NHL Hockey

[Theodred]

Is anyone else a hockey fan? I know Bere is! ;)

Right now my Bruins are only 2 points out of first place in the Northeast Division, and Bere's Senators are a point behind us. :b

[Arathorn III]

Only because we had 13 players missing from the second last game (against Toronto) due to injuries/flu bug. I'm not joking either. :sick

Anyone else here hate Toronto? :cool

[Theodred]

They're all right, I don't hold a grudge against them. But Montreal...:evil

[Damaring]

Don't hate Toronto, even though I'm in Ottawa. I don't actually care what team wins, but I cheer for Ottawa to bug my boyfriend, who is a Toronto fan. Or whoever else Toronto is playing.

[Theodred]

Any predictions for the playoffs yet?

[Arathorn III]

Trust me, Toronto is a very annoying team. They slash, beat, hook, and play dirty, not allowing more skilled players to play. That's not hockey. They do have a selection of very good players who are not goons - Sundin, Kaberle, Mogilny, Nolan. Ottawa can check better though, and Chris Neil can take on Domi anyday. :)

But are you seriously from Ottawa, Damaring? You're the first on Rohan who is, besides me and Balin! :Dc

[Arathorn III]

Stratford! That's a really cool town. I've been there a couple times.

Personally I find Ottawa dull and uninteresting, but it is home, and I mostly only do dull things when I'm in town. :tongue

[Theodred]

Any Calgary fans out there? I kinda like them, don't know why. There's up by 1 right now against Anaheim after 1 Period. :)

[Damaring]

Didn't grow up here. Originally from Stratford, Ontario, and came here for school. Really liked it here, so decided to move here when school was over.

[Arathorn III]

(Back to hockey) ;)

[Arathorn III]

Good. I like all the Canadian teams (excepting Toronto), and Calgary is a nice city. :)

[Poguemahone]

Ottawa is the best, but second to none is Vancouver.

[Theodred]

Yeah, I like them too. They were playing late last night, did they win?

[Arathorn III]

I personally like to watch Edmonton in the playoffs. They are a really exciting team to watch. Those Edmonton-Dallas series were classics. :)

[Theodred]

Speaking of Dallas, what's your opinion of hockey teams in the south? There really aren't as many fans down there, most people go to games to watch the fights. But some cities are starting to get loyal fan bases like Anaheim and Dallas.

[Arathorn III]

My opinion? I think you're right about the fans. All these teams moved south for the money. The percentage of real hockey fans are in Canada and Northeastern USA, but those teams can't afford the players. The worst thing about teams in the south of course is the fact that the ice sucks, because it's too warm. :)

[Theodred]

I remember that I was sad when the Hartford Whalers moved to Carolina. (Two states represented by one word, I wonder if there will ever be teams from Dakota? :brow ) Hartford is probably never going to have a professional sports team again. :(

[Theodred]

Well, since the Senators won on Saturday and the Bruins lost, I think your team is now in 2nd place Bere! :)

[Arathorn III]

Ottawa and both Toronto won today, so Ottawa is one point back of the Leafs in the NE division, but with one game at hand. :)

[Poguemahone]

And they will win in the end. (Ottawa)

[Damaring]

*lol*

Go Leafs go!

*runs, ducks, and hides*

[Arathorn III]

:angry Burarum!

[Poguemahone]

*Gets ready to help the mob*

[Arathorn III]

:lolc

The Sens suffered a rather annoying OT loss to Atlanta last night. :(

[Theodred]

The Bruins and Senators are tied again for second place in the Northeast.:tongue

[Arathorn III]

And Toronto is ahead? Ugh. :(c

[Theodred]

One of our teams better catch them. I think we're only two points out. :)

[Arathorn III]

It won't be long before the fall to second or third place, if both Ottawa and Boston are trailing them. :evilc

[Damaring]

You mean you don't want the blue and white face paint in maple leaf shapes? *innocent look*

[Eowyn Elfsheen]

*wished she knew more about North America*

[Arathorn III]

NHL Standings (http://nhl.com/onthefly/standings/conf_stand.html)

The playoffs are nearing! My Sens are one win from second in the east, with a game at hand on Philly and Toronto. The Bruins are in third, they look to have clinched the division title. :)

[Damaring]

And now anyone who shows up at the Corel Centre (where the Senators play) in a Toronto jersey is supposed to make a donation to the food bank.

