Hockey

[stargazer58]

Originally Posted by shadows

Darn. I cannot believe you saw through my deviousness!:D

Light night of hockey last night, with only two games being played. Atlanta came back and won in Jen's favourite fashion(): the shootout. They won 3-2 over St. Louis(man, St. Louis is not playing well this year at all).

Also, Edmonton beat Colorado 5-3, which is kind of a shocker being as where the two teams are in the standings.

Tonight is an even slower night of hockey, with only one game being played(LA vs Chicago).

Looks like Cam Ward(Carolina goalie) will miss about a month after getting cut with a skate in his calf area in Saturday night's game. It could have been a scary injury indeed, but it looks like it missed anything major.

Edmonton beating the Avs was not really that much of a shocker..I am an Avs fan and I saw this as a kind of"trap" game that you run into in all sports.. one team is really on the move and the other has been struggling a lot.. So the OPilers coming in and whipping up on the Avs is not to surprising.. The Avs have really turned a few heads early on so teams know going in that this is a team that will play to the very end!!..
Now..that said..I am a ockey purest.. I love hockey and I do watch as much of the "Original 6" as possible when they are on TV.. Yeah it's really awesome to have an NHL franchise here in Colorado, but I enjoy it more when one of the Original teams comes to play!!.. It has to do with all the history behind the teams and the names that played the game back in the day..
I think those fans, know hockey best and they stand behind their team through thick and thin.. With the Avs. We were basically handed a quality team at the start with a high powered roster, and the managment just put the final pieces in place and Looky Looky.. we win the cup in 96!!!!.. Then after a few years of not quite geting the job done.. Mr Lacroix ups and adds 2 more pieces to the puzzle and the Avs take another Cup in 2001!!.. So.. We here in Colorado have been spoiled early on just a bit and I don't think a lot of the fans have really stood solidly behind this teem the last few seasons.. Yes there have been thos fans that have stuck it out!!.. But there are always going to be the "band wagon jumpers" I just don't think we , eher in Colorado, have really built that looooong time tradition that storied teams like the Red Wings, Montreal, Boston, The Rangers and so on, have built for them selves over the decades!!..
I love hockey and the fast pace and excitement the game has. I agree that Bettman needs to go peddle his papers elsewhere and that league needs to get tougher in their poilcies towards the "nastier" and uncalled for crap that happens on the ice from time to time!!. The next commissioner needs to be a hard nosed, "enough of this goon crap" type of person that will hit those that stray to the "dark side" really hard in the pocket book!!.. no more of the namby pamby junk that Bettman seems to be stuck on doing!!!... Well.. That's my 2 cents worth!!.. As always it is JMO and subject to rebuttal, ridicule and what ever else you all want to say!!!.