2007/2008 Hockey Thread

[Toe]

Ahem. Montreal seriously outplayed the Leafs the other night.

[The Sultan of Swank]

I'm just saying, the game was exciting and all. And I'm not trying to knock the Leafs, I'm just saying that Montreal seriously played far tighter a game, had a slew more chances even if they were being outshot and save for one or two good posessions by Toronto(both in the first). Montreal seemed to control the play of the game quite easily.

[Clawson]

And they still needed 3 fluke goals to win. Well they only needed 1 but you get my point. I'd say Vesa was almost equal to Price Saturday night he just had the bad bounces go against him.

Edited December 17, 2007 by Clawson

[The Sultan of Swank]

Fair enough. But 3 fluke goals is a little harsh. They all came from dominating the play and just throwing the puck on net.

[Clawson]

Hence the shifty. Those goals happen all the time, just usually not that much in a game.

[Toe]

Even if it was a bad goal, Koivu dominated the play and was allowed to skate all over on that first one. It looked bad, but he earned it.

[The Sultan of Swank]

I was so dang confused with the goal, because he threw it towards little tits, but it just pinballed for a second or so and went in the net. It was like a huh.... GOALLLL!!!

Florida tonight, hopefully we can get another win.

I just lost 31 hours of my time so I'm hoping for a really good game.

[Clawson]

So Poni doesn't know how to shoot on an open net then the refs call two penalties on the Leafs after missing two blatant calls on the Hurricanes in overtime. Fucking great.

[Guest Grapehead]

Seriously, I challenge Clawson to make a single post about a Leafs loss without using the word "ref" or "officiating" hahaha.

[Gabriel]

Flames have won 6 straight now. They still don't look like the team they should be, but the way they're playing will easily get them into the playoffs if they avoid slumping. I'm pretty excited, because I get two Flames games on tv after Xmas. On the 27th and the 29th.

Iginla picked up his 24th goal of the year tonight. I love my Iggy.

[gunnar hendershow]

Flames are a team who on paper should just tear up the league. But they've never been able to do it. As long as they get in the playoffs though, they could very well dominate.

[Clawson]

I can't find anything in the overtime but here you go for something atleast. 3 minutes left Adams baseball swings at Steen's head and only gets 2 minutes. Might need a better angle but he just went swinging for the fences there and should have easily gotten 5.

Edited December 19, 2007 by Clawson

[Toe]

Fucking Poni. Toskala won us that game, but Ponikarovsky doesn't have the common sense to put the puck deep.

[The Sultan of Swank]

Montreal just didn't do very well the other night... I don't even know what it was, they played decent, no worse than Florida, but the third goal by the Panthers was a weak goal. Boo on Price, because we came back to make it 3-2 and I think if they hadn't put the third in, we mighta been able to make it 2-2 with a little more than the 23 seconds left haha.

ATTN GOOD PEOPLE OF THE EWB HOCKEY THREAD!

February 7th, 2008. The Habs and Leafs will be playing at the Bell Center. I've been talking to Toe about this, and there are an awful lot of Leafs and Habs fans on the board. I figure, why not some of us meet in Montreal which is a fantastic city on its own, and go to the Bell Center for the game. I proposed Montreal because the tickets are way cheaper than in Toronto, I understand finding scalpers or tix online is easier and cheaper, plus the Bell is a better building than the ACC for atmosphere(there's going to be about 8000 Leafers there so you won't feel too out of place if you like Toronto), and there's going to be 21,273 lunatic hockey fans as opposed to 20,000 mostly business types in the arena. Montreal is also a relatively cheap city, if you bus from Toronto its 10 bucks each way, it's got a great nightlife and yeah. I think that it would be a great time.

If you're interested, please mention it, and gimmie a PM or something. If you're serious about it, I can start organizing getting some tickets.

[Ruki]

Too bad I live in Alberta >.>

[The Sultan of Swank]

Well we can't all be winners.

[Clawson]

Basha, if you can get to me how much the tickets cost and how much renting a hotel is (maybe a few of us from the Toronto area can split) then I will most certainly be interested in meeting up with you boys. Def be a better game in Montreal than Toronto.

[Guest Grapehead]

I may be a Sens fan, but I'd still find it a good time to meet up in Montreal with some EWB boys and see a hockey game. I'm sending you a PM basha so we'll talk it up right nice.

[The Sultan of Swank]

Ok, I'm not going to lie, tickets aren't going to be cheap. I'm trying to keep them in the 60-80 range, but It's looking more like 80-100 will be a bargain right now. Also, I'm only so far able to find 4 tickets together at a time... I've managed to find 10 within 1 row of each other 414 C and D.

I think this is what I might go with...

The first 4 tickets are going to be 100 each, the next 2 are going to be 105 and the last 4 are going to be 120.

Let me know if this works for you guys.

As far as hotel and lodging is concerned, it depends on where you want to stay and how many you are and what your budget is going to be. I can then find something for you and get you all the info you'll need.

[Clawson]

Actually it's looking now like February won't work for me because of a bunch of shit going on here. Sorry. :thumbsdown: