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| Alex |
Posted - 05/13/2008 : 14:30:44
It's a little early to celebrate post 2500 for me but an idea popped to mind and I just can't risk forgetting it.
You've probably all heard of David Letterman's Top 10. There are entire websites and books dedicated to archiving the top 10 he presents on his late show. Well, this is PickUpHockey's answer to David Letterman.
Every week or so, I will throw out a topic and you can give me your top 10. At the end of the week (or after we get at least ten lists) we will tally the scores, but it's just more for fun than anything.
Here we go boys and girls! Kicking us off, I am going to start us off with a good one that should get lots of replies.
Top 10 of the 2008 Post Season
1) Making the squid illegal in Joe Louis (and doing it anyways!)
2) Sean Avery on Brodeur
3) Flop of the Sens
4) Martin Biron one hit wonder
5) Sidney Crosby's attempt at a playoff beard
6) Goodbye Jagr, Sakic, Forsberg, Shanahan...?
7) Guy Carbonneau's tie
8) Bud Light / Molson Canadian commercials
9) Playing the national Anthem on the harmonica
10) Early exits = above average IIHF tourny for Canada
P.S. Better to reply than not. If you don't have ten, make your list a little short and vote for the top 5 or whatever floats your boat.
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| wingman |
Posted - 09/24/2008 : 13:48:22
[quote]Originally posted by FranzenFanatic
1 Wings win their 11th cup!
2 Franzen breaks a bunch of Howe's records
3 Wings 9-0 after Hasek, about to finish two sweeps
4 Datsyuk / Zetterberg lead NHL in points in the playoffs
5 Zetterberg goal on Colorado
6 Kronwall hit
7 Osgood but ends Ribeiro
8 Joe Louis still proud to be home of HockeyTown even if some dumb rule tries to make us lose our tradition
9 Lidstrom centre ice goal
10 Don Cherry lashes out at the people who sent in a picture of a donkey for the mule on HNIC
I AGREE 100 PERCENT WITH TEVERYTHING STATED HERE, GOOD ON YA
Canucks blow |
| baimerr |
Posted - 09/04/2008 : 11:10:55
quote:
Originally posted by Canada-Eh
9 Fans watching games outside the arena
lmao... yeah thats just something else. |
| 99pickles |
Posted - 08/28/2008 : 09:58:58
Since we are in the waning days of the off-season business in regards to signings, buyouts, jumping overseas, etc... I thought I would throw an interesting and timely Top Ten out there...
Top Ten Players' Buyout Salaries This Year.
These are the top ten salaries this year for players who are being paid to not play by their former teams - regardless of when the buyout originally began.
10) 700k goes to Dave Scatchard as a lovely parting gift from the 'Yotes
9) 728k may not sound like much for Mark Parrish to walk away from the Wild, but he will eventually receive $4.24M over the next 6 years!!
8) With the new faces in town, Marc Denis makes a tidy 867k to just...walk away...
7) Darcy Tucker gets paid by 2 teams this year...what a special guy! He earns a flat $1M to leave T.O. for 7th on the buyout list, but he also earns another $2.2M to actually play hockey for the Avs. That's $3.2M at the end of the day.
6) Since the lockout, Dan Cloutier has started only 45 games. He was also pulled from nine of those starts. That's outrageous. In that same time his Save % has never been above .892. This is also outrageous. And also in that same 3 seasons he has only won consecutive games on 3 occasions (a 4 game win streak in '05-'06 and two 2 game "streaks", if you will). I completely understand paying him $1.033M to play XBox
5) $1.17 for Alexei Zhitnick to leave...why didn't they just keep him?? I think they could use him, no?
4) Big Bert also gets paid by 2 teams this year. The $1.33M from Anaheim puts him 4th best on the Pay-Not-To-Play list. He only makes slightly more to play for Calgary, but the combined total is a nice payday!
3) Glen Murray gets a handsome $1.33M to leave Beantown.
2) Jozef Stumpel earns a whopping $1.75M from Florida to walk away, plus he'll earn a few crumbs for his new team in...drumroll please - Kazakhstan!
1) Of course, the mother load still belongs (and will for quite some time) to Alexei Yashin. $2.019M to stay the hell away! The kicker is: He will still earn nearly 15 million dollars from now until the end of the 2014/2015 season
sidenote: As of right now, there are 22 players enjoying buyout contracts. The smallest amount for this season? Defenseman Filip Novak gets 83k from the Blue Jackets. |
| I´m also Cånädiön |
Posted - 08/01/2008 : 03:26:40
This list is based on this article from the Montreal Gazette: http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/sports/story.html?id=f24389c9-49db-4177-ad8f-1ed2417fa1fd
Top ten list to help Vancouver sign Sundin:
10. The idea of playing ABBA all the time might have a different effect than what people had hoped for, heres something a bit more up to date: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zl4RcnKMf3s
9. Volvo is a nice car but Sundin might have use for something with a bit more BHP....1004 of them to be exact in the form of the Koenigsegg CCXR.
8. The idea of a Swedish masseur sounds great throw in some bowling-ball polisher and it´s a lock.
7. Play the Swedish National Anthem every time Sundin touches the ice.
6. Convince the refs to wear Pippi Longstocking whigs when judging Canuck games.
5. Replace the puck with a meatball and have some extra if the Sedins look suspiciously hungry.
4. Switch the stick against a fishing rod, drill holes in the ice (preferebly infront of the Canuck goalie) and plant live Salmon under it.
3. Replace the teams waterbottles with Absolut Vodka. It maybe wouldn´t be so productive....but interesting nonetheless.
2. Change all seats in the arena to IKEA Sacco bags.
1. Convince the media to only report about Sundins condition when there´s actually something to report. No reason to make people dislike him a la Crosby before he even have arrived.
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| Alex |
Posted - 07/26/2008 : 18:50:32
quote:
Originally posted by Beans15
The best one to me was Getzlaf. I think it was Getzlaf, might have been Brad May. Anyway, one of the Ducks took the Cup golfing and carried it in the golf cart. When ever they had to mark their ball on the green, they used the Cup. Picked up their ball and cleaned it, put the ball back, an picked up the Cup.
That was awesome.
And for those of you who are asking the question. totally legal by the rules of golf!!
Even more awesome!
Tops for me would have to be Lemieux leaving it at the bottom of his pool. Here's a pretty good list courtesy of the Vancouver Sun:
''Among the other uses and abuses of the Cup:
. In 1991, it was found at the bottom of Pittsburgh Penguin star Mario Lemieux's swimming pool.
. Kentucky Derby winner Go for Gin used it as a feed bag in 1994 at Belmont race track.
. A member of the Edmonton Oilers, reportedly Mark Messier, took the Cup the night after their 1987 championship win to the Forum Inn, a strip club located across the street from Northlands Coliseum.
. Messier, after celebrating the 1994 Cup win with the New York Rangers, took the Cup to an East Side New York strip club. "It was the first time I'd seen our customers eager to touch something besides our dancers," Scores spokesman Lonnie Hanover said.
. In 1905, members of the Ottawa Silver Seven decided to punt the cup over the Rideau Canal on the Ottawa River.''
Proudly Celebrating Over 50 Blogs and Counting |
| Beans15 |
Posted - 07/25/2008 : 17:16:45
quote:
Originally posted by Alex
In response to Tomas Holmstrom's unorthodox way of spending time with the Stanley Cup (which, by the way, I will deal with in The Alex Blog)
Top 10 Things You'd Do With the Cup
10 Bring it to my old school
9 Bring it to a children's hospital
8 Bathe a child in it
7 Eat ice-cream out of it
6 Film an amateur video with it for YouTube
5 Drink champagne out of it
4 Let all my family and extended family take pictures with it
3 Get girls (pretty good babe magnet I'm guessing) 
2 Play practical jokes with it (example, go to the movies and place it in the seat beside me... place it in a parking spot at the mall)
1 Post a picture on Pick Up Hockey!
Proudly Celebrating Over 50 Blogs and Counting
The best one to me was Getzlaf. I think it was Getzlaf, might have been Brad May. Anyway, one of the Ducks took the Cup golfing and carried it in the golf cart. When ever they had to mark their ball on the green, they used the Cup. Picked up their ball and cleaned it, put the ball back, an picked up the Cup.
That was awesome.
And for those of you who are asking the question. totally legal by the rules of golf!!
Even more awesome! |
| Alex |
Posted - 07/25/2008 : 15:47:46
In response to Tomas Holmstrom's unorthodox way of spending time with the Stanley Cup (which, by the way, I will deal with in The Alex Blog)
Top 10 Things You'd Do With the Cup
10 Bring it to my old school
9 Bring it to a children's hospital
8 Bathe a child in it
7 Eat ice-cream out of it
6 Film an amateur video with it for YouTube
5 Drink champagne out of it
4 Let all my family and extended family take pictures with it
3 Get girls (pretty good babe magnet I'm guessing)
2 Play practical jokes with it (example, go to the movies and place it in the seat beside me... place it in a parking spot at the mall)
