****Official 2019-2020 NHL Season Thread****

[BWillie]

I have no become a Vancouver Cannucks fan now that I realize they have a whale as a logo. Very disappointed in Las Vegas dumb Golden Knight name. So are they going to be any good? The Cannuks?

[Monticore]

Originally Posted by BWillie

I have no become a Vancouver Cannucks fan now that I realize they have a whale as a logo. Very disappointed in Las Vegas dumb Golden Knight name. So are they going to be any good? The Cannuks?

Should be a good young team to Elias Peterson is pretty amazing.

But to be honest become a Oilers fan Mcdavid is not playing the same game as anybody else.

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by Monticore

Should be a good young team to Elias Peterson is pretty amazing.

But to be honest become a Oilers fan Mcdavid is not playing the same game as anybody else.

Sidney Crosby still does shit I haven't seen since Gretzky.

That think he did in his first game back where he just undressed that poor bastard of a defenseman, passed the puck off the cage back to himself, doubled back and then fired a centering pass between 3 sticks and 4 guys to set up a tap-in was just absurd. I'll see if I can hunt it down but it was incredible.

EDIT:

Top Plays of Sidney Crosby 2019.20 (1/14 vs. Minnesota)

#4

Crosby embarrasses a mispositioned forward (Ryan Donato) using the back of the net to create space before sending a seeing eye pass to Dom Simon #LetsGoPens #Pens #HockeyTwitter #HockeyAtHome #Podcast #NHL #Crosby pic.twitter.com/o1vJRPjye8

— Tip of the Ice-Burgh Podcast (@IceBurghPodcast) May 26, 2020

Just look at the damn hands, man, especially the ice-level view. After he dekes Donato and circles back he has that puck on a string and is just waiting for someone to over-commit before he threads it between 3 players and the goalie without any of them getting a stick or skate on it. Just awesome.

[Monticore]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

Sidney Crosby still does shit I haven't seen since Gretzky.

That think he did in his first game back where he just undressed that poor bastard of a defenseman, passed the puck off the cage back to himself, doubled back and then fired a centering pass between 3 sticks and 4 guys to set up a tap-in was just absurd. I'll see if I can hunt it down but it was incredible.

EDIT:

Top Plays of Sidney Crosby 2019.20 (1/14 vs. Minnesota)

#4

Crosby embarrasses a mispositioned forward (Ryan Donato) using the back of the net to create space before sending a seeing eye pass to Dom Simon #LetsGoPens #Pens #HockeyTwitter #HockeyAtHome #Podcast #NHL #Crosby pic.twitter.com/o1vJRPjye8

— Tip of the Ice-Burgh Podcast (@IceBurghPodcast) May 26, 2020

Just look at the damn hands, man, especially the ice-level view. After he dekes Donato and circles back he has that puck on a string and is just waiting for someone to over-commit before he threads it between 3 players and the goalie without any of them getting a stick or skate on it. Just awesome.

Crosby’s game is better down low than McDavid and will translate better as he gets old, but the oh **** look d men get when McDavid turns the corner the acceleration and hands at that speed is crazy.
This goal is crazy good , to beat a pro D clean like that is hard
https://youtu.be/NK7bH2lU7_E

[MMXcalibur]

If the NHL can figure this out quickly, they can really capitalize on a sports-hungry community.

[Matrix]

Originally Posted by MMXcalibur

If the NHL can figure this out quickly, they can really capitalize on a sports-hungry community.

They, more than any other big 4 league, need to do this. People are missing out on this game.

[Monticore]

Originally Posted by Matrix

They, more than any other big 4 league, need to do this. People are missing out on this game.

Other than Football it is the only other sport i can watch on TV , it is great live too.

[Matrix]

Originally Posted by Monticore

Other than Football it is the only other sport i can watch on TV , it is great live too.

Agreed.

[Monticore]

Originally Posted by Matrix

Agreed.

This will be the first year in 43 years that i don't play hockey , which sucks .

[DaFace]

I love hockey shade on Twitter.

We admit, sometimes wearing a mask in public isn't the most fashionable or comfortable choice. But some people wear Leafs jerseys, so yeah. Just saying. https://t.co/5mvngDeqfr

— Ottawa Public Health (@ottawahealth) June 24, 2020

[Gadzooks]

Originally Posted by DaFace

I love hockey shade on Twitter.

