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Lord Stanley's Cup and the place where all the Canadians hang out.
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Bega? :-k
The Fantasy Draft for the All-Stars Game is underway
Would you chose dany or hank :-k
Heatley?I HATE that guy :lol:...so Hank :lol:
It will be the first time in their lives that the Sedins twins will play in a different team (they started playing hockey at the age of 6)
Yep :lol: Neither of them could remember a time playing on different teams.
NHL needs moar Finns!
Cuz our old superstars are getting old.... :(
You have to develop youngsters to get NHL'ers :lol:
We have promising youngsters and I think our youth development has always been good. Considering we are a very small nation and the material from where the players come is no where as broad as lets say Canada, Russia...so taking that into consideration, we have good system. Always room for improvement though, cuz we do need success in the youth championships etc.
Finland's Bronze medal hockey team was old though. Guys like Bakstrom and Ruutu are getting up there. Lots of 32 years and up guys.
Doesn't seem like the same caliber as 10 years ago are still coming out of several European countries. I'm not sure if the programs or the interest is in decline :-k
That being said, the NHL has more non-Canadians than ever.
Only a few hours before the SuperSkills competition begins! (more fun than the real game itself :lol:)
It wouldn't hurt my feelings if all the major sports (except baseball) just got rid of the all-star games. :wha:
Yeah... at least this year they're trying to change it up :lol:
There is nothing they could do to make it any better :|
What if they played with Bettman's head like old-school lacrosse :-k
That would be a start :-k
The superskills competition is fun...the ASG itself..not :lol:
I :lol2: When Jeff Skinner was presented! the "SKINNER!!! from Superintendent Chalmers in the Simpsons as his intro song.
UNBELIEVABLE!!! Chara beat the record for the hardest shot with a 105.9 MPH shot! (he hit another at 105 after that!)
Chara is a big fucker...so Im not so surprised he packs a punch in his slapshot.
Chara is a giant bastard :lol: They had to extend the league's maximum stick length for him, so him having the hardest shot makes sense
I'd be terrified to have to dive in front of a one-timer from him on a PK. Fuuuuuuuuck that
I'm pumped Daniel Sedin got accuracy!! It's easy to recognize he has a great shot, but the twins are best known for brilliant hockey before their outright skill. Pretty awesome :mrgreen:
Michael Grabner was fastest... kinda bummed we let him go in a package for Keith Ballard
That game was moronic...
This is funny though :lol: Remember NHL 94 on Sega!?!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRnE4...layer_embedded
Would feel like a basketball game :lol: (110-102 for example) And well its the same thing for every sports that have an all-star game (The score is high and it's boring)
11-10....it might as well have been a basketball game :lol:
If anything the draft made things even more awkward than usual :lol:
Kessel being picked last was hilarious but the looks on everyone's faces was so uncomfortable. Especially when they gave him a new car for it. Toews was clearly pissed at Kane. Daniel and Hank had nothing of interest to say about being split up... Should I go on?!? :lol:
Most hockey players are pretty serious... you don't want to stick a camera in Ryan Kesler's face for very long. He's just not that charismatic. They're mostly farm/small town boys. Having an entire weekend surrounding them pretending they don't hate one another, and then playing a game without hitting or point shots just isn't as much fun as it looks on paper.
Just scrap the all-star game and stick with the skills competition
Yeah I agree... I'm not sure there's a format for an All-Star game we would care about.
Unless they did it at the end of the season and they could afford to actually hit, and the defense can actually play the game. As it stands right now it's just a glorified game of street hockey.
I doubt changing it to the end of the year would matter. Look at the NFL Pro Bowl...they don't hit or play defense either and that game is at the end of the season :wha:
Yeah true eh
Then cancel the fuggin' thing :lol:
They should cancel them all except baseball IMO
When do games start back up? Tomorrow?
Yeah, they're back on tomorrow
I read a pretty spiteful article about the baseball all-star game just the other day :-k I don't follow baseball at all, but from what I read their all-star game sounds pretty boring too :lol:
SuperSkills competition/Winter Classic on the same day anyone? (in a city that has real winters...:lol:)
Ya that sounds a lot more reasonable
Probably too great (and too obvious) for the NHL to think about it :lol:....:(
Yeah, they sure do seem to like doing things that make no sense :wha: