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Which team do you think will win the whole shabang this year? My heart is with the NY Rangers! I live in Carolina so I'm also a Hurricanes fan as well. (poll coming)

Well, not the Penguins, so they should cancel the whole thing.

In case anybody whines about why their team isn't on the list I only added the top 5 teams in each conference. It's still early so you never know what might happen between now and playoff time. The other teams that have a chance are:

Anaheim Mighty Ducks
Vancouver Canucks
Edmonton Oilers

possible

Tampa Bay Lightening
New Jersey Devils
LA Kings

highly unlikely

San Jose Sharks
Atlanta Thrashers
Montreal Canadiens

Avs! I don't care if most of their decent players are injured and that they have no defence and have traded away their goalie for an injured goalie who's been out of form. They're gonna win it dammit!

Go Leafs Go!

Go Leafs Go!


YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Says the English woman with a Leafs parka, scarf and cap....who has never been to see a match in her whole miserable life....:(

YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Says the English woman with a Leafs parka, scarf and cap....who has never been to see a match in her whole miserable life....:(


I have a leafs jersey come to think of it. I use it sometimes for inline hockey trainings.

I have a leafs jersey come to think of it. I use it sometimes for inline hockey trainings.


*have a hug!*

GO LEAFS GO!

Go Leafs Go!
Amen to that.

YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Says the English woman with a Leafs parka, scarf and cap....who has never been to see a match in her whole miserable life....:(Don't tell her the Leafs have about as much chance to win the Cup as Stephen Harper has of turning Gay.:p

Amen to that.


Excellent! can we do a Leafs are lovely thread perchance?

As an englisher with no clue about hockey until I fell under the thrall of a Canadian man...I am begining to learn the importance of it all.


edit...and Stephen Harper is who?

No Habs fans here?

Oh well. Go Habs.

Wheres the other option?
And the I do not care option.
Huh??

Wheres the other option?
And the I do not care option.
Huh??
Vote Dallas!
STARS BABBAH!
I am wearing my Jersey right now.:D

Red Wings Rule :D

blues Or Coyotes!!!!

Stars Suck And Dal-ass Sucks!!!!

Go Sens!

Go Leafs Go!
Yes!! Go Leafs Go!!

Even though they are not on the list, hope springs eternal!!

http://www.mapleleafs.com/images/wallpaper/trish_640x480.jpg

I was going to link to a lady who is just wearing a painted on Maple Leaf but I was unsure if that would violate the TOS.

blues Or Coyotes!!!!

Stars Suck And Dal-ass Sucks!!!!
Phoenix and St Louis!
HA!

The Flyers will kick all of your asses. We have Forseburg.

The Flyers will kick all of your asses. We have Forseburg.
http://web.syr.edu/~jdott/kid.jpg
Mike Modano!

http://web.syr.edu/~jdott/kid.jpg
Mike Modano!

http://wnffantasy.football.sportsline.com/images/team-logo/yobeef-dallas-sucks-100x100.jpg

I know it's aimed at the cowboys but you're all in the same city.

http://wnffantasy.football.sportsline.com/images/team-logo/yobeef-dallas-sucks-100x100.jpg

I know it's aimed at the cowboys but you're all in the same city.
"It said your league was not located"
Is that the joke?
Hmm Shit Sandwich (http://www.markshields.com/images/20020413-genos-versus-pats-cheesesteaks/markshields.com-genos-vs-pats-cheesesteaks-philadelphia-pa-3240.jpg)

sorry old link.

but this will work http://www.dallassucks.com/

Yes!! Go Leafs Go!!

Even though they are not on the list, hope springs eternal!!

http://www.mapleleafs.com/images/wallpaper/trish_640x480.jpg

I was going to link to a lady who is just wearing a painted on Maple Leaf but I was unsure if that would violate the TOS.

I think the Leafs might be actually be a better team if Trish Stratus was playing for them. :)

I think that Ottawa is the team to beat for this Stanley Cup. Watching the Canucks play this playoff stretch against Edmonton though makes me think that all things are possible! It's pretty wide open in the West.

Pfft. Ottawa is good, but no one in the League has been heating it up like the Red Wings. Pavel Datsyuk and Henrik Zetterberg are having kickass seasons [probably career best for both] and Manny Legace has really been stepping it up all season. The NHL playoff picture is all about who gets hot in March and April, and the Red Wings are certainly not disappointing. Veteran players like Chris Chelios, Steve Yzerman and Brendan Shannahan all want to win another cup before they retire, and we can expect good performances from them as well in the home stretch. Despite their age [which I just know someone is going to insist be the reason for their failure], these players still excel on the ice, especially during the postseason. No one else in the NHL can claim the kind of stamina that Yzerman has.

Ottawa has superior goaltending and a few power players, but the beauty part of the Red Wings' team is that they are rarely dependant on any one player [or unit] to get the job done. Every game it seems like different players step up and earn the win; a team like Ottawa gets a lot of attention because it dominates the top ten for scoring stats, but if they lose one or two of them to injury it's all over. Detroit is harder to figure out because it uses so many different players and attributes to win. With a power team like Ottawa, good defensemen [like, say, Chelios, Lidstrom, and Fischer] only need to figure out the habits of a few players to effectively shut down their offense. Against Detroit, you have 3-5 serious offensive threats on the ice at any given time.

I'd really like to see an Senators/Red Wings final this year, and if it happens my prediction is Red Wings in 6 ;)

No Habs fans here?

Oh well. Go Habs.
Go Habs!

Calgary Flames naturally

The Flyers will kick all of your asses. We have Forsburg.

Orange and Black, Baby!

w00t!

not to mention nittymaki, gagne, (insert currently uninjured defenseman here)

(psst. no e in forsberg.

Pfft. Ottawa is good, but no one in the League has been heating it up like the Red Wings. Pavel Datsyuk and Henrik Zetterberg are having kickass seasons [probably career best for both] and Manny Legace has really been stepping it up all season. The NHL playoff picture is all about who gets hot in March and April, and the Red Wings are certainly not disappointing. Veteran players like Chris Chelios, Steve Yzerman and Brendan Shannahan all want to win another cup before they retire, and we can expect good performances from them as well in the home stretch. Despite their age [which I just know someone is going to insist be the reason for their failure], these players still excel on the ice, especially during the postseason. No one else in the NHL can claim the kind of stamina that Yzerman has.

Ottawa has superior goaltending and a few power players, but the beauty part of the Red Wings' team is that they are rarely dependant on any one player [or unit] to get the job done. Every game it seems like different players step up and earn the win; a team like Ottawa gets a lot of attention because it dominates the top ten for scoring stats, but if they lose one or two of them to injury it's all over. Detroit is harder to figure out because it uses so many different players and attributes to win. With a power team like Ottawa, good defensemen [like, say, Chelios, Lidstrom, and Fischer] only need to figure out the habits of a few players to effectively shut down their offense. Against Detroit, you have 3-5 serious offensive threats on the ice at any given time.

I'd really like to see an Senators/Red Wings final this year, and if it happens my prediction is Red Wings in 6 ;)

What he said :D

The Cup is coming back to Hockey Town in '06

Go Leafs Go!

the Leafs suck. The Canucks are going to destroy any team that stands in its way!

You forgot the Canucks (cue laughter).

BRUINS!

*sigh* How long before I can lable it a curse?

My bet is the sens or hurricanes.

Edmonton Oilers

go stars...

Detroit!

Edmonton Oilers

The Avalanch made it to the playoffs this year?



FUCK....then i pick Colorado



EDIT:

Dammit...you got my hopes up thinking the playoffs were already going on....:( :( :(

Pfft. Ottawa is good, but no one in the League has been heating it up like the Red Wings. Pavel Datsyuk and Henrik Zetterberg are having kickass seasons [probably career best for both] and Manny Legace has really been stepping it up all season. The NHL playoff picture is all about who gets hot in March and April, and the Red Wings are certainly not disappointing. Veteran players like Chris Chelios, Steve Yzerman and Brendan Shannahan all want to win another cup before they retire, and we can expect good performances from them as well in the home stretch. Despite their age [which I just know someone is going to insist be the reason for their failure], these players still excel on the ice, especially during the postseason. No one else in the NHL can claim the kind of stamina that Yzerman has.

Ottawa has superior goaltending and a few power players, but the beauty part of the Red Wings' team is that they are rarely dependant on any one player [or unit] to get the job done. Every game it seems like different players step up and earn the win; a team like Ottawa gets a lot of attention because it dominates the top ten for scoring stats, but if they lose one or two of them to injury it's all over. Detroit is harder to figure out because it uses so many different players and attributes to win. With a power team like Ottawa, good defensemen [like, say, Chelios, Lidstrom, and Fischer] only need to figure out the habits of a few players to effectively shut down their offense. Against Detroit, you have 3-5 serious offensive threats on the ice at any given time.




What? You mean like how we've been without Havlat for months? And how our "superior goaltending" has been lost since the Olympics? How we kept winning when Alfie was out too?

Feel free to match the line ups yourself:

Detroit (http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/teams/det/stats)

Ottawa (http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/teams/ott/stats)

Ottawa, 11 players with 10+ goals. Detroit: 10

Detroit, 11 players with more than one GWG, Ottawa 12.
Frankly, you don't get matchups a lot evener than these two teams.

I don't see how either team is more "balanced" than the other as you seem to think.

I'd really like to see an Senators/Red Wings final this year, and if it happens my prediction is Red Wings in 6 ;)

I'd like to see it too! Although we disagree on the outcome! ;)

Go Sens!Yeah, somebody with a lick of sens-e This is the year.

