kickazz

Good to hear opinion of a native. I give Russia a lot of crap but it’s for good reason. My eldest sister worked for Moscow Medical Academy from 94-01 and I visited in 97 and 01 for months at a time (my summer breaks). A lot of the people had very poor things to say about the sports politics. I’m not sure if that’s changed, maybe the people are more favorable with their leadership now. I’ve been meaning to go back there one day to see how things are and watch some KHL games. I just haven’t had time. We still have some family friends in Moscow, which of course is nothing like the Siberia you grew up in.

That’s why it’s fake news. Are you ethnically Russian? If so what is your opinion on this ban then?

One season? He played 50 games last season and 54 the season before... Anyways, I think Mrazek should start the next game. Put the debate to rest once and for all. If he fails then he fails, if he doesn't then goalie debate is back on.

As soon as your called Jimmy Jittery or whatever, Mrazek let another goal in lol. Just saying dude maybe the Howard hate is what's jinxing Mrazek.

At least Jimmy Howard had a respectable career. Your boy Mrazek (aka Manny Legace) might not even have that.

We'll he's at 80% right now. Couple more goals and that drops.

And with that goal Mrazek once again shatters his chances of stealing Howard's job.

I didn't know that Bonds and McGwire represented the entire United States olympic team. Dumb comment GMR, I'm disappointed. Soviets were notorious for doping since the 80s. Widely known. But back then there weren't really any anti-doping laws as stringent as today. But what makes this hilarious is that they decided to pull it off again in the 21st century and failed miserably. Because they're idiots. I think 49 some medals were stripped because of last olympics. 49??? And by the numbers half the Russian athletes were doping in the 2016 olympics. Wtf?? Lol. At least try to be subtle about it. Every country (including the U.S) has doping issues with athletes, but the wide scale that the Soviets/Russians did it in was laughably stupid. And what's hilarious is they're actually playing victim and whining about it. Well unless the IOC appeals the decision, Putin and his boys have a lot of time now to think it over and compete like real men with the rest of the countries. I linked it. Turns out there's more stuff going on in the world than Trump's toupee problems. Of course dumb Americans that live in a box (most of the people) don't know that.

What if Holland wastes it just to see how the members on this website react?

Fake news http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/***-chechens-beating-electro-shock-torture-detain-camps-chechnya-russia-thugs-homophobia-human-a7713391.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/21/world/europe/chechnya-russia-attacks-gays.html http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39974512 https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/04/04/anti-lgbt-violence-chechnya https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_concentration_camps_in_Chechnya

With this ban maybe now Russia can focus on closing down those supposed "concentration camps" they have for gays. Where they blatantly get murdered. Cheating murderers.

Article states it’s going to increase between $3-7 million. $7 million would be awesome. Actually the entire article is filled with some interesting info. NHL is at an all time high in revenue and pretty close to NBA.

No joke either. The quality of women wearing Wings gear has gone down.

And ironic since USSR was notorious for using steroids.

Your post was pretty informative and I appreciated it. I wasn’t his biggest fan because I personally didnt think he was that good of a fighter. But If you asked me years ago I would have never expected Bootland at 900 games. So props to the guy for being more accomplished than everyone on this forum.

Few of us called it months ago.

The OP obviously cares. So let him. It’s not negative nancy. It’s just straight up colon cancer.

Sarcasm? No according to our great posters the word is “trolling”. Because people are too dumb to tell the difference between the two things. This website once had hilarious, intelligent posters that kept things lively. Now we’re stuck with overly sensitive politcally correct whiners. Hence why traffic is so low now; people got turned off by said posters and straight up left. (Or reported by those whiners and banned) I liked your post, thought it was entertaining, keep it going. @kliq you didn’t do anything wrong, I think he was referring to someone else.

No problem. I appreciated your work in finding the numbers out. Thank you. The problem for Mrazek is Howard is the starter for the season unlike last season where the roles were reversed. I'm afraid it may be too late for Mrazek seeing as how it's his contract year and they may not give him a 2nd chance unless Howard gets injured or does REALLY bad for a long time.

What a hit from Kronwall

No I meant their overall performance cumulative of their first three seasons not their third season specifically. Either way if what you say is true then Mrazek should win the job back this year if given the opportunity. It’s his 4th season.

What about the 50 games he played last season? Do you think he was distributed games unfairly even then?

What does age matter here? Talk to us about how those goalies did 3 seasons into their NHL careers. Anyways the issue with Mrazek is he started off good and then declined. You always want to see an upward trend, at the very least try to bounce back. His was on and off, great, then declined. Eventually lost the starter position because he simply wasn’t good last year. They’re not just going to hand him the starter position on a platter, he has to earn it. Unfortunately for him he did and lost it...

Should’ve learned their lesson in 1991 tbh. Losers will always be losers. The only one I geniounly feel bad for is Datsyuk. He’s stuck with idiots making idiotic decisions and screwing their national team over.

Maybe they allow the Russian Hockey Team and ban everyone else