NHL hockey thread
LaRea
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(Picking up a hockey conversation that hijacked another thread)
@PickleRick - Say what you will about Ovechkin, but the Capitals won more games in the past decade than any other NHL team. They rank right up there with the Bruins and Habs of the 70's.
Ovechkin has played 1127 games, and I think I've watched at least 800 of them. The team's reliable success is one of the things that makes the non-boating season tolerable!
@PickleRick - Say what you will about Ovechkin, but the Capitals won more games in the past decade than any other NHL team. They rank right up there with the Bruins and Habs of the 70's.
Ovechkin has played 1127 games, and I think I've watched at least 800 of them. The team's reliable success is one of the things that makes the non-boating season tolerable!
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The hockey season is a marathon, not a sprint. Once you make the playoffs you all start with the same record.
Pens are skating through this season with a patch work of a team due to injuries. We should be back healthy in the next few weeks, the injured well rested and ready to go. I just hope they get enough games in before playoffs that they have time to get their skating legs back and gel as a team. HCMS likes to play musical chairs with lines to find perfect chemistry. Malkin playing with rust and jake is on fire right now, a 1st line on pretty much any other team, Crosby always plays with jake so interested in seeing how thay plays out. Does Crosby push the coach to get his wing or does coach keep playing his hot hand. Jarry is also playing lights out while Murray is a shell of his 2 time cup hoisting self. You stick with the hot hand goalie...why not stick with the hot hand line???
https://www.nhl.com/news/bobby-orr-100-greatest-nhl-hockey-players/c-285636896?tid=283865022
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Injury bug hits again on the pens. Jake guntzel took a nasty looking face plant into the boards just hours after being named to his 1st All-Star appearance. So on Jake's goal which netted him 200 NHL points he goes out, no update until Tuesday from HCMS.
Also everyone remembers Hossa saying he didn't resign with the pens and went with the wings because he wanted to be on a championship team, and then he and his wings lost to the pens in the Stanley cup.
Not only do we remember losers, we also celebrate karma!
Ovi may get the top goals scored record but he will never touch the overall points record. Either ovi isn't a great team player (as ive mentioned before) or he hasn't played with guys he felt were competent enough to pass to on a regular basis.
Orr, Gretzky and lemieux all scored stupid amounts of goals but at the same time set up their teammates for goals much more often.
Ovi is a great goal scorer....Sydney Crosby is a better hockey player and makes those around him better. As Ovi has learned, in order it be the man you must beat the man
The league's other great one-timer, Stamkos, has assist stats similar to Ovi's. I guess he's also not a team player.
Pens top points man is out 4 to 6 months. Unless the pens reach the finals Jake guntzel has zero % chance of lacing up again this season. Kid was ok pace for another 40 goal season. Many people said it was because he played with syd but hes done phenomenal in his absence. The injury bug wont go away.
3 out of 6 years I can add.
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Case DeSmith couldn't travel with the team last night(pens) to play on Montreal as he had lost his passport, he was luckily only scheduled to be a back up and Murray played well enough to not need to be pulled.
As of Friday pens were i think 4 points behind caps for 1st in metro.
Syd is back and it's hockey is getting good for this 2nd half of the season
Also...i still dislike the Bruins.
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