NHL 2006-2007 Season Thread
 

Here it is boys. This season is going to be amazing. Talk about anything and everything hockey in here.

You're a couple weeks early.

Nah not really. Pre season starts on Monday.

LEAFS ARE TAKING IT.

I found myself becoming a bit of Blue Jackets fan last year since their's were the only games I could watch because I don't get OLN. Perhaps I should jump on the bandwagon while there's still front row seats available.

Leafs will be terrible as usual.

Columbus signs Anson Carter :n:

Also, fuck you Stickman.

Anson Carter is an idiot for leaving Vancouver. He will not have the same season as he did last year.

Also, Fuck all leaf fans.

The joke that is the New York Islanders continues with the 15 year 67.5 million dollar a year contract handed out to Rick Dipietro.

Pretty sure I'm going to TD Banknorth Garden today to meet Patrice Bergeron, Brad Boyes, Marco Sturm, Zdeno Chara, PJ Axelsson, and others and getting their autographs. :cool:

Belak for hart!

It should be interesting to see how the Canucks do this year. They were a solid team for the past 3-5 years and now have done a 180 turn with personnel. Also, Fuck you Bob Clarke.

SHUT UP!

Yeah the Yashin deal worked out so well for the Islanders, they figured they could do 15 with a mediocre goalie

Here's a question, I drafted Yanic Perreault for my fantasy team, but have heard nothing on the guy at all. He was in Nashville last year but ended the year injured. Did he retire? Where in the world is Yanic Perreault??

I think Perreault is still unsigned.

the canucks are in serious trouble this year

Theyr'e a team that is completely unknown of how they'll do this year. You can't even make a relevent prediction. They could suck because their D and RW is lacking, they could be great because they're unknowns like Buffalo and Carolina were last year. A hard working team infront of Luongo could do some damage. The salary cap really really really hurt this team. They were onto something good before the lockout.

Anson Carter signed for more money than he could have ever got out of Vancouver, even before the Kesler events. So he's not an idiot. As a Canuck fan, I hope he does shitty in Columbus, but he'll be playing with Nash and Fedorov (reports say) so I think he'll most likely do better or as good as he did last season.

I want to be on you. Biggest Bruins fan on here for sure.

Columbus comes out of the east so I take back my Carter remark.

lol

It also helps that I go to college 30 min from Boston.

As long as the Penguins aint last in the league this year i'll be happy :(

they still have no defence and an inconsistant goalie, so it may be another long season for the pens

They got Recchi back, but he is too old to keep up with the fast teams. He's still good for scoring though.

i'm totally not questioning their offence. It'll be solid with Cros, Armstrong, Ouelett, Recchi, Malkin, LEclair etc.... it's their defence that scares me. They've shown no effort to address it what so ever be it through the draft or free agency

I will come back to this thread when the Bruins are good again which isn't any time soon....

I hope you don't mean Eastern conference cause the Jackets are in the West

They did add Eaton and Ekman is a solid defensive forward, they've upgdraed their 3rd and 4th lines, they won't make the playoffs but they shouldn't be worst in the East either.

STICKY THIS

Avs will probably suck this year

Colorado teams suck at everything.

btw I see Jake Plumber is back in usual shitty form.

Buffalo better take the division this year. New uniforms better not be gay either. At least they'll have the classic blue and gold for home.

Alright I'll give you the Rockies and the Nuggets but the Broncos are usually good and the Avalanche havent missed the playoffs

Yeah the Nuggets have sucked their way to the playoffs 3 years in a row

New Buffalo unis

http://www.sabres.com/newsarchive.cfm?id=627

Toronto's got Buffalo tomorrow for their pre-season opener.

Goin' down, Fig.

Sabres new unis are terrible

Goes to show I don't know my geography. Since they're in the west, they won't go all the way. They'll make the playoffs.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...es_Primary.gif

terrible

gg LeClair

lol leafs finally beat fraudawa

I kinda dig those Buffalo uniforms

leafs looking at bondra. He'd be better than what they have right now

Congratulations on scoring 3 goals against Jeff Glass.

Whhy is Bondra still unsigned? Welcome to the salary cap, boys and girls.

Leafs should not sign Bondra.

We can't go into the season with Tucker and O'Neill as our top 2 wingers.......we just can't.

Agreed we need a winger, I'd just prefer someone other than Bondra.

lol there really isn't anybody else.

Anson Carter sooooo wanted to be a Maple Leaf.

I know :(

Rumours were they were gonna trade Nik Antropov to free up some room for Carter. Damn I wish they had.

Prolly just end up either getting Bondra or trading either Tellqvist or Aubin for something.

http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/...1_50_26_pm.jpg


Hey, I got an idea. How about some exhibition games in places like WINNIPEG ~fuck!

gonna sticky this topic.



Hey Bobby Clarke, why did you make this goof your captain? Should have been Gagne.

http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/...0_35_08_pm.jpg

http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com...ey_ottj129.jpg

I think that logo needs legs. Also some colour bands on the lower half or something. I do like it well enough, but the buffalo needs to be fully formed and perhaps a bit bigger in the jersey or like I said some colour bands.. or one big one on the bottom. It's too far away from a traditional hockey jersey as it stands right now.

Just to further explain my point.

Look at this similar logo for Phoenix.
http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com...key_dna101.jpg

It was smart enough to look all new but still add the colour bands.borders on the bottom of it's uniform to complete it. Otherwise the jersey looks incomplete. I do like the player's number on the jersey's front like the Sabres have...

