New season, new thread.

9/20/2011 11:12:19 PM

I'm going Ducks/Canes in the Finals. Ducks win.

9/21/2011 8:30:40 AM

holy fuck, the ratings disater...

This might be the year the Caps finally get to the finals.

9/21/2011 9:31:20 AM

I wonder if Craig Laughlin has a clause in his contract where the if the Caps win the Cup, he gets fired.

Snow Valley Hockey!

9/21/2011 9:53:19 AM

Lol, the only thing that would save the rating in a canes ducks final is teemu selanne getting tons of winnepeg love, and if jeff Skinner had another stand out season.

Agreed, dammit... vokoun is a huge pick up.

[Edited on September 21, 2011 at 1:59 PM. Reason : .]

9/21/2011 1:58:42 PM

first suspension dished to laternau-leblond or whatever the fuck his name is.

4 preseason and 1 regular season game, for boarding.

True to his word, shanny with the breakdown. I can get used to this style of analysis. This is a good thing.

Quote :

"It's the first suspension handed down by Brendan Shanahan since he took over as Senior VP of player safety for the National Hockey League. "Letourneau-Leblond took a direct route toward Clackson, hit him squarely from behind into the boards and drove through the check high and hard," Shanahan said in a video statement. "Clackson's back was turned toward Letourneau-Leblond well before the contract, requiring that Letourneau-Leblond avoid or minimize the check completely. He did neither." Letourneau-Leblond is considered a repeat offender due to a one-game suspension he received on Oct. 9, 2010. The suspension will cost him $6,402.44 in salary and the money will go to the Players' Emergency Assistance Fund."

[Edited on September 23, 2011 at 12:53 AM. Reason : .]

9/23/2011 12:51:06 AM

And a second suspension... looks like shanahan is coming down hard, and considers priors. Good for him

Quote :

" NHL Senior Vice President of Player Safety Brendan Shanahan announced on Thursday that Philadelphia Flyers forward Jody Shelley has been suspended for the remaining games of the preseason and the first five games of the regular season for a boarding infraction on Toronto forward Darryl Boyce in Wednesday's game. Shelley, who was assessed a five-minute major and a game misconduct for boarding Boyce at 12:34 of the second period, also will forfeit $67,073.15 in salary; that money will go to the Players' Emergency Assistance Fund. The suspension began Thursday night and he will be eligible to return on Oct. 20, when the Flyers host the Capitals. Since Shelley is considered a repeat offender under the terms of the Collective Bargaining Agreement (he was suspended twice last season for a total of four games), he has to forfeit his salary based on the number of games in the season (82) instead of the number of days in the season (185). The NHL changed the boarding rule during the offseason to put the onus on the player making the hit to avoid or minimize the contact against a defenseless player. The focus is also on the violent and potentially dangerous contact with the boards rather than the actual point of contact. "Shelley hit Boyce squarely from behind into the glass," Shanahan said. "Boyce's back was turned toward Shelley well before the contact, requiring that Shelley avoid or minimize the check. He did neither. "In addition, Shelley's two suspensions last season weighed heavily in this decision.”"

9/23/2011 12:59:26 AM

Seems like he's not fucking around. Personally, I'd err on the side of conservative punishment, but I know Shanny has to make his presence known. As long as he's consistent, he can suspend guys for sneezing for all I care. The one thing that's certain is he can't be worse than Campbell.

9/23/2011 6:07:24 AM

So much for the wheel of discipline.

9/23/2011 8:50:43 AM

http://msn.foxsports.com/nhl/story/Wayne-Simmonds-NHL-preseason-Red-Wings-edge-Flyers-092211

Thank God this didn't happen in Raleigh

Quote :

"Simmonds targeted during shootout A banana was thrown from the crowd at Philadelphia Flyers winger Wayne Simmonds in an apparent racist gesture during an exhibition game against the Detroit Red Wings being played in Canada, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported Friday. Simmonds, one of the NHL's few black players, was targeted as he took a shot during a shootout at Labatt Centre in London, Ontario, on Thursday night. The fan who threw the fruit was not identified, officials later confirmed. "I've never had a banana thrown at me before. That's a first for me," Simmonds, 23, said. "I guess it's something I obviously have to deal with, being a black player playing a predominantly white sport." The projectile failed to prevent him from beating Red Wings goaltender Jordan Pearce."

9/23/2011 10:59:34 AM

Quote :

"The projectile failed to prevent him from beating Red Wings goaltender Jordan Pearce."

Sounds like someone needs to get better at Mario Kart!

9/23/2011 12:36:32 PM

caucasian goaltender distracted by delicious banana

9/23/2011 12:41:24 PM

We'll see what happens first time pronger is up for suspension.

