NHL 2009/2010

**tmlfan123** · 10-21-2009, 10:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Skeeter

I'm just saying it's best to talk smack with the facts. That's all.

Like this:

HA! The Canucks are 3-5! That's a winning percentage of only .375! They're tied for sixth-worst in the NHL in goals allowed! Luongo sucks, he has a GAA of 3.22 and a SP of .879! Andrew Raycroft is outplaying him!

That's how it's done.

**Skeeter** · 10-21-2009, 10:49 AM

Much better.

earlessdog · 10-21-2009, 01:34 PM

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Originally Posted by tmlfan123

Like this:

HA! The Canucks are 3-5! That's a winning percentage of only .375! They're tied for sixth-worst in the NHL in goals allowed! Luongo sucks, he has a GAA of 3.22 and a SP of .879! Andrew Raycroft is outplaying him!

That's how it's done.

Very well put.

earlessdog · 10-22-2009, 03:22 AM

And the Bruins came from behind to take the Predators 3-2. Begin scored his 3rd goal of the season, I'm starting to like him being on the team. But I still really miss Kessel, I saw him as a career long Bruin.

EDIT
Holy crap, I can't believe what happens when I can't watch highlights (work all evenings). Savard broke his foot, Lucic broke his finger, Shawn Thornton is injured, and they traded Kobasew and acquired Daniel Paille a couple days ago. With Savard out of the line up (4-6 weeks, someone get me a gun), it will be a rough time winning . . .

**tmlfan123** · 10-22-2009, 09:23 AM

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Originally Posted by earlessdog

Holy crap, I can't believe what happens when I can't watch highlights (work all evenings). Savard broke his foot, Lucic broke his fingure, Shawn Thornton is injured, and they traded Kobasew and acquired Daniel Paille a couple days ago. With Savard out of the line up (4-6 weeks, someone get me a gun), it will be a rough time winning . . .

Maybe you should root for a Canadian team then

monkeysmile · 10-22-2009, 10:57 AM

Wild win at home. woohoo

**Skeeter** · 10-22-2009, 12:00 PM

Big win for the Canucks against the Blackhawks. 3-2, coming from behind in the third period. Michael Grabner got his first goal in the NHL on a beautiful shot to tie it up.

The Bruins have some major injury issues with both Savard and Lucic out of the lineup indefinitely. The Canucks are in a similar boat with their best goal-scorer in Daniel Sedin out for a month, their best defenceman in Sami Salo out for a month, and Pavol Demitra having complications from his off-season shoulder surgery. That's three top-end players out of the lineup. Fortunately, Mathieu Schneider should be back from his off-season surgery within a week.

The Canucks need players like Bernier, Raymond, and Wellwood to provide secondary scoring while Sedin and Demitra are out. It would be awesome if Michael Grabner could make a real push to stay in the NHL this season; hopefully his goal last night will be the confidence booster he needs to help him realize that he can play at this level. He has the speed and the shot to be effective, but he has to go harder to the net and battle for the puck more.

**tmlfan123** · 10-22-2009, 01:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Skeeter

Big win for the Canucks against the Blackhawks. 3-2, coming from behind in the third period. Michael Grabner got his first goal in the NHL on a beautiful shot to tie it up.

Sounds like Niemi was great in goal for the Blackhawks though. If the Blackhawks get goaltending, they'll be tough to beat.

**tmlfan123** · 10-26-2009, 11:07 AM

That's more like the Luongo we know.

**Skeeter** · 10-26-2009, 12:08 PM

Yep. The Canucks are turning things around. Despite major injuries, the Canucks have played very well. Chalk it up to Luongo settling in to the season and solid defensive play from the entire team. Kesler has been outstanding and Michael Grabner has been a solid contributor after being called up to replace Daniel Sedin. Grabner ended up on the second line with Kesler and Raymond and that line has been fantastic. Sergei Shirokov was just called up from the Manitoba Moose and skated with the first line last night. He didn't look out of place.

**tmlfan123** · 10-26-2009, 12:48 PM

And poor David Booth.

**Skeeter** · 10-26-2009, 12:59 PM

Yeah, that was a pretty devastating hit. What do you guys think of the decision to not suspend Richards?

**tmlfan123** · 10-26-2009, 01:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Skeeter

Yeah, that was a pretty devastating hit. What do you guys think of the decision to not suspend Richards?

To me, it was clean, unlike Ruutu's hit on Tucker. You could argue that he tried to get his shoulder to Booth's head but I don't think you can know for sure. Booth was watching the play and Richards arrived borderline late, but to my mind not too late.

***Art*** · 10-26-2009, 01:51 PM

I agree with it. If you suspend him for that, you have to hand out a lot more suspensions. It was a hard hit, but a pretty routine one. You see that hit all the time, but this time it just happened to get Booth in a way that he got knocked out.

The Sharks had a really nice road trip, though i didn't get to watch most of it. 4-2 with wins against the Rangers and Flyers.

earlessdog · 10-26-2009, 04:40 PM

Quite honestly, it was kind of a dirty hit, but as stated already, pretty routine. It wasn't intended that he get hurt like that, or hurt at all, but that kind of stuff happens. But I'm just so frustrated with Colin Campbell being a retard, that I don't even know what's the right decision anymore. He seems to go through spells where he likes to suspend people for nudging then let people off the hook for busting necks. I don't know, I thought that for the sake of Florida's and Booth's fans, Richards should have gotten something.
But I can't see him (Campbell) having something against the Panther's, his son plays for them, so I don't know.