Ackey Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJBlue Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 First time i've been on OWTB for a while! It was a great weekend indeed! Couldn't believe the Latics score when i got in from work, i had heard about the lockout ending in the morning and the cup win was the iceing on the cake. I can't wait for the season top start. The best thing is that the puck drops on the 19th and on the 22nd i'm moving from Halifax to Calgary so i will be in a city with an NHL team!! Gonna try and get to some games if i can get tickets. Hopefully the Stars will play the flames early on so i can go to the game. It would be awesome to see them play live, even if it is an away game! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ackey Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 First time i've been on OWTB for a while! It was a great weekend indeed! Couldn't believe the Latics score when i got in from work, i had heard about the lockout ending in the morning and the cup win was the iceing on the cake. I can't wait for the season top start. The best thing is that the puck drops on the 19th and on the 22nd i'm moving from Halifax to Calgary so i will be in a city with an NHL team!! Gonna try and get to some games if i can get tickets. Hopefully the Stars will play the flames early on so i can go to the game. It would be awesome to see them play live, even if it is an away game! I had no idea you lived in Halifax (I assume you mean Canada, not Yorkshire!?), I visited there once - it's :censored:ing boring! No offence, of course. I'm indifferent about the season to be honest. In so many ways I want to just tell them to go :censored: themselves... but then the last time the season was shortened the Devils won the cup so who am I to complain!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave_ragg1984 Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 I had no idea you lived in Halifax (I assume you mean Canada, not Yorkshire!?), I visited there once - it's :censored:ing boring! No offence, of course. I'm indifferent about the season to be honest. In so many ways I want to just tell them to go :censored: themselves... but then the last time the season was shortened the Devils won the cup so who am I to complain!? I read a report the other day that said the last time the season was shortened it was awesome as well. I've often thought they play too many regular season games tbh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rudemedic Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 First time i've been on OWTB for a while! It was a great weekend indeed! Couldn't believe the Latics score when i got in from work, i had heard about the lockout ending in the morning and the cup win was the iceing on the cake. I can't wait for the season top start. The best thing is that the puck drops on the 19th and on the 22nd i'm moving from Halifax to Calgary so i will be in a city with an NHL team!! Gonna try and get to some games if i can get tickets. Hopefully the Stars will play the flames early on so i can go to the game. It would be awesome to see them play live, even if it is an away game! Quite liked Calgary when I visited a few years ago. But given that when I went I've been warmer at BP in December and it was August I can't imagine how cold it will be in January. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave_ragg1984 Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 Just been reading that Kovy doesn't want to leave the KHL this season, but obviously has to because of his Devils contract. Sounds like its not that he doesn't want to go back to the Devils, but (like most of us) the lock out has pissed him off and he wants to finish the KHL season instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ackey Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 That's how I read it too mate - he's the star player for his home town team who are top of the league with about half a season to play... you can't blame him for wanting to see that out. However unless SKA can come up with a tonne of money to give the Devils I expect Lou will want him back in Jersey before this time next week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave_ragg1984 Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 I think he will want him back as soon as the all star game is done. Don't camps open Sunday? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ackey Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 Flight on the 15th apparently... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsslatic Posted January 13, 2013 Author Share Posted January 13, 2013 Puck drops on the 19th. At long bloody last. 3pm face offs - Pens @ Flyers, Hawks @ Kings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsslatic Posted January 13, 2013 Author Share Posted January 13, 2013 No inter conference games. Lame. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave_ragg1984 Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 Flight on the 15th apparently... The all star game was today, so that makes sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJBlue Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 Firstly, my permanent residence is Oldham, i'm just travelling for a year. Secondly, Halifax is awesome, i was supposed to be here a month and i'v had so much fun here that it's been nearly 6! Calgary apparently isn't too bad at the moment, i know a couple of German lads there who say people are just exaggerating. It's been minus 20 here recently so i'm used to it anyway. I am going to be rocking up at the big sports bar (Bubba Rays) on Saturday for the first puck drop and il be watching every single game. They say they pick up every game in the league so hopefully they will put the Stars/coyotes game on for me. Especially since it will start around 9/10pm here and there won't be many big games on then. Yesterday i bought tickets to my first ever NHL games. Saturday the 26th i'l be in the Saddledome watching the flames v oilers and then on Wednesday 13th Feb i'l be watching my Dallas Stars take on the Flames. I can't wait. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsslatic Posted January 16, 2013 Author Share Posted January 16, 2013 I'm jealous, the quality of the hockey when you're live in the building is just outstanding (unless you're watching Buffalo). I watched some KHL last night - Prague v Bratislava. Very high standard (had not watched any KHL before) and atmosphere sounded incredible. Can see why some may not be keen to jump on the first flight home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsslatic Posted January 21, 2013 Author Share Posted January 21, 2013 They may as well all go back to Europe and give us the Cup now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ackey Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 Slow and steady Devs bitch, just like last time! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simpo Posted February 24, 2013 Share Posted February 24, 2013 I love them like PlayItLivo loves Pawel Abbott. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave_ragg1984 Posted February 25, 2013 Share Posted February 25, 2013 That's pretty ace Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave_ragg1984 Posted March 10, 2013 Share Posted March 10, 2013 That realignment plan is rubbish. Uneven conferences of 16 in the East and 14 in the West. It makes it a lot harder for the teams in the East to qualify for the playoffs. It actually makes it harder to qualify anyway. Top 3 from each division and 2 wild cards in each conference. Whereas at the moment you just have to be one of the best 8 teams in the conference. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ackey Posted March 10, 2013 Share Posted March 10, 2013 Yep. Load of :censored:ing bollocks. I can't believe they agreed it. Also - everyone see Staal get twatted in the face!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave_ragg1984 Posted March 10, 2013 Share Posted March 10, 2013 I've just been reading a news article from before they announced how the playoffs would work. It said that potentially, playoffs would be divisional. And then once you have the 4 division winners, the semi finals would be seeded and national. So rather than the 2 eastern division winners playing each other, and the 2 west, it goes seeded 1-4, so both semis could be East v West. It was saying it opens up the chance of an all East or all West final (ie, NY and Boston playing for the Cup) which personally I think would have been damn good. But they haven't gone for that and they have chosen this crap new setup. Not seen Staal yet - I didn't get round to looking at that link you sent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsslatic Posted March 12, 2013 Author Share Posted March 12, 2013 Hadn't seen the realignment until this thread. Essentially the league have bowed down to the Red Wings. Yes they do have a lot of travelling to do but you have to draw the line somewhere - Chicago are still going to have to travel all over so why not have seventeen sides in the East? It's nonsense to have an unequal playoff system. Anyway, we're smashing it at the moment. My policy at the moment is not to look at the fixture list to see when we play the Devs and run comes to a shuddering halt, as per. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJBlue Posted March 27, 2013 Share Posted March 27, 2013 As far as the uneven realignment is concerned, the general consensus is that somewhere down the road the NHL will expand to 32 teams and sort it out afterwards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsslatic Posted March 27, 2013 Author Share Posted March 27, 2013 We're invincible irrespective of division or conference. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ackey Posted March 27, 2013 Share Posted March 27, 2013 We're just :censored:ing :censored:e. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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