1 Post a picture on Pick Up Hockey!
Proudly Celebrating Over 50 Blogs and Counting |
| Alex |
Posted - 07/24/2008 : 04:15:55
One of my favourite people to read from, IHateCrosby, is AWOL. In honour of him:
Top 10 outlandish hockey statements you would like to make and not be held accountable for later
10) Mike Babcock bribed Belichek to steal the spotlight while the Wings ran their own little spy gate scandal away from the public eye  (I don't actually believe that)
9) Russian players only play one way hockey and Scandinavians are scared of their shadow
8) Michael Landsberg spends more time pimping in front of the mirror than Jeremy Roenick
7) Gary Betman is the greatest thing that happened to the NHL since pretzel vendors were introduced
6) Todd Bertuzzi does not deserve to be playing hockey and Chris Simon should be under the same scrutiny as Barry Bonds
5) Patrick Roy was a wussy who hid behind his goaltending to make up for his inability to throw a punch
4) Quebec should have its own team in the IIHF
3) There’s no such a thing as a Coyotes, Predators or Jackets fan
2) Don Cherry is a fashion god
1)The Leafs will win the cup next year (Ya, right.)
Proudly Celebrating Over 50 Blogs and Counting |
| hockster |
Posted - 07/23/2008 : 16:44:29
Sin city may pose as a problem due to the large amounts of gambling/Betting there, and then we wouldnt want an Tim donaghy case in hockey |
| Open_Ice |
Posted - 07/23/2008 : 08:23:19
Top 10 NHL markets that should be considered before Nashville
Good idea alex, heres my take... (meaning I used wikipedia to look up american city populations  )
The first two have already been considered, look for Kansas City to be one of the next teams and so far Toronto doesn't want to allow another team nearby for a couple more years
1. Waterloo (with Toronto's permission)
2. Kansas City
3. Indianapolis
4. Quebec City
5. San Antonio/Houston/Austin
6. Winnipeg
7. Baltimore
8. Cleveland
9. San Diego
10. Las Vegas?
I think the players would like a team in Las Vegas  |
| Alex |
Posted - 07/23/2008 : 04:47:03
In response to all the talk circiling the fradulent would-be owner of the Nashville Predators:
Top 10 NHL markets that should be considered before Nashville
Miami
Indianapolis
Syracuse
Baltimore
Regina
P.E.I
Halifax
Brampton
Winnipeg
Quebec
Proudly Celebrating Over 50 Blogs and Counting |
| Alex |
Posted - 07/21/2008 : 17:08:27
In honour of Toews being named third youngest captain in NHL history:
Top Ten Active Natural Choices for NHL Captains
(Just has to be active. Could be a has-been captain or an up-and-coming one.)
10) Mike Modano
9) Eric Staal
8) Shane Doan
7) Mats Sundin
6) Alexander Ovechkin
5) Mike Richards
4) Nicklas Lidstrom
3) Sidney Crosby
2) Jarome Iginla
1) Joe Sakic
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| I´m also Cånädiön |
Posted - 07/17/2008 : 05:02:21
quote:
Originally posted by Alex
10) Swedish Elite - nice country, friendly people, good players. Now if only I could say 'Hey Babe' in Swedish...
I promise that you will be very popular if you say this (whistles in an innocent way ): Hej Snygging! |
| Alex |
Posted - 07/17/2008 : 04:00:07
In honour of the many places free agents have gone this season, including a new KHL:
Top Ten Places You'd Want to Play Pro Hockey
10) Swedish Elite - nice country, friendly people, good players. Now if only I could say 'Hey Babe' in Swedish...
9) Buffalo Sabres - NorthEast division, and the shopping is great!
8) New York Rangers - Original Six Team, and living life in the Big Apples every day!
7) Calgary Flames - The fans are nuts and it's a great atmosphere!
6) Edmonton Oilers - Ditto.
5) HC Davos - I'm a Swiss citizen and they're the best team in the Swiss league. And a pretty nice city, too!
4) Boston Bruins - Original Six Team, highest concentration of universities or colleges in North America I believe. It's a beautiful city with friendly people.
3) Ottawa Senators - Nation's Capital, nice city, NorthEast division, right near Parliament unless I ever want to go down Dryden's path...!
2) Toronto Maple Leafs - Original Six Team, playing in my home town. And no pressure to play well whatsoever!
1) Montreal Canadiens - you know why
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| Alex |
Posted - 07/16/2008 : 16:20:36
In honour of the NHL selecting its location for the 2009 Winter Classic:
Top 10 Places for the 2010 Winter Classic
10) Salt Lake City, Utah
9) TSN Studios
8) Montreal Forum
7) Parliament Hill
6) CNE
5) Atop a cruise ship
4) Vancouver – hey, if they’re prepared to host the world for a few weeks they can host us for a day!
