Montreal DIDN'T LOSE!!!

[Blank Verse]

OK, I don't know if there are a lot of hockey fans out there, let alone Montreal Canadiens fans, but I am, and I'm bored hence this post.

Montreal was in tough last night against the defending Stanley Cup Champions, and after losing 3 straight, things weren't looking good. BUT THEY DIDN'T LOSE...they didn't win either, but a point in the standings is a point in the standings. I'm happy.

[Mandrake]

They're losing their baseball team though.... Like they really care! :(

[Coolin]

Check out the Oilers.
We beat the crap out of those stupid so-called Stanley Cup Champions.

[Blank Verse]

Yeah, but the Flames beat the Oilers...actually, I like the Oilers, but they're number 3 on the depth chart. I was impressed with Montreal's efforts though, considering the funk they've been in lately...but it's good to have one of their two injured goalies back. It's hard to win games when you're top 2 goalies are injured and the third stringer really isn't very good. I'm still very impressed with the Flames, it's so good to see calgary and Edmonton fighting for top spot again..it's been awhile.


As far as the Expos go, it's probably good for the players that the team is gone, now they can go play for teams with fans that actually care about baseball. Knowing that the Yankees have a pretty much unlimited payroll, I wouldn't be surprised to see Guerrero end up there.

[Epgs]

Originally posted by Mandrake
They're losing their baseball team though.... Like they really care! :(

i am mad they are leaving those teams out. i loved the marlins

[Blank Verse]

I don't know, I doubt the Marilins will go...it'll be the Expos and the Twins in my estimation.

[Canuckkev]

Originally posted by Mandrake
They're losing their baseball team though.... Like they really care! :(
They had a pic in the paper today, showing behind homeplate, and there was about 20 people in the 200 or so seats pictured.

They are so gone.

As for Canadiens, I cheer for all Canadian teams. Maybe even Edmonton. Maybe.

Colorado plays Calgary on the 10th. Calgary will so kick their ---.

Calgary is doing awesome this year. 10 2 0 2 . I remember there was a thread a while back and I said that I thought Calgary would win the cup. Well, it's a possibility! How much was riding on our choices?:D

[Coolin]

Calgary's just on a streak.
Edmonton is stable and will overtake them before the midpoint of the season. :p ;)

[Hoth]

They should really have to keep playing until someone wins... if you pay to go to a game, wouldn't you want your money back if they declare it a tie? Who wants to go watch a game that has no conclusion? :confused:


Originally posted by Blank Verse
I don't know, I doubt the Marilins will go...it'll be the Expos and the Twins in my estimation.

Likely, since the Twins compete with the TV market of the commissioner's team. (Milwaukee.) Do any other sports have commissioners who own one of the teams, or is MLB's leadership unique in being that messed up?

The Twins were the first team in the league to draw 3,000,000 fans in a season. That was 1988. Through 1992 they continued to outdraw the Yankees. Amazingly, when their billionaire owner slashed payroll and turned them into one of the worst teams around, people stopped coming. Ah, better blame the fans for that, contract the team.

The Expos drew decent crowds before the owners gutted the franchise, also, despite never having actually won anything. The former ownership actually racked up some nice profits, by spending nothing. It killed baseball in the city, but since it made them money they didn't care.

[Coolin]

Originally posted by Hoth
They should really have to keep playing until someone wins... if you pay to go to a game, wouldn't you want your money back if they declare it a tie? Who wants to go watch a game that has no conclusion? :confused:The conlusion is the fact that the game is a tie and in hockey, each time gets one point.

Games are just battles for the war for Lord Stanley's Cup (or all the other championships there are).

[SlashTek.com]

:D

2 diferent newspapes today:

Metro Newspaper:
Montreal MAY loose its expo baseball team

La Presse:
Montreal LOST its expo baseball team

lol, wich one is correct?

Flash!

[Coolin]

I don't think they sold it yet...

[Hoth]

Originally posted by Coolin
The conlusion is the fact that the game is a tie and in hockey, each time gets one point.

Games are just battles for the war for Lord Stanley's Cup (or all the other championships there are).

So in the Stanley Cup games can a team win the cup with a tied game? That would seem to me like it'd be really exceptionally anticlimactic. Or do they change the rules to make the teams actually stick around to play the full game in the playoffs?

[Coolin]

Originally posted by Hoth
So in the Stanley Cup games can a team win the cup with a tied game? That would seem to me like it'd be really exceptionally anticlimactic. Or do they change the rules to make the teams actually stick around to play the full game in the playoffs? Ok, fine, you win.

But for the regular season, the point of the game is to get points.

[Daniel]

Originally posted by Hoth


So in the Stanley Cup games can a team win the cup with a tied game? That would seem to me like it'd be really exceptionally anticlimactic. Or do they change the rules to make the teams actually stick around to play the full game in the playoffs?


