Heroes of Hockeytown

Haha, I love Murph s***-talking Anaheim's ice. What're you gonna do about it, Ducks?

Ericsson causing an odd man rush against? It's more likely than you think.

I think they might be calling penalties immediately following faceoffs, guys.

Only the ones that devoted 74 pages to arguing with interlopers.

That was the Murphy's Law of power plays, my goodness.

Jesus Hank is having a tough couple of shifts. Hold still you stupid little disc.

The referees recognize all hockey fans' love of continuous power plays.

If this was MMA that would've been a real good takedown. Hudler's ground game is no match.

Great pass from Hank. Visnovsky did a good job checking Mule, though.

I guess Abby is in tonight. Draper out.

I agree with this, but as long as it's being discussed I'll go ahead and weigh in on one point. If this is the level of evidence being demanded then I disagree; you could no more prove Pavel is faster than Hank than he is Homer, unless you have access to a radar gun. Nor could you prove many other topics discussed in this thread like lethality of wrist shot or back-checking. However, that level of scrutiny is not necessary, the answer to the question is easily observed. Pavel is one of the best skaters on the team; with certainty I can only say that Helm and Modano (and Mursak as long as we're including cameos) are faster skaters than him. Flip and Eaves are also in the neighborhood, but Pav's tremendous vision and agility let him keep moving forward where lesser forwards are checked. It is evident that he is faster and has better acceleration and agility than Hank.

Considering how well he's playing (early voting efforts have Nick as the front-runner for Norris) it's hard to imagine he'll get busted down to the second, let alone third pairing any time soon.

A terrible, nobody goalie that everyone expects to be lit up, what could possibly go wrong...

Christ guys, finish the ******* game.

I think the popular opinion of Brown's goal was "super neato."

Well now there's a nice pass from Kindl.

Certainly a lot better than last time around. I guess whatever infernal black magicks Quick was using have worn off; or perhaps the pact he signed with Lucifer expired.

Helm is really starting to bury some of these breakaways... look out NHL.

Datsyuk spamming the deke button, so cheap!

I'd really forgotten how fast Modano is, fantastic at getting that puck up ice.

Wow, great speed and puck recovery by Modano.

Dan Cleary: Having every wild ass shot fly in off of him since November 2010.

Fourth line remembered to start on time.

Jimmy shows that puck the back of his hand.

Tough time to be a Sens fan. Hard to imagine that they won't be the worst team in the league next year.