Around Hockey XI (All Non-Jackets Hockey talk in here)

[Nanabijou]

Don't have the hate for Detroit that many of you have. I love to watch Z & Datsyuk play and the Wings style in general.

I'd also love to see them oust the Hawks and meet the Sharks in the West finals.

Me too. I don't like the Wings, but I don't like the Hawks either. I'd like to see a Detroit - Sharks matchup, as that's the one that helps out the Jackets the most.

 

[Robert]

Well, Detroit will win tonight... The next game will be different, the Hawks know if they lose again they lose the series... It should be 2-2 going back to Chicago... if not the Wings could be on the road to another Stanley Cup...

It will be fun to watch.

 

[CBJWerenski8]

Detroit looks like a team poised. Looks like a cake wal kfor the Kings if they win tonight.

 

[Double-Shift Lasse]

Well, Detroit will win tonight... The next game will be different, the Hawks know if they lose again they lose the series... It should be 2-2 going back to Chicago... if not the Wings could be on the road to another Stanley Cup...

It will be fun to watch.

Quenneville better come up with a plan to combat the Wings' systematic interference on defense.

 

[Robert]

Quenneville better come up with a plan to combat the Wings' systematic interference on defense.

True... I'm growing very tired of seeing squid on the ice too... Next season I'm thinking of attempting a new CBJ trend of tossing Lobsters on our ice when we win...

We could have a huge Lobster drop from the rafters signifiing the two great claws of JD and JK... the remaining eight legs can stand for 8 wasted first round draft picks..

It appears there is no NHL rule for tossing dead sea creatures so why can't we???

 

[Robert]

Howard was good tonight, damn American....

That said, the called off Hawk goal was highly suspect, even the NBC Sport Network analysts questioned the call... One would think Matt Calvert was playing for the Hawks..

 

[Sore Loser]

This year's Wings remind me a lot of last year's Devils ... no business being in the fold, but some guys are living out their final hurrah. I hope they suffer the same fate that the Devils did this year ...

 

[Robert]

This year's Wings remind me a lot of last year's Devils ... no business being in the fold, but some guys are living out their final hurrah. I hope they suffer the same fate that the Devils did this year ...

The Wings are harder to do away with than an Earthworm.... It's actaully unreal how they continue to win... no excuses, no complaining.... just do it. The recent (the last 15 years) Detroit organization is a model that should be recognized in the HOF.

 

[Sore Loser]

The Wings are harder to do away with than an Earthworm.... It's actaully unreal how they continue to win... no excuses, no complaining.... just do it. The recent (the last 15 years) Detroit organization is a model that should be recognized in the HOF.

Give some credit to their coaching staff (two of whom honed their skills with the Spokane Chiefs!) ... Mike Babcock knows hockey, and he's taught everything he knows to Bill Peters. Those guys work so well together, they understand each other, and demand a professional, hard work type approach to the game.

I hate the Red Wings, but find it very hard to cheer against them ... having known Bill Peters and seen him coach up close and personal, I have to say I would love to see him at the top.

 

[blahblah]

Oh my, do you over think everything in life Blah? This is the all-around hockey thread dedicated to covering the real-time playoffs as well as more, not an indictment of opinion at every turn.... have some fun dude... fun is good..geez.

Pretty sure I don't need a lecture from you on "fun", nor confirmation on what the thread is intended for. I was trying to understand where you came up with this "entitlement" stuff. This Hawks teams isn't new to the playoffs, they understand what it takes to win. Same for Detroit.

Detroit won and the Hawks have a test. I, like at least one other, can't seem to get worked up about Detroit winning. Through all my "hate" on teams this season, I didn't really get on Detroit much. They seem to be able to turn it on when they have to. It's kind of frustrating to be honest. They just find ways to win.

 

[Matt]

And to think the Jackets swept the season series for the first time in franchise history. Was a Red Wing fan until the Jackets came on the scene. My father started taking me to Wing's/Blackhawk games in 1940 and we didn't miss one of those games in Detroit until he died in 1968. Used his aunt and uncle's season tickets until they died in 1956. They had season tickets starting in 1926. After that, dad always purchased the tickets.

 

[Double-Shift Lasse]

LA or Boston gets third win of their series tonight and it's over.

 

[NotWendell]

The Wings are harder to do away with than an Earthworm.... It's actaully unreal how they continue to win... no excuses, no complaining.... just do it. The recent (the last 15 years) Detroit organization is a model that should be recognized in the HOF.

More like cockroaches.

 

[pete goegan]

And to think the Jackets swept the season series for the first time in franchise history. Was a Red Wing fan until the Jackets came on the scene. My father started taking me to Wing's/Blackhawk games in 1940 and we didn't miss one of those games in Detroit until he died in 1968. Used his aunt and uncle's season tickets until they died in 1956. They had season tickets starting in 1926. After that, dad always purchased the tickets.

Well, that helps explain why you're always so crotchety!

 

[Matt]

Pete, I Stand corrected. I missed 3 years of those games serving in the Military during the Korean War. Far East was an adventure in itself.

 

[pete goegan]

Pete, I Stand corrected. I missed 3 years of those games serving in the Military during the Korean War. Far East was an adventure in itself.

An adventure at the best of times, Matt, I can only imagine what it was like at that time! You can be as cranky as you like!

 

[Matt]

Pete, I was 20 at the time and I didn't need anyone to prod me to get my ass in gear.

 

[pete goegan]

Pete, I was 20 at the time and I didn't need anyone to prod me to get my ass in gear.

Lets hope there's a 20 year old on the Jackets won't need any more prodding to meet his potential.

 

[SuperGenius]

I felt kind of old at 41 until I wandered in here...

Not only am I impressed by the pedigree and service to our country, I am simply astonished you guys can work your computer well enough to be regulars

// Should be an interesting 3rd period. Bruins have carried the play. NYR power play is just piss poor. I don't know that I've seen a worse PP unit in the playoffs in some 20 years.

 

[db2011]

atta Boychuck!

 

[Jovavic]

// Should be an interesting 3rd period. Bruins have carried the play. NYR power play is just piss poor. I don't know that I've seen a worse PP unit in the playoffs in some 20 years.

Torts should just say f it and roll out a Jackets unit of Nash-Brassard-Dorsett-Moore-Stralman...the Russian Five they ain't

 

[Robert]

Torts should just say f it and roll out a Jackets unit of Nash-Brassard-Dorsett-Moore-Stralman...the Russian Five they ain't

In a way (about 25%), it's like watching the Jackets... I don't think the Blue Shirts will be swept though, no way.

Go Broons!!!

 

[SuperGenius]

Richards has 1 shift in the first 11:00 of the 3rd. wow. 7:34 TOI total. 5:22 Even Strength. 9 shifts total. wow.

 

[pete goegan]

I felt kind of old at 41 until I wandered in here...

You? I thought I was pretty old until Matt announced he had attended his first hockey game seven years before I was born!

 

[Robert]

You? I thought I was pretty old until Matt announced he had attended his first hockey game seven years before I was born!

When he spoke about the Korean war I felt like a kid again! (and thought of Mobil Army Surgical Hospital's....M.A.S.H.) I was born just as that war was starting!