NHL Thread

[elliseamos]

What an incredible fucking ride!

am i the only one thinking a full reg. season would not have produced such a fun playoffs?

Yes.

really? b/c i don't see the bruins sustaining the beating they've taken this year over a full season. they've still only played 68 games to this point. the NHL is such a grind... i love it.

Yeah? Maybe there woulda been another injury, here or there. But the compacted schedule still wore them out. No?

all i'm saying/thinking is we might not be getting the performances we're witnessing if these guys had already played 34 more games. i'm thinking mostly of tuukka, chara, and bergeron.

[sportsfreakpete6]

How many times will we hear this tonight?

[Fuck You Jobu]

How many times will we hear this tonight?

As long as it one more time than the Bruins score, I'm happy.

[Norah]

I hate that song so much.

[verb_to_trust]

I don't

[verb_to_trust]

[verb_to_trust]

Wonder what happened to Bergeron? Supposedly, he left and went to the hospital....

[MattA75]

After seeing Seguin still stuck on the 3rd line tonight, I'm starting to think the B's might try to trade him and keep Horton...

[elliseamos]

After seeing Seguin still stuck on the 3rd line tonight, I'm starting to think the B's might try to trade him and keep Horton...

you mean b/c he didn't center marchand & jagr? i think seguin has proven that he's not a centerman.

i'm worried about bergeron, total game changer. yes, toews missed the last period, but the bawks already had their lead.

[MattA75]

After seeing Seguin still stuck on the 3rd line tonight, I'm starting to think the B's might try to trade him and keep Horton...

you mean b/c he didn't center marchand & jagr? i think seguin has proven that he's not a centerman.

i'm worried about bergeron, total game changer. yes, toews missed the last period, but the bawks already had their lead.

so they throw a guy with what, 5 or 6 NHL games who hasn't played in 2 months in that spot instead? Seguin can be a centerman, the problem is is he's not their kind of centerman (or more specifically, Clood's type)...not that that gives him an out for the way he floats, but man, KP Dupont brought up Alexandre Daigle on twitter the other night and there are a lot of similarities

[elliseamos]

After seeing Seguin still stuck on the 3rd line tonight, I'm starting to think the B's might try to trade him and keep Horton...

you mean b/c he didn't center marchand & jagr? i think seguin has proven that he's not a centerman.

i'm worried about bergeron, total game changer. yes, toews missed the last period, but the bawks already had their lead.

so they throw a guy with what, 5 or 6 NHL games who hasn't played in 2 months in that spot instead? Seguin can be a centerman, the problem is is he's not their kind of centerman (or more specifically, Clood's type)...not that that gives him an out for the way he floats, but man, KP Dupont brought up Alexandre Daigle on twitter the other night and there are a lot of similarities

i don't know about that, i looked it up and daigle topped out at 50 points and in two trips to playoffs managed 2 points. seguin had 60+ points a year ago and 30+ this year in half a season. not to mention his playoff production, as light as it's seemed, has been much better than A.D.

it's really a dumb comparison.

[Fuck You Jobu]

Wonder what happened to Bergeron? Supposedly, he left and went to the hospital....

Was it his back? He looked really stiff

[Fuck You Jobu]

After seeing Seguin still stuck on the 3rd line tonight, I'm starting to think the B's might try to trade him and keep Horton...

you mean b/c he didn't center marchand & jagr? i think seguin has proven that he's not a centerman.

i'm worried about bergeron, total game changer. yes, toews missed the last period, but the bawks already had their lead.

They got the lead from his 2 assists - game changing

Glad for the win, but the game seemed a bit of a let down with only 60 mins of hockey

[MattA75]

After seeing Seguin still stuck on the 3rd line tonight, I'm starting to think the B's might try to trade him and keep Horton...

you mean b/c he didn't center marchand & jagr? i think seguin has proven that he's not a centerman.

i'm worried about bergeron, total game changer. yes, toews missed the last period, but the bawks already had their lead.

so they throw a guy with what, 5 or 6 NHL games who hasn't played in 2 months in that spot instead? Seguin can be a centerman, the problem is is he's not their kind of centerman (or more specifically, Clood's type)...not that that gives him an out for the way he floats, but man, KP Dupont brought up Alexandre Daigle on twitter the other night and there are a lot of similarities

i don't know about that, i looked it up and daigle topped out at 50 points and in two trips to playoffs managed 2 points. seguin had 60+ points a year ago and 30+ this year in half a season. not to mention his playoff production, as light as it's seemed, has been much better than A.D.

