NHL 2010-2011 Season Thread

[El Fangel]

Originally Posted by Joey Slugs And Colorado wasn't expected to beat the Hawks, but they did. How about Phoenix beating Boston? Columbus beating the Sharks? You are vastly overreacting to a opening night win. NHL Network, Versus, and ESPN all showed highlights of that game - none of them made as big of a deal out of the game as you are. Shit - I'm more impressed with what the Leafs are doing than the one win the Oilers had on Friday. As for your "certainty"? I'm just going to stop you right there and say "not a chance in hell". And since we are on a message board and we will never cross paths in real life - we'll just move along.

Are you seriously trying to be a troll?

Colorado had a good team last year with virtually no changes besides a year more experience for players like Duchene, O'Reilly, Stewart, etc. Playing against a team ravaged in the offseason by salary cap constraints and missing two of their core players in Campbell and Sharp, so the win is less then shocking.

Phoenix finished 4th last year in the league, against a team missing its best setup man and a rookie goalie in net, real shocked at the outcome there.

San Jose and Columbus previous game was fairly close, considering the talent on San Jose vastly outnumbers that on Columbus, so a bit unexpected but not really shocking.

However again, a team not even expected to win, manages to shutout their opponents and score four goals on one of the best goalies in the league.

Clearly that is not an accomplishment at all.

Clearly you have no fucking idea what you are talking about.

[Joey Slugs]

Originally Posted by Fallen Angel Are you seriously trying to be a troll? Colorado had a good team last year with virtually no changes besides a year more experience for players like Duchene, O'Reilly, Stewart, etc. Playing against a team ravaged in the offseason by salary cap constraints and missing two of their core players in Campbell and Sharp, so the win is less then shocking. Phoenix finished 4th last year in the league, against a team missing its best setup man and a rookie goalie in net, real shocked at the outcome there. San Jose and Columbus previous game was fairly close, considering the talent on San Jose vastly outnumbers that on Columbus, so a bit unexpected but not really shocking. However again, a team not even expected to win, manages to shutout their opponents and score four goals on one of the best goalies in the league. Clearly that is not an accomplishment at all. Clearly you have no fucking idea what you are talking about.

Last year and last year. Thank you for making my point for me.

New season. One game. And you are acting like the Oilers just beat the 1972 Soviet All Star Team. (oh god! an American that knows about the summit series! what a world!) Good game? Sure. Good win to have with that young team? Of course. But stop trying to make it out to be more than it is: 1 win in a 82 game season.