We admit, sometimes wearing a mask in public isn't the most fashionable or comfortable choice. But some people wear Leafs jerseys, so yeah. Just saying. https://t.co/5mvngDeqfr

— Ottawa Public Health (@ottawahealth) June 24, 2020

The Ottawa Senators franchise claims to have 11 Stanley Cup wins between 1903 and 1927. The problem is that was a different franchise.

I'm trying to think of a comparable, like Browns fans claiming a SB win when the Ravens won it the first year they left, but that doesn't quite hit what I was looking for...

At any rate, the Ottawa Senators:
- reside in a small shitty town, with no night life and is cold as a witches tit.
- have worst owner in the NHL, (Eugene Melnyk - look up the story behind his liver transplant)
- have the worst placed arena in the league
- can't sell tickets (in a Canadian market)

I get the envy, though. They're sandwiched between Toronto and Montreal.
People who grew up there had to pick between the 2, (before the new Senators franchise).
If you're French, you're a Canadians fan, English - Leafs fan. The only guy I know from Ottawa is a Canadians fan and he's French Canadian.

Winnipeg, is an innately worse market, due to the location and a low population, but it has a billionaire owner and a rabid fan base and has been successful.

The Sens won't get better until Melnyk's gone and they get a new arena.

[Monticore]

Originally Posted by Gadzooks

The Ottawa Senators franchise claims to have 11 Stanley Cup wins between 1903 and 1927. The problem is that was a different franchise.

I'm trying to think of a comparable, like Browns fans claiming a SB win when the Ravens won it the first year they left, but that doesn't quite hit what I was looking for...

At any rate, the Ottawa Senators:
- reside in a small shitty town, with no night life and is cold as a witches tit.
- have worst owner in the NHL, (Eugene Melnyk - look up the story behind his liver transplant)
- have the worst placed arena in the league
- can't sell tickets (in a Canadian market)

I get the envy, though. They're sandwiched between Toronto and Montreal.
People who grew up there had to pick between the 2, (before the new Senators franchise).
If you're French, you're a Canadians fan, English - Leafs fan. The only guy I know from Ottawa is a Canadians fan and he's French Canadian.

Winnipeg, is an innately worse market, due to the location and a low population, but it has a billionaire owner and a rabid fan base and has been successful.

The Sens won't get better until Melnyk's gone and they get a new arena.

I have quite a few friends in Ottawa and Melnyk is an even bigger douche than he appears ,our Radiologist has had season tickets since their new team came in and is a huge hockey but even he says he is done with them . , when the Leafs or habs are I town the arena is mostly visiting fans , he can tolerate the hab ones but the leaf ones are Patriotesque.

[Bearcat]

Originally Posted by Gadzooks

The Ottawa Senators franchise claims to have 11 Stanley Cup wins between 1903 and 1927. The problem is that was a different franchise.

I'm trying to think of a comparable, like Browns fans claiming a SB win when the Ravens won it the first year they left, but that doesn't quite hit what I was looking for...

At any rate, the Ottawa Senators:
- reside in a small shitty town, with no night life and is cold as a witches tit.
- have worst owner in the NHL, (Eugene Melnyk - look up the story behind his liver transplant)
- have the worst placed arena in the league
- can't sell tickets (in a Canadian market)

I get the envy, though. They're sandwiched between Toronto and Montreal.
People who grew up there had to pick between the 2, (before the new Senators franchise).
If you're French, you're a Canadians fan, English - Leafs fan. The only guy I know from Ottawa is a Canadians fan and he's French Canadian.

Winnipeg, is an innately worse market, due to the location and a low population, but it has a billionaire owner and a rabid fan base and has been successful.

The Sens won't get better until Melnyk's gone and they get a new arena.

My first thought reading this was Bill Wirtz.... and sure enough, there are several articles and what not comparing the two.

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by Gadzooks

The Ottawa Senators franchise claims to have 11 Stanley Cup wins between 1903 and 1927. The problem is that was a different franchise.

I'm trying to think of a comparable, like Browns fans claiming a SB win when the Ravens won it the first year they left, but that doesn't quite hit what I was looking for...

KU claims national championships for that time that a failed baker said they were national champions 20 years after the fact based on some newspaper clippings he read.

[Pasta Little Brioni]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

KU claims national championships for that time that a failed baker said they were national champions 20 years after the fact based on some newspaper clippings he read.

That's really pathetic. I remember that turd Wickedson believed it to be gospel.