EHM The Blue Line

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caniac wrote:I havent seen any Panthers fans on here. I just have to show some love for the canes actually playing a good game. Vokoun wasnt really on it from what I saw. (I have yet to see an entire canes game because of work. Its impossible to get a restaurant to show a hockey game over the yankees in North Carolina. I dont understand.) anyway. 7-2. way to go. finally.

How has Staal And Corvo looked? I have them on my fantasy team.

They both have a single point in four games. For Corvo its not a bad start since he is averaging 30 points a season for about the last three years. He is holding down the first line D with Gleason putting Aaron Ward on second.
A point doesnt do Stall justice since he is capable of more but he is still a major playmaker that really drives the offense. He is first line center usually with Samsonov and Rutuu who have both been playing great alongside Stall.

PS. Jussi Jokinen has kept that drive from the playoffs and is leading the team with 4 points (2+2). Not a bad fantasy pick at all.

I can't believe the Bruins almost lost to the Islanders tonight. They waited until the 3rd period to actually start playing. Even though the Bruins won the shootout, I still hate shootouts. I wish the NHL would go back to a tie if nobody scores in the OT.

The NHL should do what the Kooteney International Junior league is doing this year. The shootout is gone(amen) and instead its 5 minutes of 4 on 4 followed by 5 minutes of 3 on 3 and if no one scores by then it's called a tie. Only happened once in a game I've gone to and it ended on a 4 on 3 powerplay in the second o.t. but it sure beats that bettman induced shootout by a million times!

bruins72 wrote:I can't believe the Bruins almost lost to the Islanders tonight. They waited until the 3rd period to actually start playing. Even though the Bruins won the shootout, I still hate shootouts. I wish the NHL would go back to a tie if nobody scores in the OT.

I actually couldn't believe they managed to get 3 scoring chances in the last 10 minutes of the game after failing to create just one in the 50 prior to that
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Tavares isn't too bad. Recchi looks like batdad out there.

So what do you guys think about the rumours of a NHL return to Quebec City?

caniac wrote:PS. Jussi Jokinen has kept that drive from the playoffs and is leading the team with 4 points (2+2). Not a bad fantasy pick at all.

JJ plays like in his first NHL-year in Dallas Stars. I'm very happy that he has found very good drive after lil role in Dallas and trade to Tampa and lil role in Tampa (i'm not sure but i've heard that Bolts head coach didn't liked him)and after his dad's death. Hope he can play many years in top 2 lines. Or in 3rd line cause he can play in two-way role.

Franck wrote:So what do you guys think about the rumours of a NHL return to Quebec City?

Well, I'd certainly like that. Both QC and Winnipeg would certainly welcome the opportunity to host NHL games, and I think that the image of another provincial rivalry emerging (or re-emerging) in Quebec would not be totally unwelcome with the NHL as well. Thing is... it's only a rumour. Still...

Meanwhile, the Leafs are still playing absolute rubbish, and I don't know what on Earth can be done to help that team...

CeeBee wrote:The NHL should do what the Kooteney International Junior league is doing this year. The shootout is gone(amen) and instead its 5 minutes of 4 on 4 followed by 5 minutes of 3 on 3 and if no one scores by then it's called a tie. Only happened once in a game I've gone to and it ended on a 4 on 3 powerplay in the second o.t. but it sure beats that bettman induced shootout by a million times!

I'd gladly see that replace the shootout!

Danny wrote: Recchi looks like batdad out there.

Old and cranky?

Franck wrote:So what do you guys think about the rumours of a NHL return to Quebec City?

I think Bettman is just humoring them. He's going and talking with them, pretending he cares about what they're saying and letting them think they've got a shot. But Bettman hates Canada. He doesn't want to put an more teams in Canada. He wants them in big US television markets, even if they're not good hockey markets, because he thinks that will magically get the NHL a big TV deal.

Here's an idea I just had... what about 2 smaller markets "sharing" a team? They play half of their home games in one place and half in another. If there are less home games for the fans to go to, it would make the games they do have a bigger deal. You have less games to potentially go to, so you try to get to the ones that are there. You'd probably want to cities that aren't too far from each other but far enough away from each other that they're each their own market. I have no idea if it would work but it's an idea.

Daniel Sedin will be out for 4 to 6 weeks with a broken foot....it's bad for my fantasy team.



And for the return of the NHL in Quebec, i don't think i need to respond to this question.

Speaking of the Bolts, they made me look bad last night. The first game of the season I actually get to sit down and watch! They played extremely well. Maybe I can go to the game on wednesday and hope for a win against the Pens!