3) West Edmonton Mall (Ice Palace)
2) Staal backyard
1) Kandahar
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| Alex |
Posted - 07/14/2008 : 09:39:24
Sorry guys, I stopped this for a while because there weren't many active members, but I figured it's about time to get it up and running again so here we go:
Top 10 Stanley Cup Contenders 2008/09
1) Detroit
2) Dallas
3) Calgary
4) Anaheim
5) Pittsburgh
6) Philadelphia
7) San Jose
8) Montreal
9) Carolina
10) Ottawa
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| Alex |
Posted - 06/25/2008 : 07:46:45
Top 10 Unrestricted Free-Agents Your Team Should Sign
Montreal Canadiens
10) Jason Smith - blocks shot, makes big hits
9) Jaromir Jagr - able to score pretty consistently
8) Marian Hossa - speedy, probably a good match for Koivu
7) Ryan Malone - think Jason Smith on forward
6) Cory Stillman - knows how to win
5) Kristian Huselius - good player
4) Brian Rolston - veteran leadership, able to get some points
3) Brian Campbell - great puck mover, plays exactly the way Montreal teams play
2) Mats Sundin - leader, strong as an ox, hungry for a championship
1) (re-sign) Mark Streit - promising future, he deserves to be resigned and not tested in free agent waters
-The New Kid on the Block |
| 99pickles |
Posted - 06/24/2008 : 01:46:33
Top Ten Little Known Facts About the Stanley Cup...
10) The art on the bowl includes the image of an eagle snatching a baby from it's crib.
9) The document that allows the NHL sole custody of the cup includes the line "so long as the league continues to be the world's leading professional league as determined by it's playing calibre".
8) There are actually 3 Stanley Cups...the original retired bowl (and various rings), the 'Presentation Cup' which is essentially the real cup now, and the 'Replica' cup that stands in place of the Presentation Cup at the Hall of Fame - just so that there isn't an empty space while the other is on tour, or at a championship game.
7) A portion of the cup is missing, believed to have been melted down by Montreal exec's and used in the making of a special award that was given to Toe Blake back in 1972. The missing piece that was melted down? The 1928-29 Boston Bruins ring from the 'stove-pipe' version of the cup !
6)The greatest span of time between a person's first and last appearance on the cup is a whopping 53 years! Marcel Pronovost first appeared as a player in '49-'50, and last appeared as a scout in '02-'03.
5)The first team to ever win the cup - the Montreal Hockey Club (MHC) refused to accept it until they were eventually plied with gifts from their more famous parent organization - the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association (Montreal AAA).
4) The 1901 cup champ Winnipeg Victorias were forced to celebrate their win without the cup because the official taking care of it could not be found.
3) When Ottawa Silver Seven captain Harvey Pulford drop-kicked the cup onto the frozen Rideau Canal in the spring of 1905, teammate Harry Smith was the man who retrieved it. It stayed at his house for a full year - until the 1906 champion Montreal Wanderers had to come for it!
2)The shortest cup reign was 63 days by the Kenora Thistles. They defeated the Wanderers in a challenge in January of 1907, only to lose it back to them in a challenge in March.
And the Number One little known Stanley Cup fact.....
1) It's made of cream cheese!!
(sources for this post include: "Total Hockey: Second Edition", "Lord Stanley's Cup", "Total Stanley Cup", "Quest for the Cup" and "Things to do with Cream Cheese") |
| Axey |
Posted - 06/15/2008 : 11:57:41
quote:
Originally posted by Axey
10 . Go with Toskala, sign an older guy for a back up that can mentor him, he isn't all that old you know .
9. Time to ship off Sundin, you need a facelift.
8. Fire your whole scouting staff.
7. Dump Colaiacovo, played about 10 games in the past 8 years, was a nice draft pick... injury prone.
6. Trade Antropov for a solid Forward and a draft pick, while his value is still a little valuable.
5. Sign one big, stay-at-home defensemen, with a good +/- record and Forward.
4. Tucker for a bag a pucks.
3. Get Cliff Fletcher out of their, and hire someone.
2. Get some luck
1. Draft some damn players, get some youth, when was the last time we seen a young successful Leafs team.
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| Axey |
Posted - 06/14/2008 : 12:38:27
10 . Go with Toskala, sign an older guy for a back up that can mentor him, he isn't all that old you know .
9. Time to ship off Sundin, you need a facelift.
8. Fire your whole scouting staff.
7. Dump Colaiacovo, played about 10 games in the past 8 years, was a nice draft pick... injury prone.
6. Trade Antropov for a solid Forward and a draft pick, while his value is still a little valuable.
5. Sign one big, stay-at-home defensemen, with a good +/- record and Forward.
4. Tucker for a bag a pucks.
3. Get Cliff Fletcher out of their, and hire someone.
2. Get some luck
1. Draft some damn players. |
| Alex |
Posted - 06/11/2008 : 11:49:48
Want to throw this out before the window of opportunity closes, though in reality I doubt it ever will on the Maple Leafs.
