09/10 NHL Season you Fav's and Predictions

StirCrazy · #1 09-15-2009, 10:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Canuckgod420

Are you oilers fans seriously knocking the Canucks and the Sedins?
As I recall...Canucks, 2nd round of the playoffs. Sedins, both 82 points.
How did the oilers do in the playoffs last year?
How many points did your top 2 players get?

I guess your all excited about resting the weight of your team on an old mans sholders.....lol

As we have a dual team house hold here, (wife canucks, Me Oilers) I end up following both teams and I agree, sedins are good but not as good as they are hyped up to be. wellwood is worth more in my opinion. the best thing they could have done is traded one of the sedins and got someone who is a good complement but a little tougher, but there contract prevents that. they did resign Lou, which is good as with out him I don't think they would make the playoffs. to me they are like the oilers were when they have Cujo, and rely on the goalie way to much. Other than that not much new with them.. pretty much the dsame team as last year, where everyone else has made some big changes. The oilers have made a few interesting changes which I think will be for the better and may be enough to get them another run but it is wide open.

the bigest problem is the way the legue makes the scheduals. it is a unfair set up as in the east there are a hand full of good teams and the rest pretty much suck, so you get the same teams every year domanating. out west even the bad teams arn't much worse than the best so it is a lot tighter and a harder division and since most of your games are with in your division there are teams in the west not making the playoffs when they were better than teams in the east that did. I think they should go back to a everyone plays everyone the same amount of times type system. but owners are tossed between traveling costs and points.. and since it is a double win for the east teams they will vote to keep it the same where in the west you would end up with a split vote as it saves money.

but this post reminded me it is almost time to order my center ice

Steve

subman · #2 09-15-2009, 10:47 PM

Tsn has the Oilers ahead of the Flames and Habs in the pre-season power rankings!

subman · #3 09-15-2009, 10:48 PM

The pre-season Oil v. Flames game is being streamed on the Oilers website tonight in case anyone besides me wants to watch.

fishoholic · #4 09-16-2009, 09:18 PM

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Originally Posted by subman

The pre-season Oil v. Flames game is being streamed on the Oilers website tonight in case anyone besides me wants to watch.

4-1 We kicked flame butt! GO OILERS GO!!!!!!!

ponokareefer · #5 09-16-2009, 10:44 PM

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Originally Posted by fishoholic

4-1 We kicked flame butt! GO OILERS GO!!!!!!!

Hopefully this is a sign of good things to come.

pelle31 · #6 09-17-2009, 12:53 AM

Oh geez I knew that would happen. Calgary played mostly the young guys and Edmonton fans are already in a uproar!! I'm surprised your not all yelling "this is The Cup year"!!

Ian · #7 09-17-2009, 02:03 AM

Um and edmonton played almost all rookies as well.....pre season means little but man Flames fans are touchy already......calgary did well to improve on the defense but really until you get a true elite goalie you will not be cup contenders....bring on the hate...... But take a looke Kipper's numbers make him a bottom line goalie when compared to the rest of the NHL. I don't believe they will contend this year.

Edmonton has young players starting to mature and Comrie for 1.15 million may prove to be a steal. The real improvement is in coaching, this groups will have the locker room behind them and should get more out of the team. Oh did I mention the flame killer in net.
Oil makes playoffs and Calgary chokes in 1/2nd round once again.

xtreme · #8 09-15-2009, 11:03 PM

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Originally Posted by subman

Tsn has the Oilers ahead of the Flames and Habs in the pre-season power rankings!

TSN is using the playoff monkey for pre-season rankings now?

Lance · #9 09-16-2009, 12:20 AM

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Originally Posted by StirCrazy

the best thing they could have done is traded one of the sedins and got someone who is a good complement but a little tougher, but there contract prevents that.
Steve

Sorry, gotta disagree with this. The twins are good together, but terrible on their own. They've been playing together since they were toddlers. That's what makes them good. They know where the other is and where he will be. You have to trade either both of them or keep them. Apart, they're not much.

StirCrazy · #10 09-17-2009, 02:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Lance

Sorry, gotta disagree with this. The twins are good together, but terrible on their own. They've been playing together since they were toddlers. That's what makes them good. They know where the other is and where he will be. You have to trade either both of them or keep them. Apart, they're not much.

that is what I was saying and is exactly the problem.. they are expensive, and have no versitility.. they are 2/3rds of any line you put them on as you have to play them togeather to get the points. in the long run I feal they are a problem instead of the solution.

Steve