Official NHL Thread

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http://www.massholesports.com/2012/03/tyler-seguin-is-such-lucky-bastid-i.html

 

No way they'd be allowed to bring that sign in if it was real.




It'd be pretty wicked though if it was true.

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I was reading later that Tyler Seguin called them out for the sign and it was NOT TRUE

although that was funny for them to PS it on April Fool's Day

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HARTIKANEN SCORES!!!!! first of the year.

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TEEMUS all over the scoreboard. Hartikanen gets a pair Selanne "One More Game" almost got two. Fuckin CLASS. look at the fans beat each other up over his stick lol



 DUBNYK! Fuck guy, he could be the #1.


CANT WAIT FOR THE PLAYOFFS. Wayne Simmonds Face scoring goals vs Crosby's Dome = 7 game bloodbath

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Good Effort Oilers lol. TO THE DRAFT PARTY TUESDAY!!! tied in 3rd to OT but shit.


How bout this BULLSHIT! Sharks how do you sleep at night!! Ryan Clowe WHAT CHEATING!


Poor Stoll

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The nitemare is over



Pheeeeeeeeeew. Whatta stinker. Posts up the ass. Whatever about personal awards. Lady Byng. Calder. The only Trophy that matters is Stanley.

DUBNYK!! SHIT HE locked up #1 fucking point blank saves. I know the Oilers gonna change shit around in 2012-13 with at least a #3 pick. DONT DRAFT NO RUSSIANS. Murray looks good but D-Men are so hard PAUSE to develop. GO OILERS GO!!!

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oh man hahaha. FIRST OVERALL again. I just joked getting it like in June. nothing to celebrate but SHIT. things got a lot easier.


Nail up the Top 6. Get more vets under contract and WIN DAT CuP in 2013!!! Speaking of which. can't stop watching dat ACTION. My traditional predictions...


fuck worked out The Rangers Good luck!!

MEssier and Graves on your side


Oh man Briere offside so blatant

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http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/great-moments-hating-canucks-canada-national-pastime-161311654.html;_ylt=AjX1L3xkIWQefnMJViey14Z7vLYF

In reading this, its funny to consider all that hating but you gotta hate one team and LMFAO with the Luongo pic

Kings up 2-0

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Am i the only one watching the playoffs??? FUCKING most crazy fight filled series ever. Like shit Blues and Sharks going stupid. OH MAN TOO GOOD!!

King HENERIK SHIT!! Ottawa all over him - gotta love dat system but man, he made some killer saves.


Vancouver flopping around begging for penalties ROPES!! Don't RIOT Honger

oh many Crosby is such a little bitch WHO KNEW!!! Jagr had that sick spinning goal on Friday.


AT this point, just as long as all Canadian teams are out, I don't care lol GO OILERS!

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LOL WHUT

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lol torres with rocket boots

Shanahan is garbage!! Let em be, Torres is just a retard but fining Shea Weber nothing while no names get 3 to 4 games, non roster players vs superstars gotta be accountable but man, so much fuckin upsets its great. Chicago never gonna recover from this and no one in Phoenix will care.

Don't riot Honger lol

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oh really. 25 games. Torres is outta the league. wher'es the Shanny explanation vid

Fuck now Boyle is out. Any chance of coming back down 1-0 Anderson shut them down.


gotta love Tortorella:
"Well, they have a blueprint. It was probably the exact same hit as Torres. Different part of the ice. Launches himself, headshot. The pucks at the goal line when he's hit. So the blueprint's there. I'm sure he's a repeat offender, too. Not much research to be done there."


stupid NBC schedule 6 games. Canucks get extra rest but YO GOODBYE SHARKS HAHAHAHAHA

Hope Kings, Panthers, Flyers and Caps advance, then it'll be all stupid free for all lol

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WHOA!!! RIOT IN HONGCOUVER



STOLL! SNAPPIT! shit Ex-Oilers making damage in the playoffs. They should trade Cory Schneider to the Oilers like Habs did with Halak.