9/23/2011 12:45:36 PM

wings!

9/23/2011 12:56:29 PM

A few years ago someone threw a banana at Mike Grier at a Pittsburgh game. I'd love to see what happens to the idiot that throws a banana at Mario Williams.

And I hope Pronger and Chara get suspended in the first week, both classless and cheap players and I hate them.

9/23/2011 1:22:15 PM

I hate the Bruins as much as anyone and have certainly had my fill of Chara over the years, but classless? By all accounts that dude is one of hockey's nice guys.

9/24/2011 1:52:03 AM

iirc, weekes had a banana incident in Montreal... (no homo)

[Edited on September 24, 2011 at 1:57 AM. Reason : in 02 playoffs http://www.cbssports.com/u/ce/multi/0,1329,5319258_60,00.html]

9/24/2011 1:54:46 AM

^^ he does overall seem that way, but i refuse to believe that after all these years playing in the bell centre he didn't know what he was doing to pacioretty. i think that he meant for it to happen, but that he didn't really think about how bad it would be.

and that's what people think of now, at least outside boston where he is the GIANT FACKIN STAH OF THE HAWKEY RED SAWX


[Edited on September 24, 2011 at 12:24 PM. Reason : -]

9/24/2011 12:22:23 PM

^^I love the headline of that story:

Black goalie Weekes has banana thrown at him

9/24/2011 12:56:21 PM

Wings/Penguins finals rubber match.

Wings in 4

9/24/2011 8:21:44 PM

^fuck. that.

[Edited on September 24, 2011 at 8:38 PM. Reason : homer much?]

9/24/2011 8:38:33 PM

hell yea i am. a very exaggerated prediction

9/24/2011 8:48:50 PM

Is there streaming hockey anywhere?

9/24/2011 9:08:38 PM

preseason + 8 regular season games for wisniewski.

shanny dont give a fuck. he's iron fisted.

9/26/2011 8:13:40 PM

These videos are amazing. League credibility +100000000.

9/26/2011 9:13:48 PM

I would like to see shanny be like "what the fuck were you thinking, (nickname here)" when he suspends an ex teammate.

Also, I believe I heard that these videos will be published when there is a non-suspension for a hit that causes controversy. A la Cooke on Savard. That will be the true test of thir foray into this medium.

9/26/2011 10:16:17 PM

Just to get iop1 with a horrible finals prediction...

This is the year the Caps finally get somewhere in the postseason.

Then lose in 6 to an upstart LA Kings team.

Told you it was horrible.

9/26/2011 11:27:53 PM

^^^ came in here to post this

funny thing is that this debuts during the preseason with spotty TV coverage, so his nice HD multimedia presentation on the staublitz suspension was one zapruder-quality camera angle

9/27/2011 12:18:47 AM

Flyers win it all!

Jagr licks the salty tears of Pittsburgh

9/27/2011 5:32:44 PM

Scotty Niedermayer having his number 27 retired in New Jersey December 16th.

In other ghosts of 2000 news, Petr Sykora has been making waves at the Devils' training camp and was skating with Parise and Elias.

9/27/2011 6:42:21 PM

Jean Francois Jaques: 1 automatic game + remainder of preseason + 5 games

automatic 1 game for instigator in final 5 minutes of play
supplemental for leaving bench for purpose of starting a fight. (dont think i've EVER seen that one called)

9/27/2011 8:52:52 PM

they should do it like the old "you make the call" commercials during NFL games from the 80s

only one i could find: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDaosJJXINU

9/27/2011 9:18:11 PM

wings/caps

wings

9/27/2011 11:46:09 PM

Shanny getting snarky on twitter. He sent out a link to the rules video players got and says "thought we'd share this again"

9/29/2011 5:40:03 PM

I've been an NHL fan for 15 years, and in all those years I never thought I'd say this: I love Brendan Shanahan right now.

9/29/2011 6:20:19 PM

^^i love(d) it!

9/29/2011 6:23:48 PM

Dude is well known to be a legendary trash talker.

I think my favorite was when Avery called yzerman a washed up piece of shit, shanny leans over the bench and tells him to lose his number. To stop calling him every day, he doesn't want to talk to him. And that he won't give him advice on how to handle playing with talentless teammates. (All within ear shot of the kings bench)

Plz to bring this to the nhl front office

9/29/2011 7:03:02 PM

just finished a fantasy draft

thoughts?

