

To make you happy, Phil, here's my post.

Lidas finally scored hattrick in his probably last season http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRd2SCTkUo8 When you look at the replay, wow, what a puck recieving and handling

Great play from him on that last goal. Just perfect.

Post by **philou21** » Mon Jan 10, 2011 10:09 pm

Wojtek Wolski didn't last long with the Yotes who trade him to the Rangers this afternoon for Roszival.

Post by **CeeBee** » Tue Jan 11, 2011 12:04 am

Geepers this thread has been silent for a long time. Since philou brought it back to life I better say something, being a westerner and all

..... How bout them Canucks? Finally as good in real life as in my Lidas 2 save..... Now if they can win 6 cups and still be a contender in 2025 I'll practically cr*p myself if I'm still alive

Post by **McQwak** » Tue Jan 11, 2011 10:25 am

philou21 wrote:Wojtek Wolski didn't last long with the Yotes who trade him to the Rangers this afternoon for Roszival.

Yeah, the whole Wolski trade is weird. Mueller still injured and Wolski struggling... But last season Mueller performed well so I think it was good trade for Avs.

As for Rozsival, he wasn't used in correct way in N.Y. I hope he will improve with Coyotes.