I have to make a comment about QC since it is a hot topic right now. I would love to see more teams from Canada. I agree that Bettman just wants the money from the US market but it proves how he is ruining the game. I dont know how everyone feels about him but my family in Buffalo as well as Toronto and Tampa all say that he has just tried harder and harder to make it more "attractive" if that really means anything. Someone please correct me but I remember talks of no fighting, bigger goals, smaller goalie equipment, shootout, etc. to raise the scores to make it more interesting and what not. I have been out of the loop for a while since starting college and I would love to have a conversation about that. In another thread maybe?

Back to what I was saying...Canada needs more teams. Im tired of bankrupcy hearings and lack of fan support in the US. Its not a sport of passion for most americans. Give them baseball and football and they are happy. Plenty of people would love to see a return of teams up north. Winnipeg would be great! Just dont take away my Canes!

caniac wrote:Just dont take away my Canes!

Problem is that nobody (fans) wants their team to move to Canada. Winnipeg is small city so i don't think it's good place for hockey and they had financial problems in early 90's cause their hall was small and they doesn't make much money even hall was full. But Quebec should be good place.

what about an expansion like the 00-01 season? we got minnesota and columbus out of nowhere.

caniac wrote:what about an expansion like the 00-01 season? we got minnesota and columbus out of nowhere.

No more expansion, please! There are too many teams losing money and too many poor players in the league

I'm sure by now, Winnipeg will make the job instead of the 90's.

But we don'T need a new expension, oh god no! This would be the most stupidest things to do. If there's some kind of ''expension'' it could be something like 2 poor club move to other city or just make them vanished and we could have 28 clubs in the league, it's still too much, but it's better than nothing.

I agree, expension would be very expensive I think Bettman knows it...

Jypfan92 wrote:

caniac wrote:Just dont take away my Canes!

Problem is that nobody (fans) wants their team to move to Canada. Winnipeg is small city so i don't think it's good place for hockey and they had financial problems in early 90's cause their hall was small and they doesn't make much money even hall was full. But Quebec should be good place.

The biggest issue with Quebec City is that it is more or less a monolingual French city, that makes it very unattractive for non-francophone to play there.

It is also a very small city, compared to most cities with NHL teams.

Franck wrote:

Jypfan92 wrote:

caniac wrote:Just dont take away my Canes!

Problem is that nobody (fans) wants their team to move to Canada. Winnipeg is small city so i don't think it's good place for hockey and they had financial problems in early 90's cause their hall was small and they doesn't make much money even hall was full. But Quebec should be good place.

The biggest issue with Quebec City is that it is more or less a monolingual French city, that makes it very unattractive for non-francophone to play there.

It is also a very small city, compared to most cities with NHL teams.

It is a little bit ''smaller'' than other city but if you take Phoenix with 4.2 millions people and Quebec City with 800 000 people, there still will be more people at Qc that gonna see the hockey instead of Phoenix. In Quebec we love hockey and the arena will always be full every night. Plus, people who lived around Qc like me ( i live about 1 hour out of Qc ) I will go see the game and i'm sure people from MTL will come to see a game, so we can say that from 800 000 people we can go to 2 or 3 millions people easily, so the population of Quebec City isn't very important.

Expansion is NOT the answer for the NHL. If anything, they should contract.

I agree. The NHL can hardly handle what they have now. Giving them more wouldn't help. And with Bettman in charge, I guarantee Canada would not be on the list to get a team.

Maybe Death Valley, Mexico City, Honolulu, Tijuana...

Hell, maybe he'd order the construction of an artificial island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, build an arena on that, and welcome the latest franchise, the Atlantic Ocean Fish, to the NHL.

I'm no sure, but Mexico City has some kind of arena. Did you know that there's hockey arenas in South Africa, Mongolia and Thailand? Off topic but still interesting thing (South Africa has own hockey league, but there's not easy to find shop that sells hockey stuff).

Jypfan92 wrote:I'm no sure, but Mexico City has some kind of arena. Did you know that there's hockey arenas in South Africa, Mongolia and Thailand? Off topic but still interesting thing (South Africa has own hockey league, but there's not easy to find shop that sells hockey stuff).

I've always guess that maybe in Africa it maybe have arena because we can scout in those area's in EHM. If it wasn't the fact why we can scout there? Good things to know, but it seems it's just Kolzig who's been able to make it in the NHL.


So Colorado lead against the Bruins 3-2 in the second period! They still surprising me.

Jypfan92 wrote:I'm no sure, but Mexico City has some kind of arena. Did you know that there's hockey arenas in South Africa, Mongolia and Thailand? Off topic but still interesting thing (South Africa has own hockey league, but there's not easy to find shop that sells hockey stuff).

There's a Mexican hockey league, played pre-season games against them on EHM once

There's also a rink in Abidjan in Côte d'Ivoire where amateur hockey is played, aswell as small, recently started leagues in Morocco and Algeria.

Why are there games so early on a Monday by the way?