[Theodred]

Woohoo! Go Bruins. :)

[Arathorn III]

And now anyone who shows up at the Corel Centre (where the Senators play) in a Toronto jersey is supposed to make a donation to the food bank. Woohoo! I love that rule! Go Rick Chiarrelli! :D

[Damaring]

methinks 'tis Bob

[Arathorn III]

No, it's Rick (a councellor, not the mayor) who came up with this idea. :)

[Damaring]

ok. 'cause the mayor is Bob.

[Arathorn III]

Yup, they must be related. Otherwise that would be too much of a coincidence. How many other Chiarellis do you know? :)


Back to hockey:

NHL Standings (http://nhl.com/onthefly/standings/conf_stand.html)

[fingolfin jones]

I can't believe how lousy my LA Kings are. When Gretz' played for them...:\

[Arathorn III]

Do you have any others teams you can cheer for? :)

[Damaring]

The Sens

[Arathorn III]

Tonight was the worst game I've seen. And Domi injured Bondra checking boarding him. Toronto took the puck and scored while Bondra was lying on the ice. The Sens played awful anyway though, so can't blame the refs too much.

They will play better in the playoffs though. :)

[fingolfin jones]

Year and a half after your last post. Still like Hockey, Bere? :lol

[Poguemahone]

I love it, and its a good time to be a Sens fan.

[Arathorn III]

The Sens are exponentially the best team in the league right now - I so love hockey. ;)

[fingolfin jones]

How have they done against the stupid red Wings this year?

[Arathorn III]

They don't play the Red Wings. ;)

But the Red wings have lost twice as many games as Ottawa.

[fingolfin jones]

Oh, NHL doesn't have inter-divisional games? Don't you get tires of seeing the same teams play Ottawawawa?

[Arathorn III]

Nah, it's alright. There are some of those East/West games, but not many...none at all yet! :eeks

[fingolfin jones]

Who else is in your division? I bet you love beating the Maple Leaf. :biggrin

[Arathorn III]

Ohhh yes! In fact we haven't lost to a team in our division yet...

Montreal
Toronto
Boston
Buffalo

We've creamed them all. ;)

[fingolfin jones]

Montreal used to be my favorite team back when NHL was regularly on network TV (long, long ago). Then I got the Gretz' fever and followed Edmonton. Now it's the Kings. All we have here is junior hockey (Winterhawks).

[Poguemahone]

I am still a sens fan, from the other side of the pond too. I know everything about them before Bere does.

[Arathorn III]

I like Montreal...it's a good rivalry with Ottawa but I don't hate them like I hate the Leaves. :)

[fingolfin jones]

Was it Buffalo or New Jersey who were doing real good a few years ago. I think that one of them made it all the way to the Stanley Cup?

[Arathorn III]

New Jersey...they beat Ottawa out in the Semi's for it too...in the last minute of game 7...the puck sneaked past Wade Redden's skate with an inch to spare, onto the stick of that Devil...

That play haunts me more than any other...except perhaps St. Louis' OT goal in Game 6 last year against Calgary...

[fingolfin jones]

Really? You don't like the Blues?

I bet you that you and Theo' have it out when you play the Bruins. Or maybe he doesn't follow hockey? He is busy filming Zoom and all...

[Arathorn III]

Um...no, I meant Martin St. Louis. ;)

And...no, the Ottawa-Boston rivalry isn't big between us.

*throws popcorn at Theo*

[fingolfin jones]

I don't know if he'll ever read this. I've seen him more on MSN with Barahir than here at Rohan.

I wish that we had an NHL team. I don't like the Canucks and they're the closest team here.

[Arathorn III]

I do...but then, they're Canadian. ;)

What about San Jose? They have Big Joe now...

[fingolfin jones]

I've never really been a big SJ fan, neither Anaheim (well the name Mighty Ducks turned me off).