Top 10 Moves the Leafs Should Make if They Want to Find Success
10 Put their faith in Raycroft, not Toskala
9 Ban the media for a year. At the very least, ban the players from watching what the media says about their team. It only serves to lower their morale
8 Impose a self-proclaimed salary cap on themselves lower than that of the NHL to stop them from signing big free agents and force them to actually draft a winning team, not buy it
7 Bring back Pat (Quinn or Burns)
6 Dump Blake, Tucker and Kubina ASAP
5 Tell Peddie and the Tachers Union to take a hike
4 Stop putting it in their minds that they suck when they aren’t half as bad as most of us make them out to be
3 Keep Sundin until he retires, not insult him with some old wrinkly interim G.M. who wants to save his skin by getting rid of the heart and soul of the organization
2 Bring back Gary Roberts and make a Gordie Howe out of him by signing him till he’s 50
1 Let Tanenbaum himself be the GM, he’s the only man with brains in the organization
-The New Kid on the Block |
| Gostarsgo12 |
Posted - 06/08/2008 : 10:06:28
Hartley
Tortarella
Wilson
Maurice
Quenville
Burns
Hanlon
Quinn
Hartsburg
Paddock
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| BradTheBadDad |
Posted - 06/08/2008 : 09:55:50
Top 10 Coaches I'd Pick
Scotty Bowman
Pat Quinn
Jacques Martin
Mike Millbury
Paul Maurice
Patrick Roy
John Tortarella
Joel Quenneville
Ron Wilson
Glen Hanlon
''Eat. Sleep. Hockey'' |
| Alex |
Posted - 06/08/2008 : 09:35:05
Top 10 Available Coaches You'd Hire If You Had A Vacancy
1 Paul Maurice
2 John Tortarella
3 Jacques Martin
4 Mike Millbury
5 Ron Wilson
6 Joel Quenneville
7 Bob Hartley
8 Patrick Roy
9 Glen Hanlon
10 John Paddock
-Da King |
| SuperSakic |
Posted - 06/04/2008 : 08:24:35
Conn Smythe winners:
10. Hal Gill - just to stick it to the Leafs
9. Cleary - great work ethic, and has a solid beard
8. Rafalski - the little engine that tried
7. Hossa - the only penguin able to score on a consistent basis
6. Franzen - how can anyone not like a mule?
5. Osgood - very steady. If not for his antics, he's be higher.
4. Fleury - The ONLY reason the pens are still alive
3. Lidstrom - like a rock
2. Datsyuk - a lot of heart! If he just scored a few more goals, I'd put him number one.
1. Zetterberg - simply the best player of the playoffs
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| Gostarsgo12 |
Posted - 06/04/2008 : 07:29:10
Datsyuk- Best All round player in the whole playoffs
Zetterberg- PP, even strength, and PK goals, this guy is amazing
Crosby- Without him offence wouold be lost
Osgood- Just really solid
Fleury- Saved them last night
Franzen- Goal Scoring Machine
Hossa- Has picked up play last couple games
Lidstrom- Quietly does job
Gonchar- Gets back on ice for the last PP and they finally score
Talbot- Gets team pumped, scored a huge goal.
Close Considerations- Hal Gill, Andres LIlja |
| Alex |
Posted - 06/04/2008 : 04:22:31
It's been a while, eh? I'm not going to update this as frequently only because I don't think we'll get such a great turnout for some of the better topics I have planned, but for now there's a good one which is only relavent during a certain period of time, so I might as well throw this one out:
Top 10 Conn Smythe Candidates
1) Henrik Zetterberg. Did everything
2) Chris Osgood. Never faltered
3) Sidney Crosby. Put his team on his back, most consistent of them all
4) Pavel Datsyuk. Lesser version of Zetterberg
5) Nicklas Lidstrom. How is this guy not higher on most people's list?
6) Evgeni Malkin. Unstoppable through three rounds.
7) Johan Franzen. Arguably the best if not for his injury.
8) Marc Andre Fleury. Solid, composed tender that makes the big saves when he had to. If they win the cup, Fleury will be much higher on this list and in my mind, deserves the trophy.
9) Sergei Gonchar. Veteran leadership and sound defensive play. He won't win it.
10) Brian Rafalski. Incredible player, but highly overshadowed. He won't win it.
