DAVID CLARKSON AND THE CURIOUS CASE OF THE OUTLIER SEASON: THE NHL 2013-2014 THREAD (INCLUDING HAPLESS LUONGO SIGHTINGS, A FULL SEASON OF UPPER BODY INJURIES, STANLEY CUP CHAMPION CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS H

enigmatic russians are enigmatic

honestly shocked bill didn't return during the playoffs

ade killed him iirc . . . one way or another

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the nhl actually outdraws the nba, but you'd certainly never know it from espn

'the metropolitan division'

bettman will pay for his sins

hahaha poor Bill - I reminded him a few months ago that the Devils' first cup followed 48-Game Season I

Jagr to Devils apparently

sure why not

on his mission to play for every american east coast team before he retires

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Federov should be a HOF, imo.

Also in the 11 days I've been in Iceland, so far I have been offered 6 pints just for being a fellow hockey fan. The sport is really growing there, according to the local kids.

We will all look so stupid when Jagr raises the cup with the Panthers in 2017.

nah, islanders

Seems that the Yotes might finaly be safe perhaps maybe.

that's nice i guess? i still feel it would make more sense were they in quebec or hamilton or scarborough or seattle (or fucking lethbridge or kamloops maybe)

god knows i love the red wings (apart from the 2008-2009 playoffs i mean) but it is disturbing to hear that subsidies towards a new arena are somehow going forward despite detroit's bankruptcy

5 years is a long time also who gives a fuck about the coyotes get off this thred

jimmy mod have you considered trying out for sochi

n although i had wondered abt trying out for the chinese team before I think I am too far removed generationally etc also I would wait until they have it in mongolia/tibet/outlying chinese territories so that I would be guaranteed to make it to the medal round

1.34 Billion people and they can't make a functional NBA center surely they need a goalie ffs

I don't mind government subsidies for stadium, but I do mind it not being public property afterwards. Owners holding citizens hostages like in Edmonton or Miami (in baseball) is seriously wrong. But then municipal politics is the gangrene of North America.

Owners holding citizens hostages like in Edmonton or Miami (in baseball) is seriously wrong.

citizens/municipalities need to stop behaving like hostages! where were the oilers or marlins going to go?

mike ilitch is worth $2.7 billion. he presumably either makes a profit or derives some substantial pleasure from owning the wings. i'm guessing neither of those apply to the vast majority of detroit citizens. if he wants a new arena, he can fucking afford to build it -- abe pollan at least did that for the arena in dc.

(i don't mean to specifically pick on the wings -- almost nothing could be more egregious than jeffrey loria and the marlins, and my penguins were in this situation very recently -- but it's current and detroit is after all in bankruptcy.)

http://www.sbnation.com/nhl/2013/8/8/4601746/new-jersey-devils-nhl-ownership-sale-jeff-vanderbeek

now's our chance

http://www.sbnation.com/2013/8/7/4598136/nhl-goalie-pads-rule-change/in/4363243

also jerkoffmotion.gif

NHL denying the Forbes report about the Devils, which of course means nothing.

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kaner?

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aww

If we had a board I'd roll a great hockey portrait thread and it would be the absolute zenith.

Philadelphia Flyers captain Claude Giroux had surgery on his right index finger after getting injured on a golf course in Ottawa.

Giroux sustained tendon damage when a golf club shattered and splintered into his finger Thursday. It's unknown what caused the club to shatter.

a+ flyer injury

vhs you can still start a thread on ile

points off if bobby orr's leap isn't the first pic tho

Teemu is back!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=429SNIHJE7Q

25 away from 700 goals. I will follow that closely. Jagr is 19 away, but bleh.

Other cool milestones from player you better like:
St-Louis to 1000 points.
Marian Hossa to 1000 points.

I haven't followed Bryz's story this summer but how in hell is he still unsigned?

no one wants a goalie who isn't good enough for the flyers

I believe it's the Flyers that mismanage their goalies, give him a good 'goaltenders first' coach (Tippet, Hitchcock) and he will be fine.

The guys fucking insane. Granted that's not necessarily a negative when it comes to being an NHL goalie (see belfour, Ed) but this dude is just an idiot. And I'm not sure you need Jacques plante to win the cup anymore. Just a guy who won't lose it.

ed belfour wasn't insane so much as drunk

patty roy was insane tho, the twitchy bastard

I like Bryz, he is a fun part of hockey lore. There isn't enough fun guys like him.

god bless paul holmgren and the flyers

The world awaits a reasonable explanation of the Dan Cleary contract

this signing seems to be confirmed

<3 Cleary but srs lols when I first heard about that

meanwhile Damien Brunner can't even get a sniff

lol wings sign cleary to a 1 year deal after all

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omg did he really take less money and a shorter deal to not be a flyer

omg did he really take less money and a shorter deal to not be a flyerremain a red wing

;)

a lot of fans are PISSED about this (see aforementioned Brunner comment) but the wings have shown they value leadership/experience in players as much as youth/talent/speed in many ways

Worked out well for them last year.

alfie's gonna be pissed, now he can't have 11

down 3-0 in the first round

three game 7s, all on the road iirc

that is something

And only one reg time victory in the final. crazy

Grats Kings, worthy champs imo

Happy with this result as a former New Jersey resident. Hate the Rangers.

Waiting for the first idiotic signing/the draft/when I come back from FLA to make the new thred. Accepting submissions for new titles (character restrictions apply)

Opening salvo:

'Ryan Miller: the carpetbagging years: your etc'

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rangers bought out brad richards

Dominik Hasek, Peter Forsberg, Mike Modano, Rob Blake and Pat Burns going into the hall of fame.

And Bill McCreary!

just the thing hasek and forsberg need to kickstart another comeback

Hartnell to CBJ for Umberger

I feel like forsberg is barely eligible like he was on a make-good nri shit as late as two seasons ago

But anyway better than some Bure/Sundin nonsense

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Whoa

tha boss

penguins in utter disarray

yeah what do you think of that deal?

I'm always glad when a blueliner is drafted #1

i'm not really sorry to see neal go -- he won't put up those numbers without malkin and was evidently kind of a dick -- but they got no picks and no salary relief. tbf, i know absolutely nothing about the guys they got back, but i do wish i'd heard of them.

the whole gm/coaching search was awful and half-assed. the coach, who is saying all the right things and might still be great, was an obvious third (at least) choice who was compelled to take rick tocchet on his staff. the gm is an obvious caretaker with like half a dozen assistant gms fighting for priority.

i've heard that bill guerin (one of the agms) is super bright and beloved in the organization, but grooming multiple successors is just a recipe for further chaos.

crosby + malkin, tho. it shouldn't be this hard

apparently garth snow won the draft with ho-sang

I have waited for this day:

JAMES NEAL IS THE PROBLEM. JAMES NEAL IS THE SOLUTION: THE NHL 2014-2015 THREAD (INCLUDING THE ECSTASY OF RYAN MILLER, LOS ANGELES HANGOVER AND OFFSEASON SHENANIGANS. HOCKEY IS THE BEST)