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hockeyfan1
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mc said:Down goes Lucic vs Blue Jacket's Prout.
About time someone gave Lucic a dosage of his own medicine!
hockeyfan1
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Take it from a veteran...in this case, 'Battlin' Billy Smith...
"We had a good group of guys," he said. "We had 16 guys that probably played seven years together, eight years together. You do get to know each other really well."
The New York Islanders are the last team in any of the major North American sports to win four consecutive chances...a record streak of 19 consecutive playoff series victories.
Do you think you can hold 16 guys together on one team for four years? Not with the money today. A fourth line guy now, being on a Stanley Cup [winner] two years in a row, isn't he going to be much more valuable somewhere else?"
(Said Islanders coach Jack Capuano):"He was a focused individual. He came to the rink every day with the mentality that he was going to get better, but at the same time, he was going to have fun. He was going to enjoy the time he had playing this great game."
"It's great to have that presence in our dressing room," Strome said. "Obviously we know what those guys have done in the past; they're someone we can look up to. We're surrounded by history in this building. To see it firsthand is something special. A lot of guys appreciate what he did. [He said] some really motivating stuff. It makes guys want to get to that level and play in those types of games. It's great to have that around."
http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=740480
"We had a good group of guys," he said. "We had 16 guys that probably played seven years together, eight years together. You do get to know each other really well."
The New York Islanders are the last team in any of the major North American sports to win four consecutive chances...a record streak of 19 consecutive playoff series victories.
Do you think you can hold 16 guys together on one team for four years? Not with the money today. A fourth line guy now, being on a Stanley Cup [winner] two years in a row, isn't he going to be much more valuable somewhere else?"
(Said Islanders coach Jack Capuano):"He was a focused individual. He came to the rink every day with the mentality that he was going to get better, but at the same time, he was going to have fun. He was going to enjoy the time he had playing this great game."
"It's great to have that presence in our dressing room," Strome said. "Obviously we know what those guys have done in the past; they're someone we can look up to. We're surrounded by history in this building. To see it firsthand is something special. A lot of guys appreciate what he did. [He said] some really motivating stuff. It makes guys want to get to that level and play in those types of games. It's great to have that around."
http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=740480
GhostofPotvin29
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How is Edmonton still in last? Leafs couldn't end up there if they tried.
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Potvin29 said:
What a comically bad organization. If they stopped being so inbred in their organization you could probably turn the franchise around pretty quick though. They have enough 1st round talent that a few trades here and there and you could have a drastically different team.
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Madferret said:
At what point do they stop blaming coaches in Edmonton though?
Chev-boyar-sky
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Bates said:
I think they really need to move Eberle. He has the second highest value IMO behind Hall and is the guy I'd move of the two of them.
RNH and Yak have relatively little value at this time and have yet to show what they can do in this league.
I don't know what they could get in return for him, but they're not changing the team for the better without moving a "core piece".
hockeyfan1
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Hypothetically-speaking, should Eakins get fired, is there a chance he could return to the Leafs organization?
Derk said:
If it wasn't for his injury problems (and having to play for Atlanta for so long) I think he'd have established himself as a top-5 goalie by now.
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CarltonTheBear said:
I always found him just below that final tier of goaltenders. Playing for a pretty bad Atlanta franchise and then following that up with the Stars really only having a handful of good years he's still carved out a very nice career.
.915 SV% 222 wins
He really hasn't had any playoff opportunity/success though. 8 career starts and a .874 SV%.
Kin
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Bad day for tough coaches. Viktor Tikhonov died today:
http://espn.go.com/olympics/hockey/story/_/id/11929044/tikhonov-viktor-soviet-hockey-coach-dies-84
http://espn.go.com/olympics/hockey/story/_/id/11929044/tikhonov-viktor-soviet-hockey-coach-dies-84
hockeyfan1
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Never forget that Big Red Machine (Central Red Army). They were something. And Tikhonov, as authoritarian a figure he was, was probably the best they had in the time be coached.
"Miracle on Ice" was highly symbolic signaling the coming end of the Cold War with the Soviets, and at that time the coming of the soon-to-be "Glasnost & Perestroika" with Moscow.
"Miracle on Ice" was highly symbolic signaling the coming end of the Cold War with the Soviets, and at that time the coming of the soon-to-be "Glasnost & Perestroika" with Moscow.
Stickytape
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Apparently this happened last week and I only just caught on, but it's pretty funny:
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bustaheims
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mc said:
They're really going to assemble a fantastic group of similarly skilled players, and not go anywhere.
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