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)

I wonder if the Hawks would be one of the teams looking to trade for Luongo?

xxpost: Lu kinda reminds me of Nabokov. both have had stellar regular seasons in the past, but in the playoffs not as much consistency

luongo is a shaky playoff performer with a $5.5m cap hit for each of the next 10 years. i can only see two types of team that would want him -- one that needs to reach the salary floor (florida?) or one that just needs to make the playoffs period (leafs?)

loleafs

luongo back to florida would be the ultimate lol-time lol-star team

: o

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His deal has a bunch of outs long before 2021. See him going to Florida thanks to his crazy wife who's refused to move to Vancouver.

man fuck hockey

id even k who to cheer for now that the sharks and the canucks are out

sens imo

Kings! (or Blues), imo

xxpost

man fuck hockey

SERIOUSLY. I am so disgruntled by Nashville. I think Carrie Underwood is their Melisandre.

ouch hawks

changing of the guard in the western conference

i'm going for the Flyers based solely on calling that upset and everyone scoffing at me.

i'll be curious to see what they can do against a team that can actually play defense.

i'm feeling the blues

can't remember a playoff series i've ever cared less about than devils-panthers

don't even feel like making a brodeur sister-in-law joke

Luongo willing to waive no-trade clause

"I've always been about the team first, and obviously they got a guy (Cory Schneider) here who is going to be a superstar in this league the next 10, 12, 15 years," Luongo said.

luooool

http://i.imgur.com/imrZ5.jpg

I'd say he's finally gone off the deep end but

suck on it, Boston

caps!

correspondent on the local dc sports network referenced jim zorn and said they just kept it medium XD

@EdgeofSports
If I pointed out that Joel Ward, a Black man, scored winning goal on TIM THOMAS in BOSTON, people might think I'm inferring a thing or two.

Like...

Bruins Fans Calling Joel Ward The N-Word

http://chirpstory.com/li/6781

Jesus fucking Christ that's terrible

fuck

sad thing is that it is not shocking. especially from Boston fans.

I love that some of the follow up comments posted at the bottom found the names and addresses of the perpetrators.

"As a white man that respects hockey and black culture i am going to make exposing these fucking vile c*nts my hobby for the next few days.PitchforkTorchz 9 hours ago "

That ought to be interesting.

really sad they lost after seeing that, douchebags

I thought this season could not get any worse, but I was wrong.

Bill! in all sincerity good to have you back

sorry it took this event to make it happen

hahaha, thanks. i guess for me playoffs dont start till the devils are on the brink of elimination!

but honestly i dont know what would make me happier tonight, a devils win or a rangers loss. I know i dont have good enough karma to get both.

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

Zirin's column on Ward and Thomas and Boston racism.

Old Boston is also part of this story, as much as many from New England don’t want to hear it. No city in the United States has a more tortured intersection of race and sports than our supposed cradle of liberalism and democracy. It’s the city whose Boston Red Sox were the last team to integrate, waiting until 1959 twelve years after Jackie Robinson broke through with the Brooklyn Dodgers. It’s the city that for decades rejected the greatest team basketball player in history, Bill Russell, because of his proud, unblinking opposition to racial intolerance. After dealing with years of everything from verbal abuse to the vandalizing of his home, Russell called the city “a flea market of racism.” Boston then embraced Larry Bird, to such a passionate degree his very jersey became a symbol of white arrogance, exemplified in Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing. It’s also paradoxically, (and fitting in a city this paradoxical) the first hockey town to integrate, when Willie O’Ree took the ice for the Bruins in 1958 (he would be the NHL’s last Black player for 16 years). Now, when Joel Ward plays the hero, the reflex is the “N” bomb. As Faulkner said, “The past is not dead. It isn’t even past.”

Its awesome that the guy scored on Tim Thomas. Poetic justice.

The dude on the right looks like Johnny Greenwood.

Ugly stuff indeed, but it isn't just Boston - witness Wayne Simmonds and the banana incident last year in London Ontario (a town I'm otherwise quite fond of)

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/hockey/leafs-beat/luongo-a-good-fit-for-the-leafs/article2414823

going to game 4 in LA ^_^

oshilol
http://i.imgur.com/6KoLI.png

http://i.imgur.com/AFv5m.jpg

rip alfie

i dunno; he's had a splendid career but i pretty much lost respect for him when he fired a slapshot at niedermeyer after the horn in the '07 finals

good game tho; now we've got rangers-caps. kinda wanted to see rangers-flyers, but i've a feeling we might ultimately get that anyway

also bnw where do you live?

http://i.imgur.com/HXt3r.jpg

ok that's what i thought!

daniel 'danny' brière and claude giroux both have seven goals in seven playoff games

all these series look great except maybe rangers-caps, in which first goal wins

http://rockymtnfly.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/Nail%20Biting.gif

http://rockymtnfly.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/Nail%20Biting.gif

indeed