Round Pick Player Position
1 (1) Alex Ovechkin LW
2 (20) Carey Price G
3 (21) Patrick Kane RW
4 (40) Dustin Byfuglien RW,D
5 (41) Jimmy Howard G
6 (60) Danny Briere C,RW
7 (61) Milan Lucic LW
8 (80) Alexandre Burrows LW
9 (81) Dustin Brown LW,RW
10 (100) Chris Pronger D
11 (101) Tyler Myers D
12 (120) Semyon Varlamov G
13 (121) Patrik Berglund C
14 (140) Jamie Benn LW
15 (141) Joe Corvo D
16 (160) Peter Mueller C,LW
17 (161) Patrice Bergeron C
18 (180) Valtteri Filppula C
19 (181) Steve Downie RW
20 (200) Marc Staal D


[Edited on October 2, 2011 at 9:14 PM. Reason : b]

10/2/2011 9:12:10 PM

You drafter joe corvo. That was a mistake.

10/3/2011 12:52:59 PM

Keeper league team:

* = keeper players (we got to keep 11)

Also, there are maximum games played limits, so you can gamble more with your bench players.

C - Anze Kopitar*
C - Jason Spezza*
C - Paul Stastny*
LW - James Neal
LW - Michael Cammalleri
RW - Marian Gaborik*
RW - Chris Stewart*
W - Daniel Alfredsson
W - Johan Franzen*
F - Dave Bolland
D - Andrei Markov
D - Brian Campbell
D - Zdeno Chara*
D - Duncan Keith*
D - Kimmo Timonen*
Util - Martin Erat
BN - Tim Connolly
BN - Kyle Turris
BN - Wojtek Wolski
BN - Dan Carcillo
BN - Joel Ward

G - Jonas Hiller*
G - Antti Niemi*
BN - Evgeni Nabokov
BN - Al Montoya

10/3/2011 1:16:26 PM

Keeping 11 players is absurd. I'm in a league with a max of 3 keepers and im keeping Crosby, Thomas, and Lundqvist

10/3/2011 2:27:33 PM

^^^ i needed PP scoring and there wasnt much left

10/3/2011 7:51:51 PM

Tonight's 12 team league draft:

C - Brad Richards
C - Sidney Crosby
LW - Bobby Ryan
LW - Alex Burrows
RW - Martin Havlat
RW - Jaromir Jagr
D - Duncan Keith
D - Kevin Shattenkirk
D - Kevin Bieksa
D - Marek Zidlicky
Util - David Krejci
Util - Jamie Benn
G - Jonathan Quick
G - Mikka Kiprusoff

BN - Evgeni Nabokov
BN - Matt Moulson
BN - Steve Downie
BN - Daniel Alfredsson
BN - Matt Carle
BN - Andy McDonald

10/3/2011 10:18:07 PM

i love shattenkirk

haha shat

10/3/2011 10:19:23 PM

One guy in our league auto drafted and this is his team.

Somehow he fucked up his list and Philip McRae (?) went 11th overall.

C - Philip McRae
C - Jeff Skinner
LW - Tyler Ennis
LW - Erik Cole
RW - Dany Heatley
RW - Milan Michalek
D - Drew Doughty
D -Shea Weber
D - Erik Karlsson
D - Andrei Markov
Util - Stephen Weiss
Util - Roman Hamrlik
G - Pekka Rinne
G - Niklas Backstrom

BN - Al Montoya
BN - Jamie McBain
BN - Derick Brassard
BN - Bryan McCabe
BN - Kurtis Foster
BN - Blake Comeau

lolololololololo

10/3/2011 10:22:42 PM

here's my squad in a 12 team keeper league

my 3 keepers were Crosby, Lundqvist, and Thomas

C- Sidney Crosby
C-Joe Thornton
LW- Dany Heatley
LW- Tuomo Ruutu
RW- Marian Gaborik
RW- Teemu Selanne
F- Paul Stastny
Util- Jussi Jokinen
D- Brent Burns
D- Cam Fowler
D- Dion Phaneuf
D- Kevin Bieksa
BN- Wayne Simmonds
BN- Alexei Ponikarovski
BN- Ryan Nugent-Hopkins

G- Tim Thomas
G- Henrik Lundqvist
BN- Jimmy Howard
BN- James Reimer

10/4/2011 11:21:10 AM

That is rather disgusting sir

10/4/2011 12:00:09 PM

^^ jesus, are you playing with a bunch of Mexicans?

Avery getting cut today...

10/4/2011 12:21:32 PM

iop1

Fuck Sean Avery

[Edited on October 4, 2011 at 12:24 PM. Reason : go pens]

10/4/2011 12:24:12 PM

^^no, but I have won the league 2 years in a row. I think it'll be 3

fuck Sean Avery

[Edited on October 4, 2011 at 1:58 PM. Reason : .]

10/4/2011 1:58:46 PM