Hey, all of those new teams in the US...I must have missed it when teams left Hartford and waht not. Could you tell me where the new teams used to play at. Maybe the moves in the past 5 years?

[Arathorn III]

Um...who moved? Well, Minnesota to Dallas, but that was awhile ago - Quebec to Colorado..also long ago. Hartford went to Carolina (Hurricanes are one of two teams to beat Ottawa this year, and they did it twice - Staal is on fire). Winnipeg became Phoenix, right? Columbus just happened...so did Minnesota (the Wild). Then there is Nashville...um...I think they just happened too...

[fingolfin jones]

Cool thanks Bere. I actually copied and pasted your post to Text Edit so I wouldn't forget. Well, your Sens game is almost on huh?

[Arathorn III]

Yeah...and...it was horrible. I shouldn't have gone boasting...it was their worst game. :p Boston's trade looked good...

[RW7427]

Being from Ohio, I could root for Columbus, but they suck! :eeks!

Instead I'll root for Ottawa. :lol

[Poguemahone]

That was a sad game, Boston ended up shuting out the Sens, first team to do that in the NHL. Now, the weird thing is, I dont recognize the goalie that was playing for Boston, but I guess that he did his job well. Sad sad game that was.

[Arathorn III]

He did do his job well, but sadly he didn't even have the chance to be outstanding. :(

[fingolfin jones]

Wow, that was a stunner...I wonder were Theo. is and why he's not gloating. :p Well, at least Detroit lost to Calgary. They still both have 38 pts.. Crap, Dallas is ahead of the Kings. :\

[Arathorn III]

The Kings are...well, they aren't very nice from what I'm hearing. ;)

Calgary won? Awesome - I still love them since the last playoffs.

[fingolfin jones]

The Kings are...well, they aren't very nice from what I'm hearing.

Hmmm? :eek2

[Arathorn III]

One of their players ran over Hasek, and then later another kicked Hasek in the face with his skate. They were saying it looked oddly deliberate. :eek

[Poguemahone]

I know that Bere knows part of this, but the Ottawa pizza chain named Pizza Pizza gives out a free slice of pizza if the Senators score 5 goals or more in a game at home. All you have to do is go to one of the pizza places and give them your ticket, and boom, a free slice of pizza of your choice in your hands. I have been lucky enough to do this a few times. Now, since the Sens are kicking hard this year, someone calculated how much of a tab Pizza Pizza will pick up from the Senators. By the end of the year, if the Sens keep up like this, Pizza Pizza will have a $1.4 million canadian tab coming from the Senators franchise. Thats a lot of 5 or more goal games, and a lot of dough.

[Arathorn III]

Dough, haha. :p I think it's 6 goals now though? I think they had to up the ante? :p

[Poguemahone]

That was posted at the TSN website in the hockey section a few days ago, I dont think they upped it in the past few days.

[fingolfin jones]

Our basketball teams the Blazers has something similar to that. They give everyone at the game a free Taco Bell Chalupa coupon if they score 100 points. Needless to say, they've saved alot of money this year.

[fingolfin jones]

*bump*

Why has Ottawa played so many less games than everyone else? They've only played 25 and alot of other teams are up to 30, with the Rangers at 31. Ouch, lost a heartbreaker to the Canucks tonight.

[Arathorn III]

Yes, alas...

I dunno why...but I think it's great that the Sens are way ahead with the fewest games. :D

[fingolfin jones]

Hmmm, how could Ottawa lose so badly to Atlanta? :eeks!

[RW7427]

I saw that score and was quite shocked too. :eeks!

[fingolfin jones]

Something like 8-3. :ohwell

[RW7427]

That made Atlanta look waaaay better than they really are. Perhaps Ottawa was just having a bad night.

[fingolfin jones]

I've been too busy to read the paper lately, but whenever I do, they've seemed to lose....yet their record is still tops. :p

[Arathorn III]

They had a phenominal first couple months...

But now their top 3 players are injured and are losing a few. :(

[fingolfin jones]

I still don't think that they have any fear of losing the division though. It's looking more and more like a Red Wings/Senators Stanley Cup.