kipwinger

Nope, guy's a loser. I don't want any more washed up losers on our team. Right now every guy we've got on the roster is a winner...Stanley Cup winners....Calder Cup winners. We need more winners. Not old farts that can't get it done.

If you watch the Bruins' post game comments they all have the same mindset. They keep repeating over and over "We have such a good team", "we're so good", blah, blah, blah. Iginla, Lucic, Boychuk, all spoke in those terms. It's like they can't believe that they actually have to PROVE how good they are in the playoffs rather than just being handed the Cup based on their regular season record.

Spot on.

They were only perfect in the wake of beating the Wings. After the dust settled a bit it was apparent that they were old...and slow. Perhaps having a bunch of meatheads doesn't really add much in a game like hockey when they can't skate or score.

According to reports Milan Lucic of the Boston Bruins allegedly called Dale Weise a "baby" after their playoffs series concluded tonight; this coming after Lucic allegely called Montreal defenseman Alexei Emelin a "chicken" after a regular season altercation. In response to these reports Lucic issued the following statement: "I'm rubber and you're glue, whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you". What an intellectual cripple.

Did he flex his muscles and challenge the sportscaster to a fight? That's what he usually does when things don't go his way.

Great, now the grave of Ruslan Salei will be an underachiever for it's entire career.

I didn't see it, what did he say?

Chicago may or may not be better than Boston, but that's not the problem I have with you post. You made it seem like the teams MOST likely to beat Chicago were NY, Anaheim, LA, and then Montreal. As if Montreal were the fourth best of those teams. Considering Montreal just beat a better team than any of the rest of them have played, I'd have the say the Habs are the best of the rest after Chicago.

Not sure if you saw, but the Canadiens just handled the bestest team in the history of bestest teams. To suggest that out of the remaining teams they're the least likely to beat Chicago sort of flies in the face of the fact that they just whooped a President's Trophy winner. That article only made me love Subban more. Comparing anyone to the Nature Boy usually does that for me!

Wooooooooooooo! (Knife Edge Chop).

Is it a foregone conclusion that Boston is beating Montreal then?

Probably has PTSD from the beating Brandon Dubinsky gave him in Round 1.

Hmmm, this pretty much sums up exactly how I feel right now...

Point taken, but surely you'd agree that Bowman's team full of veteran Hall of Famers was FAR less likely to be distracted by anything at all than Babcock's team full of rookies, no? The fact that it didn't have a negative impact in one instance says very little about whether it will in the other.

You mean like Mike Illitch does?

Well it's certainly hard to disagree with that.

It's not a personal dig at you buddy. I'm more interested in how you come up with your opinion rather than what the conclusion is. You've said you think he's immature (which is your opinion) because he "takes stupid penalties and the like". I'm going to ignore the "...and the like" part because I don't know what that means. But he's only got 81 penalty minutes (ranked 57th in the league). Surely you don't think all 56 guys ahead of him are MORE immature, so it must be the type of penalty he's taking. But then I'm confused because he's got one fighting major (which I know you're ok with based on your previous post history) and zero misconducts, game misconducts, or match penalties (the categories typically associated with dirty stuff). So you can't really think he's immature because he takes dirty penalties either. So the only option left is that he's immature because he simply takes too many MINOR penalties. But when you compare his number of minors to other guys near him you find that he's in the same range (my idea of range is plus or minus five minor penalties/one fighting major) as guys like Backes, Landeskog, E. Staal, Chris Kunitz, Bfuglien, Doughty, Upshall, Hanzel, and Neill. Now chances are you don't love all those players, but I have a hard time believing you'd consider all of them immature based on their minor penalty totals.

Good point, and Buffalo is hardly competitive on a year to year basis as well.

Tatar currently murdering Spezza in play of the year voting.

Like what? So far as I know he's got fewer "maturity" issues than half our current team (Sheahan = Drunk, Smith = Fake ID to Sheahan, Tatar = Drunk AND Evicted). PK doesn't have maturity issues, he's just talks s*** on the ice. And really if we're going to hold "chirping" against hockey players we've got to throw an awful lot more than PK on the sacrificial alter.

Even with revenue sharing, small market teams aren't spending to the cap AND more importantly, they're not winning anything much. Last small market team to win the Cup was who? Carolina? A relocated team? Hardly an argument for some sort of equal playing field. The cap was supposed to fix all that and make smaller teams more competitive BUT it loses it's effectiveness if you raise it by 5 million every year.

Does that surprise you even a little bit?

God I hope Subban has the game winning goal as well. Between all the stupid racist crap to begin with and then Thornton "getting caught up in the moment", I feel like Subban winning game 7 for Montreal would be the ultimate insult to injury.

Just what the NHL needs, more small market teams. Everybody wants to harken back to the good old days and point to southern expansion/relocation as this huge failure, but it's totally off base. Hartford, Quebec City, Winnepeg, and Minnesota (North Stars) had exactly ZERO Cups between them. Carolina, Colorado, Dallas, and Phoenix have exactly four Cups between them. Small market teams can't spend the money it takes too be competitive, and if you don't spend you don't win, and if you don't win people stop coming to games. It's that simple. Just move struggling franchises to Seattle and/or Milwaukee and be done with it already.