Well, not the Penguins, so they should cancel the whole thing.

That's because the PEN'S SUCK!!!

*And I live outside of the city* :D

As to answer the question, I'm guessing.......

COLORADO

What? You mean like how we've been without Havlat for months? And how our "superior goaltending" has been lost since the Olympics? How we kept winning when Alfie was out too?

Feel free to match the line ups yourself:

Detroit (http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/teams/det/stats)

Ottawa (http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/teams/ott/stats)

Ottawa, 11 players with 10+ goals. Detroit: 10

Detroit, 11 players with more than one GWG, Ottawa 12.
Frankly, you don't get matchups a lot evener than these two teams.

I don't see how either team is more "balanced" than the other as you seem to think.



I agree.

go stars...
Yeah Babbah!



Is Gagne still out for Philly?

If the Vancouver Canucks manage to get into the playoffs with the same work ethic they had against the Oilers in that last three game series, then they could do some damage in the post season. I personally hope both Edmonton and Vancouver get into the playoffs this year. Toronto not getting into the playoffs will be good for the Ottawa market, who no matter how bad Toronto play are always in their shadow (reminds me of when Montreal played horrible and no one would go to see the Conference leading Nordiques).

San Jose confuses me. The lockout and too much couch time really had their way with them for the first half of the season. Now they’re battling just to make it in and they just might do it.

The teams that are doing the best in the last ten games might give a clue to who’s hot and who’s not: Detroit 7-1-2, Ottawa 7-2-1, Dallas 8-2-0, Anaheim 9-1-0, Philadelphia 7-3-0, Atlanta 7-3-0, Nashville 7-2-1, and San Jose 7-1-2. Ten games from now those numbers might look very different, but right now they show who is on their game.

The teams that are doing the best in the last ten games might give a clue to who?s hot and who?s not: Detroit 7-1-2, Ottawa 7-2-1, Dallas 8-2-0, Anaheim 9-1-0, Philadelphia 7-3-0, Atlanta 7-3-0, Nashville 7-2-1, and San Jose 7-1-2. Ten games from now those numbers might look very different, but right now they show who is on their game.
Very true. The NHL playoff picture is usually dependent on which teams [or, more accurately, which goalies] find their groove in March and April. As long as the team in question plays a fair bit above .500 hockey for the first 3/4 of the regular season, they have a chance to go all the way on any given postseason. As is probably expected, the Rangers, Flames, Senators, and Red Wings are all showing up strong in the goaltending department [although one could argue for the Legace's performace as something of a surprise, given that he's spent a lot of his career as a backup], so they're obviously the ones to watch in the home stretch. That said, you can't possibly rule out a freak run like Anaheim's a couple of years back. I'm really hoping Edmonton and San Jose start heating it up, because I hate the goddamn Avalanche and I want to laugh in their stupid faces about how badly they suck if they don't end up making the playoffs.

Speaking of the Avalanche, does anyone else remember that game in late season '96 where the Red Wings and Avs got into a giant, nearly team-wide brawl? Mike Vernon and Patrick Roy met at center ice and Roy got his ass handed to him. I'll never forget the newspaper photo of Darren McCarty clobbering the shit out of a cowering Claude Lemieux. Detroit won both the game [6-5] and the fight. It owned.

How well has Nittymaki(sp) been doing for the Flyers recently?
Damn fine.

Do they get a set of Franklin Mint Cheeses of the World Commemorative Plates to go with the cup?

Do they get a set of Franklin Mint Cheeses of the World Commemorative Plates to go with the cup?
Only if they get a goose.

I got to touch the cup last December @ The Hockey HOF in Toronto. It was quite the moment for me.

The injury bug is really hitting the Senators hard. Their defence core has been decimated just like Vancouver’s has been this season and anyone who thinks Havlat will be returning promptly is assuming a medical miracle to occur.

Still I don’t have confidence in Detroit taking home the Stanley Cup this year unless they’ve solved the problems of their last two playoff round disasters. Against Anaheim two playoff runs ago, they didn’t just run into a hot goalie. The only two players putting forward an honest effort in that round were Joseph and Yzerman. Once Yzerman got injured, the rest of the roster hung Joseph out to dry. Cujo played great but the other team played with heart. Against Nashville, during the last playoffs, Detroit had similar work ethic problems and barely got passed the Predators. Calgary exploited the same weaknesses and defeated them. Since Detroit hasn’t changed all that much since that playoff round against Anaheim I’m not optimistic for their chances.

This time around the Playoffs look very wide open. In the same way a lot of teams tore up the standings with surprise seasons, expect much the same to happen once the Playoffs start. Some of the wear and tear of the Olympic schedule could well have a surprise impact on a number of teams.

The Bruce

Anaheim Mighty Ducks


Go Ducks!

Quack Attack!