Time for Blues! Tarasenkooooooooo.
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GO PENS!They have a chance this year . . . to get Nathan MacKinnon
(and Leafs! :-[)
Happy to hear it's back, even though my team will probably be playing like they're still on lockout mode.John Tavares is awesome, and he's half Polish, like you, and from my shitty suburb of Mississauga.
Happy to hear it's back, even though my team will probably be playing like they're still on lockout mode.John Tavares is awesome, and he's half Polish, like you, and from my shitty suburb of Mississauga.
That's something you want to keep on the down low.
That's pretty awesome. And of course DiPietro is my other half.
Happy to hear it's back, even though my team will probably be playing like they're still on lockout mode.John Tavares is awesome, and he's half Polish, like you, and from my shitty suburb of Mississauga.
The tabloid newspaper contacted the Putzinstitut Lüpold cleaning company hired to clean the three-and-a-half-room apartment Seguin rented while playing for Biel, one of 12 teams in the Swiss A hockey league.It discovered that staff for the company were confronted with an unsightly mess to clear when the young player headed back to North America during a break in the Swiss hockey season in November. “The parquet floor was littered with coins worth 220 francs,” Blick reported. Coca-cola bottles, garbage and dirty linen lay scattered across the floor, while rotten bananas were left on a table, the newspaper said. The bathroom was a shambles and the cleaning company spent a full day tidying the apartment. In December, when Seguin returned to America, the staff were met with a similar stiff challenge. Blick said the hockey player was “not versed in appliances” and as a result tried to wash his clothes in the dryer.“He also did not know how to operate the dishwasher . . . when he ran out of clean plates, glasses and cutlery, he bought plastic tableware.”“You could tell it was the first time a young, single man had an apartment,” Lüpold told Blick.
newsflash: hockey is still boring
newsflash: hockey is still boring
Saturday night’s eastern time zone prime-time broadcast of Hockey Night in Canada, featuring a matchup between the division rivals Montreal Canadiens and Toronto Maple Leafs, pulled in an astonishing 3,317,000 viewers. That was up16 per cent from the previous record of 2,875,000 (set April 7, 2007, when the Leafs knocked off the Canadiens to stay in the hunt for a playoff spot) and a 44 per cent rise from the same weekend in January, 2012.
On average, a record 3.3 million viewers tuned in to the CBC’s broadcast of the Toronto Maple Leafs’ 2-1 win over the Montreal Canadiens, making it the most watched Prime East regular-season game ever on the network.
The game reached nearly 27 per cent of the population, or 9.2 million Canadians.
This is for you, Malek: http://www.cbssports.com/nhl/blog/eye-on-hockey/21622213/phil-kessel-and-the-problem-with-being-the-best-player-on-a-bad-team
Kessel is the best player on the Leafs
Kessel has probably been the Leafs most dangerous player this season, has generated more shots on goal than almost any other player in the league (and by extension, has created a large number of scoring chances), and is probably due to break out once some of his puck luck changes.
he has yet to score a goal in five games this season (oh no!).8 and 1/3rd now.
it's impossible to say Toronto would have been a better team the past three years and won more games (which is what Burke would have needed to save his job) had that trade not been made. Because they wouldn't have.So instead of being a bottom-ten team each year with Kessel, the Leafs would be a bottom-five team each year without him. The latter situation, in a league that rewards tanking, is preferable.
Especially when that player is not only the best one you have, but is also (and this is often times overlooked when it comes to Kessel) one of the best goal-scorers in the entire league.Phil Kessel is a bit like a prime Ryan Howard. Yes, Howard was one of the best home-run hitters, but he was bad at most everything else.
But how much more is Kessel supposed to do in Toronto? What isn't he doing that he could be doing to make the Maple Leafs better?Backcheck, go near the net, take contact.
Just look at last year's Maple Leafs team and the five players who spent the most time with Kessel and how they did with him vs. without him.This is misleading; if the players were not playing with Kessel, that means they were playing on a second, third, or fourth line, with lesser players overall with different roles (i.e., checking the other team's best line).
The problem with the Maple Leafs is they don't have more players like Phil Kessel.As a Leaf, Kessel has been a -40 (Winnipeg-like). If the Leafs had more players like Kessel, the team would still be outscored--thus still lose more games than they win.
Kessel has his flaws as a player, but the idea that he is better suited to be a secondary player seems a little odd when the list of players who have scored more goals than him over the past four years consists of eight players. That list, in order, is Steven Stamkos, Alex Ovechkin, Patrick Marleau, Ilya Kovalchuk, Corey Perry, Jarome Iginla, Jeff Carter, and Rick Nash.Several of those players are, or have been, considered secondary players. Furthermore, those players are better than Kessel at other aspects of the game.
:lol Kings
Going to the Islander/Hurricane game on Monday... should be fun, I haven't been to a hockey game in a few years.What do Islanders tickets cost?
Crosby: 16 games, 17 assists (1st), 24 points (2nd), +11 (5th), 212 FOW (2nd)
The Kings are getting absolutely wrecked by Chicago. Somehow I don't think we'll be defending our Cup.
I got 2 premium suite seats for Kings vs Red Wings
Will it be a good game?
The Kings have been looking good lately. Five straight, some of those wins against decent teams.
I got 2 premium suite seats for Kings vs Red Wingsdid you go?
Will it be a good game?
Penguins-Canadiens 7-6 game in OT was fucking entertaining.
:bow Crosby :bow2
19-0-3?!?! And those three losses were all in shootouts? What the fuck is going on in Chicago?!They have the deepest D in the league with some great defensive forwards.
official malek thread
Crosby has 5 assists tonight :lol
Also, in Leafs Land, this week an arrest warrant was issued for Nazem Kadri's uncle for charges in connection with an ongoing RCMP investigation into illegal online sportsbooks/money laundering/proceeds of crime involving the Hell's Angels and Italian Mafia types. Whoopsie!
Also, in Leafs Land, this week an arrest warrant was issued for Nazem Kadri's uncle for charges in connection with an ongoing RCMP investigation into illegal online sportsbooks/money laundering/proceeds of crime involving the Hell's Angels and Italian Mafia types. Whoopsie!
Arrest me if you must, but I expected to see the names of different organizations there.
RIP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eorWhtV9Aqk
You're welcome, Mandark.
Good for him. If he keeps this up, he might outpoint Kadri by the end of the season. :smug:lol
The Pens are so fucking stacked that even MAF's shakiness in net shouldn't stop them.
Ovy now leads the league in goals.
1 intact jawsame amount of missing teeth.
MAF sucks, so anything is possible.
:bow Crosby :bow2
holy shitballs, the Leafs take the Bruins to game 7!!
Teemu Selanne might have just played the last game of his career. RIP Ducks.
game reached more than 12.9 million Canadians, or 40 per cent of the population. The audience for the game peaked at nearly 8.2 million viewers at 10:04 p.m. ET when Boston's Patrice Bergeron scored the series-winning goal in overtime.
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/31/why-cant-canada-win-the-stanley-cup/ (http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/31/why-cant-canada-win-the-stanley-cup/)
Nate Silver in a veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeery long post about the Stanley Cup drought in Canada.
Tl/dr version is a simple "Canada is kinda gay"
I estimate, for instance, that there are five million N.H.L. fans in the greater Toronto region. . . : about twice as many as in the New York metropolitan area, which has three N.H.L. teams.:dizzy