The Ditch part deux

Lettuce, it's what food eats.

local radio made me laugh with that one.

 

I'll miss you bigtime in Philly Bryz, so humungous big.

 

News coming out that Bergeron even has a punctured lung to add to his list of injuries. That guy is a warrior.

 

You don't want to start nitpicking with your goalie, once you have a solid #1, leave as is, even if you feel you're overpaying by $1M, look at how long the flyers have tried to get a goalie. The leafs didn't make the playoffs because they couldn't get a #1 in there.

 

Lulz, i know you are kidding. Chicago played like that all year. But the beards have to go especially Kanes

 

From NHL.com

 

Armstrong has Berglund and Shattenkirk done for 7.5 million.

Where's my crow cookbook?

If I was in the PA and up for a contract, I wouldn't be talking to them. Great news for the Blues and great work by Armstrong. He's done a nice jedi-mind-F### on the roster over there.

Garrison is laughing his arse off, Wideman is giggling, Streit is lauging, dozens of agents and gms are crying.

Berglund and Shattenkirk are stoopids.

 

Ive been saying this for 2 years and 69 as far as signing Roszival I have two words for you Ian White. hes better than White but all you guys gave me a hard time when they signed him because I said it was a mistake and look how that turned out. DONT DO IT KENNY

 

Im so glad this guy is gone. you guys are always breaking Homers balls but Bryz was an absolute joke from day 1, dont understand why getting a good goalie in Philly is like getting a good QB in Detroit - it just never happens

 

of course. it's my homage to... well, u know who

i'm not particularly concerned with kane, one way or another. but the captain's so-called sideburns? that's a crime against humanity right there.

 

NHL scoring for 2013 was down to a boring 5.307 g/g. In 1983 scoring was 7.73 and stable for the next few years.

Projecting those numbers out, that puts Denis Savard's 1983 at an 82 pt pace for the year, maybe +2 for the 80 game sched and puts him at around 24 goals.

You can't project those number linearly but I think it's an important reference for the "experts" that do the HOF and award voting. I caught comments saying how much better Savard was than Kane, while I'll be a little biased in favor of Savard for a while because he's a guy I watched for an entire career, I just don't see a good argument to suggest that he's better than the Kaner 6 years in.

On that discussion of awards, I really wish they would take a few days before putting in a vote on the Conn Smythe. It still amazes me that Kane won over Crawford. I think a fair argument could have been made for Krecji too. Neither Rask nor Crawford deserve all the credit for their stats, but Crawford was 10-1 after game 3s, had an outstanding record in OT and elimination games.

 

hockey was a better game in 83 than it is now, hell it was better in '93 - of course at that point Bettman and the powers that be only had 1 year to screw up my favorite sport

 

Q and staff deserve great credit for the Hawks dominating after the 3rd game of a series, made adjustments and dominated like they did in the western conference all year long. I really wish they could play on good ice in the Stanley cup finals, I feel that technology-wise they NHL should improve the surface if they continue to play in old arenas and warm-weather cities. I really don't give a patootie about awards. Did Shattenkirk and Bergland take discounts so that can possibly sign Pietrangelo?

 

goalie pads.

 

The Blackhawk parade will begin at Hockeybob's house around 10am local time, with all of the players glass pounding bob's windows!

 

I always said imagine if Sid Crosby could have played hockey in the 80's or even in the early 90's. His numbers with his skill level would have been through the roof.

 

I can see plenty of teams wanting to dump contracts for picks this year. I am not crazy about anything after the top 6 and definitely not a goalie until the 4th round, although Homer might disagree. There are some very good players this year in the top 3 rounds, although unlike a nhl.com analyst, I don't anybody playing with Ovechkin. Ovie will be Jagr-like by then. None of these kids will step right in and be a Toews. The draft is fun and all but...these are lil' kids.

 

Stafford is a good QB. I think he's past his china doll phase, too.

 

With you on the ice. Aggravating.

I think Armstrong created some type of "earn it" culture in STL or something that they bought into over there. Backes, Shattenkirk, Cole, Berglund, and Perron all took less than they could have gotten on the market imo. He has 49 in payroll that I would put at about 53-54 million. Amazing job on his part to get players to go along with the plan to keep the team together.

I don't think I'm off about payroll budget, but I've been wrong about what Armstrong would be able to pull off. I would have to imagine Pietrangelo will be on a 5 x6 or something ridiculously cheap at this point.

 

Ever watch Daryl Sutter play? John Scott would skate circles around him. Early 90s NHL was very good until they decided to let the crashing bullsh## of guys like Stevens turn into a substitute for hockey.

Free agency changed everything, more than Bettman could have.