-Alex |
| ThorntonisTHEMAN |
Posted - 05/28/2008 : 08:06:11
lol shaddup! that was disgraceful! although, if they would've won that 4 overtime game, they would've won the series, no problem! curses! they better win next year!
quote:
Originally posted by Gostarsgo12
hey welcome back. The only important thing you missed was that my Stars knocked your Sharks and Big Joe out of the Playoffs hehehe. Good to have you back.
"I'm not dumb enough to be a goalie."
Brett Hull. |
| Gostarsgo12 |
Posted - 05/28/2008 : 07:31:15
hey welcome back. The only important thing you missed was that my Stars knocked your Sharks and Big Joe out of the Playoffs hehehe. Good to have you back. |
| ThorntonisTHEMAN |
Posted - 05/28/2008 : 07:16:42
Top 10 Reasons to Watch the Finals:
10: One word: Franzen
9: Watch Hal Gill get caught flat-footed as the entire Wings team dekes past the big pilon.
8: Young Stud vs. Old Fart
7: First Swede to captain a cup team
6: Gary Roberts could die any day now
5: Penguins might actually score a goal!
4: Crosby swore that if Malkin gets more points than him this series, he would challenge Malkin to a dual.
3: In an desperate measure to try and get people to watch the Stanley Cup finals, Gary Bettman promised all those who watch the game a free piece of pizza personally delivered by Bettman himself.
2: The Leafs aren't in the finals
1: Watch Sid the Kid cry when the Pens lose
I'm back, dudes!
"I'm not dumb enough to be a goalie."
Brett Hull. |
| Axey |
Posted - 05/26/2008 : 18:11:36
Wow ... it's been a long time... I haven't been active since the Habs were eliminated but my top 10 is ...
10. Quite possibly one of the most exciting finals in a while.
9. The near end of a dynasty vs. the beginning of one
8. Crosby-Malkin vs. Datsyuk-Zetterberg
7. Crosby brings the cup back to Pittsburg like the fans and critics said he would.
6. Franzen could steal the show
5. Osgood vs. Fleury - Mismatch? Or have we all been wrong about the underrated osgood
4. The Motor City vs. The Steel City
3. Original 6 vs. Second 6
2. I also like the Conn Smythe debate going from in goal to 4th liners to first liners.
1. Youth vs. Experience |
| Alex |
Posted - 05/23/2008 : 04:08:39
Too bad more people didn't respond to that one... I guess I should post the better topics during a more busy season on the site, eh?
Here's one we can all relate to and is pretty timely as well
Top Ten Reasons to Watch the Finals this Year
10. Get set for some show-stopping goals from Crosby, Malkin, Hossa, Zetterberg, and Datsyuk who will make this one feel more like an all-star game than a cup final.
9. Brain beats brawn and talent has the upper hand on tactics in a series that will see good hockey played the way it is meant to be played as opposed to goons slowing down the game and worrying more about hitting than playing. Three cheers for puck possession!
8. Offense and youth vs. Defense and experience – inquiring minds want to know which side will prevail.
7. Youngest captain to hoist the cup or first Swede captain to hoist it? Here’s hoping Sid wins this little tête-à-tête.
6. Everyone is throwing out the big names, but will Johan Franzen silence them all with his scoring prowess?
5. Fantasy hockey. The four players who own the lead in NHL scoring are staples of this series… ‘nuf said.
4. Fleury and his nerves of glass or Osgood and his reputation at being a passenger on the Detroit bandwagon? One of them will throw the monkey off their back and on to the other tender’s.
3. Maybe one of the most heated Conn Smythe debates in a decade! Again, let’s hope Sid can redeem himself and salvage the injury-plagued season by nabbing the Smyth and Stanley in one shot.
2. Will this be the last time Malkin and Sid play together?? Say it ain’t so!
1. Detroit /Pittsburgh just beats the living daylights out of New Jersey / Anaheim, Calgary / Tampa, Ottawa / Anaheim and my personal favourite, Carolina / Edmonton.
EDIT: Who would have thought the Pistons would do so well against the Celtics? Imagine if the Wings and Pistons won in the same year! Real-Estate in Motown would triple -- every sports fan wants a good team to cheer for! |
| n/a |
Posted - 05/20/2008 : 05:24:24
Top 10 Ways to "Improve" our Game: Dedicated to the Notorious American Crusader also known as Gary Betman
Take note of the quotes around the word "improve".
10. Noted dive artists get to wear figure skates, and are rewarded with powerplays - based on judging of course. No Russian judges admitted for Red Wing games.
9. We take the glowing red puck to the ice, installing a sturdy flashing light inside the puck with beam holes, so that all the fans can follow. Players now allowed to wear sunglasses.