it's really a dumb comparison.

not really...both were high 'can't miss' draft prospects...Seguin, like Daigle, seems to have real drive and competitiveness questions (i.e. he does a lot of floating on the ice and takes a lot of nights off)...and unlike Daigle, Seguin has been on a good team, meaning he's been able to take 2-3 years to improve his game (which is questionable at best whether he's done so) and not be "the guy" or anything close to it...and like Daigle, Seguin's now been paid a big contract based on potential more than what he's actually done so far

[MattA75]

Wonder what happened to Bergeron? Supposedly, he left and went to the hospital....

Was it his back? He looked really stiff

reports are saying a possible spleen injury

[philpritchard]

After seeing Seguin still stuck on the 3rd line tonight, I'm starting to think the B's might try to trade him and keep Horton...

you mean b/c he didn't center marchand & jagr? i think seguin has proven that he's not a centerman.

i'm worried about bergeron, total game changer. yes, toews missed the last period, but the bawks already had their lead.

so they throw a guy with what, 5 or 6 NHL games who hasn't played in 2 months in that spot instead? Seguin can be a centerman, the problem is is he's not their kind of centerman (or more specifically, Clood's type)...not that that gives him an out for the way he floats, but man, KP Dupont brought up Alexandre Daigle on twitter the other night and there are a lot of similarities

i don't know about that, i looked it up and daigle topped out at 50 points and in two trips to playoffs managed 2 points. seguin had 60+ points a year ago and 30+ this year in half a season. not to mention his playoff production, as light as it's seemed, has been much better than A.D.

it's really a dumb comparison.

I don't think it's that far off... Daigle's had 51 points as a rookie, and he improved in his second season to a pace that would have been almost identical to Seguin's second year but was shortened by the lockout. Take a look at the players Daigle played with in his first few years with the Sens, too. It's kind of hilarious.

I don't agree with the comparison because I expect Seguin to continue to improve, and I see his last year or so as more of a bump in the road than anything. But if you look at their first three seasons in the league, I think there are a definitely some legitimate comparisons.

[Fuck You Jobu]

Nice cheap elbow to the head

[elliseamos]

After seeing Seguin still stuck on the 3rd line tonight, I'm starting to think the B's might try to trade him and keep Horton...

you mean b/c he didn't center marchand & jagr? i think seguin has proven that he's not a centerman.

i'm worried about bergeron, total game changer. yes, toews missed the last period, but the bawks already had their lead.

so they throw a guy with what, 5 or 6 NHL games who hasn't played in 2 months in that spot instead? Seguin can be a centerman, the problem is is he's not their kind of centerman (or more specifically, Clood's type)...not that that gives him an out for the way he floats, but man, KP Dupont brought up Alexandre Daigle on twitter the other night and there are a lot of similarities

i don't know about that, i looked it up and daigle topped out at 50 points and in two trips to playoffs managed 2 points. seguin had 60+ points a year ago and 30+ this year in half a season. not to mention his playoff production, as light as it's seemed, has been much better than A.D.

it's really a dumb comparison.

I don't think it's that far off... Daigle's had 51 points as a rookie, and he improved in his second season to a pace that would have been almost identical to Seguin's second year but was shortened by the lockout. Take a look at the players Daigle played with in his first few years with the Sens, too. It's kind of hilarious.

I don't agree with the comparison because I expect Seguin to continue to improve, and I see his last year or so as more of a bump in the road than anything. But if you look at their first three seasons in the league, I think there are a definitely some legitimate comparisons.

I don't want to be accused of saying Seguin will be the next Stamkos, but I don't think you can say he's Daigle. Again, AD had 2 points in 12 career playoff games. Seguin had more than that in both games and points in his rookie year. Also, b/c it seems crazy in the 2-line Offside Era: Daigle's first 4 seasons he had a +/- of -45, -22, -30, -33 and never had a positive +/- over his career.

[elliseamos]

Nice cheap elbow to the head

boychuk's elbows come nowhere near his head.

[shinkdew]

I think Seguin is more comparable to Kessel than Daigle. Seguin has more points in his first couple seasons, but they're both almost the same player and both seem to have/had maturity issues.