and DAMN. Boston was close but g'bye Crosby too! SHIT. If Rangers fall it will be a shit for all for Lord Stanley lol

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BABY ITS ON!!

fuck im loving the upsets. Goodbye Pittsburgh! HA! Philly. FUCK BOSTON. GJ JAY. Fuck Brodeur looking like he's 25 again, sssssshitt all it took was a year of Kovie sucking and getting Adam Larsson DAMN YOU!  Rangers can't fuck it up now:


Alberta's  Braden Holtby was most impressive vs the Caps - shit was kitchen sinked on his ass and he pushed Rangers to the brink, hope the Oilers can strike some goalie magic next year with Duby ripping it up in the IIHF Helsinki style.

but I gotta stick with my theory of following the team with most ex-Oilers and that's the Kings. SHIT SON. Stoll lighting shit up, farting on people



 but with all that talent they best not fuck it up lol phoenix system can't handle Brown-Richards-Carter. AND WHO THE HELL IS DWIGHT KING lol bet that's 50% why they drafted him

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Well, betcha Caps fans were caught off-guard by this news that came out today.

DALE HUNTER NOT RETURNING AS COACH OF WASHINGTON CAPITALS
SI.com c/o Associated Press
Posted: Monday May 14, 2012 12:45PM ; Updated: Monday May 14, 2012 7:57PM

ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) -- For quite some time, Washington Capitals general manager George McPhee tried to persuade former player Dale Hunter to return to the team as its coach. This season, McPhee finally got his man - just not for very long.

Hunter quit as Washington's coach on Monday after less than six months on the job, saying he wants to return to his family, his farm and the junior club he owns in Canada.

"It was the right thing to do," Hunter said.

He is the owner of the London Knights of the Ontario Hockey League, and he was the coach until McPhee beckoned in late November after firing Bruce Boudreau. Hunter's brother Mark took over as head coach of the Knights then, and one of Hunter's three children is an assistant. Hunter's 76-year-old father scouts for London; his sisters go to the games; another son lives nearby while attending college; his daughter is in the area, too.

Plus, Hunter and his brother own about 2,000 acres of farmland near his hometown of Petrolia, producing mainly wheat along with corn and soybeans.

"I'm going home," Hunter said at the Capitals' practice facility, a couple of hours after delivering the news to McPhee. "I've got a good thing going there with the family, so I'll stay home."

Hunter said he doesn't plan on returning to the NHL.

He was a successful forward in the league for 19 seasons - one of only four men whose jersey numbers were retired by the Capitals; the only player with 1,000 points and 3,000 penalty minutes in the NHL - but never won a Stanley Cup. Never before an assistant or head coach in the NHL, or even the AHL, Hunter was sought by McPhee in hopes he could bring his on-ice "tough guy" persona to a roster filled with stars more likely to make a pretty pass than drop to the ice to stop a puck.

"He said, `There's one way to play, and that's the right way to play, and I'll get them playing the right way.' He thought he could, and he accomplished what he thought he could do with them," McPhee said, "and now they're on the right path."

Hunter met with McPhee on Monday morning, two days after the Capitals were eliminated from the playoffs in the Eastern Conference semifinals with a 2-1 loss to the New York Rangers in Game 7.

"We could have very easily won that series," McPhee said.

The GM said he didn't even attempt to change Hunter's mind, because "there's no gray in Dale's life."

"I'd rather have him for six months than not at all, because he had quite an impact on this club," McPhee said. "He really taught this club the `how' of how to win. They all wanted to win. They just didn't know how. The `how' is being a team and sacrificing, and he sure got that out of this club."

Hunter went 30-23-7 - a .500 record - in the regular season after agreeing to a one-year deal to take over for Boudreau, helping the Capitals squeeze into the playoffs. Playing a defense-first, possession-oriented system with an emphasis on blocking shots, Washington eliminated reigning Stanley Cup champion Boston in seven games in the first round.