You can't tie in the playoffs. IF you tie at the end of regulation time, you go on to Overtime untill someone wins....

[Canuckkev]

YEa...those times when it goes to quad OT...man they must be tired!!!

[Blank Verse]

That's why playoff hockey is the finest form of sport there is. Especially if there is a Calgary-Edmonton playoff series. Just like old times.

[Hoth]

Originally posted by Canuckkev
YEa...those times when it goes to quad OT...man they must be tired!!!

I don't know how long hockey games last, but there was once a 33 inning baseball game, not in the majors but at the AAA level. That's 3 2/3 games worth of innings packed into one game... actually they played 32 innings, then suspended the game and it resumed and ended a couple of months later.

For MLB, the shortest (9 inning) game ever was 51 minutes, while the longest ever was 8 hours and 6 minutes (25 innings). And the record for doubleheaders is around 10 hours. Unpredictable = fun. ;)

How much are hockey players paid? They should have to play as long as it takes all year... although I guess in hockey the playoffs take up most of the year anyhow.

[Blank Verse]

Hockey players make alot, but nowhere close to the amount of cash baseball players make. Which I think is good...I'd hate to see hocjey players making cash in the 100 million dollar range, I would lose repsect for the sport I think.

[Hoth]

Per year, I believe basketball has the biggest contracts. Maybe not largest average for the league (not sure about that), but it has the top few... which is strange considering they only play half as many games as in baseball.

[Blank Verse]

well, its simple cause, no offence, I know you're a big baseball fan, but basketball and hockey and football are all alot more physical sports than baseball, and therefore playing the same amount as baseball games would be murder on the body.

[Eugene4Pres]

Originally posted by Coolin
Check out the Oilers.
We beat the crap out of those stupid so-called Stanley Cup Champions.

Yes, you had Salo who let in 1 goal while we have Cloutier who shut out the Avs..:rolleyes: One game doesn't mean anything.

[Blank Verse]

One game does not in fact mean anything...however a string of games does. Now the Oilers have been fairly consistent all year ( like my Flames, and well, my habs started out that way until the injuries). The Canucks on the other hand have not been consistent, and Cloutier can hardly be considered a number one goalie...if you want the Canucks to start winning more, I suggest they try to go back in time and prevent getting rid of Potvin and Essensa

[Eugene4Pres]

Originally posted by Blank Verse
and prevent getting rid of Potvin and Essensa

RK PLAYER TEAM GP W L T GAA PIM SV SV PCT SO GA SA ENG G

36. DAN CLOUTIER VAN 13 6 6 1 2.6 4 278 0.897 2 32 310 0 0

38. FELIX POTVIN L.A 14 4 9 1 2.64 2 295 0.891 0 36 331 0 0

55 BOB ESSENSA BUF 2 0 2 0 3.44 0 30 0.811 0 7 37 1 0

Care to backup your comments now?


Granted, the Canucks didn't start out the way they wanted to, but losing Cassels, Missed Bertuzzi for 10 games, and the first couple of games for Naslund to adjust surely factors in somehow..

[Blank Verse]

Stats aren't always the issue...Cloutier has looked horrible in all the games he's lost, and average at best in the games they've won. Injuries do hurt obviously, but they cannot be used as an excuse...look at how well Pittsburgh has played without Lemieux, Kovalev, and Straka.

And either way, that's not even my point...you cannot say that Vancouver is as good as the Flames or Oilers right now.

[Coolin]

We lost Doug Weight and we still kick ---. Edmonton has very few star players but a superb all around team.

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It's good to see Calgary and Edmonton so good this year...Oilers fans will disagree with me, but that's just cause they're stubborn, but Calgary and Edmonton have very similar teams this year, which is why they're fighting for top spot. Their key to success is good goaltending with Turek and Salo kicking ---, a very good young top line (Smyth, Carter, Comrie and Iginla, McAmmond and Conroy...Savard when he gets back), two top young defenseman (Brewer and Poti, Morris and Regehr). It's not surprising they're both doing insanely well.

[Daniel]

NEWS Flash:


Montreal Beat NY Islanders 3-2.

First Period:

No scoring

Second Period:

1-MTL: C. Rivet (1) (C. Kilger) 8:44
2-MTL: O. Petrov (4) (A. Markov, Y. Perreault) 14:01
3-NYI: A. Yashin (9) (K. Jonsson, M. Parrish) 14:46
4-MTL: Y. Perreault (7) (C. Rivet, O. Petrov) 15:40
5-NYI: A. Yashin (10) -PP- (S. Bates, R. Hamrlik) 18:22

Third Period:

No scoring

[Canuckkev]

Calgary 2, Colorado 0. Zilch. Nada

Jarome Iginla's 5th goal in 3 games.

Turek's 3rd shutout of the season.

Calgary now 2nd in league.

[Blank Verse]

I was very happy...my favorite team beat the Islanders, one of the best right now, and my next favorite handled Colorado...both were very good games.