God, I hate Dougie Hamilton. I think he's a selfish player who makes terrible decisions. That was at the junior level, he could do well at the NHL but I don't think he is good at all. As for that trade, as much as I would just absolutely love that, it's not a good deal for Boston what so ever. Jarome only has 1 more year where he -might- produce more than Krecji but I'm not so sure anymore. You don't want to just give up a young centerman for an aging superstar who's prime is over and at the tail end of his career. Finding a replacement center who will be as good as him would be almost impossible. I'm also a firm believer that Krecji is the key to Boston post season success. When he got injured 2 years ago vs Philly for that comeback series, that was the turning point for sure. Last year he didn't produce but no one else did really. He has to be a horse for when Lucic's big nose and Marchands shit eating grin don't do anything, they at least have someone to carry their offense.
2.82 GAA with what you already described as a bottom 5 goalie. CC was atrocious last year and we all know that. He has to be better this year and I think he has the capacity to be better. Keith and Seabrook both struggled to get healthy last year (Keith missed 8 games and Seabrook posted a 3 year low of 24 TOI). To blame what turned out to be league's 22nd defense in terms of GAA on the defense is just plain silly.
48 games starting January 19th. 18 games against division opponents with the other 30 against the remaining 10 teams in your conference. No cross-conference games (fucking gay).
Not going to lie, I can really see the Wings having a shot at missing the playoffs this year with this schedule after 21 years in a row. That is going to be brutal for Detroit and Columbus. They get to play 26 games in their own time zone (24 home, 2 road @ each other). Can't wait for realignment next year. Really rooting for the 3 or 4 division format with top 16 teams getting in.
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Is there any pre-season to speak of? Exhibition games? Lockout excluded, of course.
Don't think so
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Someone thought Iggy was Aboriginal? Really? Considering he's been totted as the best black player to ever play the game, I think people would have realized, you know, hes black.
And yea, no pre season. Camp and straight into the season. And really, conference only games? Man.. that sucks. Only chance I get to see the Leaf's play is when they come out west.
Ah fuck em, they can stay bottom feeders in the east as far as I am concerned. You honestly aren't going to get the alignment much better unless you swap Detroit and Winnipeg, but if you want to complain about alignment, how about when the Leafs were in the West years ago? That was probably the worst configuration ever, a team so freaking close to the East coast playing teams in California, playing in Vancouver and the prairie provinces, among others as part of their away games.
I'm against realignment as well with the suggestions that were made in the past, but they do need to swap Winnipeg and Nashville or something.
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WTF? The Leafs apparently just fired Burke. Why the fuck would you fire your GM just before the season starts and not, I don't know, during the 4 months of fucking lockout?!
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Toronto Maple Leafs have apparently fired Brian Burke as general manager. Working on official confirmations.
(This is like the millionth time I have wondered this, but why does this message board system not have a Tweet plugin code of some sort?)
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Looks like others are reporting it now too.
http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=6...d=nhl:topheads
http://www.thestar.com/breakingnews/...e-fired-report
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