"He got everything out of this team that he could," McPhee said.

Another key move by Hunter was limiting captain Alex Ovechkin's minutes, saying it was dictated by game situations and the opponent's line changes. But it was clear that Hunter wanted players to focus on preventing goals more than scoring them.

Used to playing more than 20 minutes a night, every night, Ovechkin wound up with a career-playoff-low 13 1/2 minutes in one game, and also had only his second zero-shot postseason performance.

"For me, personally, it was pretty hard, to be honest with you," Ovechkin acknowledged Monday.

The two-time NHL MVP and team captain called it a "hard year, mentally."

Other players generally said they understood Hunter's motives for moving on - and generally expressed that they would have liked if he'd stuck around.

"I just had a little short chat with him and shook his hand and said thank you. I asked him if there's anything I can do to convince him to stay," forward Brooks Laich said. "He taught us as much about leadership and team aspects and respect amongst players and trusting your teammates as he did about hockey. He was like having another veteran in the locker room. He changed the culture around here a little bit, which the rest of us really enjoyed. He's leaving the team in a better state than he found it."

Whether Hunter's lessons will be followed when a new coach arrives remains to be seen.

"I know it's a long summer here, but hopefully guys remember that to win in the playoffs you have to sacrifice, block shots, do the right things," forward Troy Brouwer said. "That's just what he tried to instill in us the entire time he was here and the entire stretch down the playoffs."

Here's how Hunter summed it up: "You put skill with a hardworking, gritty team, and you've got a winner."

McPhee doesn't have a specific timetable for finding a replacement, saying it might happen by the NHL draft in June or perhaps not until August.

"I'm not in any rush," McPhee said.

NOTES: G Tomas Vokoun said he won't be back. Injuries to him and Michal Neuvirth allowed Braden Holtby to become the starting goalie for all 14 playoff games. "I wasn't planning on being back here anyway. It was never my intention to be here more than a year," Vokoun said. ... F Jay Beagle broke his foot while blocking a shot in Game 5 against the Rangers and stayed in that game, but couldn't balance enough on the ice to play in Games 6 or 7 and needed surgery. He said he expects to be able to skate again within 2 1/2 months. ... McPhee said D Tom Poti, who missed all season injured, "may have played his last game in the NHL." ... Among the team's unrestricted free agents: F Alexander Semin. Among the restricted free agents: D Mike Green. "I believe that we're going to win a Cup here," Green said, "and I want to be a part of it."

FULL ARTICLE LINK - http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/hockey/nhl/05/14/dale.hunter.capitals.coach.ap/index.html

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the only guy that showed up was Shane Doan, no wonder Kings got dat stranglehold SHIT!!! Just flowing offense, they best sweep dem Desert Dogs

HOLYSHIT TOM RENNEY GOT FIRED.

wasn't much of a surprise but shit, making him twist and shit like that for months. Fans calling for his head all year. AT least get him to finish the job, get a change to have em healthy.

Now the Oilers prolly gonna go the opposite and try to pull a Sutter outta the hat. lol can't wait for the third season of Oil Change to sound like this:

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King Henrik



Let's go Rangers!

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lol like a carbon copy!

gotta love John Tortorella  anyone who hates on his genius sarcasm hates life

DOAN!!


so many posts for the Kings, lol Smith was like back flat did it go in? kinda move. way to not get swept!

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WHOA! Not since 1993 when this dude took the LA Kings to the Cup Finals.



LOOOOL oh man fucking intense handshake Doaner so PISSED don't blame him The Fuck Dustin Brown just blew up his guy!! and Penner! PENNER of all fucking people gets a sweet ass goal to end it.



Keep it classy Phoenix Fans! Or your team will be shipped to the Quebec!

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2012 Stanley Cup Finals are now set!

L.A. Kings VS New Jersey Devils

Predictions anyone?