<img src=http://www.rivercitysports.com/thumbs/large/63648.jpg>

Should have kept it at that one :y:

<img src=http://www.rivercitysports.com/thumbs/large/71384.jpg>

Phoenix should look like that.

They did have a game in Winnipeg.

I agree, but since they did change, I think the should have been a little close to what I stated.

That uniform is still awesome.

It's no Whalers jersey.

Did hockey seriously start again already

Pre-season is going on right now. The regular season begins on October 4th I think.

I just realized that three of the six Canadian teams have Swedish captains.

http://patmar.joueb.com/images/nordiques%20jersey_t.jpg

:heart:

ANy Canucks fans here? I'm getting really worried about this season. They dont' have any toughness. No power forward, no depth on Defence. No heart... They will miss Jovonovski because of everythign he brings.

hilarious Wade Belak video


http://baystreetbullies.com/videoz/0607/06...ak_1st_line.rar


fav player ever!

This pre-season isn't providing any break out players. Kesler has looked good, Burrows not too bad, but no one has snuck up and made a person go 'wow'. Remember though, it is just the pre-season.

Leafs have had an interesting pre season. Alexander Suglobov has looked prety good, and I also wouldn't mind seeing Bates Battaglia make the team. But there's still no clearcut choice for backup goalie (IMO).

looks like that thing I have in my Closet

Lol I know. I saw that a while ago. I liked the older one with the two swords

Oops, I think my comment is about the last article on the first page, the Sabres new logo

ya Hero you dummy

The Canes basically gave Jack Johnson away for nothing much.

Also, Latendresse is a Hab. I hope he replaces perezhogin.

Blue Jackets finally signed Zherdev. If Zherdev and Brule both reach their potential a Nash-Brule-Zherdev line could be pretty terrifying. The rest of the team might suck but whatever.

Nash-Fedorov-Carter

Actually I believe when everyone is healthy the front line will be Nash-Fedorov-Vyborny. Carter will be on the 2nd line

either way, they are stacked up front. Plus they have grit. They have decent defense and solid goaltending (although I think Ward may be over his head) They will again be one of the favoured teams.

I agree with this.

Also - I'm not so sure about Columbus' defense. They have an aging Adam Foote, and a "damaged goods" Bryan Berard. Who else do they have?

Pascal Leclaire (Columbus' goalie if I'm not mistaken) should be pretty decent.

The team that makes me sick however, is the friggin' Ducks. :nono: Thank god the Canucks aren't in that division. :y: Pacific Division is far and away the toughest division this year IMO. San Jose and Anaheim should be insanely good, while the Kings and Dallas won't be too shabby either.

Phoenix, with Jovanovski, Roenick, and Nolan, might put themselves back into playoff contention as well.

San Jose should be amazing. I think Dallas will be really strong as well. They added some good fowards, in Lindros, Ribiero, and Stefan. While Stefan hasn't lived up to being a number one pick he still is a quality foward. Plus Turco's great in the regular season.

I don't think Phoenix will be anything this year. Jovanovski defintely helps, but Roenik is old, Nolan hasn't played in two years. Nagy's good, as his Doan, but who else can score?

Did anybody see how the Devils pulled off their miracle of getting Malakhov and Mogilny's contracts off the salary cap. They just resigned Gionta, Martin, Hale, Clemmenson, and Rasmussen. I understand that a lot of people will be unhappy with Lou, but he pulled it off within the rules. I am a huge Devils fan, so this is great news for me.

"WoOoOoOoOoOoO"

I can't wait for tomorrow. Carolina/Buffalo in a rematch of the Eastern Conference Finals, Sens/Leafs, and Avalanche/Stars is a pretty good opening night.

lol one game in and i'm banned from mapleleafs.com again. 4th time

Your account has been temporarily suspended. This suspension is due to end on Jul 31 2007, 10:28 PM.


ouch, they mean business this time lol

What'd you get banned for?

Also, it could be another long (or short) season for Leafs fans :'(

this time i posted a thread stating that suglobov and wozniewski are about as useless as a asexual whore.

well they deleted my thread.

so i posted a thread stating "God forbid we criticize anybody on here and that it's good to see that Hitler and Stalin are alive and well"

for some reason u aren't allowed to critcize anybody on the message boards. i used to get banned for riding Aki "Ice" Berg constantly

lol I thought everyone hated Aki Berg.

And Suglobov's not bad :mad:

Anybody see the Stars/Avalanche game? Awesome ending in overtime with Turco sending a long pass to Sydor coming out the pentaly box, and then roofing it on a breakaway to win the game and complete the comeback. I really think the Stars are going to be great this year.

No he's not. He was a Devil's prospect, and played one game for them last year and scored a goal. He didn't have a bad year in Albany either. I wish the Devils didn't trade him.

HOW BOUT THEM LEAFS!!!

lol

Blitz get ready to wear a Bruins avatar

One game. Big deal.

It's not like we played horribly. We got quite a few quality chances, just couldn't convert.

nice avatar, Blitz

nah I agree with you

you guys got a lot of quality chances and you can't blame Raycroft

D was pretty sloppy though

Agreed, the D has been Toronto's achilles heel for a long while.

Didn't help that Kubina had to be a fucking moron in the last pre-season game, resulting in Belak being back on D :n:

he's an abortion defensivly.

6-0 TORONTO BEATS OTTAWA!!!!

THERE'S MY BOYS!