IF ILYA BRYZGALOV IS SO GREAT WHY HAS HE BEEN ON FOUR TEAMS IN TEN YEARS: THE NHL 2011-2012 THREAD (INCLUDING VANCOUVER RECONSTRUCTION, BOSTON HANGOVER AND OFFSEASON SHENANIGANS. HOCKEY IS THE BEST)

a text inventory of everything on every goalie's mask this season

slideshow of same

jmod's mask remains unrivaled imo

all those masks are so wack. fleury's blue pens mask might be the best one in there. Cory Schneider's is the funniest but a bit optimistic

Movie note -- a friend in Kitchener, Ontario saw the Seann William Scott hockey comedy Goon last week, liked it a lot. He went to a matinee where "most of the audience was hockey players. You can just tell."

i saw it last night. it's very funny and very gory.

Stiffler on ice, huh

intrigued by liev as stiffler's foe

the st. louis blues are 36-11-7 since ken hitchcock took over

27-4-4 at home overall

now atop the western conference and tied with the rangers for the president's cup (rangers have two games in hand)

team is 4 real

fukkin hate hitchcock

they looked real good against the hawks last night

http://i489.photobucket.com/albums/rr251/mookieproof/pk.jpg

to be fair, gomez isn't the habs' captain

that's pretty funny

i was at that game! subban got his revenge later on

any nyc ilxors w nothing to do tonite message me off board for hockey tix discussion avs @ rangers

kick

I hate hockey. It's so addictive. I love it too much. I'm trying to reduce my consumption, but can't stay away. But don't propose a self-help group to me. I don't want to be helped.

I hate Joe Thornton. No really, I hate him.

^haha

OK, this is not really au courant, but just feel like posting a couple of my fave segments from the 24/7 series...

Here's Lavi in the Flyers dressing room after a bad first period:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvBsTrPO0p0

And then Ott chirping Giroux before a faceoff:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkHn3ciJxiY

annoyed, again, that having the #6 seed is definitely better than the #5 and perhaps better than the #4 as well. southeast/pacific divisions gtfo

http://leafsbeefs.com

i so love the hand-wringing columns after the caps choke yet again in a big game: http://capegazette.villagesoup.com/blog/blogpost/death-taxes-and-the-capitals-choking/801826

try living in Toronto.

Burke's life is perpetually in danger.

(and for good reason)

tbf, the leafs don't have big games to choke in

would love to experience the second leafs cup victory of my lifetime - I was a fetus during the first one, no kidding

i don't think that counts?!

does Stanley Cup begin at conception?

http://i.imgur.com/qx6Wg.jpg

It's a baby the instant the puck crosses the goal line!

(j/k)

I feel like it's been the last week of the season for the last month. let's get this shit going already...

kings are out of the playoffs atm -- you cool with that, toughie?

i mean they have shit the bed this year so w/e I guess.

kinda makes you wonder what the flyers knew when they traded richards and carter

Kings 3rd in west now w/e I stand by my earlier observation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Imo8n85rqg0

when I was a kid I had a subscription to Hockey News or some other publication and I have a vivid memory of a photo of a person in a leafs jersey with a paper bag over their head, and drawn on the bag was a blue maple leaf with "Toronto Maple Laughs" written inside of it

no idea why that's stuck with me but it does seem like an enduring condition for leafs fans

right now the leafs are pissing me off with their insistence on keeping the caps in the playoffs.

god i wish that the canucks had won in '94. can you imagine the despair if the rangers were 72 years away from their last cup? 1940 forever.

rip sabres

Fuck. the. kings.

get your goddamn game right and fucking close something for once in my goddam life

it's there on a fucking plate all you need is 2 of 4 points and you can't even get to 50% fuck you up the fucking ass you fucking lazy fucks

I hope luongo shits the bed again

pacific division is kind of fucked huh

#3 seed continues to be bullshit

florida panthers: 32 regulation wins, 6 shootout wins, 26 regulation losses, seven ot losses, 11 shootout losses. so they won 38 and lost 44 and have a -24 goal differential.

their series with the devils (who are better off at #6 than they would be at #5 or even #4) should be quite . . . something

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/552877_10150682502369139_16313679138_9515275_1124546577_n.jpg

fair

western conf predix:

canucks in 5
sharks in 6
chicago in 7
red wings in 6

easter conf predix:

rangers in 4
bruins in 6
devils in 4
flyers in 7

canucks in 5
blues in 5
coyotes in 7 (!)
preds in 7

rangers in 5
bruins in 4
devils in 6
penguins in 7

sharks all the way imo

pwned by the blues all season iirc

cue 'joe thornton is gutless' columns

while this is true i have great faith in the sharks + i think they wont take as many penalties? really i dont know v much about hockey i just like the sharks so i picked them to win