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)

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

really i dont know v much about hockey i just like the sharks

it's cool -- we already have bill magill threatening to pound anyone who disagrees with his dumb shit

during the wings/hawks season finale eddie o was rambling on about how teams who lost to a playoff opponent in the regular season series would suddenly kick their ass once in the playoffs, probably trying to rationalize a way to the hawks beating phoenix despite losing the season series

and iirc bill is now threatening poundings on ilnfl which is too bad, I miss his passion for the game

mmhmm

too late for picks?

nux 6
sharks 6
yotes 7
red wings 6

rangers 5
bruins 5
devils 7
flyers 7

but hockey series can't be picked on things like "evidence" or "logic" or "seeding" anyway imo

yeah that's why I avoid making them, that and I don't know enough about most non-division teams to predict. wings in 6 seems safe since that's how many they've needed to beat nashville in previous playoffs, but beyond that... ¯\(°_o)/¯

mike babcock: "the referees are trying to get to the stanley cup finals like the rest of us" -- calls have been pretty surprising thus far

haha i have no real faith in my predictions (except for san jose) but i figured why not. going to a bar to watch the canucks game in half an hour have my fingers crossed

how many games does shea weber get for that

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/shea-weber-predators-fined-zetterberg-head-slam-shanahan-174039330.html

garage league

"soccer-style feigned injuries" -- did Bill Magill write this article?

http://cantstopthebleeding.com/wordpress/img/2012/04/Screen-Shot-2012-04-12-at-7.26.58-PM.png

that last logo of the retweets is also pretty funny. everyone in canada definitely includes everyone living here who is originally from another city with a hockey team (which is a lot of people).

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