8. On Hallowe'en, players get to dress up in costume, with fake vampire teeth mouthguards and all. Multiple costumes adding to the confusion only makes it a win-win for the fans!
7. When a player is penalised, you now sit on the dunking chair, and fans can pay $9.99 ($12.99 in the U.S.) to get a chance at sinking the opposing team's player by throwing a beanbag at a target. 2 minutes gets you cold water; a five minute major gets you hot tar. Game ejections put you in the lion's den . . . literally!
6. To make the game more gentlemanly, when fighters square off for fisticuffs, the non-instigator has a choice of pistol, sword or fists. Every duel must be started by a gentle facewash and throwing down of the glove.
5. To combat goalie interference, the blue ice area is electrified, so that if a forward touches it, he receives a mild shock. Goalies wear special rubber skates and equipment. New penalty made on account of Tomas Holmstrom - 2 minutes for illegal wearing of a rubber.
4. For another inventive revenue generator, old sweaty equipment is squeezed in a press to get the sweat out. For only $9.99 you too can get a thimble-ful of Crosby's ball sweat!
3. In a feelgood gesture, and in order to spread democracy and garner more fans, Canadian teams play the whole preseason in Kabul, Afghanistan. Flak jackets and body armour optional. We're still working on the whole 'ice melting' situation . . .
2. Supplementing the last point, at the end of the year, the two worst American teams in the standings play in Baghdad, Iraq. The losers serve a tour of duty; the winners . . . have better odds of surviving.
And the number one way to improve our game:
1. Obama for Commissioner!
"Take off, eh?" - Bob and Doug |
| pokermatt12 |
Posted - 05/19/2008 : 19:05:21
10. Change the present net size to the size of a soccer net, that should put up the scoring, Gary.
9. Only wooden sticks, the new ones keep breaking and are costing the NHL valuable revenue.
8. For icing, change the position to where you can dump the puck from the center line to your own blue line, and make it no touch icing to prevent injuries (Thanks Gretz)
7. Make a rule that Crosby can't grow a beard
6. Take away the crease, what is that even used for anyways?
5. Let the puck stay in play if it hits the netting, it might give us some pretty creative goals
4. Take away the dreaded kicking motion rule, nobody knows exactly what is a goal anymore
3. Make distinct suspensions, and no more double standard
2. Cap Chelios to only let him play until he's got great-grandchildren
1. Make a damn trophy for most assists already!
He who controls the present controls the past; he who controls the past controls the future. |
| Beans15 |
Posted - 05/19/2008 : 15:22:38
10) Smaller Goalie Pads. Use them as intended, to protect the goalie, not to stop shots and cover the entire bottom of the net.
9)Go back to the old jerseys. The new one's look like PJ's.
8)Remove the instigator rule
7)Don't increase the salary cap with revenue. Keep the cap the same and lower ticket prices by the yearly revenue increase.
6)No more 3 points games. 2 points for a win, 1 each if the game goes to a shoot out. Use the shoot out to dictate standings if two teams have the same points and same amount of wins.
5) Take away the penalty for delay of game for shoot the puck over the boards and make it the same as an icing call. Offending team can not change lines and the face off is in the offending teams zone.
4) Have the All Star game outside. Rideau Canal in Ottawa, the Colorado Rockies, or the Canadian Rockies. Have the winning side at the All Star Game dictate home ice advantage for the Stanley Cup Finals
3) Drop two teams in the league making a total of 28. Shorten the season to 80 games (no divisions, just two conferences, play against the sae conference 4 times each and the other conference twice)
2)Make NHL discipline about the act and the intent, not the player and the outcome.
1) Make Helmets optional, make cooperall's mandatory, and make players all weared horned rimmed safety glasses a la the Hanson Brothers.
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| Keith |
Posted - 05/19/2008 : 07:49:24
HAHAHA! I hope Gary Betman actually reads this!
10 NHL custodial staff get it way too easy. From now on we’re going to throw peanuts in the bleachers just to make it feel more American.
9 We need bigger nets and bigger pads – to accommodate the bigger (fatter) American goalies taking over the number one spot on every team!
8 When’s the last time NHL cheerleaders got any attention? From now on, people will be paying for the main event – Paris Hilton in a two piece.
7 American National Anthem comes second. We’ll rush through that dreary Canadian one, than we can get to the good one.
6 The next 50 million dollar NHL endorsement? Campbell’s Chunky: The official soup of Anson Carter, George Laraque, Donald Brashear, Jarome Iginla and Jamal Mayers. I can see the ads now…
5 The NHL’s next great hockey player: Raul Garcia.
4 The one after that? Jishiro Matsuzika
3 Screw Harper. Cameramen will be trained to film George Bush and all look alikes in attendance.
2 Fifteen going on 50: Canadian fans may have to wait a little bit for their next Stanley Cup…
1 HockeyTown? Detriot. HockeyState? Pennsylvania. HockeyRegion? Southern USA. HockeyCountry? USA!
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| Datsyuk 1 |
Posted - 05/19/2008 : 00:18:09
What a cool topic, lol. I will post mine in the morning too tired and lazy to at the moment. :D |
| BradTheBadDad |
Posted - 05/18/2008 : 11:52:36
Hahaha I love this!
Here are the absolute top 10 best ways to improve the NHL!
10 Put all the healthy scratches in a bullpen and let them enjoy chewing gum with each other.
9 It really doesn’t matter who wins as long as we make more money from the gambling than from the attendance, right?
8 Let’s knock off 70 games from the schedule. I’m thinking 12 games is good enough, with a weeklong break in between games to discuss every detail of every player on every team.
7 Team Captains can challenge any call. Except Crosby. He’s a Canadian cry baby.
6 Hats are not to be thrown during the hat-trick. They are to be kept, so that you can put them on your chest at the end of the game during the Pledge of Allegiance.
5 Personal fouls, technical fouls and ethnic fouls! From now on, the word ‘eh’ is an obscenity and anyone who says it will get ejected from the game.
4 Gary Betman, spend three quarters of your day hustling with major US corporations to see which one will pay you the most for a commercial slot on Stanley Cup Sunday.
3 With the remaining quarter of your day, make public appearances and do book signings.
2 Make up some steroids policy just because you have to. Then pretend not to notice when some guy breaks Gretzky’s records. Instead, sue him in a Federal Court. (That was a knock at Bud Selig and Barry Bonds for those who did not get it)
1 Bonus points will be awarded every game to the player with the best ‘touchdown dance’. Hear that? That’s Sean Avery’s value sky rocketing. |
| Alex |
Posted - 05/18/2008 : 11:24:35
This may just be the best one we will ever have! Beans, have a field day with this bad boy! IHC and MarkhamMax, I look forward to reading your lists as well! And slozo my man, blow us away with another hilarious edition of the David Letterman Top 10! Possibly the greatest post to ever come from me, so enjoy it!
Top 10 Ways to Improve our Game: Dedicated to the Notorious American Crusader also known as Gary Betman
10) Coaches can call timeouts whenever they please. As long as it doesn’t interfere with the seventh inning stretch.
9) Frankly, face-offs are starting to get on my nerves. Let’s just flip a darned coin and get the show on the road.
8) Open the roof of arenas during nice days. Let little kids stand outside the arena to gather pucks that are hit out of the park
7) Ever hear of football card collectors? Or better yet, basketball card collectors? Why the hell should the NHL stand out? Anyone seen collecting hockey cards from now on will be tarred and feathered. (Not necessarily in that order)
6) Half time shows during the cup playoffs featuring previous American Idol winners
5) Fine! Go to your stinking Olympics for all I care – but I’m holding back the Canadians!
4) The next Heritage Classic: a good ol’ game between the Nashville Predators and Atlanta Thrashers. Let’s play on the fourth of July and launch fireworks. Maybe we can lure some MLB fans to our great game of hockey, what do you say?
3) Let’s hear it for the Vegas Canadiens and the Milwaukee Maple Leafs! And my personal favourite, the Oakland Canucks! Three cheers for expansion!
2) Single-knockout playoffs! While we’re at it, let’s give a bye to whomever the heck we feel like giving it to – so long as the team is from the Southern U.S. Oh, and about that stinking overtime? From now on, Simon Cowell will vote on the winner; when he gets bored, we’ll call it a game.
1) Divisions are way too confusing. From now on we will have an AL, a CL and a QL: American League, Canadian League, and Quebec League! |
| MardiGras |
Posted - 05/18/2008 : 05:43:25
(the first couple might not be so big to all of you but they have personal value to me for dif. reasons)
10 Miikka Kipprusoff could have won the series for the Flames… had he been in net!
9 Carolina looking great and playing well but lose Brindamour and ends up missing the playoffs
8 All the talk about a 'future Norris stud' - I have news for you Dion, not so long as Lidstrom is playing!
7 Boston upset on Montreal so, so close! 
6 Penguins could have gone 8-0 to start playoffs but messed it up
5 Swedes IIHF
(and then there's the obvious ones of course)
4 Montreal Canadiens
3 Sidney Crosby
2 Washington Capitals
1 Ottawa Senators
Lot's of could have would have should have this year if you think about it. The All-Star game pretty much summed up the rest of the year. A let down with a lot of excitement where everything expected to happen didn't. |
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